The Primordial Sacrificial Altar.
The power of time Qi Sheng released enveloped the battlefield, his gaze focused on Shuyan in the frozen scene.
This villain, who had appeared as early as the Players' pioneering stage, had always been a promising prospect he kept an eye on.
Shuyan harbored the ambition to break free of constraints, acted with the drive to overcome deadlocks and seek the Dao, and had plans for the future behind every choice.
The Inspiration World created to build the Full Unit Library back then was proof enough of that talent.
And Shuyan was itself a rule.
Yet it differed from ordinary rules.
All the rules that had appeared in Monster World could be divided into three categories.
World origin, momentum (might), and supreme.
World origins were laws that naturally evolved within the countless realms of the void, and were also the most common type of rule in Monster World.
These rules exerted their power by modifying existing logic or defining new logic.
The Blue Lantern Race's divine lamp, the Darkspawn Legion's reincarnation, the Ancient God Race's duel soul, gigantification-all of these were forged from rule seeds condensed by smelting an entire world and extracting its origin.
The limits of their power were also constrained by the strength of the worlds where those rules were born.
The "momentum" familiar to Players, also known as the pressure system, belonged to an entirely different path of rules.
If world origins defined their surroundings through the properties of other worlds, momentum was an "I believe" constructed with one's own emotions and obsessions as nourishment.
For example, Cang Xuan's Sword of Destruction arose from "I desire destruction, so this sword shall destroy everything," and thus gained the property of annihilating all things.
Kuxing, who had nurtured Pain Touch back then, had upheld