Chapter 454 - 453: The Might of the Origin, Heavenly Path’s Gift

In this instant.

Li Jing felt as if he had inexhaustible power within him.

All things in heaven and earth, everything related to life, were now under his control.

Including the fertile earth and the vast ocean.

Feeling all this, Li Jing came to a realization.

This.

Was Ling Ling’s authority.

With this, Li Jing precisely confirmed that Ling Ling, as The Spirit of Origin, was actually a god, but was fundamentally different from the Supreme Gods who were also born in the Supreme God Domain.

The two were not on the same level.

Not to mention the gods born from the evolution of the Supreme God Clan, even the Innate Gods could not be compared to her.

At this moment, merged with Ling Ling, Li Jing had a deep understanding of Ling Ling’s existence.

Her birth was not only the origin of life in the Supreme God Domain, but also the reason for the birth of the entire Supreme God Domain in a strictly literal sense.

She was not the creator of the world.

But at least the evolution of the Divine Domain into its own heaven and earth began with her.

Even the Will of Heaven evolved only after her birth.

It must be said.

Ling Ling’s background was so powerful that it was almost unimaginable.

Feeling Ling Ling’s power, Li Jing couldn’t help but think of an ancient demon god who existed when the world first began, mentioned in the ancient mythology of Hua Xia before his transmigration.

Pangu.

Legend has it.

That when Pangu created the heavens and the earth, the world had its future.

Leaving aside the creation of the heavens and the earth, Ling Ling’s existence was almost equivalent to Pangu.

The only difference was that Pangu sacrificed himself to create the heavens and the earth, while Ling Ling, as the origin of all things, took a different path.

It needs to be clarified.

The merging with Ling Ling didn’t bring actual power in the real sense. Li Jing’s level didn’t essentially improve. What changed was that he temporarily possessed the essence of Ling Ling as a Primitive God.

In short, it was the divine position.

In front of Ling Ling’s divine position, levels were meaningless.

She didn’t rely on her level, but on the power and authority brought by her divine position, which is the power of rules.

Rules seemed to be made for her.

She didn’t need to understand them, she didn’t need to grasp them; as long as they were in her hands, they would be infinitely magnified.

At this moment, the divine position of the Primitive God was operating on Li Jing.

He could not only easily manipulate all the rules related to life, but also the rules of thunder punishment and space he controlled were magnified many times over.

Such power was intoxicating.

As Li Jing was feeling it, he heard Ling Ling’s soft voice in his ear.

"Be careful, don’t get obsessed with it. Beware of being integrated by my power, and then you won’t be you anymore. Also, hurry up. Lending you my power is quite taxing for me."

Upon hearing these words, Li Jing shuddered.

The greater the power, the greater the price to be paid.

Merging with Ling Ling, he was at risk of being assimilated by her power?

Without much thought, Li Jing stepped forward and walked into the space where he had placed the Tower of Taoists by himself.

Then, he waved his hand and took out the Unnamed Taoist Tool.

As soon as the Unnamed Taoist Tool was taken out, the three rules of destruction, pulverization, and night that it controlled were instantly infinitely magnified under the influence of Ling Ling’s divine position as the Primitive God.

In this instant, the space cracked and disintegrated because of the existence of the Unnamed.

The entire heaven and earth plunged into boundless darkness due to its existence.

The space where the Tower of Taoists was located, because it was independent of the Little Universe, was not affected.

However, the existence in the tower was a bit tense due to the abnormality of the outside world.

"Please stop, sir. We can talk it out. I can offer you countless benefits you can’t imagine."

A sincere voice came, but what replied him was a seemingly casual swing of Li Jing.

"Woo!"

The Unnamed Taoist Tool, which is essentially a ferocious mace, made a sound like a ghost crying and a wolf howling, crushing and destroying everything it passed.

The space rules inherent in the Little Universe were broken first.

The space where Li Jing placed the Tower of Taoists alone disappeared in an instant.

Then.

It was the independent space sustained by the Tower of Taoists.

A slight touch, and the three rules of space, time, and gravity controlled by the Tower of Taoists were simultaneously broken. Consequently, the space it was in turned into endless nothingness.

This situation caused the Deceiving the Heavens in the Tower of Taoists to scream out.

"Bastard! Do you want to have a life-and-death struggle with me!?"

Li Jing looked up at the sound, smirked, and replied mockingly.

"A life-and-death struggle, do you think you’re worthy?"

The next second.

The part of the Little Universe that had turned into nothingness was rebuilt in an instant.

But the independent space propped up by the Tower of Taoists was not rebuilt.

The Little Universe is, after all, an established heaven and earth in itself.

The rules, coexist with the great path.

As long as the great path does not perish, the rules will not completely collapse.

The space rules that were broken were immediately restored, rebuilding the space that was destroyed due to the collapse of the space rules.

However, the space supported by the Tower of Taoists was just controlled by the tool’s own space rules.

How could a tool’s rules compare to a heaven and earth?

As the part of the Little Universe was rebuilt, the Tower of Taoists immediately fell back into the Little Universe.

At that very moment, Li Jing successfully took all the initiative.

"Come out."

With a soft rebuke.

An Alien Species, standing over two meters high with a dragon head on each shoulder, looking furious, was pulled out of the Tower of Taoists.

Seeing the Alien Species, Li Jing was slightly surprised.

He hadn’t expected this Deceiving the Heavens to be an Alien Species.

He had originally thought it would be a human.

This...

The feeling is great!

In my field of vision,

An alien deceiver of the heavens with a health bar displaying 18999 above him.

It’s the advanced stage of Thirteen Realms.

If we’re talking about the true realm, he’s only slightly stronger than Wina at her peak after attaining supremacy. He by no means can be compared with Supreme God.

Li Jing didn’t look down on him because of this.

Putting aside his near-successful attempt to be a thief of heaven,

His fundamental path depended on the Orthodox Immortality Path, which was a different concept than that of Wina, Supreme God, or other Gods.

But that’s not the point.

The key is that there is a Spiritual Power Intensity display reaching up to 3998526 behind the alien deceiver’s Health Bar.

What you call a surprise?

This is FUCKING surprising!

Normally, if I met such a character in the outside world, Li Jing would definitely go around.

But now, we are in the Little Universe.

Even without merging with Ling Ling, it won’t be too hard for Li Jing to manipulate him.

Without any hesitation, Li Jing set his mind in motion.

"Boom!"

A loud bang, and the color of the heavens and the earth inside the Little Universe changes.

An absolutely real and sudden heavenly terror descends.

At the same time,

The embodiment of the Will of Heaven, dressed in a fun and amusing hollow maid costume, shows up in the high sky with a solemn expression, pointing a finger.

The alien deceiver’s face changes dramatically upon seeing this, ignoring the fact of how distasteful the heavenly path is dressed, and waves his hands in a shouted curse.

"Bring the tower."

However, his Taoist pagoda didn’t move.

It’s not that the Taoist pagoda didn’t respond to its master’s call. It’s been suppressed.

It was suppressed by the entire Little Universe.

The next second.

From the high heavens, countless black thunderbolts strike down.

Heavenly punishment?

No.

This is not heavenly punishment.

It’s Heavenly Wrath.

It’s the highest "courtesy" that the Will of Heaven shows when it encounters someone who steals and deceives the heavens.

Don’t underestimate the crazy appearance of the Will of Heaven, which has now become the true will of the heavens and the earth.

The instinct of the Will of Heaven tells her,

This person must die.

The Heavenly Wrath, like Li Jing’s World Thunder Punishment, works in a similar way.

Normally, there should be only one heavenly punishment, but countless ones fell instantly, striking one spot.

Then, a prompt box popped up in front of Li Jing.

"Essence Source +3998526."

The arrival of the Essence Source results indicates the Deceiver of the Heavens passed away quite peacefully.

"Level up 212, Spiritual Power Intensity +424, Skill Points +2."

"Level up 213, Spiritual Power Intensity +426, Skill Points +2."

"..."

"Level up 221, Spiritual Power Intensity +442, Skill Points +2."

"Level up 222, Spiritual Power Intensity +444, Skill Points +2."

A total of eleven level-up messages popped up successively, making Li Jing overjoyed.

Just moments later,

Ling Ling separated from him after their fusion, and merrily said.

"You see I told you, as long as they enter Little Universe, any deceivers are just garbage."

Upon hearing this, Li Jing fell silent.

This time, he didn’t have time to pull these with Ling Ling.

With a single motion, he left the Little Universe directly.

Watching Li Jing, who had just signed a Symbiotic Contract with her, leave like a heartless jerk without saying a word, Ling Ling was slightly shocked. She pouted unhappily, turned her head, and looked at the small hindrance.

Looking directly at it, the small hindrance blinked twice innocently and quietly thinned out.

Even silence is sometimes the most eloquent thing.

I was never here.

The ones who said they were going and then just left, made Ling Ling feel somewhat unpleased. Yet, she didn’t have a solution at the moment.

Leaving a humph of anger behind, she turned into a flow of light and quickly shot away.

"..."

The Tower of Taoists, which lost its master in the blink of an eye...

What?

So...

No one going to take care of me?

Won’t destroy me or...continue suppressing me?

I am, after all, a Taoist tool...

Shouldn’t there be a little bit of respect for me?

After long hesitation, the Tower of Taoists, which had a sense of independence, decided to stay in place.

A tool, absolutely loyal to the master.

But there’s no concept of dying for the master.

If the master dies, it will wait for the next "destined person", someone who is qualified to control it.

...

Outside the Little Universe,

The Linglong Tower was already on the verge of collapse.

Those who were protected in the tower, all members of the Heavenly One Taoist school, was dripping cold sweat one by one.

Most of them had already prepared their own means of preserving their lives.

Their lives could be saved; this was certain.

The problem was, they couldn’t leave.

After the space collapsed into nothingness, if Li Jing couldn’t come out in time to find them and get them out, the result would be falling into the void.

Just as everyone was anxiously waiting, Li Jing appeared at the original location of the Taoist tool on his own.

Upon seeing Li Jing, everyone’s faces brightened with joy.

Chen Yuran also couldn’t help but be overjoyed.

On Li Jing’s side, his appearance was met with a slight surprise.

As soon as he emerged, a prompt popped up on his status bar.

"Rule Control: Space."

He had already mastered the rules of space, why had such a prompt popped up again?

While baffled, he discovered that Linglong Tower had propped up the broken space, protecting everyone.

With this discovery, Li Jing immediately understood.

After Smoke Eye, Linglong had also mastered a rule.

The rule of space.

Turning his head, Li Jing saw that Linglong’s face was pale and was held in Chen Yuran’s arms, looking like she had exhausted quite a bit of her strength.

Without much thought, Li Jing moved through space and came over, reaching out to pat Linglong’s little head, speaking gently.

"You’ve worked hard."

While talking, he mentally commanded to leave this space that was on the brink of collapse with the entire Linglong Tower and returned to the underground palace.

The people inside the tower saw that they had returned to the palace from the independent space that could collapse at any moment in just a blink of an eye. Everyone was collectively shocked and looked at Li Jing with both awe and a bit of fear.

Seeing this, Li Jing smiled and bowed.

"I am Li Jing, seeing you, seniors of the Taoist school, for the first time."

This greeting immediately made all the people in the field flattered.

Seniors?

How could they be worthy?

The people here couldn’t even match up to the Immortal Tool Pagoda in Li Jing’s hand.

His exact strength was hard to imagine.

"Fellow Taoist, you are too polite. We owe you our gratitude for rescuing us all in times of danger."

The Taoist Patriarch intended to bow as a sign of respect.

The others saw this and wanted to bow as well.

However, before their hands could be raised, the rule of space made them lower their hands back to their original positions.

Faced with such a situation, everyone became even more in awe of a certain person.

This method, which controlled them all, was certainly more than just a gap between them.

On the other hand.

Li Jing looked at everyone and let out a wry smile.

"Please do not be so formal, seniors. In the mundane world, Uncle Chen has taken care of me many times, and Yuran is my girlfriend. Everyone present is an elder in both Yuran’s and my eyes. I cannot accept your respect."

While speaking, he took Linglong, who was in Chen Yuran’s arms, back into his body, allowing her to return to the spiritual power circuit to recover her losses.

Seeing Linglong being taken away, Chen Yuran couldn’t help but express her concern.

"How is Linglong? Was her loss serious?"

"A bit, but she’s fine now."

Li Jing chuckled, then subconsciously glanced at Bai Huameng, who was standing next to Chen Yuran.

Noticing this, Chen Yuran introduced her.

"This is Elder Bai Huameng of the Taoist school, and also my father’s master."

Upon hearing this, Li Jing paid his respects.

As Chen Jing’s master, to him, this was an elder of an elder.

Without much thought, Li Jing performed his salutation while picking two Taoist Origin Fruits from the Tower of Taoists inside his Little Universe.

"Elder Bai, I don’t have much to give as a first meeting gift, please accept these two Taoist Origin Fruits."

The Tower of Taoists was thrown into the Little Universe, Li Jing didn’t care about it and rushed out, but that didn’t mean it wasn’t under his control.

Whether it was a Taoist tool or whatever, as long as it was in the Little Universe, he, Li Jing, was the one to call the shots.

And in fact.

When the Tower of Taoists lost the protection of the independent space and fell into the Little Universe, Li Jing had already mastered everything related to it.

This tower, called Zhenyuan.

As a Taoist item, it is quite special. Essentially, the Taoist item itself only controlled the rule of gravity. The rules of time and space were controlled by the Taoist Origin Fruit Tree planted in the tower.

It could achieve the status of a Taoist item because it took a shortcut.

Without the Taoist Origin Fruit Tree, it could only be considered a "pseudo-Taoist item" that falls between a Taoist and an Immortal item.

The name Zhenyuan came from the existence of the Taoist Origin Fruit Tree.

Worth mentioning is.

The power of the Zhenyuan Tower was directly influenced by the Taoist Origin Fruit Tree.

The more fruits on the Taoist Origin Fruit Tree, the more powerful it is.

Nowadays, there are nine Taoist Origin Fruits on the tree, influenced by them, the power of the Zhenyuan Tower can be said to be at its peak.

The Taoist Origin Fruit Tree, once every three thousand years.

After producing nine fruits, no more will grow.

Li Jing didn’t know whether the one who Deceived the Heavens ate the Taoist Origin Fruit after obtaining the Taoist Origin Fruit Tree, but he should not be willing to eat too many in order to maintain the strongest power of the Taoist tool.

When it came to Li Jing, he wouldn’t care at all.

So what if his tool weakens? What could it matter?

As long as the item was in his hands, he was the one who has the final say.

Aside from that.

Bai Huameng was a bit stunned when she saw Li Jing acting so respectably towards her. He even took out two Taoist Origin Fruits as a greeting without saying a word. She showed a who am I and where am I face.

The entire Zhenyuan Tower was taken away by Li Jing. Including Bai Huameng, all the Taoist powerhouses present no longer held hope.

This trip had been filled with unexpected events.

First, they were trapped, and then they were almost lost in the void space.

Being able to return to the palace alive was already good enough. How could they still care about the Taoist Origin Fruit?

Who could have expected, happiness suddenly came their way?

With Bai Huameng standing there still stunned, not reaching out to receive the Taoist Origin Fruit that Li Jing had offered her, even the ancestors of the Taoist school and all the Taoist elites were feeling a strong sense of urgency.

The Taoist Origin Fruit that nearly annihilated the core power of Taoist school was almost delivered to Bai Huameng’s mouth, but she was lost in thought!

However, as anxious as they were, no one on the scene dared to hurry her up.

They were worried that if they showed too much eagerness, Li Jing might change his mind.

Then none of them would even know where to go to cry.

On this side.

After being dazed for quite a while, Bai Huameng finally managed to snap out of it.

Seeing Li Jing still offering his hand, Bai Huameng hesitated and then said in a low voice.

"The Taoist Origin Fruit, such a rare treasure, are you sure..."

Before she finished speaking, Li Jing just smiled.

"Elder Bai, just take it. I won’t be using this, even Yuran may not need it. Besides, there are a total of nine Taoist Origin Fruits in Zhenyuan Tower, and I still have seven in my hand."

Hearing this, Bai Huameng was again somewhat stunned.

It’s understandable when Li Jing said he didn’t need the Taoist Origin Fruit.

His strength is way out of proportion.

It’s perfectly reasonable that he wouldn’t care for the slight benefits brought by Taoist Origin Fruit.

But why wouldn’t Chen Yuran need it?

Before she could figure out what was happening, Li Jing forcibly put the Taoist Origin Fruit into her hand.

"Elder Bai, Yuran and I mainly came here this time to bring all of you back, to keep the Taoist school on the right track and no longer be bullied. Now that the matter is settled, we should return to the real world."

Hearing that Li Jing and Chen Yuran mainly came to bring them back, not only Bai Huameng but also all the Taoist elites present were somewhat touched.

This young man...

No, this elder, he’s so righteous!

Upon hearing that they have been bullied in the absence of everyone, the faces of all the people present darkened slightly.

After giving the Taoist Origin Fruit to Bai Huameng, Li Jing had no intention of saying more, and with Yuran, he tore through space and left.

He left so suddenly, quite a bit disrespectful.

But now it’s not that he didn’t want to have a chat, but he was concerned about the benefits the Will of Heaven in the Star Secret Realm would bring him.

The Deceiving the Heavens was finished, but the Heavenly Path Will of the Star Secret Realm had not appeared yet.

Among these, it’s most likely due to the crowded scene.

Li Jing said he was leaving and did so abruptly, making everyone present stunned together.

Next, everyone’s gaze unanimously turned to Bai Huameng.

Upon seeing this, Bai Huameng decisively stashed the two Taoist Origin Fruits away into her storage space and retorted.

"What’s the matter? Are you coveting my Taoist Origin Fruit?"

"..."

The people present.

Taoist Origin Fruit, they surely were coveting them.

But the fruits belong to Bai Huameng, they could not possibly say they would snatch them away, at most they would trade for them.

The Taoist school has always been united internally, and infighting is strictly forbidden.

Moreover, even if there were real fights, even the ancestral master of the Taoist school might not necessarily be able to take down Bai Huameng.

"Cough."

The leading ancestral master of the Taoist school coughed and said.

"The matter of the Taoist Origin Fruit is settled here. Just now, Brother Li mentioned that our school is being bullied, and we need to rush back quickly."

Having said that, he glanced up and continued.

"We have gained too little from this trip. We will leave a group of people to explore the Sky City, which we didn’t have time to explore before. The rest will follow me back to the Taoist school."

Everyone present glanced at each other, and none of them spoke up.

Seeing that no one objected, the ancestral master of the Taoist school was about to assign tasks when a Taoist elite who had been staring at the Sky City since it was mentioned by the ancestral master, spoke up tentatively.

"Master, it seems that the Sky City ... has disappeared."

?

The ancestral master of the Taoist school slowly typed out a question mark.

???

The others.

By a tacit agreement, everyone present used their vision skills to look up.

Upon looking, everyone present was collectively stunned.

At this moment, in the sky above...

Where was the Sky City?

There was nothing but an empty sky!

...

At the same time, at the entrance of the Star Secret Realm, Li Jing and Chen Yuran stepped out through space.

Before they had a chance to steady themselves, a kind-looking old man with white hair appeared unannounced in front of them.

The sudden sight of the old man made both of them stare.

Just a glance at the old man, and they were sure that he was the Will of Heaven in the Star Secret Realm.

Although Li Jing had expected in advance that the Heavenly Path of Star Secret Realm wouldn’t appear after the crisis just because there were too many people present, he didn’t expect it to show up so bluntly.

The Heavenly Path of Star Secret Realm appeared in front of Li Jing and Chen Yuran, nodded with a smile, then lifted his hand and pointed a finger.

Before he could even react, its fingertip touched his forehead.

Next thing.

Li Jing felt an unprecedentedly strong surge of Heavenly Path Qi pouring into his body, completely transforming the spiritual power in his body, which had already possessed the characteristics of Heavenly Punishment, into the Power of Heavenly Punishment.

As a result, the Thunder Punishment Rules were directly imprinted into his body.

It was not simply under his control anymore, he himself had become the Thunder Punishment.

After completing this near "modification" action, the Heavenly Path of Star Secret Realm again nodded to Li Jing and Chen Yuran with a smile and withdrew the Heavenly Path Qi.

However, just when he had retracted only half of it, the remaining half disappeared on its own.

???

The Heavenly Path of Star Secret Realm.

"..."

Li Jing.