"You have almost scared the soul out of me," Ding Yun muttered, as the innate guardian array, which she fully controlled, remained silent. The voice that suddenly appeared in her ear implied an extremely powerful innate god or demon had discovered her.
Crisis had arrived.
Though she didn't know why they had appeared in such an obscure location, Ding Yun reacted swiftly. She sank her innate indestructible true spirit into the simulated world within her dantian, sealing it. Only a wisp of her soul fragment, residing within the cosmic-level intelligent chip, was kept active and disguised as a spirit artifact.
"Who? Who are you?"
Ding Yun's reaction was swift. Less than a second after hearing the voice, her soul fragment emerged from the cosmic-level intelligent chip, feigning ignorance as she looked around.
At this moment, Ding Yun had no idea what she would face. Would this unknown god or demon directly obliterate her soul fragment and refine it, or what else?
For many cultivators of lower to middle tiers, encountering a treasure with a spirit artifact might signify a high-level treasure, even believing the spirit artifact could help them use it better. However, for some high-level cultivators, spirit artifacts were useless and sometimes even an obstruction to fully refining the treasure.
Some renowned innate spiritual treasures in the Great Desolation world.
How many of them had spirit artifacts?
Was it that those innate spiritual treasures simply couldn't produce spirit artifacts? It was unlikely. Nezha's previous incarnation, Ling Zhuzi, was the reincarnation of the intelligence from an innate spiritual pearl in Empress Nuwa's palace. This showed whether an innate spiritual treasure had a spirit artifact, and whether the spirit artifact could survive, depended on the owner's needs.
And whether they allowed it...
Ding Yun, now appearing as a spirit artifact, hoped to make the other party believe that her current form, that of the Creation Jade Disk, was simply an innate spiritual treasure that had developed sentience. This way, even if they were to obliterate the spirit artifact of an innate spiritual treasure, her true self could temporarily survive.
In any case, survival was paramount.
As for why she hadn't made much progress in the past hundreds of thousands of years, it couldn't be blamed on Ding Yun's laziness. The primary reason was that the current world, due to its incomplete laws and imperfect nature, could not be cultivated normally. One could only walk the path of laws or constantly temper and refine their physical body with spiritual energy. However, tempering the physical body ultimately led back to the path of laws.
So, in essence, there was only one path to cultivation in this world: the path of laws.
But her core law was computers.
This law itself possessed little offensive or defensive capability. It could only facilitate Ding Yun's comprehension of other laws. Originally, Ding Yun had intended to comprehend many other laws. However, when she attempted to do so, she discovered that although the laws in this world were externally manifest, all laws were owned. Whichever law she chose to comprehend that did not belong to her would alert the corresponding law god or demon.
For example, if Ding Yun wanted to comprehend the law of thunder at this moment, she would immediately alert the innate Thunder Ancestor god or demon. Only with their permission, or if she willingly became their subordinate, could she comprehend it.
And she could only comprehend the basic aspects.
The rest would still depend on the Thunder Ancestor's willingness.
Of course, if one wanted to force comprehension, it wasn't impossible, but it might result in being attacked remotely and directly annihilated by the law of thunder.
Ding Yun could also do this. If someone tried to forcibly comprehend the law of computers that she controlled, she could mobilize the full power of the law of computers to annihilate them. However, whether she could succeed was uncertain.
The reason for this was that many innate gods and demons in this world had their identities predetermined during their initial gestation. The innate Thunder Ancestor god or demon did not need to prove their Dao; he was inherently the master of the law of thunder. It even depended on him for the law of thunder to develop to perfection.
The state of the law of thunder he controlled was the state of the law of thunder contained within this world.
Furthermore, gods and demons who comprehended and cultivated the law of thunder had to obtain his permission before they could comprehend and cultivate it. If those gods and demons had any new understanding of the law of thunder, it would be instantly received by the innate Thunder Ancestor god or demon.
This monopolistic position would likely last for a long time.
According to Ding Yun's estimation, it would probably last until most laws reached perfection and this batch of innate gods and demons had largely perished, only then would it truly end.
At that time, cultivation would truly flourish.
And the soil for the emergence of so-called Xuanmen and Demon Sects would be present.
Under such circumstances, Ding Yun naturally dared not casually interact with or comprehend those laws. In the past hundreds of thousands of years, she could only focus on improving the quality and sturdiness of her current true form, and slowly perfect the simulated world in her dantian by using the meager remnants of laws contained within all things in heaven and earth. Her overall cultivation progress was naturally slow, and it was normal that it couldn't compare to some innate gods and demons.
Thus, feigning ignorance at this moment.
Was also an act of helplessness.
"You've even developed sentience. Very well, tell me what exactly you are good for. I have never seen such strange and complex law aura emanating from you.
Law of Deduction, World Law, Dimensional Law, and Derivative Laws... With a slight sense, I can detect dozens of different law auras, and some laws I have never seen or heard of. Tsk, you are truly special!"
The Yin-Yang God and Demon originally intended to take the innate spiritual treasure and leave. However, upon seeing Ding Yun's soul fragment suddenly appear, he realized that this innate spiritual treasure had, rarely, developed sentience. He then focused more energy on the innate spiritual treasure before him, inquiring while expressing his awe.
At this moment, most innate spiritual treasures in heaven and earth had not yet fully formed. Even those that had formed had relatively single laws contained within them. For instance, the Innate Thunder Spirit Pearl contained only pure thunder origin and the law of lightning. Many innate spiritual treasures with complex laws were refined by innate gods and demons by combining several innate spiritual treasures, or even innate spiritual treasure embryos.
But this disc-shaped innate spiritual treasure before him showed no signs of later refinement, and the complexity of its law auras was several times greater than that of some refined innate spiritual treasures. This peculiar situation immediately caught the Yin-Yang God and Demon's attention.
While inquiring, he also sealed off the surrounding space and carefully examined Ding Yun's gestation environment. He also noticed some exquisite small devices Ding Yun had specifically used to manufacture micro-intelligent robots.
It could be said that except for Ding Yun's true self's core and some information sealed within the cosmic-level intelligent chip, which had not yet been exposed, most of the remaining arrangements.
For the Yin-Yang God and Demon.
Were essentially no longer a secret.