Chapter 158 - One Hundred and Fifty-Eight: Sent Flying to the Edge of the Dimension

Chapter 158: Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Eight: Sent Flying to the Edge of the Dimension

Volume One: The Devil’s Nature Never Changes

Arc: The Strategic Sect War

Inside the Moon Sect’s Grand Meeting Hall, a man sat imposingly upon a chair.

Although he was concealing his aura, its mere presence still felt like a mountain pressing down upon the chest of an ant.

He was at the sixth level of the Bone Refinement Realm.

All the Sect Masters stood respectfully before him, while several servants at the Qi Refinement Realm stood behind his chair.

At that moment, the trio—Scarlet King, Lin Yuan, and Ikalat—entered through the hall’s side entrance and stood with the others.

Lin Yuan contacted Ikalat mentally.

(Who is that person? And why are all the Sect Masters standing so respectfully before him?)

Before Ikalat could respond, Scarlet King cut into their communication.

(He’s the unwanted guest—one of the followers of the Second Dimension sects.)

(Because he entered the First Dimension, I need to change the plan.)

(After the competition, if we win, he’ll test our auras.)

(There’s a chance he’ll discover that I’m the Rebirth Devil.)

(And that would be disastrous for me.)

Tian Lang stepped forward and stood respectfully before the man, bowing slightly.

"Venerable Kuang Wei, please wait a few minutes for the competitors to arrive."

One of Kuang Wei’s servants moved.

He suddenly appeared in front of Tian Lang.

"How dare you speak to Master like that?"

He moved his hand.

With a single flick of his finger—

Tian Lang vanished.

A hole shaped like his body appeared in the wall behind him.

Far away, the force of that simple strike from someone at the Qi Refinement Realm sent Tian Lang crashing directly into the boundary wall of the Dimension.

He immediately fell and began violently vomiting blood from the sheer force of the blow.

As blood poured from his mouth, he thought:

(Damn it! That servant’s strength is catastrophic because of qualitative superiority.)

(Even with a difference of two entire cultivation realms between us, he crushed me with a single flick of his finger!)

Back inside the hall, Kuang Wei moved his hand.

"Who gave you permission to move?"

The servant froze and looked at him fearfully.

"Master, I was only—"

Kuang Wei did not wait for his explanation.

With a single movement of his finger—

the servant was reduced to a pile of minced flesh.

Scarlet King contacted the other two.

(Look carefully.)

(This is the power of qualitative superiority between Dimensions.)

(Even the weakest cultivator from the Second Dimension, even if they were only at the first level of Qi Gathering, could crush the entire First Dimension simply because of qualitative superiority.)

(But even that has limits imposed by the Laws.)

(The Baseline Law prevents beings from higher Dimensions from descending into lower ones and easily destroying or controlling them.)

(If every being from a higher Dimension could simply descend and erase the lower Dimensions whenever they wished, the entire cosmology would have ended from the very beginning.)

(That is why a higher Law exists to preserve the dividing line between layers.)

Several servants quickly left the hall to check on Tian Lang.

Da Fu stepped forward nervously, like a cat standing before a tiger.

"I apologize, Venerable, for Tian Lang’s mistake! I mean... on his behalf."

Kuang Wei casually moved his hand.

"There is no need to apologize."

"He merely asked me to wait."

"He did nothing wrong."

"In the end, the ladies of my sect do not want chaos within the First Dimension."

"I came here to inspect the competitors and also to attempt to resolve the conflicts."

Scarlet King continued explaining mentally.

(The Baseline Law monitors the interference of higher beings within lower layers.)

(If a higher being descends for a normal or limited purpose, the Law may allow them to remain.)

(But if they attempt to destroy a lower Dimension, seize control of it, or completely alter its structure, the Law intervenes.)

(The intervention may begin with a warning, followed by expulsion, and then crushing if the being resists.)

(However, you might ask: what about the Structural Suppression Law?)

(That only activates against overwhelming power that excessively exceeds what is necessary.)

(It does not activate merely because of the power difference between two Dimensions.)

(But right now...)

(I’m trapped.)

Scarlet King rapidly thought:

(Still, I have two solutions.)

(The illusion ability...)

(Or the second option.)

(The second will be more difficult and will require extremely strict discipline in executing the plan, but it carries less risk and fewer losses.)

Lin Yuan contacted Scarlet King.

(But I’m immortal. I don’t think someone like him can kill me, right?)

Scarlet King replied sharply:

(Naive.)

(You possess Type-One Immortality—Longevity Immortality.)

(There are ten additional types.)

(You possess only the first type, and someone can still kill you with a fatal injury.)

(It merely allows you to live naturally until the end of the Era.)

Scarlet King looked toward the ceiling and thought calmly:

(Humans desire immortality, even though attaining it is easy while escaping it is difficult.)

(Eventually, they realize that immortality is a short-term blessing and a distant catastrophe approaching like a crushing wave.)

(You watch those you love die.)

(You watch everything die and return.)

(You watch everything repeat.)

(Even erasing your memories will not help in the long run.)

(You cannot love someone forever.)

(You cannot rest forever.)

(You cannot obtain what you truly want merely because you are immortal.)

(Eventually, you will detach from reality and begin walking down the path of mental destruction or nihilism.)

(That is the truth...)

(Behind immortality.)

Kuang Wei raised his hand and pointed toward the Sect Masters.

"I want to conduct a test to measure the disciples’ strength."

"The Existential Limit Scale."

Lin Yuan once again contacted them with another question, irritating both Ikalat and Scarlet King with how little he knew.

(What is the Existential Limit Scale?)

Ikalat answered:

(It’s a scale used to measure a person’s overall strength.)

(It takes abilities, destructive power, speed, and other factors into account.)

Scarlet King continued in Ikalat’s place.

(It ranges from F to X.)

(Those are the commonly recognized ranks.)

(Each rank is internally divided into Low, Mid, High, and Existential.)

(For example, D-1 Low is stronger than D-2 Existential, and so on.)

(F Rank is the only rank with eleven internal levels.)

(Every other rank has only seven internal levels.)

Da Fu immediately moved when he noticed the trio.

"There they are, Venerable!"

"We’ll prepare the testing area immediately."

Scarlet King smiled faintly.

He said nothing.

But he had already decided—

he would take advantage of this event.