Changing the Rules

Chapter 92 Changing the Rules

"Hmph! You really think you can trap a Primordial God with such paltry tricks? Even though I am just a remnant soul, I am not someone to be bullied." The remnant soul of Shen Ni sneered.

Even if he is just a remnant soul, he is still a part of the Primordial God. Even in this personal primordial world, the remnant soul of Shenni still seems to be in its element.

In the beginning, his personal prowess did bring him some minor troubles, as he repeatedly encountered setbacks due to his lack of understanding of the rules.

However, after a short while, he figured out the logic and immediately used various powerful techniques to counterattack. Sometimes he even used Guang Chengzi's body as a shield, leaving the others at a loss for where to begin.

Feeling the restraint exerted on him, Daoist Zhunti, enraged, said, "This remnant soul is truly stubborn! He's clearly on the verge of death; he'd better not surrender obediently. If he really comes out, I can kill him with a single blow!"

Tongtian nodded slightly in agreement, though he was the one who made the fewest moves among those present.

The reason he dared not act was because the destructive power of the Great Dao he controlled was too terrifying; a misstep could easily injure Guang Chengzi.

Seeing the increasingly arrogant attitude of the remnant soul of Shenni, Yuanshi Tianzun finally couldn't hold back any longer.

"I say, within this world, no thought is allowed to harm one's own body. To die, one must annihilate the soul, but never damage the body!"

The Primordial Celestial Venerable issued a decree, and as soon as his words were uttered, a rule within the ten-zhang-wide primordial realm shrouded in the Eight Views Palace was instantly altered!

Under the influence of this altered rule, Shenni's remnant soul, which had originally intended to harm Guang Chengzi's physical body to threaten these people, suddenly felt weak all over. Only after circulating his supernatural powers and magic to expel the remnants could he recover.

However, the moment he tries to harm his physical body, all his magical power immediately collapses again, becoming ineffective, clearly indicating that the rule against harming the physical body has been activated.

Upon realizing this, the remnant soul of Shenni stared at Yuanshi Tianzun in horror. This was no longer about distorting the rules or being unaffected by them; it was about directly altering the rules!

"You! You really have a death wish! You actually dare to change the rules of the primordial world under the watchful eye of the Heavenly Dao! Do you really want to die?! If you want to die, get out of here and don't drag me down with you!"

The remnant soul of Shen Ni panicked and immediately activated its Great Luo Dao, directly transcending infinite space and time, and leaving this world behind.

But before he had been gone long, a colossal thirty-six-story golden pagoda appeared again. On top of this pagoda, a huge, bright pearl shone with billions of colorful lights, spreading to billions of worlds and sweeping across the ten directions of the universe. Countless beings received it and sang hymns of merit, and immeasurable merit spread throughout time and space, sweeping up awe-inspiring mountains of merit.

Under the suppression of these countless mountains of merit, even the Great Luo Golden Immortal's ability to transcend time and space seemed to be compressed to the extreme.

Even though the remnant soul of Shenni desperately used the Primordial Dao Fruit of a ferocious beast whose location was unknown, forcibly drawing down a wisp of Primordial Dao Rhyme, it was still difficult to shake even a fraction of these mountains of merit.

In the void, the enormous thirty-six-story golden pagoda continued to rotate, gracefully showering down boundless golden light of merit, saving countless suffering beings.

The Exquisite Pagoda of Heaven and Earth, the first acquired treasure of merit in the primordial world!

It is also the first supreme divine object that, even with its acquired form, can rival or even be compared to a supreme innate treasure!

Even a supreme being would be awestruck and even despairing when faced with this pagoda, and would surrender helplessly, because it is a divine pagoda that no one can break.

Tongtian made a hand seal and pointed slightly at the pagoda. The Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda trembled, and an infinite suction force naturally arose from the bottom of the pagoda, directly swallowing the remnant soul.

Then the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Exquisite Pagoda spun around and returned to the size of a fist. It then floated into Tongtian's hand, appearing remarkably calm and collected, as if he hadn't done anything particularly proud.

However, Tongtian was equally unmoved by this, and instead looked at Yuanshi Tianzun with a peculiar gaze.

This is changing the rules!

Rules are not the great way. The great way is the things themselves, such as flowers, trees, water, fire, wind, and thunder. These are all great ways. Rules are the logic that governs the interaction between these great ways.

For example, pouring water into a fire will extinguish it, and the water will gradually evaporate in a dry environment. The evaporated water vapor will turn into clouds and mist, and sometimes it will turn back into rain and fall down.

The rule is that if you pour water into a fire, the fire will go out; the rule is that the water will evaporate; and the evaporated water vapor will turn into clouds, dew, or mist, and sometimes into rain.

Within the primordial chaos, the logic that allows these great principles to be combined is the rule.

The rules also differ greatly. In the primordial world, pouring water into a fire will extinguish it—this is the operating rule of the primordial world. In other worlds, pouring water into a fire will actually make it burn even brighter. This is their own logic, and the two are not contradictory because the rules between worlds are different.

Just as no two snowflakes are exactly alike, no two worlds are exactly alike. If the great god Pangu were to recreate the world, perhaps the world that would be born would still be called the Primordial World.

However, the new prehistoric world is completely different from the current prehistoric world. It may no longer contain the Three Pure Ones, but the Three Turbidities, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches may also become the Twelve Ancestral Demons.

Creating a world and compiling its own rules is easy, but changing the established rules of a world is harder than ascending to heaven, or even more difficult than ascending to heaven or destroying the world.

It is still the primordial world. The rule that pouring water into a fire will extinguish it has been established. However, if this rule is forcibly changed, it will have a ripple effect, causing the entire primordial world to fall into logical errors and ultimately leading to a great catastrophe.

As for the rules of distortion, they make the fire extinguish more slowly when it is doused with water, but they definitely do not make the fire burn hotter when it uses water as fuel.

Some worlds are clearly young and healthy, with a clear and just will, fair judgment of good and evil, and are revered by all beings. Their fortune is pure and clear, yet they always inexplicably collapse, which is very strange.

The reason for this is that a powerful being forcibly altered the world's operating logic, causing the world to malfunction, resulting in a catastrophe and ultimately its collapse.

Naturally, with the Heavenly Dao presiding over the primordial world and Hongjun overseeing it, no one dared to change the fundamental logic and rules of the primordial world.

Moreover, Yuanshi Tianzun only ruled over the ten-zhang primordial wilderness within the Eight Trigrams Palace, and the changes he made to the world rules only applied to Shen Ni. However, it was still changing the world rules, which was an unforgivable sin!