Fate Nullification Body

In the Immortal Ancient World, a flash of light brought Shen Ye and Hua Yue back to their original room.

Hua Yue was still bewildered, How did we suddenly return?

Shen Ye, however, frowned slightly. He seemed to have inadvertently caused a lot of trouble for that world.

Just moments ago, after the Old Heavenly Master had guided him into the Inner Scenery of that world, his comprehension had indeed greatly improved again, just as he had anticipated, thanks to the baptism of the world's origin.

But just as he was enjoying this wonderful feeling, the Destiny Orb suddenly became like a ravenous, resentful woman, swallowing ninety percent of the world's origin in one gulp. By the time he came to his senses, he and Hua Yue had already been pulled onto the "blacklist" and thrown out by the "terrified" world origin.

Shen Ye thought to himself, Plundering so much of the world's origin will very likely cause that world to go from its growth phase directly into its destruction phase. If there are no other external forces to change it, the Otherworlder World can already begin its countdown to destruction. This is a huge karma...

Sensing their auras reappear, the High Priest almost teleported into the room.

Hua Yue quickly bowed. "Venerable Ziwei!"

However, he paid no attention to Hua Yue, his gaze fixed on Shen Ye, his eyes filled with anticipation and trepidation. "Where did you two go earlier?"

Shen Ye replied concisely, "The Outside!"

The High Priest's eyes brightened significantly, and he eagerly pressed, "How did you get out?"

Shen Ye decisively shifted the blame to Shennong. "Venerable God Shennong granted me the ability to enter and exit the barrier freely!"

"It truly is a gift from Venerable God Shennong!" the High Priest murmured to himself, not doubting Shen Ye's answer in the slightest.

The barrier that trapped the City of Flowing Moon was set up by the Heavenly Emperor. Only two great gods on the same level as the Heavenly Emperor could quietly bypass this barrier and leave.

And Great Goddess Nuwa had no connection to the City of Flowing Moon, so clearly, Venerable God Shennong was the only answer!

After steadying himself, the High Priest looked at Hua Yue beside him and asked, "Can you bring others in and out of the barrier?"

"Hua Yue is my Living Puppet, and her aura is connected to mine, so of course she can go out. But others won't be so lucky," Shen Ye explained, adding, "Furthermore, the Turbid Qi outside is too dense; ordinary tribesmen wouldn't be able to survive out there at all!"

At the mention of Turbid Qi, the joy on the High Priest's face gradually faded. "Indeed, if we cannot find a place where pure qi gathers, leaving the city would be of no practical benefit to our tribe!"

Seeing that the time was right, Shen Ye skillfully used a grand excuse to intimidate. "Not being able to now doesn't mean not being able to in the future. Venerable God Shennong granting me this ability must mean he approves of me and believes I can find a way to survive in the outside world!"

The High Priest heard a different meaning in his son's words and asked, "What do you want me to do?"

Shen Ye did not hide his intentions. "I want to be able to mobilize all the city's resources. The outside world is dangerous, so I must maximize my self-preservation abilities!"

"That's only right. I will report to the City Lord." The High Priest nodded, then after a moment of silence, added, "When your strength is low, carrying one or two Automatons for protection can help you avoid many dangers."

Shen Ye nodded slightly. "I want to mobilize all the city's resources precisely to build advanced Automatons suitable for me."

The High Priest was momentarily stunned. His original intention was for Shen Ye to find the tribe's Automaton masters to build Automatons, but from Shen Ye's words, it sounded like he intended to do it himself?

Shen Ye understood what he was thinking and once again skillfully shifted the blame. "Venerable God Shennong illuminated my Life Palace Star Soul. Within the Star Soul Map, there are Automaton inheritances passed down from ancient ancestors. Now, the Automaton masters in the tribe may not be more skilled than I am."

The High Priest fell silent again. "I understand, but... I hope you won't forget your identity as a member of the Lieshan Tribe in the future."

Shen Ye lowered his eyelids. "My ties in this city are no less than yours."

The conversation between father and son quickly ended. Only after his father left did Shen Ye shift his attention back to the Destiny Orb.

While talking to his father, he had also been receiving a continuous stream of information from the Destiny Orb.

After absorbing ninety percent of the Otherworlder World's origin, the orb finally truly awakened and formally recognized him as its master.

The Destiny Orb, which had previously only floated above his Life Palace, had now fallen and completely integrated into his Life Palace, taking its place as the Purple Star Main Star!

Among the information transmitted by the Destiny Orb, the most important piece was the reason for choosing him.

To be precise, he wasn't unilaterally chosen by the Destiny Orb; rather, they complemented each other and achieved mutual success. The reason lay in his physique—the Fate Nullification Body!

This physique, unlike powerful physiques such as the Innate Dao Body, Chaos Body, or Primordial Sacred Body, doesn't initially bestow various profound talents or abilities, and it offers almost no help in terms of enlightenment or combat. However, it possesses two unique characteristics that other physiques lack.

First, it is fate-nullifying, unbound by destiny! Second, it is without cause or effect, unconstrained by karma!

All beings in the myriad worlds, as long as they are within the great web of destiny, are inevitably constrained by fate. More precisely, there is an upper limit to their potential.

For the weak, this talent is practically useless because the vast majority of beings can never reach their upper limit.

This is different from a bottleneck. A bottleneck in cultivation, once enough accumulation and opportunity are present, will naturally break through. But the limitations of destiny are an iron rule of the world. No matter how exceptionally talented or brilliant you are, if you cannot break through, you simply cannot. Even if you gather all the resources of the universe, it will still be useless.

Of course, this isn't absolute. If one can accumulate infinite fortune and impact their destiny, there is still a one-in-a-billion chance of transcending.

But for Shen Ye, this opportunity, which only one in a billion peerless experts might grasp, he already possessed from the start.

As for being without cause or effect, it means that no one can calculate his fate; his heavenly secrets remain eternally chaotic. Even major karmic events like the demise of a world or the destruction of a universe cannot be traced back to him.

Of course, super-experts capable of destroying a universe wouldn't themselves fear such naturally occurring karma, unless they were used as expendable weapons by equally powerful individuals.

However, the people who indirectly cause such situations might not be so lucky.

For example, due to the presence of the Destiny Orb's host, if the destined child of a certain universe is eliminated, leading to no one saving the world when the apocalyptic disaster arrives, and thus indirectly causing the universe's destruction, this karma will trace back to the host.

If the host's strength is insufficient at that time, they will naturally be entangled by boundless karmic debt!

From the information transmitted by the Destiny Orb, several of its previous hosts died this way, and it too suffered heavy damage as a result.

"No wonder this orb exhausted its last bit of fortune to reverse time and space to revive me; it must have been tired of being screwed over!" Shen Ye's lips curled slightly, then he thought to himself, But is this orb trying to tempt me to become heartless and emotionless?

Although the great karma of the Otherworlder World was not attributed to him, it made the main world take the blame.

Unless he could sever all ties in the future, if he were to unscrupulously plunder and destroy simply because he was unconstrained, this karmic debt would sooner or later backlash against those around him.

It seems I still need to repay this karma from the Otherworlder World, but only after I resolve the City of Flowing Moon's predicament. Otherwise, why would I care about the flood after I die? Shen Ye thought, quickly making a decision. Before that, I should adjust the time flow rate of the Otherworlder World first!

Lu Xun, "Miscellaneous Essays of Qiejieting, Last Collection · Reply to Xu Maoyong and on the Anti-Japanese United Front Issue": "What should be swept away first is indeed using a big banner as tiger skin, wrapping oneself in it to scare others (this phrase was also used in a previous book, but many readers thought I wrote it incorrectly, believing it should be 'pulling tiger skin and raising a big banner.' I don't know if that phrase is correct, but what I wrote is definitely not wrong. I'm putting the allusion here in advance)."