263: Your laws are mine!

The next moment, the thousands of tentacles beneath that Void Realm jellyfish moved.

They were not flesh, not energy, but woven from the pure concept of "devouring"—the embodiment of "stripping" and "plundering."

Where the tentacles passed, even the space itself was "eaten" away, leaving behind absolute nothingness.

There was no sound, no light or shadow, only a "sense of disappearance" that made even the Divine Soul freeze.

Their target was Li Dong.

It was his Law, his energy, his memories, the very "concept" of his existence.

Instead of retreating, Li Dong advanced, spreading his left hand forward.

A miniature cage composed of countless Law runes, the Eternal Prison, appeared out of thin air, meeting those thousands of tentacles.

He wanted to analyze this bizarre Law.

However, the moment the cage made contact with the tentacles, a sudden change occurred!

Hum—!

The Eternal Prison let out a shrill, mournful cry, and the Law runes that composed it began to flicker violently, quickly becoming dim and fragmented, like metal thrown into strong acid.

The cage was being devoured in reverse!

Those tentacles seemed to possess life, following the Law veins of the cage, greedily gnawing on everything inside.

Li Dong could even feel that the broken Laws sealed within the cage were wailing in fear under this devouring force.

Interesting.

With a thought, Li Dong released a gentle and profound Tune of Harmony.

This sound could calm violent Laws and soothe desperate Souls.

But this time, it failed.

The sound waves touched the Void Realm jellyfish like a clay ox entering the sea, failing to stir even the slightest ripple.

It had no reaction to "harmony" or "order."

Its essence was pure, disordered, chaotic hunger.

At this moment, the Observer's stream of thought flashed through Li Dong's mind extremely abruptly, as fast as a lightning bolt of data.

"Target: Universe cancer cell. Characteristics: Absolute devouring, infinite proliferation. Attunement ineffective. Weakness: Core conversion efficiency has a limit. Destroy its core."

Li Dong understood instantly.

You cannot cure a disease by reasoning with cancer cells.

The only solution is excision.

His figure flickered, and a Law Scalpel flashed at his fingertips as he lightly slashed the space in front of him.

Rrrrip.

Space was cut open like cloth, and he stepped inside, instantly appearing at the other end of the lair, narrowly avoiding the encirclement of all the tentacles.

The spot where he had just been standing had already turned into an absolute black hole of void.

The predator seemed to have been angered, its massive body beginning to squirm, while the wailing of the seven imprisoned star cores at the center of the lair suddenly intensified.

Their light was dimming at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The halo on the surface of one of the smallest star cores extinguished completely, and then the entire sphere began to shrivel and crack.

What made Li Dong's eyes turn even colder was that as the star core withered, pustules swelled up on the massive body of the Void Realm jellyfish.

The pustules burst, and countless smaller "Void Realm jellyfish" crawled out, possessing an innate instinct to devour, and joined the hunt with roars.

It was... breeding!

Using the life Origin of a world to breed this kind of trash of the Universe!

An uncontrollable rage surged from the bottom of Li Dong's heart.

He thought of the newborn star cluster he had created with his own hands, and the lives that had just been born, full of infinite possibilities.

And this thing before him, its very existence was the greatest blasphemy against the word "life."

He could not delay any longer.

A flash of mad determination crossed Li Dong's eyes.

He stopped evading and instead actively moved to meet a lone, thinner devouring tentacle.

The moment the tentacle was about to touch his body, the ancient stone slab on his chest erupted with a warm and heavy light, forming an invisible barrier.

Hiss—

The devouring tentacle slammed into the barrier, gnawing frantically, but could not advance an inch.

And Li Dong, through this brief contact, probed into it with a wisp of his Divine Thought.

He was going to... reverse-analyze it!

Boom!

A wave of chaotic, greedy, and primitive devouring information instantly overwhelmed his Divine Thought.

But the ancient stone slab began to operate at high speed simultaneously, acting like the most precise filter, stripping away all negative "emotions" and "will," leaving only the purest... Law operating principles.

How to locate energy.

How to strip away concepts.

How to perform conversion.

In an instant, the core secret of this cancer of the Universe was laid bare before him.

"So that's how it is... crude, barbaric, yet pointing straight to the Origin."

The corners of Li Dong's mouth curled into an icy arc.

"Your Law, I'll take it."

The "Attunement" Law within his body began to reorganize and evolve at high speed in an unprecedented way.

Using the supreme power of the ancient stone slab as the Foundation, and the "devouring" principle he had analyzed as the framework.

A brand new, overbearing Law, carrying Li Dong's personal will, instantly formed within him.

Anti-Devour!

The next second, Li Dong's entire aura changed.

If he had previously been a deity judging all things, then at this moment, he was an abyss deeper than the abyss itself!

He transformed into a stream of light that could not be captured by sight, no longer dodging, but charging straight toward the main body of that huge Void Realm jellyfish!

"Roar!"

The predator felt a fatal threat; all the tentacles, including those small individuals that had just been bred, frantically turned back to defend, forming an absolute barrier composed of pure "devouring" in front of its core.

However, the stream of light that Li Dong had become turned a blind eye to this barrier.

Wherever the stream of light passed, those devouring tentacles not only failed to "eat" him, but instead, like ice meeting a hot iron, let out shrill screams and were forcibly "eaten" back by the Anti-Devour Law contained within the light itself!

Returning devouring with devouring!

Li Dong instantly pierced through all defenses and arrived at the predator's core.

It was a massive vortex composed of countless twisted Law runes, resembling a digestive organ, where the energy of the seven star cores was being continuously shredded and absorbed.

"It's over."

Li Dong revealed his figure at the center of the vortex, raising his right hand high.

The Blade of Judgment shone with brilliant light; on the blade, besides the determination to sever all things, a layer of deep, overbearing Anti-Devour power was wrapped around it.

He struck down ruthlessly at the root of this "cancer of the Universe," at this core of conversion and reproduction!

"I sentence you to death!"

Boom—!!!

The blade slashed into the core, and a cry of pain, indescribable in words, resounded throughout the entire Void Realm.

The predator's massive body began to collapse and disintegrate inch by inch from the core.

However, in the very last instant before it was about to completely dissipate.

A malice, billions of times greater, more ancient, and hungrier than it, slowly cast a... deeply interested "gaze" from the deepest depths of the Void Realm.