Painting 139: The Origin Guidance of the Cheating Artifact

The Heavenly Emperor held a captive in each hand, laughing with a hearty chuckle as he hoisted them up. "How miserable. Sangsang truly adores me; even venting my frustrations is done in such a direct manner."

Sitting atop his head, Little Jin hummed and poured cold water on his enthusiasm. "According to my deductions, the probability of Sangsang venting your frustrations for your sake is at most one percent. The remaining ninety-nine percent is for the sake of her Law of Time. Emerging from this seclusion, Sangsang is bound to surpass you once again."

The Heavenly Emperor curled his lips in disdain. "She's an anomaly. I'm not competing with her."

Little Jin nagged relentlessly, "It's all because you're too lazy! Sangsang wants to comprehend tens of thousands of laws and also study painting, while you only have Space-Time and Devouring, yet you still manage to get surpassed constantly. How can you firmly secure your position as the head of the household?!"

The Heavenly Emperor grumbled, "Isn't Sangsang the head of the household? In any case, she makes the final decision on everything. When she isn't making decisions, there's you. Sangsang even praised you for being able to earn money to support the family and capable of being the household head. Clearly, I earn money brilliantly as well, yet she never praises me."

"That's because you're unreliable, whereas I am utterly dependable." Little Jin proudly poked the Heavenly Emperor with a tiny hand. "Did you read the booklist I gave you? Sangsang's attitude toward you hasn't changed at all. There are so many masters in the temple who are stronger and more handsome than you; don't let someone snatch her away."

The Heavenly Emperor was full of grievances. "Don't even mention it. What kind of books did you recommend? Every time I followed your advice, I got beaten up by Sangsang. If my skin weren't thick, I would have been thrashed to pieces."

"That's illogical." Little Jin stepped on his own left foot with his right and tugged at the Heavenly Emperor's hair. "Those are good books enthusiastically recommended by netizens, capable of fostering family harmony and heightening the romantic atmosphere, and so on. Could it be that you lack comprehension and failed to grasp the deeper meanings within the books?"

The Heavenly Emperor rolled his eyes. "In any case, I feel that doing what's in your books is just asking for a beating. My skin doesn't itch for a thrashing lately."

Little Jin swiftly generated another booklist. "Why don't you try reading this batch instead? The male protagonists in these books are the most popular marriage candidates on the Star Network. I picked the deeply affectionate and domineering style for you. Netizens all say it's profoundly touching. If you can move Sangsang by even one percent, I'll be satisfied."

"I'll trust you one last time." The Heavenly Emperor retracted the space-time energy that propped up his barrier and appeared before the classmates outside.

"Heavenly Emperor!"

"Great Sun God Lord!"

"..."

The Heavenly Emperor tossed the two captives to the team leader and said to the group of crestfallen people, "Alright, stop acting like molted birds. Isn't it just a single legion? If you cooperate with each other, could it be that you still can't take them down?"

"But they are all ordinary people. According to the regulations, we are not allowed to massacre them."

"My Star Navigation Law examination scores are qualified. Under such circumstances, as long as civilization degradation is not caused and casualties do not exceed one percent of the total, it does not count as a massacre." The Heavenly Emperor glanced at the distant void and narrowed his eyes: How could the grievance of being inexplicably exiled into the time rift for decades dissipate without a bit of bloodshed?

Upon returning to the temple, Sangsang did not immediately enter seclusion. Instead, she selected an avatar-creation divine ability from the Pavilion of Myriad Stars. Because she already possessed several laws related to division and regeneration—though the highest was only at the third realm—it was more than sufficient to practice the avatar technique.

Once the avatar technique was successfully mastered, Sangsang notified Cenna that she was going into seclusion to make a breakthrough.

Not long after, Cenna came to inform her that the cultivation chamber had been arranged.

It possessed the maximum energy output sufficient for an ordinary person to break through to the Mysterious Rank. Because Sangsang was not selective about energy attributes, she chose stellar energy, which offered the highest cost-performance ratio. Most importantly, its defense rating was exceptionally high, ensuring that the miraculous phenomena of condensing the origin would not leak out in the slightest.

Before entering seclusion, Sangsang spent three unblinking days painting in her studio. These paintings depicted either the scenery of the Daxia Painting Realm or the flowers of the Hundred Flowers Valley. Their attributes were either nurturing and nurturing life or resurrection. Having calmed her surging emotions and brought her spirit to its optimal cultivation state, she stepped into the cultivation chamber.

The intermediate Star Rank involved condensing a Dharma form. Sangsang's Dharma form was a writing brush, utilizing space-time as the shaft and myriad laws as the tip. Compared to the Heavenly Emperor's flyswatter-like creation, hers appeared entirely normal.

Once the Dharma form took shape, she reached the advanced Star Rank—constructing the stellar path within her body. This stellar path served as the route for the Dharma form to emerge from the sea of consciousness. It was not an actual physical existence like meridians, but rather a virtual channel composed of pure energy.

Although everyone's stellar path differed, all roads led to the same destination. With the Heavenly Emperor's experience as a reference, constructing the stellar path was not merely effortless for Sangsang, but entirely smooth-sailing. She completed it with virtually no bumps or obstacles and successfully broke through to the Void Rank.

Following a successful breakthrough came communicating with the origin. All of Sangsang's prior preparations were for this exact moment. Her soul entered the ocean of origins, while her seven souls guarded her physical body. This time, Sangsang once again employed her resonance talent to guide the laws. However, upon departure, she executed the avatar technique to split her soul, leaving one half behind in the ocean of origins. The talent tied to the soul's existence was also partially retained, and the guidance seed was planted onto it.

Unlike her usual practice of splitting consciousness to simulate various fluctuations, this time, the moment her soul returned to her body, her head throbbed with a peculiar intensity. Nonetheless, the pain remained well within tolerable limits.

Sangsang smiled, her laughter brimming with delight.

The connection between the souls remained intact, and her perception of the origin persisted as well. She felt as though she had been divided into two. The guidance had succeeded, and the distinction between primary and secondary was clear, though her main body and avatar could not be converted into each other at will.

"Saintess of Hundred Flowers, thank you. From now on, I will never have to worry about the elevation of the laws again."

With her eyes closed, Sangsang absorbed stellar energy to replenish her parched sea of consciousness. The Space-Time Myriad-Law Brush bobbed up and down within the stellar power, gradually transitioning from illusory and unstable to solid and tangible. Its material resembled transparent crystal, with countless colorful stars swimming within the shaft, while the light at the tip of the brush was dazzlingly brilliant.

Once the Dharma form was projected outward, the entire cultivation chamber was illuminated in gorgeous, colorful hues.

Holding the Space-Time Myriad-Law Brush in one hand and covering her eyes with the other, Sangsang secretly mocked herself: "This is practically a camera flash. Am I supposed to fight by blinding other people's eyes?"

Yet Sangsang also knew this was the normal state for the early Void Rank. Much like how the Heavenly Emperor's Devouring flyswatter emitted roiling black mist and malevolent auras the moment it appeared, it was simply because the laws within the Dharma form had not yet fully fused. Next, she would need to utilize the starry sky to temper and hone the Dharma form externally, allowing the laws to become internal and the spiritual radiance to recede.

When Sangsang emerged from seclusion, she stood at the peak of the early Void Rank.

This time, Cenna did not appear particularly astonished. He had closely monitored the energy data fluctuations within the cultivation chamber. Over the span of just ten-odd days, the energy consumed in this chamber roughly equaled the total amount consumed by others during a Mysterious Rank breakthrough. Reaching only the third level of the Void Rank actually fell slightly below his expectations, yet the energy fluctuations emanating from Sangsang caught him somewhat off guard.

"Origin fluctuations? Have you condensed an origin? No, that's not it..."

"What origin? My space-time is only at the fifth realm." Sangsang rubbed her forehead. Most of her consciousness had returned to her main body, leaving only a tiny fraction behind to sustain the activities of her soul avatar in the ocean of origins. The Space-Time Myriad-Law Brush emerged from the depths of her sea of consciousness.

Cenna had clearly sensed origin fluctuations originating from Sangsang just moments ago, only for them to vanish in the blink of an eye, leaving behind solely the fluctuations of the Dharma form. He assumed his eyes had deceived him. "Only? If word of this gets out, others will accuse you of showing off. Reaching the fifth realm of space-time is already astonishing enough."

The news of intern saintess Sang Hongye breaking through to the Void Rank was posted on the Star Network, yet it failed to attract much attention. Everyone's focus remained locked upon her Law of Space-Time; the shock of the fifth realm of space-time vastly outweighed that of breaking through to the Void Rank.

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