Lynch carefully stored away the Dark Old Tree's root that contained pure Shadow Power, feeling the stable Law fluctuations within, and his heart settled slightly. He didn't linger, and immediately followed the map's guidance, preparing to head to the next material point to search for the Monster Tree Heart.

However, just as he left the Old Tree Swamp, having walked less than a kilometer—

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The ground beneath him—or rather, the vast trunk of the World Species Vadorra—unpredictably began to tremble violently, like an uncontrolled heartbeat!

This tremor didn't come from a single direction but resonated simultaneously from every corner of the island, as if the entire island itself was experiencing some internal, painful convulsion.

Immediately after, Lynch keenly perceived that the Elemental Energy around him, already restless, exploded like water drops in hot oil! Several streams of mixed colors, in Elemental Storms far more extensive than before, blasted out from the island's depths, rushing toward his location!

Where it passed, Space Distorted, and those bizarrely-shaped trees, whether hard or pliable, were torn to shreds and annihilated in the storm, not even leaving residue.

Lynch's eyes narrowed, not daring to slacken. Around him, the Triple Domain Force Field instantly layered and solidified, forming an invisible but impervious barrier that securely shielded him within.

"Buzz——!"

The Elemental Storm violently struck the Domain Barrier, emitting a nerve-jarring sound of intense friction and Energy annihilation.

Lynch could clearly feel the Defense Domain he had set up shaking violently, as if an opening might be torn in it by this chaotic and frenzied Strength at any moment.

The storm carried an array of destructive energies such as heat, cold, tearing, and corrosion, conflicting yet strangely merging, forming an extremely unstable composite destructive force.

It was long before this sudden Elemental Storm receded like a tide, leaving devastation in its wake.

Once the storm completely subsided, Lynch withdrew the defense, his brows tightly furrowed, more solemn than ever before.

"This Elemental Storm..."

He muttered to himself. During the storm's resistance, he was not only defending but also fully perceiving and analyzing the storm's nature. The analysis' result cast a deeper shadow over his heart.

The elements in this storm were not just about high concentration and strong energy. The most terrifying aspect was that the elemental structure and arrangement forming the storm's basis had been utterly and completely disrupted!

Fire Element no longer followed the rules of burning and rising, Water Element lost its fluidity and penetration traits, Earth Element abandoned its stability and bearing essence... They were like words in a text entirely scrambled randomly, losing any logic and meaning, leaving only pure, chaotic, mutually conflicting energy.

This left Lynch greatly perplexed, even with a chill.

If it were merely a malfunction of a Witch Array on the island, or a rampage of a powerful Demon causing an energy disorder, it usually wouldn't penetrate to the elemental arrangement-level. It's like a machine malfunctioning might cause component damage or programming errors but wouldn't change the physical and chemical properties of the metal atoms used in making the components.

Elemental arrangement is akin to the fundamental laws that compose this world's matter and energy, the foundational code for all things' operations. For instance, on Earth, gravity causes objects to fall, buoyancy makes ships float; these are stable phenomena based on fundamental physical laws.

Once this foundational arrangement is disrupted and destroyed, it signifies altering the very foundation on which the world exists and operates.

This is no longer a local malfunction but a disturbance to "reality" itself!

The result is not merely an energy imbalance of an island but triggers a chain reaction, leading to unpredictable and subversive changes in the entire environment, ecology, and even spatial structures that depend on these foundational Laws for existence!

"The entire world..."

Contemplating this, Lynch's expression changed. An exceedingly bold, even ludicrous suspicion unrestrainedly emerged in his mind.

Could the root cause of such a phenomenon that shakes the "fundamental Rules" on a Floating Island, a World Species with relatively complete internal rules, go beyond this Strange Tree Island itself?

Could it be... portending something of a more extensive, more fundamental nature...?

"Impossible."

He murmured lowly, forcibly suppressing the overly outlandish idea. But that doubt and unease, like tendrils, quietly coiled around his heart.

...

At the same time, at Starry Sky Magic Academy, in the Broken Starry Sky.

In the boundless void, fragments of stars like solidified tears surrounded a deep darkness at the center, seemingly capable of swallowing all light. Space Truth Guerwige was meditating here, his meditation breathing in sync with the universe itself, perceiving the countless spatial threads sustaining the world.

Suddenly——

His eyes, seemingly embedding the galactic flow, abruptly opened, a trace of unprecedented solemnity flashing through them.

In this moment, the peacefully flowing Space Power around him conveyed a barely perceptible yet heart-palpitating abnormal tremor. It felt more like... one of the "strings" that constitute the space's foundation was rudely plucked by an invisible hand, emitting a jarring discord.

"This fluctuation..."

He murmured softly, his voice tinged with nearly unprecedented doubt. Without a moment's hesitation, his form became blurred and faded like a pencil sketch being erased, vanishing completely from this Broken Starry Sky in the next instant. Truth's wrath, silent yet swift as lightning.

Elsewhere, in the Land of Freedom, at the Tower of Order.

The tall black spire pierced the clouds, bathed in eternal twilight. On the highest Throne, Eternal Night Truth Morris sat silently like a statue, the order's Strength around him enveloping and maintaining the domain he governed like an invisible web.

Suddenly, his closed eyelids lifted, revealing eyes as deep as the darkest night sky.

"Hmm?"

A light intonation, tinged with obvious surprise and inquiry. His gaze seemed to penetrate the Order Tower's thick walls, crossing endless Space, accurately fixing on a specific direction. Amidst the countless world noises, he keenly captured an anomaly from that direction.

It was a... familiar yet repugnant "taste," a mad air of order aligned and Law twisted.

"That taste... is that guy?"

He slightly furrowed his brows, his tone low and tinged with disdain. Without a superfluous word, the next moment, the Throne was empty.

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