It Turns Out, They Are the Protagonists

That voice was deafening like thunder. The Measuring Ruler whistled past, seeming as if it would shatter the entire flying saucer.

The gazes of the two Dao Integration Realm experts followed the direction of the Measuring Ruler, landing on the white-robed young man not far ahead.

“Dao Integration Realm?”

“No… If it were Dao Integration Realm, they should be restricted by the rules of heaven and earth, they shouldn’t be able to attack us…”

Myriad Dragon Supreme One’s eyes were filled with suspicion and uncertainty. He realized something was wrong because they were originally acting under the Heavenly Dao’s ‘decree’, collecting the Nine Provinces’ Luck to give to the Firmament. Defying their will meant defying the Heavenly Dao.

But this person before them showed absolutely no sign of being restricted by the rules of heaven and earth. The Spiritual Energy radiating from him clearly didn’t belong to an ordinary Dao Integration Realm expert.

“Regardless, let’s probe his background first. Even if he’s at the Dao Integration Realm, he’s only at the same realm as you and me.”

The Immortal Lord immediately came back to his senses. He watched Mu Zhian, his tone calm, like a lofty god.

He suddenly stretched out his hand, transforming it into a giant palm grabbing towards Mu Zhian. The rules of heaven and earth did not restrict his combat power, so much so that the mere instant he attacked caused the Spiritual Energy between heaven and earth to tremble.

He casually rewrote the weather, but this wasn’t the Immortal Lord’s power, it was the power of the Heavenly Court!

The Immortal Lord felt as if trapped in a vortex. When he looked up, he couldn’t see a single figure, even Myriad Dragon Supreme One who had been beside him just moments ago was gone.

At this moment, he was both shocked and furious. Shocked because he was at the Dao Integration Realm, the pinnacle of cultivators, yet now he couldn’t figure out what this young man had done. Furious because he realized the gap between the other party and himself.

Logically, the limit for cultivators was Dao Integration Realm, and he had the Heavenly Dao’s blessing. Ordinary Dao Integration Realm experts shouldn’t stand a chance.

Like the Spirit Dragon, without the restriction of the rules of heaven and earth, the Spirit Dragon was naturally no weaker than him. But the ones blessed by the Heavenly Dao were them. If the Spirit Dragon attacked them, she would naturally be restricted by the Heavenly Dao.

This was the rule of the Heavenly Dao.

But this person… this person was not bound by the rules of heaven and earth!

There was only one possibility: this person was also one of the leaders of the Sabbath!

But this person’s figure hadn’t been seen in the Sabbath’s warship.

“No need to look. The Heavenly Dao isn’t the only one that can rewrite the rules of heaven and earth.”

“The current rule of heaven and earth is that in this space, there are only you and me, and you are an ordinary person.”

At a certain moment, the Immortal Lord suddenly discovered a figure appearing behind him. He abruptly turned his head. Mu Zhian grabbed his hair, stepped on the Immortal Lord’s back, and ruthlessly forced him to kneel on the ground.

In a daze, the Immortal Lord turned his head incredulously towards the young man behind him.

“This Seat is the Sabbath’s—”

Mu Zhian leaned down, pressing the Measuring Ruler against his throat, and gently swiped.

“I unilaterally declare that your Sabbath journey ends here.”

Boom!

The spatial laws in this area completely collapsed. The Immortal Lord’s head fell off, but he still wasn’t dead. His face twisted, blue veins popping on his forehead. He turned his head and roared fiercely, “I am the Immortal Lord—”

The next moment, the Measuring Ruler pierced his brow.

A wisp of clear light rippled out from the Immortal Lord’s body. In an instant, his eyes slowly widened, and his body abruptly stiffened.

…

At this moment, within the hall, Myriad Dragon Supreme One looked at the empty hall with an incredibly ugly expression, falling into helpless fury.

In just one encounter, the Immortal Lord had disappeared, the ‘alien cultivators’ in the hall were all gone, and the Spirit Dragon in the distance was enveloped in a milky white halo, impossible to approach even slightly.

Is this really something a Dao Integration Realm cultivator can do?

Absolutely impossible!

He himself was at the Dao Integration Realm and naturally knew that even Dao Integration Realm experts couldn’t rewrite the rules between heaven and earth. Logically, there was only one existence in this world capable of rewriting the rules of heaven and earth… that was the Heavenly Dao.

Just then, he vaguely sensed the space around him slightly distorting. Then, the next moment, he saw the white-robed young man walk out from the distorted space, carrying the Immortal Lord’s corpse.

Myriad Dragon Supreme One’s pupils contracted, his face twisted, and he roared, “Who exactly are you?! Among the many alien stars, this Seat has never seen you.”

He still believed that only the Heavenly Dao could modify the rules of heaven and earth. This person must also be one of the leaders of the Sabbath.

Mu Zhian said faintly, “Did you think the Heavenly Dao would only help you?”

Myriad Dragon Supreme One stared at Mu Zhian, not making a sound.

Mu Zhian smiled, “The mastermind behind the Sabbath is the Heavenly Dao. Didn’t it secretly tell you in some way that it’s my wife?”

Myriad Dragon Supreme One’s blood rushed to his face; he felt utterly insulted.

The leaders of the Sabbath who descended upon the Nine Provinces were all Dao Integration Realm experts harmonized with the Heavenly Dao, all holding the Heavenly Dao in high respect.

Mu Zhian insulting the Heavenly Dao was, to them, trampling on their dignity.

“This Seat will tear you into ten thousand pieces!”

Myriad Dragon Supreme One was completely enraged. His black armor shone with a dazzling luster. He drew his sword from the void and charged towards Mu Zhian.

Mu Zhian’s expression remained calm throughout.

How pathetic.

They didn’t even know they were being used by the Heavenly Dao, still thinking the Nine Provinces were their backyard, where they could freely pick and trample, taking away all the good things.

Little did they know, the so-called alien starry sky was probably just a tool chosen by the Heavenly Dao.

Myriad Dragon Supreme One’s sword slashed towards Mu Zhian, seeming to tear the void. However, Mu Zhian didn’t move. A pleasant and melodious sound suddenly came from the distance.

“Aaaaaa——!”

Lin Ling let out a high-pitched, excited song. An extremely fierce aura radiated from her body. She was previously at the Dao Integration Realm, but within this area around Mu Zhian, she could exert the power of the Transcendence Realm.

Because, at this moment, the Heavenly Court’s rules within the flying saucer superseded the rules of heaven and earth.

“Killing is forbidden here.”

The moment she spoke, Myriad Dragon Supreme One suddenly found that he had lost the desire to attack, subconsciously releasing the sword in his hand.

As long as one wasn’t affected by the rules of heaven and earth, any Dao Integration Realm expert could be at the Transcendence Realm. And within this current area, the Heavenly Court’s rules superseded the rules of heaven and earth. As long as Mu Zhian allowed it, the Spirit Dragon was, for a short time, at the Transcendence Realm.

Lin Ling landed lightly beside Mu Zhian.

“Are you hurt?” Mu Zhian asked softly.

“I’m fine.” Lin Ling gently shook her head.

“Impossible! How is this possible! You are not a leader of the Sabbath, how can you rewrite the rules!”

In the distance, Myriad Dragon Supreme One watched this scene with an extremely ugly expression. His eyes widened slightly, seemingly in disbelief.

“On what grounds?!”

He felt a sense of anger, as if betrayed by the Heavenly Dao.

Even now, he still believed that the little tricks Mu Zhian used were granted by the Heavenly Dao, and they had been framed by the Heavenly Dao.

And… why did the Spirit Dragon seem so intimate with him?

Logically, a creature like the Spirit Dragon should find it very difficult to make friends, because she could accurately perceive others’ malice.

No one paid attention to Myriad Dragon Supreme One. Lin Ling seemed to sense the power within Mu Zhian fading. She opened her mouth slightly, wanting to utter the word “die”.

But just then, Mu Zhian reached out and pressed her shoulder, shaking his head slightly. “Let me handle it. Your white dress looks very nice, don’t get blood on it.”

Mu Zhian carried the Measuring Ruler and slowly walked forward.

However, for some reason, he felt he had no killing intent at all.

Even though he had wanted nothing more than to dismember Myriad Dragon Supreme One when he first arrived.

“Killing is forbidden here.”

Just then, a calm voice came from behind: “Except for Mu Zhian.”

In an instant, Mu Zhian’s killing intent surged sky-high.

…

Myriad Dragon Supreme One’s expression flickered. He felt utterly humiliated, not because he was being killed.

As a Dao Integration Realm expert, dying in battle could be considered a form of release.

What was unacceptable to him was dying humiliatingly without even the strength to fight back.

He sensed Mu Zhian approaching, abruptly raised his head, his eyes fierce: “You—”

Mu Zhian raised the Measuring Ruler. The seemingly ordinary ruler emitted a wisp of sword qi, severing Myriad Dragon Supreme One’s left arm.

“Both at the Dao Integration Realm, you dare come to the Nine Provinces to collect Luck simply because the Heavenly Dao restricts the great powers in the Nine Provinces who are harmonized with the Heavenly Dao.”

Mu Zhian smiled, “If the Heavenly Dao didn’t cheat for you, if there were no rules of heaven and earth, would you dare descend directly upon the Eastern Continent like this?”

This was the truth. Being at the same Dao Integration Realm, tempering the body to finally reach Dao Integration, and reaching Dao Integration through technological civilization were two completely different concepts.

The former relied on oneself, while the latter relied on technology.

“Forgot to tell you, I’m just a little cultivator at the peak of Core Formation. It’s just that the Heavenly Dao helped me, otherwise, it really wouldn’t be easy to kill you.”

As he spoke, he unabashedly released his own Spiritual Energy.

Myriad Dragon Supreme One was so angry he coughed up blood. He had indeed sensed the abnormality in Mu Zhian’s cauldron. This person didn’t even have ‘Ten Grotto-Heavens’.

He was indeed, as he said, just a little cultivator at the Core Formation Realm.

The Measuring Ruler fell again, severing Myriad Dragon Supreme One’s other arm.

Under the restriction of the rules of heaven and earth, he was like an ordinary person, just like the Immortal Lord moments ago who, relying on the Heavenly Dao’s blessing, treated the beings of the Eastern Continent unscrupulously.

Because they knew that with the Heavenly Dao’s ‘cheating’, the great powers in the Eastern Continent harmonized with the Heavenly Dao would be restricted by heaven and earth, making it difficult for them to suppress them.

Mu Zhian placed the Measuring Ruler against Myriad Dragon Supreme One’s neck, revealing a gentle smile. “In the future, I will find your star domain, then hang you high in the sky of your star domain, letting them admire the supreme style of the Supreme One predecessor!”

Myriad Dragon Supreme One’s eyes widened, bloodshot, filled with humiliation, anger, unwillingness, and various negative emotions.

He was once a ‘god’ in a star domain, but in the end, he died at the hands of a Core Formation Realm cultivator.

Such humiliation made his blood surge uncontrollably.

“Time to hit the road, Supreme One predecessor.”

Mu Zhian gently swiped. Under Myriad Dragon Supreme One’s wide-eyed gaze, his head and spiritual sense were wiped away together.

The entire flying saucer collapsed with a roar. Lin Ling glanced at the few cultivators inside the flying saucer and softly said something.

The next moment, those few cultivators from the Nine Provinces within the flying saucer were silently sent out.

Mu Zhian held Lin Ling’s hand. Invisibly, a milky white halo enveloped the two, completely isolating them from all external Spiritual Energy.

The golden light in his eyes gradually faded, and the vast Spiritual Energy within his body rapidly converged.

“Let’s go, back to the sect,” he turned to look at Lin Ling, his tone carrying a hint of gentleness.

Lin Ling nodded gently.

She glanced at the collapsing flying saucer and continued writing: “They came very suddenly. The great powers in the Nine Provinces harmonized with the Heavenly Dao are partially restricted by the rules of heaven and earth and couldn’t attack them.”

“Why did the Heavenly Dao do this?” she continued writing.

In the Spirit Dragon’s understanding, the Heavenly Dao was the aggregate consciousness of the Nine Provinces’ beings and should logically consider their interests. Yet the Sabbath was guided by the Heavenly Dao from the shadows.

“The Heavenly Dao is trying every possible way to exploit loopholes in the rules it set itself,” Mu Zhian said softly.

According to Mu Zhian’s speculation, even the Heavenly Dao itself couldn’t arbitrarily modify the rules of heaven and earth. But the Sabbath was likely written into the rules of heaven and earth long ago, so the Heavenly Dao could exploit this loophole to let alien gods descend upon the Nine Provinces.

“Why did it do this?” Lin Ling wrote.

Mu Zhian stroked Lin Ling’s silver hair, pondered for a moment, and said, “Perhaps… it got anxious?”

If so, perhaps the Heavenly Dao’s Luck no longer allowed it to ‘mess around’ like this. The Heaven-Chosen Ones it selected, Ye Yu, Xiao Hua, Lan Feiying, Huang Weifeng – the first two were dead, Lan Feiying was won over by Mu Zhian, and Huang Weifeng’s whereabouts were currently unknown after being taken away by a mysterious great power.

So it wanted to use a simple and crude method to end this contest.

But what exactly was the Heavenly Dao secretly contending with, to the point that the opponent seemed to have provoked the Heavenly Dao?

Mu Zhian’s eyes flickered slightly as he pondered these things.

Only when he heard a soft call from beside him did he return to his senses.

“Where are we going now?” Lin Ling was already holding up her small notebook, waiting for him.

“To the Two Polarities Sect,” Mu Zhian said softly.

…

Two Polarities Peak.

“With the Sabbath descending, does Sect Master Shang have any plans?”

In a quiet mountain forest, the woman in the green dress leaned against a chair, gazing at the peerlessly beautiful woman before her.

“Even if I wanted to have plans, I’d need a way.”

Shang Yanfei, dressed in a magnificent black robe, sat with her legs crossed, holding a teacup, her eyes slightly lowered, her gaze distant.

Beside the table lay a paper crane, already unfolded and placed aside. The handwriting on it was recognizably Mu Zhian’s even at a glance.

The Sect Master of the Two Polarities Sect casually placed it on the table. Anyone who didn’t know might think she was showing off something.

‘Look, he wrote me a letter, not you’ – that sort of showing off…

Yao Meng casually glanced at the letter paper on the table, looked up, and said with a beaming smile, “It seems that child trusts you very much?”

Shang Yanfei showed a faint smile. “The Jade Empress is his wife. The person he trusts most should be you… But, even you, didn’t you also come to Two Polarities Peak because of the matter of the rules of heaven and earth?”

Yao Meng nodded imperceptibly.

The formations within the Two Polarities Sect were special and could shield against the rules of heaven and earth. And these formations were Shang Yanfei’s doing. So, with this Sabbath, she naturally thought of this Sect Master.

However, her own Dao Companion having the same idea… did surprise her somewhat.

“During the Sabbath, the rules of heaven and earth will restrict great powers harmonized with the Heavenly Dao, making it convenient for the Sabbath to successfully complete the collection of Luck. Does Sect Master Shang know of a way to break this?” Yao Meng slightly collected her thoughts and then stated the purpose of her visit.

“I can’t even leave the Two Polarities Sect with my true body, so naturally, I have no way,” Shang Yanfei gently shook her head.

Then, her gaze casually shifted towards Mu Zhian, who had silently appeared before the back mountain, and the silver-haired beauty following him.

“But he does,” she suddenly chuckled softly and said.

Yao Meng turned her head, her gaze freezing on Mu Zhian.