334: Chapter 335 Tearing Apart Cause and Effect, Backlash Causes Eyes to Burst Out

Law of Causality attacks do not harm the physical body.

This was one of the attack methods Lin Qi feared most in the martial arts era game.

It does not transmit damage through physical means. It modifies the "Cause" of your existence directly at the level of the Law.

To put it simply: The reason you are standing here is because you were born, grew up, and walked to this position. This series of "Causes" constitutes the "Effect" of your existence at this moment.

A Law of Causality attack simply erases the very act of your birth from the source.

You are not killed.

You never existed at all.

Lin Qi had seen this method before.

In his previous life, when playing until the Late Stage of the game, a certain type of hidden BOSS used this move. After being hit, players didn't die; instead, their characters simply vanished from the server. They couldn't even find their respawn points.

He studied it for a long time back then before finding a way to counter it.

Therefore, when the fingertips of the Eye of the Abyss began to weave the threads of Karma, Lin Qi's expression was serious.

Not out of fear.

But out of respect.

Because this thing truly required skill.

"Instructor Su Qing."

Lin Qi transmitted his voice back to the command center via the array map resonance System.

"Hmm?"

"Take Zhang Wei into the core array eye and don't come out."

Instructor Su Qing didn't ask why.

She heard the subtle change in Lin Qi's tone—switching from "just playing around" to "getting down to serious work."

"Zhang Wei, let's go."

"Where to?"

"The core array eye."

"Why? Didn't Brother Qi say we should just stand still?"

Instructor Su Qing grabbed his collar and dragged him inside.

"The boss told you to go in, so go in. Stop talking nonsense."

Zhang Wei was dragged two steps before turning back to look at the projection screen. In the image, the deacon covered in gray cloth was doing something toward Lin Qi.

He didn't understand, but he instinctively felt that what was about to happen was already beyond his range of comprehension.

The outskirts of the D-3 Region.

The movements of the Eye of the Abyss were very slow.

He crossed his hands in front of him, his ten fingers pulling at invisible threads. Those threads did not exist in the physical world; they only existed at the underlying level of the Law.

Lin Qi could see them.

In his martial arts eyes, those threads appeared as a grayish color. They extended from the fingertips of the Eye of the Abyss, piercing through space, attempting to touch a certain node on Lin Qi's body.

Where was that node?

On the Foundation of his existence.

Every person—whether a Mortal or a god—had a "Cause of Existence" at the level of the Law. This thing could not be seen or touched, but it was the fundamental anchor point for why you were you.

What the Eye of the Abyss was doing was finding that anchor point of Lin Qi's, and then—pulling it out.

"Your existence deviates from the design of the world's Origin," the Eye of the Abyss said while operating, his tone carrying a religious fanaticism. "The System does not recognize you, and the Law rejects you. You should not have existed in this world."

"Therefore, making you disappear is not killing—it is error correction."

Listening to these words, Lin Qi tilted his head.

"You've studied me?"

"The eyes of 'My Lord' see through all things."

"Oh," Lin Qi nodded. "Then did 'My Lord' tell you one thing?"

"What?"

"My Karma threads are a bit different from others."

The hands of the Eye of the Abyss paused.

Through his Law vision behind the cloth strip, he finally found Lin Qi's Karma anchor point.

Then he froze.

Lin Qi's Karma anchor point... was not in this world.

To be precise, that anchor point had two layers.

The surface layer was indeed within the Law network of this world, but it was as thin as a sheet of paper and shattered at a touch. Yet after it shattered, there was another layer underneath.

The color of that layer was Chaos.

The Law vision of the Eye of the Abyss could not penetrate it.

He could only sense that behind that Chaos-colored anchor point, there was an extremely long and complex trajectory of existence. That trajectory did not belong to the Law System of this world. It came from somewhere else.

Using concepts he could understand to describe it—the young man in front of him had two lives.

One was "Lin Qi" in this world. The Karma thread of this life was pitifully short and pitifully fragile.

The other was a "Martial Saint" from who knows where.

The Karma thread of that life was so heavy that the Eye of the Abyss's Law vision began to ache after just one glance.

It was like a kindergarten child trying to move a mountain.

"You... what exactly are you?" The voice of the Eye of the Abyss cracked for the first time.

"I'm asking you," Lin Qi didn't answer his question. "Which thread of mine are you planning to pull with your Law of Causality?"

The Eye of the Abyss did not speak.

He made a choice.

Since he couldn't touch the deep one, he would pull the shallow one.

As long as he erased the Cause of Existence for the identity of "Lin Qi" in this world, no matter what was underneath, he would lose the Foundation to stay in this world.

Without a container, no matter how powerful the Soul was, it would just be a wandering Soul without an anchor point.

The Eye of the Abyss exerted force again.

His ten fingers tightened violently!

The gray Karma thread pulled taut into a straight line, piercing fiercely into the core of Lin Qi's surface Karma anchor point!

Erasure—began.

Three seconds passed.

Nothing happened.

Lin Qi was still standing there.

The entrenching tool was still slung over his shoulder.

His coat wasn't even wrinkled.

The hands of the Eye of the Abyss began to tremble.

"Impossible... why can't I erase it?"

"Because you got one thing wrong," Lin Qi said.

He raised his free hand, and two fingers pinched that gray Karma thread—a thread that was completely invisible to ordinary people at the level of the Law.

He just pinched it like that.

As if pinching a strand of hair.

"My Karma threads are not managed by your 'My Lord'."

"They are managed by me."

Lin Qi's fingers applied force.

Snap.

The Karma thread broke.

It didn't break on Lin Qi's side.

It broke on the Eye of the Abyss's end.

The backlash from the breakage surged back into the body of the Eye of the Abyss along the Law channel instantly.

The gray cloth strip of the Eye of the Abyss burst open at that moment.

The face underneath the cloth strip—

Had no eyes.

The two eye sockets were empty, filled with dark red crystals. Those crystals were Law media implanted by the church through some kind of surgery, the core organs for him to exercise his Law of Causality abilities.

At this moment, those crystals were shattering.

Falling out of his eye sockets piece by piece, landing on the ground with a clattering sound.

The Eye of the Abyss let out a shrill howl.

Not because of pain.

But because the Law connection between him and "My Lord" was completely severed in that instant.

He fell to his knees, his hands covering his empty eye sockets, blood flowing down from between his fingers.

Ashes and Bone Crown both took a step back at the same time.

What had they seen?

They saw that young man, with his bare hands, pinch and break the Law of Causality.

And he did it backhanded.