booktalesy Chapter 78 Clash of Laws, Lord's Demise
Chapter 78 Clash of Laws, Lord's Demise
Chapter 77 Clash of Laws, Lord's Demise (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
Jiang Jun carefully put away the two strange objects and did not rush out. Instead, he purified the Huangjing Ghost Dolls he had collected at home one by one.
Two of the elite-level ghost children successfully transformed into Yellow Essence Children. The remaining ordinary ghost children turned into Yellow Essence Plants, with only a trace of spirituality remaining.
The greenhouse became lively again.
Turmeric, accompanied by a few underlings, darted in and out of the spiritual plant thicket, while Ginger Juice lay to the side, lazily dozing.
Jiang Jun watched for a while, then pushed open the door and went out of the house, walking all the way to the Martyrs' Park.
Along the way, the once bustling street scenes were gone, replaced by collapsed houses and damaged roads.
White banners and paper money can be seen everywhere.
There were very few pedestrians, and they all seemed to be in a hurry, with few smiles on their faces.
The effects of the recent arrival of the supernatural realm have yet to subside, and in the foreseeable future, they will only intensify.
A sense of urgency rose in Jiang Jun's heart, and he quickened his pace as he walked through several streets and alleys to the Martyrs' Park.
The park is small, situated on a gentle slope, shaded by pine and cypress trees, quiet and solemn.
The monument stands in the very center, its base engraved with countless names.
Jiang Jun did not go that way, but instead went around to the depths of the park and stopped beside a secluded pine forest.
He closed his eyes and sensed it with his divine sense.
Deep underground, the aura of Shi Gandang faintly emanated, but it was more solemn and majestic than that of the cemetery, and vaguely gathered some kind of immense power.
Jiang Jun's eyebrows twitched slightly.
He couldn't figure out the arrangements of the Bureau of Mysteries, so he didn't dare to investigate rashly, lest he disrupt their years of operation.
After a while, he found an empty grave at the edge of the pine forest.
He took out a porcelain box from his sleeve, which contained the ashes of nineteen martyrs.
He then took out a red flag, gently unfolded it, placed the urn in the center of the flag, folded up the four corners, and wrapped it up tightly.
Then he knelt down and placed the urn into the grave.
There was no ceremony, no eulogy; Jiang Jun simply stood silently for a while.
He gazed at the uncarved tombstone, and with his finger as a sword, carved a few lines: "Unknown martyrs, who sacrificed their lives for the country. Their heroic spirit will never die, and their noble character will live on forever."
He stepped back, bowed, and then turned and left the Martyrs' Park.
As for the ashes of the victims who were robbed at Xuanling Mountain, he had already handed them over to the Department of Divine Revelation for unified handling.
When he got home, he went to the greenhouse first and called over turmeric and ginger juice: "I have to go to the Ghost Realm to take care of some things. You two stay home and don't wander off."
Ginger juice nodded blankly, while turmeric patted its chest as if to say: Don't worry, it won't run away!
With a thought, Jiang Jun vanished from the study in a flash of light.
A mysterious mirror world, by Qixia Lake.
As soon as Cai Liang and Zhao Jing appeared, Jiang Jun sent them back to the real world.
What he's about to do is quite dangerous, so he won't leave his two children with him.
He activated the "Pure Lotus" visualization diagram, cleared his mind of distracting thoughts, and then took out the "Gourd of Devouring Demons" and held it in his palm.
The gourd contains two lord-level monsters that occasionally cause trouble.
Jiang Jun also tried to purify or "convert" them, to see if spirit beasts and guardians could be derived from the spirit plants.
Unfortunately, his "Five-Colored Stone" visualization diagram is currently only effective against bizarre plants, and is not very effective against human or animal-shaped monsters.
Therefore, the only option is to emulate the Divine Bureau, using divine objects to trigger a conflict between the laws of the real world and the laws of the Abyss, crushing the monsters in the clash of worlds.
It sounds simple, but it's extremely dangerous in practice.
Jiang Jun took a deep breath and released the starving ghost first.
The Starving Ghost, having been suppressed for so long, was still somewhat dazed when it was finally freed. Its form was illusory and its ghostly energy was chaotic.
But after only two breaths, its body began to solidify, and the hunger contamination grew stronger.
Before it could fully recover, Jiang Jun had a thought, and crimson light surged forth: "Crimson Dawn."
When the starving ghost was illuminated by the crimson light, its body stiffened, its ghostly energy became unstable, and its just-solidified body began to loosen again.
Sensing the threat, it let out a low growl and pounced on Jiang Jun.
Jiang Jun's expression remained unchanged. He no longer merely activated the crimson radiance, but instead pushed the divine artifact to its limit.
The words on the paper lit up one by one, transforming from crooked handwriting into red-hot iron, and from red-hot iron into flowing light.
A crimson light burst forth, piercing through the gray mist of the ghost realm and pouring straight into the void.
He is influencing the laws of the real world.
In that instant, Jiang Jun sensed something grand and distant.
It has no will, no shape, yet it is omnipresent, like a net covering the entire real world, maintaining the order of all things.
It didn't know Jiang Jun, and didn't care about Jiang Jun, but it sensed the "Crimson Dawn".
A crimson light pierced the realm of the uncanny, and the laws of the real world descended.
There was no sound, no light, and no indescribable phenomenon.
Jiang Jun felt as if he had been suddenly pulled out of deep water, and everything around him suddenly became incredibly clear.
That was the law of the real world, laid bare before him without reservation.
The Starving Ghost, shrouded in the laws of nature, let out a mournful howl. The extraordinary qualities bestowed upon it by the Abyss of Ghosts were being eroded little by little.
But soon, the laws of the Abyss automatically retaliated.
The two forces collided above Jiang Jun's head.
There was no explosion, no roar, only a chilling "tremor".
Jiang Jun's sea of consciousness shook violently, and the "Pure Lotus" and "Five-Colored Stone" operated spontaneously, maintaining his clear consciousness.
He gritted his teeth and tried desperately to calm himself down.
In a daze, he saw something he shouldn't have seen.
That is the foundation of the real world, the rules that constitute the most basic level of this world.
Cause and effect, time, space, matter, energy—they are so magnificent that they inspire awe.
But at the same time, he vaguely sensed a chaotic, disordered, and frantic whisper entering his mind.
That's the aura of the Abyss!
Jiang Jun suddenly woke up, his back already soaked in cold sweat.
He dared not go any deeper, but firmly guarded his mind and continued to activate "Crimson Dawn," guiding the laws of the real world toward the starving monster.
The clash between the laws of reality and the laws of the abyss is becoming increasingly intense.
The projection of the eerie world at Qixia Lake shattered piece by piece, and cracks appeared on the lake surface and islands, revealing a deep void.
Spiderweb-like cracks appeared in the sky, and in some places a small section collapsed, revealing an even thicker, eerie fog behind it.
The Starving Ghost is located at the center of the collision between these two forces.
Its body was crushed by the laws of reality, and then forcibly reshaped by the laws of the Abyss, repeating this process over and over again.
Its body became increasingly unstable, but it had nowhere to escape and could only writhe and roar in agony.
After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the starving ghost finally couldn't hold on any longer.
Its body suddenly exploded, turning into a dense mass of eerie energy, which was crushed by the collision of the two laws and vanished without a trace.
Jiang Jun immediately withdrew the power of "Crimson Dawn".
The crimson light dissipated, and the laws of reality, having lost their pull, slowly receded.
The laws of the Abyss also fell silent.
Jiang Jun was panting heavily, feeling as if all his energy had been drained.
In the sea of consciousness, the Pure Lotus had withered, and the light of the Five-Colored Stone had dimmed somewhat.
In that brief moment, he almost lost himself in the laws of reality.
The deeper one's understanding of the underlying rules concerning causality, time, and space, the easier it is for one's consciousness to be assimilated by them.
If he doesn't come to his senses in time and continues to follow that pull deeper, his self-awareness may gradually dissipate and merge into the laws of reality.
This is what is known as "Tao-transformation".
"That was too dangerous." Jiang Jun wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and added in his mind, "But it was worth it."
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Even the slightest understanding of the laws saved him a great deal of time in deducing the way of suppressing objects.
At the spot where the starving ghost disappeared, several strange objects remained.
The most conspicuous feature is a stomach sac about the size of a palm, grayish-white in color, with a surface covered with shriveled wrinkles. There is a ring of fine fleshy teeth around the mouth, which moves slightly and makes a soft "gurgling" sound.
Jiang Jun picked it up, and the information about the strange object became clear: it was a lord-level strange object.
[Gluttonous Stomach]: The user drips their heart's blood into it, causing the stomach to expand violently, swallowing objects within a ten-foot radius. After complete digestion, it can replenish the user with demonic energy. The longer the digestion process lasts, the stronger the replenishment.
Each time the stomach pouch is used, the user will fall into an uncontrollable state of hunger and must consume a large amount of food within half an hour, otherwise the stomach pouch will turn around and digest the user's internal organs.
Jiang Jun put it into his sleeve, then picked up three other elite-level strange objects, without examining them closely, and casually put them away.
In addition, there was a radiant light that seemed both real and illusory, exuding an extraordinary aura. It was the extraordinary essence of a lord-level monster, a treasure formed after being polished by the laws.
Its name is "Transcendent Essence", which is of great benefit to the cultivation of those who control demons in the Transcendent Realm!
Jiang Jun carefully put it away and rested for a while until he recovered before starting his second attempt.
This time, he released the monstrous toad.
Having gained experience from the first time, Jiang Jun was able to do it with ease.
He switched to a divine artifact, the "Spring and Autumn Annals," and pushed it to its limit, triggering the laws of reality and colliding with the laws of the Abyss.
The toad survived longer than the starving toad, but eventually collapsed under the combined attack of the two forces.
It left behind two Lord-level artifacts and a mass of extraordinary essence.
The first Lord-level artifact is a dark gold copper coin, round on the outside and square on the inside, with the four ancient seal characters "天地通宝" (Tian Di Tong Bao) engraved on it.
The surface of the copper coin is covered with fine scratches, as if it has undergone countless transactions.
[Life-Borrowing Money]: Users can drip their blood essence into copper coins to "borrow" the lifespan of others to extend their own. The borrowing ratio is one in ten.
Borrowing a life requires a complex ritual, and the recipient must consent wholeheartedly without any reluctance; otherwise, both parties will lose their corresponding lifespan. The ritual will also attract numerous deadly monsters.
The second Lord-level monster is a fist-sized venom gland, but its properties are rather ordinary.
[Deceptive Toad Venom Gland]: When the user drips their essence blood, it can release a highly toxic extraordinary mist that causes continuous extraordinary toxic damage within a radius of ten feet.
The user will also be poisoned, and if there is no corresponding resistance and no way to remove it, they will die within 15 minutes.
Jiang Jun put the strange object and the extraordinary essence into his sleeve. Unable to hold on any longer, he collapsed to the ground and activated the "Visualization Diagram" to recover.
Twice he fully activated the divine artifacts, twice he triggered the laws of the world, and twice he narrowly missed the Dao.
He looked down at his hands, which were still trembling slightly.
It wasn't out of fear, but because in trying to understand the laws of reality, he saw things he shouldn't have seen.
The manifested laws are riddled with cracks, distortions, and gray spots, accompanied by eerie utterances that are both inexplicably captivating and utterly terrifying!
The laws of the real world have indeed been corrupted by the Abyss!
Over the past forty years, the pollution of the Abyss has gradually seeped in, penetrating deep into the very foundations of the world.
This world is slowly and irreversibly sliding into an abyss of despair.
Jiang Jun leaned against the wall and closed his eyes.
How much longer can the real world hold out? He doesn't know.
Do the senior members of the Department of the Supernatural know about this? Perhaps they do, perhaps they don't.
All he knew was that his time was running out.