Chapter 21: Prohibition of Demotion

  Compared to Kiwan's puzzled expression, Todd, who was helped up beside him, looked even more ashen, as if he had suddenly understood something, and his whole body was involuntarily trembling with fear.

  After that fall, Todd had cooled down from his anger and naturally understood that Kewan couldn't have intentionally pushed him. Hearing Kewan's murmurs, Todd finally understood why he felt a little off earlier.

  He had received a slap from his previous anger, and the ironwood table was not damaged at all. Although the texture of ironwood was extremely hard, he was after all a fifth-stage white silver warrior, and even a steel plate would have to deform under his angry slap, let alone ironwood.

  As he thought of this, a strange fear suddenly spread from the bottom of Todd's heart, and he pushed away Bossa and Carite who were supporting him. Todd rushed to the corner of the wall with a flustered expression, grasped the giant sword in the corner of the wall with both hands, and swung it vigorously.

  A loud crash echoed, and Todd, a fifth-tier White Silver Warrior, surprisingly couldn't swing a massive sword weighing dozens of kilograms. With one misstep, the giant sword fell heavily to the ground.

  Todd desperately wanted to exert his Dou Qi, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't mobilize even a single thread of Dou Qi within himself. It was as if the Dou Qi he had cultivated for decades in his body had vanished in an instant that afternoon, and not a single trace could be found.

  "What's wrong with you, Lao San?"

  Kiwan and the others looked at Todd, who was almost frantic on one side, and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise. However, Todd seemed completely unaware, staring blankly at his own hands, his eyes bright red, and suddenly let out a mournful howl, spitting out a mouthful of blood, and fainted to the ground.

  "Old Three..."

  Todd only heard Kewan's exclamation beside his ear, and then his eyes were swallowed by endless darkness, losing consciousness in his mind.

  Compared with Todd's syncope due to excessive blood flow, the mastermind of this matter, Hua Yun, returned to the hotel calmly with Luna, with a satisfied expression.

  Todd's physical changes were all caused by Hua Yun using the Reverse Heaven Technique, which is used to remove the power restrictions within people on the Allen continent. To destroy something, one must first understand it in order to carry out a rational destruction.

  Therefore, the Inverse Heaven Technique can not only remove equal-level power seals for others, but also load power seals onto a person's body.

  Through the study of Sacred Heaven's Spirit, he discovered that the seals within human bodies in this world were highly regular. Every person had at least dozens of seals, with varying strengths and weaknesses. The positions of these seals on each individual also differed greatly, but between two people, there were many overlapping seal positions.

  At that time, in order to study these forbidden techniques, as a traverser, although his strength could be evaluated by the ranks of this world, he was not subject to the restrictions of these ranks. For this reason, Sheng Tianling also visited two human god-level powerhouses and several saint-level powerhouses at that time.

  Through the study and understanding of countless taboos on people, Sheng Tianling discovered hundreds of taboos in the human body. Generally speaking, the higher the level a person wants to upgrade to, the stronger the power of the taboo they need to break through. Of course, this is not absolute.

  In this world, there are many meridians in the human body, and the magic of magicians and the aura of warriors usually flow through these meridians. However, most of these meridians are blocked by sealed powers.

  Each rank requires the same meridians to be used, even if one person is cultivating a famous Dou Qi method from the mainland, and another is cultivating an ordinary Dou Qi method taught by the Martial Academy. At the same rank, the meridians they need to use in their bodies are the same, and even among mages and warriors of the same rank, the meridians they need are also the same.

  Although the location and strength of the seal within each person may not be exactly the same, the power contained in the divine fruit of the same rank can just offset the sealing power in the meridians that restrict that rank.

  Hua Yun, who had cultivated the Inverse Heaven Technique, not only could help others eliminate internal restrictions but also use his own cultivated power to load restrictive powers onto the meridians of others. Todd's meridians were loaded with Hua Yun's restrictive powers obtained from cultivating the Inverse Heaven Technique.

  On the continent of Allen, no matter how high your talent is or how strong your strength is, without the divine fruit, you will never be able to break through that small restriction in your body for a lifetime.

  Hua Yun had not been cultivating the Inverse Heaven Technique for long, and the amount of Sealing Power stored within his body was not much. The Sealing Power was different from the magical power that Hua Yun had absorbed from Luna, it could not be absorbed from the outside world, but rather was a kind of original power produced when cultivating the Inverse Heaven Technique, thus it was extremely rare.

  Moreover, the use of restrictive power is not limited to equal levels, that is to say, even if Hua Yun is facing a 9th-level Saint Realm strongman at this moment, Hua Yun can still restrict it. However, with the small amount of weak restrictive power in Hua Yun's body, it is impossible to set up restrictions in the Saint Realm meridians. Even if he managed to set up the restrictions, the restricted power would probably be destroyed by the strong Saint Realm power within the Saint Realm strongman's body in the next moment after Hua Yun finished setting up the restrictions.

  Hua Yun had previously restrained Todd, which was already extremely strenuous. Having exhausted all the restrictive power within his body, he didn't have full confidence, fortunately, Hua Yun succeeded in the end. With Todd's strength as a fifth-rank white silver warrior, without a year of time, it would be impossible to break through the restrictions set by Hua Yun. Moreover, the restrictive power set by Hua Yun was different from the innate restrictions that people in this world possessed. Hua Yun's restrictions had a unique and singular nature, unless Hua Yun personally lifted them or Todd relied on his own strength to forcibly break through, even eating divine fruit would have no effect.

  Although he had offended the Crazy Wolf Mercenary Group, the number one mercenary group in Kodo Town, Hua Yun did not have much of a crisis sense at this moment. Among the four leaders of the Crazy Wolf Mercenary Group, Todd had already lost his combat power, and the remaining three people could be completely handled by the sharp blade mercenary group.

  Of course, if the leader of the Mercenary Corps, Kiwan, were to bring out dozens of his mercenaries, that would be a different story. However, no matter how lawless the Mercenary Corps was in Kodo Town, they wouldn't dare do such a thing, and the town's security team wouldn't allow it either.

  The continent of Ailen is a world that respects strength, and brawls between mercenaries are generally not stopped by the country. However, when hundreds of mercenaries cause trouble, it's no longer just a brawl. This behavior, which seriously disrupts national stability, will be severely cracked down on by the Empire.

  After all, there are countless mercenary groups on the mainland. If everyone learns from them, the entire mainland will be in chaos. The Crazy Wolf Mercenary Group wouldn't be so stupid, of course. But if they really were that stupid, Hua Yun wouldn't have a single worry in her heart.

  Because he knows that a fool can never be his own enemy, no matter how strong he is!