Chapter 226: The Embryonic Form of Samsara
Off said that the little white rabbit he had used as an experimental subject had encountered a great opportunity, and it wasn't an exaggeration.
Because, after the little white rabbit escaped, a "Karma" was formed between it and Off.
This little white rabbit would be entangled with Off under the influence of this Karma, until this Karma was resolved.
Of course, Off could directly kill the little white rabbit to resolve the "Karma" between himself and the little white rabbit. However, at the same time, more Karma related to the little white rabbit would become entangled with Off, and the final outcome was unknown even to Off himself.
After gaining this realization, a sudden clarity emerged in Off's mind.
The "Laws" he had created in the Starry Sky Universe could not be called "Destiny," but should be called "Karma."
Currently, it had reached the level where he could Proving the Dao.
However, unlike Palhouse, Off did not choose to Proving the Dao immediately. Instead, he continued to deepen his understanding of "Karma."
And under the entanglement of Karma, after several encounters with Off, that little white rabbit eventually followed Off's side...
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While everyone else was astonished that someone had successfully Proved the Dao, Palhouse, who had successfully recorded the Water Law into the Heavenly Dao and obtained a "Water" Dao Fruit, was now facing another choice.
Every creator who successfully Proved the Dao could have an imprint left by the Heavenly Dao in the Thunder Palace.
Subsequent individuals seeking to Proving the Dao, if they wished for a higher ranking, would need to challenge the thunderous phantom in the Thunder Palace.
Victory would allow them to take the other's position.
Looking at the lightning silhouette in the Thunder Palace, Palhouse ultimately chose to forgo the challenge.
Although the enhancement from the Water Dao Fruit had made Palhouse's current strength comparable to ordinary Emperor level powerhouses.
Yet, from that lightning silhouette, Palhouse still felt a powerful threat.
The strength of this lightning silhouette was not something he could handle at the moment.
Moreover, Palhouse also sensed rapidly approaching auras around him.
Those guys should be the "fierce beasts" that Lord Roy had mentioned, the ones that preyed on powerful humans, right?
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While others were cultivating, Roy was directly hunting fierce beasts of Emperor level and above on various planets.
After dealing with the fierce beasts on a planet, Roy would leave behind a portion of his army.
On one hand, it was to teach the inhabitants of the native planets to practice the "Qi Gathering Stance" and enhance their strength.
On the other hand, it was also a form of protection for them until they could grow stronger.
After all, Roy had only killed fierce beasts of Emperor level and above.
He hadn't killed any of the hundreds-of-meters-large advanced fierce beasts, nor the kilometer-sized Saint Realm fierce beasts.
These fierce beasts were deliberately left by Roy to put pressure on the people of the planets.
After all, if the human population didn't reach a certain number, they wouldn't attract the attention of advanced fierce beasts at all.
If their strength didn't reach a certain level, Saint Realm fierce beasts wouldn't even glance at humans.
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Over the next twenty years, heavenly tribulations were born from time to time.
To Roy's surprise and delight, the eighteen people he had brought into the Starry Sky Universe had given him immense surprises.
Water Law - Palhouse.
Law of Fire - Creator Roy, cultivator Bamer.
Earthly Laws - Leilin.
Law of Wind - Creator Theresia, cultivator Baier.
Law of Light - Clement.
Law of Thunder - Ninisha.
Death Law - Dannington.
Law of Destiny - Magnus.
These were all Laws from the Magic Universe.
The Four Divine Beast Lord Gods and the other four Rule Sovereigns had all created Laws that did not exist in the Magic Universe.
Azure Dragon Sovereign Leding - Law of Dragon.
White Tiger Sovereign Us - Law of Beast.
Vermillion Bird Sovereign Nimo - Law of Yang.
Black Tortoise Sovereign Bowen - Law of Strength.
Star Sovereign Tina - Law of Illusion.
Life Sovereign Vivian - Law of Creation.
Destruction Sovereign Utred - Law of Slaughter.
Destiny Sovereign Off — Law of Karma.
The eighteen people brought into the Starry Sky Universe by Roy introduced sixteen laws to it.
Currently, only Death Sovereign Lilia had not yet Proved the Dao.
Otherwise, Roy's Starry Sky Universe would have seventeen laws at this moment.
And the law Lilia was currently comprehending was the most surprising to Roy.
He never expected that Lilia, whom he hadn't thought much of, and whom everyone else also overlooked, had actually touched upon such a law.
Now, Roy felt that Lilia's achievements might surpass those of the other seventeen.
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It had been almost forty years since Lilia joined this small village.
Xiao Zhu was already married and had given birth to two children.
In her fifties, this was considered "long life" for the humans on this planet.
With her high seniority and broad knowledge, Lilia was very popular among the villagers in Changxi Village.
They all believed Lilia was Changxi Village's lucky star.
After all, ever since Lilia arrived in Changxi Village, it had rarely suffered attacks from ferocious beasts, and the villagers could always hunt prey based on the hunting locations Lilia pointed out.
In a few decades, Changxi Village had grown from a small village of over a hundred people to a large village of over five hundred.
Over these years, Lilia's heart had been filled with mixed emotions.
With every new law that appeared in the Starry Sky Universe, Lilia's heart sank a little further.
With her current comprehension of the laws of Death, Life, and Water, Lilia could trigger a heavenly tribulation and Prove the Dao to become an Emperor at any moment.
Initially, Lilia was unwilling.
In the Magic Universe, she was the high and mighty Death Sovereign.
How could she accept being just an ordinary Emperor in the Starry Sky Universe?
Once she became an Emperor of one of these three elements, it would be almost impossible to succeed in the Great Dao contention. At that time, she would live out her life ordinarily, becoming a laughingstock for other Paragon cultivators and Sovereigns.
However, after interacting with the people of Changxi Village for decades, perhaps influenced by the villagers, Lilia gradually let go of these thoughts and began to see herself as an ordinary person.
Even Lilia's appearance gradually showed wrinkles like other elders, and her back began to stoop.
Then, she patiently taught the next generation the experiences the elders in the village had imparted to her.
Through this generational shift, Lilia felt as if she had comprehended something, yet also as if she hadn't comprehended anything.
Until this day, Lilia approached Xiao Zhu.
Xiao Zhu was now forty-three years old.
However, due to severe bleeding during the birth of her third child, although Lilia managed to save her in the end, her body had been declining year by year. At forty-four, Xiao Zhu looked even older than Lilia, who was in her fifties.
At this moment, Xiao Zhu was lying in bed, on the verge of death.
"Sister..."
Upon seeing Lilia, Xiao Zhu smiled.
"Xiao Zhu."
Seeing Xiao Zhu like this, Lilia felt an inexplicable sense of unease.
She wanted to vent, but didn't know how.
Xiao Zhu's mother had died in a village attack by ferocious beasts when she was four years old, and Lilia had raised her afterward.
They had only spent about forty-two years together, and excluding the time they spent apart after Xiao Zhu got married, it amounted to less than twenty years in total.
But these past few years spent with Xiao Zhu and the villagers of Changxi Village, Lilia felt, were far more interesting than the over a thousand epochs she had lived in Netherworld Mountain.
Perhaps this was the difference between personally participating and being an outsider.
"Sister, you're here."
Xiao Zhu was now so weak that she gasped for breath even when speaking.
"Sister, I remember when I was little, my mother told me that when people die, their souls turn into stars in the sky to watch over the people they care about on Earth. The better the living people are doing, the happier the deceased loved ones will be, and the brighter their stars will shine, making them easier to see."
"Mom said that if I lived happily, then the brightest star would be her, and I could find her easily, and she could see me quickly."
"If I were unhappy, then the dimmest star would be her, and I wouldn't be able to find her no matter what, and she wouldn't be able to see me..."
"So, Mom said I had to always be happy."
"Sister, I feel like I'm about to become a star in the sky..."
"Ah Da, Shuang'er, and San Xi already have their own families; I can rest assured."
"But Sister, you've been alone for decades. After I'm gone, you have to be happy too; I want to watch you..."
Lilia held Xiao Zhu's hand, and for the first time, she truly understood the fragility of humans.
For the first time, Lilia had the thought that she didn't want to die alone.
Since she didn't want to Proving the Dao with these three Laws, Lilia had only comprehended them without refining them into her own Law power.
Now, to keep Xiao Zhu alive, Lilia simultaneously drew the power of the three Laws into her body, refining them into Law power within herself.
She prepared to use Water power to nourish Xiao Zhu's body, Life power to restore Xiao Zhu's lifespan, and Death power to protect Xiao Zhu's soul.
However, Lilia had forgotten that this was not the Magic Universe.
In the Starry Sky Universe, life was limited. To maximize the value of humanity, Roy had set humanity on the path of the "Extreme Dao."
Each person could only walk one path and strive to take that path to its highest point.
Lilia drawing the power of three Laws into her body had already violated the "rule" set by Roy.
In the Starry Sky Universe, drawing Law power into one's body was considered "entering a Dao."
Whichever Law power one drew into their body, that was the Dao they entered.
Afterward, they would comprehend the Law, strengthen their Law power, and Proving the Dao to become an Emperor.
When Lilia felt the chaotic state of the three Law powers within her body, she knew in her heart that she had broken a taboo.
At this moment, Lilia had two choices.
Either she could disperse these three Law powers and thus become someone who had "entered a Dao" and failed, forever unable to cultivate Laws again, and instead focus on body cultivation.
Or, she had to fuse the three Law powers within her body into a new Law!
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