385: Chapter 385 Pure Physical Body

That slender, fair, and well-defined right hand was held steadily amidst the violent, pure white dimensionality reduction storm filling the sky.

Zhou Wannian did not clench his fist, nor did he form any complex or profound hand Seals. He simply let his five fingers extend naturally, palm facing outward, meeting that absolute Law capable of instantly crushing high mountains and great rivers into flat paintings.

The gale was like a blade, slicing through everything around it.

The pure white halo, carrying high-dimensional arrogance, frantically washed against the invisible barrier three feet in front of Zhou Wannian. Every impact of the halo stirred up large swaths of blinding sparks, the wails of high-dimensional code on the brink of collapse.

Between heaven and earth, there was a deathly silent roar—a paradoxical auditory experience. Because the thickness of space was being stripped away, sound had lost its medium for propagation, yet deep within the Soul, one could clearly hear the shrill wails of all things being crushed.

On Zhou Wannian's handsome face, there was no solemnity, nor the tension of facing a formidable enemy.

He glanced at the white storm stalled three feet before him, and then, he slowly lowered his raised right hand.

“Since you like flattening others so much...”

Zhou Wannian's tone was steady. In the midst of this world-destroying storm, his voice miraculously penetrated the Void Realm, clearly reaching the perception of every living being present and the giant vertical pupil deep within the firmament.

“...then I will walk over and let you flatten me to your heart's content.”

As his voice fell...

He did not activate the ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine inner universe Laws sealed within his body.

He even completely withdrew the trace of Great Perfection Five Elements True Qi radiating from his body.

He used his purest Physical Body, a shell tempered by the Law of Great Perfection for countless eons, with a density so great that even high-dimensional computing power would fall into an infinite loop.

Facing that unstoppable dimensionality reduction storm...

...he took a step forward.

It was just the most ordinary action of a common person walking. Lifting the knee, moving the leg, and the sole of the foot landing.

But the moment this step was taken, the remaining space of the entire Qingping Realm let out a dull groan of incomparable agony.

A spotless cyan cloth shoe stepped firmly onto the Void Realm ahead, which had been eroded by the pure white halo and was about to lose its thickness.

“Boom—!”

There was no blinding flash of Spell light, nor the deafening blast of thunder.

There was only the most primitive, most unreasonable physical collision.

The moment the sole of Zhou Wannian's foot touched that two-dimensional plane, the irrational 'Absolute Mass' contained within his Physical Body poured out without reservation through his foot, like a vast ocean bursting its dam.

How much force do you need to apply to flatten an object with infinite mass?

The angler from beyond the heavens did not know the answer.

But at this moment, it witnessed the cruel scene of mass crushing the Law.

At the point where Zhou Wannian's foot landed, space instantly collapsed. It wasn't a collapse from dimensionality reduction, but because it could not support this terrifying weight, it forcibly caved inward into a bottomless black hole.

Accompanying the landing of this step...

...the absolute vacuum domain that had been deathly guarding the three feet around him acted like a spring compressed to its limit; upon receiving the kinetic energy of the Physical Body pushing forward, it forcibly expanded in all directions!

Three feet.

One zhang.

Ten zhang.

A hundred zhang!

This expanding Domain had no color and no shape; it was the purest three-dimensional spatial barrier. Carrying the immeasurably heavy physical aura of Zhou Wannian, it crashed violently into the pure white dimensionality reduction halo sweeping across the sky with irresistible force.

“Crack... crack crack crack!”

A series of shattering sounds, so dense they made one's scalp tingle, boomed in mid-air.

That pure white storm, regarded as absolute truth by the high-dimensional vertical pupil and capable of erasing all three-dimensional matter, was like a fragile glass wall meeting a full-speed steel meteorite when it hit this expanding absolute Domain.

The surface of the pure white halo was instantly covered in dense black cracks like a spiderweb.

Immediately after...

...under the horrified gazes of Sect Master Tianshuzi and the other remaining Cultivators...

...that unstoppable high-dimensional storm was forcibly smashed by Zhou Wannian's Physical Body, creating a massive hole a hundred zhang high!

At the edges of the hole, pure white code light flickered and broke frantically, attempting to reseal the gap. But the Absolute Mass radiating from Zhou Wannian was like a pillar pinning the sea, fixed firmly there, preventing those high-dimensional Laws from approaching even half an inch.

The ruins of the Ascension Platform, which had been compressed by the dimensionality reduction strike and were about to become a flat painting, regained their 'thickness' the moment the halo was shattered.

Air began to flow once more.

Sect Master Tianshuzi gasped greedily for breath. Just a moment ago, he had clearly felt his blood stop flowing and his internal organs being compressed into a thin sheet of paper. If Zhou Wannian had taken this step half a breath later, they would have completely turned into a flat smear of blood on the ground.

He looked up, staring blankly at the cyan back in front of him.

No fancy Spells were needed, no profound Formations were required.

Relying solely on a Physical Body and pure physical mass, he had smashed the world-destroying high-dimensional Law to pieces.

This Realm of simplifying the complex and returning to the source completely shattered the view of cultivation that Sect Master Tianshuzi had built over a thousand years. It turned out that when the Physical Body becomes powerful to an inconceivable degree, one can truly crush all illusions in the world with sheer force.

Zhou Wannian walked into the massive hole he had smashed open.

Surrounding him was the howling pure white storm; the astral winds tearing through space were like billions of sharp steel blades, frantically slicing and spiraling at the edges of the hole.

Yet he walked in the center of the hole as if on level ground.

His cyan robes billowed in the wind, and his black hair fluttered freely behind him.

He did not stop but continued to walk forward.

Two steps.

Three steps.

Four steps.

With every step, his absolute vacuum domain pushed forward with him. That dimensionality reduction storm, which had originally blotted out the sun, was like snow meeting a red-hot poker, forcibly split down the middle to form a wide passage.

The passage pointed straight to the firmament, straight to the massive crack that had torn through the barrier of the Qingping Realm, and straight to that giant grey-white vertical pupil.

Deep in the sky...

...that massive, pale face without features showed a slight distortion at this moment.

The data flow within the giant vertical pupil at the center of the face circulated frantically, so fast it even sparked blinding flashes in the air.

Its computational core was running at an overload.

“Error. Error. Error.”

“Target physical constants exceed the System's load limit.”

“dimensionality reduction strike failed. Rule coverage failed.”

This was the first time since the birth of the angler from beyond that it had encountered a situation in this fishpond that completely violated its cognitive logic.

In its world, lower-dimensional creatures should follow the rules it set, spinning around in the levels of Spells and energy.

But now, this prey in cyan robes wasn't playing any game of Spell-clashing with it. The man was relying on nothing but his body, enduring the dimensionality reduction strike and walking up the steps one by one.

For the first time, an emotion called 'panic' appeared within the vertical pupil. Although this was merely a mechanical feedback generated by a conflict in underlying logic, it manifested externally as a violent twitching at the edges of the eye.

It had to stop this variable from approaching further.

“Initiating single-point erasure protocol. Dimensional Cutting Blade, condense.”

The grand, rigid voice rang out in the Void Realm once more.

Inside the vertical pupil, the grey-white code light that had been pouring out like a flood suddenly stopped flowing.

All light converged toward the very center of the pupil.

In an instant...

...a grey-white thread as thin as a strand of hair, yet condensing all the computing power and Laws of this high-dimensional being, shot out from the vertical pupil.

This was no longer a wide-area dimensionality reduction strike.

This was a single-point Breakthrough, compressing all dimensional cutting power to the extreme.

This thread ignored spatial distance, ignored the passage of time, and even skipped the process of Karma transmission.

At the same instant it was shot from the vertical pupil, it had already appeared before Zhou Wannian.

The target was a single black hair blown up by the wind at Zhou Wannian's forehead.

It wanted to use the sharpest dimensional blade to cut through this man's physical tissue. Even if it was just a single hair, as long as it could break this Absolute Mass defense, it could inject destruction code through the wound.

“Buzz!”

A sharp, high-pitched hum rang in Zhou Wannian's ear.

That grey-white dimensional cutting line slashed accurately onto the fluttering black hair.

The vertical pupil in the firmament stared fixedly at this intersection. It was already prepared to collect the data emitted when the hair snapped.

However...

...time seemed to fall into a deathly silence once again at this moment.

That weak, fluttering black hair did not break or even bend the moment it touched the dimensional cutting line.

On the contrary...

...with a crisp 'ding' sound...

...that grey-white thread, which condensed all the computing power of the high-dimensional being, was like a rusty iron shard hitting tempered steel.

Starting from the point of contact with the hair...

...it shattered inch by inch.

It turned into a cloud of fine grey light powder, drifting away beside Zhou Wannian's cheek.

As for that black hair, it was merely teased slightly by the breeze stirred when the thread shattered, before settling back peacefully onto Zhou Wannian's forehead.

Not even a single strand of hair could be cut.

It didn't even have the qualification to leave a white mark on it.

High in the firmament, that giant vertical pupil completely froze at this moment.

The code light circulating in the pupil turned a blinding crimson in an instant—the warning color of a System on the brink of collapse.

The high-dimensional Laws it took pride in, the absolute truths it relied on to rule countless fishponds...

...could not even budge a single hair on this man's body when facing him.

This was no longer a relationship between prey and hunter.

This was clearly a praying mantis crouching on a leaf, trying to use its two sickles to cut through a steel vehicle traveling at full speed.

Zhou Wannian stopped walking.

He stood in the center of the vacuum passage he had smashed open with his Physical Body.

Around him was the howling remnant storm, and beneath his feet were the ruins of the white jade long steps.

He looked up, his eyes deep as an ancient well, calmly watching the giant vertical pupil flashing with red light from panic deep within the crack in the firmament.

He reached out his right hand and casually brushed the hair on his forehead that had been the target of the attack.

On that handsome and easygoing face, an undisguised smear of mockery slowly curled up.

“Is that all you've got?”

Zhou Wannian's tone was steady, with a hint of the laziness of someone tired of watching a play.

He dusted off the sleeves of his cyan robe.

“Since you can't cut my hair...”

“...then now, it's my turn to pluck your eyelashes.”