Chapter 349 The Overlooked Clues
The light from the heavens above was like a giant's spear, relentlessly exerting destructive pressure.
The barrier, which combined the spirits of five chosen ones and two divine artifacts, resembled a lone boat tossed about in a storm, its light flashing intensely and cracks spreading continuously.
Even with the combined efforts of Luo Chuan and his group, the suppression could only be temporarily halted.
"Ugh!" Shen Yu, who was at the Nascent Soul stage, was the first to spit out a mouthful of blood.
The next second, the healing light of the wood-type card instantly and frantically gathered on him.
"Step back." Lian Zhuo glanced at Shen Yu, "This power is beyond the reach of even a Nascent Soul cultivator."
Shen Yu turned a deaf ear.
As the one with the highest cultivation level among the five, Yan Xi naturally had the most acute senses.
He could clearly feel the mournful cry coming from the ground beneath his feet, and the sense of desolation in the air was intensifying.
It perfectly matched the aura he had when he underwent tribulation back then.
"The structure of the laws is changing." Yan Xi's voice carried an eerie calm.
"It's not that Heaven doesn't want people to ascend, but rather that something outside of Heaven doesn't want people to ascend."
As Huali was struggling to maintain the Wood Element Card, she heard Yanxi's words—suddenly, a crucial truth that she had overlooked exploded into her mind.
"Because of destiny!!" The girl's voice was hoarse from excitement and exhaustion.
“Every cultivator who reaches the edge of ascension is the greatest embodiment of destiny. They first absorb the essence of the world for their own use, and then, after success, give back even more.”
"This is a virtuous cycle! It's the right path for the world to move forward!"
Karin's hair and red feathers were tousled by the fierce wind, but her eyes remained sharp as knives, staring straight at the dark silver sky:
"But Huanyu! It only takes in and never gives out!"
"It absorbs this fortune to nourish its own operation, so it will never allow anyone to ascend naturally."
Yan Xi immediately understood: "If the ascension is successful, it will open up a higher level of path, which is a variable that it cannot control at all!"
Huali gritted her teeth: "That's why it suppresses! It destroys! It stops it at the source!"
"Because it has no intention of allowing cultivators of this realm to ascend!"
The fog completely dissipated amidst Hana's roars. While everyone else suddenly realized what was happening, Hana herself was slightly taken aback.
But... if that's the case, why not just...
Ao Bai, who shared her feelings, noticed the anomaly. "Host, think carefully about the task issued by the gold-type card when Luo Chuan was undergoing her tribulation."
Headquarters instructed her to sever the causal link.
Why?
Because... cutting off Luo Chuan will result in death!
So the system had actually discovered this from that time onwards!
What's the next task?
Huali said uncertainly, "But when the fire-type card was used, the system didn't give anything away..."
Ao Bai's gaze swept over Yan Xi and Luo Chuan at the front, "...because he is not in the Tribulation Transcending stage."
"Does the host still remember why we entered the illusionary dream in the Abyss?"
Hua Li paused, "Back then, it was to find the Demon Dragon, but finding the Demon Dragon was my own idea, I wanted to give it to Lian Zhuo... no!"
"Finding the Demon Dragon was indeed my idea, but at that time I had just absorbed the Reincarnation Sundial and could not control it at will, so I did not want to take action immediately."
"And I remember the little bird was injured, and the whole pond was covered in his blood..."
Ao Bai: "But the headquarters system suddenly issued an order, setting a two-hour time limit for completion."
Huali's expression hardened.
“The little bird once said that the boundary ring on his hand is related to the Heavenly Dao. The reason he went to great lengths to find a host was because he needed us to sever it.”
"But isn't the Heavenly Dao just me, King Meow Meow? I've never done anything like this, so who's behind the Boundary Ring?"
"The world!"
"So Huanyu knows that the little bird won't just stand by and watch me go to my death. Even when he's extremely weak, he'll still go to the demon dragon to protect me!"
"So! Whether it's Luo Chuan or Yan Yue, both are at the Tribulation Transcending stage, the closest to ascension in cultivation. Headquarters actually wants them..."
"die!!!"
Pale white lightning bolts appeared one after another in the sky.
The barrier formed by Luo Chuan and the others was already at its limit, and the spiderweb-like barrier was rapidly spreading in all directions.
The instant it shattered completely with a "crack"—
Karin's eyes widened. "Get out of the way!"
The concentrated light of judgment, carrying absolute will, crashed down!
But a sudden change occurred—
When the light touched Luo Chuanyan and the others, it was as if it had encountered an invisible sliding wall, and its power was greatly deflected and slid away!
The terrifying light seemed unable to truly "identify" or even "effectively harm" their core power.
Everyone was stunned at the same time.
Ao Bai roared, "I understand! The universe is an external force. It can only bypass the luck through cards, but it cannot bypass the true Heavenly Dao to attack those destined for fortune!"
Before Ao Bai could finish speaking, Wen Jin had already turned around instantly.
As expected! After being deflected, the light blasted directly at the incoming rosewood!
"The regenerating soil, rise!"
The instant the earth-type card activates its barrier—
The force that should have been used to defend against external attacks instead seemed to have triggered a hidden reverse trap, and suddenly surged back!
"puff--"
Before Huali could react, she felt as if cold, venomous snakes were burrowing into and tearing at her internal organs!
He suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Why?" Karin stared at everything in shock. "Cards...why? I clearly severed all contact with headquarters...and the cards weren't actually stolen, so why?"
How could a gift from Heaven become a weapon to harm her?
“Cause and effect backlash,” Luo Shenshu said.
"When it realizes it has been fooled, a very hidden reverse cause and effect is buried deep within the core of this imitation."
His gaze fell on the earth-type card in Huali's hand. "The deeper you use this power based on its rules and framework, the more entangled you become with its cause and effect."
Ao Bai suddenly realized: "That's why it continued to make the mistake even after it discovered it."
Luo Shenshu: "The previous threats were nothing to it; now it's using its trump card."
“External forces cannot wipe out the people here on a large scale, but they can precisely trigger the ‘effect’ when you use your power, based on the ‘cause’ that has already been sown, so that even the Heavenly Dao cannot fully detect it.”
Upon hearing this, Ao Bai's fur stood on end, and he leaped in front of Hua Li, frantically pawing at her with his paws. "Quick! There's a small ball of light on you; that's my memory. Give it to me!"
Huali opened Qinglin Pendant as instructed.
As the ball of light flew out, it was swallowed whole by Ao Bai.
Meow Meow King's body stiffened as countless fragmented images and sealed senses flooded into its consciousness!
At the same time, Luo Shen Shu closed her eyes again. The green runes around her circulated at an unprecedented speed.
When time is stretched infinitely—
Both of them opened their eyes at the same time:
"The key lies in the fifth star."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
