Words Become Law, Comprehension Increased!

The moment this thought arose in Chen Changqing's mind, it spread like wildfire across the plains, impossible to contain.

Things were different now. He had mastered all kinds of divine abilities; many things that had once seemed unimaginable might truly be possible.

However, the cost of Words Become Law was not so simple either.

With his current strength, if he used Words Become Law to forcibly alter someone's comprehension, how much spiritual power would it consume, and how much could it change...? Even Chen Changqing did not know.

Chen Changqing took a deep breath, suppressed the thoughts in his heart, and decided to try it first.

"Father, Mother."

"Try again carefully. See whether you can comprehend any divine abilities..."

Chen Zhian and Qin Mengyao could not help feeling curious.

Chen Changqing had just expounded the Dao to them. They had listened as though lost in clouds and mist. Though they had indeed gained some insight, they had always been just short of that final step.

Now Chen Changqing was telling them to try again. Could there be some other way?

Still, neither of them asked further. They merely nodded, closed their eyes once more, calmed their minds, and tried to recapture the state they had entered while listening to his exposition.

"Father, Mother, you can start by comprehending the cultivation methods and techniques you know best."

Chen Changqing's voice sounded beside their ears. "There is no need to deliberately pursue some profound Great Dao. Start from the most basic things; perhaps that will make it easier to touch that door."

Chen Zhian's heart stirred.

The technique he knew best was naturally the Great Luo Heaven Stele Hand.

This technique was not considered top-tier within the Chen Family, merely upper-grade Heaven Rank. Yet its foundation was solid. He had begun cultivating it in the Body Tempering Realm, and after years of immersion, he knew it inside and out.

Qin Mengyao also found her own direction.

What she excelled at most was a movement technique called Thousand Flowing Shadow Illusions. Back in her generation, based on agility of movement alone, she could have ranked among the top ten.

As he watched his parents gradually enter the right state, Chen Changqing took a deep breath. A dazzling radiance suddenly lit up in his deep, chaos-like eyes.

He spoke.

His voice was low—so low that almost only he could hear it.

"Words Become Law—"

"Maximize their comprehension."

Buzz!

An invisible force of rules erupted from within him.

The power descended soundlessly out of nowhere, like a gentle breeze brushing across Chen Zhian and Qin Mengyao.

However—

At that very instant.

Chen Zhian suddenly shuddered. In that moment, his comprehension was amplified to an unimaginable degree.

Those principles of the Dao that had once been obscure and difficult to understand suddenly became incomparably clear.

Every move of the Great Luo Heaven Stele Hand—the circulation of force within it, the transformations of true essence, the resonance of laws... He had cultivated this technique for many years and had believed he had already brought it to its utmost limit.

But at this moment, he realized that he had been wrong.

At last, he glimpsed the true Dao intent contained within this technique.

It was—"Suppression"!

Not suppression of enemies, but suppression of heaven and earth.

With one palm, heaven and earth fell silent and perished!

Chen Zhian's body trembled faintly.

"So this... is the Dao!"

Qin Mengyao's experience was equally intense.

She only felt her consciousness break free from the shackles of her flesh in an instant, like a wisp of breeze merging into heaven and earth.

She, too, found that thread of Dao contained within Thousand Flowing Shadow Illusions!

A movement technique should not merely be fast.

Phantoms were not merely meant to confuse the eye.

These afterimages could become real, tangible avatars.

At this moment, she even had an illusion.

So long as she wished it, she could transform into tens of millions of afterimages in an instant, leaving her enemies utterly unable to locate her true body.

This state of heightened comprehension lasted only a few seconds.

Yet in that brief moment, Chen Zhian and Qin Mengyao's comprehension had been forcibly raised to an exceedingly terrifying level.

However—

Chen Changqing's expression changed slightly at that moment.

That was because his spiritual power had just been consumed at an utterly horrifying rate.

From the moment he activated Words Become Law to the moment his spiritual power was nearly depleted, only three seconds had passed.

Chen Changqing took a deep breath and voluntarily interrupted the divine ability.

"Sure enough, it wasn't that easy."

He murmured to himself, a look of understanding flashing through his eyes.

Increasing comprehension out of thin air—and maximizing it for two people at once—was practically forcing a rewrite of the rules of heaven and earth.

Words Become Law was indeed heaven-defying, but it was ultimately only a Greater Divine Ability. It was still far from truly being able to alter heaven and earth.

Chen Changqing had already discovered that this forcibly heightened comprehension was not permanent, but time-limited.

Once the divine ability's enhancement faded, the recipient's comprehension would return to its original level.

Unless—

"Unless my spiritual power becomes strong enough to maintain this heightened state of comprehension forever."

Chen Changqing frowned slightly. For now, that was clearly unrealistic.

"Or perhaps, if I can directly advance Words Become Law to the level of an Origin Divine Ability, there should be no such limitation."

Origin Divine Abilities and Greater Divine Abilities were separated by only one level, yet the gulf between them was like a heavenly chasm.

An Origin Divine Ability, however, had already surpassed the rules themselves. It was the true Dao of origin.

One realization, eternal proof!

Just like him—having comprehended the Longevity Origin Divine Ability, he would possess eternal longevity and could not be erased by any means!

Only—

"Origin Divine Abilities differ from Greater Divine Abilities. They require that thread of opportunity and luck; they cannot be forced."

Chen Changqing shook his head and temporarily put the thought aside.

Fortunately—

Although he had been unable to permanently increase his parents' comprehension, that instantaneous surge of understanding had still brought them enormous benefits.

Chen Zhian opened his eyes, his face filled with irrepressible delight.

"Changqing, I think... I understand."

He rose to his feet and looked down at his hands as though seeing them for the first time.

"Take a look. Is it like this?"

As his words fell.

Chen Zhian raised his hand and struck out with his palm.

There was no fluctuation of true essence, no resonance of laws.

Yet at the instant he released his palm strike, a dazzling golden giant palm appeared out of nowhere, dozens of zhang tall and blazing all over with piercing golden light.

Mysterious Dao rhythms flowed between the giant palm's five fingers, radiating a rule-bound force capable of suppressing heaven and earth.

Boom!

The golden giant palm shot into the sky and slammed fiercely toward the heavens.

Before that palm, the void shattered inch by inch like thin paper, leaving behind a pitch-black crack several hundred zhang long that lingered for a long while.

This was the Lesser Divine Ability he had comprehended from the Great Luo Heaven Stele Hand.

Qin Mengyao opened her eyes as well.

She said nothing. She merely smiled faintly, and her figure abruptly vanished from where she stood.

The next moment.

Over a thousand figures appeared throughout the entire hall at once.

Every one of them was Qin Mengyao. Every one was lifelike, even the smile at the corners of their lips exactly the same.

The thousand afterimages darted and shifted through the hall, so fast that they dazzled the eye.

Even more terrifyingly, every afterimage possessed a completely genuine aura. There was simply no way to distinguish which one was the real body.

And in truth, any one of them could be the real body.

Because Qin Mengyao's true body could switch freely between those afterimages, arriving in an instant.

"Congratulations, Ancestors, on successfully comprehending divine abilities!"

Seeing this, Chen Yuanba and the other two hurried forward to offer their congratulations.

Chen Yuanba grinned broadly, looking even happier than if he himself had comprehended a divine ability.

Chen Musen, meanwhile, studied the thousand afterimages thoughtfully, already beginning to deduce a method of breaking this divine ability.

Chen Qingshuang was secretly considering that if this divine ability were combined with the sword Dao to create sword intent where illusion and reality intertwined, would that not cause her own strength to soar once more?

By now, they seemed to have begun forming an instinct for comprehending the Dao: observe at every moment, think at every moment.