Douluo Continent: The Underworld Emperor Halosa Lets Three Fly

Chapter 241 The Law of Annihilation

During the five years that Yali nurtured the angel of prayer in the sea of ​​faith and rejoiced over its miraculous transformation, her beloved husband Harosa also had no peace of mind.

He was immersed in the deepest part of the Samsara God Realm, in an absolute quiet chamber constructed of countless Samsara divine runes, carrying out a crucial and extremely difficult task—analyzing the core laws carried by the super artifact obtained from the Abyss Saint King, the Heavenly Saint Abyss Splitting Halberd.

The power of a super artifact lies in the fact that it contains and perfectly embodies one or more complete fundamental laws of the universe.

The Heavenly Saint Rift Halberd is known as "invincible in close combat, ignoring all defenses," and its power is so bizarre and domineering that Harosa has personally experienced it.

The power that can achieve this near "rule erasure" effect must be underpinned by unique and powerful laws, which may even touch upon some underlying logic of the universe's operation.

Deciphering the core laws of a complete super artifact is far more difficult than commonly imagined. It is not only a contest of energy, but also the ultimate test of will, wisdom, and the depth of understanding of the laws.

Even someone as powerful as Harosa, the King of Reincarnation, who ruled over a realm of gods and possessed countless abilities and a long lifespan, spent five years working tirelessly to finally peel away the deepest structure of that azure halberd and begin to decipher the source of its power.

The result was both unexpected and reasonable.

The core law embodied by the Heavenly Saint Rift Halberd is indeed unique and powerful, but it is not the completely unfamiliar and never-before-seen new law that Harosa initially envisioned.

Beneath its domineering and all-consuming exterior, Harosa keenly sensed two familiar laws—destruction and devouring!

Harosa touched upon both of these principles when viewed individually.

However, the power of the Heavenly Saint Rift Halberd lies in the fact that it does not simply superimpose these two laws, but rather fuses them together in an extremely exquisite and near-perfect way, forming a state where each contains the other.

A completely new compound law that complements each other!

It is this perfect fusion that gives rise to that terrifying characteristic known as "ignoring all defenses"—

With the extreme sharpness of destruction, coupled with the destructive power of devouring all things and returning them to nothingness, the combination of the two means that at the moment of contact, the "existence" of the target (whether it is energy, matter or rule defense) will be directly "annihilated" and turned into the most basic particles or nothingness, so there is no "defense" to speak of.

Harosa temporarily named this newly understood law of replication the "Law of Annihilation".

His deep gaze seemed to pierce through time and space, tracing the source of this power.

The "devouring" aspect of the Annihilation Law shares the same essence as the Abyss Plane's plundering and digesting nature, and since the Abyss originates from the Crimson Plane, the root of this part of the law most likely points to the mysterious and unpredictable Crimson Mother.

What Harosa cared about even more was the part of the "Annihilation Law" that pertained to "destruction".

This destructive aura, domineering and pure, carrying an absolute will to end all things, gave him a strange sense of familiarity. After a moment's thought, a distant memory surfaced in his mind.

That was before he became a god, when he was struggling to survive and seeking power on the Devil's Islands of Douluo Continent.

It was there that he obtained a fragment of the law containing pure destructive energy! It was with that fragment, combined with the fundamental law of life and his understanding of life and death, that he finally created that crucial—the dual body of destruction and life!

That peculiar creation, through the extreme opposition and transformation between destruction and life, provided him with a continuous source of death power in his early stages. It can be said that it was the beginning and foundation for his birth and stability in the realm of gods!

With a thought, Harosa waved his hand, and a sphere radiating an eerie light appeared in the quiet room. One half was a deep, dark purple that seemed to devour all light, representing ultimate destruction; the other half was a vibrant, soft, and bright emerald green, symbolizing burgeoning life.

Two diametrically opposed energies slowly rotate within it, forming a delicate and dangerous balance. This is precisely the duality that destroys life.

Because the core fragment of the Law of Destruction that was originally used to create it was too small and incomplete, the lifespan of this dual-body was inherently limited.

After the Realm of Rebirth (now the Realm of Samsara) no longer needed it to stably provide the power of death, Harosa stopped its operation, but did not destroy it. Instead, he preserved it as a testament to an important process.

Seeing this dualistic entity again, Harosa couldn't help but feel a pang of nostalgia, a sense of things having changed. The self who struggled so hard to gain power back then, and the God-King who now wields reincarnation and analyzes divine artifacts, seemed like a lifetime ago.

He extended his finger and gently touched the dark purple part of the Yin-Yang body. Pure divine power seeped in, carefully guiding and stimulating it.

In an instant, a faint yet extremely powerful aura of destruction emanated from it, carrying a chilling intent that could bring about the end of all things.

Harosa carefully sensed this aura of destruction, then compared it with the destructive component of the "Annihilation Law" belonging to the Heavenly Saint Rift Halberd that he had just analyzed in his mind—

It's exactly the same!

They are of the same kind and origin! It could even be said that the laws of destruction contained within the Heavenly Saint Rift Halberd are like a complete, magnified version of this fragment!

"The influence of a god-king level being is truly profound and unfathomable—" Harosa muttered to himself, his tone tinged with complexity. "Even though they have long since perished, traces of their power can still be seen in unexpected ways in every corner of the universe."

He was almost certain that the law of destruction within the Heavenly Saint Rift Halberd originated from the Destruction God King of the Douluo God Realm who had long since fallen!

In an unknown ancient era, the Crimson Plane (or its related entities) accidentally obtained a fragment of the primordial laws of the God of Destruction (and this fragment was far larger and more complete than the one he had obtained himself), and combined it with its own inherent and powerful law of devouring.

After an unimaginable long period of evolution and refinement, these two powerful laws finally merged perfectly, giving birth to this super artifact with the characteristic of "annihilation" - the Heavenly Saint Rift Halberd!

Having figured this out, Harosa couldn't help but feel a sense of approval towards the Crimson Mother, whom he had never met. "The Crimson Mother—capable of collecting and crafting twelve top-tier artifacts and fusing them into two super artifacts, her ambition, courage, and exploration of the fusion of laws alone are enough to make her a—remarkable person."

The word "wonderful" expresses his admiration for this potential rival's abilities and aspirations.

However, despite the praise, Harosa couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

He sighed softly: "What a pity—I thought I could decipher a completely new and independent supreme law, but I never expected that it would ultimately be a fusion of known laws."

The laws of destruction and the law of devouring are both included and have basic explanations in the law library of the God Realm of Reincarnation.

Although the fusion method of the "Annihilation Law" is exquisite and powerful, its foundation does not exceed Harosa's cognitive scope.

This means that he cannot significantly broaden his path by fully mastering a "new" rule.

More importantly, the goal is to perfectly replicate the "Annihilation Law" by combining the known laws of destruction and devouring.

The effect is extremely difficult to achieve.

This requires more than simply understanding the two principles; it demands finding that unique "opportunity" for fusion, understanding the "proportion" and "rhythm" of that fusion. This requires extensive experimentation, deduction, and—

Perhaps it will require some luck and a long period of time to settle.

Five years of analysis solved a mystery, but also brought new challenges.

Harosa stared at the slowly rotating duality of destruction and life before him, then looked at the Heavenly Saint Rift Halberd, which was imprisoned to the side by divine power and still radiated a cold, eerie blue light. His gaze became deep and resolute once again.

Even if the road ahead is difficult, now that the direction has been found, we can simply take it one step at a time. For an eternal god-king, time is sometimes one of the things that is least lacking.

Inside the quiet room, five years of dedicated analysis came to an end. Harosa slowly withdrew the Samsara divine power surrounding him and the trace of "annihilation" he had just touched.

Although he failed to obtain a completely new set of independent rules, he felt little disappointed.

The path of divine cultivation is inherently one of exploration, enlightenment, and perfection within the endless ocean of laws, during which one may stray onto the wrong path...

Encountering bottlenecks is normal. Every attempt, whether successful or not, is a valuable accumulation that lays the foundation for the final qualitative change.