A Scroll of Infinite Glory

Chapter 329 The City God Enters the Game, the Demonic Sword Slashes, the Divine Eyes Are Unparalleled, and the Constellation Decree is Issued

Thunder and lightning swept across the sky, followed by a white rainbow in pursuit.

As the players around Su Sheng were shocked and tried to dodge, auspicious clouds surged beneath their feet, and azure-gold divine light burst forth.

The divine light rose up from all four sides like walls, then suddenly converged in the middle, gathered together, and disappeared.

The vast expanse of auspicious clouds, which could comfortably accommodate numerous players, suddenly shrank into a tiny piece of jade light, no bigger than a palm, and with a gentle swirl, drifted away.

They easily dodged the rumbling, rolling wind and thunder ring.

In Su Sheng's cultivation method, the City God naturally has his own unique Dharma realm. This Dharma realm is essentially an alternate dimension, often residing in a certain kind of treasure or a certain spiritual place.

Su Sheng entrusted his Dharma realm to the City God's Jade Book.

This treasure appears to be just two thin pieces of green jade stacked together, but once opened, new jade pages will continuously grow inside, making it impossible to count how many pages there are. On them are recorded the names of the City God and his subordinate ghost generals, judges, impermanent spirits, ox-headed demons, horse-faced demons, and ghost soldiers and gods.

The City God's realm is neither yin nor yang, suitable for ghosts to live in. It can give physical form to the ethereal, weak and easily dispersed ghosts in the outside world, making it easy to cultivate them into elite Yin soldiers and battle spirits. When necessary, it can also take in some living people.

Many players and Su Sheng himself were currently hidden inside the City God's Jade Book, traversing the sky at an extremely fast speed.

While the Wind and Thunder Rings were powerful, they were no match for the City God's Jade Book.

But the sword light that followed closely behind the Wind and Thunder Ring was different.

When that sword strike was launched, it was magnificent and explosive, like a rocket taking off into the sky, never to return. However, after the Wind and Thunder Ring failed, the straight sword light suddenly turned, becoming ethereal and indescribable.

The original explosive and fierce intent of the sword energy was washed away with this turn, becoming utterly devoid of any luster, like a gazelle hanging its horns, a celestial horse soaring through the sky, actually making seven turns in an instant, catching up with the City God's Jade Book which had changed direction seven times.

At this moment, the City God's Jade Tablet had already receded far away from the sky above the resort and arrived at the center of the lake.

The innate sword energy pursued too closely, leaving the City God's Jade Book with no way to avoid it. It was struck by the sword light and deeply pressed beneath the water's surface.

The impact created a hemispherical depression over 100 meters in diameter in the center of the lake. The surface water film shattered completely, and dozens of jets of white water erupted from the edges, creating huge waves that spread wildly in all directions.

Although the Wind and Thunder Ring missed its target, Zhao Lingtian had already thrown the golden pagoda in his hand far away. It expanded layer by layer in the sky and pressed down on this side.

Beneath the water's surface, one could vaguely see the City God's Jade Book, struck by the sword light, suddenly enlarged. Originally only the size of a palm, it abruptly became like a door, releasing numerous ghostly and divine phantoms from beneath it, which, like schools of fish, scattered in all directions and merged into the soil beneath the lake in the blink of an eye.

Su Sheng himself revealed his true form, raised his palm above his head, held up the City God's Jade Book, and shouted loudly.

A wave of cyan-gold incense energy rippled out from his body, and in the next instant, the entire lake began to tremble.

Tens of millions of tons of water surged from the turbulent lake surface into the sky.

The violently rotating water columns, thick as if they were growing directly from the lake water, resembled brand-new high-rise buildings.

They are rising and rotating, and at the same time, they are constantly freezing outward from the center.

The lake is so vast and boundless.

However, when Su Sheng's City God's divine power was fully unleashed, the water in the entire lake was drawn and mobilized, forming huge ice pillars. Inside the ice, countless fish, shrimp, frogs, and crabs were frozen, along with tangled dark green aquatic plants, broken pavilions, and the remains of water corridors.

The lake receded, revealing the solidified silt and vast expanses of frozen soil beneath.

If one had not witnessed the vast expanse of water just moments before, one might mistakenly believe that this frozen tundra has remained unchanged for thousands of years.

Compared to these towering ice pillars and the frozen soil at the bottom of the lake, the human body appears extremely small.

However, this magnificent, vast, frosty, and icy scene was created simply according to one person's wishes.

He even created this scene merely as a basis for his formation, to counter the pagoda falling from the sky.

Looking down from high above, the numerous icicles serve as nodes, and the frozen soil as a foundation, as if a complex magic circle is drawn on a dark blue paper with frosty white circles, possessing both the orderly beauty of the Four Symbols and the majestic atmosphere of dragons and snakes gathering.

The numerous icicles, with their tops at roughly the same height, formed a vast, radiant, pure blue magic array pattern covering this height.

Although Zhao Lingtian's golden pagoda was enlarged to a height of 100 meters, it still appeared somewhat small in size compared to any icicle.

But when it fell and hit the array pattern, the entire frozen lake trembled, and all the ice pillars sank slightly, almost one after the other.

"Under the Golden Sky..."

Zhao Lingtian appeared high in the sky, his face filled with murderous intent, his seven orifices radiating light. He waved his hands, drawing up layers of magical energy, which he then used to strike the pagoda below, further amplifying its power.

He burst into wild laughter.

"All things are scattered!"

After Zhao Lingtian awakened the memories of the Immortal Venerable who dominated the cultivation world in his previous life, a "Golden Sky Technique" appeared in his mind. According to his memories, this technique was something he had cultivated for hundreds of years in his previous life. It was a supreme treasure created by him in his previous life by combining a certain spiritual path with traditional cultivation techniques. He should be extremely familiar with it.

After coming into contact with the Golden Cloud Technique, he indeed had new insights almost every moment, as if they came from different environments and experiences, probably from different periods of his long life in his previous life.

In any case, Zhao Lingtian absorbed everything and mastered it, making his cultivation incredibly fast. However, perhaps due to his reincarnation, his memory of the "Golden Sky Technique" was incomplete, and the content of the technique only extended up to the Nascent Soul stage.

In order to develop the later parts, when Zhao Lingtian received the three treasures from his previous life, his main body entered a deep state of meditation, leaving only an avatar outside to enjoy himself.

In the senses of the clone, it was merely a matter of spending a few pleasant years in the city.

However, Zhao Lingtian's main body felt that he didn't know how many long years he had spent, and how many chaotic opinions he had seen. If it weren't for his clones constantly abducting beauties, disciplining subordinates, and toying with enemies to provide him with new stimulation, his main body's consciousness would probably have long since dissipated into the deep meditation of those long years and never returned.

But he eventually created another level of cultivation technique and broke through to the Ascension stage.

The Golden Sky Pagoda disperses the Five Elements.

This is the final layer of the Golden Sky Technique that he created.

The five elements are the foundation of all things. They generate and restrain each other. Therefore, within the foundation of all things, there are both attractive and repulsive forces.

However, when the five elements are in balance, the repulsive forces cannot be manifested.

As long as one uses the power of ascension, in conjunction with the Golden Sky Pagoda, and skillfully unties the bonds between them, the inherent repulsive forces of all things will cause them to collapse and be completely destroyed on their own.

The Golden Cloud Pagoda continued to press down.

The towering ice pillars, starting from their tops, silently cracked apart.

The ice, infused with the divine power of incense and harder than steel, crumbled without leaving a single trace.

What you see are layers of light spots, blown away, causing the height of the icicles to decrease continuously.

"It seems that your fight was just an act. Allowing so many subordinates to fight each other, resulting in deaths and injuries, was only to lure other competitors into a trap and wipe them out in one fell swoop."

Su Sheng sighed softly. The City God Jade Book in his hand shrank back to the size of a palm and was held in front of him. It looked smaller, but it still shone brightly, supporting the entire magic array.

He didn't show much anger on his face; the way things turned out was both unexpected and reasonable. However, he still said a few more words.

"Competing for treasure and fighting to the death is only human nature. But the other world may not be the treasure trove you expect. I have some things here that you can take a look at."

Su Sheng pinched out a round bead and flicked it towards the direction outside the lake.

The wind and thunder swirled around and shattered the bead with a single shock.

"I know what's in your bead; it's nothing more than a video claiming to show someone returning from a zombie-infested world three years in the future."

Zhao Lingtian scoffed, "My newly recruited subordinates have already mentioned this kind of news, but so what? Mere corpse poison is no match for me."

"It's poisonous, which is perfect. You're too afraid to touch it and can't use it, so I'll go in and enjoy it all by myself. Treasures are everywhere, and it will all be mine in the end, hahahaha!"

Su Sheng said, "That's something that could affect millions of people, how could you..."

"You talk too much nonsense, don't you?"

Zhao Lingtian said impatiently, "I just find the world too chaotic and troublesome. If a large number of people die, the rest will have to beg me to survive. That way, the remaining people will know to respect and worship me. Isn't that perfect?"

Su Sheng's chest heaved slightly, his eyebrows furrowed, and the ends of his eyebrows rose.

At that very moment of intense emotional turmoil, Zhuang Gujian's eyes narrowed, and he unleashed a sword strike.

The current leader of the martial arts alliance is still inside the resort, some distance from the lakeshore, let alone the figure of Su Sheng amidst the array barriers, the frozen soil at the bottom of the lake, and the towering ice pillars.

However, once his innate sword energy was unleashed, his entire body, clothing, and even his hair seemed to transform into sword energy, becoming a human figure composed of densely packed, thread-like sword light.

The humanoid figure lunged forward with its sword, and together with the sword, it transformed into hundreds and thousands of snow-white dragon-like sword energies, roaring through the air, chasing each other, tightly intertwined and shuttling, constantly competing forward.

The ice pillar formation had already covered the entire lake area, so fine that even the smallest speck of dust was blocked from entering.

But these sword energies crisscrossed and rippled, bombarding from the side, and the defenses at the edge of the formation were broken in an instant.

The edge barrier, like glass, was blasted open by the rushing sword energy, leaving jagged cracks at the edges, resembling fangs.

Hundreds of sword energies soared and flew, breaking several more ice pillars in an instant, and arrived beside Su Sheng.

Su Sheng produced a black calligraphy brush in his right hand, the tip of which was dipped in vermilion, and swung it to the right.

The void was like paper, and vermilion was the ink. A wildly cursive "seal" character, as big as a person, appeared on Su Sheng's right side, blocking the bombardment of those intersecting sword energies.

Sword energy gathered, a dazzling white light appeared, and Zhuang Gu Sword appeared. With a single slash, it pierced through the large vermilion character, pulverizing the incense and divine power within.

The black brush was chopped into a cloud of yin energy and scattered.

Su Sheng grabbed the blade directly with his right hand, and the blade slid a distance in his palm, leaving it dripping with blood.

The sword tip still pierced his right shoulder, sword energy soaring, and thin sword lights, each condensing boundless power, shot into his body.

Compared to Zhao Lingtian and the others, Su Sheng was a person with a less prominent personality.

Even Qi Dongqiang has the characteristic of being cautious and down-to-earth, while Su Sheng seems to be an ordinary person in every aspect. He only got to where he is today because of the extraordinary encounter with the City God's Seal. He is just a pure lucky guy.

However, from another perspective, the fact that he grew up as an ordinary person and suddenly obtained the City God's Seal, wielding the power to confer titles on ghosts and gods and command ghost soldiers, yet still managed to remain so ordinary in character, neither arrogant nor preoccupied with gains and losses, is precisely what makes him so terrifying.

His character and principles were so strong that he seemed to be a born god, unmoved by external gains or losses, unaffected by the biases of ghosts and gods, and unswayed by divine power.

Only when outsiders cross their bottom line will they discover just how courageous and fierce this kind of person truly is!

"People like you don't deserve to live in this world."

The City God Jade Book in Su Sheng's left hand turned pages automatically, releasing all the players. As the pages of the jade book were turned, thousands upon thousands of ethereal ghostly figures swarmed out, flying out of the frozen lake and the ice pillar formation, and soaring into the vast world.

Wherever the ghostly figure passed, the sky darkened instantly, and the ground and tall buildings also turned as black as ink.

The yin energy was diverted from wherever they passed and transferred out of thin air to the City God's Jade Book, where an extremely dark primordial energy was brewing.

"The death of a god is considered the return to nothingness. At the cost of erasing all traces of my life and eternally scattering my soul, you two will also lose the ability to harm the world."

High in the sky, Zhao Lingtian sensed the extremely dark trace, his heart pounding wildly. The Golden Cloud Pagoda continued to fall, while he stepped on the tip of the pagoda, soaring into the air and flying to an even higher place.

Zhuang Gujian ignored the imminent threat, his longsword breaking free from its restraints with a flick of his wrist, and he coldly slashed out with a horizontal strike.

The intention was to sever Su Sheng's head and annihilate his soul and mind before Su Sheng's extremely dark energy could erupt.

Su Sheng reached out to grab it, but missed. He then turned and bit the blade.

He certainly couldn't bite the blade, but the sword was caught between two fingers.

"Boss Su, you seem the most gentle, how could you be so reckless? You self-destructed after only two moves, no one could have predicted that!"

Guan Luoyang appeared behind Su Sheng, his right arm reaching out, his index and middle fingers intercepting the blade of Zhuang Gu's sword. No matter how fiercely the dazzling sword light struck, it would suddenly dim as soon as it got close to the spot where his two fingers were holding it, as if it had been thrown into the sea, and everything would return to normal.

The surrounding players were dumbfounded. They saw those two fingers flick and shake, sending Zhuang Gujian and his sword flying backward.

Su Sheng was also extremely shocked.

He then realized that his preconceived notion that Guan Luoyang's combat strength was mediocre was somewhat suspicious.

Although Guan Luoyang never mentioned his actual strength, both Su Sheng and Kong Fuzi seemed to be influenced by something inexplicable. They all felt that Guan Luoyang should not be included when calculating important combat forces.

Su Sheng was stunned for a moment, then suddenly exclaimed in alarm, "This is bad! My move, 'God's Fall to the Void,' has progressed to this point, and I can't stop it myself."

Guan Luoyang turned and flashed to Su Sheng's left, took the City God's Jade Book, and clasped his hands together.

The endless, ever-turning pages of the City God's Jade Book were compressed into a thin booklet by his palms, as if only two pieces of green jade were sandwiched together.

The faint, extremely dark aura was gathered up by Guan Luoyang's hands, and the yin energy that formed this extremely dark circular spot was actually forced back the way it came by his pressure.

Everything seemed to have traveled back in time; the city's things regained their original colors, the dark clouds in the sky dispersed, and the sun shone again.

Just then, Zhuang Gu's sword flashed like white light, bypassing Su Sheng, passing between Su Sheng and Guan Luoyang, and then circled around to Guan Luoyang's front, turning back to thrust the sword forward.

His body's trajectory resembled the Taiyi arc at the center of the Taiji diagram, dividing Yin and Yang.

The arc begins at one end and ends at the other, with the end point right at the throat of Luoyang.

Guan Luoyang took a leisurely step back, pressing down the extremely dark energy with both hands. He was finishing up and couldn't relax, so he stomped his foot and turned his body to the side as he stepped back.

Unleashing a burst of hidden power, Qi Dongqiang was suddenly blasted into the air, leaping forward and just barely brushing past Guan Luoyang as he lunged towards the sword light.

"Why is it me?"

Qi Dongqiang was so frightened that his face turned deathly pale, and he passed by Guan Luoyang with a look of utter despair on his face.

Their eyes met, and he clearly saw an encouraging smile in Guan Luoyang's eyes.

Believe in yourself, you can do it!

How come I didn't know I could do it?

Qi Dongqiang had a bitter face, but his eyes shone brightly as a series of images suddenly flashed through his mind.

That was a few days ago in the orchard, when Guan Luoyang invited him to play chess.

Although he knew he might be the chosen one and that a great battle was imminent, Qi Dongqiang's vision was never something he had developed on his own. He didn't know which direction he should strive towards, so in his anxiety, he could only play chess to relieve the pressure.

Both of them had just learned the rules of Go and had no idea how badly they were playing.

Guan Luoyang played with particular seriousness. After each move, he would stare at his opponent for a long time, as if he were studying a mysterious puzzle, sometimes frowning and sometimes chuckling.

Qi Dongqiang found it strange at the time but couldn't find out the reason. Now, all the scenes of the moves were gathered in his mind, and as if by some strange twist of fate, he stretched out a finger.

Ding---

Fingertips touched the tip of the sword!

Zhuang Gujian stumbled and looked up in surprise.

He wasn't surprised that his sword strike was blocked, but rather because he had never imagined that this innate killing sword strike would actually have a flaw.

Two figures froze in space. Qi Dongqiang's finger seemed to be touching the tip of the sword, but many light spots representing stars appeared around him.

There are seven spots of light, connected by a line that resembles a spoon, which are the seven stars of the Big Dipper.

There are also varying numbers of stars, each forming a constellation. These eleven constellations together form the Horn Constellation of the Azure Dragon's Seven Mansions.

There were also six stars connected, nine stars connected, and so on. Spots of light kept appearing and rays of light kept connecting, forming groups of stars and constellations that spread outwards from Qi Dongqiang's side and back.

The power of the Dharma Eye spread and encircled these constellations. What appeared to be a direct strike was actually countless mysterious trajectories carrying the power of the Dharma Eye, breaking through Zhuang Gujian's killing move.

The sword rang out with a sharp, resounding clang.

Zhuang Gujian leaped back rapidly, passing between numerous ice pillars, crashing through one of them, breaking through the lake shore, and landing on the bank.

He vomited blood, stabbed the ground with his sword, pressed his chest, and looked down at the frozen soil at the bottom of the lake.

Qi Dongqiang looked at his fingers with a mixture of confusion and surprise.

"This is a finger technique created by combining the Heavenly Demon Technique's Exploding Spirit Demon Finger, the Heavenly River Nine Star Sword Seal, and the profound mysteries of your Dharma Eye."

Guan Luoyang said from behind him, "Using your finger as the command, this can be called the Star Spirit Constellation Command!"

The players looked at each other, completely bewildered by the unfolding situation.

Based on the records left from previous major main quests, the chosen ones in each main quest should be roughly the same in strength, with slight differences only appearing in the later stages of the quest.

However, in this mission, this chosen one of the apocalyptic world seems to have disrupted this balance.

The chivalrous Yue Buqun from Jiangnan hesitated before saying, "Mr. Guan, you..."

Guan Luoyang returned the City God's Jade Book to Su Sheng.

"As expected of the chosen ones, they didn't even intend to let this battle drag on. Then stop hiding and come out, all of you."

He bent down and patted the frozen soil at the bottom of the lake.

The earth resounded like a drum as he struck it.

The deep, resonant sound of the drums echoed not only across the lake but also throughout the surrounding cities.

The clouds in the sky were shaken by the drumbeats into concentric circles.

On the highway north of the lake, blood and fire danced, and bats flapped their fleshy wings, transforming into a figure.

The resort's garage, deep underground, was a particular target of the drumbeats, the resounding drumbeats causing the entire underground space to collapse.

A figure flew out of the cave.

With a suit, a watch, a broad forehead, and black hair, he immediately attracted the attention of countless bionic flying insects upon his appearance.

Long Jiusheng arrived at the lakeside, adjusted his cufflinks, and laughed, "Your methods are truly unexpected. The allies I painstakingly contacted seem to have had no effect whatsoever. What a pity."

"It's all your fault for choosing the wrong ally, which exposed your true colors. Given their personalities, how could they possibly form an alliance without a third party mediating?"

Guan Luoyang rose into the air, and the golden pagoda quickly shrank and flew away, leaving him standing on the ice pillar, looking around, and said, "Now that everyone is here, let's finish discussing this matter of the other world today."

The battle here, which involved several chosen ones, was being broadcast live by people hiding in the surrounding cities, and countless player forums were paying attention.

Even players outside of urban areas are engaging in heated discussions by sharing the posts.

While the previous battles were intense, these players still had the leisure to do some analysis and comparison. But now, with the situation changing drastically and the density of all the bullets increasing dramatically, all the original analysis and predictions have been interrupted.

Regardless of their identity, players were posting venting messages and actively participating in multiple forums and chat groups.

The radiance of the Heavenly Demon Crystal surged like a tidal wave amidst the dense array of signals.

(End of this chapter)