The Nine Heavenly Human Arts encompassed all things, but Heaven and Man each had their own center.
Of the Three Laws of Man—Numinous Obscurity, Dao and Virtue, and Life and Death—the most fundamental was Numinous Obscurity. It symbolized the self. If "I" did not exist, where could a person stand?
The core of the Three Laws of Heaven was the Law of the Grand Void. It represented the basic laws that shaped the universe, such as the consistency of space and time in Su Che's previous life.
A Void Rift was the result of those laws being broken.
Suppose the world was a sheet of white paper. To travel from one point on it to another, the straight line between them was the shortest route.
But was there truly no shorter way?
There was. Fold the paper, and two points that had not been adjacent would touch. The very notion of distance would disappear.
Under normal circumstances, the Blood River Realm and Su Che's world lay at opposite ends of the universe, far apart. But through the methods the Jade Radiance Palace had used back then, the Blood River Realm and this world had been joined.
Like two points on a folded sheet of paper, once far apart, now pressed together.
That was a Void Rift.
It connected two worlds that were not adjacent, while bearing the characteristics of both, like a peculiar passageway.
And the greatest problem with a Void Rift was...
Its existence defied the natural state ordained by the Law of the Grand Void. Sooner or later, that natural state would reassert itself.
The folded paper would always flatten out again. When it began to do so, the universe's mighty force would tear apart everything within the rift.
Su Che did not know how those mighty figures