Wang Ping's instructions to Daoist Miaoging had merely been an experiment born on a whim—an attempt to define the life and death of Fourth Realm cultivators with the 'Heaven Stealing Talisman' and see just how much it could improve the talisman's compatibility with his Primordial Spirit.
When Daoist Miaoging unleashed the "definition" he had bestowed upon her, Wang Ping saw that within the cosmic network connecting his Physical Body and Primordial Spirit Consciousness, an unfathomable karmic cycle seemed to have been born from the rules of the universe—a cycle of death and rebirth.
It perfectly matched the nature of the Wood Spirit. Like dawn and dusk taking turns, that cycle contained both the silent extinction of all things withering away and the hidden rhythm of new life sprouting.
"The Wood Spirit represents the natural laws of life and death within the river of time. It can grant vitality to the universe, and it can also bestow death upon life."
Wang Ping chuckled. As his consciousness stirred, the Light Screen Panel appeared before him. Although Daoist Hui and the others were Fourth Realm cultivators, their lives remained incomparably fragile to the present Wang Ping, utterly incapable of comparing to Fifth Realm cultivators.
After having their life and death defined by the 'Heaven Stealing Talisman,' Daoist Hui and the others had almost no chance of survival. Their consciousness would quietly gutter out beneath the corrosion of rule power, though their Physical Bodies might persist for some time.
Their deaths brought a slight increase to the compatibility progress between Wang Ping's Primordial Spirit and the 'Heaven Stealing Talisman,' raising it to (3/100).
The increase took effect immediately. Yet just as Wang Ping was feeling pleased with himself, several streams of malice suddenly descended through the web woven by the universe. That malice struck