Chapter 1221: Astonishing Rules

As if ignoring the attack by closing his eyes, Lin An shut his eyes and carefully began sensing his body.

Unlike before, when he had been trying to capture the ghost's attack to find clues, this time he chose to look for a breakthrough within himself.

As expected.

With his grasp of the Catastrophe Power, after a quick scan of himself, Lin An suddenly noticed something abnormal.

His speed slowed, his pressure increased—it definitely wasn't coming from the outside!

Completely unlike his initial assumption, he had thought his body was being suppressed by some external force like an invisible wheel pressing on him. But after probing inch by inch inside, Lin An realized this pressure came from his own internal molecular structure being forcibly compressed!

It's hard to describe his current state.

Only by using the speed of electromagnetic force between cells as a reference did he shockingly discover that the distance between molecules inside his body seemed to have been infinitely shrunk!

"It's all fake.."

"All reference points are fake!"

"Since being dragged in here, I've been shrunk to one-ten-thousandth of my original size!?"

"The actual size of that town, placed in the outside world, would only be visible under a microscope!?"

If his body were compared to a city, the structural gaps between cells should be ten meters, and the time for an electrical signal to travel from one cell to another would be "one second".

So now..

Sensing the actual distance, Lin An astonishingly discovered that the transmission distance had been shortened by at least ten thousand times!

By simple logical deduction, this must mean his entire body has been shrunk, with density extremely compressed.

"Because my density increased, does that cause my speed to drop!? Right now I'm like a high-density celestial body?"

But..

"Why is my thought speed still normal?"

"If my body, after compression, becomes like a high-density existence, causing my external perception of time to slow, then conversely my thought speed should also have increased by ten thousand times or more, shouldn't it?"

Hard to comprehend.

Lin An could understand that increased mass leads to slower time flow.

It's like inside a black hole: at the center of extreme density, time stands still, and around high-density celestial bodies, time gets warped.

If someone could survive falling into a black hole, at the moment they cross the event horizon, the universe in their eyes would freeze forever at that second.

On a high-density celestial body, "one day on the ground equals one year outside."

But conversely, when time is warped, his day of thinking also equals an "outside year."

"Is it because thought isn't distorted like matter?"

"Or does thought not exist dependent on the dimension of time?"

"Or perhaps the neural network's electrical signal transmission involves a 'weak force'? When the distance of neural signal transmission is shortened to the limit, the opposite of logic might occur?"

His thoughts raced; relying on his strong memory, Lin An quickly recalled in a short time the various theories he had crammed.

In early brain science research, people thought brain signal transmission resembled a horse-drawn carriage delivering mail, with signals traveling from one nerve ending to another, time and distance proportional. But in the latest research, that's not the case..

The longer the distance, the faster the transmission speed! The shorter the distance, the speed doesn't increase much either! It's as if there's a speed limit, completely illogical.

Taking the basic structure of matter as an example, when the distance between electrons is greatly shortened, two electrons will produce a weak interaction force, causing a repulsion effect.

Amid various speculations, Lin An faintly realized that the issue with thought might involve another rule as well.

"Forget it, now isn't the time to consider these problems, but rather.."

"How to break through!"

Directly cutting off excess logical chains in his brain, Lin An strained to find a way to break through.

"Because compressing my true form makes it 'heavy,' that causes my time to slow and my movements to lag."

"While this supernatural entity has essentially no mass, its speed can naturally accelerate infinitely, creating an effect like teleportation!"

"With one positive and one negative, I naturally can't hit it, nor can I dodge!"

"So its rule is simply non-corporeal acceleration plus matter compression!"

After the logical chain was completed and once again attacked, draining his vitality, Lin An, face pale in midair, couldn't help but feel a sense of astonishment.

One must admit, although it's an enemy, the way this supernatural entity employs the rule is ingenious and eerie...

Just a simple compression rule, yet it simulates the effect of a time rule...

Weak Awakened Ones would likely have their bodies crushed upon entry, while even strong Awakened Ones wouldn't have time to think.

Even if one could withstand the preceding attack, with the reference object (the town) mistaken, it's still hard to figure out where the problem actually lies!

Moreover, by simulating the effect of time acceleration, even the sole 'weak point' of the Supernatural Incident is perfectly concealed!

Upon entry, there's no time to gather information—directly they'll be attacked!

"But now that we know what the rule is, everything becomes simple!"

Feeling the scant vitality left in his body, Lin An strained to stabilize his form in midair, his eyes flashing with ferocity.

"You've attacked me this long, really thinking I can't kill you!?"

Without Hesitation.

Only seen, Lin An took a deep breath, his inner spiritual energy surging like an eruption, operating at full speed without reservation.

Muscles bulged, bones exploded with sound.

Accompanied by waves of pain from his body being forcibly enlarged, Lin An rapidly grew like a constantly inflating monster.

"Gigantification!!"

"Two meters," "ten meters," "one hundred meters"...

The remaining vitality was heavily consumed; amidst muscles constantly tearing, it rapidly repaired the forcibly stretched frame.

If an outsider were present, they'd likely be shocked to discover that Lin An, using his monstrous regenerative power, forcibly transformed himself.

"Compressing my mass is what made me slow!"

"The way to break the deadlock is very simple! Just keep expanding infinitely!"

A sinister laugh.

With each sound of bones piercing muscles, as if the monstrous enlargement in a deformed state had begun, Lin An hunched his body, his eyes fixed tightly on the constantly flickering town.

Massive and towering.

At this moment, he was like a mountain peak, looking down at his feet.

"Every attack will cause the town to cycle once!"

"So, the monster's true form is not the old man at all, but this city!"

"The power of my attacks comes entirely from the energy of cyclic superposition! Like firing a gun, each shot requires loading a bullet!"

In his view, the constantly flashing old man's speed had slowed down, moving out of the town like a numb machine, then crashing headfirst into him.

Cycling, accelerating, over and over.

In an instant he raised his right fist, Lin An gave a cruel smile; at this moment he had already returned to normal time flow.

Spiritual energy gathered, and a blinding light like the sun continuously condensed on his fist's edge.

In an instant, a destructive aura finished compressing.

Boom!!

A punch blasted out, the huge fist like a planet, directly bombarding the town.

"Break it for me!!"

Boom!!!

The huge boom sounded as if it tore open the entire space.

When Lin An enlarged to the size of the entire space, his all-out attack at this moment was like propping open the whole world, directly covering every blind spot.

Simple, violent.

This monster's speed is indeed fast enough; even though Lin An's time flow has returned to normal, he still cannot lock onto it.

In that case, he naturally chooses to blast the entire space!

With one punch covering everything, no matter how fast the speed, there's nowhere to hide!

Spiritual energy mixed with space-time superposition rules suddenly erupted, and in an instant the entire space kept trembling.

After a few seconds, when the damage limit threshold was reached, the old man who had been rapidly "running" suddenly stopped, then shattered into fragments like pieces.

Whoosh~

At the same time, the heavenly ghost space also burst open like a bubble.