A sudden emergence.

With a hand held up and a face tinged with seriousness, Li Wei's eyes shined a greyish light as martial energy swirled around him. This energy shivered, then in a surreal swish, it blossomed into a bright blue ocean.

*SPLASH*

It swished and churned around his hand, exuding a paramount sense of vitality and fresh air. Wen Mian, standing just a little behind, gazed at this with a hint of shock. She gulped, and trying to focus as much as she could, she mumbled.

"Form the ocean..."

Waving her hand in much the same way, a spark of heavenly light lit and encompassed her. It trembled and churned, and her face paled. Yet, she clenched her teeth and eyed that ocean in front of her without a care.

Her eyes began to gleam an oceanic blaze and from this, an exceptional understanding seemed to batter her. Her mind seethed, and her closeness with the oceanic law magnified.

*Wanggg*

Fatigue clouded her, but she prevailed as that heavenly energy began to flourish! The air moistened, and the blurry outline of an ocean formed around her hand.

Excitement flashed, but she suppressed this and forced her mind to focus. Li Wei watched this with a peculiar light as a slight smile broke his placid face, causing quaking shivers to crawl on any creature nearby.

Wen Mian seemed to stumble a bit as she ignored Li Wei's almost insulting expression. Instead, she brought that outlined ocean to her chest, and with the last dreg of her cultivation, she closed her eyes.

*Splash*

A strange resonance twitched and then riggled through the outlined ocean, where, in a surreal sight, it began to get flushed in a rich blue.

*WHOOSH*

A blast of humid air thumped the chamber as a somewhat pressuring ocean swirled around her palm. A constant deafening racket of roiling waves resounded as if her palm was holding a true ocean.

Li Wei gazed at the ocean with a praising gleam in his eyes as he nodded. He shook his hand, and his ocean deformed and dissipated. He clapped, and with a hair-raising grin, he congratulated her.

"I knew you could do it!"

Wen Mian's eyes narrowed and she stuttered back. She couldn't handle keeping the ocean intact for too long, so she waved her hand and settled the spell.

She sighed, and relaxing down with exhaustion, she noticed Li Wei's smirk. She snapped and, with a venomous glare, she yelled right at Li Wei.

"Will you stop it with that mocking smile of yours? I don't know what to believe when you're giving me two messages!"

Li Wei stammered as his eyes got clouded with hurt. He seemed to want to say something, but he gave up in the end and crumpled to the ground with a tragic face.

'Ah, I guess this is my fate...'

He shoved the misery of his appearance right in the depths of his mind; it wasn't like he could fix this issue anyway. Thus, redirecting his thoughts on something less depressing, he gazed at the book beside Wen Mian.

Wen Mian caught this and was reminded of her ill premonition. Her thoughts became a little messy as she stared at Li Wei's look of interest, dread clouding her mind like a ravenous beast was beside her.

Li Wei seemed to think of something as his eyes blazed even more, replacing his dismal expression with desire. Wen Mian's face paled as the omen weighed in her heart, causing her to ask.

"What, do you want it?"

Her voice, echoing with a hint of dread, passed by Li Wei, who turned his head toward her. Surprise flashed, and after a few seconds, he nodded. Wen Mian gulped, but she didn't stop him as she grabbed the book and hurled it towards Li Wei.

*Grab*

Li Wei licked his lips on instinct as he grasped the book and grinned. Wen Mian's expression darkened as she gave him a slight look of disgust, but Li Wei wasn't even paying attention to her as he laughed and opened the manual.

A greyish gleam glistened in his pupils as he, not even hesitating, sped past the first two pages! Greyish steam began to waft, and Li Wei soon finished another two pages!

*Flick*

Every couple of seconds he would flick to the next page, and every time he did so Wen Mian's expression would distort even more.

*Flick*

The smoke intensified as the glare in his pupils brightened, exuding a brilliant aura. Li Wei's speed also increased as he began to blaze through the pages as if they were nothing...

'W-what on earth?'

Wen Mian became a little dazed as she observed Li Wei's body get engulfed in smoke, and before she could even comprehend what was going on, she realised that he had finished.

"Hah..."

A satisfied grunt rang within this fog of greyish substance as Li Wei wandered out with a stretch. His eyes seemed to be clouded with a strange ecstasy, but it dissipated in no time.

He scratched his fuzzy fogged head, and lifting his hand, he nodded with a content smirk.

'This symbol looks awesome.'

Wen Mian watched this with a deranged look, but she soon noticed that a vague blue haze was beginning to waft out of Li Wei.

Her body shivered on instinct as she felt the entire room get smothered in this oceanic aura. Her eyes widened, where a stupifying occurrence appeared around Li Wei.

*ROAR*

A dragon, sleek in elegance, rose in an etheral blue haze behind Li Wei and roared. Majesty and profound laws gushed out like a tide, where everything began to transform.

The ground beneath her feet turned liquid, and before her very eyes, everything diffused into the ocean. The chamber and everything above it became an ocean as if it had never existed.

*GUSH*

The dragon's figure sharpened as it gazed at the world with disdain. Its gorgeous blue claws and furled wings pierced the sky with a paramount aura; its eyes seemingly each containing an ocean within.

Li Wei, standing above the turbulent waves, looked around with confusion.

'I didn't activate the symbol?'

He scratched his chin as he thought for a moment and turned around. The dragon seemed to notice this as it gazed at him with eyes as profound as the world itself.

'Wow...'

Li Wei felt his body quiver as he this gaze surveyed his entire body, one that made even himself feel powerless. It was a grand feeling, one of bristling power that seemed to originate from the world.

Wen Mian, lifting her head with a great effort, looked on with quivering eyes. A single, terrifying thought resounded in her head!

'This is the Dragon Ocean Law's Manifestation!'

The dragon tilted its head as it examined Li Wei, a trace of confusion clouding its expression.

Though this didn't last long as it was extinguished with a surge of great power. The entire sky shook, and in a blazing crack, a pillar of oceanic aura encompassed the land.

*RUMBLE*

Li Wei stared on with even more bewilderment, watching an overflowing gush of blue gather atop the dragon.

*SWIRL*

'Maybe I was rash?'

The dragon's eyes flashed, causing a blinding light to sweep past the entire world. It lifted its hand as this happened, where a ball of glorious oceanic energy churned.

The entire world paused as a power beyond anything emerged and forced everyone within a kilometre's distance to their knees. It didn't matter whether they were at the 1st step or the 9th, they would kneel!

Though, Li Wei didn't get this feeling as he continued to stand before the dragon. A dragon whose entire body now shined as if it was a true, real and breathing entity!

'What is this?'

Li Wei heart chilled as he felt overflowing awe fill him to the brim. Yet, in this instant, the dragon's mouth opened and issued a decree of worldly power.

"The First of the Nine. Being from another world, the Ocean Draconic Law falls."

*WHOOOOSH*

Li Wei felt a strange sensation blast him as he watched that ball dissipate into nothingness. The entire world shook, time paused, and an invisible strand formed before Li Wei.

An unfamiliar power blasted him as an overwhelming urge to grasp the strand emerged. His eyes seethed, and without hesitation, he grabbed such a strand!

The dragon stared on with indifference as its claw landed back onto the ocean. It's body faded, and everything trembled. Rocks formed and replaced sea, and within a second, the entire chamber had returned.

*Thud*

Wen Mian's eyes seemed dull as she slammed the ground. Li Wei also didn't know what to think as he stepped onto the floor with a strange aura bubbling around him.

He clenched his fists a couple times as an odd light gleamed in his eyes, causing the aura to magnify around him.

*Rumble*

A majestic presence blasted out of him as the earth shook on instinct, where the air moistened and everything seemed to verge onto transforming.

'Uh...'

Li Wei stopped himself as he sat on the floor with confusion. Though, he soon noticed that his body had changed...

'Blue..?'

The colour of his body was no longer pitch black, rather it was more like a dark azure. Wen Mian also noticed this as she felt even more out of touch on who this guard was, someone who could summon the laws of the world...

'Only someone who reaches a peak of a law's first stage can summon the laws manifestation, and with this, they get granted an instinctual control over the law. They no longer need to summon the energies, instead, the world will heed to their will... Everything below will feel awe from such a being, their bodies will resonate with nature, and their true selves will become closer to that of the law's ancestor.'

Her bloodline seemed to be trembling as she felt that presence that Li Wei was exuding. It was faint, but it was noble as if it came from a dragon.

Nonetheless, this wasn't what was causing her to be so disgruntled.

'Yet... Yet... He got the law's recognition through a single read of my manual?!'

She didn't even believe her own thoughts, but no other explanation would displace them! One can only get recognised once, and this normally happens when they are comprehending!

So he must've gained comprehension from the book, but it was more like he had just learned the whole law through a single sitting!