Chapter 1128 - 1228: The Role of Fate

By then, everyone would be scrambling to curry favor with the new top boss, secretly stepping on the Taichu Sect, and no matter who obtained the Chaos Treasure Lotus, they would inevitably be able to develop at a speed a hundred times faster than before.

After all, the scope of the Chaos Treasure Lotus is simply too vast; no one can resist its temptation, since owning the Chaos Treasure Lotus is equivalent to owning everything outside the wall.

As long as your strength is great enough, your Spiritual Power abundant enough, you won't even need to care about any creature outside the wall; even those legendary wall‑outer beings deep beyond the wall—you won't need to pay them the slightest heed, one comes, one dies.

For once you possess the Chaos Treasure Lotus, you possess every possibility. You must understand, the Chaos Treasure Lotus is an extremely powerful Magical Treasure, a Heaven and Earth's Ultimate Treasure. Not only does possessing the Chaos Treasure Lotus mean possessing everything outside the wall, it is also tantamount to possessing everything inside the wall, for as long as the Chaos Treasure Lotus can convert energy, it can freely convert not only wall‑outer energy, but wall‑inner energy as well.

For example, if you're fighting someone, you can directly convert, inside the enemy's arm or abdomen, a mass of Demonic Qi and Evil Qi and other negative aura—and in an extremely dense form at that—then after that, you won't need to lift another finger, because the enemy will simply be corroded to death by those Demonic Qi, Evil Qi, and similar negative aura.

So owning the Chaos Treasure Lotus doesn't just make you invincible outside the wall; you're also practically invincible inside the wall. Of course, the prerequisite for all this is that your Spiritual Power is sufficient. Ye Tianfan understands this principle as well; it's just that his temperament is relatively kind, and he has never thought about dominating the world inside the wall, so he never put such a plan into action.

But once the Chaos Treasure Lotus falls into the hands of certain schemers or ambitious people, it will be extremely hard to stop that person. After all, he only needs to find a base, then create a ring of Demonic Qi, Evil Qi, and other negative aura around that base, and he'll be able to block out more than half of the cultivators in the entire cultivation world.

And if he wants to further obstruct others, he only has to make that Demonic Qi, Evil Qi, and other negative aura thick enough, dense enough; then even for Taichu Zhenren, launching an assault into it would be extremely difficult. Because although Taichu Zhenren is the number one person under heaven, he still isn't omnipotent.

Of course, this kind of energy isn't something you can convert just because you feel like it. Converting a bit is fine, but if you want to control it, you must do so through the Chaos Treasure Lotus. And to use the Chaos Treasure Lotus to control such a vast amount of Demonic Qi, Evil Qi, and other negative aura, you will inevitably have to consume enormous amounts of Spiritual Power.

Once you expend that huge amount of Spiritual Power, dealing with the other cultivators who come to crusade against you will become difficult. After all, you don't just need massive Spiritual Power; you also need massive Spiritual Power to continuously maintain control over those Demonic Qi, Evil Qi, and other negative aura, keeping them from running amok and crazily eroding everything inside the wall. So the Spiritual Power required is not a one‑time payment.

Basically, a single person trying to dominate the world inside the wall is still somewhat difficult. Of course, if you have partners, then it becomes quite easy. But once you go one‑on‑one against someone, you can also easily knock down the enemy. Overall then, if you possess the Chaos Treasure Lotus, and want to dominate the world inside the wall, you only need to find a few partners, and it will be very easy to become the overlord of the inner wall.

Ye Tianfan, however, has never thought about becoming the overlord of the inner wall. All he wants is to return to his original world as soon as possible. No matter how good this place is, in the end it still isn't his home.

If Ye Tianfan could go back, even at the cost of abandoning all his cultivation, he would give it up without the slightest hesitation. After all, the ones he loves are still waiting for him in his original world; this place, ultimately, is not his home.

Thus, the Chaos Treasure Lotus falling into Ye Tianfan's hands can be considered the good fortune of the entire world. Otherwise, once Ye Tianfan turned dark, or if any darkened person held the Chaos Treasure Lotus, it would inflict irreversible damage upon the entire world. The inner wall simply cannot stand any more torment from cultivators.

Because within the wall, both resources and Spiritual Power have already been almost completely depleted, and if people continue to act recklessly in the inner wall, then the entire inner balance will be damaged by them. And that damage will be irreversible.

Although on the surface it may not look like there have been any major changes, after experiencing that previous ultimate monster incident, everything inside the wall suffered severe destruction. Especially those enemies—each of them carried wall‑outer aura on their bodies, and they wildly spread that wall‑outer aura throughout the inner wall, and even massacred the ordinary civilians, which further inflicted massive damage on the inner wall's environment and fate‑energy.

Moreover, most of that lost fate‑energy flowed out into the world beyond the wall. This is the wall‑outer environment plundering the inner wall's fate‑energy. And since the inner wall's fate‑energy was never abundant to begin with, once it's stripped away by the outer wall, the upper limit of the inner wall will again be lowered.

Taichu Zhenren and the others will be stuck at the Ten Directions realm, and if enough time passes, their cultivation will even regress. This is caused by the damage to fate‑energy. As for this invisible, intangible thing called fate‑energy, everyone is utterly at a loss; almost no one understands it, and even Taichu Zhenren only has a shallow grasp.

Ye Tianfan does know of this thing called fate‑energy, but he merely knows of its existence, nothing more. He has no way to observe how much fate‑energy there is outside the wall and inside the wall respectively. After all, fate‑energy is not something everyone can perceive; Ye Tianfan has only faintly sensed a tiny bit of it.

Indeed, to see through fate‑energy, unless you possess a Magical Treasure specifically for observing fate‑energy, or you're a heaven‑and‑earth powerhouse, that kind of expert on the verge of ascension, only then can you barely glimpse a corner of fate‑energy.

After all, fate‑energy concerns the destiny of everyone. If it were directly seen through by people, the entire cultivation world would plunge into chaos. You would only need to follow those with strong fate‑energy to obtain Magical Treasures and Cultivation Techniques. For instance, if someone could have seen Ye Tianfan's fate‑energy from the beginning, then as long as they secretly tailed him, when Ye Tianfan discovered the Xuanhuang Pagoda, the Xuanlong Seal, and the Free‑Roaming Sword, they would no longer have belonged to Ye Tianfan.

And as far as destiny is concerned, heaven and earth will never lightly allow people to see fate‑energy. Otherwise, what would be the use of the order of heaven and earth? Everyone would simply follow fate‑energy along the path most advantageous to their own development; then what purpose would the order of heaven and earth still serve?