Chương 248: The Key to Authority and Law

"Yes—why is that?"

Yin Xue's attention was instantly drawn to Liu Li's question, and she temporarily forgot her doubts about Xing Xian's unintentional slip of the tongue.

Like Liuli, she also wanted to know the answer to this question.

"Xiao Li!"

Meanwhile, Xingxian almost shed tears of emotion after hearing Liuli's question.

She silently gave the other person a hundred thumbs up in her heart, thanking her for her perfect, life-saving assistance that pulled her back from the brink of social collapse.

She forcibly suppressed the slight embarrassment she felt from being repeatedly "attacked" by Yin Xue, and tried her best to maintain the calm and focused demeanor she had when watching the battle. After pondering for a moment, she nodded in agreement and analyzed, "That's right, Xiao Li, your judgment is very sharp. Even if I were at my peak, it would take a lot of effort to deal with Jing Jue's mirror image clone."

"Even though this clone is much weaker than the one I fought yesterday, that fact still holds true."

She paused, her tone tinged with seriousness: "In fact, Jingjue's clone can basically be regarded as—only differing from his main body in the total amount of virtual energy, but the quality of its power is almost the same as that of the main body."

"In other words, he still possesses the status of an apostle of the Void Realm," and the best proof is that he can use the powerful authority granted to his physical body.

"Faced with such a powerful Void Apostle who is comparable to a Rainbow Light-level magical girl in rank, even if it is just a weakened clone, as a former Crescent Moon-level..."

Just as Xingxian was about to blurt out that respectful address again, she paused alertly and quickly changed her words: "—She shouldn't be able to handle things so calmly, or even manipulate the other party so easily. That's the theory."

"How exactly did Senior Xingshuang manage to do that?" Hearing Xingxian's analysis, Liuli turned her gaze back to the figure in mid-air who was fiercely fighting with Jingjue, her icy blue eyes filled with undisguised longing and yearning.

"If only I could be as strong as her, strong enough to protect all the important people in my life."

"This—I don't know." Xingxian shook her head slightly, a hint of confusion also showing on her delicate face.

Reason and experience told her that none of this made sense, but the facts before her eyes were so real.

"Why worry about something like that? Just ask your senior after the battle, won't you?"

Yin Xue, on the other hand, seemed much more carefree. She waved her hand and said in a matter-of-fact manner, "Although I think it's better not to have too high hopes."

She tilted her head back, gazing at the figure in the sky that she relied on and felt so safe in. A sweet, proud smile unconsciously curved her lips as she continued, "Perhaps it's precisely because she is 'Starfrost' that she can do things we can't comprehend."

These words seem illogical at first glance, even bordering on blind worship, yet they also seem to contain some undeniable truth.

Xingxian was slightly taken aback when he heard Yinxue's words, and then chuckled.

Yes—why bother with those complicated theories and logic? Perhaps the truth is much simpler than I imagine.

"Yes, you're right," she echoed softly, a hint of relief in her voice, "Perhaps—it's simply because she 'is her'."

She turned her gaze back to the sky, looking at the petite figure with a calm smile on her face, her eyes filled with undisguised reverence and fervor.

Perhaps—the magical girl with the code name "Starfrost" exists to create one miracle after another that ordinary people cannot understand?

"It's like this now—it was like this when you suddenly appeared in front of me and saved me from despair—" Xingxian's eyes suddenly became somewhat unfocused, and the volume of her last sentence decreased, becoming almost imperceptible, nearly a murmur.

"Hey? Xingxian, what did you just say?" Yinxue noticed the change in her voice and curiously leaned closer to ask.

"It's nothing~" Xingxian immediately snapped out of her daze, turned to look at Yinxue, and suddenly revealed a bright smile that stunned the other person for a moment, her eyes sparkling with a hint of cunning.

"Hmph, so mysterious." After recovering from that stunning smile, Yin Xue gave a slightly uneasy hum and didn't pursue the topic any further. Instead, she turned her attention back to the battlefield, which was nearing its end.

Let's go back to a short time ago.

In fact, while the three girls on the ground were puzzled, Xing Shuang, as the person involved, was also wondering about the same question.

After all, both Xingxian's initial concerns and Jingjue's current shock and confusion were real.

A week ago, when she faced that mirror image with independent consciousness but not that strong, she barely managed to defeat it by paying a heavy price: her "Tears of the Star" were damaged, and she was unable to transform again for a considerable period of time.

Back in that forest, after a long time, when she switched from the Shadow form to the Starfrost form, she immediately felt that some things were completely different from when she transformed last time.

"Strange—this feeling—" She slowly raised her slender hand, clad in a pearl-white glove, her fingertips gliding lightly through the air. Countless pink-gold magical particles, like gentle elves, danced and leaped merrily in her hand, affectionately brushing against her fingertips.

"My body feels so light, and the flow of magic and the patterns of the laws are much clearer than before."

It was an indescribable and wonderful experience, as if the whole world had shed its complicated exterior in her eyes and turned into an intricate map constructed from countless energy threads and rule nodes.

She could "see" the flow of every strand of magic in the air, and "feel" the stinging sensation of the residual ethereal energy in this battlefield where the battle had just ended, so incompatible with the rules of the surrounding real world.

All of this was so clearly revealed that it instantly elevated her understanding of power to a whole new level.

She suddenly turned her gaze to her hands, fingers spread, palm facing upwards, and as her thoughts flowed, several star-like strings slowly emerged from her palm.

Although their appearance remains the same as before—those translucent, delicate threads that only refract a pinkish-gold light at specific angles—Starfrost can clearly sense that their essence is completely different from before.

Prior to this, she had always believed that the unique technique "Star String" could only bind, cut, and entangle, and that it could only maximize its cutting ability when there were "fulcrums" at both ends.

At that time, she was more of an instinctive imitation and application of this power, and could not truly understand the laws and principles contained in the "Star String".

Looking back now, if this unique technique can only exhibit that kind of ability, it doesn't seem to be fundamentally different from Xingxian's imitation of the magic thread technique. In fact, if Xingxian wanted her self-created technique to exert its cutting ability, she wouldn't need the assistance of a "fulcrum" at all.

Now, with the appearance of these brand-new "Star Strings", Starfrost instantly understood.

It wasn't that the technique itself wasn't powerful enough, but rather that her understanding of her own unique laws wasn't deep enough before, which prevented this unique technique, which had once struck fear into the hearts of countless Void Realm Apostles, from displaying its complete form.

It requires the support of two "fulcrums" to maximize its power. This is not a harsh limitation, but rather a necessary prerequisite for unleashing that "foul" power of the law.

As long as both ends of the "Star String" are firmly anchored, its previous abilities as a "thread"—whether binding, cutting, or sewing—will be elevated from ordinary physical effects to a "conceptual" level that cannot be defended against by conventional means.

But—why?

Star Frost looked at the translucent silk threads that seemed to have a life of their own, deftly winding and extending in her hands, and a deep confusion appeared in her deep purple eyes.

The "vacuum period" that lasted for more than a week left her with no way to familiarize herself with the manipulation of magic in her Starfrost form, and no time to comprehend the "law" that belonged only to her.

However, when she transformed again after such a long time, she was no longer the same as before, and her abilities in all aspects had been greatly enhanced in an unimaginable way.

If she had to name the extraordinary changes that had occurred to her during this period—Starfrost could only recall one thing— The power she wielded as "Silent Shadow" was undergoing a deeper fusion with her soul, and—she had grasped the authority that belonged only to her.

"I see—I understand now." A flash of inspiration suddenly swept through Xing Shuang's mind, instantly resolving all her confusion, and a knowing smile appeared on her face.

She recalled her experience of awakening the "Shadow Authority" when she was still a silent shadow—a domineering act of forcibly imprinting her own soul and will onto the world and distorting the rules of reality.

Ye Zixuan also once said— Although "authority" and "law" are opposed, they both touch upon the fundamental rules of the world, like two sides of the same coin.

When her soul is able to master one of the powers, it will naturally resonate more deeply with the other.

Now, as she re-enters this world in her Starfrost form, that profound control over "authority" seems to have become a key, opening a new door for her to the source of power.

The powerful law that originally belonged to the true Starfrost was being familiarized with, understood, and controlled by him at an astonishing speed.

"So that's how it is—" Xing Shuang suddenly clenched her fist, and the translucent threads disappeared into the air at any moment.

A confident and composed smile curved her lips, and her deep purple eyes sparkled with an unprecedented brilliance.

The next moment, a pinkish-gold beam of light shot into the sky, and Xingshuang flew at a speed that was completely imperceptible to the naked eye toward another location in the distance where a crisis had occurred.

Mirror Lord, let me be the best "sharpening stone" for me to familiarize myself with and master this new power after transforming again after many days!

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