Introduction to the Laws of Life

It was just that his speed was not as fast as his Thunder God Clone and Destruction God Clone; it was likely due to the lack of a Life God Clone, preventing the Four Rules from forming a cycle. Even so, the divine body strength of Hodan's various divine clones was steadily increasing.

In the garden of Hodan's Chinese-style courtyard in Silvermoon City.

Hodan sat alone on a bamboo chair, with a stone table placed beside it, and a charcoal stove on the table warming a pot of wine. Hodan held a book in his hands, reading it; every now and then, he would flip a page and take a few sips of the wine. Hodan was enjoying this peaceful time.

Hodan also understood in his heart that these were the last peaceful days. Once this period passed, Hodan would have to throw himself back into intense cultivation and endless battles, and later, he would have to worry about the path home. Hodan carefully savored this rare tranquility.

After a long while, Hodan put down the book in his hand. He watched as heavy snow began to fall outside, and a layer of snow piled up on the ground. The snow seemed to want to bury everything, yet a bit of green stubbornly emerged from within it.

The moment he saw this bit of green—countless thoughts flashed through Hodan's mind.

What is life?

"Life, at its most basic, is having vitality and consciousness!" At this moment, Hodan was touched; for the first time, he had an understanding of life.

Anything with vitality and consciousness can be called life. Do plants have consciousness? Yes, it is just that their consciousness is very weak, so weak as to be almost imperceptible. However, they can also continuously cultivate, allowing their consciousness to grow, eventually forming a soul; therefore, plants can also cultivate to become gods.

Similarly, humans are life, Magic Beasts are also life, and even soil, wood, bamboo, and stone that have developed consciousness are life.

"The world becomes beautiful because of life, and it becomes increasingly vibrant because of the existence of life. If this world had no life, then what beauty could there be in such a deathly silence?" For the first time, Hodan felt that life was so beautiful. Even if it were ordinary people, even if it were plants, as long as it was life, it was beautiful.

Following this flash of insight, Hodan finally entered the threshold of the Laws of Life.

"The Laws of Life have finally been initiated." Hodan let out a breath after coming back to his senses.

For someone like Hodan who came from an era of peace, having not experienced too many hardships or suffered from any illnesses, it was very difficult to feel the beauty of life.

If you ask who can best feel life, it would be those who have survived great disasters or those who were terminally ill and then cured. They are the people closest to death, having lingered on the edge of death for a long time before finally returning to the world of the living; such people can best understand the true meaning of life.

Hodan had gone through successive great battles before, but he had no time to calm his heart. Now, after this period of rest, through this accidental occurrence, Hodan's Laws of Life had finally been initiated. However, this also reflected from the side that Hodan's talent for cultivating the Laws of Life was really not very good; after all, Hodan was mainly following the path of combat.

But Hodan did not mind much. As long as he could enter the threshold, there would always be a way to cultivate to become a god. Moreover, a single Nether Fruit from the Sovereign of Death could create an Asura-level powerhouse; this was also a divine object for cultivation, and if there was an opportunity, Hodan would not miss it.

Collecting his thoughts, Hodan now cast his gaze toward his Thunder God Clone on the Yulan Continent, because this year was the year 9990 of the Yulan Calendar. It was also the most important year for the change in Linley's destiny, because according to the original story, it was in this year that Linley obtained the Coiling Dragon Ring, thereby embarking on the path of a powerhouse.

Hodan's divine sense had been locked onto Linley. Finally, just like in the original story, Linley went to their ancestral hall to clean and search for treasures.

It had to be said that history, in the absence of external forces, still returned to its original track. The person Hodan controlled with a Soul Seed died in an accident after resigning. It did not bring any changes to the Baruch side; for the Baruch Clan, it was just a change of a servant.

Moreover, by now, the Baruch Clan had declined to the point where they didn't need servants, and their family was also very frugal.

On this day, after rummaging through boxes and cabinets, Linley angrily smashed the wooden pole in his hand against the wooden shelf that hid the Coiling Dragon Ring.

"Snap!" The wooden pole struck the shelf solidly.

The shelf, which had long been unable to bear the weight, suffered this fierce blow from the pole. With a "boom," the shelf crashed to the ground, shattering into seven or eight pieces, and even kicked up a layer of dust in the old house.

As the shelf shattered, the Coiling Dragon Ring, which had been hidden by Hodan back into the interlayer of the shelf and had been sealed in dust for a long time, also fell out and finally rolled onto the ground.

In the end, it was still obtained by Linley, and because the ring was thicker than Linley's finger, he couldn't wear it on his hand... Linley found a piece of thread to string it up and wore it as a chest pendant. Everything was developing according to the plot.

Afterward, Linley experienced the mysterious mage controlling a Velociraptor and using the eighth-rank spell 'Dance of the Fire Snake' to slaughter those mercenaries, which stirred up Linley's heart of a powerhouse.

Following that was the great battle between the Saint-level mage Ludy and the Star Sword Saint Dillon. A battle at the Saint-level was even more insignificant than children playing house to the current Hodan. Hodan didn't even need to make a move; a single divine domain would be enough to directly crush everyone below the god-level to death.

The gap between a Saint-level and a god is as vast as heaven and earth; the two are different in the essence of life. No matter how many Saint-level powerhouses there are, even if they are at the peak of the Saint-level, they cannot pose a threat to someone who has refined a godspark to become a god. This is a gap in rank; no matter how many ants are gathered together, they are still ants. A god is someone who has mastered the tools; a single fire would burn you clean, and you wouldn't even be able to keep up with his speed.

But for the current Linley, and even for most people on the Yulan Continent, the Saint-level is a moving natural disaster. The battle between the Saint-level powerhouses brought great disaster to Wushan Town with every move they made.

The exchange between the two sides caused Wushan Town to feel like the apocalypse had arrived. Hundreds of houses collapsed, over three hundred people in the entire town died, and it is estimated that nearly a thousand were injured. The entire town only had a total of about five thousand people, so the casualties were nearly one-fifth.

Linley was also hit on the head by a giant rock that fell during the Saint-level battle while trying to save his younger brother Wharton.

Fortunately, his butler Hiri stepped in to block it, so Linley did not suffer too heavy an injury; otherwise, it is estimated that Linley would have been done for.

Actually, when the giant rock was falling toward Linley, Hodan had thought about using his divine sense to accelerate that rock, so that there would be one less person with an uncertain destiny in this world, but Hodan hesitated.

Linley was one of the few protagonists Hodan liked, with very upright values. Moreover, this protagonist was still a child and had not yet returned to the Four Divine Beasts Clan, nor had he provoked Hodan. Hodan couldn't bring himself to do it. You could say Hodan was soft-hearted, but this was a kind of persistence in Hodan's heart.

To stand tall and upright is to be a human, and humans have a bottom line.

If you wanted Hodan to slaughter those bandits or people who were hostile to him, Hodan would never be soft-handed. But if you wanted Hodan to take action against someone who currently posed no threat to him at all, Hodan couldn't do it. In the end, Hodan could not be like some of his transmigrator predecessors, ignoring his own bottom line for the sake of profit.

Moreover, the current Linley was not an enemy of Hodan, and furthermore, Linley was still just a child.

Because his head was hit, the 'Coiling Dragon Ring' that Linley was wearing as a chest pendant inside his clothes was also stained with blood. The blood stained the dark, wood-like and stone-like material of the Coiling Dragon Ring, and as if it were dripping onto a sponge, it was actually slowly absorbed by this strange dark material.

And the surface of the Coiling Dragon Ring was actually faintly flashing with a layer of hazy light and shadow.

It was just that the Coiling Dragon Ring was blocked by the clothes on Linley's body, but the hazy light and shadow on the surface of the Coiling Dragon Ring—all of this was seen by Hodan.

At this very moment, the Coiling Dragon Ring was recognized by the unaware Linley, and it was from this moment that Linley truly embarked on his own unique path of a powerhouse.