Chapter 596

Chapter 596: Hundreds of Years Later

"So, what is the reason you haven’t modified the rules?"

Yun Ye asked. According to this logic, he could completely deceive the True Immortals and do everything he wanted, so why bother becoming a True Immortal?

Dao artifacts could modify the rules multiple times and achieve True Immortal status repeatedly. As long as Tong Ming Qiong remained in the Red Heaven realm, he was an uncontrollable existence.

"I cannot do that."

Tong Ming Qiong shook his head. "Becoming a True Immortal is manageable, as it only involves modifications to oneself and won’t create much disturbance before the transformation is complete."

"Only by thoroughly becoming a True Immortal can one’s True Immortal body press upon the Red Heaven realm, causing the entire endless void to resonate with the sacred song, perceptible to the True Immortals."

"But modifying the world’s rules is entirely different. This not only concerns the Red Heaven realm but could gradually affect the entire multiverse. Once it begins, all entities related to the rules will feel it. Even if the True Immortals do not interfere, the world, split into two time and space, will immediately collapse back into one because of the rule modification."

"The Future Spirit Law cannot achieve the grand feat of modifying the world’s rules, nor can it find countless possibilities like the Nine Lives Spirit Law."

The Future Spirit Law represents the singular future.

What exists is real, what does not is absent, and the future proceeds entirely according to one’s will.

If one has the ability to discover a glimmer of hope, then as long as they proceed step by step, they can certainly achieve that result.

However, if a useless person possesses the Future Spirit Law, no amount of simulations will be helpful; they will be trapped in the maze of their own making.

To illustrate, in a battle, if one is too slow, knowing the opponent’s move won’t matter if there isn’t time to respond.

Perhaps one can evade the first attack by being proactive, but if they cannot act in time for the second attack, they will be defeated.

Or they may not even evade the first attack because during the preparation to defend, the opponent has already changed their move, rendering the foresight of the future useless.

The disparity in power among individuals in the Red Heaven realm is quite common.

Tong Ming Qiong took one hundred sixty thousand years to find the optimal result.

Thus, he emerged.

"To modify the rules, five major conditions are required."

"Condition one: Gather trillions of echoes to obtain the Heavenly Crown Artifact. Without a Dao artifact, nothing can begin."

"Condition two: Cover the Red Heaven realm with the Holy Path. The Holy Path modifies the rules and can minimize the time needed for alterations, creating corresponding opportunities."

"Condition three: Obtain the Dao Classics and master the power of the Immortal Path within them. Without the power of the Immortal Path, one cannot suppress the celestial clans or constrain the World God."

"Condition four: Have a True Immortal’s permission. Without a True Immortal’s permission, assisting actions are utterly unmatched in power."

"Condition five: The World God must descend. In the case of having a True Immortal’s assistance and the Dao Classics constraining the World God, one can create opportunities to hinder the True Immortals."

"Only when all five conditions are met can one hope to modify the world’s rules, allowing it to develop in the desired direction. If what you say is true, then having gathered all conditions, you would possess a fifty percent chance to accomplish this feat, at the cost of your own life."

Yun Ye and Tong Ming Qiong completed their final dialogue.

Both stood at the pinnacle of the Red Heaven realm, sharing no unnecessary words and engaging in no philosophical debates; each walked their own path to completion.

White Mist enveloped them.

Yun Ye failed in his ascents and exited this historical time and space.

Having walked through many worlds, he finally gained a clear understanding of this world. The Heavenly Path truly is a remarkable thing; even secrets that have been completely erased can be known. He wondered why, after a million years, the Heavenly Path rules had not been abolished, only having some additional restrictions added.

Even erasing established rules would require ten times the number of ascents; a million years should have provided ample opportunity…

"Is the Heavenly Path not just a single modification of the rules?"

Yun Ye shook his head, sending a manifestation to the Border Continent to survey the entire scene.

After a full century, the Border Continent had been unified and had entirely become a territory of the Tomorrow Nation. The Master of the Celestial Light Dao Sect had now become the national teacher of the Tomorrow Nation.

Yun Ye nodded silently; he was indeed a teachable young man, a clever one.

All the existing top Dao lineages in the Border Continent had been moved away. This was not just punishment, but also a sealing of the Border Continent, making it a legitimate prison and restricting access. Thus, everything that happened in the Border Continent could be hidden away.

The Dao artifact deflected.

This was an extremely serious situation. Even without becoming a True Immortal, it would subtly affect his personality in this life; he would not gamble on the magnitude of that impact.

As the Master of Heaven’s Cavern, he had enough time to wait. Although the passage of time could sever all life, it was difficult to erase him.

Centuries rushed by, and as Yun Ye turned five hundred years old, his power became even more terrifying, reaching the pinnacle of the True Realm.

The Heavenly Dry Universe covered three continents, more powerful than ever before.

This was frightening.

Countless ancient powers fell silent.

The Red Heaven realm may not have been too far in terms of spatial distance, but it came with incomparable quality; every inch of land possessed spiritual energy.

The stronger the continent, the more pronounced these traces became. For instance, even the great battles between Honored Positions could not damage the floating lands of the Heavenly Continent; they were extremely stable.

Similarly, on some powerful continents, tearing apart space would be incredibly difficult. It would require brute force at hundreds or thousands of times the difficulty compared to other continents.

"Just the coverage of two continents by the Cave Heaven is already incredibly powerful; it is a feat comparable to that of the Celestial Emperor. Now, to cross into the third continent… that is simply unimaginable. Is this truly the Heavenly Stem Cave Heaven? Is the Divine Master of the Heavenly Stem himself too invincible, or is the Law of the Cave Heaven too much of a Reverse Liberation?"

"The Divine Master of the Heavenly Stem is merely in the True Realm and has yet to reach his peak, having not even experienced the ultimate sublimation of the Royal Path, yet he has already entered the domain of the Celestial Emperor!"

"An unimaginably invincible figure; perhaps a peerless True Immortal will indeed emerge again!"

The world trembled.

When the Divine Master of the Heavenly Stem breaks through the Honored Position and opens the Royal Path, it is likely that the entire Red Heaven will be encompassed.

This truly filled many powers with a strong sense of crisis; with three heavens completely covered, their lives and deaths were wholly in the hands of the Divine Master of the Heavenly Stem.

The Divine Master of the Heavenly Stem no longer needed to sign any contracts; they would either fall in the expansion of the Heavenly Stem Cave Heaven or become part of the Heavenly Dry Universe.

Theoretically, such an existence should have been completely annihilated by the entire Red Heaven and could not have grown.

However, hundreds of years ago, the Divine Master of the Heavenly Stem swept away many Royal Path powers, defeating the interventions of the celestial clans, becoming invincible in the world, and thus established himself as the uncrowned Monarch of the Red Heaven realm. Today’s situation was a natural result that could no longer be stopped.

Yet, this frightening situation was not completely unavoidable.

The Royal Path Extreme Weapon could sever the three heavens; as long as it undertook self-sealing, it could completely avoid a decline in realm. The drawback was that it required a long period of sealing, with no way to restore from the Red Heaven realm, risking extinction during the sealing process.

The Nizi clan was unwilling to self-seal and had confidence in dealing with Yun Ye, but after suffering a great defeat, they also gave up. This was enough to prove that the decline of the three heavens was not an unsolvable problem. Compared to continuing investment, a direct abandonment resulted in smaller losses.

The vast majority of Royal Path powers began self-sealing, cutting themselves off from the Red Heaven realm to avoid the control of the Divine Master of the Heavenly Stem.

They could not bear to have their lives governed by others; self-sealing for them was nothing but a sleep until the next era!

In one day, a massive array of phenomena flooded the Red Heaven.

This severing was thorough; both the mortal world of the Red Heaven realm and the three heavens were cut apart, completely disappearing from the world.