Chapter 1263: Flood
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
After adding the incarnations of the Twin Serpents of Light and Darkness to his Domain World to enhance its resistance and defense, Lin Li immediately focused his energy on drawing the mageweaths. With his current strength, it was simply impossible for him to fight the Ancient God of Water’s phantom toe-to-toe, even if it only had a 10th of the Ancient God of Water’s strength. Hence, he thought of the Mount Tai mageweath, which was the result of his recent research.
The Mount Tai mageweath was a condensation of Lin Li’s comprehension of the Divine-Smith-level mageweath, and the main reason it could suppress the demigod-level Wild Whale Rabu was not actually its great power. Most importantly, it was because the laws used in the Mount Tai mageweath were completely independent of the laws of Anril as they were actually new laws that Lin Li had created.
The reason for a powerhouse’s great strength was his mastery of nomological power. Meanwhile, demigod-level powerhouses had fused the laws completely with their bodies and souls. Hence, in order to suppress the other party under the original laws, one would have to apply power that was dozens or even hundreds of times stronger than the other party’s.
Lin Li’s Mount Tai mageweath was completely different from any law in this world, being something that even Wild Whale Rabu had never come into contact with before. In the face of the laws of the Mount Tai mageweath, Rabu was just like an elementary-level mage apprentice. Hence, as long as the Mount Tai mageweath could exert power that was equivalent to Rabu’s, it would be able to suppress Rabu at the bottom of the ocean.
Ancient gods had the inherent control of a certain type of powerful law; in fact, they could even be considered a type of law themselves, which was the advantage that they had over the other gods. At the same time, it was also a major disadvantage because they would forever be constrained by the limits of this law.
Of course, for the other gods apart from the ancient gods, the creation of new laws was not a simple task at all. After all, those gods were born in this world, and even if they had reached the level of being able to create laws of their own, the laws that they created would still be based on the basic laws of this world, which was the limitation of their thoughts.
Lin Li was the only one who could create new laws that were independent of this world because he had the knowledge of another world. The law of the Mount Tai mageweath was not that of a mountain, but was based on a popular saying which meant “a world of a difference”. Otherwise, he could have just used a certain type of law to mobilize the power of other mountains in Anril that were much more majestic than Mount Tai instead of creating new laws.
However, after understanding how hard it was to create new laws, Lin Li couldn’t help but have doubts about the origin of the Immortal King again. Strictly speaking, the Immortal King’s Divine-Smith-level mageweath actually involved a creation of laws in the true sense, while Lin Li’s Mount Tai mageweath was somewhat of a trick.
However, regardless of how wild and vivid one’s imagination might be, it could never break free from the limitations of reality. For example, the phrase “when pigs fly” might seem absurd, but it was still imaginable because pigs did exist in reality, and the scenario of pigs flying was still within the basis of reality. Another example would be that a farmer could never imagine what an emperor had for his meals every day, because he had no knowledge of what an emperor ate at all. Perhaps the best food he could imagine was meat.
Hence, it was extremely difficult to break through the impact of reality on the human mind. Even the gods that had reached the level of being able to create laws might not be able to create laws that were really free from all the limitations of reality. The laws created by the subordinate gods and main gods were all created based on the basic laws of Anril, so they had never been able to surpass the ancient gods who were the origin of laws.
Lin Li managed to create the laws of the Mount Tai mageweath because he came from another world that was different from Anril. Then, the Immortal King was able to create new laws because he truly had a mind that was free from restraints, and also because he was…
That reminded Lin Li of the seven pieces of the debris of the stars and the things that originally belonged to the game, Endless World, as well as the shadow of the King Hunter in the Well of the Sun. He had a hunch that was becoming increasingly stronger: the reason he came to Anril might really be related to the Immortal King in some way.
However, Lin Li still couldn’t imagine what exactly the relationship between the two was. Fortunately, it was just considered a goal of his, and he thought that perhaps he would one day be able to get the answer he wanted from the Immortal King. Now, what he needed to do was to defeat the powerful Ancient God of Water.
The Ancient God of Water’s power might be incomplete, but his willpower and his mastery of the laws would not be weakened by the suppression of power. The powerful Water Divine Kingdom had flooded the entire space. There was an extremely luxurious crystal palace in the boundless ocean where millions of the ancient god’s followers were praying piously.
Lin Li needed time to complete the drawing of the Mount Tai mageweath, but the Ancient God of Water obviously wouldn’t give Lin Li any time to do so. As the ancient divine texts flowed out, the entire Divine Kingdom got into a huge uproar. The millions of believers leaped up and gathered in midair to form a huge wave that covered the sky, and subsequently smashed against Lin Li’s Domain World. The massive power of it was enough to crush the entire mainland into bits.
When the massive wave struck, Lin Li’s Domain World was overturned. The earth crumbled and the sky collapsed, forming an apocalyptic scene that seemed like doomsday. The debris of the stars that had been integrated into the Domain World was shaken by the massive force to the extent that it was about to break free. The phantoms of the two black and white pythons were rolling in the sky of the Domain World incessantly, futilely trying to repair the space that was about to crumble.
However, it was just the attack of one large wave. The subsequent huge waves left Lin Li with no chance to stop for a moment and catch his breath at all. As the space of the Domain World crumbled, the power of the Ancient God of Water surged in from every possible crevice, forming a huge flood that seemed to be drowning the world inside Lin Li’s Domain World.
Such a terrifying power would probably be enough to destroy even the sun, what more a small Domain World like Lin Li’s. The suppression of the incarnations of the Twin Serpents of Light and Darkness that were manifested with Gloomy Dark and Holy Light allowed the Domain World to barely maintain some cohesion. Otherwise, the laws that constituted the Domain World would have probably disintegrated a long time ago.
It was known to many that water and fire were merciless. At this moment, Lin Li finally had a true understanding of the power of water.
Although the elemental law of water was one of the four basic elemental laws, mages, just like everyone else, generally felt that the water element attack spells were not powerful enough, and were in fact inferior to ice element offensive spells, which were derived from water elements. For example, the attack power of the most ordinary attack spell Water Arrow was still inferior to that of the offensive spell Ice Arrow. Hence, many mages would prefer to use ice elemental laws because of the strong attack power and defensive ability.
However, the Ancient God of Water had now shown Lin Li the true power of the water elemental laws, which was drastically different from the knowledge of water elemental laws that the vast majority of mages had. The destructive and terrifying power it possessed was far from what the ice elemental laws could compare to. Destroying the world and drowning everything was what the true power of the water elemental laws could do. Compared to the powerful water elements, the power of the ice elemental laws was simply insignificant.
Of course, for Lin Li, the more powerful the Ancient God of Water was, the more dangerous a situation he would be in. Hence, he didn’t have time to marvel about the Ancient God of Water’s use of water elements. Instead, he focused entirely on drawing the Mount Tai mageweath. In order to get enough time for himself, he shrunk his Domain World to the smallest possible size and shrouded almost only the area within 10-odd meters around himself. He sacrificed space for the strength of the Domain World.
After shrinking his Domain World to a certain extent, the Twin Serpents of Light and Darkness that were formed with Gloomy Dark and Holy Light almost revolved around him. They continuously emitted black and white rays of light that came with an extremely arcane aura that was integrated into the Domain World to strengthen it.
Initially, Lin Li’s Domain World covered an extremely large area, and was a completely realistic microcosm. However, that also meant that it was subject to more attacks from the Water Divine Kingdom. Now that Lin Li shrank his Domain World to the smallest possible size, the power of its defenses was concentrated, and the contact area that was susceptible to attacks naturally became smaller too.
Unfortunately, the current size of the Domain World was already Lin Li’s limit. Otherwise, if he could shrink it to the size of a speck of dust, there was probably nothing that could be done to him. Only a true Divine Kingdom could be expanded to a size that was larger than Anril and shrunk to the size of a speck of dust that was invisible to the naked eye.
After all, Lin Li had yet to achieve Godhood, and wasn’t completely free from the shackles of Anril, either. Hence, he couldn’t free himself from Anril and integrate his body into his Domain World. Everything was still limited to the laws of Anril.
However, Lin Li didn’t think that his chances of victory were high just because of this. After all, he was facing an ancient god that was far above all other gods. How could it possibly not have any means of retaliation? He just hoped that he could buy a little time to complete the Mount Tai mageweath.
Indeed, as Lin Li shrunk his Domain World, most of the Water Ancient God’s attacks immediately struck empty air. However, upon seeing this, the Ancient God of Water immediately switched tactics, and simply tried to crush Lin Li with the Water Divine Kingdom, completely assimilating Lin Li and his shrunk Domain World into the Divine Kingdom.
Before Lin Li could continue drawing the Mount Tai mageweath, he felt his vision turn dark; immediately afterwards, he saw that there was water everywhere around him. Water began gushing towards him from all sides, placing him under massive pressure, so much so that the lights of his Domain World began flickering incessantly, seemingly on the verge of collapsing.
Under such circumstances, others would probably no longer be in the mood to draw a mageweath anymore, or might even be crushed to death by the terrifying pressure while drawing the mageweath. Lin Li was just as worried, but he knew that the only hope he had of defeating the Ancient God of Water was dependent on the Mount Tai mageweath. Hence, even when faced with such a dangerous situation, he couldn’t give up on drawing the mageweath.
However, while drawing the mageweath, Lin Li of course wouldn’t just suffer the attacks of the Ancient God of Water without doing anything. While continuing to mobilize his mana to draw the Mount Tai mageweath in the air, he released the debris of the stars, Polar Snow, from his Domain World. He then catalyzed the nomological power of water to retaliate against the World Laws.
The water elemental laws contained in Polar Snow were not inferior to the laws mastered by the Ancient God of Water. However, Lin Li did not have the Stars of Fury, and could not fully exert the power in Polar Snow, though it was not impossible to fight against the Ancient God of Water by buying some time through the power of Polar Snow to draw the mageweath.
Under Lin Li’s manipulation, nomological power emanating from Polar Snow was not going hard against the Ancient God of Water, but rather it was integrating the power of the same source into the surrounding Water Divine Kingdom. Of course, Lin Li was not trying to gain control of the Water Divine Kingdom. He still had a reasonable self-awareness. However, doing so would give Lin Li some relief from the pressure from the Water Divine Kingdom by redirecting the power that was crushing him away from his Domain World under the guidance of the power of Polar Snow.
Although Lin Li wouldn’t be immune to the massive pressure, it could be alleviated to a certain extent. Polar Snow might have been drawn away from the Domain World, which was almost about to be crushed, but the latter’s condition was clearly much better than before.
Lin Li took the opportunity to quickly draw the Mount Tai mageweath, his arms moving so quickly that they almost formed a phantom. The patterns that were condensed from mana, as well as the arcane magic runes, were continuously taking shape in front of him, evolving towards becoming a perfect mageweath.
However, the Ancient God of Water soon discovered Lin Li’s trick. As an ancient god who innately controlled the laws of water, how could he have possibly failed to notice the changes in his Divine Kingdom? Lin Li’s actions were like a blatant provocation to the Ancient God of Water because someone actually dared to use the nomological power of water right in front of him!
The water around Lin Li immediately receded in all directions and retreated to a great distance, making it seem as if Lin Li was in a bubble at the bottom of the sea. However, the Ancient God of Water was not letting him off. Immediately afterwards, the water around him suddenly surged and charged towards Lin Li with a loud roar.
The water around Lin Li was initially already putting great pressure on his Domain World. Coupled with the surge now, its power would probably be increased by hundreds or thousands of times. It was as if the seawater of the Endless Ocean smashed into a single person immediately. Even the real gods would probably falter, let alone Lin Li, a Sanctuary powerhouse.
Faced with such an attack, Lin Li naturally did not dare to be careless at all. He had no choice but to temporarily stop drawing the mageweaths, and instead raised the Helios’ Scepter while quickly chanting a magic incantation.. As soon as he was done, the boundless water around him had already charged towards him while roaring loudly, seemingly trying to crush him.