243: Resonance of Laws

The repulsion of Law erupting from the core of the singularity was not power, nor was it energy; it was a pure 'incompatibility.'

Just like water and fire, just like existence and non-existence.

The essence of the entire 'Genesis Storm' condensed at this moment into a single will: Get out!

The Law shield in front of Li Dong became covered in spiderweb-like cracks the instant it made contact with this repulsion.

He felt as if he were not being attacked, but rather being 'vomited' out by the entire space, by reality itself.

'Quite a temper you have.'

No sooner had this thought crossed his mind than his entire being was swept into it by that irresistible force.

The world before his eyes vanished.

There was no up or down, no left or right, no passage of time, and no spatial distance.

Li Dong found himself in an ocean of Chaos composed of pure fragments of Law.

A fragment swept past him; within it was the complete process of a world's birth, from the Big Bang to the gathering of stars, and finally to the sprouting of life.

Another fragment followed close behind, but it was the final scene of a Universe in decay, where all things withered and Laws returned to dead silence.

Fragments of creation and destruction collided, intertwined, and annihilated one another frantically here.

They were the bricks that built the Universe, yet also the sharpest blades, cutting through everything in this Chaos without any pattern.

'This is a bit troublesome.'

Li Dong tried to steady himself, but his very existence was an anomaly here, constantly being scoured and sliced by the countless fragments of Law surrounding him.

The Void Eye opened to its full capacity, attempting to analyze the structure of this ocean.

However, the flow of information was too vast and too chaotic.

He would just capture a fragment of the 'Gravity' Law, only for it to potentially collide with a fragment of the 'Repulsion' Law the very next instant, both annihilating into pure energy, only to be captured by yet another fragment of the 'Life' Law, evolving into some bizarre creature that existed only for a fleeting moment.

His speed of analysis could not even keep up with a ten-thousandth of the changes occurring here.

'Use the Law Scalpel to force a path?'

This thought had barely surfaced before he dismissed it himself.

What a joke.

In this place, he was like someone who had fallen into a blender, only the things being blended were the Origin Laws of the Universe.

Even if he could cut a path, a billion new torrents of Law would surge over in the next second, drowning him even more thoroughly.

A direct confrontation was a dead end.

Just as he felt his own existence was about to be washed away and blurred by this endless Chaos, the ancient stone slab, which had been quiet inside him, suddenly emitted a faint, warm hum.

This sound was not heard through his ears, but resonated directly within the depths of his Soul.

It was an extremely ancient, extremely harmonious rhythm.

Li Dong's heart stirred.

He gave up trying to see with his eyes, gave up trying to analyze with his Divine Sense, and even temporarily reined in his outward-projecting power of Law.

He closed his eyes, immersed his entire mind, and began to 'listen.'

He heard it.

Beneath this ocean of Chaos, which was noisy to the extreme, existed a faint yet resilient 'main melody.'

That was the initial pulse of the Universe's Origin, the root of the ancient stone slab's resonance with it.

'So that's how it is... I was wrong.'

'I am not a police officer here to suppress rioters; I am a teacher here to guide lost children.'

'I have always been thinking about how to 'control' it, how to 'sort' it, but this thing is inherently a part of the Universe's Origin; it has its own rhythm.'

'What I should do is first keep up with its rhythm.'

Having realized this, Li Dong made a crazy decision.

He completely let go of all defenses, opening up his own Laws, his own power, and even his own Soul toward that 'main melody.'

He no longer treated himself as an independent individual, but instead attempted to turn himself into a 'note' within this cosmic symphony.

This was a huge gamble.

If he failed, his self-awareness would be completely assimilated by this ocean of Law, becoming one of its unremarkable fragments, lost forever.

Hum—

The moment Li Dong's own frequency of Law overlapped with that main melody of the Universe's Origin, a wondrous change occurred.

The violent, chaotic, and mutually attacking fragments of Law surrounding him suddenly seemed to find a backbone, their aggression instantly diminishing significantly.

They no longer blindly collided with Li Dong; instead, they began to circle and flow around him, following that main melody.

The originally sharp and jarring noise was gradually replaced by a grand and harmonious symphony.

Under his guidance, countless fragments of Law began to show traces of order.

'It worked!'

Li Dong opened his eyes, and they were filled with unprecedented clarity.

He now looked at this sea of Law, no longer seeing Chaos, but a musical score that, while complex, followed a logical pattern.

He extended his hand, and the phantom of the Blade of Judgment condensed in his palm.

But this time, it was no longer a sharp blade, but rather resembled a crystal-clear conductor's baton.

He grasped the 'baton' and gave it a gentle wave toward the deepest part of the ocean of Law, the location of the core singularity.

'Come on, everyone, let's start from the beginning.'

He precisely injected the 'power of Attunement,' generated after his resonance with the Universe's Origin, into the core of the singularity through the phantom of the Blade of Judgment.

There, dozens of the most violent Origin Laws were engaging in the most primitive of clashes.

'Life' and 'Death,' you are not enemies; you are a cycle, stand together.

'Time,' don't run so fast, wait for 'Space'; you two must hold hands.

And you, 'Destruction,' don't always think about smashing everything to pieces; you are the rest in the musical movement, not the final note, you need to have a sense of rhythm!

His power was like a pair of invisible hands, pressing those most core, most violent Laws, one by one, into the positions where they belonged.

The cycle within the singularity began to shift from mindless self-destruction to something orderly and stable.

However, just as the entire 'Genesis Storm' was about to completely subside and turn into a perfect cosmic symphony, that singularity, which had been forcibly 'held down,' erupted with its final and most violent resistance.

It seemed unwilling to be tamed just like that.

Boom!

A counter-current of energy that devoured everything surged out from the core of the singularity; its target was not to repel Li Dong, but to completely 'devour' him and assimilate him into a part of itself!

This force instantly engulfed Li Dong, intending to completely tear apart the self-awareness of this 'conductor' and melt him into this ocean of Law.

Li Dong's entire body shook violently, his Soul feeling as if it had been thrown into a furnace.

'...Trying to make me a part of you?'

He gritted his teeth, his consciousness beginning to show signs of blurring under the immense pressure.

'In your dreams!'

He knew this was the final test.

As long as he could hold onto his self during this backlash and maintain this hard-won resonance, the entire 'Genesis Storm' would truly return to peace.

He had to push through.