"What... have you understood?" A rare trace of gravity appeared on the Lord of the Void's face.
Lin Ye did not answer.
He swept the True Creation Staff through the air, unleashing a golden blade of light.
But the blade no longer followed a perfect straight line. Instead, it traced a natural arc. Just as no trajectory in the real world could ever be absolutely straight, countless factors would always influence it, causing tiny deviations.
The Lord of the Void raised his hand, gathering Nihility Energy into a shield.
From past experience, any existence that touched nihility would be erased. This time, however, the blade of light passed through it.
It did not pierce it or destroy it. It simply ignored it.
As though nihility did not exist for it, the blade maintained its imperfect arc, swept through the shield of nihility, and left a wound in the Lord of the Void's form.
Black energy gushed from the wound.
The Lord of the Void retreated in disbelief. "How is that possible?! My nihility can erase all existence. Why doesn't it work on your attack?"
Lin Ye finally spoke, his voice calm. "Because your nihility targets 'perfect existence.'"
"You can negate a complete concept and erase a perfect structure. But you cannot negate an existence that is already incomplete."
He raised the staff and pointed it at the Lord of the Void. "How can you erase the 'wholeness' of something flawed? It was never whole to begin with. How can you make something already broken 'more broken'? It was already in pieces."
"Your nihility can only affect existences that pursue perfection and strive to be whole."
"But reality itself is incomplete."
The Lord of the Void's form fluctuated violently in a mixture of anger and confusion. "**Nonsense! Existence is existence. My