An invasion from the Abyss? I, a demonic cultivator, laughed.

Chapter 403 An Unchangeable Fate

"Is this the law of fate?"

Everyone looked at the heavily injured but still laughing tribulation lightning incarnation and their expressions turned solemn.

"What does that painting and countdown mean? Does it mean that the scene in the painting will definitely appear after the countdown ends?" Muto asked, puzzled.

His voice was full of doubt. On the surface, it was obvious to almost anyone that the drawing and countdown meant something, but how could that be?

Not to mention that the tribulation lightning avatar is clearly seriously injured and has no power to block the next round of attacks, Chu Xiu could kill it in less than a tenth of a second! Even if it has some strange supernatural power that can last for another seven seconds, how could it possibly kill Chu Xiu instantly?

Besides, if such a deadly ability truly existed, why didn't they use it sooner?

"Playing tricks!" A strong killing intent flashed in Mao Qi's eyes. He was about to take action when Chu Xiu stopped him.

"Wait! The laws of fate are far more complex than that."

"Look!"

As he spoke, he pointed, and everyone looked in the direction he pointed. They discovered that from the shattered soul body of the tribulation lightning incarnation, extremely fine threads were extending out.

These threads intertwined in mid-air, forming an impenetrable net. The strangest thing was that once people noticed these tiny threads, they were horrified to find that they had also been wrapped in those transparent threads without even realizing it!
Everyone hurriedly tried their own methods, but soon discovered that no matter what they used, the thin threads seemed to be non-existent, and they could not cut or get rid of them at all!
"What exactly is this?" The power of destruction surged in Zhu Jiu's palm, but even the rules of destruction could not destroy those threads!
"Senior Chen, what should we do now?" Mao Qi hesitated and looked at Chu Xiu.

Chu Xiu frowned, as if he was thinking quickly about something, and finally a resolute and fierce look appeared in his eyes.

"I don't believe in such an ethereal thing as fate. I want to see how this so-called fate will fulfill its prophecies!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Chu Xiu flashed and rushed towards the tribulation lightning incarnation!

The others also cast spells again to assist Chu Xiu.

How fast can the divine thoughts of high-level awakened beings communicate? From shock to confusion to finalizing the plan, it took less than 0.01 seconds for everyone to react.

With a sweep of his sword, the Chiwen, a torrent of energy, as powerful as a megaton nuclear bomb, capable of sweeping away everything, reappeared in the arena, like an unstoppable, continuous wave, surging towards the already dying tribulation lightning incarnation!

If fate is a series of coincidences composed of countless tiny probability disturbances, then even the biggest coincidence cannot turn zero into one!

Chu Xiu wanted to see how this so-called fate would help the tribulation lightning avatar withstand his full-force attack!

Could it be that a meteorite was summoned out of thin air?
Even if a meteorite really comes, he can still keep killing!

Seven seconds is just two breaths for an ordinary person, but for Chu Xiu, it's enough time for him to kill the tribulation lightning avatar a thousand times over!

However, faced with such terrifying power, the sarcasm on the tribulation lightning incarnation's lips intensified.

"Hahahaha, you idiots who know nothing about fate!"

"Do you really think that so-called fate is something so ethereal and intangible that can only be orchestrated in secret, without any power of its own?"

"If that were truly the case, how could the God of Fate be one of the four Supreme Gods?"

The tribulation lightning incarnation laughed loudly, and to everyone's astonishment, it did not make any defense, but instead opened its arms to meet Chu Xiu's sword energy!
However, in the next instant, something even more unbelievable happened. Under the overwhelming torrent of Chu Xiu's energy, the tribulation lightning avatar, which should have been annihilated, only began to shake violently! Although its soul body swayed constantly, like a candle in the wind that could be extinguished at any moment, it returned to its original state after the sword energy swept over it!
Chu Xiu's all-out sword strike actually pierced straight through the soul body of the tribulation lightning incarnation! It didn't cause him the slightest damage!

"What's going on?" The eyes of the civilization envoys nearly popped out of their sockets. "Some kind of spatial technique? No, I didn't sense any spatial fluctuations!"

"That was an illusion? It was just a misleading phantom?"

"Impossible! If it were an illusion, my Law of Transformation would have detected it, especially since my [Inner Demon Scroll] has also locked onto it. This is the real thing!"

"What the hell is going on?!"

The envoys of the civilizations began to argue fiercely, and they all saw the fear in each other's eyes. Even if the tribulation lightning avatar suddenly gained some kind of powerful force and knocked Chu Xiu down with a single finger, it wouldn't have shocked them this much!

Because no matter how strong the tribulation lightning incarnation is, it is ultimately an improvement in scale, but what is happening now is completely beyond their understanding!

Everyone had only one thought in their minds:
What exactly is the law of fate?
However, there was no time for them to study it slowly, because the countdown above the tribulation lightning avatar's head was rapidly decreasing and had already turned into a number starting with six!
Chu Xiu snorted coldly. This time, he didn't use any supernatural powers at all. Instead, he directly swung his Chiwen sword in close combat with a horizontal slash!

His figure was as fast as lightning, and he slashed out hundreds of times in an instant. However, without any surprise, every slash passed directly through the body of the tribulation lightning incarnation!
It's as if it no longer exists in this space and time!
Chu Xiu's face turned extremely ugly. He stared blankly at the giant sword in his hand, a very strange feeling rising in his heart, as if the world around him had changed, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what was different.

He vaguely felt that this was very important, an anomaly that he could only perceive after he had a body that had undergone tribulation. However, even when he stimulated his divine sense to the extreme, he still could not find any clues, only a faint feeling lingering in his heart.

"Brother Chen, Brother Chen!"

Zhu Jiu's voice rang in his ears: "No time to daydream!"

Chu Xiu was startled and looked up to find that the countdown had already started with five!

A resolute glint flashed in his eyes. He stopped attacking and leaped backward.

"Oh? You've given up?" the tribulation lightning avatar mocked.

Chu Xiu snorted coldly: "You and I come from the same source, you should know that these little tricks to disturb my mind are useless against me."

"I only know that if you truly possessed a deadly ability, you would have used it long ago. Why wait until now?"

The tribulation lightning avatar also sneered, "That's not necessarily true."

Chu Xiu ignored him and began to carefully study the almost invisible transparent threads that were wrapped around him.

These threads did not appear out of nowhere; they are probably related to the very foundation of the laws of fate!
Chu Xiu unleashed his divine sense and began to concentrate all his mental energy to scan, but he didn't know what these threads were made of, and even Chu Xiu's divine sense couldn't detect them!

He then concentrated his magic power, transforming it into a demonic flame. Under the intense energy fluctuations, these threads seemed to be affected by something and began to ripple slightly. However, no matter how much Chu Xiu increased his magic power output, the threads only swayed but never broke.

Just like stirring the surface of water, the reflection at the bottom will ripple violently, but this is only the appearance of light and shadow, and the essence of the entity remains unaffected.

He even tried to release the poison, but this thing that could restrain the power of the rules could not destroy those threads!

Chu Xiu took a deep breath, looked at the decreasing countdown, and there was no more hesitation in his eyes.

The next moment, all his divine sense rushed towards one of the threads, and he began to analyze the thread using the method he had used to analyze the rules during his previous tribulation!
This time it worked; his divine sense successfully detected something.

However, before Chu Xiu could show any joy, an incredibly massive stream of information violently crashed into his mind, as if someone had inserted a red-hot iron directly into his brain!
Chu Xiu screamed in agony, blood gushing from all seven orifices! The tribulation lightning incarnation laughed: "I've been waiting for you to do something so foolish! Do you think that just because you've analyzed some unclaimed laws, you're qualified to face the mysteries of fate?"

Chu Xiu had no time to pay attention to the mockery of the tribulation lightning incarnation. At this moment, he was in excruciating pain in his head and could barely stand up!
"Brother Chen!"

"Senior Chen!"

A group of civilization envoys approached him with worried expressions, but Chu Xiu raised his hand to stop them from helping him up: "I'm fine."

That being said, his face was now covered in blood and looked extremely horrifying.

Cat Seven gritted his teeth and said, "Senior Chen, there are only five seconds left on the countdown. You'd better run now!"

"With your speed, you could easily escape tens of thousands of meters!"

“How could it be that simple? This is the law of fate! They can stand there and let us attack them without getting hurt in the slightest. Compared to that, isn’t it easy to grab you back from ten thousand meters away?” Zhu Jiu said.

"Do you have a better way?" Cat Seven glared at him. "Every rule has its limits. Even if it doesn't work, it's better than sitting here waiting to die!"

Zhu Jiu fell silent. His mind was still in turmoil. As a civilization envoy of a level ten civilization, he naturally knew that the Law of Destiny, as one of the supreme rules, must possess incredible power. However, the strangeness of the Law of Destiny far exceeded his expectations!
Why should a scene appear and then inevitably come true without any reason? What is the underlying principle? If the laws of fate can make one's desired future happen irrationally, wouldn't that violate universal principles such as the conservation of energy? Is there any way to restrain this?
Cat Seven also looked at the scene with a worried expression. If the scene was inevitable, she couldn't think of any way to turn things around.

After all, Chu Xiu in the scene did not suffer physical injuries, but his golden core was directly shattered!

Cat Seven didn't know what the golden core represented, but he knew to some extent that it was Chu Xiu's energy core.

For high-level awakened beings, physical injuries are sometimes insignificant. For example, Chu Xiu's Void God Mode simply and cleanly detonated all his physical body into life energy.

But the energy core is different. Even if the illusory god mode is activated, the golden core will still exist in the center of Chu Xiu's soul body. It is impossible for the golden core to explode along with it!
If the Golden Core is shattered, it would likely be a matter of life and death! Only a high-level authority could restore it!

Clearly, the tribulation lightning incarnation was aware of Chu Xiu's weakness, so the scene it set was not a terrifying but actually reversible ending like being pierced by ten thousand arrows, but rather it directly chose to shatter Chu Xiu's golden core!
"If I were you, I would immediately activate the [Freedom Deep Dive Scroll] to escape. Once the countdown reaches zero, your destined fate will arrive. Even if you manage to save your life with the [Freedom Deep Dive Scroll], your future will be ruined," the voice of the tribulation lightning avatar rang out.

This time, instead of being sarcastic, it put forward a very tempting proposal, which even others believed to be the best choice from a rational perspective.

As long as the green hills remain, there will always be firewood to burn. Chu Xiu still has a second chance to challenge, but if the energy core is destroyed here, his future may be cut off!

However, under everyone's gaze, Chu Xiu simply wiped the blood from his face in silence.

He knew that if the tribulation lightning incarnation was truly confident, it would not waste any words and would activate this rule to kill him immediately.

There must be a flaw that he hasn't realized yet!
But what is that flaw?

We tried direct attacks, cutting off connections, and even parsing rules, but nothing worked!

Chu Xiu quickly recalled the various characteristics of the rules that Zhu Jiu and Xie Xuanzhao had provided him.

However, this information is too superficial. The methods for dealing with rules included can only be used for rules with low privileges. For example, Chu Xiu, the Six Desires Demon, had already tried them, but to no avail.

The methods he developed himself were utterly useless in the face of this unseen and intangible fate.

But at that moment, he suddenly realized a problem.

"Whether it's the information about the rules or the methods I figured out on my own to analyze and counter the rules, all of that happened after I entered the trial!"

The Tribulation Lightning Incarnation should not know these things, and the fact that the other party did not use the Law of Fate to kill him immediately must mean there are other uncertainties.

What is this uncertainty?

It was quite obvious, Chu Xiu immediately realized, that this uncertainty came from other civilizations!

This characteristic can be seen from the order in which the tribulation lightning incarnation unleashes its tribulation lightning. Each tribulation it unleashes is only used after the civilization that has mastered the corresponding rules has been restrained.

This was evident in previous battles; for example, its transformation laws could render Chu Xiu helpless, but it was completely countered by Mao Qi.

"But Xie Xuanzhao has already been killed by it!"

"and many more."

"Is Xie Xuanzhao really dead?"

A civilization envoy from a level ten civilization, possessing the most mysterious laws of destiny, whose teacher even participated in research on calamities, is at least a god! Would such a genius civilization envoy have no trump cards to protect himself?

With this thought in mind, Chu Xiu quickly scanned the location where Xie Xuanzhao had been "killed" earlier, meticulously scanning every inch of space at top speed. Suddenly, he realized something and a smile appeared on his face.

"I see."

Suddenly, he stretched out his hand, and several streams of demonic energy transformed into spears that accurately struck several locations in the void!

As if some kind of formation had been broken, the space there began to fluctuate violently! The next moment, a girl appeared, her arms wrapped around her knees as if she had fallen into a deep sleep.

It was Xie Xuanzhao!
At this moment, she was surrounded by a milky white halo, making her look like a saint descended from heaven, full of sacred and inviolable aura.

This sudden scene stunned everyone. The tribulation lightning incarnation's expression darkened, while Zhu Jiu and Mao Qi exclaimed in unison, their faces filled with shock, "Is this the blessing of fate?"

Although Chu Xiu didn't know what the blessing of fate was, he could roughly guess that this was one of Xie Xuanzhao's automatic defensive trump cards.

A civilization envoy like her is not someone that the Tribulation Lightning Incarnation can instantly kill! Otherwise, he would have already personally launched a targeted assassination.

If Chu Xiu wasn't mistaken, the tribulation lightning incarnation had simply used some method to put Xie Xuanzhao to sleep temporarily and set up a concealment array nearby to fake his death.

Chu Xiu was very familiar with this formation; it was the very formation that concealed the Tribulation Transformation Divine Artifact! This formation was extremely ingenious. Without the guidance of the Tribulation Transformation Divine Artifact, he would easily have missed it if he had only used his divine sense to scan it quickly. The opponent had just played a trick right under his nose!

As the surrounding formations were broken, Xie Xuanzhao slowly opened her eyes. Her dark eyes, beneath her long eyelashes, flickered with a hint of confusion before revealing a look of understanding.

"My daughter was caught off guard and fell victim to the thief's ambush. I hope you will all forgive her."

"What is the current situation?"

“We’ll talk about that later,” Cat Seven said anxiously. “Miss Xuanzhao, please tell us quickly what the principle of this law of fate is, whether there is a way to break it, and whether the future shown in the painting is necessarily unchangeable.”

(End of this chapter)