I am the Arcane Archer, and all my skills are self-created.

The black mark on Hua Zitong's forehead slowly wriggled like a living thing.

It wasn't a tattoo, but something directly imprinted between her soul and body.

The moment the mark appeared, the flow of the laws and energy around Hua Zitong became chaotic, and some extremely subtle black patterns resembling garbled data even began to appear on her body surface, disappearing in an instant.

"This is... a Law Infection?" Li Wu squatted down, carefully examining the mark on her forehead, his expression grave.

His perception of the laws could "see" that the mark was slowly but steadily eroding Hua Zitong's soul structure, attempting to distort her soul frequency into a chaotic and malicious fluctuation, just like the one from the Void Hunter earlier.

"The poison of the laws of the Star Shatterer." Gu Yuan also walked over, his face equally grim.

"One of their most terrifying abilities is that the soul of the marked person will be continuously eroded and corrupted, eventually leading to either soul collapse or complete assimilation, becoming an extension of the Starbreaker or a coordinate anchor."

"Can it be removed?" Li Wu asked directly.

Gu Yuan reached out, a wisp of pale silver law power gathering at his fingertips, and carefully probed the mark on Hua Zitong's forehead.

The moment his power of law touched the edge of the mark...

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With a soft sound, the pale silver light at Gu Yuan's fingertip instantly dimmed and twisted, and then, as if drawn by a black hole, a small portion of it was swallowed by the black mark!

Gu Yuan's face paled, and he immediately withdrew his hand. The remaining power of law at his fingertips had turned into a turbid gray-black color, exuding an ominous aura.

He quickly stripped and annihilated this power from his body.

"No." Gu Yuan shook his head, his eyes heavy. "The moment my power of law comes into contact with it, it will recognize it as a 'foreign object,' and then assimilate and devour it, which will only exacerbate the pollution."

"This is a curse at the level of laws. Conventional healing and purification methods, including my 'time' law, are ineffective against it."

"Why is it ineffective?" Zhui Feng asked anxiously.

"Because its underlying logic is different," Gu Yuan explained urgently. "The essence of the Star Shatterer's power is 'law distortion' and 'definition alteration'."

"It's not just a simple energy attack; it's trying to redefine Hua Zitong's soul composition. My power is like a piece of code encountering a virus—its logic is directly altered."

"Unless... unless there is a power that can be at a 'lower level' than the laws, or can directly 'purify' this distortion."

"In my understanding, only beings who have reached the level of 'Law Weaver' can create this kind of power." Gu Yuan looked at Li Wu with a complicated expression.

"Moreover, even the law weavers would need to create entirely new, specialized laws to address this characteristic. This is virtually impossible."

On the platform, other transcendent beings also gathered around. Looking at the constantly writhing black mark on Hua Zitong's forehead and listening to Gu Yuan's explanation, their faces showed expressions of fear and despair.

This insidious and incurable law-based toxin is even more terrifying than directly confronting the army of Starbreakers.

Hua Zitong could feel her consciousness gradually becoming dull, and a cold, subtle pain, as if being gnawed by countless insects, emanated from the depths of her soul.

She tried to stay awake, looked up at Li Wu, her lips moved as if she wanted to say something, but no sound came out.

Li Wu's gaze remained fixed on the mark on Hua Zitong's forehead.

His expression was calm, even somewhat indifferent, but those who knew him understood that it was a manifestation of his extreme focus and anger.

He asked everyone to step back a few steps to make room.

Then, he sat cross-legged in front of Hua Zitong, reached out, and gently took her cold hand in his.

"Don't be afraid." His voice was soft but steady. "Leave it to me."

Hua Zitong looked at him, the fear in her eyes lessening slightly, and nodded gently.

Li Wu closed her eyes.

His consciousness sank into his body, into that nearly dried-up ocean of spiritual energy, and then continued downwards, touching something deeper and more fundamental.

His understanding of the laws, his comprehension of the thirty-six secret texts, and his grasp of the "higher language".

He did not attempt to mobilize the remaining power of the laws.

He was thinking.

The "poison of the laws" of the Starbreakers is essentially a form of "pollution" and "distortion".

It attempts to cover up and tamper with the original soul law structure of the target by using malicious and chaotic law definitions.

Therefore, to combat it, a power is needed that can "purify" the distortion and "reshape" the order.

It was not an attack, nor was it destruction.

It is purification. It is rebirth.

He remembered Erling's words: "True power lies not in destruction, but in creation."

He recalled every incantation he had learned and every definition of law he had understood in the Arcane Wasteland, in the thirty-six towers.

【炽】 is flame, is energy; 【黯】 is darkness, is annihilation; 【绝】 is end, is absolute; 【律】 is rule, is order; 【衡】 is balance, is stability; 【转】 is change, is cycle…

These cryptic texts, these definitions of laws, spun, combined, and collided rapidly in his mind.

Aggressive combinations cannot purify pollution.

Defensive combinations cannot eradicate the distortion.

He needs to create a completely new combination of laws specifically for "purification" and "rebirth".

Time passed little by little.

The atmosphere on the platform was so oppressive it was suffocating.

The black mark on Hua Zitong's forehead became clearer and clearer, and the data garbled patterns on her body appeared more and more frequently. Her breathing became weak and her eyes began to glaze over.

"Li Wu..." Gu Yuan couldn't help but speak, wanting to remind him that time was running out.

Li Wu suddenly opened her eyes.

In his eyes, there was no weariness, no hesitation, only a clear light that seemed to see through everything.

He released Hua Zitong's hand, slowly raised his right hand, and opened his palm.

His fingers began to trace lines in the air, moving so fast that they left afterimages.

Each movement precisely outlines a golden superordinate linguistic symbol or a basic cryptic graphic.

[Transfer] — Transform polluted energy.

【Darkness】—the essence of decomposition, annihilation, and distortion.

【Sever】—Sever the connection between the pollution source and the organism itself.

【炽】—Infusing new life and purification with energy.

[Law] and [Balance] – to establish a new stable order.

He connected, superimposed, and integrated the six secret texts and six law definitions in an unprecedented way.

There was no earth-shattering energy burst.

Only in his palm did a soft, warm, seemingly alive ball of pure white light slowly condense and take shape.

The ball of light was small, only about the size of a baby's fist, but it emitted an aura that was pure, peaceful, and full of vibrant life.

This formed a stark contrast to the filthy, twisted black mark on Hua Zitong's forehead.

All the energy of the laws on the platform seemed to be soothed by this ball of white light, and its flow became smooth.

"This is..." Gu Yuan's eyes widened as he murmured, "You've created a new law?"

Li Wu did not answer. He carefully held the ball of pure white light and slowly pressed it against Hua Zitong's forehead.

The moment the ball of light touched the black mark.

There was no intense confrontation, no energy explosion.

The black marks, like snow exposed to sunlight, began to melt and fade away silently.

The pure white light gently seeped in, breaking down, purifying, and transforming the twisted black threads of law one by one.

The garbled data patterns that appeared on Hua Zitong's body faded and disappeared one by one.

Her pale complexion regained its rosy hue at a visible speed.

Her unfocused gaze refocused and became clear.

The icy pain and dullness that eroded the soul receded like the tide.

A few seconds later, Li Wu withdrew his hand. The pure white sphere of light in his palm had disappeared, and his face was even paler than before, but his eyes were bright.

Hua Zitong blinked gently and reached out to touch her forehead.

It was completely smooth, with nothing left.

She looked at Li Wu, opened her mouth, and a thousand words seemed to flow, but in the end, they all boiled down to two words: "Thank you."

Li Wu shook her head, indicating that she should rest first.

"What kind of law is this?" Gu Yuan asked impatiently, his voice filled with disbelief and shock.

"A purification law specifically designed to counter the contamination of laws? How is that possible? Even Erling has never recorded such a pure combination of 'purification' and 'rebirth' laws!"

"Nothing is impossible." Li Wu leaned against the stone pillar, slowly recovering his depleted mental energy.

"The Starbreakers can create distorted laws, and we can create laws to purify those distortions. The essence of power is balance. Where there is darkness, there is light; where there is pollution, there is purification."

He looked at Hua Zitong, "How are you feeling?"

"Much better." Hua Zitong sat up straight and examined herself. "My soul... is very clean, even clearer than before. And..."

She raised her hand, attempting to mobilize the power of the laws within her body.

A wisp of extremely faint, yet extremely pure, black law thread spilled from her fingertips, outlining a blurry yet clearly defined black rose phantom in the air.

This time, the phantom was countless times more stable than before, and even faintly exuded a rhythm of "purification" and "rebirth".

"Your laws... seem to have changed." Li Wu looked at the black rose, lost in thought.

"Yes." Hua Zitong nodded. "It feels like it's no longer just an 'afterimage.' It seems... to have come alive and has its own direction."

Just as everyone breathed a sigh of relief and was happy for Hua Zitong's recovery and increased strength.

Hua Zitong's expression suddenly changed again.

She covered her forehead, a look of pain on her face.

"What's wrong?" Li Wu immediately became anxious.

"It wasn't the poison..." Hua Zitong's voice trembled slightly, "It was an auditory hallucination... When I was most deeply infected, I seemed to... hear a voice."

What was that sound?

Hua Zitong raised her head and looked at Li Wu, her eyes filled with confusion and a hint of fear.

"It's my brother's voice," she said. "The whispers of flowers and the murmur of the wind. It's like... he's talking to me. He said... 'Give up the resistance, embrace eternal unity.'"