novelraw Chapter 634: Beat It into Submission
Chapter 634: Beat It into Submission
Chapter 634: Beat It into Submission
Jie Ming had anticipated that he would become the target. After all, he was currently the only person inside the barrier without a Law Solidification Domain.
The graffiti’s attacks surged toward him like a tidal wave.
Dozens of graffiti figures appeared in the air, each one twisting his image.
Some tried to snap his neck, some tried to tear his body apart, and some tried to pull something out from within his body.
Faced with such attacks, Jie Ming’s reaction was remarkably calm.
He did not activate any special defenses, did not cast any defensive sorcery, and did not even stand up from the stone edge of the fountain.
He simply sat there, using his soul and body to fully endure the graffiti Strange’s attacks at one hundred percent.
Because of this, Jie Ming could sense the characteristics of that power even more clearly.
He looked at his own arm with some surprise, silently experiencing this force. Unlike conventional elemental strikes, this power was something more subtle.
It was as if it were modifying the “settings” of his arm.
This was a questioning of “existence” itself!
The graffiti Strange was not attacking him—it was “rewriting” him.
It was trying to tell the one being attacked: you are not what you currently are; you should become something else.
But Jie Ming’s body was far more resilient than it imagined.
After forging his true body, the body-tempering method that had merged with his instincts displayed its terrifying power at this moment.
Facing this unprecedented form of attack, Jie Ming’s true body completed adaptive evolution at a speed that left one speechless. The very first attack failed to produce any effective result; the moment damage was inflicted, it was adapted to and then immunized by his body. In an instant, Jie Ming’s physique completed resistance evolution against the graffiti Strange’s method of attack, rendering the Strange’s command of “you should become something else” completely meaningless.
I received your command, but I do not acknowledge it.
Therefore, it is ineffective.
Jie Ming opened his eyes. A dark golden light flashed across his pupils.
He extended his right hand.
The pale finger floating in the air was pulled over by an invisible force and landed steadily in his palm.
The finger trembled slightly in his hand, and the liquid in the nail crevices soaked his skin.
It was salty.
But the moment Jie Ming tasted a hint of saltiness, his body automatically evolved and gained immunity to this curse as well.
“The speed of this evolution is faster than I initially expected.”
Jie Ming shook his head and took out a test tube from his inner cave-heaven.
It was the container previously used to store plane origin, cast from special crystal with an inner wall plated with a law array that could isolate law permeation. For a Strange that could dissolve into rules, this was the best sealing container.
He opened the test tube’s sealed lid, stuffed the salty finger inside, and resealed it.
The blue light inside the test tube flickered once before stabilizing.
The salty finger lay quietly inside the test tube, motionless, like an exhibit placed in a museum.
“The salty finger has been sealed,” Jie Ming let the test tube float beside him and looked up at the constantly shifting graffiti in the air. “Continue shrinking the barrier. Force this big guy out as well.”
“Understood.”
Thus, the barrier continued to contract.
As the diameter shrank, the graffiti Strange’s reactions grew increasingly violent.
The graffiti in the air had multiplied to a nearly insane degree. Hundreds of images appeared simultaneously, changed simultaneously, dissipated simultaneously, and then new ones appeared simultaneously.
Colors exploded, intertwined, and merged in the air, forming a chaotic visual noise.
When the barrier’s diameter shrank to ten meters, the graffiti Strange could no longer maintain its pure conceptual state.
Its “body” began to manifest in the air.
It was a mass without a fixed form.
Its surface was covered in constantly changing graffiti, switching patterns every second—from human figures to animals, to abstract shapes, to completely incomprehensible symbols. Its volume was roughly the size of a carriage, and its shape resembled a crumpled ball of paper. Its edges continuously extended outward and retracted, as if probing the boundary of the barrier.
Seeing the main culprit finally reveal itself, Jie Ming also stood up.
He looked up at that chaotic existence, his gaze calm as if observing a sample in an experiment.
“Shrink further,” he said.
“If we shrink any more, it will touch you,” the deep blue-robed male wizard’s voice came from above.
“That’s exactly what I want.”
The barrier continued to contract.
Diameter eight meters, six meters, five meters…
The mass of the graffiti Strange was almost pressed against the top of Jie Ming’s head.
Its surface continuously extended graffiti tentacles, attempting to touch Jie Ming’s body.
But every time they made contact, those tentacles retracted rapidly as if burned.
The resistance evolved through the body-tempering method made Jie Ming’s body feel like a piece of red-hot iron to the graffiti Strange.
Jie Ming raised his left hand.
Starting from the shoulder, the color of his skin changed.
From normal skin tone to a deep, dark golden hue, as if infused with the metallic luster of some ancient power.
The lines of his muscles became even more distinct beneath the dark golden skin, and faint rune patterns emerged at the joints of his fingers.
Partial true body manifestation.
He did not fully reveal that thousand-meter-tall Void Refinement true body, only transforming his left hand into the true body’s form.
In the true body state, he himself was an “information being.”
At the “biological” level, he in his true body state was a similar life form to these Strange that had merged into rules.
Faced with Jie Ming’s change, the graffiti Strange seemed to sense danger.
It began to retreat frantically, but the barrier had already shrunk to a mere five-meter diameter, leaving it with nowhere to go.
Those graffiti tentacles flailed wildly in the air, attempting to create some chaos to distract Jie Ming’s attention, but Jie Ming’s gaze remained locked on its core.
The dark golden left hand reached into the “body” of the graffiti Strange.
Jie Ming could feel the sensation, like gripping a mass of viscous semi-fluid.
The constantly shifting graffiti struggled and twisted between his fingers, trying to escape.
But the dark golden fingers were like five iron clamps, firmly gripping it.
Then, Jie Ming raised his other arm, which had also partially manifested into true body form.
He clenched his fist and smashed down!
Slap!
A chaotic burst of colors exploded across the surface of the graffiti Strange, like a shattered kaleidoscope.
Two punches.
It emitted a sound that was not a sound—a sharp screech exploding directly at the consciousness level.
There was no language in that screech, only the fear of being driven into a desperate situation.
Punch after punch.
Jie Ming’s movements were precise and efficient. Every punch landed on the most core position of the graffiti Strange.
The regions where causal lines were densest, where graffiti transformations were most frequent, and where energy fluctuations were most intense.
The graffiti Strange was beaten until it continuously shrank. Its volume went from carriage-sized to millstone-sized, then from millstone-sized to washbasin-sized. The constantly shifting graffiti began to slow, and the colors were no longer vibrant, like a faded old painting.
It began to tremble.
Jie Ming could feel that trembling—a fear that came from instinct.
At this moment, the Strange curled up in his dark golden palm like a cat being held by the scruff of its neck.
High in the sky, the eight sixth-ring wizards witnessed the entire process.
“This…” The young female wizard opened her mouth, momentarily at a loss for words.
“Tsk tsk tsk…” The burly male wizard rubbed his eyes. “It seems this fellow is quite skilled in biochemical modification…”
“No Law Solidification Domain, no energy protection, yet he used his body to tank the graffiti’s attacks head-on and then beat it into a lump,” the slender male wizard couldn’t help but widen his eyes. “This body’s resistance is even stronger than mine.”
The wizards were not shocked by Jie Ming’s power, but by his behavior.
They could do what Jie Ming did, but only after preparing proper protection.
Directly contacting such a special being that could merge into laws with pure flesh… what difference was there from touching nuclear radiation without wearing a hazmat suit?!
The deep blue-robed male wizard was silent for a few seconds, then said softly, “Continue shrinking the barrier. Help him pin that thing down.”
Thus, the barrier continued to contract.
The graffiti Strange’s volume had already been compressed to basketball size. The graffiti on its surface was still changing, but the speed had slowed to once per second, and each transformation was largely the same: a curled-up, shivering human figure.
Jie Ming brought his two hands together, holding the mass of the graffiti Strange in his palms and kneading it forcefully like dough.
The graffiti tentacles trying to escape were crushed one by one by his fingers. The concepts attempting to spread again were suppressed back by the power of his true body. In the end, the graffiti Strange was rolled into a ball by him.
A fist-sized ball with faint graffiti traces still remaining on its surface.
It no longer struggled or trembled. It simply stayed quietly in Jie Ming’s palm, like a tamed wild beast.
Jie Ming took out another container from his inner cave-heaven.
It was a vessel specially meant to hold law materials. He opened the container’s lid, stuffed the graffiti ball inside, and sealed it. The surface of the container flickered with rune light a few times before returning to calm.
Two sealed containers floated in the air above the fountain square—one containing the pale finger, the other containing the curled-up graffiti ball.
They rotated quietly under the amber-colored light, like two newly completed works of art.
Jie Ming patted his hands and walked out of the barrier.
His hands had already returned from dark golden to normal skin tone, showing no traces of the battle that had just occurred.
He walked to the edge of the barrier, glanced back at the two floating containers, then nodded to the wizards in the sky.
“It can be sealed now.”
The eight sixth-ring wizards acted simultaneously.
At this moment, the barrier transformed into a sealing technique, pressing down on the two containers from all directions.
Dense runes emerged on the surface of the energy barrier, firmly locking the two containers inside.
Soon, the sealing was complete.
The deep blue-robed male wizard slowly descended from the air and landed beside Jie Ming.
He looked at the two containers, then at Jie Ming, and was silent for a few seconds:
“Well done.”
“No problem.”