Chapter 148: Amon, Dead

The Eight Trigrams Furnace burst out from his dantian, swelling with the wind and planting itself on the ground as if suppressing heaven and earth; the Dao patterns on its surface circulated, actually gradually evolving and perfecting themselves.

When Jiang Xuan replicated the Eight Trigrams Furnace within the Hongmeng Treasure Mirror, because time was insufficient it only had the form of the Eight Trigrams Furnace, and its Dao patterns were difficult to replicate due to insufficient strength, so they could only be slowly supplemented as his strength increased.

But now, after the Eight Trigrams Furnace absorbed that polluted Rule Power, it actually used its own Rule to autonomously supplement the furnace's Dao patterns; an aura of suppressing the Cosmos for ten thousand ages crossed time and drifted here.

The smile on Amon's face dissipated, and he looked at the suddenly appearing furnace cauldron in disbelief.

"Stealing!"

Just as he used his ability, the Eight Trigrams Furnace eagerly absorbed and refined that tiny bit of Rule Power.

Jiang Xuan raised his head to look at Amon, only to see him staring fixedly at the furnace cauldron, the eyes behind him already dim and colorless.

"What Sequence is this furnace? It can actually ignore Sequence?" Amon's expression carried madness: "Just a little bit more! If I could parasitize you! What a great henchman that would be? You really should die!"

"Boom!"

Not far away, space suddenly trembled, and a figure appeared; it was actually Amon!

If Jiang Xuan had not, after regaining consciousness, directly used Rules to seal off the entire space, Amon would have already run away by now!

But the Sequence 2 Great Shift talisman could only block Amon's theft once; the next second, part of the sealed space was stolen by Amon, causing the entire spatial blockade to collapse instantly.

Amon curved one hand, stealing space from an extremely distant place to prepare to leave here.

The most important reason this plan failed was still that the two of them had not truly become gods; if they had controlled Jiang Xuan from the start, and if both had become gods, they could have directly parasitized Jiang Xuan from the beginning, not giving that mysterious furnace a chance to react.

Amon thought thus, when a black-and-white sword radiance appeared before him in an instant across a thousand li; immediately after, a figure slowly emerged in the Void—it was Jiang Xuan, who had just been conversing with his Avatar.

Looking back at the distance, the figure before Amon's Avatar dissipated like foam.

Yin-Yang Power represents Life and Death; it can let all things resurrect, and can also make living beings perish.

Amon did not expect Jiang Xuan to react so quickly and attack him; completely unprepared, his body withstood that sword radiance symbolizing death, dragging his body to perform a theft teleportation.

Finally teleportation succeeded!

The surprise in Amon's eyes had just surfaced when it was frozen in place; Jiang Xuan stood before him as well, the surrounding space once again blockaded, and now his true body was right under Jiang Xuan's nose.

He couldn't escape!

Amon did not look very panicked; instead, he stared at Jiang Xuan more calmly: "How did you find me so quickly!"

"As the God of Pranks, you should not feel anger or despair! And it's impossible for you to complain about battle failure! You would only calmly think about how to escape."

Jiang Xuan pointed at Amon standing in place: "Even if you can't escape, what you should be thinking about is what to use to convince me to let you go! Just like you are now!"

"I once felt that you seem to understand me very well!" Amon did not deny Jiang Xuan's guess; instead, he looked at Jiang Xuan with a puzzled expression.

"Maybe I've just read too many books!" Jiang Xuan spread his hands.

"I can help you enter the Chaos Sea!"

Jiang Xuan looked back at the Eight Trigrams Furnace burning blazingly in the distance, and shook his head calmly: "I already have the key to enter it! And I knew from the beginning that you couldn't enter the Chaos Sea! Adam might have only barely entered."

Amon's expression changed; his original reliance no longer worked, forcing him to think what else he could bring out: "I know many secrets in the history of the Old Ones!"

"The history of this world is useless to me! Besides, I've heard you say quite a bit." Of course, Amon had actively told Klein.

Amon had no time to wonder why the other had heard him speak of secrets; he was busy thinking how to make the other let him go.

"I can become your follower! Or your strange attendant!" Amon gritted his teeth.

Although being a strange attendant was equivalent to being a servant, Amon was not without a chance to escape; as long as he could take that last step, he could use complete Error to eliminate the side effects of the strange attendant, and at a critical moment could still screw Jiang Xuan over.

Jiang Xuan instead shook his head disappointedly: "It seems you can't come up with an answer that satisfies me!"

The silent Death Power suddenly erupted; the Eight Trigrams Furnace fire crossed space to appear beside Jiang Xuan, dragging Amon's entire body into the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

Amon's body turned into countless Time Worms slain by Death Power, slowly condensing into several Potions in the furnace fire; these were Potions needed for the late stage of the "Fool" Sequence, and most importantly, that single gold-rimmed eye standing in the Eight Trigrams Furnace fire.

That single gold-rimmed eye was precisely the Uniqueness of Sequence Zero of the "Error" Sequence!

Because during this time period Amon had not induced Men Xiansheng to return, nor completed the requirements for stealing another's Godhood Ritual, so he had not fused the Uniqueness; thus it still looked like an object.

Taking out the several extracted Potions, Jiang Xuan took out the Curtain Cloak possessing the "Fool" Sequence from One to Nine.

"Error", "Door", and "Fool" all belong to the Same Origin Sequence and can replace each other.

Strictly speaking, Jiang Xuan had now gathered a complete True God Path from Sequence Nine to Sequence Zero! As long as he refined the Curtain Cloak and the gold-rimmed glasses, and still mastered Rule Power equivalent to that inside Sequence 2 Old One's Box.

Jiang Xuan did not rush to refine; instead, he put away the Eight Trigrams Furnace and quietly watched the distant Sky.

A pair of eyes like God's stood in the Darkness; there was not the slightest emotional fluctuation in them, only an indifferent attitude toward all living beings.

He was the culprit who blocked Jiang Xuan this time: Adam!

Amon's personality would never confront someone head-on, and his combat strength was not strong; after suffering a loss once, Amon would definitely not actively seek trouble with Jiang Xuan again, unless he broke through to True God.

But Amon had blocked him on the path Jiang Xuan must pass, which originally made him somewhat suspect that Adam was behind it.

Afterward, the two worked together to influence Jiang Xuan, which could basically confirm that Adam was behind it.

Amon and him had quite large contradictions; he shouldn't go find Adam to cooperate just because he was beaten up, so it could only be that Adam persuaded Amon to carry out this action.

As if sensing Jiang Xuan's gaze, that pair of indifferent eyes finally turned from where Amon died toward Jiang Xuan, deeply looked at Jiang Xuan, and those golden eyes gradually dissipated.

Adam encountered for the first time that the words he wrote out were actually forcibly broken, and even caused him a certain degree of backlash!

So what is most important to him now is his Godhood Ritual; prepare to become a god before acting against Jiang Xuan!

Although the two of them previously did not have many contradictions, when Jiang Xuan prepared to refine the Chaos Sea, their contradictions could no longer be reconciled; Jiang Xuan also knew this.

The Chaos Sea is God's thing, and also the place where the Ancient Sun God later rose; and the Ancient Sun God was God's backup means for Resurrection.

Now Adam was again tainted by the consciousness of the dead Ancient Sun God.

Under this series of complex relationships, the Chaos Sea had long been regarded by Adam as his own private plot; no one could encroach upon it.

Now the Source Castle already had a master; if he wanted to obtain the Source Castle, he would have to steal Klein's Source Castle like Amon did; if he killed Klein now, Jiang Xuan would also have no way to find the location of the Source Castle.

But Klein is the protagonist of this world, or rather the current protagonist. If he wanted to kill Klein, behind him stood the Goddess of Night, the Hidden Ones of the Spirit World; who knew what problems might arise.

So the Source Quality that could be schemed for was only that bit of thing in the hands of these two villains, Amon and Adam; no one was willing to help.

As for other Source Quality sealed by the Heavenly Venerable within the Gray Fog Wall, he would need to wait until Jiang Xuan had the ability to deal with those gazes spying in the Star Sky before having a chance to obtain them.

Watching the last thread of golden light in the Sky dissipate, Jiang Xuan withdrew his gaze, examining the Eight Trigrams Furnace withdrawn into his body.

Because he was burning the "Fool" Sequence Nine to Sequence One curtain, the Eight Trigrams Furnace did not merge into his body but instead suppressed space at his dantian.

By now, the Daojie on the furnace body had become much more refined; the flames within had turned dark red-black, and most importantly, a small pool of black-brown liquid had appeared at the bottom of the Eight Trigrams Furnace. This liquid was slowly absorbed by the furnace to perfect the Dao Patterns on its body.

The black-gold flames in the Eight Trigrams Furnace could collide with the Rule Power of Sequence Zero, representing that its might was now on par with a True God. The Dao Patterns had accumulated to the point where they could suppress Rules.

This was merely absorbing the power of the strange pollution dispersed from the Chaos Sea; if he could fully refine the Chaos Sea, how great would its might be?

Returning to Chernobyl, that passage still existed; it seemed even Adam could not control hiding this passage.

Jiang Xuan sat cross-legged on the spot, the Eight Trigrams Furnace standing horizontally in the Void, absorbing the dispersed strange power around him on one side while using flames to refine the curtain on the other.

Sequence Nine "Seer": one can mobilize a small amount of Fate Rules through channels of one's own choosing to perform limited divination, but must simultaneously maintain reverence for Fate; changing Fate will result in being enveloped by a kind of Karma Rule.

Sequence Eight "Clown": increases physical quality and flexibility, barely involving Rule Power, more like an adaptation to the preceding Rule Power; it was of little help to Jiang Xuan.

Sequence Seven "Magician": masters a few core Trickery Rules, able to transform means originally used to deceive spectators into true arts, such as Flame Jumping, Air Bullet, Paper Doll Substitute, controlling flames, creating illusions, fake "underwater breathing", bone softening, drawing paper to make soldiers, and so on.

Sequence Six "Faceless": a small amount of Trickery Rules, able to impersonate anyone.

Sequence Five "Puppet Master": can see Spirit Body Threads, and through these threads influence the target's Spirit Body, Star Spirit Body, Mental Body, and Ether Body, thereby controlling people into becoming Puppets, completely transforming people into marionettes!

Sequence Four "Bizarre Sorcerer" is a sublimation of most previous skills, and can split mental power, completely master Puppets, and use their own abilities.

Sequence Three "Ancient Scholar" further enhances control over the "Foolery" Rule, increases the power of most abilities, and can summon people or objects from the past or future from the cracks of time.

Sequence Two "Miracle Master": masters the core ability of Foolery, "Wish"; after accumulating the fulfillment of others' wishes, it can be used to fulfill one's own wishes. And one can use the split Spirit Worms to revive oneself four times.

Sequence One "Attendant of Mysteries": has already mastered the rudiments of Change and Concealment, able to recombine and blend anything, able to isolate and hide an area so that even information cannot be transmitted, already possessing the rudiments of the final Domain.

After refining the curtain once, Jiang Xuan had basically understood the Rule Power representing "Mystery".

Splitting out the Sequence One Characteristic and leaving it for Claire to advance to Sequence Zero, Jiang Xuan directly refined the curtain within his body.

Whether the split-out Sequence One Existence existed or not had no effect on the curtain, because Jiang Xuan had completely mastered the Rule Characteristics in "Attendant of Mysteries"; using the curtain, he could similarly control the rudiments of the Concealment Domain.

Opening his eyes, firelight flickered in Jiang Xuan's eyes; with a snap of his fingers, when he appeared again, he was already one kilometer away.

Jiang Xuan shook his head; he didn't even need to snap his fingers for his Da Yi Nuoyi talismans—a single step could traverse several hundred kilometers, far more useful than this.

Moreover, the Spirit Worm's revival could not revive his Body Refinement body; the Eight Trigrams Furnace, Immortal Trapping Sword, and so on could not be copied.

The only usable ability was "Control"; as long as his Divine Sense was higher than others, he could crush and control the opponent into becoming his puppet.

There was also the rudiments of the Concealment Domain!

A True God's Divine Kingdom was a kind of disguised Domain; in the Covering the Heavens Continent, Saints already possessed Domains, but because Jiang Xuan's path was different, his current attack and defense were both comparable to Saints; the only difference was that he did not have his own Rule Domain.

Perhaps he could find a way to build a Rule Domain belonging to him in this world.

Jiang Xuan contacted the Gray Fog to send the Sequence One Mystery Characteristic to Klein's hands, while he himself began to focus on refining the "Error" Uniqueness!

Although the flames had been upgraded, refining the "Error" Uniqueness was still very slow.

Not only was the refining speed slow, but Jiang Xuan's acceptance ability was also slow!

As a True God Sequence, the Rule Power contained in Sequence Zero was too vast; Jiang Xuan, tempered several times, could only persist for one second each time before having to cut off the instillation of knowledge.

But each time he refined, Jiang Xuan's gaze became a bit brighter; he suddenly discovered that the "Error" Sequence was actually not an extension of a Rule, but a means of scrutinizing and utilizing Rules.

He was like a hacker targeting the world; while finding any loophole, he would tamper with and utilize that loophole to achieve his goal.

When a Rule appeared with a loophole, it was even more threatening than all Rules.

And the "Error" Divine Kingdom built from this could classify all reasonable or unreasonable Rules and things as Errors!

Simply put, "one who is beaten should fight back" was originally a reasonable Rule, but in the "Error" Divine Kingdom, this matter could be classified as an Error, and all those who were beaten would lose the ability to fight back.

Even a True God in the "Error" Divine Kingdom could not break this Rule.

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