296: Chapter 297 Your Laws Are Full of Flaws

Watching Lin Qi's calm and composed back, Zhang Wei felt his knees go a bit weak.

He now seriously suspected that his shameless insistence on becoming an apprentice to Brother Qi might have been the most correct decision he had ever made in his life.

This wasn't just clinging to a powerful figure!

This was clearly clinging to the thigh of the Heavenly Dao!

"Instructor... Instructor Su," he whispered to Instructor Su Qing beside him, "Tell me, what exactly... is Brother Qi considered now?"

Instructor Su Qing was silent for a long time before squeezing two words out through her teeth.

"He is a god."

It was not a description. It was a statement.

In her view, the feat Lin Qi had just displayed had completely exceeded the scope of a "human."

That was not martial arts, nor was it a skill. That was authority.

It was the authority, possessed only by a Creator, to define and erase everything.

She suddenly felt a bit of pity for that mysterious person.

That guy had gone to great lengths to steal the world's Law, thinking he had mastered the power of a god.

As it turned out, the one he had provoked was the god himself.

What do you call this? This is called brandishing a broadsword before Guan Gong, or wielding an axe before Lu Ban.

No, this is even more absurd. This is called pirated software encountering the legal department head of the original manufacturer.

And this department head also came with built-in antivirus and formatting functions.

"Don't just stand there, keep up." Lin Qi's voice came from ahead, interrupting their shock.

They hurriedly followed. The rest of the journey was unexpectedly smooth.

After witnessing Lin Qi erase hundreds of Law-created beings with a single thought, the mysterious person seemed to have learned his lesson and did not pull any more tricks.

The entire swamp was deathly silent.

But Lin Qi knew the other party wasn't afraid. He was gathering strength, preparing to give him a "surprise" in his own lair.

Lin Qi's pace was not fast, but with every step he took, the surrounding environment underwent a subtle, almost imperceptible change.

The chaotic power of the Law in the air was smoothed out. The energy traps hidden on the ground were eliminated.

He was like a monarch patrolling his own Domain, walking and casually repairing those "System BUGs" tampered with by a virus.

This feeling was very wonderful. He could "hear" the wailing of this land and could "see" those twisted chains of Law.

Then, he only needed a single thought to set everything right.

"My Body is the World," this supreme Martial Intent comprehended during the Organ Refining Realm, only truly displayed its terrifying power after entering the Tongshen Realm.

He no longer needed to deliberately construct any Domain. Because wherever he went, it was all his Domain.

"Brother Qi, what are you doing?" Zhang Wei asked curiously, looking at the increasingly "normal" environment around them.

"Cleaning up," Lin Qi replied.

"Huh?"

"A thief has made a mess of your house. Before you catch him, you have to clean up your own house first, right?"

Zhang Wei nodded, seemingly understanding. Although the metaphor was a bit strange, he roughly understood.

Brother Qi was "purifying" this contaminated area, turning it from the enemy's home turf back into his own.

They walked for about another half an hour. The mist ahead finally dissipated completely.

A huge altar, like a hill, crudely piled together from countless white bones and dark red metal, appeared before them.

At the top of the altar, twisted spikes resembling the ribs of some giant beast were inserted.

Countless purple-black energy patterns, like blood vessels, covered the entire altar, pulsating slowly, continuously transporting the earth vein energy gathering from all directions to the center of the altar.

And at the very top of the altar, a figure shrouded in a tattered black robe was sitting cross-legged. He had finally appeared.

"I thought you were going to be a coward for the rest of your life," Lin Qi stopped, looked up at the figure on the altar, and said calmly.

"I was just waiting for you," the figure on the altar spoke.

His voice sounded like the voices of countless men, women, young, and old mixed together—sharp, piercing, and carrying a kind of inhuman sense of chaos.

"Waiting for you, the perfect 'container,' to walk into my furnace by yourself."

He slowly stood up. The tattered black robe moved without any wind.

A vast and decaying aura of the Law, incompatible with the entire world, erupted from him and swept across the entire land!

Under the impact of this aura, Instructor Su Qing and Zhang Wei retreated several steps, feeling their Souls trembling.

Too strong! This aura was even several times stronger than the Rank 5 Expert Zhao Shouzhen they had seen!

What kind of monster was this?!

However, Lin Qi, who was standing at the very front, did not even move a corner of his clothes. He looked at The Black-Robed Figure, his eyes not showing gravity, but instead carrying a trace of... disappointment?

"Is that it?" Lin Qi curled his lips. "Your Law is full of loopholes."

The Black-Robed Figure: "?"

Lin Qi extended a finger and tapped the air to his left.

"For example, here, you are trying to simulate a spatial fault to block my retreat. But your spatial Law model is based on an old version from the previous era and is fundamentally incompatible with the underlying architecture of the world I am in now. So, your so-called spatial fault, in my eyes, is just a texture; it breaks with a single poke."

He pointed to his feet again. "And here, you want to use earth vein energy to create a gravity trap. The idea is good, but your understanding of 'earth' type essence is wrong. In the underlying protocol of this world, 'earth' represents 'digestion' and 'bearing,' not 'stability' and 'heavy pressure.' You used the wrong function, so this trap was a decoration from the very beginning."

For every sentence Lin Qi said, the aura on The Black-Robed Figure fluctuated. When Lin Qi finished the last sentence, his chaotic voice carried a trace of shock for the first time.

"You... how do you know these things?!"

These were the deepest secrets of the world that he had spent countless years analyzing and deducing bit by bit! They were the foundation of his survival in this "cage"!

Why did this youth before him, this "container" in his eyes, know them so clearly?! Even more thoroughly than he did!

"Why do I know?" Lin Qi smiled.

"A thief who plagiarized someone else's code comes to ask the original creator, 'How did you write this piece of code?' Don't you think your question is laughable?"

The aura on The Black-Robed Figure became completely chaotic. His face, hidden under the hood, seemed to be staring fixedly at Lin Qi with an incomprehensible gaze.

"Original creator...?" "Who are you?" "Who exactly are you?!"

Lin Qi did not answer him. He just lifted his foot and stepped forward.

"Who I am is not important." "What is important is..." "Today, I am here to fix your BUG."