Inside the Star Envoy Association of the Martial Arts Capital (Martial Heaven Capital), the air in the deliberation hall suddenly froze.
Several veteran Natural Disaster-class Star Envoys stationed in the capital stood up almost simultaneously from their seats, which were inlaid with Star Core crystals. Their cloudy eyes instantly flashed with sharp light, their gazes locking onto the direction of the Heavenly Martial training area like eagles tracking prey. Their expressions were filled with an irrepressible shock and agitation.
"This energy fluctuation... it's Law Resonance! Someone is charging into the Natural Disaster Realm?"
An old man with hair and beard as white as snow, dressed in a golden star-patterned robe, murmured to himself. His voice carried an extreme sense of disbelief, and his withered fingers unconsciously tightened.
"And the intensity and purity of this resonance far exceed the commotion of an ordinary Natural Disaster breakthrough. It's as if the laws of heaven and earth are roaring aloud. Just who possesses such terrifying foundations?"
It wasn't just the higher-ups of the Star Envoy Association; this peak-level energy fluctuation swept through the entire Martial Arts Capital like a tidal wave, leaving no corner untouched.
Under this pressure originating from the level of laws, low-level Star Envoys simply could not maintain their footing. Their legs gave way, and they collapsed to their knees one after another, their bodies trembling violently and teeth chattering. They didn't even have the courage to look up. The Star Source within their bodies darted around frantically like a startled bird, threatening to dissipate at any moment.
Medium and high-level Star Envoys, though barely able to remain standing, were all as pale as paper. Fine beads of cold sweat seeped from their foreheads, and the Star Source in their bodies churned violently, sending bursts of stinging pain through their meridians, as if they would be torn apart by this horrific fluctuation in the next second.
Lei Xiao and Shi Jian were currently standing side-by-side on the highest observation platform of the ship port, feeling that silver-white vector energy fluctuation that was all too familiar.
The shock in their eyes was nearly overflowing. Their pupils contracted sharply, as if they were witnessing the most impossible sight.
"Is this... is this the true strength of the Tendo? Just the Law Resonance prior to breaking through to the Natural Disaster Realm has such world-destroying prestige!"
Shi Jian swallowed hard, his voice carrying a hint of uncontrollable trembling. His right hand instinctively rested on the hilt of the star-tool blade at his waist.
"Back when I charged into the Natural Disaster-class, the commotion only stirred the energy tides for a few miles around. It wasn't even a ten-thousandth of what he is displaying now."
"A breakthrough of this level has already exceeded my understanding of cultivation."
Lei Xiao nodded solemnly, taking a deep breath to try and calm the turbulence in his heart. He said in a deep voice, "This can no longer be explained by simple talent."
"His understanding and control over the laws have likely surpassed the vast majority of long-famed Natural Disaster Realm powerhouses. He might even be touching the threshold of an even higher realm."
Inside the cultivation room, Tendo was oblivious to the world-shaking commotion outside. At this moment, he was completely immersed in the wonderful state of Law Resonance, his mind and spirit merging with the vector laws of heaven and earth.
The surging silver-white vector force field around him was like a boiling galaxy, tightly entwining and interlacing with the invisible vector laws of the world, forming visible vortices of pale blue energy.
Countless palm-sized rule runes, colored pale blue and faint gold, emerged continuously from the void. They rotated rapidly around him as if they were alive, their surfaces flowing with obscure and difficult-to-understand patterns. Each pattern contained the fundamental laws of motion for all things in the universe—from the falling of a speck of dust to the rotation of the stars, everything was within.
These runes were the core manifestation of "Vector Control" and the key to his breakthrough into the Natural Disaster Realm and his true mastery over the laws.
After an unknown amount of time, Tendo abruptly opened his eyes. His consciousness, functioning like the most precise quantum core, pushed the highly condensed Star Source within his body to its limit.
In the next second, that mass of silver-white Star Source, resembling a miniature star, surged forward under his control with an invincible momentum, charging toward the rule runes rotating around him.
This was the final step of breaking through to the Natural Disaster Realm, and also the most dangerous. One had to completely merge their own Star Source with the laws of heaven and earth, completing the ultimate metamorphosis from "controlling energy" to "governing laws."
Throughout history, countless genius Star Envoys had failed at this step. A single moment of carelessness would lead to a backlash from the violent power of the laws. At best, the foundation of one's path would be damaged, making further progress impossible; at worst, one would be torn apart by the power of laws, dying and dissipating without even a chance for reincarnation.
To this end, they had to use "Natural Disaster Essence" to help them mitigate these risks.
But Tendo didn't need it. Through multiple observations of other people's Domains, coupled with the essential observation of the Star Eclipse Heavenly Eye, he had already condensed the "embryo of the laws" within his body in advance.
Ordinary people couldn't do this, primarily because they could not observe, learn, or record the power of laws during the third-level Star Envoy stage.
But for Tendo, this wasn't a problem at all.
And this was also the reason he could proceed with the breakthrough without needing Natural Disaster Essence. He only required enough "samples."
Thus, the Natural Disaster breakthrough that struck fear into the hearts of countless people appeared exceptionally smooth for the current Tendo, as if it had been rehearsed thousands of times already.
From the perspective of the dimensional audience, at the moment the Star Source collided with the rule runes, there was no explosion of violent energy as imagined. Instead, a cluster of soft but incomparably brilliant golden light erupted, illuminating the entire cultivation room like broad daylight.
Countless rule runes, as if they had found their final destination, transformed into streaks of pale blue light and merged continuously into Tendo's Star Source, causing his Star Source to undergo an earth-shaking qualitative change once more. The energy aura became increasingly profound and heavy.
Just as the fusion between the Star Source and the rule runes was about to reach completion, an anomaly suddenly occurred!
In the endless void outside the Martial Arts Capital, a pitch-black spatial rift spanning a thousand feet suddenly tore open. From the rift, abyssal energy so thick it could not be thinned poured out, like black ink staining a pure canvas.
Accompanied by a screeching roar that threatened to shatter one's soul, a ten-thousand-foot-tall abyssal projection lunged out from the rift. This projection was entirely black, covered in hideous bone spikes, with a pair of crimson eyes exuding an aura of destruction. It smashed down violently toward the direction of Tendo's cultivation room.
This was a long-range attack launched by the main body of Pisces from deep within a distant sub-space. Having sensed the fatal threat brought by Tendo's breakthrough, it did not hesitate to consume its own source power to forcibly strike across the endless distance. Its purpose was to interfere at the final moment of his breakthrough, interrupt the process, and strangle him mid-metamorphosis.
"Not good!"
The white-haired old man from the Martial Arts Capital Star Envoy Association turned pale. His aged face was written with anxiety, and he raised his hand without hesitation, intending to activate the Martial Arts Capital's defense system—the "Heavenly Capital Star-Fall Matrix."
But before he could touch the core crystal of the array, a giant pale blue vector force field, spanning dozens of miles, suddenly deployed above the Heavenly Martial training area. Like a giant net covering the sky and sun, it instantly and firmly enveloped that ten-thousand-foot-tall abyssal projection.
This force field was fierce and overbearing. At the mere moment of its expansion, it caused the surrounding space to ripple. The pressure it emitted made every Star Envoy in the Martial Arts Capital feel suffocated.
"How arrogant."
Inside the cultivation room, Tendo's voice carried a hint of bone-chilling coldness.
With a single thought, the vector force field enveloping the abyssal projection tightened instantly. Countless silver-white vector blade-shadows, condensed to the extreme, appeared out of thin air. The blade-shadows flickered with pale blue rule-light, hacking toward the abyssal projection like a torrential rain.
Each of these blade-shadows contained pure vector law power, enough to easily kill a high-level Star Envoy. With thousands of them exploding simultaneously, the prestige was nothing short of horrific.
The abyssal projection was merely a long-range force projected by Pisces across the vast interstellar distance; its energy was inherently unstable. Under Tendo's violent vector blade-shadow attacks, it couldn't even last for a breath of time.
With a shrill scream, the giant abyssal projection was instantly sliced into countless black fragments. As soon as these fragments appeared, they were completely annihilated by the vector force field, turning into wisps of black energy mist that dissipated into the void without leaving a trace.
Even more terrifying was that Tendo's counterattack did not stop there.
He manipulated the vector force field to follow that yet-to-close black spatial rift. A silver-white vector force-line, condensed to the extreme and as thin as a hair, shot out instantly. This force-line pierced through layers of spatial barriers and spanned the endless distance, racing toward the sub-space region where Pisces's main body was located at a speed exceeding light.
In an unknown sub-space, inside a giant ethereal blue palace floating in the starry sky, the main body of Pisces sat on a throne inlaid with abyssal crystals, eyes closed as it waited for news of the successful attack.
Suddenly, it snapped its eyes open. Its giant black pupils were filled with horror. A fatal sense of crisis instantly enveloped its body, making its hair stand on end.
Before it could make any defensive move, it was accurately struck in the chest by that vector force-line that had crossed the endless interstellar expanse.
"Pfft—"
A mouthful of ethereal blue blood sprayed out like a fountain. Pisces's body stumbled back several steps like a kite with a broken string, crashing into the throne behind it. The throne instantly shattered into countless fragments.
Pisces clutched the wound on its chest, its eyes filled with a shock that reached the marrow of its bones. Its wariness toward Tendo reached an unprecedented peak.
Having easily dealt with Pisces's interference, Tendo refocused all his attention on the breakthrough, as if the preceding interlude was merely swatting away a fly.
At this point, the fusion of his Star Source and the world's vector laws had entered the final wrapping-up stage. The surface of the Star Source was covered in dense, pale blue rule runes, and the energy aura it emitted grew increasingly pure and domineering.
As the final pale blue rule rune slowly merged into the Star Source, the Star Source within Tendo's body completely stabilized. Although its volume did not expand again, the energy and law power contained within had surged more than a hundredfold compared to before. Every wisp of energy contained the vector laws that governed the motion of all things, possessing infinite power.
"Buzz!"
A slight hum, yet one infused with law power, rang out. The surging vector force field around Tendo suddenly retracted like a tide, merging back into his body without leaving a single trace of excess energy.
The terrifying energy fluctuations that had previously swept through the entire Martial Arts Capital also vanished without a trace instantly, as if they had never appeared. Peace returned to the heavens and earth.
However, every Star Envoy in the Martial Arts Capital could clearly feel that the surrounding laws of the world seemed to have undergone a subtle but profound change. Especially the vector laws—they had become more active and clear than before, as if they were within reach. And the source of all these changes was that very cultivation room in the Heavenly Martial training area.
Inside the cultivation room, Tendo slowly opened his eyes. Within the pale blue Star Eclipse Heavenly Eyes, countless pale blue rule runes flowed like a galaxy, appearing incredibly deep and mysterious, as if capable of insight into all the mysteries of the universe.
He gently raised his hand, and an invisible vector force field quietly spread out, covering the entire cultivation room. In the next second, the energy guidance arrays carved into the walls of the room were instantly activated. Numerous complex patterns lit up with pale blue light, absorbing and purifying the small amount of abyssal energy and law fragments remaining from the cultivation process.
Then, he slowly stood up. With a movement of his body, he produced no sound and passed directly through the heavy super-alloy gate as if passing through a thin layer of paper, appearing in the plaza outside the cultivation room.
At this moment, the plaza at the entrance of the cultivation room was crowded with high-level Star Envoys of the Martial Arts Capital, ranging from the veteran powerhouses of the Star Envoy Association to the lead Star Envoys of various departments—totaling over a hundred people.
Including that white-haired old man, everyone stood respectfully to the side, their postures straight and their expressions solemn.
Seeing Tendo emerge, the white-haired old man was the first to step forward. He straightened his golden star-patterned robe and spoke: "Congratulations! From this day forward, our New Federation adds another pillar of stability!"
The other Star Envoys also bowed in succession, shouting in unison: "Congratulations, Tendo Simei! May the Simei govern the laws and illuminate the sea of stars!"
Their voices were unified, filled with excitement and awe, echoing throughout the entire Heavenly Martial training area.
Tendo nodded slightly, his gaze calmly sweeping over everyone present. A gentle, pale blue vector force field spread out softly, like a spring breeze brushing over faces, instantly enveloping everyone there.
The Star Sources that had been churning due to the previous energy fluctuations instantly settled under the nourishment of this gentle force field. The stinging pain in their meridians vanished, leaving everyone feeling a wave of comfort.
Then, Tendo raised his hand and made a light grasping motion toward the void.
In the endless void outside the Martial Arts Capital, countless vector force-lines that had metamorphosed into a pale blue color appeared out of thin air. Like living vines, they rapidly interlaced and entwined, instantly forming a giant net of light covering several hundred miles.
This net firmly enveloped the entire Martial Arts Capital and its surrounding airspace.
This net emitted a pure light of laws, with countless runes flowing on its surface. It was fundamentally different from the temporary light net used during the breakthrough. It not only contained an indestructible defensive power but could also actively capture any approaching abyssal energy or enemies.
Once an anomaly was discovered, it would automatically launch an attack. This was the permanent guardian array laid down by Tendo using his own law power after breaking through to the Natural Disaster Realm.
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