Chapter 592 - Terrifying to This Extent (Part 1)

Law-based lifeforms were completely new and different forms of life. Within the cosmos, there existed countless fundamental laws that maintained the operation of the universe. Some laws had a stronger binding force on life, while some weaker.

Law-based lifeforms were beings that could encode themselves into these countless laws, becoming a part of the laws of the cosmos or a world. The core of their species ability lay in formulating laws. Since they were laws, they must be obeyed.

If someone did not obey, they would receive punishment. The core power of this punishment did not originate from the law-based lifeform itself, but from the greater world. Of course, the stronger the law-based lifeform, the greater the binding force of the law, and the more severe the backlash suffered from violating the law.

The Law of Surrender could create a law stating that if one had already surrendered in battle, and the enemy continued to attack, it would be a violation of the law, thus incurring the world’s backlash.

When Mystic Turtle fused with the Law of Surrender, its physical form did not change much, but its structure began to turn illusory, existing between reality and virtuality. It was as if it were transforming from a living, breathing organism into a string of cosmic data.

This evolution feels so special!

After fusing with the super trait crystal Lu Ran provided, Mystic Turtle felt extremely excited, even more excited than from reincarnating. And Lu Ran, through the contract card and the Eye of Detection, began observing Mystic Turtle from multiple angles.

[Species: Law of Surrender: Turtle]

[Attribute: None]

[Species Rank: Low Legendary]

[Level: 90]

[Species Talent 1: Law Formulation (Can formulate the law of surrender within a certain range. Within this range, if one lifeform engaged in combat surrenders, and the other party continues to attack, they will suffer the world’s backlash.)]

[Species Talent 2: Life, Death, Time, Space (When enemies suffer world backlash, they suffer backlash related to life, death, time, and space, and the backlash intensity is increased.)]

“The attribute became ’None’? The attributes that originally represented life, death, time, and space transformed into talents...” Lu Ran was surprised.

Meanwhile, Mystic Turtle floated mid-air, sensing its own state while surprised. “This feeling is so weird. I completely lost the desire to use the bathroom.”

The fuck? This old fart is still an old fart. Even after evolving into a law-based lifeform, this is its first thought?

“Now that I’m thinking about flesh, blood, fruits, and such, I’ve completely lost my appetite. It seems only the emotion of surrender can be consumed,” Mystic Turtle murmured.

Lu Ran said, “Understood. In the future, when you're by my side, I will try my best not to knock out opponents and let them surrender instead.

“I want to test my new ability,” Mystic Turtle said.

Although it strived to laze around, its curiosity hadn’t completely vanished.

Lu Ran nodded. “Let me think, who should I find...”

Since he didn’t know how the combat prowess of a law-based lifeform manifested, Lu Ran wasn’t comfortable pitting the team’s designated punching bag familiar, Sudden Death King, against Mystic Turtle.

What if Mystic Turtle accidentally sends Sudden Death King away? That would be troublesome.

As for Six-Path Flower and the others, although Lu Ran didn’t think a Low-Legendary law-based lifeform could kill a Superior Legendary, he still didn’t know much about law-based lifeforms. For safety’s sake, he decided to find a couple of guys who wouldn’t matter if they died for the test.

Lu Ran called Sudden Death King over. When it was on Blue Planet, it controlled its size; otherwise, not even the entire palace could contain it. Sudden Death King, who was over two meters tall, flew over, scratched its head, and kept looking between Lu Ran and Mystic Turtle.

Sudden Death King pointed at itself, very consciously asking if it was to be used to test Mystic Turtle’s skill power.

“No. Go to outer space and call the Golden Toad and Jade Rabbit from the Moon Palace down for me. Tell them I need them for something.”

𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

“

Roar!

”

Sudden Death King breathed a sigh of relief. It immediately spread its wings and flew towards the starry sky. The Golden Toad and Jade Rabbit were both level 100 Low Legendaries. Although they were not combat types, their levels made them suitable sparring partners for the level 90 Mystic Turtle.

***

Soon after, the Jade Rabbit and Golden Toad were dragged down by Sudden Death King, looking obsequiously at Lu Ran.

“Great King, what are your orders for us?”

The two of them were pressed forward by Sudden Death King like prisoners.

“Nothing much. It’s just that I just trained a new general, and I plan to let you guys test its new abilities.”

Opposite them, Lu Ran sat on his throne. As Lu Ran raised his hand, Mystic Turtle, floating beside him, sighed and looked at the toad and rabbit that didn’t seem very strong.

“I am the former Navy Grand Marshal of the Beastmaster Empire,” said the Mystic Turtle as it introduced itself.

“

Ah?

”

The Golden Toad and Jade Rabbit looked at Mystic Turtle, only feeling that its power was mysterious and unpredictable. It appeared to be extremely difficult to deal with, and its identity seemed really badass.

The Golden Toad quickly said, “My strength is lowly; I am no match for you.”

“It’s fine. Didn’t Six-Path Flower cast reincarnation marks on you before? You won’t die,” Lu Ran said casually.

The Jade Rabbit and Golden Toad began to feel their stomachs hurt. The Jade Rabbit was almost crying. It didn’t want to reincarnate.

Accompanying a ruler is like accompanying a tiger... What did we even do to deserve this...?

“Will you do it or not?”

These two couldn’t defy Lu Ran’s decision and would act together as opponents against Mystic Turtle. And to determine Mystic Turtle’s true combat power, besides Sudden Death King, who was present, Captain Doofus, Dark Crow, Baby Cloud, Six-Path Flower, #18, and others were also called back by Lu Ran from different places to observe the battle.

Inside the palace.

“Relax, I won’t make you be practice partners for nothing. Even if you lose, I’ll reward each of you with one Epic resource,” Lu Ran said very open-mindedly, making the Jade Rabbit and Golden Toad swallow hard.

They really lacked resources after being in the Moon Palace for so long.

Hearing Lu Ran say there were rewards even for losing, their moods improved slightly. However, facing the conditions Lu Ran offered, Captain Doofus and the other familiars fell into deep thought.

“Master is evil...” #18 only felt it was wrong.

Lu Ran was truly evil because when the battle commenced, the Golden Toad and Jade Rabbit, who had prepared to take a beating and receive resources, had released skills to attack Mystic Turtle, but....

“I surrender!”

Facing the Golden Toad, who condensed treasure coins to hurl at it, and the Jade Rabbit who took out a stone pestle as if to grind Mystic Turtle into herbal paste, Mystic Turtle immediately shaped its energy into a white flag and began waving it.

“I lost! You won.”

The Golden Toad and the Jade Rabbit were confused.

What the heck?

This damn thing hasn’t even started yet.

Mystic Turtle’s timing for surrender was perfect. Facing Mystic Turtle’s sudden surrender, the Golden Toad and Jade Rabbit were stunned. However, their probing skills had already been launched towards Mystic Turtle, with clear targets.

Precisely because of these two skills, a certain law of this world seemed to be triggered. Gravity suddenly doubled, an invisible force compressed every inch of space, and the color of the sky instantly became dark, as if covered by thick clouds, giving a suffocatingly oppressive feeling.

“

Roar!

”

Sudden Death King was the most sensitive to changes in gravity. Although this change wasn’t targeting it, Sudden Death King made a shocking discovery that the amplitude of gravity change seemed to far exceed its own control over gravity.

Space became slow and heavy, and the air turned thick, making it difficult to breathe. The attacking skills, under the effect of gravity, began to sag towards the ground. And as the attackers, the Golden Toad and Jade Rabbit were also pressed instantly to the ground by a kind of heavenly pressure.

Space trembled as if the sky was really about to collapse. This spatial transformation completely baffled the Golden Toad and Jade Rabbit.

Under the spatial pressure, the Golden Toad furiously unleashed energy and resisted the pressure. The Jade Rabbit beside it did the same, wanting to stand up again. However, the more they reacted, the stronger the world’s backlash became.

At this moment, Lu Ran’s voice sounded in the ears of the Golden Toad and Jade Rabbit. “Attack Mystic Turtle. If you finish it off, the pressure should disappear.”

They subconsciously obeyed. Mystic Turtle’s “I surrender” was regarded by them as a joke. After all, in a battle presided over by Lu Ran, how could one side easily surrender? It was most likely to mock them. Even under immense pressure, the Golden Toad and Jade Rabbit launched their next round of attacks.

The Golden Toad used the spatial pressure to compress energy and instantly spat out a Hundred-Forged Golden Sword that shot towards Mystic Turtle, while the Jade Rabbit secreted unknown herbal odors from all over its body. It began to release its aura across the arena, no longer distinguishing between friend or foe.

Unfortunately, the moment the two creatures launched their second round of attacks, the world’s backlash intensified again. The Golden Toad and Jade Rabbit had no idea what happened, only feeling a strand of time wind blow past. The years they had avoided through sleep seemed to circle around again and land back on them.

Within an instant, the lifespan of the Golden Toad and Jade Rabbit began to decrease in an accelerated form, causing the two Legendary divine beasts still lying on the ground to show expressions of horror. And throughout this process, Mystic Turtle remained silent and motionless.

As the lifespans of the Golden Toad and Jade Rabbit dwindled to less than ten years, Lu Ran finally spoke up.

“That’s about enough.”