The so-called embodiment of the Heavenly Dao meant merging one's own will into a rule and using that will to govern its operation. That was why Supremes who occupied rules within the Void Return Realm were stronger in combat than Ninth Order cultivators from other domains.
Fighting on someone else's home ground was, in essence, no different from fighting within someone else's domain.
If one plundered a rule already occupied by another Supreme, that Supreme would sense it immediately. It was like tugging on someone else's arm-it would be strange if they felt nothing.
Chen Fei wanted to slip across the sea beneath heaven's gaze and deceive another Supreme's senses. When the workings of fate were normal, this would have been utterly impossible. Even concealing himself with techniques from other domains would not have worked.
But now that the workings of fate were obscured, one avenue of divination had been cut off entirely.
That alone was still far from enough, however. The moment one attempted to replace a rule with one's own will, the Supreme already within that rule would sense it directly.
At that point, sneaking in no longer worked, because discovery was inevitable.
But being discovered and being found were not the same thing. Thus, what Chen Fei needed to do was ensure that even if the other party knew he had arrived, they could not locate his true body. That would count as a victory.
If Chen Fei wrapped his will in the essence cultivated through the True Codex of the Mystic Matriarch, cutting off the other party's direct probing, there was a very good chance they would be unable to identify who was encroaching on the rule.
If this step succeeded, what followed would simply be a contest of whose methods were superior, and who could