Chapter 690: Country Doesn’t Have Good Officials

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

He temporarily couldn’t use the three types of laws together but he could split them up.

The Time Knife and Cause and Effect Knife adding in the power of Fate, any would be enough to kill a Heaven Realm expert.

He was confident that if Jia Mingluo was still alive, one knife would be able to cause heavy injuries or even kill him right away.

Even if he could only shoot out three a day, it was already really amazing.

“A full twelve years. Apart from three years of body training, one year of comprehending the Seven Star Xuan Lightning Book, the rest were used on the Cause and Effect laws and Six God Defensive Knife Technique. It was worth it...”

Zong Shou used five years to barely understand the Cause and Effect Theory that Aokun left him. He then used three years on the knife.

At this moment, the eighteen talismans in his Soul Ocean were all complete.

Apart from the original sixteen, there were two more Cause and Effects.

It was still at the True Spiritual Talisman level and was even a little lacking but it caused his soul to enter the Grade-9 Full Realm.

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His Soul Power was like an ocean, extremely vast.

However, in comparison his Martial Path Cultivation was a little quicker. Using the Mysterious Black Iron Cinnabar to train his body, in just three years he let it reach its peak. He also merged the final four Heaven Veins and entered the peak of Grade-9.

In the remaining few years, although he spent most of his time comprehending the Cause and Effect Theory left by Aokun, he also didn’t stop his own Martial Path. He grounded the various Chakra Meridians and acupoints, nourishing his energy. Step by step, he pushed his body and True Qi to a perfect level.

After he reached this step, he finally understood why there were so many Grade-9 Experts who had enough strength, but they dragged on at this realm.

They were afraid that their cultivation foundations weren’t complete and firm enough which would affect future cultivation.

Even some small flaws couldn’t be tolerated.

Zong Shou was the same, he wished that he could have more time.

However, his lifespan was about used up and he didn’t have any more Mind Stones for the Book of Eon to consume.

His foundations were already really firm. It would take another eight years to improve another step which wasn’t worth it.

Apart from that, the Spiritual Wave was already close, it would explode at most within a year and a half.

The Cloud World could even support Spirit Realm Experts now.

If he didn’t break through his Heaven Barrier and push his cultivation to Spirit Realm, it would be tougher in the future.

If there was no need, he really didn’t want to rely on the power of the Common People’s Path.

Outside of the stone hall, there was a bell ringing sound.

Zong Shou’s brow rose and he knew that the time had arrived for the court assembly to start.

Every time, his father would prepare to discuss administrative matters with the subjects at Qingzheng Hall.

However, Zong Shou removed that rule long ago.

Although he didn’t disregard everything, he had already spent a full three months in this newly created cultivation room.

In other words, he didn’t do anything in these three months.

At this time, he also didn’t plan to bother, especially today he wasn’t willing.

Zong Shou quietly sat at the middle of the stone hall and entered deep thought.

His brow locked. A moment later, he made his mind up and relaxed.

“Forget it! One must learn to give something up to gain something. Although this True Spiritual Talisman is good for me, it can’t be compared to the path of Destiny. Since that’s the case, why am I still hesitating...”

With a thought, the Spirit Talisman instantly exploded, turning into numerous fragments!

However, right as those broken runes were about to melt into his Soul Ocean, the Yin and Yang talismans suddenly shone and sucked them all.

Zong Shou was startled. This was a change he didn’t expect in the past.

His brow rose as he looked on carefully. He felt that the two talismans didn’t get stronger due to that and there wasn’t anything inappropriate and as such, he didn’t care much.

As expected, most of the laws in the world could be merged into the Yin and Yang laws.

If he knew that that was the case, he would have perfected that Spirit word more.

He was too anxious. Luckily, his foundations weren’t damaged and they could recover in a short time.

In the next moment, with a slight thought of his, a change occured within his Soul Ocean.

A Destiny Talisman instantly formed and was added to those eighteen.

As the Spirit word was destroyed, the soul which was slighting damaged, instantly recovered to its peak like just now.

The Destiny and Luck words were opposite one another, the Soul Ocean was like a tsunami, charging all around and expanding outward.

After a moment, Zong Shou opened his eyes. There seemed to be lightning shining in his eyes which calmed down only a while later.

The forming of the Destiny word didn’t cause a change in quality but he could feel that his control of Fate was much stronger.

In the past, he could only change a part of his future, but now he could even see the fate of the protector beasts beside him.

The scenes weren’t clear and were always changing with many possibilities.

As expected, fate wasn’t certain and it wasn’t confirmed.

Zong Shou took several looks before he was able to accurately see a portion, he felt his lifespan was disappearing at a shocking rate.

He was shocked and immediately stopped. Following this, he laughed self-mockingly.

It seems like on the surface he didn’t care about fate but in his heart he cared about it.

Unfortunately, it used up too much lifespan. No wonder those divinators in history lived for such a short time.

There was also no one who used such a direct method to view the future.

Based on what he knew, even those End Realm experts who couldn’t die were really careful about this path.

One could see how heavy the price was...

However, the path of Destiny and Luck did indeed need to be together to grasp the power of Fate.

His hands formed a seal and his fingers crossed, causing threads of Soul Power to enter the Destiny Talisman. It spread and crossed, like lines of spiritual marks.

This was a skill he comprehended from the Book of Eon Extreme Life.

Using the Destiny Talisman, he would be able to peak at his future and prophesize the blessings and curses around his body in the near future.

In that instant, he could be extremely precise. As time went on and further in the future, the vision would become blurrier.

This method could accurately help him grasp the power of Fate, having an effect similar to Chuxue’s Combat Martial Body.

Naturally, the preciseness mentioned was relative. It couldn’t really be perfect.

The future had numerous changes and Zong Shou could only see the few with the highest rate of success.

As for Chuxue’s intuition, it was perfect at the extreme.

When the seals were completed, Zong Shou started to try.

Two hours later he stopped, his face turning green.

It wasn’t the consumption this time, but that his head felt dizzy.

There were numerous possibilities for each moment, numerous scenes flashed in his mind.

Although his current cultivation was at peak Heaven Realm, he wasn’t strong enough and he felt like his brain was about to explode.

At the start, he wanted to try to sense the energy changes in the next breath in the surrounding million feet.

Following this, he decided to lessen the space and time to a hundred thousand feet for a sixtieth of the time and he was barely able to support it.

What was the use of such a short time?

Zong Shou was slightly disappointed. Another useless thing which wasn’t of any help to his strength.

Maybe in the future, he would grasp more Fate laws or maybe his brain would be strong enough to support so many ‘futures’ and the situation would get better. As for now, he had no chance...

Luckily, he didn’t have too high hopes for this technique. He just wanted to grasp the power of Fate better and he was already delighted and satisfied.

He casually waved and a light suddenly flew out from within his sleeves.

Hanxi was on alert, instantly dodging. Its six pairs of silver wings flapped as it turned and avoided the light.

However, in the end, it was still unable to dodge. Just as it was crying out, it felt its head being lightly struck.

Looking out, it realized that it was just an extremely basic Black Xuan Iron Cinnabar.

Different from the few Grade-9 Cloud Flame Knives that Zong Shou crafted, this dealt no damage to him.

It still felt terrified, looking over at Zong Shou in fear.

If it had been any other Spiritual Artifact, then it would have died.

It really couldn’t see through its master anymore. It also didn’t have any more courage to go up against him.

Zong Shou’s lips curled and knew that his flying knife technique had finally succeeded.

His Six God Defensive Knife Technique be merged with other sword arts and spiritual techniques.

Twelve years of tough cultivation finally resulted in something...

He laughed as he stood up and stepped out of the room.

It was noon and the sunlight was piercing his eyes. Within Zhengan Hall, there was a loud bell.

There were a total of six sounds that sounded throughout Gantian Mountain.

Zong Shou listened for a moment and sighed in disappointment.

As expected, the old man was chosen as Prime Minister.

It was five years since he built the Meeting Hall. The appointment period for Renbo had came to an end.

The election result wasn’t surprising.

Unfortunately, Zhang Huai came over too late, his experiences were too shallow and he didn’t have the strength to compete with Renbo.

As for the others, they weren’t as good as the old man.

However, thinking about it, if Renbo was allowed to go to the Meeting Hall, the situation would be worse.

This was why Zong Shou gave up on pulling him down.

He could only think to himself that he needed to care about his wallet for five years.

The country really didn’t have good officials...