371: Chapter 372 Don't mention folding to me, I'm a straightforward person.

Abyssal Fang's pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints.

His mind went blank as he watched the figure emerge from the massive hole in the ground, covered in dirt and carrying an exaggeratedly deformed backpack.

“Broken glass shards?”

Those three words were like a hammer slamming into his nerves.

The spatial blades he took such pride in—sharp enough to cut through battleship armor—were dismissed as 'broken glass shards' by this man.

What made his scalp tingle even more was the way the other party had appeared.

He hadn't burrowed out from underground.

He had crushed the ground along with space itself like a biscuit and then simply walked out from the fragments.

What level of power was this?

This wasn't the application of a Law at all; this was a violent trampling of the world's underlying rules!

A flash of insight sparked in Abyssal Fang's mind, connecting all the recent intelligence circulating within the Church.

In the Eastern Mining Area, Cang Yan died of unknown causes.

In the western Rotten Wood Forest, Ku Ye died, completely erased within four minutes, and even his century-old stronghold was razed to the ground.

All intelligence pointed toward a mysterious anomaly that the System's logic could not analyze.

A monster with a Physical Body so incredibly powerful it could ignore Law-based attacks.

It was him.

It was definitely him!

Abyssal Fang's blood ran cold.

He finally understood why Ku Ye had died so quickly and so cleanly.

Facing a guy who directly flipped the table and tore both the table and the tablecloth to shreds, any Law-based technique seemed like a joke.

Escape!

He had to escape immediately!

Prey? Container?

To hell with the Container!

Compared to his own life, no mission mattered!

Abyssal Fang did not hesitate for a second. Enduring the intense pain of his Mental Energy's backlash, he mobilized all the remaining spatial Law energy in his body.

“Absolute Fold!”

He let out a roar.

This wasn't an ordinary spatial jump; it was his ultimate life-saving trump card.

Using himself as the coordinates, he would 'fold' the surrounding ten meters of space in an absolute sense, creating an un-lockable temporary passage in the gap between the real world and the spatial sub-layer.

In just 0.3 seconds, he could completely disappear from this plane.

A distorted gray light lit up with Abyssal Fang at the center, and the scenery around him began to blur like a television screen with a bad signal.

His body was being pulled into another dimension.

A long-lost sense of security enveloped him once more.

Looking at Lin Qi, who stood motionless, a hideous expression of relief after a narrow escape appeared on Abyssal Fang's face.

As he sank into the spatial passage, he let out a mocking roar.

“You monster who only knows how to use brute force!”

“So what if your Physical Body is strong! You can't even touch the threshold of the Laws!”

“Goodbye, idiot! I'll remember your face. Just wait for the Church's endless pursuit!”

Half of his body had already vanished into the distorted light and shadow.

Lin Qi looked at him, his eyes showing no anger, only the indifference one might feel when looking at a moron.

“Fold?”

Through the previous backlash, Lin Qi's Dao Source had already completely analyzed the mechanics of the other's spatial ability.

In his eyes, so-called spatial folding was like a child folding a piece of paper and then crawling through the crease.

Childish and full of flaws.

“Don't mention folding to me.”

Lin Qi's voice was flat.

“I have a straight temper; I can't stand convoluted things.”

He didn't chase after the disappearing figure.

He simply reached out and grabbed the strap of the giant backpack on his back.

Then, he pulled out the entrenching tool that had followed him all the way, stained with mud and monster blood.

Dao Source, injected.

The surface of the originally ordinary steel entrenching tool took on a Chaos-colored luster that was neither metal nor jade.

At the edge of the shovel blade, the air was silently annihilating.

Lin Qi's Martial Intent Insight had already locked onto the only 'anchor point' that Abyssal Fang's spatial passage left in the real world.

It was an energy singularity invisible to the naked eye, perceivable only at the level of the Laws.

In Lin Qi's 'Spatial Rewrite' vision, that anchor point was like a high-speed rotating gear, pulling real space in and spitting out a path to a different dimension.

And what he needed to do was simple.

Jam the gear.

Lin Qi raised the entrenching tool and stabbed it with a backhand strike into the empty air three meters in front of him.

“Physical Format.”

The blade of the entrenching tool plunged precisely, overbearingly, and without any regard for logic into that high-speed rotating 'gear'.

Abyssal Fang, who was being dragged into the spatial sub-layer, suddenly froze, the mocking smile on his face not yet fully faded.

He felt as if his escape route had been brutally impaled by a steel bar a meter in diameter.

The energy flow of the entire passage instantly became chaotic.

The stable structure of the spatial Law was forcibly pried open, torn apart, and then... formatted by a deeper, more violent physical existence.

All the complex spatial circuits and exquisite Law runes were cleared away in swaths before that entrenching tool, like junk files encountering a delete command.

“No... this is impossible!”

Abyssal Fang let out a scream that was distorted with terror.

His 'Absolute Fold,' his most prized life-saving technique, had been broken by someone with a shovel?

In the next second, the backlash of the spatial Law arrived.

The spatial passage, forcibly interrupted and burst open, was like an overstretched rubber band that suddenly snapped; all the energy surged back into the caster.

“Pwah!”

Abyssal Fang felt as if he had been hit head-on by a high-speed train, and a large mouthful of blood mixed with internal organ fragments erupted from his mouth.

His already semi-transparent body was forcibly 'squeezed' out of the spatial sub-layer by a massive force, slamming heavily onto the ground a dozen meters away like a dead fish out of water.

Nearly eighty percent of the bones in his body were broken, and his half-step Law-level shield, which had nearly a million health points, was now covered in spiderweb-like cracks, flickering unsteadily under the impact of the Law backlash.

He struggled to lift his head, his face filled with incomprehensible horror.

He saw the man still standing in the same spot, with bits of light from the shattered space still clinging to the entrenching tool in his hand.

That gaze was like looking at a toy that had already been broken.

Abyssal Fang wanted to say something else.

But Lin Qi didn't give him the chance.

Being kind to an enemy is being cruel to oneself.

This simplest of Jianghu principles was etched into his very bones.

Ghost Shadow Yu Step.

Lin Qi's figure left a faint afterimage where he stood.

Abyssal Fang's retina had just captured the movement of the other's foot when an indescribable, terrifying pressure bore down on him.

Lin Qi's figure had already appeared before him.

No nonsense.

No questioning.

Not even any extra Moves.

Lin Qi's body sank slightly, his right shoulder pulled back slightly, and the Physical Body strength of the Tongshen Realm was mobilized without reservation, driving his entire being into an all-destroying whole.

Baji Iron Mountain Lean.

The most simple and unadorned ancient martial arts killing Move.

Carrying a terrifying aura that could suppress an entire world, it slammed solidly into Abyssal Fang's chest.

“Bang!”

The sound wasn't loud, but it was a dull thud that made one's heart tremble.

The crumbling Law shield on Abyssal Fang's body couldn't even last for 0.1 seconds; it shattered silently like an eggshell struck by a hammer.

Next was his body.

Before the pure physical might of the Tongshen Realm, a half-step Law-level Physical Body was as fragile as paper.

Abyssal Fang's sternum collapsed first, followed by his entire chest cavity, and then his entire body's flesh, bones, and internal organs were compressed, disintegrated, and atomized under that irresistible force.

A cloud of warm blood mist exploded outward with Lin Qi's shoulder as the center.

An instant kill.