Am I the only one who didn't ascend?

Chapter 569 Death is just the beginning

The display of Tianzun's health bar was the most important node since Wang Luo returned from Jingzhou and mobilized the entire Immortal Alliance to organize the Taixu battlefield.

In Xinheng, they vigorously promoted the Taixu painting scroll, built several Lingkong Pavilions, and continuously used the lives of the elite members of the Taixu Division to fill the nearly bottomless pit... all for this moment, all for the sake of allowing the invisible and unknowable Taichu Tianzun to condescend and become visible and knowable, and then, be touchable, hurt, and killable.

The appearance of the health bar means that this grand ceremony has finally reached its final stage.

However, there was no joy on Wang Luo’s face.

"The progress is too fast... Moreover, why are you the only one here, Lord Ge? Where is Lu Youyou? Could it be..."

Ge Li Bang bowed again and replied, "Just as you guessed, Lord Mountain, Lord Lu and others are now dealing with emergencies in other scrolls and have no time to care about other things. There are more than one Heavenly Lord appearing in the scroll this time."

As he spoke, the old man casually spread out an ancient painting scroll. The painting was dotted with shining stars, and among them, several stars on the far left of the scroll were emitting an ominous blood-red light.

This scroll was drawn after the Immortal Alliance prepared for the battlefield. It collected scrolls from all over the world and drew a general map. There are six copies. The rulers of the five major countries in Xiankulin each hold one copy, and the Lord of Taixu Mansion, Ge Libang, holds one copy. From this picture, it can be seen that there are as many as ten scrolls that have erupted in the crisis at the first time!

"So that's how it is." Wang Luo nodded, but he didn't feel relieved at all, because in the moment when he and Ge Libang were talking, several stars on the scroll had been swallowed by the red light and eventually turned into dim gray dots.

The reason why it was so smooth was that Tianzun split himself into several clones, as if he was actively responding to the call from various Taixu scrolls, and accelerated the process of condescending.

Then the natural strength of the Heavenly Masters scattered across the scrolls will be weakened, making them easier to perceive and touch.

However, even with such a low difficulty, not every Taixu scroll can successfully lead to a Taichu Tianzun who can be seen, known, touched, and hurt. If the steps are slightly messy, the Tianzun may not show a health bar, but a fang.

The dim gray dots on the map not only meant that the observation point built inside the scroll had been destroyed, but also meant that the scroll might have collapsed as a whole and was destroyed in an instant by Tianzun.

After a moment of silence, Wang Luo said: "The situation is at least better than the worst expectations. Next..."

Ge Libang said: "According to my personal judgment, there are four battlefields that are still worth investing in, including the Demon Slayer. I have mobilized the first batch of rotating team members to enter..."

Before he finished speaking, several figures streaked across the sky like meteors, and the leader was a master who had once made a great name for himself in the early days of the Demon Slayer, but retired due to the change in operations. When he saw him again at this time, his whole body was shining with the top-level magic weapon light in the current scroll, and the spiritual energy filled his body had reached the limit that a walker could achieve.

Among the people following him, there were clearly professional masters who had won great results in the Nine Venerables Competition, with the same full set of top-level stats. Under the rules of the Demon Slayer, any one of these people could even kill Wang Luo in seconds. When several of them formed a united front, their might could even rival that of the Great Beginning Heavenly Venerable.

However, when Wang Luo saw them, he immediately frowned: "These people..."

Most of these people rely on the workshop to temporarily modify the data to graduate from the version instantly, rather than following the conventional path of daily leveling and becoming stronger. And according to previous situations, such "watered" accounts will be particularly targeted by Tianzun, and the data will be messed up in an instant, and the account will be killed suddenly.

Although only a few minutes had passed since the arrival of the Heavenly Lord, Glibang should have seen the entire picture of this world when he entered, and thus knew this rule of the Heavenly Lord.

But at this time he did not stop the team on duty from rushing to the ruins of the Three Realms.

The old man just raised his head, frowned, and stared at the team members' receding backs with burning eyes, with implicit expectation.

At the same time, in the center of the Three Realms Ruins, Taichu Tianzun turned his head slightly, noticed the sudden appearance of the elite team with a hint of surprise, and then put on a curious smile.

The moment the smile bloomed, hundreds of moths that were flying into the fire surrounding the ruins of the Three Realms withered away, and rays of white light were like pure and flawless lotus flowers.

Then Tianzun raised his hand.

Since he descended into this world, he has killed more than a thousand travelers in a second, but that was only due to the invisible pressure that was radiating all the time... At this moment, Tianzun had a clear intention and action to attack. As Tianzun started to attack, billions of halos overlapped and spread out, and each halo had the power to destroy everything. The overlapping resonance of billions of halos made the entire Demon Slayer tremble. Even Duchen Xiaozhu, which was several small maps away, could clearly feel the ground shaking and the air wailing.

Qiu Heng's face suddenly changed: "Global shock?! Not good! The data has overflowed, Master Wang, please leave the scroll immediately to avoid..."

The two bald staff members next to her moved even faster and left without hesitation.

Loyalty to one's superior is certainly valuable, but if one is really swept away by the residual power of Tianzun's incredible global shock, resulting in serious injuries and being unable to re-enter Taixu... they dare not gamble whether the workshop's compensation is so conscientious!

However, neither Wang Luo nor Ge Libang left the scene. Instead, they paid more attention to the changes on the front line.

Seeing this, Qiu Heng made a prompt decision, gritted her teeth, and uttered a mantra that was not like a human voice. Then, in an instant, the power in her body was madly squeezed out and filled into the surrounding void world, turning into the silk thread that glued the Demon-Slaying Biography together... At this moment, she was the owner of the workshop, forcibly maintaining the scroll from collapsing under the aura of the Heavenly Venerable. In an instant, Qiu Heng's hair and eyebrows turned snow-white, and the whole person seemed to have aged ten years!

At the same time, the shaking of the earth gradually subsided, and the billions of halos swept across the sky like huge waves.

The elite team in the sky was not in a hurry. The moment the halo approached, they all disappeared from the spot. After the halo passed, those people reappeared in the air and flew along the original trajectory to the ruins of the Three Realms!

Wang Luo was stunned for a moment, and a strange light flashed in his eyes.

"Pretty!"

He had already figured out what was going on. The elite team was actually using off-screen moves with great proficiency. They were forced to leave the scroll before the killing moves of the Heavenly Lord reached their bodies, in order to avoid being hurt!
Generally speaking, in the Taixu scroll, once a walker enters combat mode, he cannot leave the scene freely. When forced to eject, the account avatar will be left there to die. However, the elite team just now obviously used special means to circumvent this restriction, leaving the scroll before the damage from the Heavenly Venerable landed, and returning at just the right time...

However, Tianzun did not seem to have a good way to deal with this. A hint of surprise flashed across his eyes, and then he raised his left hand again, raising thousands of halos and pushing them forward. The power of the halos remained the same, even stronger than before, but the repeated use of the same technique made people feel much less threatened.

The elite team in the sky once again dodged and left the scene in time to avoid damage. When they returned to the scene for the second time, they were only one step away from the ruins of the Three Realms!
At the same time, in the hands of the captain flying in the front, there was a flash of dark lightning.

"Ah, isn't that the plot prop [Devouring Heaven and Deadly Light]?! How come they have plot props?"

Suddenly, there were exclamations behind him, coming from the bald workshop employees who had fled without a fight earlier. The two men probably realized that the crisis had passed, and they returned to the pavilion in a listless manner. They did not dare to look at Qiu Heng with his silver hair, but just stared straight at the sky, stiffly expressing their so-called professional opinions.

The next moment, two pitch-black lightning bolts in the captain's hands flew down like dragons and bit hard on the platinum-colored Taichu Tianzun.

The black lightning was not particularly swift, and the whole process seemed slow and sluggish on this lightning-fast battlefield. However, whether it was the Heavenly Venerable who was targeted by the black lightning, or the people who took action, they all maintained their original postures and did not move.

Obviously, the most important thing about so-called plot props is not the props’ intuitive function, but the fact that they carry the plot of the scroll!
When the plot is played, time stops. This is a rule engraved on the underlying structure of the Demon Slayer. When Taichu Tianzun came before, he used a similar rule to directly freeze the entire scroll. But now it was his turn to be frozen.

Boom!

The black thunder struck the ground and the earth shook again. The diary in Qiu Heng's hand burst into high heat, almost scalding her unable to hold it. Fortunately, two bald employees caught up in time, stretched out their hands and endured the burning pain to hold the diary tightly to show their loyalty to atone for their sins.

At the same time, Wang Luo clearly saw a line of shocking bloody words on the diary!
"The traveler [Golden Eagle King] uses the item [Swallowing Heaven's Death Light] to cause 65536 points of damage to Taichu Tianzun!"

"The traveler [Golden Eagle King] uses the item [Swallowing Heaven's Death Light] to cause 65535 points of damage to Taichu Tianzun!"

On the other side, Ge Li Bang opened another observation window, directly showing the picture of the Three Realms Ruins. In the picture, there was a long life bar above Taichu Tianzun's head, which was obviously reduced by two bars from right to left!
"!?"

For a moment, the people in Duchen Cottage almost suffocated due to shock.

This result... was somewhat unexpected even for someone like Grihama who personally organized the rotating elite team.

Although the team members had practiced the attack and defense in the blink of an eye countless times and spent a lot of effort in private, the opponent was Taichu Tianzun after all, a Tianzun who could not be judged by common sense! Even if he split himself into multiple incarnations, he still had an overwhelming presence after entering the scroll, and almost even the basic rules of the scroll were distorted for him.

However, just now, not only did Tianzun fail in his two attacks, he was even severely hit by his teammates. Those two life bars accounted for almost one-tenth of the total!

In other words, if the steps just now were repeated ten more times, then the platinum-colored Heavenly Master who appeared in the Legend of Subduing Demons would die on the spot!
So why?
How could this group of scroll walkers, who were obviously relying on "external forces" to bless them, avoid the invisible pressure from the Celestial Lord that could directly destroy his account? And they were just using plot props, but they could actually cause such effective damage to the Celestial Lord. Does that mean that as long as the workshop immediately copies the corresponding props, the Celestial Lord can be killed in seconds?

Thinking of this, a bald employee's eyes gradually turned red, and his breathing became heavy. He took out his own manual with trembling hands, picked up a cinnabar pen, and was about to start modifying the data.

Qiu Heng was distracted for a moment and didn't notice it in time. When he saw it out of the corner of his eye, he quickly stopped him: "Don't seek death!"

It was too late after all. When the bald employee tried to use the workshop authority to generate black lightning out of thin air to kill Tianzun, he suddenly turned into a ball of disintegrating white light and disappeared without a trace. Another colleague's face changed drastically and he screamed, "He, he's dead!?"

This death obviously does not only refer to the death in the scroll...

At this time, Ge Libang also realized the problem: "Don't abuse the 'privilege', is it an absolute taboo of the Heavenly Lord?"

Qiu Heng nodded and said, "That's exactly what's happening now. Previously, just using paid items would destroy the account incarnation. If the workshop log is used to forcibly erase it, the backlash will be ten times stronger... I just didn't expect it to be so serious that it would endanger my life."

After saying that, the white-haired woman looked at the outskirts of the Three Realms Ruins with confusion, and saw the Golden Eagle King and his group who were preparing for the second round of lightning strikes… Their own employees died as soon as they put pen to paper, so weren’t the magical weapons that the Golden Eagle King had, as well as the plot props that should never appear in the hands of a traveler, the result of privilege?

At this time, it was Wang Luo who answered her doubts.

"They used their identities as walkers to exploit the loopholes in the scroll."

Ge Libang said, "The mountain master, please be informed. This Jin Zhengyang traveler is actually a genius who is extremely good at discovering loopholes in the scroll and making use of them. His previous impressive achievements in the Demon Slayer Legend were mostly due to several important loopholes he discovered. Among them, the unconditional ejection of the scroll to avoid damage is one of the core techniques for challenging demons of higher levels. Through these loopholes, he can even bypass the restrictions of conventional channels and obtain various paid magic weapons and even main plot props that affect the layout of the scroll. And when he led his team to secretly train in the scroll before, he was also using loopholes on a large scale to strengthen himself."

After a pause, Gribang continued, "Although it also did not follow the 'common sense' of the scroll, it is clear that for Tianzun, this ability to exploit loopholes does not violate the principle of fairness. So whether it is forcing the scroll to be ejected to avoid damage, or the subsequent [Devouring Heaven's Death Light], it worked for Tianzun!"

Qiu Heng couldn't help but ask: "So if we just repeat the steps just now, then..."

Before Qiu Heng finished speaking, he saw another round of black thunder falling in the window of the Three Realms Ruins. This time, it was Jin Zhengyang who activated the firepower without hesitation. With the determination to destroy the entire scroll, he fully activated the [Heaven-Devouring Death Light] that he had worked so hard to exploit during this period of time!
This kind of dark lightning is theoretically the magical power used by the final demon, Tian Tun Gui Dao, in the final battle of the current version of the main storyline to destroy the world. It has infinite power, but according to the plot, the walkers need to assist an important character to steal the black lightning in advance, and then activate it after the plot battle, and hit Tian Tun Gui Dao. And the falling of that black lightning is enough to completely destroy the theoretically immortal Gui Dao, and it is also enough to completely annihilate any living or non-living creature in the scroll!

Now, Jin Zhengyang was using the [Heaven-Devouring Death Light] which was ten times more powerful than the one in the final chapter of the story, focusing his fire on Tianzun alone!
In an instant, Tianzun's health bar reached the bottom! The white-gold figure was swallowed up by the pitch-black color, without a trace of residue left.

However, just as people were stunned for a while and trying to turn to ecstasy, Jin Zhengyang's face changed drastically.

"Oh no, the health bar just reached the bottom but didn't disappear!"

Almost at the same time, in the void, the platinum-colored light lit up again, and the blood bar that had been dark and empty was suddenly filled up!

"Taichu Tianzun, entered the second stage!"

(End of this chapter)