Chapter 1729: On the Eve of the Fall 1

Upon the ruins of a fortress, Lin An stood in midair, alone raising his head to gaze at the sky.

Light and darkness intertwined.

The enormous Black Lock rule, like an interwoven fishing net, enveloped the entire world.

With each mechanical movement every three seconds, each chain resembled a precise gear structure, causing the battlefield to operate under its rule.

Oppressive, mysterious.

At the peak of the highest mountain in the Stellar Battlefield, Lin An, floating in midair at this moment, appeared like a black dot frozen between needle and paper as heaven and earth opened and closed.

Beneath his mask, a pure black flow of light slowly swirled in Lin An's eyes.

His gaze was profound.

In those eyes filled with destructive intent, darkness was reflected.

With each movement of the Black Lock, it seemed as if black light flowed and shifted.

Focusing his mind, gazing upon the Black Lock net that covered the entire Stellar Battlefield, after a long look it even induced an indescribable sense of panic and oppression.

It seemed as if the net could collapse at any moment.

"Is this the Black Lock..."

"The use of calamity power is actually like this..."

Lin An muttered to himself.

After about half a minute, he finally withdrew his mind from the Black Lock above his head.

After exchanging for up to 100 points of information, the Black Lock now appeared completely different to him. Moreover, a completely new understanding—or rather, a new comprehension of calamity power—had also been grasped by him.

However, unlike what Lin An had previously imagined, these Black Locks formed an impermeable layer of rule.

The chain-like form is the manifestation of this rule, a net that prevents them from escaping.

But actually.

"This is actually a protective net..."

Even though he already knew the structure of the Black Lock net and understood what the Stellar Battlefield really was,

but at this moment, Lin An still couldn't help feeling a tremendous shock.

These Black Locks are not just one layer, but three full layers!

They are not meant to stop them from leaving the battlefield, but to protect this place!

This is roughly the same as the information he had speculated earlier in the fortress.

The Stellar Battlefield was once a planet inhabited by a civilization, where vast numbers of lifeforms had resisted foreign invaders.

After being unable to resist and suffering total death, only a system-protected fortress remained.

His speculation was correct.

The only difference is that he had previously thought the civilization on this planet was fighting against the Black Lock, to prevent it from falling.

But in fact, the civilization that once existed here was fighting against the stars!

"Above the Black Lock, beyond the battlefield, there exists a massive celestial body with supermassive weight!"

"This supermassive celestial body approached this world, ultimately crushing the planet outright and compressing it directly into a piece of "land"!"

"To stop that supermassive body from falling and to preserve the last piece of land, the life on this world swarmed forward like ants, wave after wave!"

Before Lin An's eyes, after reading the system's brief message, an extremely heavy bitterness overwhelmed him, leaving him unable to recover for a long time.

Although the system's explanation was simple, even just a few words in passing.

But Lin An could imagine what had happened on this battlefield.

In some unknown stellar catastrophe long ago, this world's civilization was ground into powder; the extremely hard ground beneath his feet was actually composed of countless Fourth Stage and Fifth Stage corpses.

The gravity here is false; in reality, it is the immense pressure exerted by that supermassive celestial body!

The force comes from above, not from below!

Even with the Black Lock's protection, the entire Stellar Battlefield is equivalent to being submerged in an ocean millions of meters deep, with billions of mass overhead!

Although I don't quite understand why the mass effect of that supermassive celestial body acts in only one direction.

But in the information Lin An saw, he noticed that this was probably intentional on the system's part.

After the civilization here was destroyed, the system ruthlessly repurposed the waste, simply transforming this place into the Stellar Battlefield for these high-rank Awakened Ones to fight and slaughter.

"To destroy the Black Lock and trigger calamity, I need to break through the three layers..."

"The key points are the three connection spots of the three-layer chains, slanted like shoelaces."

His eyes flickered, he hesitated.

In the information Lin An obtained, these Black Locks are half-rule, half-material structure; relying on external force to destroy the structure is nearly impossible.

Even if dozens of Star-Shatter level attackers struck simultaneously, it would still be impossible to destroy these chains.

The only way is to make use of external force.

More precisely, it is to let the supermassive celestial body that "supports" this great net smash through the chains itself, then destroy this place!

"The Black Lock moves every few seconds essentially to drag that supermassive celestial body continuously, distributing its pressure evenly across other areas."

"Like a ball on a spiderweb, if a point bears immense pressure for a long time, it will easily break."

"Only by letting the ball move, spreading its mass across the entire net, can it barely be supported."

"So...."

"What I need to do is not use calamity power to break the chains, but to forcibly jam them when they move!"

"As long as that supermassive celestial body stops moving, under its own terrifying weight the entire "sky" will collapse, destroying the world!"

It's a simple logic.

Lin An's expression was complex, he sighed.

Although after exchanging the information, he once felt it was truly a loss.

But in reality, if he doesn't redeem this information, no matter how much time he spends thinking or how much cataclysmic power he masters, he cannot trigger the "Disaster".

It's impossible to trigger the Disaster from within.

To destroy this place, one can only rely on destruction itself!

As for using the Omniscient Domain to observe this Black Lock and find the answer?

In fact, Lin An didn't expect it at all.

He even felt somewhat relieved that he wasn't so rash.

The effect of the Omniscient Domain is that when observing something, it provides him with all known information; even if he is unaware, merely subconscious knowledge, it can give a rough 'guess'.

If it's completely unknown, it forcibly gives a bit of basic information.

This means that if he uses the Omniscient Eye to observe the Black Lock, he either cannot understand anything at all and only obtains the Black Lock's rule composition.

Or he sees that super celestial body controlled by the System, and after instantly gaining one forced point of information, his brain is flooded with information!

The reason is simple.

In the information redeemed from the System, the value of information on how to control celestial bodies reaches as high as ten thousand points!

He suppresses the chaotic thoughts in his heart.

Although he has obtained the method to trigger destruction, at this moment Lin An does not feel happy; instead, he feels extremely heavy and oppressed.

It's not that the method is too difficult, nor that he is unable to stop the chains from moving.

In the information given by the System, he only needs to pour cataclysmic power into the Black Lock's gaps to briefly jam it. Although the time is extremely short, through repeated pauses the accumulated time is also quite considerable.

When the pressure on the Black Lock accumulates to the critical point, it will, like dominoes, trigger a chain reaction.

In the end, it crushes everything.

And the place where Lin An hesitates is exactly here.

If he wants to do this, he must start right now! And once started, the moment the Black Lock breaks will be fixed!