Chapter 535: The Birth of the Rules of Living Being Luck

Just as Xue Yu was piloting the flying boat, grandly heading toward the Gui Sect.

Within the Gui Sect, which had already received the information, several Void Penetration Realm powerhouses were sitting upright in the sect's main hall. Among them, sitting in the head position was an old man with white hair and a long beard.

This person was named Zong Daoji, the oldest existing ancestor of the Gui Sect, bar none.

Ever since Zong Daoji emerged abruptly over twenty thousand years ago and joined the Gui Sect, his cultivation base advanced by leaps and bounds, breaking through to the Void Penetration Realm in one fell swoop and suppressing the Dongji Province.

Then, Zong Daoji continued to stay in the Dongji Province for several hundred years.

Finally, after he perceived the difficulty of seeking the Dao in the Dongji Region at that time.

He made up his mind to leave the Dongji Region, crossing the endless sea to practice in the Eastern Region, one of the five regions within the Di Xuan Realm. During this period, he even became a guest elder of a Void Meditation level force in the Eastern Region.

Having practiced in the Eastern Region for nearly twenty thousand years, although he had not yet crossed that critical step, his cultivation base had already reached the peak of the Void Penetration Realm.

He was only one step away from the Void Meditation Realm.

But it was this one step that made Zong Daoji feel a shackle like a natural chasm, unable to make any progress for a long time.

Later, the Green Demon Realm invaded the Di Xuan Realm. The clash between the two realms caused the laws of heaven and earth to manifest, and cultivators from both sides could plunder everything from the other to serve as resources for their own cultivation, allowing the Di Xuan Realm to enter a great era of cultivation.

Zong Daoji therefore perceived a glimmer of opportunity from this, sensing in the dark that his opportunity for enlightenment did not lie in the Eastern Region, but in the Dongji Region, the place where he first practiced.

It was just that whenever he thought of the extremely poor environment for seeking the Dao in the Dongji Region at that time, he questioned his own intuition.

Especially with the appearance of the wormhole passages, human cultivators could enter the Green Demon Realm to hunt, obtain the Source of Demon Veins, and sacrifice them to temporarily boost their comprehension and enter a state of enlightenment.

So, for the next few hundred years, he directly ignored his intuition and kept fighting in the Green Demon Realm, plotting to obtain Seventh-Order Sources of Demon Veins, and then bringing them back to the Di Xuan Realm to sacrifice.

It was a pity that although he relied on the trump cards he had accumulated over the long years and successfully plundered three Seventh-Order Sources of Demon Veins in the Green Demon Realm to bring back to the Di Xuan Realm.

But the boost in comprehension brought by sacrificing seven Sources of Demon Veins was not enough to allow him to have a sudden enlightenment of the rules, raise the main rule source he practiced to the level of forty percent, and make a critical breakthrough.

Later, as time passed, the Gui Sect in the Dongji Region successively gave birth to new Void Penetration Realm powerhouses during the hunting process in the Green Demon Realm.

These newly broken-through Void Penetration Realm powerhouses of the Gui Sect, in order to seek guidance from their ancestor Zong Daoji, contacted him using the secret techniques left behind by Zong Daoji previously.

This was how Zong Daoji learned that after the laws of heaven and earth in the Di Xuan Realm had semi-manifested and strengthened the stability of heaven and earth, the environment for seeking the Dao in the Dongji Region had been greatly improved, and it was now no worse than the five regions within the Di Xuan Realm.

After receiving this information, Zong Daoji's intuition became even stronger; so after weighing it for a long time, he finally made up his mind to follow his intuition.

He prepared to pay a certain price to break away from the previous Void Meditation level force.

Fortunately, he was originally only in a guest position and was not a powerhouse who had grown up in that force from a young age, so after paying a certain price, he achieved his goal.

After regaining his freedom, Zong Daoji spent a not-insignificant amount of time crossing the endless sea.

After enduring all kinds of hardships, Zong Daoji finally returned to the Gui Sect in the Dongji Province of the Dongji Region ten years ago.

And by virtue of his extremely strong cultivation strength and his status as the oldest ancestor, Zong Daoji directly took control of the entire Gui Sect after returning.

Even the existing Void Penetration Realm powerhouses of the Gui Sect had to submit to Zong Daoji.

These existing Void Penetration Realm powerhouses of the Gui Sect, except for the three who broke through within the Gui Sect after the great era descended.

The other Void Penetration Realm powerhouses, like Zong Daoji, were all powerhouses born in the Gui Sect thousands or tens of thousands of years ago.

They had left the Dongji Region before because the environment for seeking the Dao in the Dongji Region was too poor, and now they had returned to the Dongji Region to develop because the gap between the environment for seeking the Dao in the Dongji Region and the five regions within the Di Xuan Realm had narrowed.

After all, they were all powerhouses who had grown up from the Gui Sect, and the Gui Sect carried the history of their continuous transformation from weakness to Void Penetration Realm magnates.

And only in the Gui Sect could they truly integrate and not be excluded by other cultivators.

In the Eastern Region, where powerhouses were everywhere, Void Penetration Realm powerhouses like them, who joined temporarily and whose talent was not considered stunning, could at most obtain a guest position in those forces in the Eastern Region and could not truly integrate into those forces.

Therefore, after the environment for seeking the Dao in the Dongji Region changed, they successively left those forces in the Eastern Region and returned to the Gui Sect, attempting to thoroughly develop the Gui Sect in the great era, and even dominate the Dongji Region.

It was not just the Gui Sect; as the great era of cultivation descended, the environment for seeking the Dao in the four regions outside the Di Xuan Realm changed.

The powerhouses who had previously walked out of the four regions outside the Di Xuan Realm were now also successively returning to the four outer regions, attempting to develop in the Dongji Region and lead the forces they came from to fight for the status of overlord of the great region.

Even Zong Daoji, who was already at the peak of the Void Penetration Realm in the Gui Sect, could not be considered among the absolute peak among the powerhouses returning to the four regions outside the Di Xuan Realm.

After all, over the long years, too many powerhouses had walked out of the four regions outside the Di Xuan Realm.

It was just that most of the powerhouses who walked out of the four regions outside the Di Xuan Realm, as long as they were above the Void Penetration Realm, had basically integrated into the five regions within the Di Xuan Realm.

After all, powerhouses above the Void Penetration Realm could be considered as having a foundation even in the five inner regions where powerhouses were everywhere.

Such powerhouses, even if they joined halfway, could already control certain real power in forces below the top forces in the five inner regions and officially integrate into them.

Therefore, among the powerhouses currently returning to the four regions outside the Di Xuan Realm, although there were existences surpassing the Void Penetration Realm, they were extremely rare.

Among these returning powerhouses, the majority were still mainly in the Void Penetration Realm.

For example, the several Void Penetration Realm magnates from the Gui Sect, including Zong Daoji, were like this.

Among the powerhouses returning to the Gui Sect, except for Zong Daoji, who had a cultivation base at the peak of the Void Penetration Realm, the other Void Penetration Realm powerhouses only had cultivation bases at the early or mid-stages of the Void Penetration Realm.

That was why Zong Daoji was able to suppress the other Void Penetration Realm powerhouses and take control of the entire Gui Sect in a very short time after returning to the Gui Sect ten years ago.

And just after completely taking control of the entire Gui Sect, Zong Daoji sensed a special kind of power beginning to slowly gather on himself.

This power, as Zong Daoji learned from his perception of the laws of heaven and earth, was called Living Being Luck.

Under the blessing of this Living Being Luck, Zong Daoji's comprehension and spiritual energy absorption speed were slightly improved.

Although this improvement was small, it had the advantage of being persistent.

And Zong Daoji could sense that if the Gui Sect's strength and the influence of the force were improved, then this Living Being Luck gathered on him would also gradually increase, and the amplification effect brought about would also be better.

The birth of this Living Being Luck was actually a change that the laws of heaven and earth of the Di Xuan Realm had only recently made after clashing with the laws of heaven and earth of the Green Demon Realm.

In the struggle between the two realms, besides the collision between the laws of heaven and earth, there was also the struggle between the living beings of the two realms.

Especially when the laws of heaven and earth of the two realms were evenly matched, the clash between the living beings of each other became particularly important. And the birth of Living Being Luck was a special operating rule mechanism that changed so that the laws of heaven and earth of the Di Xuan Realm could encourage the powerhouses of the Di Xuan Realm to cultivate more powerhouses.

As long as the powerhouse controlling a force had more living beings protected under their force, gave birth to more powerhouses, and had greater influence in the Di Xuan Realm, the gathered Living Being Luck would be stronger.

And after the birth of Living Being Luck, from now on, if cultivators of the Di Xuan Realm slaughtered too many living beings of the Di Xuan Realm, they would suffer the disgust and rejection of the laws of heaven and earth of the Di Xuan Realm, increasing the difficulty of breaking through and the power of the lightning tribulation when breaking through.

When killing a force leader who possessed Living Being Luck, the more Living Being Luck gathered on the force leader, the more obvious this situation would be.

This point of the operating rules of Living Being Luck was an operating rule derived by the laws of heaven and earth of the Di Xuan Realm to avoid large-scale infighting among the living beings within the realm.

Besides this, the actions of cultivators in various forces within the Di Xuan Realm, besides affecting themselves, would also affect the force they belonged to.

It was as if the evil consequences caused by cultivators in the Di Xuan Realm were shared by the cultivators themselves and the forces they belonged to according to a certain proportion.

However, the disgust and rejection of the laws of heaven and earth of the Di Xuan Realm could be offset, weakened, or even directly eliminated through contributions made to the Di Xuan Realm and the Living Being Luck obtained.

That is to say, if the contributions made to the Di Xuan Realm and the Living Being Luck gathered were enough, enough to offset the backlash of Living Being Luck after you slaughtered tens of millions of living beings and killed one force leader after another, and there was still some left over.

Then the laws of heaven and earth of the Di Xuan Realm would not produce any disgust or rejection toward you.

In the end, the laws of heaven and earth of the Di Xuan Realm did not have intelligence.

The appearance of Living Being Luck was just a change in the operation of the rules made by the laws of heaven and earth so that the Di Xuan Realm could become stronger and avoid being swallowed by the Green Demon Realm in the future.

It was just that the Living Being Luck mechanism of the Di Xuan Realm had just been born, so there were very few cultivators who could sense the changes in it for the time being.

One reason was that the mechanism of Living Being Luck had just been born and was not yet thoroughly perfected.

The laws of heaven and earth of the Di Xuan Realm had not incorporated it into the system of the laws of heaven and earth to become a complete operating rule of the Di Xuan Realm.

The second reason was that the laws of heaven and earth of the Di Xuan Realm were currently entangled with too much power by the laws of heaven and earth of the Green Demon Realm, and were temporarily unable to nurture and perfect Living Being Luck and popularize the rules of Living Being Luck throughout the entire Di Xuan Realm.

So for the future development of the Di Xuan Realm, the laws of heaven and earth of the Di Xuan Realm began to instinctively seek change, randomly selecting a very small number of suitable living beings as pilots for the rules of Living Being Luck.

Once the Living Being Luck rule system gradually perfected and grew in the pilot projects.

The laws of heaven and earth of the Di Xuan Realm could then incorporate the Living Being Luck rules into its own system in one fell swoop.

While adding a rule of heaven and earth operation to strengthen its own power, the already perfected and grown Living Being Luck rules could also be directly popularized throughout the entire Di Xuan Realm.

In this way, there would be no need to dilute the power of the laws of heaven and earth of the Di Xuan Realm itself to forcibly perfect the Living Being Luck rules.

And Zong Daoji was one of the cultivators randomly selected by the laws of heaven and earth of the Di Xuan Realm as a pilot for the Living Being Luck rules.

If the Gui Sect continued to develop under Zong Daoji's control, it might not be without a chance to achieve some success, and it might even have the hope of being promoted to one of the overlords of the Dongji Region.

It was a pity... After Zong Daoji perceived this change in Living Being Luck, Zong Daoji at that time was directly ecstatic, finally confirming that his intuition in the dark was not wrong.

The Gui Sect was where his true opportunity for attaining the Dao lay.

So after completely taking control of the Gui Sect.

Zong Daoji, on one hand, contacted other Void Penetration Realm powerhouses from the Gui Sect in the Eastern Region, persuading them to return, wanting to use this to enhance the Gui Sect's strength.

On the other hand, he began to vigorously cultivate the middle and lower-order cultivators of the Gui Sect, preparing for the future development of the Gui Sect.

In this process, Zong Daoji learned that the Gui Sect's long-lost inherited minor supernatural power, the Death Curse Technique, had appeared in the world and had been taken away by Dongxuan City in Star Fall Province.

Moreover, Dongxuan City also protected the person the Gui Sect was hunting down and severely wounded the Gui Sect's previous Dharma-protecting elder.

After investigating certain intelligence about Dongxuan City and learning that Dongxuan City was only a force that had risen in Star Fall Province in the last thousand years, Zong Daoji immediately had the idea of using Dongxuan City to establish his prestige.

After all, a force that had only risen in the last thousand years meant that it lacked the foundation of powerhouses, so there was no need to worry that the other party would also have powerhouses returning from the Eastern Region.

Therefore, Zong Daoji, who was already at the peak of the Void Penetration Realm, was not wary of Dongxuan City.

Therefore, in order to take back the Gui Sect's long-lost minor supernatural power, the Death Curse Technique, and also to promote the Gui Sect's prestige in the Dongji Province and enhance the Gui Sect's influence in the Dongji Region.

Not long ago, Zong Daoji dispatched a Void Penetration Realm powerhouse to Star Fall Province to further investigate Dongxuan City's strength, and at the same time, had the Gui Sect's cultivators directly take action to destroy Dongxuan City's branch city in the Dongji Province.

This was how the subsequent series of events happened.

If it weren't for the fact that after destroying Dongxuan City's branch city in the Dongji Province, the Living Being Luck gathered on Zong Daoji did not increase but decreased, causing a burst of unease in his heart.

Zong Daoji would have long since crossed several great provinces and gone to Star Fall Province to personally take action to destroy Dongxuan City's main city.

Fortunately, after destroying Dongxuan City's branch city in the Dongji Province, the Gui Sect's influence in the Dongji Province had improved, and coupled with the recent return of a Void Penetration Realm powerhouse of the Gui Sect from the Eastern Region.

The Living Being Luck gathered on Zong Daoji gradually recovered to its initial state, and the unease in Zong Daoji's heart gradually subsided.

It was precisely because of this that after he sent a Void Penetration Realm mid-stage powerhouse to Star Fall Province, he only asked him to investigate the detailed strength of Dongxuan City in Star Fall Province and did not ask him to do any other outrageous actions.

In the main hall, after the atmosphere was silent for a moment, Zong Daoji slowly opened his eyes and said indifferently: "Others are about to fight their way to our door, what do you all say we should do?"

After Zong Daoji spoke, the Gui Sect's main hall finally broke the silence, and other voices appeared:

"Since the other party is prepared to fight directly to our Gui Sect's sect station, why don't we wait at our ease?"

"Yes, a mere Dongxuan City is not worth us making a big fuss."

"Exactly, it's nothing more than two Void Penetration Realm powerhouses. We can just open the sect's great array and wait for their arrival."

"Open the sect's great array? Is it necessary? The other party only has two Void Penetration Realm powerhouses, and our Gui Sect, not to mention the Sect Master's strength, even we few should be enough to take them down, right?"

"Opening the sect's great array is not to fight the enemy, but to protect the disciples with weak cultivation in the sect from being affected by the aftermath of the Void Penetration Realm battle."

"In that case, I have no objection!"

"Agreed!"

"Agreed!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 536 =====