fifth form

Chapter 3415 The True Seven Spiders

Huang Daoxian once used an analogy, mentioning that the power of human cultivation is like liquid, while the power of laws is solid.

Zhang Xuezhou had previously thought that the description of the difference in power levels was correct, until he held the ribbon in his hand and realized that Huang Daoxian's comparison was a realistic depiction.

The power of the laws in his hands is solid.

When Zhang Xuezhou reached out to touch it, he could still feel the warmth of the ribbon.

The green power of the law swirled and coiled within the ribbon, even taking on various different forms as Zhang Xuezhou squeezed it with his right hand.

The power of the laws was strange, but Zhang Xuezhou did not find it unbelievable.

Ordinary people can sense the power but cannot manifest it; the power of grasping with both hands can only be perceived. However, after entering a certain level of cultivation, the power of magic and blood begins to circulate in the body, and upon entering the True Spirit Realm, one gains the ability to project it outward.

Purple magical light swirled in Zhang Xuezhou's hands; this power, resembling a light medium, was undoubtedly vastly different from the common perception of power.

With a simple comparison, Zhang Xuezhou can clearly see the difference in these forces.

Perhaps it's due to different methods of cultivation, or perhaps cultivation requires transformation in order to possess this power.

"The Golden Core Technique and the demon cores condensed by the demon race are also about moving towards the substance of power. From this perspective, the rules don't seem to be anything special. But from the perspective of transformation, the difficulty of cultivation is too high. No one's physical body can withstand a solidified power within its body!"

When power becomes tangible, the physical body inevitably struggles to withstand its erosion.

Blood in blood vessels needs to be fluid; solidified blood can only become a blood clot. Solidified power means that the body belongs to a different form.

Zhang Xuezhou's gaze fell upon the liquid within the black stone. This liquid was quite hot, but not hot enough to melt a body without leaving a trace.

The Spider God's Descendant that he had previously grasped was a tangible physical body. After it was separated, it turned into nothingness, leaving not even a single bone fragment behind.

This means that the body that bears the power of the rules can switch between reality and illusion.

"The Yang Soul Incarnation Technique can switch between physical and illusory bodies. Could it be that the Zhujiuyin Technique was transformed from a higher-dimensional world?"

After careful consideration, Zhang Xuezhou also examined his own spiritual practice.

Even he, having attained sainthood through physical cultivation, could not condense solidified power within his body, let alone others.

Although the cultivator community is pyramid-shaped, with fewer people at the top, Zhang Xuezhou did not think that cultivation was so difficult that it was unparalleled.

This might produce a few geniuses, but it will certainly be difficult for others to replicate.

The absence of repetition means that inheritance is impossible, let alone the birth of higher-dimensional deities of varying sizes.

To quickly cut off this possibility, Zhang Xuezhou also thought of the Yang Po Transformation Technique.

The body of the Yang Soul incarnation exists between the ethereal and the real; it can become ethereal like air or solidify into a physical body.

If a Yang Soul incarnation is thrown into this scalding solution, and the caster withdraws their power, the Yang Soul incarnation will inevitably vanish into nothingness, just like the Spider God's descent.

"If you became gods by incarnating from the Yang Soul, then I can understand the overwhelming physical form of Xuanming. Your interdimensional descent is nothing mysterious!"

Ren Anran's Yang Soul clones could repeatedly traverse through the distortion, so Zhang Xuezhou felt that the principle of the descent of a higher-dimensional god was not difficult to understand.

He also figured out the enormous creature he had encountered during the sacrifice to Xuanming.

Zhang Xuezhou previously believed that the gods in higher dimensions were colossal, with the bodies of a single god as large as mountains. This made him have no interest in higher dimensions, since he did not want to become an ant in such a world.

After touching the power of the Spider God Liao Meng's rules, many previously incomprehensible questions were quickly resolved, and Zhang Xuezhou also gained an understanding of the higher unknown.

"It seems that we have only developed less than one ten-thousandth of the potential of the Yang Soul Avatar. I wonder what the original Yang Soul Avatar Technique of Zhu Jiuyin looked like? Could it be that with sufficient cultivation, one could travel between reality and illusion like him?"

The Yang Soul Incarnation Technique was clearly localized by Zhu Jiuyin to make it more suitable for cultivation, and Zhang Xuezhou often did this as well.

Zhang Xuezhou's application of the Realm Technique to reality was not very effective, and Zhu Jiuyin also struggled for many years without figuring it out, ultimately having to spread the technique far and wide for research and discussion.

Both adopted similar localization methods, but Zhang Xuezhou gathered the resources of the nation's top leadership, while Zhujiuyin spent many years exploring before making it available to the general public. Zhang Xuezhou also understood why Zhujiuyin could quickly create a Yang Soul Incarnation, while the cultivation of ordinary people required a long period of time.

"If I could get my hands on the original version and understand its contents, it would be much easier to quickly create a Yang Soul clone. If I could learn Zhu Jiuyin's ability to traverse between reality and illusion with a candle in his hand, it would give all my opponents a headache!"

After all the twists and turns, Zhang Xuezhou never expected that things would come full circle back to Zhu Jiuyin.

If you want to move in a certain direction, you must at least find a starting point, and the starting point for exploring the power of rules is the Yang Soul Incarnation Technique.

If he could obtain and understand the original content from Zhu Jiuyin, he would adapt his body to the power of the rules in advance, thus seizing opportunities when they arise, instead of being like Zhang Xuezhou who currently holds the rules but has them completely useless.

Discover the rules, understand the rules, and acquire the rules.

The matter was a simple three-step process. Zhang Xuezhou had no obsession with higher-level power, nor did he think about how to become stronger himself. He was more concerned with how to fight against Donghua and also contend with the complexities of the real world.

In another world, Donghua would catch and kill Zhang Xuezhou, while in the real world, disasters that could wipe out humanity could easily occur.

Today, a spider god might destroy a quarter of the territory of the Omega Alliance; tomorrow, a pig god might devour another quarter; and in the future, perhaps some other monsters and demons will appear.

If one cannot withstand the risks, one should accept one's fate. The key point is that Zhang Xuezhou discovered that things were not impossible.

Involving divine artifacts, cultivation techniques, and various other methods, there are ways to counter these invaders, and even to use the items carried by these invaders to continuously arm themselves. Perhaps this place will become the graveyard of these invaders.

If they had enough power, they could even hunt these greedy explorers and intruders in return.

Such hunting requires a standard, and the ribbon in Zhang Xuezhou's hand is clearly an extremely important standard.

If one can make power approach tangible, or possess the power of laws, any intruder will suffer a crushing defeat.

Various thoughts raced through his mind, and his hands and feet didn't stop moving.

Having pocketed the ribbon of Liao Meng's rules, Zhang Xuezhou reached out and released his spell once more.

Unlike his previous methods of dissolving boulders, Zhang Xuezhou used a sand-entanglement technique this time, a technique that can grasp sand and gravel falling to the ground.

The black gravel that he had previously dissolved returned to his hand, and when he reversed the fossilization technique, the area he had previously damaged was quickly repaired.

He didn't repair it completely, leaving a few gaps.

With a glance at the blurry face that occasionally appeared on the Golden Turtle of Fortune, Zhang Xuezhou knew very well that this Spider God Guardian, who could release sealing magic, was rushing back.

He could intimidate the Spider God Liao Meng with his three tricks, but Zhang Xuezhou really couldn't subdue this Spider God Guard with just a few words.

"Perhaps I should call you Seven Spiders?"

After thinking about the six spider-like beasts he had repeatedly encountered, Zhang Xuezhou felt that this half-human, half-spider Spider God Guardian was very likely the seventh one, the 'Seven Spiders'.

Xu Lu, Jiu Tou, and others were thinking of picking up the corpses of the Seven Spiders to gain benefits. In Zhang Xuezhou's view, this was more like a trap set by the Seven Spiders. However, the Seven Spiders' trump card was disrupted by Huang Daoxian, and the arrangements involving the artifact 'Thorn' and the Spider God Liao Meng's descent were destroyed and transferred.

This trap is not only aimed at the greedy, but also at the naive.

Zhang Xuezhou felt that there was a high probability that the Seven Spiders belonged to the Godslayers.

He clearly didn't want to confront such dangerous elements head-on.

After calmly releasing his spell, Zhang Xuezhou leaped into the hole he had dug below and began sealing back the cave stone he had taken from the entrance.

The sound of a heavily pregnant woman walking could be heard, and Zhang Xuezhou knew very well that Seven Spiders had returned to the cave.

Before the other party could notice the unusual appearance of Montess's steel hairpin and the boulder, Zhang Xuezhou imitated a tiger's roar.

This caused the seven spiders in the cave to let out a sharp, piercing roar. A muffled sound came from inside, and Zhang Xuezhou saw the sharp hooks of the eight spider legs pierce through the cave's rock layers and penetrate straight into the ground, even appearing not far from him.

This made him shrink back, and without pausing for even half a second, his body darted through the underground river at lightning speed.