Fate Law

Benjamin silently chanted the spell for Fate Law, while Luoye was responsible for keeping Liewen tied down.

Facing Luoye's fine-thread attack, white light surged from Liewen's body as he fired a Purification Beam.

Liewen's Purification Ray had now fused into 180 rays. In terms of his grasp of the Laws of Light, he surpassed Luoye.

The 180 Purification Rays blasted Luoye's white threads into fragments. The attack did not stop there, piercing through both Luoye and the Saint-level Two-Headed Silver Dragon.

"How could he be this strong?"

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

At the critical moment, Luoye's body turned into light and moved at high speed, avoiding the vital areas. The Saint-level Two-Headed Silver Dragon was not nearly as fast, however, and its massive body made it an easy target. It was instantly riddled with holes and could barely remain airborne.

Liewen pressed his advantage, unwilling to let such a good opportunity to kill slip away. But suddenly sensing something, he turned to look at Benjamin.

Benjamin had already completed the casting of Fate Law. A trace of chilling coldness appeared in his eyes as he pointed his right hand at Liewen and softly said, "Life—Deprivation!"

An invisible force instantly enveloped Liewen.

Liewen's entire body stiffened at once. That invisible, bizarre force ignored all obstacles as it charged toward the soul in his mind.

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

It was Purification Guard.

The moment he sensed that something was wrong, Liewen had used the soul-defense technique he had recently mastered.

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

Liewen regained consciousness.

"If I hadn't comprehended Purification Guard, dealing with Fate Law's attack would have been truly difficult." Liewen was somewhat wary of Fate Law. His greatest weakness now was his relatively weak spiritual energy.

After all, he came from a warrior's background, not that of a Saint Magus.

The moment Liewen regained consciousness, he saw Luoye's attack already before him.

Luoye had wanted to kill Liewen while he was under attack from Fate Law.

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

Liewen snorted coldly and swung the Angel Battle Sword, cutting apart Luoye's white threads. The instant Luoye saw Liewen awaken, his body had already turned into light and shot into the distance.

The Saint-level Two-Headed Silver Dragon had also fled far away.

"Impossible!"

Benjamin was still unwilling to believe it. Although his Fate Law was inferior to Heidens's and lacked the support of the Church's supreme treasure, the "Bible," he was still a Saint Magus.

"Liewen is a warrior. How could his spiritual energy possibly withstand the Fate Law I cast?" Benjamin could not understand.

Seeing that Luoye had escaped, Liewen changed direction and charged at Benjamin with his sword.

"This is bad, run!" Benjamin finally sensed the danger.

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

The Laws' Profound Mysteries could be unleashed through one's fists or through weapons; it made no difference. If the weapon was good enough, it could even amplify the power.

"The Violet Blood Soft Sword is a Highgod Artifact. This Angel Battle Sword is probably about the same." Liewen thought to himself.

More than ten thousand years ago, countless experts had descended upon the Yulan Continent plane. Among them were the Violet Blood Demon from Hell and Twelve-Winged God Angels from the Plane of Light.

Liewen guessed that the Angel Battle Sword might have belonged to a Twelve-Winged God Angel.

A white beam shot from the tip of the sword and instantly pierced through Benjamin's head. Its power was somewhat greater than when Liewen cast it barehanded.

"Not a bad weapon." Liewen was very satisfied.

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

The Purple-Eyed Golden Ape had made this place its territory because of the magic formation.

The natural elemental essence around the magic formation was somewhat denser than elsewhere.

The location of the Violet Blood Soft Sword had attracted a 9th Level Peak magical beast, the Spined Iron-Armored Dragon.

The formation's patterns were carved into a stone platform of unknown material, but there was currently no movement.

Liewen stared deeply at the magic formation. In the original work, it had never been mentioned that the Sunset Mountain Range contained a weak point in space, nor had Benjamin or the Angel Battle Sword appeared.

"Could it still have caused an impact?" Liewen muttered to himself.

He had always been cautious, unwilling to let his actions alter the original plot. If that happened, the witness missions might disappear, making them impossible to complete.

For example, his next witness mission was to witness Linley and Delia's wedding.

If a change outside the original story occurred and led to Delia dying before the wedding, then naturally he would be unable to complete the witness mission.

Now it seemed that his existence had still introduced variables into this world.

At this point, Liewen had no solution. He also had no idea whether this weak point in space would have any impact on the original plot.

He did not linger and immediately left the area.

He settled down in a small town on the outskirts of the Sunset Mountain Range, intending to observe for a few days and see whether anything changed in the mountain range.

Sitting alone in his inn room, Liewen began inspecting the items in Benjamin's Interspatial Ring.

Benjamin was dead, so the Interspatial Ring had become ownerless. After Liewen dripped a drop of blood onto it, he completed the binding process.

Inside the Interspatial Ring were some daily necessities—clothes, food, fine wine, and the like—as well as several Four Empires Bank Magic Crystal Cards.

Liewen did not care how much money was on Benjamin's Magic Crystal Cards. 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 took the magic book out of the Interspatial Ring.

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

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

Liewen had not expected such an unexpected gain. Benjamin must have kept the book on him so that he could study it whenever convenient.

Liewen was quite curious about this magic passed down by the Fate Overgod, so he immediately opened it and began studying it.

In the blink of an eye, three days passed.

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

An invisible force descended upon the spider.

The spider stiffened, fell from the wall, and lost all signs of life.

"It actually worked." Liewen was somewhat surprised.

Over the past three days, his study of Fate Law had truly produced some results.

"Looks like I have talent for cultivating the Rules of Fate." Liewen secretly rejoiced.

Being able to cultivate one more type of Laws or Edicts meant that he might gain another divine Clone and another life in the future. Naturally, Liewen was delighted.

When one became a god independently, the Edicts of the world would condense a Godspark compatible with one's soul and offer two choices: absorb the Godspark into the body, or keep it outside the body.

If one absorbed the Godspark into the body, the body would be transformed into a divine body, and the Godspark would merge with the soul. From then on, one could only cultivate a single type of Laws.

For someone like Liewen, if he became a god through the Laws of Light and chose to condense the Godspark within his body, then he could only cultivate the Laws of Light thereafter.

If he chose to keep the Godspark outside his body, the world would condense another divine body according to the Godspark. His original body would remain unchanged, which was equivalent to gaining a Lowgod Clone, while his main body could still cultivate other Laws.

This second choice required splitting the soul in two. Under the protection of the world's Edicts, one would not die from this division, but the damage to the soul would be considerable.

The soul was the most important part of life. It was extremely difficult to strengthen and transform, and once divided in two, both cultivation speed and resistance to others' Soul Attacks would be affected.

Liewen was determined to split his soul in two, because in Higher Planes and divine planes such as Hell, there were treasures that nourished the soul and could make up for the shortcomings caused by splitting it.

Of the seven elemental Laws, he only had affinity for the Laws of Light. He was practically blind to the other Laws, and previously he had been unable to cultivate them even if he wanted to.

Now, he had finally found a second type of Laws or Edicts that he could cultivate.

Of course, he had only grasped a tiny fragment of Fate Law's fundamentals. He could not even affect ordinary people and could only deal with small, ordinary animals.