Vol 7 Chapter 19: Rule Fragment

The incarnation rejected the opportunity given by the Way of Heaven, speaking to the silver-haired goddess:

"I don't need you as a cauldron, nor do I need you to become my cultivation partner. On the contrary, I can help you restore your power and create independent consciousness for you. All you need to do is help me guard this Emperor's Tomb in the future."

After speaking, he ignored the Frog Imperial Consort's look that treated him like an idiot and directly sat down in meditation.

"Hey, what are you doing?" the Frog Imperial Consort asked, confused.

Lin Jing said: "I'm gambling. If I lose, I might not reach Immortal Emperor realm, but if I win, I have the potential to surpass Immortal Emperor and reach Dao Lord level."

"But actually... the Immortal Emperor realm doesn't mean much to me, so even if I lose, there's nothing to regret."

A gambling addict?

The Frog Imperial Consort didn't understand, but she had seen too many people who constantly talked about gambling, and they usually didn't end well.

Even the Heavenly Court prohibited immortals from gambling, with no gambling facilities existing, precisely to prevent celestial soldiers and generals from developing bad habits.

"This silver-haired goddess was a gift from the Way of Heaven. Now that I've rejected it, I'll probably suffer Heavenly Punishment next."

After speaking, Lin Jing stood up and pondered, saying: "I'd better go outside, since I don't know what will happen next."

Logically speaking, for such a low-level oath, even if he broke it, punishing him with severed peach blossom luck and complete lack of female attention would already be considered severe Heavenly Punishment.

But Lin Jing always felt he was extraordinary, after all, his main body had fused with Earth's Heaven's Mandate, giving him a much deeper connection with the Way of Heaven than ordinary cultivators.

When an ordinary person curses the boss of a large company, they might get a simple warning at most, or more likely be ignored.

But if... a direct subordinate of the boss does it... then... they might get fired.

The relationship between a Mandated One and the Way of Heaven was roughly like this, which was why the incarnation had been so conflicted earlier.

The Way of Heaven had even sent an Immortal King wife to appease him, this employee, to keep him from going astray, but if he still insisted on trying to contract the Heavenly Rule Fragment, this situation might provoke more severe backlash from the Way of Heaven.

...........

Three days after the oath.

Lin Jing still sat meditating atop Mount Huangshan, waiting for the so-called Heavenly Punishment.

Boom.

A massive tribulation cloud vortex condensed. Watching the faintly visible white lightning tribulation appearing in the sky, the incarnation murmured to himself.

"Heavenly Tribulation?"

"Just Heavenly Tribulation?"

Lin Jing felt somewhat disappointed.

Tribulation lightning power was indeed part of the Way of Heaven's power, but it was also the most common, dispersed power that even ordinary cultivators could access.

Contracting a life form created from lightning couldn't be called completely meaningless, but it wasn't very meaningful either, even if it was tribulation lightning power.

"Oh well, come on then." Lin Jing allowed the lightning to strike his body. His flesh felt faintly painful, but the power wasn't life-threatening, not even causing serious injuries, making him sigh even more. Had the oath... been too trivial?

Next time... he should try a more serious oath.

For example...

Suddenly, Lin Jing's expression froze. This wasn't ordinary Heavenly Tribulation...!

He suddenly sensed a force of rules, a rule power that appeared out of nowhere.

This rule power seemed to want to extract some power from him.

But after a moment, this rule power that came from violating the Heavenly contract didn't seem to find the so-called power, as if it had... gotten lost inside his body.

"The Earth's Way of Heaven wants to reclaim the Heaven's Mandate on me."

Lin Jing had indeed considered this possibility and had worried whether it would affect his main body.

As an employee of the Way of Heaven, if a Mandated One violated the Way of Heaven, it wasn't impossible for the other party to reclaim the Heaven's Mandate.

But the prerequisite was that the Heaven's Mandate was also on Earth.

Yet now, the Heaven's Mandate was on his main body, and his main body was in the Cultivation World. The Ancient Immortal Realm's Way of Heaven currently couldn't intervene in the Lower Realm at all.

This resulted in it wanting to extract the Heaven's Mandate from the incarnation but finding nothing.

This was indeed quite severe Heavenly Punishment, but unfortunately, the current damaged Earth's Way of Heaven had encountered Lin Jing, who was full of bugs.

"You can't blame me for this, haha."

Lin Jing first sealed himself, turning himself into a "leakless body." In this state, external spiritual energy couldn't enter his body, and the power inside him couldn't leak out.

The contract rule power that wanted to strip the Heaven's Mandate from him naturally became trapped inside his body.

"This power feels familiar."

Lin Jing discovered that this power stripping the Heaven's Mandate seemed similar in nature to the Heaven's Mandate Stripping Technique taught to him by the Emperor's Servant. It seemed the creator of the Heaven's Mandate Stripping Technique might have originally been a Mandated One too.

Later, for some unknown reason, his Heaven's Mandate was reclaimed by the Way of Heaven.

And he, during the process of the Way of Heaven reclaiming and stripping his Heaven's Mandate, comprehended and created this divine ability to strip Heaven's Mandate from others.

Of course, these weren't Lin Jing's main concerns right now. He had no interest in methods for stripping Heaven's Mandate;

what interested him was this rule power representing the contract between himself and the Way of Heaven.

It was this power that connected him to the Way of Heaven and was now retaliating against him.

"Beast Taming Art."

"Control Soul."

During the final soul usurpation in the womb, the incarnation had already determined this Control Dao body as his ultimate vessel, as it was the most compatible with his main body.

After merging, the enhancement would be greater than one plus one.

Therefore, the Heavenly Demon Scripture that was most compatible with Demonic Race bloodline had long been abandoned by the incarnation. In the womb, the most suitable place for re-cultivation, he switched to cultivating the Beast Taming Art.

Now, Lin Jing used both Beast Taming Art and Control Soul to try capturing this Heavenly contract power. Then Lin Jing discovered that this contract power wasn't within the contract scope of beast taming power.

Lin Jing was familiar with this point. After all, the Beast Taming Art hadn't been able to contract everything from the start either. He had gone through multiple improvements to make it progress from only being able to contract Demonic Beasts to being able to contract mechanisms, spirit creatures...

Now, it was just a matter of adjusting and improving the Beast Taming Art again based on the Contract Rule Fragment. Although he didn't have his main body's comprehensive comprehension ability, when it came to specialized comprehension of the Control Dao, his main body might not necessarily surpass him with his new body.

"Success or failure depends on this move."

At the same time.

Immortal Realm.

A group of Immortal Emperors still had no way to deal with the Heavenly Demon Sect sealed within the "Heavenly Dao's Supreme Treasure."

The Demon Lord had anticipated that his transfer of Lower Realm spiritual energy to Earth would definitely be interfered with by other Immortal Emperors.

So he simply recalled all members of the Demonic Race, closed off the sect, and used the Heavenly Dao's Supreme Treasure to isolate the entire sect. Even fellow Immortal Emperors would find it difficult to force their way in.

"The Demon Lord is becoming increasingly proficient with controlling the Heavenly Dao's Supreme Treasure, to the point he can already accomplish this."

"Eastern Glorious, what should we do? If this continues, the Ancient Immortal Realm might fall into the Demonic Race's hands."

The Eastern Glorious Immortal Emperor also looked grave: "Although I left backup measures in the Ancient Immortal Realm, their growth speed might not keep up with the Demon Lord's reinforcement speed for Earth using the Heavenly Dao's Supreme Treasure. By the time the Ancient Immortal Realm can support Immortal Lords, my backup measures... probably won't be able to withstand those ninth heaven Immortal Lord realm Demon Lords of the Demonic Race. We must stop the Demonic Race here, otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable."

He sighed. The time left for Lin Jing... the incarnation was still too short. Even with Immortal Emperor potential, he couldn't reach quasi-Immortal King level in just a few years, especially when facing more than one quasi-Immortal King level enemy.