317: The laws of heaven and earth!

Screech!

Sword Qi surged like the Milky Way reversing its course, transforming into a streak of light that spanned the sky and earth. It resolutely met the giant crimson flame palm covering half the sky and the Wutu Earth Dragon roaring out from the depths of the earth!

This was Lu Ming's full-strength sword strike. Its momentum had condensed to the absolute limit, and the sharpness and intent of destruction contained within caused even the heavens and earth to lose their color!

Boom!!!

At the moment of collision, time seemed to stand still.

No sound came; only an immeasurably intense light erupted suddenly from the center of the collision!

Like a miniature sun being detonated, the blinding light instantly swallowed everything within a radius of dozens of miles.

Under this intense light, even the outlines of distant mountains became blurred and distorted!

Immediately following was a terrifying roar, like ten thousand thunderclaps exploding simultaneously!

The sound waves turned into visible white shock rings, spreading frantically from the point of impact. Wherever they passed, clouds were torn apart and the air was compressed.

The mountain ridges below were ravaged as if by an invisible giant hand; sections of rock walls shattered, and ancient trees collapsed.

The most terrifying part was the core area of the collision.

Turbulent energy, violent to the extreme, distorted that patch of space.

Slender spatial cracks with edges flickering with silver light suddenly appeared and began to spread rapidly!

Within this chaotic spatial turbulence, whether it was the blazing flames, the heavy Wutu power, or the sharp aftershocks of the Sword Qi...

Once drawn into the edges of the cracks, they dissolved like melting snow, frantically torn and swallowed by the chaotic power of the Void Realm, quickly annihilating!

Lu Ming's figure took advantage of this chaotic torrent sweeping the surroundings, narrowly slipping past the edge. The violent aftershocks caused his protective spiritual light to flicker intensely.

"Humph! Truly slippery!"

Seeing that the combined strike with his companion had failed to take effect, and instead the opponent had taken the opportunity to borrow the force to escape.

The red-robed old man Li Yan and Li Yue, who was within the earthy-yellow light, both looked rather displeased.

But the two did not immediately strike again. Instead, they both turned around, their eyes filled with deep reverence as they looked at the pale-gold figure behind them, who was approaching through the air at an unhurried pace, as if taking a stroll in a courtyard.

And at that moment, that figure finally moved!

He didn't make many movements, simply pointing casually toward Lu Ming's direction from afar.

"Freeze!"

As soon as the word was spoken, it was like the Law followed the word, as if it contained some ultimate truth of heaven and earth, invoking invisible Laws!

Buzz—

At that very moment, Lu Ming, who was fleeing at high speed, suddenly felt a profound change in the hundred-zhang space around him!

He fell into a viscous "quagmire." The surrounding spatial barriers became incredibly solid, causing his flight speed to instantly plummet by more than ninety percent!

Furthermore, that freezing force continued to strengthen, as if it wanted to permanently fix him in this place along with the space itself!

"Spatial Imprisonment!" Warning signs blared in Lu Ming's heart, and he felt his scalp go numb! "Is Golden Core Perfection this strong?!"

He had heard of it before, but this was his first time facing an attack from a Golden Core Perfection Great Cultivator!

Golden Core Perfection meant one foot was already standing on the threshold of the Nascent Soul Dao. Their methods and Realm were worlds apart from the Late Golden Core Stage!

According to the knowledge he had obtained from Mu Han's memories, the core of a true Nascent Soul True Monarch's cultivation was no longer just breathing in Spiritual Qi and accumulating magic power, but truly beginning to "comprehend the Dao"!

By sensing and utilizing various great powers of the rules of heaven and earth, every gesture they made could preliminarily invoke the momentum of heaven and earth to change the local environment.

One of the most prominent features was the ability to interfere with the void, even performing short-distance spatial leaps or shuttling.

Such methods were like a dimensional strike to Cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage.

While Golden Core Perfection was far from being as effortless and naturally harmonious in Dao techniques as a Nascent Soul True Monarch.

They had also begun to touch the edges of the rules, able to limitedly invoke and utilize a trace of the power of rules.

What Li Daoxuan was currently displaying was precisely the most rudimentary application of spatial rules.

This move seemed casual, yet it was more troublesome than any attack method Lu Ming had ever encountered!

If an ordinary Golden Core Cultivator were to suddenly fall into this kind of spatial stagnation, they would likely lose all mobility instantly, becoming like a fish on a chopping block, left to the mercy of others.

But Lu Ming, after all, was no ordinary Cultivator!

After the initial shock, his heart instead calmed down.

"Space? As if I don't have something for that!"

A sharp glint flashed in Lu Ming's eyes. With a flip of his hand, a small Formation Plate only the size of a palm, shimmering with the luster of mithril and engraved with countless minute and complex runes, appeared in his palm!

This was his life-saving treasure—the Minor Void Shifting Formation Plate!

This Formation Plate was not refined by Lu Ming himself, but came from the hands of the Wonderful Brush Scholar within his talent pool!

Originally, Lu Ming had allowed the Wonderful Brush Scholar to observe and study teleportation arrays, intending for him to learn and repair them so that Lu Ming could use them whenever he traveled.

Who would have thought this person possessed extraordinary talent in Comprehension Ability? Not only did he gain insights from the teleportation arrays, but he also combined his own understanding of Formations to create this portable, small-scale teleportation Formation Plate.

Although the teleportation distance of this Formation Plate was limited, usually no more than a hundred miles, and the spatial tunnel was extremely unstable and easily disturbed or interrupted.

In critical moments, it was extremely useful for short-distance Breakthroughs and cracking spatial blockades!

To nurture the Wonderful Brush Scholar and help him Breakthrough to the Golden Core Stage to better study this path...

Lu Ming had even personally captured the Nascent Souls of two Early Golden Core Stage Cultivators for him to devour and refine.

Looking at it now, the return on this investment was simply staggering!

Indeed, it had given him a pleasant surprise!

Withdrawing his thoughts, Lu Ming immediately circulated his magic power. The vast and pure magic power surged like a floodgate opening, frantically pouring into the Formation Plate in his hand!

Buzz, buzz!!

The Formation Plate instantly erupted with a dazzling silver brilliance!

On the surface of the plate, those runes seemed to come alive, detaching from the surface like swimming fish, rotating and combining rapidly in the air to form a spherical light shield that enveloped his body, rippling with silver waves!

On the light shield, countless tiny silver runes suddenly collided with the surrounding frozen space, cutting against each other and emitting a sharp humming sound!

"Activate!"

Lu Ming shouted softly, violently injecting the last burst of magic power!

Swish—

The silver light exploded!

The space in front of Lu Ming distorted violently, like a lake surface into which a giant stone had been thrown!

A split second before his form was about to be completely frozen and sealed by the spatial "quagmire," his figure suddenly became blurred and illusory, turning into a streak of light between reality and illusion!

A second later, the silver light receded, and the spatial ripples returned to calm.

Lu Ming's figure had already disappeared from the spot.

When he reappeared, he was already in the air above a desolate mountain a hundred miles away!