“You all, are you certain you do not wish to become slaves and serve the Fate Diagram?”
The light sphere transmitted its voice again.
“You wish for the impossible!”
Wan Lei responded without hesitation, simultaneously activating the Array Eye to observe the light sphere, searching for its weakness.
“Suppress.”
As the light sphere finished speaking, two beams of light erupted from within, blasting Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu to the ground.
The light beams did not dissipate but remained pressing down on them, suppressing them.
Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu resisted this suppressive force with all their might, but the power grew stronger, pinning them down so they couldn’t lift their heads.
“It seems to be draining our fortune,”
Fang Xiaoyu suddenly exclaimed after a moment.
Fortune, though formless and intangible, could be felt when it was being drawn away.
“Protagonist’s Halo, suppress fortune!”
Wan Lei gritted his teeth and roared.
“I can only suppress one of you; I cannot control the other.”
The voice of the Protagonist’s Halo appeared in his mind.
“Damn it!”
Wan Lei extended his palm, unleashing a bolt of lightning, yet it failed to harm the light sphere in the slightest.
“Stop wasting your effort; it doesn’t exist.”
The dog shook its head.
“What do you mean?”
“A spirit of an artifact is not a concrete form. It is merely the will of the Fate Diagram itself. The light sphere you see is the materialization of that will. Unless you destroy the main body of the Fate Diagram, this spirit will always exist.”
“But this is a space. With my mere Nascent Soul cultivation, can I tear space?”
“You cannot. That requires a celestial being.”
“Moreover, just tearing space is not enough. You must also destroy this Fate Diagram. Otherwise, these souls will continue to suffer here.”
“What exactly should be done? The Array Eye can only see through illusions; it cannot discern any weaknesses in this space.”
“This is a treasure of rules. Unless you understand the Way of Rules and alter its rules, or a higher-level rule descends, it cannot be destroyed.”
“I understand nothing about the Way of Rules.”
Wan Lei gnashed his teeth. At this moment, he possessed immense strength but felt utterly powerless when facing something like rules.
“I also don’t know what to do. Let’s all think of a way together. We can’t stay suppressed like this forever.”
The little yellow dog was also anxious, but this matter was beyond its abilities and knowledge; it had no solution.
Who would have thought that a mid-level spiritual plane, far inferior to the Thunder Wind Realm, would possess a treasure capable of forming its own world and trapping both the living and the spirits?
The suppressive force grew stronger and stronger. Even with Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu resisting with all their might, they could not withstand the terrifying pressure.
This pressure compressed every inch of their flesh and blood. Their cultivated energy was also suppressed and squeezed.
Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu felt excruciating pain all over their bodies, a suffocating agony as if every inch of their skin was about to burst.
Also being compressed was their dantian, including the cultivation within and their Nascent Souls.
Their cultivation was being compressed and squeezed inch by inch, and even the tiny Nascent Soul figures let out cries of pain.
Helpless, the two could only resist desperately.
Time passed unknown, but their strength was finite. Sooner or later, they would be unable to resist, completely suppressed by the light beams, becoming slaves of the diagram, or nutrients for others to absorb their fortune.
*Crack.*
A crisp sound, followed by a wave of intense pain that swept through his entire body, instantly cleared Wan Lei’s muddled mind.
He peered into his dantian and found that his Nascent Soul had developed cracks.
This was not the Nascent Soul about to explode, but a qualitative change occurring due to the continuous compression of his cultivation. Naturally, the Nascent Soul shattered, and the Nascent Soul emerged.
The two of them, having accumulated for years and comprehended the Nascent Soul realm for years, were long destined to break through to the Nascent Soul stage; they only lacked a catalyst.
And now, the catalyst had arrived.
The breakthrough in cultivation did not bring Wan Lei joy but plunged him into an icy abyss.
There was no spiritual energy here, yet breaking through to the Nascent Soul required a massive supply of spiritual energy to sustain the process. Breaking through his cultivation at this time would surely lead to death from depletion of energy due to the lack of spiritual energy, just as he had almost been sucked dry by Fang Xiaoyu when he broke through to the Nascent Soul realm.
Wait a minute.
Wan Lei smacked his own forehead.
“Damn it!”
“What are you freaking out about?”
The dog was startled.
“I have a way! Higher rules, you say? I have higher rules!”
Wan Lei let out an excited howl. At this moment, the life-threatening crisis brought about by being suppressed, trapped, and breaking through his cultivation was all resolved by this single thought.
“Stop beating around the bush and say it quickly.”
Fang Xiaoyu gritted her teeth, already exhausted.
“Heavenly Tribulation! We can use the Heavenly Tribulation to attack the Fate Diagram. We are about to break through our cultivation, so we can attract the Heavenly Tribulation.
The level of this Heavenly Tribulation is the rule of the universe and heaven and earth. It must be countless times higher than the rules of this Fate Diagram.
When a higher rule descends, can this lower rule continue to exist stably?”
“That’s right! Heavenly Tribulation! Hahaha, how could I not have thought of that?”
The dog also jumped up excitedly.
“Dog, take down my storage bag and pile up all the spirit stones. We will absorb the spiritual energy from the spirit stones to break through our cultivation. We are close to each other, so each of us will bear double the Heavenly Tribulation, meaning four portions.
I will guide this Heavenly Tribulation into this space of ours. I refuse to believe that the power of four portions of Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation is not enough to destroy this Fate Diagram.”
“Okay.”
The dog immediately snatched Wan Lei’s storage bag and began piling up spirit stones.
“Wait a moment.”
Wan Lei’s expression suddenly changed, and he looked at the dog with a grave expression.
“If the Fate Diagram is destroyed, will the hundreds of millions of souls here dissipate?”
Upon hearing this, the dog almost kicked Wan Lei to death.
At this moment, he still had the leisure to think about such things. These ghosts were already dead. If they were dead, they were dead. Were their lives more important than yours?
“No, they still have their consciousness. They are not malevolent spirits, but normal souls. When the Fate Diagram is shattered, they will return to the world outside.
However, the living world does not tolerate souls, so the gates to the underworld will open and take them all to the underworld.”
“That’s good. Let’s begin, my wife. Let’s absorb spiritual energy together and break through our cultivation together.
We will destroy this Fate Diagram, saving ourselves, saving these hundreds of millions of souls, and saving the tens of thousands of Beast Tamers outside!”
Spirit stones were piled up like mountains, and the cultivation bottleneck of Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu had been broken. Torrential spiritual energy formed a hurricane, entering their bodies.
The breakthrough proceeded without any obstacles.
An hour later, the cultivation breakthrough was complete.
Four bolts of lightning suddenly appeared in the sky, striking down upon them.
Wan Lei let out a loud laugh, pointed his finger at the sky, guiding the four heavenly tribulations, and directed them towards the light sphere.
Ferrying the Heavenly Tribulation, tearing the Fate Diagram!!!