125: The law! Big change!

After completing the exploration of the Void Union Realm secret realm, Chen De's cultivation had already reached the early stage of the ninth level of the Demon Transformation Realm.

His strength and defense were at the minimum standard of 9,000 points each, and his speed was 9,750 points.

Coupled with Chen De's inherent bloodline bonus, he was already invincible in the Demon Transformation Realm!

He only needed to return to Tianyan Sect and acquire the remaining superior spirit medicine.

Then, he would extract some from the Inner Sect Disciples and true disciples.

The Demon Domain Realm would then be within reach.

Moreover, whether due to the system or Chen De having devoured two law seeds, he had surprisingly prematurely catalyzed a trace of law power.

The law Chen De obtained was called the Silent Fatherly Love Law.

Its effect was that anyone who had a father-son relationship with Chen De, when Chen De was attacked, the one closest to Chen De would silently bear 30% of the damage.

Because it was silent, no one knew who was shielding Chen De from damage, including the father himself.

Silently giving without anyone knowing.

Hence, this law was named Silent Fatherly Love.

Scope of effect…

When Chen De saw this law, his eyes immediately lit up!

This law was truly too fitting for Chen De's identity as a great filial son.

Between father and son, naturally, when one prospers, all prosper; when one suffers, all suffer.

As the saying goes, disaster does not affect family, but the premise is that benefits do not affect family.

Between Chen De and his adoptive father, they had always shared blessings and endured hardships together.

If Chen De… no, if his adoptive father encountered trouble, would Chen De still try to escape it?

Impossible.

Thus, Chen De gladly accepted this law.

The gains were too great, the gains were too great!

Everything else was already arranged.

Now, the only thing Chen De needed to care about was the fifth devouring evolution that would follow his breakthrough.

Fortunately, when Chen De carried out assassinations earlier, he had influenced many city lords and the like.

Before leaving, Chen De had already given instructions.

Construct large experimental grounds!

Collect a large amount of experimental materials!

Chen De would also occasionally capture some powerful demonic beasts for research.

Last time it took nearly three months, this time it might take even longer.

But there was no other way, devouring evolution was crucial.

The abilities gained after each evolution could bring Chen De considerable help.

After finishing his business here, Chen De would have to go back.

The first step was to return to the entrance of the secret realm.

In fact, a secret realm is also like a small world.

So what is the difference between it and a small world?

Secret realms and some small worlds integrated into the Four Profound Heavens can actually both be called special spaces attached to the Four Profound Heavens.

The difference between them is not in size.

The internal space of some secret realms might even be more than ten times larger than some small worlds.

So where is their difference?

Laws!

The laws of a secret realm completely depend on the world it is attached to; its laws are identical to the attached world.

The laws of a small world, however, still retain the laws they had before integrating into the Four Profound Heavens.

Other aspects are not significantly different.

First is how to enter a secret realm or a small world.

Since secret realms and small worlds can entirely be called another space,

the difference between them and the Four Profound Heavens is not a distance in length.

But rather the distance between different spaces.

For example, Chen De is currently standing at the exit of the secret realm.

Chen De's system can scan a considerably large range within the secret realm, centered around him.

At this moment, Chen De only needs to take one step, and he will be in the Four Profound Heavens.

But precisely because he is in a different space, even if it's just one step away,

Chen De cannot detect the situation in the Four Profound Heavens outside the secret realm.

Because Chen De's system detects the distance between different particles within the space he is in, not the distance between spaces.

The distance between spaces is both 'far away in the sky, yet close at hand'.

It is both infinitely large and infinitely small!

For example, when Chen De is within the Four Profound Heavens, every position he has stood on

might have countless spaces overlapping with the space he is in.

It's just that Chen De doesn't have the means to open them.

If he could even detect that, Chen De would be annoyed to death.

Of course, there might still be many things Chen De doesn't know.

Taking one step, Chen De arrived outside the secret realm.

Looking around, a system prompt also came.

Chen De's expression instantly froze.

He turned around, intending to re-enter the secret realm.

At this moment, the secret realm entrance also conveniently disappeared.

Chen De knew that the secret realm entrance hadn't disappeared; rather, the entire secret realm had been erased.

So, Chen De could only turn his body back around.

In the air in front of Chen De, four powerful individuals floated, exuding terrifying pressure.

Those who could exert such pressure on Chen De were naturally only powerful individuals of the Void Union Realm.

Chen De recognized two of them: the Grand Elder of Tianyan Sect and the Sect Master, Tian Chenyang.

Chen De also recognized the other two from memories obtained through soul-searching.

They were precisely the two Qianhu, the Chief and Deputy, from the Shenwu Guard of Qingnan Dao.

Chief Qianhu Su Yu and Deputy Qianhu Zhou Lan!

What's going on?

Large question marks appeared in Chen De's mind!

When Chen De left, weren't Tianyan Sect and the Shenwu Guard of Tiannan Dao still at loggerheads?

How come they were now almost as close as brothers?

What Chen De didn't know was that during the days he and Shen River explored the secret realm,

the Divine Martial Emperor personally took action to subdue the leading forces of these prefectures.

The orders the Divine Martial Emperor had issued earlier were actually about aiming high to achieve a moderate outcome, or aiming for the middle to achieve a lower one.

First, use the 'root-cutting' technique to lower the bottom line within these sects, then make concessions, and everything would be easy to discuss afterwards.

The Divine Martial Emperor was well aware that abolishing the sect system was not something that could be achieved overnight.

Compromise was necessary; otherwise, the initial work would be very difficult to carry out, let alone the subsequent steps.

This method had to be used to make them retreat.

If you come in demanding to smash a window, people won't accept it.

But if you come in demanding to rip off the roof, smashing a window might become acceptable.

First, he deliberately let these sects operate for a period, allowing the powerful and boisterous ones to expose themselves.

After dealing with these,

the remaining weaker, wavering ones would naturally know what to do.

It is well known that 80% of the world's voices are expressed by 20% of the people.

Here, this proportion would only be greater.

Perhaps 100% of the voices are expressed by 0.01% of the people.

Therefore, after the Shenwu Empire took control of forces like Qiu Xian Hall and Qianyuan Sect, which had Heavenly Imperial Realm martial artists,

not only did they make the Hall Master of Qiu Xian Hall and the Sect Master of Qianyuan Sect, these Heavenly Imperial Realm experts, honorary deans of the Qingyun Prefecture-level Shenwu Academy,

but they also made the sects of other Daos in Qingyun Prefecture fall in line.

For example, the current Sect Master of Tianyan Sect is the honorary dean of the Qingnan Dao-level Shenwu Academy.

Reality was indeed so dramatic.

Just a few days ago, they were fighting to the death, and now they were as close as brothers.

Of course, what Chen De wanted to know more was:

Why were they blocking him? Could it be that his morality had become so renowned?

So much so that all four had come to admire his, Chen De's, morality.

This seemed unlikely.

Because to admire Chen De's morality, there was no need to wait here; they could completely return to their sects.

Especially the Sect Master and the Grand Elder, there was even less need for them to be here.

So, they weren't here to wait for Chen De.

They were specifically here to block Chen De.