Chapter 242: Law Counterbalance

"No! Grandfather!!"

Wang Zhize's scream was utterly shredded, and the tearful glint in his eyes was likewise swallowed by that pure 'nothing'.

He saw it.

The black line, like an indisputable final judgment, cut coldly and calmly across the center of the giant beast that was Grandfather, from its chest.

No flesh flew, no energy burst, not even a whisper of sound.

It simply vanished.

It was as if Grandfather's massive body were merely a painting, and that black line a brush soaked in void; a light stroke, and the middle of the picture was gone.

Thoroughly, cleanly, leaving no trace.

"Brother..." Wang Zhitao's voice trembled with sobs as he watched the black mountain that sheltered them being neatly 'deleted' from its middle.

It's over.

Everything is over.

In the distance, the Shadow Guard captain's body had withered like dried orange peel; the Spiritual Light of his shattered Golden Core flickered once inside him before sinking into deathly silence. With his final strike, he saw the outcome he most desired.

He twisted his mouth, trying to smile.

It was a victor, at the end of his life, giving a final salute to his glorious achievements.

But his smile, just as his mouth twitched, froze.

Because, on the cut surface of the wound where the giant beast Wang Shan had been erased, within that absolute, pure void...

Two points of light lit up.

One black, one gold.

Like two stubborn stars that existed at creation, defying the 'void' rule, they simply appeared out of nothing, obstinately shining!

"Hm?" a hoarse single note forced out of the Shadow Guard captain's withered throat, full of incomprehensible confusion.

What is that?

A hallucination?

No, it's not a hallucination!

"Ah—!"

A scream, not from anyone else, but from Wang Zhitao, ready to 'attend the feast'!

He suddenly clutched his chest, curling into a ball, the veins on his face bulging like countless tiny snakes writhing under his skin.

"My... my power! Brother! It's flowing out!" Wang Zhitao shouted in terror.

His internal 'Devouring Core Overlord Body' now resembled a punctured balloon, the black‑gold energy refined through countless trials pouring out uncontrollably and wildly!

And the outflow was aimed directly at Grandfather's terrifying wound!

Wang Zhize also felt the pain. The Black Jade Slip in his hand was scorching like a branding iron; he sensed his spirit, his consciousness, and the grand formation he had just set up being forcibly drawn by an irresistible force into the same endpoint.

He understood instantly!

This is not inheritance!

Grandfather is not feeding them!

It's a trap! No, it's a... cycle!

Using Grandfather's body as a battlefield and the Shadow Guard captain's void blade as a furnace, they forcibly fused the brothers' powers with Grandfather's most primal 'concept error' energy!

"Hold on! Zhitao!" Wang Zhize roared, his eyes bulging, "Don't resist! Give whatever Grandfather wants, we give it all!"

"But... I'll die!" Wang Zhitao howled in pain, feeling himself being drained.

"Can't die!" Wang Zhize shouted back, "If we die, Grandfather truly dies! The three of us are now bound together like a single grasshopper on one rope!"

At this moment, the two brothers were no longer fledglings waiting to be fed.

They became two full‑throttle engines, pouring everything of theirs without reservation into the soon‑to‑extinguish sun called 'Grandfather'!

The black light and golden rays grew brighter and more intense on the void's cut surface!

They were no longer two isolated light spots; they began to intertwine and merge, forcibly 'creating' something new in that region of 'non‑existence'!

"Hoo...?"

A low, confused roar, as if from the dawn of chaos, sounded from deep within the giant beast Wang Shan's throat.

His body, half erased, suddenly began... 'growing'?

No, not growing.

Instead, at the edge of that void wound, the black‑gold energy that had been drawn away was reconstructing his existence in an even more ferocious, illogical manner!

His scale armor was no longer scales but shards of black‑gold crystal radiating rule‑light. His bones were no longer bones but snarling, twisted spines that seemed able to pierce space.

His existence is being re‑'defined'!

"No... impossible..." The Shadow Guard captain's expression shifted from confusion to horror, finally turning into pure, ghost‑like terror, "What is this... what on earth is this thing..."

The 'void' he slashed with his exhausted life should have been the period terminating everything.

But now, that period has become the... beginning of a yet more terrifying existence!

"Hoo—!!!"

This time, it was no longer a confused growl.

But a roar that shook the entire alternate‑dimensional space!

The giant beast Wang Shan, or rather the brand‑new monster forged from three generations' power, suddenly lifted its massive, chaotic head.

In his pupils, one side held Wang Zhize's deep, rule‑wielding blackness, the other Wang Zhitao's domineering golden light that devours all!

He opened his mouth.

An indescribable black‑gold beam, mingling the traits of 'distortion', 'devouring' and 'control', wildly coalesced within his massive maw!

"Not good!" the three Shadow Guards who had stayed frozen in the distance were terrified, their souls scattering, and they turned to run.

But it's already too late.

"Crazy... these Wang Family people, damn it, they're all lunatics!" Li Hu shoved Zhang Mei and the two children down hard, pressing them under his body, using his back to block the incoming shockwave.

He had never in his life seen such an outrageous scene.

The self‑detonation didn't kill anyone, but instead gave the opponent a super‑charged boost? What kind of logic is that? Is there any sense of justice left?

"Come on!!!"

The beast's roar turned into the purest battle cry.

Boom!!!

The black‑golden light pillar, like divine punishment descending, roared out defiantly!

Its target wasn't the fleeing Shadow Guard, nor Li Hu and his group in the distance.

But the one directly ahead: the black light blade, also symbolizing "Erasure" and "Termination", forged from the Shadow Guard Captain's life!

Concept versus concept!

Law versus law!

Void versus... an even more thorough chaos!

Two terrifying forces, each capable of tearing this dimension, collided with a thunderous impact at the cavern's center!

There was no sound.

The world, at that moment, was muted.

Li Hu felt as if something had blocked his ears, and immediately after, he saw a sight he would never forget in his lifetime.

Centered on the point where the two forces clashed, a circular shockwave spread silently outward.

Where the shockwave passed, the hardened distorted crystals neither shattered nor exploded; instead, like snowflakes under sunlight, they silently... evaporated.

The entire crystal cavern was brutally "gnawed" away in a massive circle!

Space wailed.

Visible black fissures, like spider webs, spread across the cavern's dome and walls. This extra‑dimensional space, used as a trap zone, could no longer withstand such a level of opposing forces and began to collapse.

"Pfft!"

Wang Zhize and Wang Zhitao simultaneously spat a mouthful of fresh blood.

Their power, passing through the light pillar, collided directly with the opponent's, and the resulting recoil nearly pulverized their internal organs into dust.

"Hold on... we must hold on!" Wang Zhize gritted his teeth, blood constantly spilling from his mouth corner, yet his hand that controlled the jade tablet remained as steady as a rock.

He knew this was a tug‑of‑war.

Whoever lets go first will have their own power, together with the opponent's, completely devoured, erased utterly from the plane of existence!

And the Shadow Guard Captain, already spent, had his terrified expression frozen forever.

He saw his black light blade, before the even more ferocious, even more unreasonable black‑golden light pillar, being pushed back inch by inch...!

His ultimate strike, his pride wagered on everything.

He was defeated.

Defeated utterly.

"No..."

He uttered the final desperate syllable of his life.

The next second, the black‑golden light pillar completely overpowered the black light blade, inexorably engulfing his gaunt body.