Chapter 79

Any cultivation technique capable of seizing another person's aura of fate for one's own use is truly defying the heavens; there must be strict limitations to it. Nowadays, the rules of the Heavenly Dao are already well-established, and every time a cultivator makes a breakthrough, they must face heavenly lightning sent down by the Heavenly Dao. For the imperial family to engage in such practices, they are bound to incur divine retribution; they must be relying on some powerful backing to deceive the Heavenly Dao time and again beneath successive rounds of heavenly lightning. Jiang Yuejing also voiced her own guess: "There must be something inside the imperial palace that allows them to pervert the course of nature and pull the wool over the eyes of the heavens—could it be another divine artifact?" As she spoke, Jiang Yuejing touched the Soul-Guiding Bell at her neck. Heaven-grade dharma treasures were already enough to make cultivators tear each other apart in competition, and divine artifacts were even rarer, surpassing them entirely. Many cultivators believed that divine artifacts existed only in legends and were not actually present in the world of cultivation.