My Ultimate Sign-in System Made Me Invincible - Chapter 386: Universal Laws

Chapter 386: Universal Laws

Liam settled into a lotus position on his bed, his spine straightening naturally as the Abyssal Dragon Constitution adjusted his posture without conscious thought.

The galaxy-colored pupils in his eyes began to swirl faster, the runes around them rotating in patterns that grew more complex with each passing second, as he activated the Dao Array Eyes fully, pushing past the surface level of perception he’d been using since the transformation.

The world around him changed.

It wasn’t a gradual shift. One moment he was looking at the familiar interior of his quarters, and the next, reality itself peeled back like layers of paper being torn away. The walls, the bed, even the air around him became translucent, revealing something beneath that he’d never seen before.

Gears.

Thousands upon thousands of tiny gears, each one no larger than a grain of sand, moving in perfect synchronization. They floated through space like suspended particles of dust, but these weren’t random. Each gear connected to dozens of others through invisible linkages that created networks of impossible complexity.

The gears moved constantly, rotating at different speeds, some spinning so fast they blurred while others turned with deliberate slowness. The connections between them shifted and adjusted, maintaining balance across the entire system. It was beautiful in a way that made Liam’s breath catch.

Liam watched the gears for several minutes, tracking their movements, trying to understand the patterns.

His Dao Array Eyes fed information directly into his mind, but it came slowly, like water seeping through packed earth.

Then understanding clicked into place.

The cluster of gears rotating in front of him, the specific network he’d been observing most closely, represented gravity. The same force that kept planets in orbit and made objects fall when dropped. Here it existed as mechanical precision, each gear a component of the universal law that governed attraction between masses.

“This is incredible,” Liam muttered, leaning forward slightly without breaking his meditation posture.

The temptation to interact with what he was seeing became overwhelming. These weren’t just abstract representations. According to the information flowing into his mind, these gears were the actual mechanisms of universal law. Touching them, moving them, would affect reality itself.

Liam reached out with his perception, focusing on a single gear in the gravity network. He tried to slow its rotation, to create even the smallest change in its movement.

The gear didn’t budge.

He pushed harder, applying more mental force, but the result was the same. The gear continued its rotation as if Liam didn’t exist. When he examined the connections more closely, he understood why. The gears fit together with such precision that there was no space between them. No gap where external influence could slip through. They were locked together by the nature of universal law itself.

Liam pulled back, considering what he’d learned. The laws couldn’t be affected easily because they were designed to be immutable. Gravity worked the same everywhere in the universe because the gears that governed it were sealed against interference.

Which made sense. If anyone could reach in and change fundamental forces whenever they wanted, reality would collapse into chaos.

But Liam wasn’t anyone anymore. And he wasn’t looking to break the laws. He just needed to work with them differently.

He smiled to himself and refocused. Playing around had been educational, but he had a specific goal. He needed to find the laws that governed dark energy, the mysterious force that controlled universal expansion and made up most of the universe’s composition.

Liam expanded his perception, looking past the gravity network to the countless other law systems that existed in overlapping layers. Each one was distinct, handling different aspects of reality.

Time crawled forward as he searched. His Dao Array Eyes could see the mechanisms, but identifying which network controlled what required careful observation and interpretation. The information came to him in fragments, pieces of understanding that needed to be assembled into complete knowledge.

He found electromagnetism first. The gears in that network moved in complex wave patterns, their rotations creating the oscillations that produced light and electrical charge. Fascinating, but not what he needed.

The nuclear forces came next. Strong and weak interactions, the laws that held atoms together or allowed them to decay. Those networks were dense, their gears packed so tightly that they appeared almost solid. Touching those seemed even more impossible than gravity had been.

Liam cleared his mind of distractions. He couldn’t afford to get sidetracked by every interesting discovery. Dark energy was his target. Everything else could be explored later.

He focused on the feeling he associated with dark energy. The sensation of space itself expanding. The force that pushed galaxies apart and made the universe grow larger with each passing moment. He needed to find the laws that governed that specific phenomenon.

More time passed. Minutes became an hour. An hour became ninety minutes.

Then he found it.

The network appeared different from the others. Where gravity’s gears had been uniform in size and electromagnetic gears had moved in waves, the dark energy network seemed more diffuse. Its gears spread across vast distances, their connections stretching thin before snapping back together in patterns that created expansion.

This was it. The law that controlled the very force he needed to cultivate.

Liam examined the network carefully. Like all the others, the gears fit together perfectly. No gaps. No spaces where he could simply reach in and make changes. The universal law protected itself against interference.

But Liam had advantages that normal people didn’t possess.

The Origin Devouring Body could consume and integrate external forces. If he could create something compatible with the dark energy network, something that could fool the universe into accepting it as legitimate, then he could establish a connection. Not by breaking the law, but by becoming part of it.

The solution formed in his mind with sudden clarity.

He couldn’t create an actual law. That required power and understanding far beyond his current level. But he could create something similar. Something that would function like a law gear while actually serving his purposes.

A constraint.

The word appeared in his thoughts with the weight of revelation. Laws were just constraints on reality, after all. Rules that dictated how things could and couldn’t behave. If Liam could create a constraint that aligned with existing universal laws while secretly benefiting him, he could slip it into the network undetected.

The universe would accept it because it wouldn’t contradict the established order. But Liam would gain access to the dark energy through that constraint, creating a foundation for his unique cultivation path.

It was brilliant. It was also going to be incredibly difficult.

Liam took a slow breath and began.

The first step was understanding exactly how the dark energy network functioned. He couldn’t create a compatible constraint without knowing what he was trying to fit into. So he watched. He observed the gears moving, tracked their patterns, felt how they connected to each other and influenced the expansion of space.

Information flowed into his mind in steady streams. The Dao Array Eyes translated the mechanical movements into conceptual understanding. Liam absorbed it all, building a mental model of how dark energy operated at its most fundamental level.

Only after he felt confident in that understanding did he begin defining his constraint.

It had to serve dual purposes. On the surface, it needed to align perfectly with the universal law governing dark energy. No contradictions. No conflicts. The constraint had to look like a natural part of the system, something that belonged there and supported the existing structure.

But underneath that surface compatibility, the constraint needed to connect directly to his Origin Devouring Body. It had to create a channel through which he could draw dark energy into himself, converting it according to his unique cultivation technique.

The challenge was making those two purposes coexist without the universe detecting the deception.

Liam worked slowly, carefully defining each aspect of the constraint. He shaped it like a gear that would fit into the dark energy network, matching the size and rotation pattern of the existing components. But within that gear, he carved instructions that led inward, toward himself.

Hours passed. Then days.

Liam never left his quarters. Lucy handled the Voyager’s flight to Mars, but Liam barely noticed. His awareness had narrowed to the single task of creating this constraint. Everything else became background noise.

The work required absolute concentration. One mistake, one contradiction in the constraint’s definition, and the entire thing would fail. The universe would reject it immediately, recognizing it as something foreign trying to corrupt the natural order.

So Liam took his time. He refined each element. He tested theoretical interactions, running simulations in his mind of how the constraint would behave once integrated into the network. He adjusted and readjusted, seeking perfection.

The Origin Devouring Body’s cultivation technique became his guide. The constitution came with inherent understanding of how to absorb and convert external energy. Liam aligned his constraint with those principles, creating harmony between what he was building and what his body could process.

The constraint took shape gradually, becoming more defined with each passing day. It started as a vague concept, evolved into a detailed plan, and finally crystallized into something solid. Something real.

Liam could see it in his mind now, a perfect replica of a dark energy law gear with hidden modifications that would serve his cultivation. The constraint was ready. It just needed to be implemented.

More than a week had passed since he’d begun this work. Liam emerged from his deep concentration feeling the weight of time but also the satisfaction of completion.

The constraint floated in his mental space, waiting to be introduced into the universal framework. This was the moment everything had been building toward. The moment he would plug himself into reality’s operating system and begin his true cultivation journey.

Liam opened his eyes, the galaxy-colored pupils still swirling with active power. The Dao Array Eyes remained engaged, showing him the layers of universal law surrounding him. The dark energy network was still there, its gears turning in their endless patterns.

And now he had something to add to it.

He smiled, feeling anticipation build in his chest. The hard part was done. Creating the constraint had taken every bit of focus and understanding he possessed. What came next would be easier.

He just needed to make the replacement.