The powers nurtured within the Text Continent grew increasingly potent. However, the Heavenly Mandate in the sky was entirely preoccupied with the textual sword energy, unable to attend to the burgeoning power beneath the Text Continent.
"What is this world? Not only is it composed entirely of text, but it's also attacking me like a madman?" The Heavenly Mandate felt exhausted, his expression grim, unable to comprehend his current predicament.
"Could it be that this textual world does not welcome outsiders? But why do these textual sword energies not attack Ye Ling and only target me?"
"Could it be that Ye Ling has discovered the secret of this textual world? That's why this textual world is only attacking me?"
While fending off the textual sword energy, the Heavenly Mandate managed to glance at Ye Ling in the cage, noticing that Ye Ling had poured all his power into the Textual Earth.
"Are these textual sword energies all his doing?"
The Heavenly Mandate's pupils contracted sharply upon seeing Ye Ling's actions.
Ever since arriving in this textual world, everything that had happened had become incredibly bizarre and defied all logic!
Since only he and Ye Ling existed in this textual world, there was no other possibility than Ye Ling orchestrating this!
"No! I must calm down... I possess the same abilities as Ye Ling. If Ye Ling can control this world through some means, then I should also be able to control this world using the same method..."
"This is a textual world... everything is composed of text, textual sky, textual earth... even the sword energy is formed from the words 'sword energy'..."
"Text... what means do I possess that are similar to text... Right!"
The Heavenly Mandate suddenly recalled something, and his mind became clear!
His eyes blazed with a sharp light, and he immediately condensed a large number of runes, striking them into the textual sword energies that were flying towards him.
The moment the Heavenly Mandate infused the runes into the textual sword energies, those energies simply dissipated!
"Indeed, this world is composed of text. As long as the text is altered, the attributes of the things will also change accordingly!"
Realizing this, the Heavenly Mandate attempted to infuse a large number of runes into the textual sky, modifying the sky into an ocean!
Whoosh!
A vast amount of textual seawater poured down from the sky, drenching the earth.
A textual sky had been directly transformed into a textual ocean by the Heavenly Mandate!
"Hahaha! I have discovered the secret of this world!" Seeing that he had turned the sky into an ocean, the Heavenly Mandate stood amidst the textual waterfall descending from the heavens, laughing heartily.
"Ye Ling, now that I have seen through your tricks, what else can you possibly do?"
The Heavenly Mandate laughed at Ye Ling, then looked inward at his soul, discovering that within his soul, which had transformed into text, there was indeed a sentence added by Ye Ling!
"As expected, I cannot kill you, it's because you added unnecessary text to my soul..."
Seeing the abnormality in his soul, the Heavenly Mandate's lips curved slightly upwards.
The victor had been decided.
He only needed to delete the text Ye Ling had written in his soul, and then he could successfully kill Ye Ling!
With this thought, the Heavenly Mandate even hummed a cheerful tune, preparing to delete that piece of text.
However... just as the Heavenly Mandate was about to modify the text in his soul, he suddenly found that the text composing his soul had turned into a jumbled mess of garbled code!
The sentence Ye Ling had written into his soul was also hidden within this garbled code, and he could no longer find it!
"What is this!"
Seeing the sudden change in the text of his soul, the Heavenly Mandate's pupils contracted sharply. He immediately looked around... and discovered that whether it was the textual sky or the textual earth...
Everything in this world had turned into symbols he did not recognize!
"What is this now?"
Anxious, the Heavenly Mandate immediately activated his runes, attempting to revert the textual world, which had turned into garbled code, back to its original state. However, he discovered that his runes no longer had any effect on this world!
"Ye Ling, what have you done now?"
Realizing that this was likely Ye Ling's doing again, the Heavenly Mandate stared fiercely at Ye Ling and questioned him sternly.
At this moment, Ye Ling had already broken free from the Heavenly Mandate's spiritual energy cage and was leisurely sitting on a throne made of garbled code!
"Actually, I haven't done much..." Ye Ling smiled faintly at the Heavenly Mandate. "I simply used runes to invade the origin of this world and slightly modified its attributes."
"The garbled code you see now is all newly created text that I've temporarily generated. The meaning expressed by all this garbled code is completely arbitrary, and you cannot guess its meaning from its shape or composition."
"And the meaning they express is all recorded in my mind," Ye Ling pointed to his head. "In other words, only I can correctly wield the power of this world right now."
"Furthermore... the rule that runes can modify the text of this world has also been deleted by me," Ye Ling smiled at the Heavenly Mandate again. "Now, to manipulate the rules of this world, you can only use the garbled code text I just created."
"You bastard..."
Upon hearing Ye Ling's words, the Heavenly Mandate's expression turned extremely grim.
His soul was now composed of a pile of garbled code, with no discernible pattern!
Within that jumble of garbled code, he was completely unable to find the words Ye Ling had written in his soul, rendering him incapable of harming Ye Ling!
And now that Ye Ling controlled this world, the power emanating from this world was more than enough to threaten his life!
Now, the Heavenly Mandate could not harm Ye Ling, while Ye Ling could threaten the Heavenly Mandate... the scales of victory had tipped in Ye Ling's favor!
"No, I cannot stay in this world any longer, I must leave here first!"
Realizing that he had no chance of winning by staying in this world, the Heavenly Mandate abandoned his struggle with Ye Ling, turned, and fled towards the heavens.
"You cannot escape!"
Seeing the Heavenly Mandate attempting to flee, Ye Ling let out a cold laugh. A transparent textual touchpad appeared in front of his left palm.
Ye Ling's fingers moved rapidly across the touchpad, and a massive garbled code barrier suddenly appeared in the Heavenly Mandate's escape path, blocking his way.
"Break for me!"
Seeing the garbled code barrier blocking his path, the Heavenly Mandate did not slow down at all. He punched the barrier fiercely, pouring a large amount of spiritual energy into it!
Buzz—!
A strange sound spread throughout the textual world, and the garbled code barrier was directly shattered by the Heavenly Mandate's punch!
"Hmph! If I wish to leave, no one can stop me!"
After shattering the garbled code barrier with a punch, the Heavenly Mandate snorted and was about to depart when he discovered that he could no longer step even an inch outside this world!
"What is this!" The Heavenly Mandate stopped in mid-air, feeling that familiar sensation, and his pupils contracted once more.
"Heavenly Mandate, when you shattered that garbled code barrier just now, some fragments of the garbled code, through contact with your body, have integrated into your soul."
Ye Ling's voice, filled with amusement, echoed in the Heavenly Mandate's ears, causing him to tremble all over.
The Heavenly Mandate quickly turned, his face filled with terror, and asked in shock, "What... what have you written in my soul now?"
"It's really nothing much."
Ye Ling chuckled, "I've only written... that the Heavenly Mandate can never leave the textual world."
"That's all."