213: Chapter 213 Let's go! We'll storm the top floor!

Chen Xi picked up a fist-sized stone from the ground and threw it straight forward with force.

A hair-raising scene unfolded.

After flying ten meters, the stone did not fall in a parabolic arc; instead, it suddenly made an extremely bizarre right-angle turn in mid-air, spiraled up around an invisible pillar, and finally landed with a "pop" against a protruding rock on the ceiling above their heads.

"The rules here have been redefined."

Chen Xi's expression became unprecedentedly grave:

"Everyone, follow me closely and do not wander off. If you step on a gravity-inverted area by mistake, you might be instantly thrown against the ceiling and smashed into a pulp."

The four of them carefully stepped on the special markings on the ground, making their way toward the spiral staircase leading to the second floor.

Just as they reached a floating plaza in the center of the first floor.

"Zzzzz..."

The surrounding space suddenly erupted with a blinding white light.

Immediately after, four bizarre creatures composed of pure geometric light blocks condensed and formed from the void.

They had no facial features, no flesh and blood, and not even a fixed form. Some looked like a constantly rotating Rubik's cube, while others resembled a stretched Möbius strip, their entire bodies radiating dazzling light.

【Tower of Heaven Guardian · Rule Phantom】

【Level: Equivalent to the average level of the intruders (Lv.60+)】

【Traits: Physical Immunity / Elemental Immunity / Rule Embodiment】

"It's monsters! Prepare for battle!"

Su Xiaoxiao reacted extremely quickly, waving her staff.

"【Void Thunder】!"

A thick bolt of purple lightning, carrying a destructive aura, fiercely struck the nearest "Rubik's cube" monster.

However!

"Shhh——"

The moment the lightning touched the monster, it passed right through without any obstruction, blasting the wall behind it. The monster's light did not dim in the slightest!

"What?!" Su Xiaoxiao was shocked: "Physical and elemental attacks both passed right through? How are we supposed to fight this?!"

"Roar!"

One of the monsters, in the shape of a Möbius strip, suddenly moved.

It did not charge, nor did it cast magic. It simply hovered quietly in mid-air, the light on one of its faces suddenly flickering.

The next second.

The area where Chen Xi and the others were standing began to disappear into thin air, piece by piece, as if a pencil drawing were being erased by an eraser!

"Not good! It's erasing the spatial coordinates where we are standing!!"

Chen Xi roared and immediately activated a 【Gravity Card】 to counter it.

But he realized in despair that, in the face of these monsters composed of pure "rules," the power of his material-based cards was forcibly nullified by the underlying logic of this space!

Watching the ground beneath them about to disappear completely, they were on the verge of falling into the endless spatial turbulence.

"Captain! Physical and magic attacks are useless!"

Although Li Murou's face was pale at this moment, her large eyes were fixed intently on the monster that was "erasing space," and a flash of inspiration suddenly crossed her mind.

She recalled what Chen Xi had said when he helped her advance:

"What you wield is no longer simple control, but the authority to tamper with rules!"

"Since they are the embodiment of rules, ordinary attacks are naturally useless!"

Li Murou suddenly hugged the 【harp of time reversal】 in her hands tightly, and the SS-grade divine light on her body erupted with a bang.

"To defeat rules, one must use even higher-level rules!"

"Mu Rou! What are you doing!" Chen Xi exclaimed.

"Captain Chen, cover me! Buy me two seconds!"

Li Murou sat cross-legged on the floating stone slab that was about to disappear, closed her eyes, and poured all her mental energy into the strings.

In this strange environment of inverted gravity and chaotic space, Li Murou's perception of "time" reached unprecedented clarity.

She could even "see" the clear mark left on the timeline at the very moment the monster launched its attack.

"Since 【Time Rewind】 can only rewind..."

Li Murou suddenly opened her eyes, the golden clock in her pupils spinning wildly in reverse:

"Then I will just cut this period of time right out for you!!"

"【Time Reversal Ultimate · Time Clip】!!!"

"Zing——!!!"

A shrill, soul-tearing sound of the zither exploded on the first floor of the Tower of Heaven.

At this moment, Li Murou did not make time flow backward.

She performed an extremely crazy operation that even touched upon the forbidden zone of the creator!

She saw that "two seconds" of time when the "Möbius strip" monster's body flashed with light and it initiated the spatial erasure.

Under the interference of Li Murou's zither music, it was like a piece of film, and she had forcibly used an invisible pair of scissors to... cut and delete it!!

"Hum——"

The timeline developed a logic error!

One second the monster was still preparing to attack, but in its "underlying code," the two-second "process" of it launching the attack had vanished into thin air.

Having lost this most critical "cause," the "effect" it was currently releasing—the spatial collapse about to erase Chen Xi and the others—instantly came to an abrupt halt and returned to its original state!

And the monster composed of rules, because its own operating logic had developed an irreparable "bug" in its sequence.

Its body began to flicker violently, emitting a harsh alarm sound.

"Beep——Logic Error——Program Crash——"

"Crack!!!"

In the shocked gaze of everyone, that Lv.60 Rule Phantom, which even an SS-grade Void Thunder Penalty couldn't damage in the slightest, actually shattered from within like a piece of glass dropped on the ground, turning into a pile of flickering light spots!

One hit, instant kill of a rule entity!

"My god..."

Chen Xi looked at Li Murou, who was sitting on the ground panting heavily, a flash of incredible ecstasy in his eyes.

Directly erasing two seconds of the opponent's actions?!

What kind of heaven-defying, god-tier skill is this?! This is a hundred times more insane than time reversal!

"Well done! Mu Rou!"

Chen Xi was greatly encouraged. He glanced at the remaining three Rule Phantoms that were still glitching, and laughed out loud:

"Since we've found their nemesis, let's not hold back!"

"Today, we are going to use magic to defeat magic, and use rules... to crush rules!"

"Go! We are going to fight our way to the top floor!"