Without their support, the formation shattered with a thunderous crash, while the light atop the Heaven-Suppressing Tower grew dimmer and dimmer.
"The Heaven-Suppressing Tower is a half-immortal artifact. The six of you are not enough to wield its true power. If an Immortal Dao expert had come in person, perhaps you really could have trapped me."
Even within the Heaven-Suppressing Tower, Ye Lin could sense everything happening outside. He could not help but smile faintly.
A half-immortal artifact was, after all, touched by the word "immortal." Anything associated with immortals was never simple.
Unfortunately, even if these six gave it everything they had, they still could not unleash the Heaven-Suppressing Tower's true power.
Now that no one outside was maintaining the formation, the sealing power within the Heaven-Suppressing Tower was growing weaker and weaker.
Its suppressive force upon Ye Lin was weakening as well.
"Rules. Borrowing. Control."
"On a grand scale, rules are laws. On a smaller scale, rules are a tool that binds all things. With rules in existence, everything in the world can remain in perfect order."
"I finally understand."
Ye Lin looked at Bai Ling in his hand as scene after scene flashed through his mind—scenes from his journey of cultivation.
They were also the insights of his lifetime, the most precious things a cultivator possessed.
Yet Ye Lin's time spent cultivating still could not compare to those true old monsters, nor could his foundation measure up to theirs.
But so what? That still could not stop him from effortlessly cutting down those old monsters.
"Before, I was merely at the stage of first comprehending rules. But now, I am at the stage of borrowing rules."
"The next stage is controlling rules—making the rules of heaven and earth serve my use. Only then will I have truly