Magic, a transcendent act that utilizes the primordial magic power within the multiverse to achieve certain effects. Similar practices can be found in the Tao of spiritual cultivation, though there are subtle differences from the magic in this world—spells in spiritual cultivation, at least at the level Lancelot currently masters, are mostly driven by one's own energy; whereas magic is about manipulating the magic net to mobilize the primordial magic power of the multiverse itself, thereby achieving various effects to alter reality.
Lancelot took about three heartbeats to recover from the state of shock, but this brief moment was enough for his opponent to do many things—the nearly crippled living quarters extended another set of four root tendrils, wrapping Lancelot and forcefully flinging him away, and when he regained his perception of the outside world, he was flying upside down, headfirst, already falling towards the small lake full of Stygian River water.