Chapter 217: Mechanism

Of the two Void Cutter experts, one died and one fell unconscious. The whole process happened so quickly that no one in White Mist sensed anything.

When Luo Fei groggily woke up, she was hanging from the ceiling of a dark little room. Her right hand had been cut off, and blood was still oozing from the wound.

The pain from her severed limb wasn't enough to affect Luo Fei, but the scene in front of her tore at her eyes.

Gu Nan was sitting in front of her with one leg over the other, while Luo Xin had been placed on his leg while hugging Luo Fei's severed arm.

"Tell me, where did the law nullification power come from?" Gu Nan stretched out his hand and rubbed Luo Xin's head, asking with a light smile.

"You…" Luo Fei wanted to spit on him, but her own daughter was in his hands…

Based on her understanding of this fellow, he would never have mercy on Luo Xin just because she was innocent.

"In the Heavenly Palace, three kilometers underground," Luo Fei quickly answered. Her expression looked detached, as though she was resigned to her fate.

Gu Nan nodded. "Take me there."

...

Moments later, Gu Nan took Luo Fei and reached the underground location inside the Heavenly Palace where Luo Fei first tried to fuse with the crystal.

Perhaps fusion wasn't exactly the right word, because only Luo Fei gained some of the law nullification power; the crystal was still in good condition right here.

"Tsk tsk tsk, a law nullification crystal as tall as a human." Gu Nan clicked his tongue in wonder as he stared at this crystal in front of him.

Normally, a thumb-sized law nullification crystal was already enough to create a law nullification weapon. In that case, what about this one that was even taller than a human?

Anyone who proposed to cut it into a weapon was sure to be criticized to death. That was simply a waste of natural resources.

"Not bad." Gu Nan nodded with satisfaction. This was the first time he obtained something from the outside world that could truly strengthen his power without relying on the Evil God Temple.

"It's called the law nullification crystal? We siblings have studied it for hundreds of years and have never seen a law that isn't affected by it. Why are you okay?"

Luo Fei, who had been standing behind Gu Nan all this time, finally couldn't help asking.

Although she hated Gu Nan's guts, as a Void Cutter cultivator, her strong thirst for knowledge temporarily dominated her thoughts.

Perhaps because he discovered something nice, Gu Nan was in a good mood and replied to her in great spirits, "Do you want to know? Forget it, you won't understand even if I explain."

Luo Fei's expression darkened, gritting her teeth so hard she almost crushed them. If not for the fact that she couldn't defeat him, she most certainly would've stabbed this guy to death.

Gu Nan naturally wasn't making sport of her. It really was because Luo Fei couldn't possibly understand even if he explained.

It was precisely Gu Nan's Resistance skill that weakened the effects of the law nullification attribute.

The reason why law nullification could be affected by Resistance involved the damage calculation mechanism. Only an ancient player like Gu Nan knew this clearly.

The first thing to understand was: how does the law nullification attribute achieve the effect of "completely nullifying laws"?

After players tested it out, the data interpretation of the law nullification attribute was roughly "weaken the target's power of law by 100%."

In other words, as long as the target's power of law exceeded 100% or if the weakening effect of the law nullification attribute itself was partially offset, then the law nullification wouldn't take full effect.

And no matter whether players wanted something that directly added to their power of law or skills that reduced external damage, neither were hard to get.

Of course, it wasn't like every type of damage reduction was effective on law nullification.

If the damage reduction effect was achieved through an equipment, or if the principle behind the skill was to create a protective barrier on the surface of the body so as to achieve a damage reduction effect, both would still be "nullified" together by the law nullification attribute.

Only Resistance, a skill that originated from inside Gu Nan and wasn't influenced by the outside world, would be preserved during attacks from a law nullification attribute.

This extremely meticulous game algorithm could still act on this world, which showed that Gu Nan's earlier guess was correct.

The power system and laws in this world were the same as that of the game, but they simply manifested in different ways.

Ignoring Luo Fei's confusion and dissatisfaction, Gu Nan casually tossed her severed arm, which instantly sank inside the crystal and was quickly assimilated.

"It's already developed this far? If a few hundred more years pass, it might even become a spirit made of this law," Gu Nan muttered.

Being able to devour power originating from the same source indicated that this crystal was actively gathering similar powers together and would spontaneously capture and absorb the power of law nullification from the outside world.

Gu Nan even suspected that this place used to be a law nullification crystal mine a long time ago. Because no one mined it for too long, the crystals finally gathered to form this thing.

Gu Nan walked up to the law nullification crystal and gently touched the crystal's surface with his palm, which soon produced an eerie hissing sound.

That was the sound of Gu Nan's body being corroded, dissolved, and broken up by the power of law nullification. Ordinary people's scalps would probably go numb just from seeing this scene.

Luo Fei also felt pins and needles on her scalp, but not because of this scene. Rather, it was because Gu Nan actually touched the crystal with his body.

She and her brother were the ones who first discovered the law nullification crystal. They deeply understood the horrors of this crystal—it could nullify almost all objects that touch it or even those in its close vicinity.

If they didn't restrain it with an array and reinforce that array every once in a while, the crystal might've even melted through the ground.

'But that guy… is actually touching it with his bare hand?'

Moments later, she saw Gu Nan pull his hand back. His palm was already in tatters, and even most of the bones were exposed. Countless tissues and blood vessels were damaged.

However, this injury was recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Its power is between Tier 4 and Tier 5." Gu Nan roughly calculated the strength of this crystal after personally experiencing its power.

It was basically an unstoppable power when facing Tier 4 cultivators. Moreover, if Tier 5 experts were caught off guard, they might still suffer a big loss as long as they didn't have a corresponding way to neutralize this ability.

If he could control this power, then at least for a long time, Gu Nan would have another trump card to use.

As for how to use it… Wasn't Luo Fei a great example? Just fuse it with one's body!

"I can give you the method to absorb the crystal's power," Luo Fei spoke up at the most appropriate moment upon seeing Gu Nan's plan.

"As long as you let Xin'er go…" She gritted her teeth and added, "I can work for you for 50 years. When Xin'er grows up, our debt will be settled. How's that?"

Gu Nan's calm gaze studied her. His heart really wanted to say, 'This is probably the so-called mother-daughter pair delivered to my door, isn't it?'

The next moment, the superimposed sword of shadow reappeared, directly piercing Luo Fei's forehead.

Looking at her slowly falling body that still had a look of disbelief, Gu Nan just gave a cold smile.

"Why should I trust you?"