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"So... the one sparring with Yang Jian right now is Isaac Newton?"

A screen of light appeared in mid-air, which was unmistakably the portal opened by Great Immortal Zhenyuan, and Tang Ku's surprised voice came from the other side of the light gate.

"What Newton? Uh, anyway, he said his name was Newton; I'm not really sure about his full name. If you know about his past, why not tell us? Knowing what specific abilities he has would help us prepare in advance!" said Great Immortal Zhenyuan.

Just a moment ago, seeing Yang Jian evenly matched with his opponent, he had felt at ease enough to open the portal. But immediately after, he witnessed Yang Jian being forced back by a single move from Newton, even losing his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade.

Burning with anxiety, he wanted to go help, but he suddenly heard Tang Ku's voice from the dream world, so he told him about the situation here.

Tang Ku thought for a moment, organized his thoughts on what he knew about Newton, and then tried to explain it as briefly as possible to Great Immortal Zhenyuan.

However, Tang Ku was not a professional scientist after all; he couldn't clearly explain many things about mechanical principles and classical mechanics models, so Great Immortal Zhenyuan was left completely bewildered, having no idea what was being said.

"Darwin's research direction was evolution, so the Law he mastered must be related to evolution. And this Newton before you, his research direction was mechanics, so his ability must be related to mechanics. To defeat him, you must break his mechanical principles!" Tang Ku concluded at the end.

"Alright, I still don't understand!"

Great Immortal Zhenyuan was dumbfounded. Honestly, he was considered quite knowledgeable in this world, but he couldn't understand a word of what Tang Ku was saying. As for things like Newton's three Laws of motion and the Law of universal gravitation, he had never even heard of them, let alone understood them!

"If you told these things to those two, they would definitely be able to understand most of it!"

Zhen Yuanzi looked at the two fanatical amateur scientists below and couldn't help but smack his lips, feeling a bit jealous in his heart.

"That doesn't matter... Great Immortal, ask them, if both sides destroy this thing simultaneously, can the people from the other world be saved? Will there be any danger? After researching for so long, they should have some results by now!" Tang Ku said.

"Hmm, I'll ask them for you..."

Great Immortal Zhenyuan directly transmitted his voice to the two of them. After hearing the message, the two old men thought for a moment, and then Yuan Tiangang raised his head and made an "OK" gesture.

Well, this gesture was actually taught to him by Tang Ku; Great Immortal Zhenyuan didn't know what it meant, nor did he know how to interpret this gesture.

"Uh... Sanzang, he made a circle with his index finger and thumb, with the remaining three fingers sticking up..." Great Immortal Zhenyuan described.

"Oh, that's an 'OK' gesture, which means no problem... Hmm, that makes things easier. Since that's the case, let's do it..."

Upon hearing this, Great Immortal Zhenyuan was just about to agree, but suddenly he saw the precarious situation in Erlang Shen's direction and blurted out, "Oh no!"

"Huh?"

Tang Ku on the other side thought he had misheard and couldn't help but ask, "Does this plan have a loophole? What's wrong?"

Great Immortal Zhenyuan couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, "It's not that the plan is bad... it's that Erlang Shen is in a bad spot... That Newton is very powerful; Erlang Shen is likely unable to take him down!"

Tang Ku on the other side was taken aback and immediately couldn't help but ask, "What's the situation now?"

Great Immortal Zhenyuan thought for a moment and then relayed the battle situation to Tang Ku.

It turned out that after dodging the opponent's attack, Erlang Shen was already very surprised because Newton's attack method had exceeded his range of understanding. In terms of pure strength, the opponent's martial arts and attack power basically couldn't cause him any harm. Newton's attacks were very simple—just various types of punching—basically without any fancy moves, and Yang Jian could even easily see through the attack patterns.

What he truly found difficult to understand was that as long as he had the slightest physical contact with him, his body would instantly become extremely heavy. If his arm made contact, his arm would become heavy; if his leg made contact, his leg would instantly plunge downward, unable to be lifted.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly and had the power of Law to protect him, so this negative effect was quickly eliminated completely. However, because of this, Yang Jian dared not have any direct contact with him anymore. When he tried to use his absolute speed to sneak around to the back, he was completely deflected by the force field on Newton's body and couldn't get close to him at all.

Having lost his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade, he also lost his ability for long-range attacks, which made him gradually feel anxious.

Yang Jian's slingshot was also a powerful Magic Treasure, but he knew that using it now would only result in losing another one of his Magic Treasures. After all, the opponent was currently like a tough nut to crack—he simply couldn't get through.

"Only Law can counter Law... This guy has Cultivated his Law so profoundly; I, a mere beginner, am truly ignorant! Sigh, if I had known, I shouldn't have been so arrogant; I should have teamed up with Great Immortal Zhenyuan to take him down first."

As Yang Jian was pondering a countermeasure, suddenly a loud shout came from mid-air: "Erlang Shen, switch out!"

He looked up abruptly, and a monk wearing a pink monk's robe... well, actually it was still white, but after being stained with blood, it had become somewhat pinkish—anyway, it was a monk—leaped down from the sky. The moment he leaped down, a massive fist shadow had already fiercely smashed toward Newton's head.

Although Newton's power of Law was very strange, his reaction speed was far from as fast as imagined. The moment he looked up, a tremendous force had already crashed down heavily, smashing him directly into the ground.

Tang Ku landed, grabbed the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade, which only had its tail tip sticking out of the ground, and forcibly pulled it out. Then, he shook it vigorously in his hand, as if shaking off snowflakes; faint bits of energy seemed to drift away with the wind. Tang Ku threw the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade to Yang Jian and said in a deep voice, "Erlang Shen, I'll leave the machine over there to you... I just interrogated that so-called Hooke, and he said that only by destroying it when the machine is fully activated can the two worlds be fused together, which would wake everyone up..."

Yang Jian knew his own capabilities, so he didn't hesitate, nodded directly, leaped into the air, and vanished into the spatial portal in the blink of an eye.

"You are a bit too unscrupulous; this sneak attack method really has no gentlemanly demeanor at all!"

From within the massive crater, Newton slowly walked out, tugged at his collar, and said with some helplessness.

Tang Ku looked at his attire and suddenly laughed, saying, "You British people have gentlemanly demeanor, but wearing a suit mixed with our Chinese cloth shoes, this look is truly fresh!"