Chapter 427: Chapter 426: Descent, Control of the Ninth Realm
This wave, there are more unexpected situations than anticipated.
But Li Jing quickly grasped the situation.
The rules of the Heavenly Punishment are restless, and the reason could only be one thing.
The Holy Land has restrictions similar to the Big World. They might not be as strict as the Big World where beings above the Seventh Realm not native to the world may not cross the realm. But there is a reaction for the existence of a Supreme God.
This...
Wow!
Seems kind of thrilling?
Principally speaking, Li Jing did not want to offend the Supreme God.
After all, in his understanding, the existence of the Supreme God, such an elusive entity, was fictional for a long time.
In fact.
If he hadn’t personally seen Wina, the Messenger of God’s Descent, and hadn’t seen through her essence with his Eye of True Vision, Li Jing would not believe to this day that a God really exists in this world.
At least in his opinion.
Whether the blood has divinity is a different matter from whether it is a God.
It’s mostly because the New Gods he had killed were too weak.
They can bleed, they can die.
Are they worthy of being called Gods?
At this juncture, Li Jing had no choice.
Under the joint prayers of the Supreme Court and the secular church, the Supreme God Incantation had reached the point where the arrow must be launched—the God Incantation would be fully formed in the next second.
If he forcefully suppresses it, he will suffer substantial damage.
Awaiting to ascend to the Ninth Realm, he couldn’t possibly endure it.
"Hum!"
A dull humming sound echoed through the sky.
Smoke Eye had finally completed the simulation of the God Incantation.
With the God Incantation formed, Li Jing uttered a command, his gaze as sharp as lightning.
"God says, the supreme glory will enlighten this world."
Accompanying his words.
Between heaven and earth, a beautiful poetic music seemed to resound.
A colossal male phantom appeared in the high sky as if it was supporting the heaven.
"Ding."
A sound reminiscent of a bell echoed.
The male phantom slowly opened his eyes.
Without any sound or light, just the act of opening his eyes, the deep sea monsters who were frightened stupid and were sinking into the deep sea were silently melted away as if they were snow under the scorching sun, under the influence of a holy power.
No corpses, no blood.
As if they had never existed in the first place, they were silently erased from this world fundamentally.
"Essence Source +175892."
"Level up, 180. Spiritual Power Intensity +360, Skill Points +2."
"Level up, 181. Spiritual Power Intensity +362, Skill Points +2."
Three prompts popped up in a row, invigorating Li Jing.
Over 170,000 Essence Sources!
This was far more than he had anticipated.
It was clear.
The wave of deep-sea monsters that he had harvested before they even had a chance to show their faces were not only numerous, but also of high "quality".
On the verge of reaching the Ninth Realm.
He’s made it!
Meanwhile.
Above the sea area, all the members of both the Supreme Court and the secular church were moved to tears, watching the high sky with reverence.
The Supreme God Incantation was released.
As devoted followers of the Supreme God, they were finally able to feel it clearly.
The will of the Supreme.
Has descended.
Although the Westerners and current secular Westerners do not directly belong to the two, they also tremble with faith in the Supreme God.
That!
It’s the will of the Supreme!
Their faith!
All the others who do not believe in Supreme faith are at a loss.
They can’t sense the will of the Supreme.
But they can see with their naked eyes.
A terrifying power, that does not belong to this world, making everyone tremble at their core and unable to resist the desire to worship with all their might, has descended between Heaven and Earth.
For a moment, those who do not believe in God or even resent the Supreme God had the idea to follow the faith of the Supreme God.
What incredible power is this?
Upon seeing the lingering phantom in the sky, God’s envoy Wina prostrated in mid-air, praying silently.
On the other side.
While quietly kneeling on the deck and showing respect, Saint Alicia secretly glanced at Li Jing’s fleet, and her eyes were full of surprise and incomprehension.
What she was surprised about.
Li Jing really managed to summon the will of the Supreme God using a God Incantation.
What she was curious about.
Why on earth would that person do this?
Does the Supreme God himself have a scheme, or...?
That person...
Has he reached an extent where he no longer fears any backlash from the Heavenly Path and can descend freely?
Just as Alicia had these doubts, the mighty phantom in the sky seemed to come back to life, as if he had just woken up.
Then.
He slowly typed out three question marks.
???
That expression.
It seems to be saying.
Who am I?
Where am I?
What am I doing?
Momentarily confused.
The colors of heaven and earth started to change unstable.
Above the vast ocean, the wind was blowing and sending waves.
An indescribable terrifying will descended.
Everyone on the sea felt trembling coming from their souls. At the same time, the phantom in the high sky went through a string of changes in expression.
Why did a part of his will, or even his consciousness, appear in this world?
The Supreme God had no idea.
But he knew.
What is he about to face next?
Through the connection between Li Jing and God’s Incantation, he instantly identified the instigator.
Within a fraction of a second.
He realized that Li Jing was not his believer, nor was he a believer of any other Supreme God in the Divine System.
This left him a bit befuddled.
If he was not his believer and did not believe in the Supreme God System, how could he use God’s Incantation and summon his will?
This freaking...
It’s not a beaver!
Is someone scheming against him!?
Countless thoughts flashed through the mind of the Supreme God.
Below, Li Jing was the culprit targeted by the Supreme God, without hesitation, he shattered space with a punch and stepped into it.
It’s not that he’s chickened out.
But that he couldn’t hold it anymore.
His Ninth Realm Heavenly Tribulation had arrived...
If he didn’t leave, no one above this vast ocean could potentially survive.
At the same time.
A thunderous boom echoed between heaven and earth.
A golden tribulation thunder tore through the heavens and earth, instantly shattering the phantom of the Supreme God, and then pierced through the space, not knowing where it was heading towards.
The change came so suddenly.
Including Alicia who had already foreseen that something would happen, everyone present was dumbfounded.
Alicia stood on the deck of the flagship of the Supreme Court with a puzzled face.
Her guess was not accurate.
The Messenger of God’s Descent, Wina, also had a baffled look on her face.
She understood what the Supreme God’s will might encounter when he descended.
But in her view.
Since the Supreme God dared to let his will clearly respond to Li Jing’s God’s Incantation and descend, he must have been fully prepared.
Why did it shatter at the touch?
As a six-winged angel, Wina was rather naive in some ways.
To her.
The Supreme God, leader of the Divine System, should be omnipotent...
Ignoring Alicia and Wina, those belonging to the Supreme Church and the World Church were simply collectively dumbfounded.
The will of the Supreme God seemed to have been shattered by some existence.
Upon being shattered, it seemed like it also let out a groan...
The Supreme God was supposed to be supreme...
...
The Northern Polar Region.
Li Jing appeared deep into the Polar Region by shattering the space.
Stepping into the Ninth Realm, he reached the threshold of truly controlling the rules.
The rules of the Tribulation Thunder and space were truly under his control.
The completely controlled spatial rules, combined with the deepened spatial cognition brought by Reverse Space, enabled him to go anywhere he had been before freely.
Standing on the icy surface of the Polar Region, Li Jing exhaled a deep breath.
Create a mess and run away.
Thrilling!
Looking up.
With his arrival, the originally clear sky in the far north fell into darkness, and the somber dread of heavenly might was rapidly condensing.
It’s the Ninth Realm’s Heavenly Tribulation after all.
This brewing speed is unusually fast.
Just as he was about to sit and wait for the Heavenly Tribulation to arrive, Li Jing sensed something and looked to his side.
The next second.
Space tore apart not far from him, and an extremely refined Tribulation Thunder was shot out.
The sudden situation startled Li Jing.
Heavenly Punishment, he recognized it, of course.
So...
Why would Heavenly Punishment chase him across space?
Betweens the sparks and flints, Li Jing had no time to think too much and raised his hand decisively.
Heavenly Punishment.
Full of destructive power.
Dodge?
Can’t dodge.
If he took this hit, he would get chilled on the spot.
But the current Li Jing, facing Heavenly Punishment is no longer trembling as before.
The rules of Heavenly Punishment were under his control.
Look at this.
With a simple lift of his hands, the Heavenly Punishment that is about to swallow him suddenly screeched to a halt in front of him.
Right after.
The abundant Thunder Element Spirit Energy contained within the Heavenly Punishment conveyed a joyous mood, joyfully and gently integrated into his palm, making up for the massive spirit energy loss caused by releasing the God’s Incantation.
Feeling the replenishment of his loss, Li Jing was taken aback.
Having completely controlled the rules of Heavenly Punishment, he knew that Heavenly Punishment posed no threat to him.
But he didn’t expect.
The female Heavenly Punishment can actually be absorbed, and even used as a supplement to replenish the loss in his body at once.
While he was stunned here.
The embryonic Tribulation Clouds in the sky swirled and accumulated into three question marks.
???
Seeing the accumulation of question marks in the Tribulation Clouds, Li Jing was taken aback.
Before he could react, in the terrifying Heavenly Might gathered due to the Heavenly Tribulation, a very strong will was revealed, a man’s voice that made his heart tremble echoed in his mind.
"Mortal, you..."
Meeting this voice full of astonishment, Li Jing was stunned again.
This voice in my head...
Is it the Will of Heaven in the Heavenly Saint Land!?
As if he could interpret his thoughts, the man murmured.
"Yes, it’s me."
"..."
Li Jing.
It’s his second time of "close contact" with the Will of Heaven.
Both times, it was due to Heavenly Punishment.
Except this time, the Will of Heaven was directly communicating with him using language, and also interpreted his thoughts.
So the question is...
What should he do next?
Maybe...
I should apologize first?
It is obvious.
It is because he has summoned the will of the supreme god that the heavenly will has come to strike him down.
When faced with the pursuit of the heavenly will, submission isn’t wrong, is it?
Moreover, it was an accident that he had caused...
Just as this thought occurred to him, the clouds above, which had gathered into three giant question marks, returned to their original state, and a well-bred young man in white clothes, clearly of Eastern descent, quietly appeared beside him.
Li Jing eyed the newcomer suspiciously.
Above the young man’s head was a health bar, displaying "???".
Behind the three question marks, the displayed Essence Source was 1786920345.
A full 1.7 billion Essence Source!
If he could...
He stopped his thought abruptly.
The young man in white did have a health bar above his head, but it showed no value at all.
This health bar might as well not exist; he was too strong to provoke.
Turning back.
There’s no need for him to guess about the identity of the young man in white.
He’s the Heavenly order of the Holy Land.
What Li Jing was concerned about was-
Was this a human form that he had transformed into, or was he a human from the beginning?
On the other side.
The young man in white, after examining someone with his eyes, spoke in a strange way.
"Interesting, you don’t seem to be an associate of the deceiver, but you were able to summon its will here."
"..."
Li Jing.
This statement from the young man in white, seemingly simple but explosive.
A Deceiver.
Interpreted literally, it means to cheat, to disrespect.
To disrespect the heavenly path.
This is a bit difficult.
So, the Deceiver most likely means to deceive the Heavenly Path...
As he was pondering this, the young man in white revealed a friendly smile.
"Don’t be so nervous, I think we have some misunderstanding. I didn’t notice you earlier, but now I can feel the aura of the Heavenly Path of the big world inside you. If I’m not mistaken, you should be him..."
He stopped halfway through his sentence, then corrected himself.
"That person, I suppose, is also my senior. I won’t make things difficult for you."
Upon hearing this, Li Jing felt a bit uncomfortable.
The young man in white could feel the Heavenly Path aura of the big world inside him, obviously because he had absorbed the latter’s aura.
But that’s not the point.
The point is that the young man in white seemed to reveal something earlier, but ultimately, he didn’t say it.
How could Li Jing not feel uncomfortable?
Until now, Li Jing still didn’t know why the Heavenly Path’s will of the big world left its aura inside him.
Was it an unconscious act, or was it monitoring him or for some other purpose?
The young man in white almost just mentioned a possibility, but in the end, he held it back.
Just as he was wondering whether or not to ask, the young man in white, calculating as if he were a clairvoyant, scrutinized him again with his gaze.
"You are, indeed, quite interesting. Quickly resolving the problem in the East Continent that I couldn’t get involved in, and even summoned the portion of the Deceiver’s will who had been causing trouble in the west for tens of thousands of years to make me feel good, that’s something I should thank you for."
After saying that, he pointed out.
Before Li Jing had a chance to respond, he was touched on the brow.
Subsequently, he distinctly felt a surge of the heavenly path’s aura within him, far stronger than the aura left by the big world’s heavenly path.
Before Li Jing could feel anything, the young man in white’s figure vanished, leaving only his voice in his ear.
"It’s a pity that the Deceiver who has been fooled once will undoubtedly be on guard, otherwise, I really want to do it again. If you go back to the big world, you can try again. If it’s that one, even if he can’t be killed, he can at least be seriously injured."
"..."
Li Jing.
He could try as the young man in white suggested.
In principle, he didn’t want to offend a supreme god.
But the problem was, he had already offended one.
The supreme god had clearly discovered earlier that he was the one to blame...
Since he’s already offended, why not offend thoroughly?
If he could kill the supreme god with the knife of the big world’s heavenly path, that would undoubtedly be a good thing.
However, he might not be able to summon the will of the supreme god again.
On the one hand, it was a coincidence last time with a large number of believers "helping".
On the other hand, after being duped once, he would certainly be wary.
It’s not just him. Even the other saints’ invocation of the God incantation might not necessarily summon its will.
He shook his head silently, threw all thoughts to the back of his mind, and Li Jing introspected to examine himself.
The Heavenly Path’s aura within his body is a "thank you gift" given to him by the Heavenly Dao of the Holy Land.
Should it be useful?
Unlike before.
With the support of the Realm of the Ninefold pinnacle, Li Jing easily grasped the heavenly path’s aura, which he couldn’t even detect before.
But just as he grasped it, the heavenly path’s aura in his body quietly disappeared.
???
Li Jing.
His intuition told him that the heavenly path’s aura was not hidden, but completely gone.
This...
How could it suddenly disappear out of the blue?
Could it be the status bar again...
Thinking of this possibility, Li Jing attempted to call out the status bar with a thought.
Immediately afterward, a dialog box popped up in front of his eyes.
"System is upgrading, please try again in 72 hours."
Seeing the prompt, Li Jing’s mouth twitched.
Good heavens, it really was absorbed by the status bar.
It seems...
Something else is about to be unlocked...
What made Li Jing curious was-
Why didn’t the status bar absorb the heavenly path’s aura from the beginning?
Was it because the heavenly Dao youth was there just now?
Just as he was pondering, a loud rumble came from above.
Upon hearing the sound, Li Jing looked up, silently dismissed his various thoughts, and sat cross-legged.
His Nine Realms Tribulation was about to descend.
Compared to pondering about those trivial matters, focusing his energy on handling and digesting the heavenly tribulation is the right thing to do.
...
The Ninth Realm Heavenly Tribulation, with its huge momentum.
There were many variations.
However, for Li Jing who had mastered the rules of Thunder Punishment, it did not pose the slightest threat.
All he had to do was to lay flat and let his body absorb as much as possible from the benefits brought about by the Heavenly Tribulation’s tempering.
This wave of Heavenly Tribulation lasted a full seven days.
The clouds of tribulation dissipated, and Li Jing opened his eyes, the captivating divine light deep in his eyes gradually fading.
Just like the previous Heavenly Tribulations.
The Ninth Realm Heavenly Tribulation brought him tremendous benefits.
Having passed the Heavenly Tribulation and truly achieved the Ninth Realm in a real sense, he hadn’t actually made a move, and he couldn’t grasp how much stronger he had become.
The leap from the Eighth Realm to the Ninth Realm was staggering.
He even had a feeling.
Without controlling the rules of space, shattering space was just a matter between his actions.
Of course.
This was just an illusion.
Shattering space was not so easy.
Even if one masters the rules of space, it only makes space conform to his changes under the influence of the rules, not really broken by him.
Feeling the surging power within his body, Li Jing had a thought and summoned the status bar.
It takes seventy-two hours to upgrade the status bar. It should have been completed after a full seven days.
As Li Jing thought, the status bar had been upgraded.
The panel popped up.
Administrator: Li Jing
Rule Control: Thunder Punishment, Space
Heavenly and Earthly Essence: 35346/77414
Level: 181 (Close To Ultimate Stage) / Next Stage Level 225
Skill Points: 67
Spiritual Power Intensity: 32942
Lifebound Magic Instruments: Linglong (Immortal Item Level 8 14%), Qingfeng (Immortal Item Level 8 14%), Smoke Eye (Immortal Item Level 8 14%)
Equipment: Unnamed (10% completeness)
Passive Skills: Little Universe, Reverse Space
Active Skills: Zhou Tian Talisman
Limit Breakthrough (passive): Divine Origin Unification, Divine Might, Silent Shadow, Moon Shadow, Still Water Like Mirror
Limit Breakthrough (active): Wind King Mysterious Cloth, Spirit Soldier Break, Divine God Whisper, Heaven’s Creation Skill, Eye of True Vision
Forbidden Skills: World Thunder Punishment (25/25), God’s Hidden Truth (25/25), Robbery Thunder Nine Break (25/25)
Looking at the status bar, Li Jing frowned.
The changes after the status bar upgrade were very obvious.
The words "Administrator" had turned gold.
But that was it.
Other than that, no changes could be seen.
The only visible changes were these.
Facing such a situation, Li Jing chose to put his doubts behind him.
The changes in the status bar must be more than just a change in font color.
But since it’s invisible, he’ll take it one step at a time. By now, he’s used to the mystery that the status bar upgrade presents in some ways.
Looking again at Linglong, Qingfeng, and Smoke Eye, who had once stopped nourishing their tools, they were now active again, and the repair of the Unnamed Taoist Tool, which originally increased by 1% every three days, had also accelerated. Li Jing’s mouth curled up, and he closed the status bar.
Next.
He raised his hand and shattered space with a punch, stepping into it.
The next moment.
Li Jing appeared at the position where the fleet was when he left last time.
The sea was calm at the moment, and not a single ship was visible.
After looking around, Li Jing activated the Silent Shadow, transformed into a Thunderous Figure, and headed for the Sea of Death.
Crossing a Tribulation, seven days had passed in the blink of an eye.
By now, the whole fleet must have already entered the Sea of Death.
His purpose of making the Ninth Realm was accomplished.
But he still had to go on this journey.
Who would refuse the benefits? A fool certainly wouldn’t.
Who knows, maybe this trip could increase his level by a few more points?
...
With the support of the Ninth Realm cultivation level, Li Jing’s speed of Vanishing into the Void had further improved.
In no time at all.
He had crossed the sea area where the Deep Sea Monsters resided as though it were a barrier outside of the Sea of Death.
After a short journey, Li Jing, who was controlling the sky, hovered in the air and slightly knitted his brow.
The spatial cognition brought by Reverse Space told him that the overall space of the sea ahead was abnormal, belonging to another spatial level.
And this spatial level was very unstable, occasionally "twitching".
He could go in, indeed.
But if he was unlucky and ran into a time when space was "twitching", he could be torn to pieces by the twisted space in minutes.
This, of course, was not a problem for Li Jing.
Not only did he have deepened spatial cognition brought by the maxed level of Reverse Space, but he also mastered the rules of space. He could not open up a spatial passage by himself, but preserving himself in the twisted space was not a problem.
But for others...
The massive West Continent infrastructure team must have made some sacrifices when they went in.
Just to be safe, Li Jing did not act rashly.
After hovering for a moment, he found a relatively stable time in the space ahead and turned into thunder to enter it.
Spatial displacement.
The process was short.
The next second, the view in front of Li Jing’s eyes suddenly opened up.
A barren and broken continent stretching as far as the eye could see, came into his view.
Was this...
A Small Secret Realm?
Li Jing was surprised.
With the cognition brought by Reverse Space, he easily determined that this was a broken space that could collapse at any time.
It did not belong to the Heavenly Saint Land itself.
Instead, it parallels the Sea of Death of the Heavenly Saint Land.
Since it is broken, you can enter it as long as you arrive at the Sea of Death, provided you don’t hit a spatial vortex and get torn to pieces.
Looking around.
There were many ruins and wrecks on the continent.
Many of them seemed like palace ruins.
However, the majority were the remains of ordinary low houses.
From this, it was easy to see that a Wisdom Civilization once existed here.
