Cultivation: Start From Simplifying Martial Arts Techniques

Chapter 1142: Chapter 10098: The Final Space Rule

The rule body of those in the Rule Integration Realm is extremely resilient, and their vitality exceptionally tenacious, allowing them to regenerate flesh and blood—considered the most basic of manipulations.

Hence, even if the rule body’s head or even the heart were to be shattered, there is a way to recover, at most the recently regenerated part would temporarily be more fragile.

But all this comes with a prerequisite: that you are in a relatively safe environment. If during a fierce battle your rule body is shattered by an opponent, they will not give you the chance to recover.

When both parties control rules, if your rule body is shattered by an opponent, all the power within you becomes uncontrollable.

Just like at this moment, as You Bing’s head was severed by Chen Fei. With that sword strike, what was severed was not only You Bing’s neck but also all the vitality within him.

The Power of Destruction from the second realm of the Open Heaven Realm easily suppressed the essence force within You Bing, making him lose connection with the rules he controlled.

Essence force and soul, these are the bridges for the cultivator to communicate with the rules; once these foundational elements are out of control, all is lost.

You Bing felt his body become lighter, and subconsciously looked down, seeing his own body, a look of irrepressible terror in his eyes.

All creatures instinctively feel panic in the face of death, especially when death comes so suddenly.

You Bing had never imagined that pursuing someone at the late stages of the Rule Integration Realm could get him killed in just two moves.

He had practiced painstakingly for thousands of years, mastering a complete secondary rule, but all of this seemed like a mere bubble before these two sword strikes.

A feeling of regret climbed into You Bing’s mind. If he could do it over, he should have stayed within the Ancient Hug Tribe, waiting for You Tu and the others to return.

Instead of being swayed by anger upon seeing the attacker, coming and going as they pleased, only to be killed in a fit of rage.

But all of this is already too late.

In this world, there is no chance for regret unless you control the complete Time Rule.

Chen Fei extended his left hand towards You Bing’s remains. The next moment, You Bing’s rule body exploded into a cloud of blood mist, all vitality completely dissipated.

Chen Fei pulled back his left hand, and a cluster of spiritual essence was extracted from the blood mist.

Two bronze runes operated, a seam cracked open on Chen Fei’s forehead, and sensations of coolness and fervor spread through Chen Fei’s soul and flesh.

Compared to the mid-stage and late stages of the Rule Integration Realm, the bronze runes plundering the talents and fleshly essence of the peak of the Rule Integration Realm could make Chen Fei feel a significant difference.

The Celestial Suppression instinctively operated, digesting the fleshly essence to completion, and a fragment of the rule of strength was directly elevated by one.

At the same time, the coolness in the soul dissipated slowly, and Chen Fei’s insight improved slightly. Compared to the last time he absorbed the talents from Kou Fen, this improvement was slightly less.

As for the advancement of talent, it would naturally become increasingly difficult; later on, even slaying a peak Rule Integration Realm with a secondary rule might lose its effect.

Myriad Spirits Paying Homage was shaken, as the power of faith from You Bing’s spiritual essence surged into the divine statue in Chen Fei’s soul.

The three halos behind the divine statue’s head emitted dazzling light, the power of faith quickly filling the inside. In the blink of an eye, the emergence of a fourth halo began behind the brain.

The fourth halo was initially a bit hazy, but then it rapidly solidified, shining as brightly as the previous three.

The process was not yet over, as the fifth halo appeared and quickly solidified, continuing until the hints of a sixth halo emerged and the changes to the divine statue came to a halt.

Absorbing the incomplete power of faith from the rule body of a peak Rule Integration Realm directly elevated Chen Fei from the third to the beginning of the sixth transformation of the divine statue.

One can imagine how much power of faith You Bing must have accumulated normally since even the spiritual essence’s power of faith was already substantially incomplete.

Chen Fei glanced at the panel, the skill level of Myriad Spirits Paying Homage had gone from just mastering to nearing the stage of perfection.

The progression of Myriad Spirits Paying Homage in practice could rank high in the entire Ancient Hug Tribe, second only to the three at the peak of the Rule Integration Realm like You Tu.

After all, the Faith Method does not test one’s talent and insight, but rather the amount of faith absorbed routinely.

Chen Fei began to read You Bing’s fragmented soul using the God Devouring technique.

But in just a moment, Chen Fei’s brow furrowed slightly as he discovered something interesting within You Bing’s memory fragments.

Chen Fei looked up towards the distance; You Tu and another should have already returned to the Ancient Hug Tribe. Continuing to charge over for battle now was meaningless for Chen Fei.

Because the fragments of rules within Chen Fei could no longer sustain the state of the second realm of the Open Heaven Realm.

Originally, the state of the second realm of the Open Heaven Realm was accumulated by Chen Fei for a short battle.

Of course, Chen Fei could elevate the first group of Earth, Water, Fire, Wind rule fragments from ten to twenty and the second group of Mountain Rain Thunder rule fragments from four to ten, or even more.

In this way, Chen Fei’s duration in the second realm of the Open Heaven State could be extended significantly.

Ultimately, Chen Fei did not choose to do so, as prolonging the state of the second realm of the Open Heaven Realm was essentially neglecting the essential for the trivial compared to breaking through to the true peak of the Rule Integration Realm.

If Chen Fei were to reach the peak of the Rule Integration Realm, the power he could obtain when activating the second realm of the Open Heaven Realm afterward would be explosive.

Therefore, when Chen Fei was cultivating his rule fragments, he prioritized the Space Secondary Rules “Big,” relegating other secondary rules to a lower order.

Chen Fei extended his hand, took You Bing’s spiritual essence into his sleeve, and with a flash of his figure, disappeared from the spot.

Thousands of miles away, in the Ancient Hug Tribe, as You Tu and another at the peak of the Rule Integration Realm returned, those from their tribe who had remained behind all showed relieved expressions on their faces.

After all, the mysterious attacker was too strong, casually slaughtering several cultivators at the Rule Integration Realm with mere gestures.

No matter if it was the early stages of the Rule Integration Realm or the late stages, the result was no different.

Although they had now formed a defensive array, they still felt a terrifying sense of dread.

Suddenly, the expressions of You Tu and You Zhu drastically changed; the soul token of You Bing in their mystical treasures shattered.

From the moment they received You Bing’s message to rushing back, the time they spent was extremely brief. In such a short period, You Bing was slain?

Would that mysterious attacker, who had now killed You Bing, continue to assault the Ancient Hug Tribe?

You Tu and You Zhu exchanged a glance, unable to hide the worry in their eyes.

If the attacker could kill You Bing, then could they, who were nearly equal in cultivation realm to You Bing, also be slain if they ventured out alone?

Even more critical was that they had no idea whom they had offended, someone who would target the Ancient Hug Tribe in such a way!

Could it be Jiguang City? Or another powerhouse from within the Black Stone Domain?

A myriad of questions entangled in You Tu’s and You Zhu’s minds, but no one answered their doubts.

Chen Fei returned to Jiguang City, where the besieging Black Demons had been completely drawn away, leading to a crisis averted without much danger.

To some extent, these Black Demons with their low intelligence were quite easy to deal with. If one mastered the patterns, they could even be quite effortlessly manipulated.

But these were scattered Black Demons. If a seventh-tier Black Demon were to command them, the Black Demons would become fearless war machines that wouldn’t hesitate to die.

Since the Black Demons emerged in the Swallowing Origin Space, cities had been obliterated en masse on multiple occasions.

A swath of Black Demons as far as the eye could see, completely unaffected by the Power of Faith, knew only to kill. In such a situation, one’s only option was to fight against the Black Demons; there was no other way.

Inside Jiguang City, there had been no losses, and after a brief gathering at the city lord’s mansion, everyone dispersed.

The gloom that had been pressing down on everyone’s hearts lightened somewhat.

As Jiguang City was located at the far southern end of the Black Stone Domain, a large-scale Black Demon assault should not normally occur here. The crisis facing Jiguang City was, for the time being, resolved.

Chen Fei returned to his courtyard, reported his safety to Qu Qingsheng and the others, then went to the cultivation room.

Sixteen portions of spiritual essence flew out from Chen Fei’s sleeve, along with sixteen mystical treasures of various grades.

Chen Fei glanced at the sixteen mystical treasures, and his brows furrowed slightly when he saw the items within.

There wasn’t a single low-grade Primordial Crystal, and he didn’t see any proper spirit materials, only some unique products from within the Swallowing Origin Space.

Chen Fei took out a dark crystal, which had been eroded by the energy of the Strange Heart Realm, producing a Primordial Crystal.

It too contained the vital energy of heaven and earth but couldn’t be directly absorbed. It needed special treatment before cultivators at the Rule Integration Realm could incorporate it into their bodies.

It had to be said the cultivation environment for the descendants of the Swallowing Origin Clan within the Swallowing Origin Space was truly terrible. No wonder they all thought of fleeing the place.

Even in the collection of ultimate-grade dao artifacts that belonged to You Bing, there were scarcely any valuable items.

Even the sixteen dao artifacts themselves would be difficult to sell later on because they too contained characteristics of the Strange Heart Realm.

A wise choice would be to let the Qianyuan Sword and the Concealment Bell directly absorb the spiritual essence within them.

Chen Fei carefully stored the sixteen dao artifacts, then turned his attention to the spiritual essence before him.

He had applied the God Devouring technique to read the fragments of the soul within these sixteen portions of spiritual essence, and of course, the most valuable were You Bing’s memory fragments.

Not only did they provide Chen Fei with more knowledge about past events in the Swallowing Origin Space, but crucially, Chen Fei also saw information regarding the fifth Space Secondary Rule “Void” within You Bing’s memory fragments.

You Bing lacked the method to cultivate the Space Secondary Rule “Void,” but back then, the Swallowing Origin Clan had such a martial art.

The Swallowing Origin Clan had martial arts for all five Space Secondary Rules and even knew how to condense them into a complete Space Rule.

However, martial arts aside, even at the height of the Swallowing Origin Clan’s power, there were very few who truly mastered the complete Space Rule.

The racial attribute of the Swallowing Origin Clan wasn’t inclined towards Space Rules.

Although they could cultivate every Space Secondary Rule, the critical task of binding the five Space Secondary Rules together stumped countless members of the Swallowing Origin Clan.

And this was a problem faced by the vast majority of cultivators in the Return to Nothing Realm.