288: Constructing a Kingdom of Cause and Effect

In Zhou Hao's tomb, the originally deceased Zhou Hao came back to life.

"Is this the Fixed Fate?"

"Waking up once every twelve years, I still haven't been able to change the Fixed Fate that Li Erniu cannot Cultivate immortality."

Zhou Hao was the incarnation of Variable Lin Chen.

Variable Lin Chen did not use his own power; he had been using the power Zhou Hao possessed, but clearly, five attempts at planning had still failed.

Within the Fixed Fate System, the Fixed Fate of Li Erniu being unable to Cultivate immortality was a dead-set rule; even after Zhou Hao intervened five times, he still couldn't break this Fixed Fate.

Unless Variable Lin Chen personally intervened, using power far exceeding that of this planet to forcibly destroy the entire planet's destiny network, could this tiny Fixed Fate of Li Erniu being unable to Cultivate be changed.

To break a tiny Fixed Fate, powerful external intervention is required to destroy an entire network of destiny and Karma.

Then, to change a massive Fixed Fate—a Fixed Fate at the cosmic level—the power required would be even more advanced; perhaps only Transcendence could achieve it.

As the opposite of Fixed Fate, a Variable can undertake such tasks that require massive external force to complete.

Thus, Fixed Fate corresponds to Variable, rather than that kind of limit-breaking power; it is a bug naturally derived within a System.

In just 48 years, Variable Lin Chen had already become an Upper God, balancing the powers of Fixed Fate and Variable within his body, and completely mastering the Power of Fixedness and Unfixedness.

Growing so quickly was due to two things: first, finding the right path of cultivation, and second, that multi-faceted crystal helped greatly, saving the process of accumulating power.

For the next stage of cultivation, Variable Lin Chen would need to comprehend the Fixed Fate within even larger Systems to elevate his power of Fixed Fate.

Leaving Fengyuan Star, Variable Lin Chen began to search for a larger Fixed Fate as a target for comprehension, aiming to raise the Power of Fixedness and Unfixedness he possessed to the Half-Step Foundation Level in one go.

To Breakthrough to the Foundation Level, one needs to personally break a Fixed Fate, disrupt a System, destroy the old System, and establish a new one; this was Variable Lin Chen's path to attaining the Dao.

The new stage of cultivation and the final process of attaining the Dao could actually be merged into one.

When Variable Lin Chen breaks a massive Fixed Fate, it will be the moment he attains the Dao.

This was destined not to be something completed in a short time; perhaps it would take hundreds or thousands of years, or maybe tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years—there was no Fixed Fate.

(The above is a side story for Variable Lin Chen, belonging to some experiences of the Clone; it won't be written in detail, just to ensure his subsequent appearances aren't abrupt.)

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Ancestral Court Great World, Enlightenment Hall.

After Variable Lin Chen left, Lin Chen continued his own cultivation.

Currently, his divine body strength and Divine Power intensity were both at the Peak Middle God level, while his Soul strength was at the standard Upper God level; his overall Realm was the Middle God Realm.

For a Middle God to Breakthrough to an Upper God in the Human Race's cultivation System, one needs to construct a rule divine kingdom.

Using the physical body to carry the rule divine kingdom, Divine Power to maintain its operation, and the Soul to control its evolution.

When attaining the Dao, there are two choices for the rule divine kingdom.

One is to completely merge into the Body of Rules, becoming part of the Divine Kingdom's constructor—the body itself being the world.

The second is to continue existing independently, evolving toward a Dao Rhyme Level World and becoming the master of a Realm.

Lin Chen had not yet determined his place for attaining the Dao.

Originally, it was set for attaining the Dao in the Five Regions Great World, but a series of subsequent events led to Mirror Lin Chen catching up, possessing the strength to Attaining the Dao before the Main Body.

Therefore, Lin Chen decided to leave the Five Regions Great World to Mirror Lin Chen for attaining the Dao, serving as a way to scout the path for the Main Body and further demonstrate the details of the process.

Thus, Lin Chen was also quite focused on the rule divine kingdom.

Perhaps he could evolve the rule divine kingdom into a Dao Rhyme Level World, returning to the source and relying on his own power to bootstrap his way to attaining the Dao, achieving the Foundation Level without the help of any external force.

Of course, this was just a hypothesis; the most important thing currently was to first construct the Karma Divine Kingdom and forge the prototype of the Divine Kingdom.

The one hundred Semi-Treasure Grade karma divine stones sent by the great universe consciousness had indeed been a huge help to Lin Chen.

Semi-Treasure Grade was already the top material Rank in the entire Universe.

Ordinary semi-treasures could be constructed with just one or two pieces of material, and even more powerful ones would only need five to six pieces.

Now, for Lin Chen to construct the Karma Divine Kingdom, he didn't need to consume too many Semi-Treasure Grade karma divine stones.

With nine karma divine stones, he could open up the prototype of the Divine Kingdom, followed by the process of strengthening it using Materials and mastered rules.

In the Enlightenment Hall, Lin Chen chose to use the Three Yuan Divine Kingdom Construction Method to open up the Divine Kingdom's prototype.

The so-called Three Yuan Divine Kingdom Construction Method was actually a complex version of the Heaven, Earth, and Man Three Talents Formation.

The Foundation of the Divine Kingdom was the Heaven, Earth, and Man Three Talents Formation; the core of the entire Divine Kingdom was the core of the Formation, where various rules and Materials could flow through the Formation, transforming into power that could be used to strengthen the Divine Kingdom.

With Lin Chen's Comprehension Ability, there was no difficulty in comprehending the technique.

Three years later, Lin Chen completed all the preliminary preparations for constructing the Divine Kingdom and, without wasting any time, began constructing the Divine Kingdom and opening up its prototype.

The nine karma divine stones were divided into three sets and merged into Lin Chen's body according to the Heaven, Earth, and Man Three Talents Formation.

As Lin Chen injected pure Karma Rule power, the nine karma divine stones began to melt and fuse with his Karma Rule power.

Once the two fused, a tiny physical space was born.

This was the initial prototype of the Karma Divine Kingdom.

There was nothing inside the Divine Kingdom's prototype.

The nine karma divine stones and a large amount of rule power had all transformed into the barriers of the Divine Kingdom's prototype, used to maintain its existence.

Next, Lin Chen began adding karma divine stones into the Divine Kingdom's prototype to strengthen its Foundation.

Every karma divine stone could stabilize the Divine Kingdom's space and expand its volume.

The process of nurturing the Divine Kingdom was destined to be a long one.

It took one year to digest a single karma divine stone.

During this process, the injection of rule power could not stop either, much like raising a child where nutritional input cannot be missed for even a single day; otherwise, the Divine Kingdom could easily wither, and its potential would be damaged.

After the Divine Kingdom grew to a certain level, other rules could be further injected to evolve it toward an orthodox world, rather than how it was now, where only pure Karma Rule power existed and no living beings were present.

Nurturing the Divine Kingdom would not take up too much of Lin Chen's energy; since the prototype had already been opened, he just needed to follow the steps for its development, and there was no difficulty or Bottleneck to speak of.

With the Divine Kingdom, Lin Chen needed to work hard to raise his own cultivation.

The Peak Middle God Realm was still a bit low.

But he had already been cultivating very hard; at only 153 years old, he was already at the Peak Middle God level, and there was truly no way to make his cultivation faster or his Realm higher.

After all, Lin Chen followed the orthodox Human Race Divine Dao, where the divine body, Divine Power, and Divine Soul complemented each other and needed to grow in balance to reach the level of Perfection.

Thus, no matter how fast Lin Chen cultivated, the growth of his divine body, Divine Power, and Divine Soul needed time to settle.

Of course, there were also quick methods, such as an empowerment from a great expert to reach the goal in one step.

However, while quick success was good, it did not align with Lin Chen's Dao.

"In at most twenty more years, I will be able to Breakthrough my Realm and become an Upper God, moving one step closer to the Foundation Level."

Cultivation was like this, one step at a time.

Lin Chen currently had no urgent need for strength, so he could naturally Cultivate steadily; as long as he achieved the Foundation Level within one or two thousand years, there was no need to be too hurried or anxious.

Take it slow, and everything will come.