As the bronze door was pushed open, a faint light emanated from within, followed by a piercing shriek as a purple shadow shot out!
"Who dares intrude?"
Ye Ling's eyes narrowed slightly, his aura instantly erupting as he forcefully suppressed the shadow within the bronze door.
The shrieking abruptly ceased. Ye Ling then saw that what was pinned beneath his aura was a purple, semi-transparent humanoid creature, less than half a meter tall, its internal meridians clearly visible.
Ye Ling could even discern the flow of spiritual energy within the semi-transparent humanoid creature.
Behind the bronze door, apart from this semi-transparent humanoid creature, there was nothing else.
"What is this little fellow?"
Xu Xiaoqing, seeing the motionless semi-transparent humanoid creature lying on the ground, also showed a flicker of curiosity in her eyes. As she was about to step forward, Ye Ling immediately pulled her back.
"It's dangerous inside. You stay with Xiao You. Leave this to me," Ye Ling instructed Xu Xiaoqing, his gaze somewhat solemn.
"Pre... Senior..."
Xu Xiaoqing stared blankly at Ye Ling, feeling that he was inexplicably serious at the moment.
Although she didn't understand what was so terrifying about the creature, she still retreated outside the bronze door and stood with Ye You.
Ye You also looked serious and said to Ye Ling, "Brother, I'll take Xiao Qing to rescue Xu Changsheng. Be careful yourself."
"Don't worry."
Ye Ling gestured for Ye You to be at ease, then walked into the bronze door and closed the large bronze door.
Xu Xiaoqing watched the closed bronze door, feeling increasingly uneasy. She couldn't help but ask Ye You worriedly, "Sister... Senior he..."
Ye You didn't offer much explanation, smiling, "Don't worry, my brother can handle it alone. Let's go rescue the person."
With that, Ye You took Xu Xiaoqing's hand and led her away from this space.
Within the bronze door... Ye Ling looked at the semi-transparent humanoid creature he had suppressed, entwined it with demonic energy, and picked it up.
This semi-transparent humanoid creature's cultivation was only at the eighth rank, yet Ye Ling discovered that the space around it was chaotic with laws.
Although the range of chaotic laws was less than half a meter around it, even that small range was enough to shock Ye Ling!
All things in the world followed corresponding rules, and the foundation of the universe was built upon ironclad laws.
No matter how strong one's cultivation, until they transcended the entire universe, they would be bound by corresponding rules.
Even the Heavenly Dao, Ye Ling, and all things in the world were no exception.
No matter how strong one's cultivation, they should still be within the framework of the universe and its laws.
But...
The laws surrounding this semi-transparent humanoid creature were chaotic.
Around it, fire would freeze, ice would burn, time would flow backward, and people would be resurrected from death...
All the rules applicable to the current universe were chaotic around that strange creature, devoid of any order.
Even the demonic energy Ye Ling used to restrain the peculiar creature transformed into spatial law power after binding it, its attribute changing without any pattern.
Ye Ling had never encountered a creature whose world rules were unresolvable!
"What on earth is this thing? Where did Shu Mountain capture it from?"
Ye Ling's curiosity piqued, he attempted to reach his hand near the creature, only to find his arm turning into metal.
Ye Ling withdrew his hand, and his arm, which had turned metallic, returned to its original state. "This thing's surrounding rules are chaotic; anything that gets close to it will be redefined."
Realizing the peculiarity of the semi-transparent creature, Ye Ling immediately cut through the surrounding space, isolating the semi-transparent humanoid creature from its surroundings and imprisoning it in a spatial cage to prevent it from causing trouble.
Only then did Ye Ling ask the Heavenly Dao, "Heavenly Dao, do you know what this thing in front of me is?"
Upon hearing Ye Ling's call, the Heavenly Dao also focused its attention on Ye Ling's surroundings, noticing the creature within the spatial cage.
"What is that thing?" The Heavenly Dao was utterly astonished upon seeing the semi-transparent creature, its tone of voice changing drastically!
It was clear that the Heavenly Dao had never seen this thing before Ye Ling!
Hearing the Heavenly Dao's words, Ye Ling's brow furrowed, "You don't know either?"
The Heavenly Dao exclaimed in shock, "I truly haven't encountered a creature that cannot be defined by rules. Why would such a thing appear in Shu Mountain?"
"Wait a moment... I'll check first and see where this thing came from?"
"No... how is this possible..." the Heavenly Dao muttered, its tone filled with disbelief.
Hearing the Heavenly Dao's words, Ye Ling couldn't help but ask, "What exactly is the situation?"
The Heavenly Dao said in a deep voice, "I checked all the events that happened in Shu Mountain a while ago. Before the Red Dust Pavilion's opening ceremony, and before you reversed Earth's time, Shu Mountain was originally holding a fox demon from Qing Qiu."
"However, after you reversed time, the fox demon here turned into this strange thing."
"Suddenly appeared?" Ye Ling was also a bit dumbfounded.
According to the Heavenly Dao, this semi-transparent humanoid creature was like a bug, but Shu Mountain was a real world, and the universe was not a game built by programmers with code.
There were no bugs in the world.
The Heavenly Dao: "I don't understand either... this strange creature makes me uneasy. Ye Ling, can you destroy it?"
Ye Ling: "I'll try."
With that, Ye Ling attempted to compress the space imprisoning the semi-transparent humanoid creature, intending to annihilate it along with the severed space.
However, after the spatial cage collapsed, the semi-transparent humanoid creature was still hopping around, completely unaffected by the spatial collapse.
The Heavenly Dao: "It seems unaffected by space. Try another method?"
"Mm." Ye Ling nodded, grabbed the semi-transparent humanoid creature from the void, and condensed a demonic blade with demonic laws, flinging it at the creature.
However, the demonic blade, condensed from demonic laws, dissipated directly upon approaching the semi-transparent humanoid creature, unable to harm it at all!
Subsequently, Ye Ling tried various methods but could not kill the creature.
Seeing that Ye Ling could not eliminate the semi-transparent humanoid creature by any means, the Heavenly Dao's tone was tinged with despair, "No, this creature seems to have the ability to redefine everything around it! Although you can easily imprison it, any fatal factor will be redefined as harmless around it..."
"How can such a monster exist in this world?"
The Heavenly Dao itself was the defender of the universe's fundamental rules. The existence of powerful beings like Ye Ling, who could not be controlled by the Heavenly Dao, already made it extremely annoyed, but now a creature that could not be defined had appeared!
This made the Heavenly Dao despair!
No matter how strong Ye Ling was, he had at least cultivated himself bit by bit and was a part of the universe.
But this semi-transparent humanoid creature in Shu Mountain, its existence was even more exaggerated than Ye Ling's!
Such a creature should not exist in this universe at all!
If there were more of these things, let alone Earth...
Even the entire universe would be destroyed by them!