Forged into a Sword

After being locked in that unknown space, with his consciousness sunk into the flying sword, Wang Chuan had tried to struggle and escape. But no matter where he went, all around him stretched an endless "Laser Maze."

"Lasers?" Li Luo recalled that when she had just shattered the Rhomboid Metal, she seemed to have seen some lasers burst forth as well. They had vanished quickly, though. It seemed those lasers had some other function.

"Yes, lasers. Those lasers were a maze-like prison. Once inside, you could only keep going in circles, unable to reach the edge, 'restrained' at the center of the space." The flying sword began explaining to Li Luo.

"Later, I specifically studied that maze and roughly figured out how those lasers worked. They weren't purely lasers, but rays that carried force."

"The force they exerted was one-directional, radiating from the source of the rays and heading straight toward their ends, appearing as beams of laser light."

"These lasers came from the outer wall of the spirit and shot toward the center of the construct's inner space. The number of lasers striking from every direction was fixed, and the forces reached equilibrium at the center. Whenever an object under force tried to leave the center, those lasers would restrain it back there."

"The closer you got to the laser sources—the outer wall—the stronger the repulsive force became. Surrounded by those inward-facing lasers, no matter where you went, you would eventually return to the center of the maze, restrained at the absolute midpoint of 'force equilibrium'..."

Listening to the flying sword's explanation, Li Luo nodded. She roughly understood the principle behind those lasers.

"Were they solid photons?" she asked the flying sword tentatively.

"Maybe. Anyway, those lasers trapped me. But that was only part of the reason. Even if