Chapter 274: Rules

Chen Xiao stood atop the arena, his cold gaze sweeping around it. Then, with a stretch of his hand, he grasped the Yuanling Divine Battle Halberd floating in midair.
“This Yuanling Divine Artifact is of decent quality… But it’s far inferior to Qi Tian Jue—by more than just one tier. What level of artifact is Qi Tian Jue, exactly? A Primary Divine Artifact?”
Chen Xiao glanced at the smooth cut on the halberd and let out a soft sigh.
Qi Tian Jue could even shatter a divine essence—clearly not an ordinary divine artifact. Chen Xiao even suspected it might be a Primary Divine Artifact.
However, Qi Tian Jue showed no fluctuations in laws, containing only void-like trajectories. Yet its sharpness was beyond anything else in the realm of divine artifacts.
Seeing Chen Xiao eliminate Chang Feng Wu Lan in just one move, all those who had been watching from afar left immediately, never daring to target this arena again.
Even those descendants of the Yuanling Deities with Yuanling protective barriers departed. After assessing their own abilities, they realized they were roughly on par with Chang Feng Wu Lan—going there would be suicide.
Moreover, even the most powerful descendants of the Yuanling Deities left, avoiding provoking Chen Xiao recklessly. Though strong, they were unsure they could end the battle quickly, so they wouldn’t act rashly.
Instead, they preferred to hunt the weak in this space to enhance their own strength.
“A Yuanling Divine Artifact…”
Chen Xiao held the halberd in his hand, frowning slightly. In the next moment, an ice-blue light flashed in his hand as he stored the halberd in his dantian.
“This halberd is of water attribute. And the Dark Primordial God Montsta once said that the primordial spiritual fire in my dantian is also of water attribute—perfectly complementary…”
An ice-blue light flashed in Chen Xiao’s eyes. Instantly, the primordial spiritual fire of water attribute erupted in his dantian, ready to fully refine this halberd.
At this point, the primordial spiritual fire was already capable of refining lower-tier Yuanling Divine Artifacts. There was no problem refining one like Tian Long Xing.
Furthermore, the primordial law within this halberd was the law of water, which matched the attribute of the primordial spiritual fire, making it easier to refine.
As soon as the halberd touched the primordial spiritual fire, the power of its water attribute law was completely drawn out and merged into it. Instantly, the power of the primordial spiritual fire surged again.
“Hm? Since this water attribute halberd shares the same attribute as the primordial spiritual fire, can’t it be fused?”
Chen Xiao was slightly puzzled. He realized that the laws within the halberd had been absorbed by the primordial spiritual fire, all used to strengthen itself—no attributes of the halberd remained.
“It seems that divine artifacts with the same attribute cannot have their attributes extracted and integrated into oneself,” Chen Xiao realized.
He raised his head and looked outside the arena. The number of descendants of the guardians had decreased by one-tenth—only over a thousand remained.
Meanwhile, forty-nine other arenas had already been taken over by descendants of the Yuanling Deities. The rest were still contested by ordinary candidates.

Descendants of the Primordial Spirit God – out of ten thousand, only fifty came. But previously, Chang Feng Wu Lan was killed by Chen Xiao, which was rather unjust; otherwise, he would surely have been one of the guardians.
“This battle is truly fierce.”
Chen Xiao felt somewhat helpless. At this moment, his mental state had improved, and battles between Void Gods seemed like child’s play to him, failing to arouse any interest.
He then sat cross-legged and began cultivating right away. The purple giant handprint floated above his head, emitting terrifying waves of power.
“Hm?” Suddenly, in space, a mid-level Void God had just killed one of his companions and absorbed its Void God laws. When he saw Chen Xiao cultivating, his eyes lit up instantly.
His body silently descended onto the arena.
But the next moment, his expression changed drastically, filled with utter fear.
“How is this possible?!”
The Void God tried to escape from the arena, but mid-air, his body dispersed, and even his flesh was transformed into streams of lawful energy, all swallowed by the purple giant hand above Chen Xiao’s head.
“So domineering… What exactly is this ‘Ascend to Heaven’ technique?”
Chen Xiao’s mental power already enveloped the entire arena. He had sensed that Void God as soon as it stepped in, but before he could act, the purple giant handprint above him released its power and devoured the Void God.
This was due to the ‘Ascend to Heaven’ technique. As Chen Xiao activated it, the purple hand also emitted power, constantly devouring all surrounding forces.
This arena itself was the divine domain of a second-tier Primordial Spirit God, containing infinite power that Chen Xiao couldn’t consume entirely. Yet, once a Void God entered here, it was devoured completely, leaving not even a trace of bones.
Heaven and earth show no mercy, treating all things as mere straw dogs!
Seize all things in the world to achieve the Way of Heaven!
Suddenly, two streams of purple light burst from Chen Xiao’s eyes, instantly replacing the light of his original Origin Spirit Fire.
“The fourth level of Purple Sky Heaven… It’s not the space law?”
Chen Xiao was stunned. The fourth level of a domain should involve mastering space laws, but in that instant, as he ascended to the fourth level of Purple Sky Heaven, he didn’t grasp space laws but something else indescribable.
Although that law also contained elements of space law, its realm was far beyond that of space laws.
“Damn it… Could this be a rule?”
With a wave of his hand, the space before him shattered, revealing a deep passage.
At the other end of the passage was Jiang Xianxiang, Chen Xiao’s friend on Earth. Beside him was a very beautiful girl. The two were chatting and strolling on the street.
“It seems Xiangzi has found his little sunshine again…” A faint smile appeared on Chen Xiao’s face. With another wave of his hand, the spatial passage disappeared.
“The fourth level of Purple Sky Heaven… Could it mean beginning to control rules? But these rules don’t seem pure. That was just an image, not the real other side of space.”

A glimmer appeared in Chen Xiao’s eyes. Was ascending to the heavens the process of understanding the rules? Could reaching the highest level of cultivation in this realm lead to understanding the true rules? After all, even the Supreme God cannot control those rules!