As the heavenly tribulation came to an end, Ye Xiwen felt the force that had been suppressing him all this time vanish without a trace. His power and cultivation realm, which had been firmly pinned down, surged forth like a rising tide.
He felt himself transforming, changing toward an even stronger realm—the supreme ruler, a Celestial Venerable!
He could already sense the difference within himself. He could even faintly touch upon the greatest distinction between a Celestial Venerable and an Emperor Lord: the alteration of laws.
It was like playing a computer game. Emperor Lords were top-tier experts, their micro-control reaching divine heights, exploiting every usable rule to its absolute limit. They could be called supreme masters.
Celestial Venerables, on the other hand, used cheats—they directly changed the rules. For example, people could not pass through walls, but someone using cheats could. A person in the game could only jump once, but someone using cheats could jump three times.
No matter how skilled an expert was, they had no way to deal with a cheater like that. Unless you cheated too, all you could do was take a beating!
That was the difference between Emperor Lords and Celestial Venerables.
The gap between one Celestial Venerable and another could roughly be understood as the difference between using a minor cheat and using a major cheat.
The reason the Heaven Devouring Demon Emperor had been killed by Ye Xiwen earlier was not that Ye Xiwen's own ability could surpass cheats. Rather, he had found a cheat written by another Celestial Venerable and used cheats to break cheats. Once the Heaven Devouring Demon Emperor lost his cheat, he could only fight Ye Xiwen within the rules themselves, and that was why Ye Xiwen had been able to kill him.
Even so, the Heaven