Chapter 248: Universal Status

Inside the ruins of the Dongtian Fudi, Li Heng let out a breath of relief.

Having nearly exhausted his entire fortune, he had finally hacked this aberrant will to death; under a blow from his great machete that was like a suicide truck, the already-injured blood-colored eyes exploded with a boom and completely dissipated.

He quickly received the sensation of Source Power being credited in his heart.

Source Power plus one hundred thousand, Universal Status plus one.

Li Heng raised his eyebrows, somewhat surprised.

He could easily understand the one hundred thousand Source Power; what he had hacked was the aberrant will of the Heaven, and even if it was only a sub-will, it still counted as a major explosion, so obtaining one hundred thousand points of Source Power was within his expectations.

An ordinary Dharma Aspect Realm, even a Dharma Aspect Realm Peak.

Could never allow him to obtain one hundred thousand points of Source Power.

Otherwise, why would he risk so much and exhaust his fortune?

But what was this Universal Status?

Under his sensing, he felt confused and had no idea what this actually was. With a thought, he pulled up his Data Panel and discovered that the panel did indeed have an extra entry for Universal Status.

Could he use the Identification Function to identify it?

Out of curiosity, he invoked the Identification Function to begin identifying it.

【Universal Status:?????】

Seeing this, Li Heng fell silent instantly.

His Identification Function had already reached the Dharma Aspect Realm, yet it couldn't identify it? Five question marks in a row, not even a shred of specific information. Fine, it was likely another high-and-mighty thing.

It was probably even higher than the Heavenly Mandate Crystal or the Five-Colored Divine Light.

He shook his head and cast the matter out of his mind.

When the cart reaches the mountain, there will be a road; when the boat reaches the bridge, it will naturally go straight.

Once his strength reached that level and the level of the Identification Function was higher, he would naturally know; in any case, he could sense that this thing was harmless, so there was no need to be in a rush to get to the bottom of the truth.

He looked at his surroundings, a vast sea of blood.

The blood shed by those blood-colored eyes just now was simply too much, and this blood was not ordinary blood; it would absolutely twist and pollute this place, and if left alone, it would eventually form a place of disaster.

It would likely endanger the Present World in the future.

Li Heng thought for a moment and decided to just conjure a Nuclear Fusion to cleanse the ground; although he had as much as one hundred thousand Source Power, future investments and expenses would surely be high, and one hundred thousand might not be enough.

He could not waste Source Power to clean up this mess.

With a thought, the Great Sun Dharma Image appeared.

Under the radiance of the Great Sun Dharma Image, the surrounding sea of blood was gradually dissolving, even emitting crackling sounds; the sea of blood seemed to possess life and was wailing.

"Little Friend Li, wait!"

Suddenly, the Great Elder of Heavenly Mandate appeared before Li Heng.

Li Heng raised his eyebrows slightly.

"You've finally arrived; I thought you were still outside watching the show."

The Great Elder gave a wry smile at these words.

"Little Friend Li is joking. Previously, the aberrant will was entrenched here, and in order to isolate the Pollution, how could I dare to look inside? But now that the aberrant will has been removed by Little Friend Li, I have naturally come to offer my congratulations."

He bowed to Li Heng, his heart churning with monstrous waves.

After all, he had not been optimistic about this matter from the very beginning.

He felt that no matter how well this unexpected variable performed, it certainly could not deal with an aberrant will that possessed the Heavenly Position; at most, it could retreat unscathed.

This was his best estimate for Li Heng.

But now, the facts were before his eyes.

This Little Friend Li had truly killed the aberrant will.

This left him at a loss, with a feeling that his plans had been disrupted. Originally, he had wanted to guide the variable he expected through the monk and the guest to kill the aberrant will and complete this task.

This was the plan he had set, and his layout.

But now, the task was gone, and the layout was useless.

Although this was indeed worth rejoicing over.

He did not believe his layout could succeed one hundred percent, and from the big picture, it was indeed better that Li Heng could successfully resolve this matter.

But why did he feel a bit stifled?

It was like a story of a Heavenly Mandate Protagonist slaying a demon lord.

The Heavenly Mandate Protagonist was the variable he had expected, and he was the master from outside the world guiding the Heavenly Mandate Protagonist to fight the demon lord and finally slay him.

But now.

This demon lord had been killed by a power outside the story; a passerby had suddenly popped out and hacked the demon lord to death, the protagonist had done nothing, and there was no need to do anything, making the whole story seem like a tiger's head with a snake's tail.

He even felt that if there were guests watching this story.

His story would probably be cursed to death by those guests.

After all, what people wanted to see was the protagonist in the story solving the demon lord, not the demon lord being solved by someone other than the protagonist.

Of course, he was not resentful of Li Heng's sudden intervention.

If he had the personality of a mastermind behind an eternal layout, he wouldn't have held the Tianming Ritual and risked his life against Heaven. In his heart, he was merely sighing that the universe was boundless and fate was truly wondrous.

Xuantianji felt that Li Heng's existence was truly a miracle.

It was as if on a theatrical stage, in a situation that was irredeemable and irreversible, a *deus ex machina* had suddenly appeared miraculously, using power from outside the world and outside the story to reverse everything?

He felt.

Only such praise could be worthy of this Little Friend Li.

Of course, he did not believe that this Little Friend Li could do everything; after all, in his view, although this Little Friend Li was beyond his expectations, he could not be beyond all possibilities.

There would always be people, and there would always be powers, that could foresee this Little Friend Li.

For instance, the Calamity that descends from outside of Heaven and Earth.

That is also something from outside the story of this Heaven and Earth!

"But I don't see how you are happy at all."

Li Heng smiled calmly.

He had always been accurate in judging people; this old man had a somewhat awkward personality and liked to lay out plans, yet it wasn't the kind of behind-the-scenes mastermind behavior done for his own sake, but for the sake of all living beings in Heaven and Earth.

This old man was sulking because his plans had been disrupted.

Yet he did not vent this anger on him, nor did he exclaim in his heart that this young man was terrifyingly powerful and must not be left alive, then secretly plot to kill him.

"As for what this old man is thinking, young friend Li truly sees it at a glance." The old man named Xuantianji smiled bitterly.

"The Calamities of Heaven and Earth are endless; even if I resolve the disaster here, there are Calamities in other places. You can just let that variable protagonist you favor go to other places to resolve the Calamities."

Li Heng waved his hand.

Xuantianji felt helpless.

If this were truly a storybook novel, no one would buy it.

You have completely overshadowed the protagonist.

He pondered for a moment, then spoke slowly.

"Actually, young friend Li, you don't have to be like this. You should be clear that resolving matters of this level means your existence has very likely already entered 'His' line of sight."

Li Heng was very clear that this "He" referred to the power and disaster outside the World, the corruption and distortion of Heaven and Earth, or perhaps a mastermind whose existence was unknown.

"It's fine, soldiers come, generals block; water comes, earth covers."

Li Heng waved his hand, unimpressed.

The essence and status of the Visualization Divine Ability he possessed were terrifying even just to imagine. Relying on the omnipotent nature of Source Power, he had even come up with some wild maneuvers.

It was just that if he really implemented such wild maneuvers, he would likely die; even if there were a twenty percent chance he wouldn't, it would probably be miserable, because that would involve exploiting loopholes in the rules, involving "self-reference."

Xuantianji shook his head.

He really didn't know where this young friend Li got his confidence from.

"Young friend Li, this Heaven and Earth has gone through nine eras, and now it is the Ninth Era. Nine is the extreme of numbers, so the theme of this era's story is sublimation; there should be countless heaven-gifted geniuses emerging to form a Golden Age, thereby leading the entire Heaven and Earth to sublimate."

He said in a deep voice.

Li Heng nodded.

"And then until a hundred years ago, the anomaly appeared?"

Xuantianji nodded, "That's right."

"A hundred years ago was when the prelude to this story had just begun, but that was when the anomaly appeared; this is power belonging to outside the story, just like you, young friend Li."

"No one knows how strong this power is or how great this Calamity is, because this is not power belonging to between Heaven and Earth, nor is it a Calamity of Heaven and Earth, so why does young friend Li have such confidence?"

He looked at Li Heng, his gaze burning.

It seemed as if he were expecting something, yet also as if he were not.

"Because I worked too hard."

Li Heng answered earnestly.

The reason he was able to reach this level was largely due to his own hard work, and the Visualization Divine Ability merely accelerated this process.

I, Li Heng, rely on hard work!

This statement from Li-mou-ren really couldn't be called entirely false.

When people are pushed to the limit, they can do anything, except advanced mathematics. But if it were Li Heng, he could actually do advanced mathematics.

Because he had done things even harder than advanced mathematics.

That was Visualization—visualizing the Earth, visualizing the Great Sun.

For instance, the Great Sun in the Great Sun Visualization Diagram was the unfolding of the high-dimensional essence of the Great Sun in low-dimensional space-time. And what Li Heng had to do was not just copy and construct it, but reverse the low-dimensional unfolding back to the high dimension.

This was far harder than a lot of advanced mathematics.

You must know that in mathematics, adding one coordinate axis is adding one dimension; theoretically, there are infinite dimensions, and the higher and more numerous the dimensions, the more complex the model.

And the Great Sun model on the Visualization Diagram was truly quite complex.

Xuantianji paused upon hearing this, not knowing what to say.

Upon hearing this, his first reaction was that it might be possible—that it was precisely because he worked too hard that he could achieve this. But when he carefully scrutinized Li Heng, he instantly felt it was impossible.

For no other reason than that he was too young.

Even if one started cultivating from the womb, one couldn't achieve this.

This kid must have cheated!

He was trembling with anger, feeling that this young friend Li was too shameless.

"Sigh, forget it, forget it."

"Each generation produces its own talents, each leading the way for an era."

Xuantianji shook his head, feeling weary in his heart.

Immediately, his expression turned serious again, and he spoke.

"Young friend Li, you must be careful from now on; once you are noticed and brought into the line of sight, the variable is no longer a variable, but becomes a fixed certainty."

Li Heng nodded and said nothing more.

A variable becomes a fixed certainty? Sorry, that was something he couldn't grasp.

Between their words, brilliance suddenly bloomed in the sky.

The two looked up in surprise, and looking upward, they only saw the sky filled with glowing clouds above the Nine Heavens, able to see a scene of clarity within this dilapidated Cave Heaven, as if an auspicious omen had descended upon the world.

Immediately following, everything around them was trembling.

A vast pressure slowly descended.

Li Heng raised an eyebrow slightly; his Qi and Blood surged within his body, and his Divine Energy roiled, just as he was about to strike, he saw Xuantianji suddenly reach out to stop him.

"Look, Little Friend Li, this is the true Heaven!"