Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant Chapter 2377: 194: The Four Great 2
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His eyes moved just a fraction, tracing those faint, disordered threads of rules to their origin without much delay.
“Beyond the boundary?”
Wang Ba felt a touch of astonishment.
Next, his attention turned to the realm membrane.
Faint strands of rules from the Sea of Chaos Realm leaked through the apparently flawless barrier of the realm membrane, trickle by trickle.
Such rules remained scarce and sparse, exerting minimal impact on the cultivators inside the world.
Without his latest breakthrough, which had propelled the Little Cang World forward and sharpened his grasp of the rules, Wang Ba might have missed this subtle intrusion entirely.
“Not even a Great Realm can shield against the rules of the Sea of Chaos Realm?”
“Could this explain why the Jade Pot Realm, despite being a Great Realm, fails to produce any Tribulation-Transcending Realm cultivators?”
Gradually, the rules of the Sea of Chaos Realm had quietly reshaped the fundamental rules across the whole Great Realm.
“Should the Little Cang World stay within the Sea of Chaos Realm, might it end up just like the Jade Pot Realm—a clear Great Realm, but one that can't yield Tribulation-Transcending Realm cultivators?”
A weight settled heavily in Wang Ba's chest.
This rule-sealing mechanism proved deviously subtle, as though it sealed off every path for cultivators to advance. Wang Ba grew more convinced that the rules in the Sea of Chaos Realm had been intentionally designed by some entity.
“Could it be Tibo?”
“Yet, if such immense power exists, why bother with all this effort?”
Puzzlement deepened within him.
Still, with the Thunder Tribulation drawing to a close and the rules around Jiang Chi's form steadily unfolding, Wang Ba pulled his mind from these thoughts and ceased his speculation.
Assimilation by the Sea of Chaos Realm's rules lay in the distant future. Right now, in the Little Cang World, cultivators could still endure the Thunder Tribulation and enter the Tribulation-Transcending Realm.
No sooner had this crossed his mind than a low groan erupted abruptly from amid the Thunder Tribulation!
Right away, cries of alarm burst from the onlookers nearby!
Wang Ba's pulse quickened. He turned his gaze swiftly, and his face shifted with unease!
There, in the heart of the Thunder Tribulation, Jiang Chi—who had just rebuilt his Eighth Tier Dao Domain—watched as his Dao Domain crumbled away like shifting sand, exposing a faint rule utterly unlike his own...
In the instant that followed, the massive Thunder Tribulation descended with fury, slamming into the defenseless Jiang Chi!
His body dissolved into a mass of foul liquid in a flash, while his Primordial Spirit ripped apart at once...
“Those are the rules of the Sea of Chaos Realm!”
Wang Ba's core trembled!
Within the Dao Domain, foreign rules had mingled in. This posed no issue during normal cultivation, but at this pivotal moment of breakthrough, it delivered a deadly strike!
For typical cultivators who grasped only a single type of rule, the disruption hit even harder—unlike Wang Ba, with his command over many rules, where such intrusions barely fazed him.
As Jiang Chi teetered on the brink of death beneath the Thunder Tribulation, a shadow crossed Wang Ba's features; he flicked his sleeve.
The Thunder Tribulation—dense as a barrel and snapping with electric fury—froze abruptly in the air.
A gentle power gathered Jiang Chi's shattered Primordial Spirit with care, drawing it before Wang Ba. He fed it a handful of Elixirs without fuss, swiftly steadying the Primordial Spirit and roughly mending it into human shape, though it lingered in dire frailty. Jiang Chi bowed deeply in thanks to Wang Ba:
“Thank you, Taoist Master Taiyi, for saving me.”
“No trouble at all.”
Wang Ba gave a faint headshake, then swept his sleeve once more, reviving the Thunder Tribulation overhead.
But lacking its primary focus, the thunderclouds overhead scattered into nothing.
“What went wrong? He was so close to succeeding!”
The gathered spectators all shared a sinking feeling. Many among them grappled with the same hurdle of reaching the Tribulation-Transcending Realm. Seeing Jiang Chi—who, after years of rule comprehension, seemed poised for triumph—fail in this bizarre way left them stunned and questioning.
No one held the explanation, not even Chongyuan Patriarch or Qitian Patriarch, whose brows knit in confusion. To them, Jiang Chi's odds of entering the Tribulation-Transcending Realm stood at eight or nine out of ten.
After all, unlike standard Unification cultivators, Jiang Chi not only acknowledged the rules' presence but had started to wield them, boosting his resistance to the Thunder Tribulation far beyond that of average peers.
And yet, Jiang Chi had faltered all the same, losing even his physical form—a shock that blindsided everyone.
“It's the rules of the Sea of Chaos Realm!”
Cang Fuzi creased his forehead sharply, catching on at last. He turned his eyes to Wang Ba with haste.
He noted Wang Ba's grave look, as though the truth had already dawned on him, and Wang Ba spoke promptly:
“Realm Master, what do you see...”
Wang Ba eyed Jiang Chi's frail Primordial Spirit, on the verge of fading away, let out a quiet sigh, and offered a firm confirmation:
“Yes, it's the effect of the Sea of Chaos Realm's rules... I never thought a Great Realm's Domain couldn't fend off outside rule interference.”
At these words, every cultivator there felt their spirits plummet.
Qiao Zhongxu, beholding Jiang Chi's wretched condition, felt his earlier grudge over the betrayal dissolve into pity alone.
Their levels of Cultivation matched closely. Jiang Chi's tribulation failure spelled likely doom for his own attempts too.
After a brief pause, Qiao Zhongxu inclined his head to Wang Ba and ventured:
“Does Taoist Master Taiyi possess any way to cut off the Sea of Chaos Realm's rule influence?”
A rare look of struggle crossed Wang Ba's face as he shook his head:
“The Sea of Chaos Realm's rules stem from a supreme force, and not even a rule-level Domain can bar them. How could I possibly... hold on!”
A sudden spark ignited in his mind!
Across the vast Realm Sea, items able to repel the Sea of Chaos Realm's rules could be tallied on a single hand. Remarkably, one such treasure existed right there in the Sea of Chaos Realm.