Chapter 482: Inside and Outside the Seal (3/3)

"In other words, this is actually a setup? The Heavenly Court shattered and the Immortal Gods fled in defeat, but in reality, it was all deliberately orchestrated by His Majesty just to set up this space-time stasis seal, trapping numerous Calamities within?"

King Guangnan's eyes lit up upon hearing this.

If that were truly the case, he would feel much more at ease.

Because if it were as the Spirit of the Heavenly Palace said, it would mean the Immortal Gods were not without the power to resist; they had merely abandoned the Heavenly Court temporarily for strategic goals and retreated.

The Spirit of the Heavenly Palace felt somewhat awkward after hearing this.

"Guangnan, don't get excited yet. While it was indeed anticipated, and His Majesty did indeed set up this space-time seal, it... can only be considered a measure taken out of helplessness."

"To call it a 'setup' is really quite a stretch."

The Spirit of the Heavenly Palace shook his head, pouring a bucket of cold water on King Guangnan.

King Guangnan was rendered speechless at once.

He opened his mouth to speak, but didn't know what to say. Yes, the Heavenly Court shattered, the Immortal Gods fled in defeat, and even the Sacred had perished in great numbers; how could such a tragic price be called a setup?

The others also sighed.

They had foreseen this catastrophe, yet knew it was impossible to resist, and current facts proved this point. If they were in the position of that Heavenly Emperor of the Heavenly Court, they would likely be suffering greatly.

"In short, that is how it is. The Calamities breached the Heavenly Court, but His Majesty's arrangements and the seal kept these Calamities and monsters here. If the seal is not broken, they can even remain here forever."

"Actually, when the Heavenly Palace shattered and turned into ruins, I was also near death. But thanks to His Majesty's mercy, at the very moment before I was about to die, the stasis seal activated and froze space-time, allowing me to escape the fate of falling, though I can only reside eternally in this frozen space-time, becoming the guardian of the seal."

The Spirit of the Heavenly Palace continued to explain.

"Then do you know where that Majesty of yours went?"

Li Heng asked aloud.

The Spirit of the Heavenly Palace shook his head.

"I do not know His Majesty's whereabouts either."

"However, His Majesty did indeed take action during that tribulation when the Heavenly Court shattered and the Calamities invaded; otherwise, the Immortal Gods remaining in the Heavenly Court would likely have all died, without even a chance to escape."

King Guangnan and Old Man Bai looked at each other and spoke together.

"Fellow Daoist Li, please calm down. There is no information about His Majesty on this layer, but that does not mean that information about His Majesty does not exist in the past layer where we originally resided, in that past space-time fragment."

"Please believe us on this point; we have a premonition."

Li Heng nodded and did not dwell too much on this topic.

He understood their words. In that past layer, in that past space-time fragment, there was indeed a high probability that traces of that Heavenly Emperor of the Heavenly Court existed.

But to him, whether they existed or not didn't really matter.

He was not a devout believer of this Heavenly Emperor of the Heavenly Court.

For him, coming to the True Realm and coming to the Heavenly Court had only one goal: Source Power, Source Power, and more Source Power!

Therefore, he looked at the Spirit of the Heavenly Palace and spoke slowly.

"I have a question: can you lift the seal on a certain area of this layer, allowing the Calamities or monsters sealed within to be revealed?"

The Spirit of the Heavenly Palace was stunned.

"Fellow Daoist Li, what are you trying to do?"

"However, while your proposal is theoretically feasible, I have never tried it. After all, the seals here are interconnected; if the seal in one area is lifted, it might affect the seals in another, which could potentially cause all the seals to be lifted."

"By then, it will be too late!"

Although he was not a mind-reader and did not know Li Heng's thoughts, he could perhaps sense that Li Heng's idea was very bold, so he warned Li Heng cautiously.

So that was how it was? Li Heng frowned.

He could sense that there were many Calamities and monsters in this layer of stasis seal; once he could hunt them, his Source Power would skyrocket.

This was an excellent Source Power Hunting Ground. He only needed to break the seal and let the Calamities and monsters appear to hunt them, just like before, which directly pushed his Golden Source Point past the one-thousand mark.

However, even though he already possessed the Eternal Element and possessed Eternal Sacred Power himself, he actually did not have the qualifications to treat this layer of stasis seal as a Source Power Hunting Ground.

After all, he couldn't even kill the Gospel of War right now, let alone the fact that there were Calamities or monsters in this layer even more powerful than the Gospel of War. Once the seal went wrong and caused a few Calamities to run out, he might not be able to handle it and would have to run away.

In that case.

It would instead destroy this excellent Source Power Hunting Ground.

Things were becoming troublesome.

This Heavenly Emperor of the Heavenly Court indeed had some tricks up his sleeve. Although it is unknown whether he is alive or dead now, the stasis seal he left behind is truly ruthless, isolating the inside from the outside so that neither the Gospel of War nor Calamities far stronger than the Gospel of War can break through.

This can protect those outside the seal to the greatest extent. But in a sense, it is also protecting the Calamities and monsters inside the seal, making it difficult for Li Heng to hunt them.

But once lifted, it might be as the Spirit of the Heavenly Palace said.

The seals might all shatter.

Moreover, he had just used Source Power to verify the words of the Spirit of the Heavenly Palace; doing so indeed had a probability of causing all seals to shatter, and it was not a deceptive lie to bluff him.

Is there really no way to bypass the Heavenly Emperor's seal and apply one's own power to the Calamities within the seal, thereby easily hunting them?

Li Heng couldn't help but think of the Infinite Mechanism.

He now controlled the Infinite Mechanism, so he naturally understood many secrets of the Infinite Mechanism's predecessor, the Self-Calamity, and understood why the Self-Calamity could cross this layer of stasis seal, infiltrate its power into the current layer, and distort Xuanyang's mind.

Actually, the method was simple, or rather, this method didn't exist at all; it was just a coincidence.

Long before this stasis seal measure was activated, that Xuanyang had already been polluted by the Self-Calamity, but Xuanyang had no awareness of it.

It was equivalent to burying a Power Seed within Xuanyang.

Therefore, after the main body of the Self-Calamity was sealed and frozen by the Heavenly Emperor's means, the Power Seed left in the outside world took root and sprouted, completely distorting Xuanyang's mind, and constantly trying to contact the main body in the stasis-sealed state, finally infiltrating the stasis-sealed layer and successfully communicating with the main body.

That is why it is said to be a coincidence.

If the Self-Calamity hadn't inadvertently buried a seed in Xuanyang, it would have been impossible to achieve this situation of infiltrating the stasis-sealed layer and having the main body and clone coordinate from inside and outside.

Of course, a large part of this is also due to the fact that the Self-Calamity was undergoing infinite self-iteration and updating, always trying to find loopholes in the stasis-sealed layer.

However, this explanation is also a bit far-fetched.

After all, why would you allow the Self-Calamity to leave means in the outside world, but not allow other Calamities and monsters to leave means in the outside world? Why didn't they communicate with the outside world or even break the seal?

A forced explanation might make sense, but it is too far-fetched.

Therefore, Li Heng is even more suspicious that the deeper reason is that the Self-Calamity originated from a civilization or World suspected to be his home, possessing this so-called potential to transcend the Turing Architecture.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this uniqueness that it could be accomplished; otherwise, this Heavenly Court Heavenly Emperor would be too low-tier.

After all, when the Self-Calamity achieved this previously, it was not even at the Shengsheng Cengci, merely infinitely close to Sacred. While Li Heng does not currently know the strength of the Heavenly Court Heavenly Emperor, it is certainly at a super-first-line level among the Sacred, or perhaps even a truly supreme existence. The gap between the two is simply too vast.

Unless the Heavenly Court Heavenly Emperor guessed this and did it on purpose. But that would fall into the category of Infinite conspiracy theories, much like the brain-in-a-vat hypothesis; thinking about it is meaningless.

Li Heng pondered for a while and vaguely summarized the conditions. To ignore the seal, communicate between the inside and outside, and thereby slaughter the Calamity within the seal without damaging it, one must likely fulfill such a fortuitous coincidence and possess the uniqueness of the Self-Calamity.

He does not need to worry about the uniqueness.

After all, he is currently controlling the Infinite Mechanism.

Although the Self-Calamity has now been washed by him into the Infinite Mechanism and lacks the aura of Calamity, it surely hasn't lost that kind of uniqueness, has it?

And even if we take a step back, even if it were lost.

There is still the omnipotent Source Power.

As for the fortuitous coincidence, well.

He truly has not fulfilled the conditions for such a fortuitous coincidence; after all, these Calamities and monsters are within the static seal, so how could he send his own Power Seed inside?

Not to mention that the reason the Self-Calamity was able to achieve this was because its Power Seed had been deployed long ago, situated in the outside world, while it being sealed and rendered static happened afterward.

There is a sequence of first and last to these two events.

The Self-Calamity's preemptive arrangement allowed its Power Seed to grow a step ahead, reaching the minimum standard to contact the main body and survive independently. This prevented it from withering and drying up due to a lack of power transport from the main body after the main body was sealed and rendered static.

This is also a necessary factor that needs to be taken into consideration.

Therefore, theoretically, Li Heng has no conditions to fulfill such a fortuitous coincidence as the Self-Calamity did, unless the Time-Space Mother River, which stands above the eternal heavens and worlds, directly backtracks.

However, theory is theory, and Reality is Reality.

As long as Li Heng is willing to expend Source Power, he can forcibly achieve this fortuitous coincidence; though since it is forced, it can no longer be described as a fortuitous coincidence, but should be described as an operation.

Achieving this operation!

He can completely use Source Power to send his Power Seed into the seals of these monsters and Calamities, then communicate between the inside and outside and link power just like the previous Self-Calamity. Finally, he can hunt the Calamities and monsters without damaging the seals.

After all, compared to the Source Power consumption of letting his true self enter the seal directly, the Source Power consumption caused by letting his Power Seed avatar enter is certainly less.

Not to mention that a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall.

There are so many Calamities and monsters sealed here; without knowing the details of the Calamities and monsters, he has no reason to risk his life and fight these Calamities and monsters with his true self.

Moreover, he just asked the Spirit of the Heavenly Palace; although the Spirit of the Heavenly Palace can sense which area has stronger Calamities and monsters, it is still quite vague when asked to sense the specifics in detail.

So, what if a certain Calamity is too strong but has been hiding its strength, and he is killed in seconds the moment he enters, before he can even use Source Power?

Unless he keeps Source Power protecting him at all times.

But Source Power itself does not have this characteristic; unless he adds it himself, the consumed Source Power would be even greater.

So, after thinking it over, Li Heng looked at the Spirit of the Heavenly Palace and smiled slightly.

"Fellow Daoist, I will not break the seal; this also concerns my interests. However, would you mind if I did a little fishing?"

Having come here, he does not want to return empty-handed.