Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 847 Lord Guan is here, all gods retreat.

"Boom!!"

As Xiao Ran bowed, a deep, resonant bell tolled through the void.

The bell's sound was deep and long, yet it evoked a sense of endless despondency, as if all things were extinguished by its toll.

A profound sense of sorrow and grief over the world brought tears to everyone's eyes, and some even felt as if they had been reborn.

The reason it's called "Ya Sheng" is because the key word is "Ya".

Using violence to create techniques, and using techniques to oppress people.

Kaslia is like an iron can; you can't break her or cut her. With 200 points of stamina and her golden holy light armor, even Xiao Ran, wielding the [Dragon Abyss], couldn't kill her.

However, there is one problem: Kaslia's mental strength is not strong enough. She only has 80 points of mental strength, which is probably a very high number for most beginners.

But compared to Xiao Ran, this number was completely insignificant.

Since that's the case, Xiao Ran naturally played to his strengths and avoided his weaknesses, delivering a powerful downward strike to Kaslia, who was rushing up.

Xiao Ran's bow was not to Kaslia, but to the oppressive force from the darkness.

Suddenly, Kaslia, who had rushed in front of Xiao Ran, felt her heart pound wildly, as if it were about to jump out of her throat.

"Kill him!! Kill him now!!"

This unpleasant feeling drove Kaslia to the brink of madness, making her want to kill Xiao Ran as soon as possible.

However, when her fist was less than half a meter away from Xiao Ran, a force trapped her in mid-air.

Immediately following behind Kaslia, a large door appeared, its presence intertwined with Kaslia's aura.

In just a moment, a huge ancient tree appeared on the gate.

The chiming of the bells echoing in the void suddenly stopped, and the dark, colossal gate that rose from nothingness burst open! Above the gate were not ghostly totems, but a relief of a gnarled ancient tree covering the entire facade.

At the end of each drooping branch hangs a dark golden "fruit of cause and effect"!
The surface of the fruit shimmered with light, clearly imprinting a distorted, dynamic scene: from an infant in swaddling clothes to someone bullied at school, losing an arm, and then prostrating in worship at the foot of a church...

These fruits clearly record all the turning points in Kaslia's fate from childhood to adulthood.

This includes how she became a beginner, the battles she experienced after becoming a beginner, and the trees that stretched all the way to the end of the gate, reflecting all of Kaslia's life.

As the relief sculpture appeared, Xiao Ran bowed down once more.

"Boom!!"

This time, the bells rang out, but an even louder sound came from behind the gate.

A loud "Bang!"

Everyone was startled, and their nerves tensed up. The door behind Kaslia trembled, as if something was about to come out from behind it.

What's behind that door?

Everyone stared at the gate, their hearts pounding in their throats.

Kaslia coughed up a mouthful of blood, as if the door she was banging on had hit her instead.

She looked up at Xiao Ran with horror in her eyes.

Xiao Ran remained expressionless, then raised his hand again and bowed heavily in her direction once more.

"Boom!!!"

As soon as the bell rang, the subsequent pounding on the door was even heavier than the previous two bell rings combined, sounding like divine punishment!

"Bang! Crash!!!"

The door trembled, and a crack appeared in it. The crack wasn't big, but it was a real gap that had been knocked open.

Kaslia screamed in agony, the veins on her forehead bulging, as if she realized that if Xiao Ran continued to worship like this, she would probably die here.

In an instant, Kaslia dared not hide anything any longer and quickly took out a stone tablet from her spatial storage.

Staring intently at Xiao Ran, he said, "You forced me to do this!!"

Xiao Ran stared at the woman expressionlessly. From the moment she stepped onto Chinese soil, they deserved to die.

His gaze fell on the stone tablet in Kaslia's hand, and his brows furrowed slightly.

He sensed a very familiar aura, or rather, a divine quality, emanating from that stone tablet.

Kaslia decisively raised the stone tablet in her hand.

Golden runes were then injected into the stone tablet.

Grade A cursed item, [Holy Monument - Templar Knight]

This cursed item is a consumable and can only be used three times.

Privilege: Divine Descent

Activating this privilege will summon a deity to descend upon the world at the cost of one's own Holy Points.

The more Holy Points you have, the more powerful the summoned deity will be.

This cursed artifact was a divine gift from the church to her after she was promoted to Templar Knight.

A true divine artifact, an A-grade cursed item. Theoretically, if there are enough Holy Essence Points, the descending deity would be able to wipe out everything.

However, doing so will naturally result in the loss of one's own precious Holy Essence Points.

This is crucial to whether I am eligible for promotion to the A-level sequence.

Therefore, Kaslia will not use this cursed object unless absolutely necessary.

But now it seems the situation has reached a point where he has no choice but to use this thing.

As holy light ignited from the stone tablet, a golden radiance instantly illuminated the world before them.

boom! !

The entire city of Ruzhou was suddenly enveloped by an intense, suffocating sense of oppression.

The once normal sky was instantly dyed a dazzling, cold golden yellow by the clouds, as if plated with a layer of icy gold.

But this was by no means an auspicious sign! As the golden sea of ​​clouds surged and spun violently, the sky seemed to be forcibly torn apart by an invisible giant hand, and an unimaginably huge hole suddenly opened up!

“What’s going on!!!”

At the company headquarters building in Ruzhou, the piercing alarm sounded so loudly it seemed to tear at every corner.

Yang Jun, who was processing documents, suddenly changed his expression. He smashed through the French windows like an arrow and leaped to the rooftop.

When he looked up and saw the rolling golden sea of ​​clouds and the destructive pillar of light that pierced the heavens and the earth, his pupils suddenly contracted, and his face instantly turned ashen.

"It's those cross-dressers' divination technique!"

Yang Jun gritted his teeth, recognizing at a glance that this thing resembled a divine descent from the Western Church. It was said that on the front lines, the Western Church used divine descent to forcibly purify an area of ​​evil spirits, but that area is still covered by golden divine fire, becoming a forbidden zone for living beings.

How could something like this suddenly appear in Ruzhou City?

"Quickly! Notify the emergency response team to activate the highest level of emergency response! Evacuate everyone in the three surrounding districts!"

Yang Jun's face turned ashen as he picked up the walkie-talkie and quickly issued instructions.

However, his order had just been issued.

In the golden light of the sky, an angel with four pairs of wings descended from the heavens. She merely flapped her wings, and instantly, a powerful divine light covered the entire city of Ruzhou.

The immense pressure brought Ruzhou City to a standstill.

Aside from a few professionals who were still able to move, everyone else was completely unable to move under this divine power, and even their thoughts were frozen. Time and space seemed to be frozen at this moment.

The angel with four pairs of wings solidified completely, hovering beneath the golden cloud vortex.

Her sapphire-blue eyes swept across the bustling, brightly lit city of Ruzhou below, and a rare, faint hint of surprise flickered in her cold, emotionless gaze.

The prosperity of this vast city far exceeded her expectations.

The dense housing, orderly streets, and the constant flow of people dressed in various styles created a scene far beyond any human settlement she could remember.

This scale, this vitality...

She couldn't remember when she last saw him, or what era it was in.

However, as her divine sense swept across the city like a tide, she clearly perceived that the city's inhabitants were not her people as she remembered, but rather humans with yellow skin, black hair, and black eyes.
Her unrealistically perfect face suddenly became unnatural, and her eyes even showed emotions of jealousy and disgust.

In her mind, such fertile land and such a prosperous city should have appeared in her hometown.

"Humble ant."

Her consciousness echoed in the void; these inferior beings were unworthy of such a prosperous city.

"It's so disgusting and nauseating to watch."

No further words were needed; the emotions revealed by the deity were like an icy storm sweeping through the hearts of every living being still capable of thought, triggering an instinctive fear and chill.

As her cold gaze turned utterly sinister, four pairs of wings of light suddenly unfurled to the sides behind her!

"Buzz—Zzzzt!!!"

The golden clouds that had enveloped the entire city of Ruzhou suddenly surged violently!

A surge of violent energy rubbed and accumulated within! A deafening thunderclap, seemingly capable of tearing the heavens and earth apart, erupted. In an instant, endless serpents of lightning writhed and roared in the sea of ​​clouds, destructive bolts piercing the churning clouds and instantly weaving a deathly electric net that covered the entire city of Ruzhou!

Since they are not one's own people, what's wrong with destroying them?

Thinking of that moment of destruction, a hint of anticipation appeared on the angel's face.

As she slowly extended her palm.

But then a reprimand was heard.

"presumptuous!!"

A figure flashed across the building; two young men sat atop a tiger demon, leaping onto the city wall in a few strides.

"How dare you! This is China! How dare you, an alien god, commit such atrocities here!"

Jin Chanzi sat atop the tiger demon, his fingers like swords, pointing directly at the angel.

Behind Jin Chanzi sat another person, a man with a red face and long beard, whose eyes were wide open and glaring angrily at the sky.

The angel was also taken aback. He looked at the two people on the city wall, and when he saw clearly that they were not even beginners, but just ordinary people with mortal bodies, he couldn't help but sneer.

It's like seeing two ants baring their fangs and claws at you before they die—it's truly laughable.

"Hmph, two ignorant fools! Those who defy the gods shall die!"

In mid-air, the angel flicked his finger, and the sky suddenly darkened. A golden bolt of lightning tore through the clouds and struck the two of them directly.

Seeing the lightning strike, Jin Chanzi didn't say a word. He grabbed the tiger demon's head and pushed Lu Cheng forward.

"boom!!"

As the lightning struck, the entire city of Ruzhou trembled violently.

Yang Jun watched this scene from afar, his eyes turning red. Although he was the supervisor, in front of the gods, he was just an ant that was slightly stronger than the others.

As soon as the lightning subsided, most of the city wall had collapsed, filled with smoke and dust, and the air still smelled of coke.

"Hmph, what a fool." A mocking smile appeared on the cold, beautiful face of the angel floating in the air.

But she didn't continue her attack; her time to act was limited.

My primary task is to help the host. As for this city, I'll just wipe it out before I leave after I've resolved the host's troubles.

However, just as she was about to throw herself at the location of her host, Kaslia, her movements suddenly stopped!
For the first time, a look of shock appeared on that flawless face.

She lowered her head, her blue eyes piercing through the smoke and dust below, and saw that the two men and the tiger were still standing in the same spot.

The expected complete annihilation did not occur.

Amidst the ruins, only Jin Chanzi, Lu Cheng, and even the tiger demon remained standing in the same spot.

The rubble and bricks around them strangely retained their intact shape, as if an invisible boundary blocked the destructive lightning, forming an irregular, isolated island.

"How could this be?"

The angel's cool whisper carried a hint of disbelief.

In her eyes, the two were just ordinary human beings.

Even the tiger beside them was just a slightly different beast; how could it possibly resist her divine punishment?

"Pah, damn it, this woman really dares to lay a hand on me." Jin Chanzi spat and turned to look at Lu Cheng. "Brother Lu, she broke the rules first. Don't be polite to her, kill her."

Upon hearing Jin Chanzi's words, the angel suspended in the golden light was even more bewildered, and looked at Lu Cheng beside Jin Chanzi.

The burly man with a red face and long beard had a terribly gloomy expression, and the veins on his forehead were bulging.

Lu Cheng simply nodded to Jin Chanzi, then his rough hands suddenly gripped the front of his black outfit and ripped it open!
"Fuck-"

The tough cloth shredded like paper, revealing his muscular, bronze-colored chest, covered in scars and knots like iron.

As the clothes were torn open, an aura gradually revived from behind Lu Cheng.

"That is……"

An unusual expression suddenly appeared on the angel's face. Only then did she see the pale golden smoke behind Lu Cheng, which shot straight into the sky like a beacon fire.

The pale golden smoke was ethereal and invisible, and a giant who looked similar to Lu Cheng was gradually becoming clear from the blue light.

She had phoenix eyes and silkworm eyebrows, and her face was as red as a jujube.

Holding the Azure Dragon Blade, his eyes were slightly closed, but the next second they opened wide in anger.

"Buzz!"

An indescribable aura of majesty and killing intent swept over us.

Unlike the angels' pure divine power that covers the heavens and earth and suffocates people.

This aura is more restrained, profound, and domineering! It's like the ancient battlefield spirits that have been awakened from their slumber, carrying unparalleled loyalty and righteousness, and a chilling power to vanquish all evil!
Those open eyes, with their piercing gaze and sharp, piercing eyes, lifted up with immense force!
Finally, those two gazes, which seemed capable of cleaving through chaos, were firmly fixed on the angel!
At that moment, space seemed to freeze once again.

"Divinity!! Complete divinity!" At this moment, the angel's body trembled involuntarily, completely different from her previous arrogant demeanor.

Even on that exquisite face, countless tiny cracks appeared from excessive fear.

"This is impossible!!!" A silent scream exploded in her mind, "You are just a lowly mortal from the lower realm! Not even a vessel chosen by the gods! How can your mortal body bear even a trace of complete divinity?! This violates the rules! This desecrates the order!"

With the city of illusion now in existence, how could the gods not want to intervene? However, heaven has its rules, and earth has its constraints.

Gods should not easily interfere in human affairs.

All that can be done is to briefly send a wisp of divine consciousness into the human world through some form of sacrifice.

But within this person, there was a complete divine essence hidden within.

This completely violates the rules.

"Pah, you don't know anything. This is called a deity descending to earth, born from calamity and destroyed by calamity. It's something only a true deity who cares for the well-being of all living beings would do. You bunch of Western birds don't know anything."

Jin Chanzi cursed without any politeness.

But the angel had no time to pay attention to the Golden Toad's curses; she had only one thought in mind.

"escape."

Even though doing so would violate the rules of her descent into the world and would result in severe punishment, she had no delusions when facing a complete deity.

But now that we're here, leaving won't be so easy.

"Ow!!"

Suddenly, a dragon's roar was heard, no ordinary sound, as if it came rushing from beyond the nine heavens and from the depths of the river of time!

The giant moved.

His arm, which held the Green Dragon Crescent Blade, suddenly rose, not with lightning speed, but with a heavy feeling that seemed to crush time and space.

The blade's edge wasn't aimed at anything tangible, but directly at the angel's true form suspended in the clouds! The light flowing across the blade suddenly exploded, transforming into a wisp of condensed, azure-gold sharpness, as pure as the first wisp of energy at the beginning of creation!
In an instant, all things in heaven and earth lost their color! Only that azure-gold blade of light, reaching to the heavens and the earth, pierced through time and space, seemingly from the distant past, or perhaps from the unknown future, or even from this very moment.

This strike, and it falls!
The blinding golden clouds, like a red-hot iron hitting icy water, emitted a dull, piercing "sizzle" sound, disintegrating and evaporating inch by inch!
The so-called "divine light" surging around the angel couldn't even struggle for a moment before it was completely swallowed up and annihilated by this sharp edge!
The angel's exquisite face was frozen on an image of unbelievable fear and an absolute horror that came from the depths of his soul.

She tried to raise her arms, tried to flap her wings, tried to roar... but all her actions, thoughts, and even the imprint of her existence were completely frozen in the face of this blade of light that transcended mortal understanding and contained the power to sever destiny.

"laugh--"

It was as light as the sound of a breeze blowing through paper.

next moment.

The sacred light and shadow with its four wings and eight sides radiated thousands of sharp blue-gold rays from the inside out, as if it were illuminated from within!

Immediately afterwards, like ice and snow thrown into the scorching sun, without even a process of disintegration and shattering, the angelic body that shone with brilliance and dominated the entire city was completely transformed into countless tiny dust particles that shimmered with pale gold light in this silent explosion!
Not even a wisp of smoke, a mournful cry, or a divine decree remained.

Pure, absolute, and overwhelming annihilation!

The dazzling blade light continued its upward momentum, tearing, shattering, and smoothing away the newly formed and surging golden vortex of divine punishment, along with the spatial rift that had been forcibly torn apart behind it!
Above the sky, only a straight, narrow, and long-lasting cyan-gold blade mark remained, stretching across the heavens! It was as if the sky had been ripped open, or as if an invisible red line had been drawn that the gods could not cross.

Moments later, the clouds dispersed, the sky cleared, and the azure sky reappeared.

The entire city of Ruzhou seemed to breathe again after suffocating, and the frozen time and space began to flow again.

Countless people looked up in bewilderment, seeing only the afterglow of the horizontal, heart-stopping crack in the sky, and the faint light that was falling again.

Most people didn't even know what had just happened.

I felt as if my memory was somewhat blurred and out of place.

On the contrary, the city wall that had collapsed most of its length seemed to be a testament left behind.

Above the ruins, Lu Cheng silently pulled up his collar, covering his chest, which was as strong as if cast in iron. The majestic and awe-inspiring phantom behind him had long since disappeared, as if it had just been an illusion.

Only a long, drawn-out breath, accompanied by the golden toad's silly grin, softly sounded:

"Tch, foreign gods, what's there to mention? In heaven and on earth, there are only gods here!"

After saying that, he patted the tiger demon's head and said, "How about that? In the future, when you go out and see other monsters, you can brag about it and call yourself Lord Guan Yu's mount. That'll make you look good!"

After speaking, Jin Chanzi saw no response from the tiger demon. He looked down and, to his surprise, the beast's eyes had rolled back, and it had fainted from fright.

(End of this chapter)