Chapter 1050

Fixing their gaze upon it, one could sense an immense mystery.

But upon closer inspection, it seemed as if nothing could be felt at all.

"What is this?"

Lin Yan asked.

The Goddess of Eternal Night said: "I've studied it for a long time and have only some guesses—I suspect the situation with the Morning Star Pantheon may be connected to it!"

Lin Yan flew forward and observed the fragment with his naked eyes; it flickered in and out, hard to discern.

And when he tried to perceive it with his spirit, it was equally difficult to see.

At that moment, four characters suddenly appeared on Lin Yan's Divine Grid panel—these four characters instantly revealed to him what this thing was!

Law Fragment!

This thing was actually a Law Fragment!

"This is a Law Fragment!"

Lin Yan said gravely.

The Goddess of Eternal Night's eyes lit up as she flew over and said: "Yes, that's exactly what I suspected—I guessed this for centuries, yet you recognized it after just one glance!"

Lin Yan extended his hand, as if passing through the strange energy surrounding the Law Fragment.

"Be careful—it's dangerous!"

The Goddess of Eternal Night said.

Lin Yan's fingertip finally halted at the edge of that strange energy.

He had indeed sensed the danger!

"So the disappearance of all the gods and saints of the Morning Star Pantheon is very likely tied to their gods touching this Law Fragment!"

Lin Yan said.

Seeing Lin Yan deduce so much in such a short time, the Goddess of Eternal Night looked at him with even brighter eyes and said:

"Yes, I thought the same—whenever I approach it, I feel a chilling dread. If I touched it, I'd likely meet the same fate as them. But I never dared to try, since I didn't know for sure!"

Lin Yan nodded.

Now that he knew it was a Law Fragment, Lin Yan was nearly certain that the strange situation the Goddess of Eternal Night encountered was almost certainly caused by the Morning Star Pantheon's gods collectively committing suicide by touching the Law Fragment.

Of course, the gods of the Morning Star Pantheon weren't mindlessly suicidal.

Lin Yan's mind whirled as he began to guess the true circumstances:

The Morning Star Pantheon was not weak—in fact, it was quite powerful—but for tens of thousands of years, it remained obscure in the Heavenly Realm, most likely because of this Law Fragment.

In other words, the Morning Star Pantheon had been studying this Law Fragment all along.

They must have accumulated many insights!

Finally, the Morning Star Pantheon's Divine Lord felt her research was complete and prepared to unite the entire Pantheon's power, then have herself touch the Law Fragment.

If she succeeded, the Morning Star Divine Lord might fuse with this Law Fragment, and then…

Access the Power of Law!

At that point, the Morning Star Divine Lord could very likely achieve an absolutely invincible state within the Fourth Tier!

But the Morning Star Divine Lord vastly underestimated the Power of Law!

That's why the backlash occurred.

The backlash came too quickly.

So quickly that the Morning Star Divine Lord and all the gods of the Morning Star Pantheon had no chance to react—they were erased outright!

When one's power is insufficient, forcibly touching Law is this deadly!

Of course, when one's power is insufficient, one doesn't even know what Law is, cannot see it at all, let alone touch it.

The Morning Star Divine Lord could see and touch it because this was a Law Fragment of unknown origin!

But the backlash from the Law Fragment was too fierce, too swift.

They probably never even had time to regret before they vanished!

Their saints met the same fate, because their soul marks were actually within their Divine Grids.

On the Continent of Gods, if a common mortal were given the chance to touch Law, their fate would likely be the same—exploding into dust.

The backlash from Law would be even more violent!

Even the current Goddess of Eternal Night lacks the qualification to touch the Power of Law.

If she touched it now, her fate would be no different from the Morning Star Divine Lord's.

This thing should only be accessible to those with a Divine Grid of at least Level 20 or higher!

The gap between each level after the Fourth Tier is immense!

The gap between Level 16 and Level 20 is countless times greater than the gap between Level 1 and Level 16!

Lin Yan stood there, silently analyzing the attributes of this Law Fragment.

But with his current Divine Grid, without direct contact, he still couldn't analyze it at all!

At that moment, the Goddess of Eternal Night suddenly said: "By the way, I haven't told you my name—I was born a few days before Tina. My name is Nina. What about you?"

Nina!

The sisters—one named Tina, the other named Nina!

Just from the names, Nina did sound gentler!

Lin Yan said: "My name is Lin Yan."

"Lin Yan."

The Goddess of Eternal Night murmured the name once—Lin Yan's name, before his transmigration, was a genuine Eastern name, unlike the naming conventions of the Continent of Gods.

But the Continent of Gods is vast—any kind of name can exist.

So, the Goddess of Eternal Night found it no surprise.

She simply thought the name… was beautiful.

Why did she feel so?

She couldn't say.

No, perhaps it wasn't that the name sounded beautiful.

It was because of the person that the name sounded beautiful!

Even if Lin Yan had another name, as long as it was his name, the Goddess of Eternal Night would probably find it beautiful!

After saying Lin Yan's name twice, the Goddess of Eternal Night smiled: "I know no amount of thanks can express my gratitude to you. Though this fragment of the Law is dangerous, once your power rises, you can touch it—so I intend to give it to you!"

Yes, the Goddess of Eternal Night said all this partly to tell Lin Yan everything about herself, so he would understand her completely.

On the other hand, she also wished to give him this fragment of the Law as repayment for saving her life and protecting her.

Even if Lin Yan had acted originally for Tina, when the Fourth-Rank Demon Soul Zunzhu appeared, even if another Fourth-Rank god had been present—even with Tina's Empress's faith—they would not have moved.

A faith from a Third-Rank Sacred Domain is indeed precious.

But a divine war with a Fourth-Rank god is no fun.

It could reduce their accumulated power to nothing.

Moreover, the Demon Soul Zunzhu was no ordinary Fourth-Rank—he was a Fourth-Rank with a 17th-Level Divine Core and Divine Body!

Even more terrifying was that the Demon Soul Zunzhu possessed the Void Beast, a devastating weapon!

In other words, the risk and cost of Lin Yan's intervention far exceeded what Tina's Empress's faith could ever compensate!

Yet after acting, facing the Demon Soul Zunzhu's many deadly tactics, Lin Yan did not retreat a single step—not even his body trembled.

That had deeply moved the Goddess of Eternal Night!

No, it was more than just moved!

It had also deeply attracted the Goddess of Eternal Night!

And a fragment of the Law is truly precious.

If one could truly master it, it would become a devastating weapon.

One could say, if a Fourth-Rank god mastered it, he might become the most terrifyingly powerful Fourth-Rank!

Though the risk was great, the reward was astonishing!

The Morning Star Zunzhu's failure was because she had studied this for tens of thousands of years and believed she had at least some chance.

Then reality gave her a lesson.

In Lin Yan's estimation, the Morning Star Zunzhu was very likely a Fourth-Rank god; how long she had been one, however, remained unknown.

A god at the peak of Third-Rank, even after studying a fragment of the Law for hundreds of thousands of years, might still dare not touch it.

Hearing the Goddess of Eternal Night's words, Lin Yan did not refuse.