420: Chapter 420 Law Trap Triggered

What does the Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate look like at full power?

Lu Sheng soon found out.

The Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's Domain suddenly changed.

Originally a six-hundred-meter Ice Sealing Domain—it abruptly expanded to eight hundred meters.

The concentration of Law within the Domain surged by more than twofold.

Under this surging pressure, Lu Sheng's five-hundred-meter Domain began to contract rapidly—four hundred fifty meters, four hundred meters, three hundred fifty meters—

"Not good!"

Lu Sheng pushed his Law power to its limit to resist the compression, but the effect was minimal. The Domain suppression of the Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate at full power was not something a Late Spirit Saint could contend with.

The Domain was compressed to three hundred meters before it barely stabilized.

Three hundred meters against eight hundred meters.

The gap was too large.

Within the Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's full-power Domain, Lu Sheng's Law circulation speed dropped by at least forty percent. The temperature of the Fire Law was suppressed, the speed of the Lightning Law was slowed, and even the sensitivity of the Space Law became sluggish.

He was like a boxer with his hands and feet tied, facing an unrestrained opponent.

The Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate did not use long-range attacks anymore.

He walked straight over.

His pace wasn't fast. But with every step he took, the surrounding space solidified further.

Lu Sheng attempted to launch a Law Resonance attack—but Law Resonance required five types of Laws to vibrate at the same frequency. Under the suppression of the Domain, the synchronization precision of the five Laws dropped significantly.

The resonance failed.

The energy dissipated on his knuckles without forming that lethal gray sphere of light.

"Resonance failed?" The Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate had clearly noticed as well. "Your Law Resonance requires extremely high synchronization precision. Under the suppression of my Domain, your synchronization precision cannot reach the trigger conditions."

He was right.

Law Resonance was Lu Sheng's strongest card. But under the suppression of the Domain—it couldn't be played.

The Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate walked to within ten meters of him.

"Give up. You cannot defeat me."

"Are you sure?"

"I am sure."

"Then go try and break that defense behind me." Lu Sheng took a step back, retreating next to the spherical space's membrane.

The Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate glanced at him, then at the spherical space.

"You want to lure me into attacking the spherical space's defense? Is there a trap you've laid inside?"

Lu Sheng's heart tightened.

"Don't look at me with those eyes." The Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate shook his head. "I have lived for over six hundred years. Those little thoughts of yours are as clear to me as if they were written on your face."

He turned to look at the defense Formation runes of the spherical space.

"Ancient Metal Armor Plates, Five Elements Law Formation Runes, defense Rank—somewhere between Mid Spirit Saint and Peak Spirit Saint. Not bad. Much stronger than the Formations most Late Spirit Saints could set up."

"But—"

The Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate raised his right hand.

Dark blue frozen energy condensed in his palm.

This time, the energy density was more than ten times higher than before.

"No matter how good a Formation is, it is meaningless in the face of an absolute power gap."

He struck the defense Formation runes of the spherical space with his palm.

Boom—!

The surface of the dark gold armor plate was instantly covered in grayish-white frost patterns. The light of the Law Formation runes flickered wildly, attempting to resist this frozen power.

But the gap was too large.

The Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's first strike caused cracks to appear in the armor plate.

"The first one," he said.

He struck a second time.

The cracks expanded. The Law Formation runes began to break.

"The second one."

The third strike.

A section of the armor plate shattered completely, revealing the law threads membrane beneath.

"The third one."

The Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate looked at that membrane.

"Quite sturdy. But it'll only hold for another two strikes."

He raised his hand, preparing to strike for the fourth time.

Lu Sheng stood to the side, waiting all along.

He was waiting for this exact moment.

The Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's third strike had broken the armor plate but hadn't completely pierced the defense. The trigger condition for the Law Trap was—the moment external force broke through the defense.

The third strike hadn't triggered it.

Because the defense hadn't been fully breached yet.

The fourth strike—

The Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's palm struck down.

Boom!

A small area of the law threads membrane was pierced.

External force had broken through the defense.

Law Trap—Triggered!

Buzz—!

An extremely blinding gray light shot out from the core node of the defense Formation runes!

The Law Crystal containing fifty percent of Lu Sheng's spirit source exploded at that moment. The destructive power generated by the Law Resonance of the five Laws converged along every main line of the Formation runes, forming a gray pillar of light three meters in diameter—

Heading straight for the Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's face!

The Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's pupils shrank abruptly.

It was too close.

His palm was still pressed against the defense Formation runes.

The pillar of light shot out from the inner side of the defense Formation runes, less than a meter away from his face.

The reaction speed of a Peak Spirit Saint was indeed terrifying—he tilted his head the instant the pillar of light shot out.

But it was still a fraction of a second too late.

The gray pillar of light grazed his right shoulder and right arm.

The moment the power of the Law Resonance came into contact with his body—

Pshhh.

A mist of blood exploded from the Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's right shoulder.

The dark gold Duanhe right sleeve was completely shredded, revealing the arm beneath—with a horrific wound stretching from the shoulder to the elbow.

A large amount of golden blood gushed out.

"You—!"

The Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate retreated ten steps abruptly, clutching his right shoulder.

For the first time, an expression of anger appeared on his face.

It wasn't the pain of being wounded. It was the fury of being outschemed.

Seeing that wound, Lu Sheng felt a surge of wild joy in his heart.

It hit!

The Law Trap worked!

The Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's right shoulder and right arm had sustained moderate to heavy damage. The aftershocks of the Law Resonance were still lingering at the wound, continuously tearing at the cells on the edges of the injury.

In the short term, it would be difficult for his right hand to exert any force.

The right hand—the attacking hand he had been using all along.

"You set a trap," the Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate stared at Lu Sheng.

"Otherwise? Fight you head-on? Am I insane?"

The Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate took a deep breath.

Under the control of his Law power, the golden blood at the wound stopped flowing. But the resonance aftershocks continued to cause damage, preventing the wound from healing immediately.

"Good. Very good," the Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate said, enunciating every word. "I underestimated you."

He lowered his right hand. His right arm hung at his side, clearly unable to be used normally.

But he still had his left hand.

"You used a trap to injure one of my arms," the Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate looked at Lu Sheng. "But for this trap, you must have consumed at least thirty percent or more of your spirit source, right?"

"Fifty percent," Lu Sheng did not deny it.

The Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's expression shifted slightly.

"Fifty percent of your spirit source for one of my arms. You think it's worth it?"

"What do you think?"

The Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate was silent for two seconds.

"It's not. Because next—one hand will be enough for me."