655: Temperature Law

Tang Ku and Ge Gang stood opposite each other, not continuing their attack!

Their battle had spanned across several star systems, and countless non-living planets had been destroyed, yet this was merely their warm-up.

"The situation over on Earth has been turned upside down; don't you want to go back and take a look?"

Ge Gang narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "It's very easy for you to get distracted like this!"

Tang Ku shook his head and smiled, "Everything has been arranged. As the saying goes, 'do your best and leave the rest to fate.' If all preparations have been made and we still fail in the end, then it can only mean that such is Earth's destiny, and the two Universes have no need to exist at all!"

"That sounds quite fatalistic... but are you really not worried at all?" Ge Gang asked.

"It would be a lie to say I'm not worried!" Tang Ku thought for a moment, then added, "My Disciples, and the people on Earth—no matter what they are doing, they are striving for their own future. It just so happens that our battle is also for the future..."

"Then is there anyone you are particularly concerned about and want to check on? After all, even in war, some people survive, while others do not!" Ge Gang said.

"There actually is one..." Tang Ku thought for a moment and then said, "I'd like to see what my Disciple Shi Jingmo is doing right now... Hmm, can you let me see his current battle scene?"

Ge Gang smiled and waved his hand gently. Suddenly, a swarm of nanobot-like things emerged from his body and hovered in the air. Then, beams of light formed an image in the air, resembling a massive curved plasma TV, and one with extremely high resolution at that.

On the screen was the duel between Shi Jingmo and that guy named Zack.

"Why choose his fight?" Ge Gang asked, slightly puzzled.

"Because among all my Disciples, Shi Jingmo is the one closest to the Dao of Saints, yet he has forged a completely different path!" Tang Ku chuckled.

Shi Jingmo felt not a shred of tension at this moment, because although the person opposite him named Zack brought him immense pressure—his strength was evident from his aura alone—Shi Jingmo was neither nervous nor afraid.

In fact, he actually felt a long-lost sense of eagerness to try!

Zack looked at Shi Jingmo and suddenly shook his head, saying, "Your strength is too weak. You are only at the initial stage of the Law; you are no match for me!"

Shi Jingmo pressed his palms together. From the Void Realm-like space within his palms, he pulled out a string of 108 prayer beads. The beads were entirely golden and shone with a blinding light, causing Zack to pause for a moment. Zack said indifferently, "Oh, a Magical Artifact? Is this your trump card? I have to say... it's still useless; you are still no match for me!"

Shi Jingmo shook his head and said, "This string of beads is just an ordinary weapon, not a Magical Artifact... Furthermore, you claim I'm no match for you before the fight has even begun. You are trying to exert psychological pressure on me to make me afraid to act rashly, aren't you? Well, normally those of the Buddhist path wouldn't act rashly, but today, I insist on breaking this rule... Whether I can beat you or not, we'll know once we try!"

As he spoke, Shi Jingmo had already charged toward Zack. His movements were extremely agile. Terrifying energy suddenly erupted from his palms, propelling the prayer beads in his hand like a long whip, which he lashed toward Zack.

Zack was slightly surprised, but still chuckled, "Do we really need to use such petty tricks in our battle? Can't we just duel using the Law directly?"

"Crack!" A bolt of profound ice suddenly materialized and slammed hard against the string of prayer beads. There was no violent explosion upon contact; instead, they seemed to stick together. The moment the beads touched the profound ice, they were covered in a layer of white frost, and this frost continued to spread upward, reaching Shi Jingmo's palm in the blink of an eye.

"Hum!" With a strange sound, the prayer beads trembled slightly, shattering the frost, piercing through the profound ice, and striking Zack heavily. This blow actually sent Zack flying dozens of meters away.

However, Shi Jingmo did not rush to pursue, but instead looked at his palm with great confusion.

His right hand was covered in a thin layer of white frost, biting cold, yet it could not cause him any severe damage.

"Is it the profound ice Law? But... why is its power so weak?"

Shi Jingmo frowned slightly, then saw Zack slowly straighten his body and say disdainfully, "Attacks of your level can't even scratch my skin!"

Suddenly, he flicked his finger at Shi Jingmo. In the Void Realm of the Universe, countless ice-cone-like objects appeared in an instant, shooting toward Shi Jingmo fiercely like a machine gun...

"Subduing the Heavenly Demons..."

He gently swung the prayer beads in his hand, invoking 'Subduing the Heavenly Demons' with the power of Buddha Dharma. As those ice cones entered his attack range, they were shattered by the prayer beads. However, it had to be said that the hardness of this profound ice was far greater than any ice formed from liquid, but in terms of pure attack power, it might not even be as good as the laser cannons on a space battleship!

"Why use such useless attacks... The power of the Law cannot be this weak... Then, his Law should not be profound ice, but when activating his Law, he can create such hard ice. So the question arises... what exactly is his Law?"

Shi Jingmo shattered all the profound ice, and suddenly seemed to realize something. He couldn't help but retreat abruptly, staring blankly at the prayer beads in his hand.

The originally smooth surface of the prayer beads instantly developed countless pits and bumps, as if they had been corroded, with a density akin to the core of golden nanmu wood.

Furthermore, as these few seconds passed, these pits were constantly expanding, making the prayer beads look as if they were decaying.

"You are not the possessor of the profound ice Law; your power of the Law... is the ability to freely control temperature!" Shi Jingmo said in a deep voice.

"Hmm, you figured it out so quickly? Heh, my power of the Law is called the Temperature Law... As the name implies, being able to freely control the level of temperature is the true face of my Law!"

A palm-sized ice ball suddenly appeared in Zack's hand, and he chuckled, "However, how were you able to tell?"

Shi Jingmo raised the prayer beads, "The substance that can destroy these prayer beads is not simple. I have heard my Master say that there is a power in the Universe called vacuum zero-point energy, and your temperature control ability... caused these vacuum zero-point energies to be frozen, right? That is why my prayer beads look as if they have been corroded. In reality, when I shattered those profound ice, that energy had already invaded the prayer beads, which is why they look like this!"

"Heh, good eye. Then why don't you guess what kind of attack I will use next?" Zack slowly drifted over!