Chapter 1679: Foundational and Relational Laws
There were many things that Lex did which were extremely confusing, and mentally strenuous. However, living simultaneously in two different flows of time was actually one of the insanely complicated things that he had gotten used to.
It didn’t matter at all that in one second of Jack’s life, wherein he may not have even finished pronouncing a single word, Lex lived for days or weeks. He had to maintain perfect reaction speed in both flows of time, making sure that he didn’t speak too quickly as Jack or too slowly as Lex. It was the same for his every action and interaction.
Despite how unfathomable it sounded, that was something Lex had mastered pretty easily. He even managed to keep updated on the happenings of the Midnight Inn, which was operating in a third flow of time.
The thing that was actually bothering him was studying the aura remnants on his clone. In fact, Lex had dismissed his clone long ago. He simply captured the remnant aura, and continued to study it over time.
Studying deeper laws was a headache, not only because it caused him a headache, but because he didn’t understand what it meant for laws to be deeper.
It was more or less easy to understand that laws had a hierarchy - that seemed to be a running theme with everything in the universe, from races, to energies, to, apparently, even laws.
But such a thing clashed with his understanding of laws. When Lex looked at the universe through his tenet, he saw endless chains. Each chain was a law, and there were countless chains attached to everything.
The very existence of a thing depended on laws, and similarly how it behaved depended not only on the law associated with it, but how that law reacted to other laws. For example, the law of fire was independent of the law of heat, and often enough, they worked in correlation with each other. Yet Lex had also seen blue flames called cryoflames, which worked with laws of cold, among other things.
So if the existence of laws were so integral to all of reality, how could there be laws which were hidden, or deeper, whatever that meant? Of course, Lex already had the theoretical answer for that since he had looked into the Heaven Immortal realm. He didn’t really need to ask others, though he also did that, anyway.
He originally thought that deeper laws probably meant that these were the laws that created the base laws of the universe. That was wrong.