Mo Yuan and the others had been waiting all along. When they saw Lin Jin wake up, they immediately approached.
"Hall Master, what did you just see?"
Lin Jin fell silent for a few seconds, then slowly said, "I saw a world..."
"A complete world."
"Later, that world shattered, and its fragments formed several worlds with different rules."
"From the power of the rules those worlds contained, I sensed the auras of Earth's, the Abyss's, and the Otherworld's rules."
Everyone's expression changed at once. Mo Yuan glanced at the stone tablet outside, then looked at the Transparent Crystal.
"So Earth, the Abyss, and the Otherworld are..."
Lin Jin said evenly, "At least according to the records left here, their rules once belonged to the same complete world."
Silence fell over the hall. They needed time to digest this information.
A long while passed.
Chu Hanjiang suddenly asked, "Then the rule fusion project of ancient times..."
"Were they trying to fuse these rules back together?"
"That probably wasn't all." Lin Jin looked at the Transparent Crystal and said, "They already knew that this world's rules were themselves incomplete."
"Since the rules of an individual world had gaps, continuing upward along those incomplete rules would naturally lead to a limit."
"So they began studying other rules, trying to recombine rules from different systems."
Mo Yuan's gaze shifted slightly. "So... they were heading in the right direction?"
"I don't know." After a moment of silence, Lin Jin continued, "But at least they only proved one thing: they couldn't withstand the fusion of different rules."
That was the crucial issue. Whether the people back then had been heading in the right direction or not, those Divine Domain experts had, at the very least, failed.
The more rules they fused, the worse the backlash they