Defying Heaven Is a Joke! What Do You Have to Defy Heaven When Your Existence Is Based on Rules?

Bibi Dong swallowed and could not help asking softly, "Then... what now?"

"Seventy percent of your Soul Power is sealed by the Godly Trial Seal and cannot be used, and your body has regressed into that of a child. Can you still defeat them?"

Nan Feng tilted his head and thought for a moment before giving a very objective assessment.

"If we fought head-on, winning would be unlikely right now. Those three aren't pushovers either, and having seventy percent of my Soul Power suppressed hurts too much. But protecting myself definitely won't be a problem. Even if they want to kill me, there's nothing they can do about it."

At that, Nan Feng suddenly gave a mysterious smile. "Oh, right. I don't think I've shown you my Spirit Rings before, have I? Want to see them?"

Bibi Dong suddenly came back to herself. "Spirit Rings?"

Nan Feng nodded and explained, "Although the Trial of the God of Evil is torturous, the rewards that Bi Yang gives are quite generous."

"According to what the God of Evil revealed, the rewards a god can grant a successor during a Godly Trial are closely tied to the trial's difficulty."

"This is a Cosmic Rule, an iron law that the God Realm must obey when interfering with the mortal world. Not even a God King can violate it."

"In other words, the more absurdly difficult the Godly Trial is, the more the God of Evil can give me and the more he can strengthen my foundation."

"And the stronger my foundation is before I truly challenge for a Divine Seat, the more terrifying my initial strength will be after inheriting that Divine Seat compared to ordinary gods!"

"But..."

Nan Feng rubbed his chin. "When gods set up inheritance trials, it is usually because they're sick of the job and want to find a successor so they can get out of there."

"So under normal circumstances, they would never make things excessively difficult for a successor."

"Otherwise, if they torture the person to death or make the difficulty too high and the candidate fails, suitable successors don't grow on trees. It's not like they can just run into another one whenever they want."

Bibi Dong's expression grew increasingly strange. "Then why did the God of Evil torture you half to death for decades?"

Nan Feng immediately rolled his eyes in extreme exasperation, his resentment practically overflowing.

"Because that Bi Yang never intended to pass on his Divine Seat from the beginning!"

"He simply thought an anomaly like me was interesting and became curious about me! He probably originally wanted to casually send down an impossible death trial and make me back off. But I refused to believe it and dug in against him!"

"He made the trials harder and harder, more and more inhuman, and I insisted on overcoming them time and again just to slap him in the face! And now..."

Nan Feng let out a cold laugh. "I think that old bastard is starting to find himself stuck in a corner too."

Bibi Dong hesitated, her red lips parting slightly. "Then have you never considered... giving up?"

"Giving up?" Nan Feng tilted his head. "Why would I?"

Bibi Dong looked at him with a complicated expression. "Since you know full well that the God of Evil never truly intended to pass on his Divine Seat, and that he is even torturing you without any bottom line in order to force you to give up on your own, then if you keep stubbornly pushing on, there's a very good chance it will all come to nothing. Wouldn't that be a waste of effort?"

Hearing this, Nan Feng could not help laughing. He shook his head.

"Little Dongdong, it seems you have a very deep misunderstanding about Godly Trials."

"Although the essence of this thing is indeed not as proper or sacred as you once imagined, it is also nowhere near as unconstrained as you now imagine."

Nan Feng raised one finger and began explaining seriously.

"A Godly Trial, as the name suggests, is an inheritance test established by a god. Its specific contents and difficulty level are indeed set by the god himself. But that does not mean those settings can truly be made at will."

"Not only must its reward and punishment system strictly follow the Cosmic Rule of equivalent exchange that I just told you about, its underlying design also has an absolute, mandatory requirement."

Nan Feng raised two fingers. "First, it cannot be too easy."

"If a Godly Trial is set up too casually, where simply running a lap counts as passing, then the successor will directly trigger the Cosmic Heavenly Tribulation when carrying out the final inheritance of the Divine Seat."

"Without sufficient tempering, their foundation and strength would be insufficient to bear the Divine Seat. The successor would be struck by the Lightning Tribulation until their soul scattered on the spot, and even the Divine Seat would collapse with them."

"The Cosmic Rules themselves absolutely do not recognize this kind of backdoor ascension."

"Second, the Cosmic Rules likewise do not allow gods to treat Godly Trials purely as entertainment. Gods may set an extremely high level of deadly difficulty, but they must also provide correspondingly generous rewards."

"More importantly, while there are no restrictions on the trial's contents, they absolutely cannot be arbitrary. It can be incredibly difficult, difficult enough to surpass your physical and mental limits, but it absolutely cannot be an [impossible] dead end!"

"Because a Godly Trial is, ultimately, still a test."

"As long as there is even a one-in-ten-thousand chance of passing it, no matter how harsh the conditions are, it counts as a test."

"But if something is absolutely impossible for you to accomplish from the very beginning, then it is not a test."

"The Cosmic Rules will absolutely not recognize such an impossible dead end."

"Although God Kings are supreme beings who stand above ordinary rules, if they dare to casually toy with these foundational rules, they will invite the merciless backlash of the Cosmic Rules."

"Even the Dragon God, who was known as the strongest in ancient times, could never withstand the backlash of such Cosmic Rules."

Bibi Dong froze, her eyes filled with confusion. "Why?"

"If God Kings already stand above the rules, why would they still suffer backlash from them?"

Nan Feng sighed and patiently explained, "Back then, the God of Goodness explained this to me as well."

"Although gods stand above conventional rules and can even control and alter certain rules, this world we exist in—this entire universe—has a vast Cosmic Will of its own."

"Whether it is a tiny mortal or a lofty god, all living beings ultimately exist [within] this universe."

"Even God Kings who control the rules absolutely cannot do things that affect the foundation of the universe's continued existence. Wantonly manipulating foundational rules would cause the universe's logic to collapse, leading it into irreversible self-destruction."

"So once any existence attempts to do something so dangerous, the Cosmic Rules will immediately activate their defensive mechanism, bringing down the highest level of backlash to forcibly erase and eliminate that unstable factor!"

Nan Feng looked at Bibi Dong. "You can regard these Cosmic Rules as a true Heavenly Dao."

"We were born into this universe, and it is precisely because these foundational rules support it that we are able to exist."

"This means that our very existence is [based on rules]."

"Something born from rules, yet attempting to break the rules that sustain its own existence... is, logically speaking, a complete and utter paradox."

"In other words, all those slogans about defying heaven and breaking the laws of heaven and earth are, from the most fundamental logic, nothing more than a joke that cannot stand."

After hearing this grand theory of the "Cosmic Heavenly Dao," Bibi Dong fell into a long silence.

A moment later, she raised her head, enlightenment gleaming in her eyes.

"So what you mean is... although the God of Evil's Godly Trial is an extremely disgusting process, and he can torture you in every conceivable way, once he has started the Godly Trial, as long as you can endure that torture and clear it successfully, then no matter how unwilling he is, he will ultimately have no choice but to pass his Divine Seat on to you?"

"Theoretically, that's how it works."

Nan Feng snapped his fingers. "As long as I complete every Godly Trial he has set, then according to the Cosmic Rule of equivalent exchange, he must pass his Divine Seat on to me."

"Of course, as a God King, he can also forcibly go back on his word and refuse to honor the reward. But..."

"Then he will have to bear the resulting backlash of the Cosmic Rules himself. I imagine that sight would be quite spectacular."