Fate Law

Benjamin chanted the incantation for the Fate Law, while Luoye was responsible for pinning down Liewen.

Facing Luoye's thin-thread attacks, a white radiance surged from Liewen's body, shooting out a Purification Beam.

Liewen's current Purification Beam had already fused 180 rays of light; in terms of his grasp of the Laws of Light, he was superior to Luoye.

The 180 rays of the Purification Beam shredded the white threads unleashed by Luoye, and with the momentum still unspent, they pierced through the bodies of both Luoye and the Saint-level Two-Headed Silver Dragon.

"How can he be this strong?"

Luoye's expression changed drastically; Liewen's strength was completely different from what Useno had described to them.

In the critical moment, Luoye transformed his body into a ray of light, moving at high speed to avoid his vital points, but that Saint-level Two-Headed Silver Dragon was not as fast, and with its massive body, it was instantly riddled with holes, barely able to maintain flight in the air.

Liewen seized the opportunity to pursue, not wanting to let go of this good chance to kill, but suddenly feeling a sense of foreboding, he turned his head to look at Benjamin.

Benjamin had already finished casting the Fate Law, his gaze carrying a hint of coldness as he pointed his right hand at Liewen from afar and whispered, "Life—Deprivation!"

An invisible force instantly enveloped Liewen.

Liewen's entire body stiffened instantly; this invisible, eerie power ignored all obstacles and charged toward the soul in his mind.

Within Liewen's spiritual sea, his spiritual energy formed a translucent ball of light, with countless rays of light circling its surface.

It was the Purification Guard.

The moment he sensed something was wrong, Liewen had deployed his newly mastered soul defense technique.

The invisible force collided with the Purification Guard, and the two canceled each other out.

Liewen regained his senses.

"If I hadn't comprehended the Purification Guard, this Fate Law attack would have been truly difficult to handle." Liewen felt a sense of wariness toward the Fate Law; his greatest weakness right now was his relatively weak spiritual energy.

After all, he was a warrior by origin, not a Saint Magus.

Just as Liewen regained his composure, he saw that Luoye's attack had already arrived before him.

Luoye wanted to take advantage of the time Liewen was under the Fate Law attack to kill him.

But neither Luoye nor Benjamin had expected Liewen to recover so quickly.

Liewen let out a cold snort and swung the Angel Battle Sword, severing the white threads Luoye had unleashed, while Luoye, the moment he saw Liewen recover, had already transformed his body into a ray of light and fled toward the distance.

That Saint-level Two-Headed Silver Dragon had also escaped far away.

"Impossible!"

Benjamin was still unwilling to believe it; although his Fate Law could not compare to Heidens', nor did it have the enhancement of the Holy See's treasure, the "Bible," he was still a Saint Magus.

"This Liewen is a warrior, how could his spiritual energy possibly block the Fate Law I cast?" Benjamin did not understand.

Seeing that Luoye had already fled, Liewen changed direction and charged toward Benjamin with his sword.

"Oh no, run!" Benjamin finally sensed the crisis.

But it was too late; Liewen used the Angel Battle Sword to unleash a Purification Beam.

The profound mysteries of the Laws could be executed with fists or with weapons; it made no difference, and if the weapon was good enough, there would even be a bonus to the power.

"The Violet Blood Soft Sword is a Highgod artifact; I reckon this Angel Battle Sword is about the same," Liewen mused to himself.

More than ten thousand years ago, countless powerhouses descended upon the Yulan Continent plane, among them the Violet Blood Demon from Hell, as well as the Twelve-Winged God Angels from the Plane of Light.

Liewen guessed that this Angel Battle Sword might have been the weapon of some Twelve-Winged God Angel.

The white beam shot out from the tip of the sword and instantly pierced through Benjamin's skull, its power even greater than when Liewen executed it barehanded.

"A decent weapon." Liewen was very satisfied.

Benjamin's corpse fell downward, and Liewen looked around; that injured Purple-Eyed Golden Ape had long since fled while they were fighting.

The reason the Purple-Eyed Golden Ape treated this place as its territory was because of the existence of the magic array.

The elemental energy of heaven and earth around the magic array was somewhat denser than in other places.

The location of the Violet Blood Soft Sword had attracted a peak level-nine magical beast, the Spined Iron-Armored Dragon.

The patterns of that magic array were carved onto a stone platform of unknown material, and for now, there was no movement from it.

Liewen took a deep look at the magic array; in the original story, it was never mentioned that the Sunset Mountain Range also had a weak point in space, nor did Benjamin or the Angel Battle Sword appear.

"Could it be that I have caused an impact after all?" Liewen muttered to himself.

He had always been very cautious, not wanting his own actions to cause the original plot to change, because that could very likely lead to the disappearance of his witnessing missions, making it impossible to complete them.

For example, his next witnessing mission was to witness the grand wedding of Linley and Delia.

If changes occurred outside of the original story, leading to Delia's death before the wedding, then naturally, he would be unable to complete the witnessing.

It seemed now that his existence had indeed created variables in this world.

As things stood, Liewen had no way to fix it, and he did not know if this weak point in space would have any impact on the original plot.

He did not linger and immediately moved far away from there.

He arrived at a small town on the edge of the Sunset Mountain Range to settle down, wanting to observe for a few days first to see if there would be any changes in the Sunset Mountain Range.

Sitting alone in his inn room, Liewen began to check the items in his interspatial ring.

Benjamin was dead, and his interspatial ring had become an ownerless object. After Liewen dripped a drop of blood onto it, the process of claiming ownership was complete.

Inside the interspatial ring were some daily necessities, clothing, food, fine wine, and a few Magic Crystal Cards from the Four Empires Bank.

Liewen did not care how much money was in those Magic Crystal Cards of Benjamin's; at his level of strength, gold coins had already lost their meaning.

"Hmm?"

Among a pile of miscellaneous items, Liewen discovered a thread-bound magic book.

With a thought, he retrieved the magic book from the interspatial ring.

The cover of the magic book was made of cowhide, and on it, written in the standard language of the Yulan Continent, were the words "Fate Law".

This was a magic book recording the cultivation methods for the Fate Law!

Liewen had not expected such an unexpected harvest; he figured Benjamin must have carried this magic book with him to study it whenever he had the chance.

Liewen was quite curious about this magic passed down by the Highgod of Fate, so he immediately opened it to study.

In the blink of an eye, three days passed.

In the hotel room, Liewen sat cross-legged on the bed, chanting under his breath. Then, he suddenly opened his eyes, looked at a large spider crawling on the wall, and whispered, "Life—Deprivation!"

An invisible force descended upon the spider.

The spider's body stiffened, it fell from the wall, and it ceased to breathe.

"It actually worked." Liewen was somewhat surprised.

Over these three days, he had studied this Fate Law and had indeed achieved some results.

It seems I have the potential to cultivate the Rules of Fate. Liewen felt secretly pleased.

Being able to cultivate an additional law or rule meant the possibility of having one more divine clone in the future, and thus one more life; naturally, Liewen was happy.

When becoming a god independently, the Laws of the World would condense a Godspark that resonated with the soul and offer two choices: one was to absorb the Godspark into the body, and the other was to keep the Godspark outside the body.

If one absorbed the Godspark into the body, the body would be transformed into a divine body, and the Godspark would fuse with the soul; from then on, one could only cultivate that single law.

Take Liewen, for example: if he became a god through the Laws of Light and chose to condense the Godspark within his body, he would only be able to cultivate the Laws of Light thereafter.

If one chose to keep the Godspark outside the body, the world would condense a divine body based on the Godspark, while the original body remained unchanged; this was equivalent to having a Lowgod clone, and the original body could still cultivate other laws.

This second choice required the price of splitting the soul in two. Under the protection of the Laws of the World, one would not die during this process, but it would cause significant damage to the soul.

The soul was the most important part of a life, and it was very difficult to strengthen or transform it. Once split, both cultivation speed and resistance to others' Soul Attack would be affected.

Liewen was determined to choose to split his soul, because in the higher planes like Hell or other divine planes, there were treasures that could nourish the soul, which could compensate for the deficiencies caused by splitting it.

Among the seven elemental laws, he only had an affinity for the Laws of Light; he was completely clueless about the other laws, and previously, even if he wanted to cultivate them, he had no way to do so.

Now, he had finally found a second law or rule he could cultivate.

Of course, he had only grasped the surface of the Fate Law for now; he couldn't even affect ordinary people, only deal with some common small animals.