Chapter 1612: Chapter 1612

1612: Chapter 1608: Holy Domain 1612: Chapter 1608: Holy Domain Rule-level professionals, in the eyes of mortals, actually do not differ much from deities.

After all, a nuclear bomb that could destroy a city, even if its destructive power were increased tenfold or a hundredfold, makes no difference to its inhabitants…

Anyway, they are all high and mighty Big Shots, their strength involves hidden knowledge that can’t be compared, so it’s sufficient to collectively refer to them as Rule-level/Gold-level.

For most low-level professionals, there is no need to differentiate…

Facing professionals above Rule-level, middle-low tier professionals can hardly resist.

“…It seems like I haven’t changed much?” Lu Ping’an, having taken that step, felt somewhat disappointed.

Lu Ping’an himself didn’t feel any notable difference.

He felt much stronger, but as to which aspects he had strengthened, he had no sensation at all.

“Perhaps, it’s because I’ve already had the traits of the eighth or ninth tier, or even higher Divine qualities…”

However, after communicating with other Top Professionals, Lu Ping’an realized he had underestimated the significance of the “eighth tier.”

“Out of ten seventh-tiers, not even one can reach the eighth tier, and the strategic value of one eighth-tier…

No matter how many seventh-tiers there are, quantity cannot transform into a qualitative change.”

A seventh-tier, a significant figure in the eyes of mortals, is not considered much among real High-Tier Professionals.

No matter how talented you are, or how infinite your potential seems, if you can’t reach a certain stage, you just can’t.

Sometimes it really has nothing to do with talent; it’s about your accumulation and Qi Yun (destiny).

Those who can reach the pinnacle, who among them lacks talent, and who isn’t one in a million…

“Some things have already transcended the realms of talent and effort…

Perhaps, they can only be described by fate.

But then again, we do not believe in fate, or rather, only those who have harnessed their fate can reach this step.”

Lu Ping’an looked up at the sky, at his stage, he already knew that so-called fate was not empty talk, but a mechanism of the “world.”

If the world needs you, it will nurture you.

At the necessary time, as you head towards your end, your path will also be taken up by others, eventually forming the “Rule” that the world needs…

“Actually, professionals have always been struggling against the world.”

One day, when Lu Ping’an was chatting with the Big Shots, he subconsciously uttered these words, only to be met with laughter.

“Am I wrong…” Lu Ping’an was somewhat surprised; this was his recent realization, and he had wanted to verify it with the Big Shots.

“No, you’re quite right.

It’s just surprising that you voiced it so quickly…

Every eighth-tier has this realization, usually when they’ve taken a beating from the world.”

Hearing this, Lu Ping’an was taken aback, as this was an utterly unexpected answer.

The Big Shots laughed, for what he said was something nearly everyone would say…

Professionals above the eighth tier are already the “enemies of the world.”

The essence of an eighth-tier professional compared to a seventh-tier is that they use multiple rules to form their own system…

But essentially, it’s the “composite rules” that bring about an increase in Authority.

For professionals at this stage, even with the same rules, their “priority” far exceeds the original.

In real combat, the same curse technique might cut right through you—there’s really no way to quantify this stuff.

And also because they have begun to possess “Privileges”…

“At this time, professionals have started to break free from the constraints of the world…

At this stage, unless you have some ability that the world particularly appreciates, for the most part, the world will no longer arrange luck for you; they essentially only set up various Calamities for you, along with troublesome and counteracting opponents.

No matter who wins or loses, to the world, one less is one less, the world doesn’t lose.”

“Your continued growth will draw upon the foundation of the world and seize its Authority.

Your death, your ‘rules’ will be absorbed by this land but can become its nutrition.”

“You should have noticed that your power is beginning to consolidate, from a vain ‘will’ into a tangible ‘Scepter.’ When you start constructing your tangible world, the external world can no longer directly interfere with you…

You are a foreign body within it, and under normal circumstances, it will not like you.”

The Big Shots briefly gave Lu Ping’an a deeper understanding, yet at the same time, he noticed that the Big Shots had different attitudes towards the world.

“My path is to coexist with the world…

It’s quite friendly towards me.” This particular Big Shot was surrounded by the scent of flowers, looking like someone straight out of a fairy tale.

“I’m the unlucky one; I clearly pose no threat to the world, but it seems to adamantly believe that my existence is a threat…

Damn it, who’s afraid of whom.”

“You haven’t seen that I’m floating now…

If I discard these weights, I’ll be sent straight into the stratosphere.”

Lu Ping’an affirmed that compared to these predecessors, he probably really wasn’t much.

At least, he didn’t have any aberrations…

But after thinking about it, the current human-shaped Lu Ping’an indeed wasn’t the “true body.” If he really brought out his true form, he would also face the world’s countermeasures.

Fortunately, his rules seem to be one of the friendliest kinds…

He didn’t feel an explicit discomfort with the world; he just felt out of place with everything around him.

With the advancement to an eighth-tier warrior over time, as the Courtyard consumed more “nutrition,” the world in Lu Ping’an’s eyes had changed…

It became more fragile, more illusory, as if it would shatter with just a squeeze.

“This is normal; it’s not the world that has changed, but you.

When your will is the embodiment of the world, your ‘existence’ has already begun to transcend.

When you can interfere with reality with your will, you can naturally see their fragile essence.”

Lu Ping’an’s network of connections was tremendously helpful at this time.

Those things which ordinary eighth-tiers needed time to accumulate and refine, he could simply inquire and have Big Shots impatiently respond…

Favors are too heavy a price for them, and they are eager to repay them whenever possible.

At this moment, the “building” in Lu Ping’an’s Courtyard is the reality’s “Scepter,”

And his own location is the Throne.

When he unfolds his Domain, he can directly intervene in the world.

Actually, it’s pretty outrageous…

“This place is the Land of Trade.”

On the battlefield in the city district, facing countless Fishmen attacking the panicked populace, when most Extraordinary beings were unable to act due to the chaotic battlefield environment, Lu Ping’an unfolded his own “world.”

The next moment, the gate to his Courtyard behind him opened, holy light descended, and the “Land of Trade” rules began to extend.

This was Lu Ping’an’s core rule, as well as his largest power boost after entering the eighth tier.

The next moment, when the Fishman’s harpoon was about to pierce a fleeing island resident, the harpoon was actually flung away.

Cutting swords, slashing claws on the bodies…

turned into gentle massages.

At this moment, all killing and even brawling were outright prohibited.

Lu Ping’an stretched out his hand, holding the position, within a three-and-a-half-kilometer radius around him, all fighting was halted.

The battlefield fell into an eerie silence, the shore-landed Fishman invaders were stunned, but the warriors following Lu Ping’an did not cease.

Just as the Vice Admiral said, he couldn’t maintain this Domain for too long…

“…Quick, come here, we’ll protect you.”

But these few minutes were enough for his Legion to rescue people.

The disaster-stricken populace frantically ran away, and under such circumstances, the Fishmen couldn’t even intercept them…

“Fair trade,” prohibited any hinderance on individual actions.

And at this moment, the huge phantom Ray in the sky noticed it.

It floated over slowly yet quickly, and within its slowly opening shadow storehouse, a Giant, enveloped in thunder, was making his way towards reality.

It seemed that Lu Ping’an’s Domain, incapable of combat, could only watch the giant God descend, and then once Lu Ping’an’s Domain ended, wreak endless slaughter with thunder.

But in the sky, it was suddenly set ablaze by the descending Holy Fire!

Screams echoed throughout the world, two high-level Extraordinary Lives went helplessly towards their end.

“We can’t fight, can we?!”

“….Who said anything about fighting, there’s no fighting.

It just happened to obstruct the Emission Port of my Holy Fire Church.”

Quite double standards… but as the master of the Domain, Lu Ping’an could naturally manipulate the range of power of his Rule Building, and then artificially create “incidents.”

And within his Domain’s range, other people’s “malice” was seen as an attack, directly nullified.

“…Is this what the eighth tier is?

The Gods in the eyes of mortals…”

“No, most ninth-order Quasi Gods don’t possess a power domain as shameless as yours.”