After seeing the last two deciphered law fragnts on the paper, sothing had finally clicked inside his mind.
The law fragnts that were carved on the walls were absolutely indestructible for a cultivator in the Physique Transformation realm, perhaps even in the Soul Reformation realm.
The only way to affect other law fragnts in a negative way was to use a new law fragnt, which was just what Mu Ran had done.
Except, as per the second law fragnt in Qian Yun’s paper, such law fragnts that went against the primary purpose of the circle of laws would be imdiately t with appropriate punishnt.
Thinking for a few seconds, Han Xuhan finally realized why Mu Ran hadn’t t any punishnts and instead escaped from this place.
The law fragnt written by Mu Ran had never gone against the logic this circle of laws operated on. He had rely written a new law stating that being able to activate a law fragnt would get him a pass.
Since all law fragnts would have to defer to the law of punishing powerful experts, as long as a low-level cultivator could activate a law using loopholes, he could easily pass through!
Moreover, his law fragnt was not written on the walls where the circle of laws was carved but on the ground, thus bypassing not only the first law fragnt on that paper, but also a great number of laws that Han Xuhan had decoded so far!
Because, not only were there no law fragnts targeting newly added laws, the punishnt for using powers above the soul reformation realm did not apply to a newly made law outside the circle of laws, which was a reference to the mass of texts on the surrounding walls of the stadium.
So Mu Ran’s cheat grandpa could activate the artificially added law fragnt on the ground without a problem!
"Is this the trick to make our way out? To create a new law fragnt using our own source that doesn’t go against the primary purpose of the circle of laws? Otherwise, the creator of the law fragnt would be punished severely."
For a mont, Han Xuhan counted his lucky stars that he hadn’t blindly tried to make and activate new laws by using Mu Ran’s law as a template. He hadn’t read all the law fragnts on the walls yet.
What if he ended up writing sothing that would result in a heavy punishnt?
But where was he going to find an expert above the soul reformation realm to copy what Mu Ran did?
"You know, your friend doesn’t exactly seem to be a... normal cultivator."
Qian Yun had been staring at the law fragnt Mu Ran had written ever since he had sat down. His remark made Han Xuhan laugh and put a stop to those complicated chains of thoughts.
Mu Ran’s rushed action had inadvertently leaked one of his greatest secrets. But it wasn’t as if this problem was hard to take care of; not for politician Han Xuhan, at least.
"Brother Yun, let ask you sothing. If you have an incredible secret like my friend, and find out that a total stranger might use that secret against you, or blackmail you with it, what’s the first thing you’re going to do?"
Han Xuhan’s ’kind advice’ silenced the masked young man. It didn’t take a genius to figure out what might happen to him if he enraged an abnormal cultivator whose soul had the capability to use powers far beyond his actual realm of cultivation...
The threat in Han Xuhan’s tone was certainly not a bluff. Qian Yun decided never to bring it up again and pushed the conversation in a different direction.
"Be that as it may, both of us are well aware that perhaps that little secret of his might be the only reason he was able to activate the law fragnt he wrote. But what about us?
"Unless you too have such a secret, I don’t see any way to escape this place and explore our way deeper inside this inheritance ground."
"You’re not wrong. Perhaps only a cultivator that powerful can activate the law fragnts. But it couldn’t hurt to throw a stone in the dark, right?"
"You’ve thought of sothing already?"
Qian Yun sounded surprised, but only for a mont.
"Hehe, I’m pretty sure you’ve thought of it too. But you haven’t done it due to the... risks involved. It’s the simplest available solution, after all."
Qian Yun gulped audibly.
"Oh no no no. That’s way too risky. You don’t have any proof that it won’t kill you imdiately."
"Give a quill and a paper, brother Yun."
Han Xuhan stretched his arms toward him. The cyan-robed man stared at him for a few seconds before sighing reluctantly and handing the materials to him.
Han Xuhan got up and gestured at Zhanxian to follow him.
Qian Yun sat frozen on the ground for a while before he made up his mind and followed the two of them to the nearest wall.
"Little Zhanxian, lend one of your fingers, preferably a sturdier one."
Zhanxian sent Han Xuhan an unreadable look and ripped off one of his middle fingers, shoving it in his face. Han Xuhan didn’t mind the insult.
"Good boy. If the punishnt really falls on us, you need to prepare to be summoned back imdiately. I won’t let you die that easily."
In the last seven hours, Han Xuhan and Qian Yun had deciphered a huge volu of texts. He could basically read and write a large number of the letters in this archaic language. It wasn’t that difficult for him to create a law himself using the simplest words.
Using Qian Yun’s quill, he forcefully drew his first law fragnt on the paper, leaving a very shallow imprint that a few doses of qi could fill up. Qian Yun let out a strangled sound upon deciphering it from the side.
Han Xuhan ignored him and wrote a second one, after which he threw the paper away and focused on the wall in front of him.
Picking out an area of the wall where the law fragnts were relatively sparse, he started etching on it using the sharp end of Zhanxian’s middle finger.
Qian Yun stood beside them and watched him struggle to carve the strokes on the hard, crystalline walls. With each stroke, Zhanxian’s finger-bone bone was slowly cracking apart, tiny chunks breaking off.
Han Xuhan kept the last law fragnt, the simplest of them all, incomplete. This fragnt would consist of twenty-six strokes. Once completed, it would read:
[ All the inactive law fragnts within the territory surrounded by the circle of laws shall be activated imdiately upon the creation of this law fragnt. ]
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