A Scroll of Infinite Glory

Chapter 337 Calm Seas

Earth, the warp drive base, ran out of energy reserves after all the prosthetic bodies entered the energy core.

On a building at the edge of the white circular area, the energy pointer is moving towards the lowest level.

Just as the pointer hit the lowest limit, the explosives scattered throughout the warp site were activated.

hum! !

Suddenly, a long, snow-white rainbow descended from the sky. The instant it landed, the purest and most powerful celestial river magic spread out, almost instantly covering the entire massive jump base in frost-white ice crystals.

When Guan Luoyang appeared, the white area beneath his feet, which was nearly the size of twenty football fields, was covered with a layer of ice crystals more than ten centimeters thick. All the surrounding buildings, regardless of their height or whether they were inside or outside, were also completely blocked by ice crystals.

The devices that should have caused a massive explosion seemed to merely flicker a few hundred tiny red lights within the surrounding ice crystals before being suppressed by the inexhaustible power of the Heavenly River, extinguishing any subsequent chain of explosions.

This technique was originally one of the thirty-six spells of the Heavenly River Orthodox Law, freezing the enemy with ice and chilling them to the bone.

However, Guan Luoyang has made improvements to his current technique, incorporating some of the unpredictable and all-pervasive characteristics of the Vacuum Divine Power. This makes the ice crystals he creates less frigid and less likely to damage the precision components, thus providing a sealing effect.

Even the intelligent programs seemed to be frozen, with all the internal data flow stopped, waiting to be unfrozen.

Although Jiushan attempted to drag the entire game world to its doom in order to create confusion, Guan Luoyang still managed to spot a trace of them and find their last place.

Guan Luoyang looked around, hacked into the base's program, and understood what this place was used for.

They also discovered that even Jiushan and Chuxinggu themselves did not know where they would be teleported to.

"If they were floating in space, we probably wouldn't be able to find them."

Guan Luoyang pondered, "But the Tiandu mentioned in the mission information most likely refers to Mars. If they are lucky enough to directly jump to the Martian ecosystem on the other side of the route, then it won't be long before we have to deal with them again."

He stared at the center of the white area. "Next time, will you still have an entire game world to stop me?"

………………

In the game world, all the scenery that simulates reality disappears.

In the vast and dark void, only endless mist remained, and a few figures could be seen.

The mist, which should have been gentle, carried a powerful sense of suffocation, as if the weight of everything had been transferred into this endless fog after the world had disintegrated, intending to obliterate those who did not belong here.

Guan Luoyang knew very well that the essence of this fog was the game data that had become chaotic due to the riots caused by Jiushan's suicide.

The game world is so vast that even the chaos caused by Jiushan's suicide, the highest authority, is not enough to destroy the entire world in an instant. It only causes the surface scene of the urban area to collapse, thereby trapping and disrupting Guan Luoyang's perception.

In other regions, there are also Yan Zhen, Fifth Mirror, Hei Cuodao, and psionic signals remotely projected by the united regime, which can coordinate with Guan Luoyang.

In just half an hour, Guan Luoyang could rely on other stable districts to completely suppress the chaos in the urban area.

However, the other figures were not as composed as him.

The chosen ones in the urban area were now all burning as if they were on fire.

At the moment of his suicide, Jiushan detonated the hidden dangers buried in their soul data, attempting to use these flawed level 8 psychic to create more obstacles for Guan Luoyang.

At this moment, Zhao Lingtian and the others had also woken up and were trying to stop their own disintegration from erupting.

Su Sheng opened the City God's Jade Book, only to find that it had dissipated into a layer of chaotic data.

"This is, after all, a game world. Your magical artifacts are merely data containing some knowledge of immortality, which have been granted high-level permissions by the Nine Mountains."

Guan Luoyang raised his hand and pulled Su Sheng and Qi Dongqiang to his side, then punched them both in the chest twice.

The burning on their bodies subsided considerably, the explosive light dimmed, and only a few flames remained dancing.

"What you can rely on is not your magic weapons, but your spiritual power. Whether you call it Yin energy, incense, the Dharma eye, or whatever, feel that power, combine it with the external pressure of my two fist imprints, and rebuild your foundation."

Although Su Sheng and Qi Dongqiang had experienced a tremendous change today, and were filled with countless doubts and shocks, they knew that survival was the most important thing. They forced themselves to calm down and, feeling the spiritual energy source gradually emerging under the pressure of the fist imprint, began to rebuild their foundation.

Zhao Lingtian, Zhuang Gujian, and Ye Wuqi were not as lucky as the other two.

Zhao Lingtian's Golden Sky Pagoda, Wind and Thunder Ring, and the Qiankun Mirror, a secret life-saving magic treasure, had all disappeared. His anger surged to the top of his head, further intensifying the burning sensation on his body, making it impossible for him to calm down.

Zhuang Gujian's eyes were cold and sharp. His sword vanished, and suddenly his gaze swept across the area. He pointed his fingers like a sword and thrust it towards Guan Luoyang.

"So you heard what I just said, and now you want to put pressure on yourself by forcing me into a fight, so you can rebuild your foundation?"

Guan Luoyang laughed heartily, "You certainly have some ideas."

He raised his hand, flipped it over, and slammed it out.

Zhuang Gujian was already inferior to him, and now that the hidden dangers were erupting, how could he withstand his full-force attack?

Before he could even utter a sound, Zhuang Gujian was struck on the forehead by a punch that struck him first, shattering his entire body into pieces. Only a ball of bright white soul data remained, which Guan Luoyang caught in his palm.

Zhao Lingtian was shocked upon seeing this and cried out, "Wait..."

Bang!

With a flick of his finger, Guan Luoyang shattered his body, leaving only a mass of soul data, which was then suppressed and collected in his palm.

When Ye Wuqi saw Guan Luoyang looking at him, his eyes flickered a few times: "You helped two people and killed two people who attacked you, but I didn't attack you."

Guan Luoyang flicked his fingernails and said, "Whether to help or kill depends not only on whether you attack me, but also on what kind of person you are."

Ye Wuqi glanced at Su Sheng and Qi Dongqiang, lingering particularly on Qi Dongqiang for a while, frowning. Then, he burst into laughter as if he had encountered something extremely funny.

"I get it, hahaha, I can't believe it, there really is... hahaha!"

His body was originally burning with golden light, which was extremely unstable and seemed about to explode at any moment. Then, a layer of blood fire ignited on his body.

"In that case, there's no need for you to do it."

The interplay of gold and crimson instantly reduced Ye Wuqi's body to ashes.

In his soul data, there seemed to be a blank room.

Ye Wu hugged her knees, curled up in a corner of the room, and stared blankly at the empty space.

Ye Wuqi suddenly appeared in front of him.

Ye Wu was startled: "W-what are you doing?"

Ye Wuqi stared at him intently: "I've never understood why a weakling like you can keep bothering me. I'm clearly more suited to live in this world than you."

Ye Wu's face showed fear.

"Tsk." Ye Wuqi turned his face away in disgust. "But it turns out that sometimes, you have a better chance of survival than I do."

As soon as he finished speaking, his soul shattered like glass, the pieces drifting away, and the entire empty room disintegrated as a result.

Ye Wu blinked blankly, realizing that she couldn't feel her hands and feet. Just as she was about to cry, she realized that she wasn't paralyzed, but rather that she had turned into a round, chubby thing, feeling warm all over.

"what?"

He found himself flying up and landing in the palm of a hand, with a majestic human face looking down at him.

It seemed that the person's actions could see into her heart and reveal her past, making Ye Wu want to shrink back.

That stern face turned somewhat surprised, yet much more amiable.

"An eighth-level psychic with two personalities?"

Guan Luoyang pondered, "With two personalities, is it possible to cultivate to level eight psionic power?"

The soul data belonging to Ye Wu is indeed that of an eighth-level psionicist.

Ye Wuqi originally possessed 90% of this spiritual energy. After his death, Ye Wu successfully received that 90% of spiritual energy without any hindrance. This indicates that this ball of level eight spiritual energy was not unique to Ye Wuqi, but rather the result of their joint cultivation.

Guan Luoyang originally thought that spiritual energy cultivation required a firm and pure will, and that high-level spiritual energy users often needed to set grand goals for themselves.

Whether it's obsession and madness or grand ambitions, one needs to be in this state; otherwise, it's extremely difficult to reach level four or above and form a powerful fighting force.

But now it seems that's not the case. When Ye Wuqi, with his extreme mentality, and Ye Wu, an ordinary good student, unconsciously cooperated in their cultivation, they felt a sense of harmony with the true meaning of spiritual energy and smooth sailing.

Su Shengxin, being kind-hearted, noticed two large, illusory eyes on Ye Wu's fluffy white ball of light, their pitiful expressions conveying a sense of vulnerability. He couldn't help but ask, "This doesn't seem to be Ye Wuqi, Mr. Guan. What do you intend to do with him?"

"He'll be treated the same as the two of you. Once things calm down, he can exchange cultivation experiences with us first, and then decide whether he wants to go out and explore the real world."

As Guan Luoyang spoke, he put the soul data of Zhao Lingtian and Zhuang Gujian into his right sleeve. "As for these two, they'll just have to wait to be studied."

"Reality?"

Su Sheng stared blankly, then sighed deeply, "Was everything we experienced before truly all an illusion?"

Qi Dongqiang was also stunned: "Then my dad, my mom, my wife..."

"Don't rush, it's not a lie. Let's have a proper chat later."

Guan Luoyang waved his hand, and the surrounding golden data surged rapidly, like ribbons, piercing through the heavy fog and expanding outwards.

"Those people you care about won't be the focus of Jiushan's attacks; they're just temporarily overwhelmed by the data. Wait half an hour. Hmm, the surface scene of the urban area has collapsed now, and the flow of time inside and outside the game is about the same..."

"It'll be about fifteen minutes. After fifteen minutes, you'll be able to see your family and friends again."

Su Sheng and the others adjusted their own foundations and waited patiently.

Sure enough, before long, the dark void filled with mist gradually regained its light.

The azure ocean appeared first, followed by the city in the distance.

However, compared to the scenes that were almost indistinguishable from reality before, the current cityscape looks more like an old photograph with extremely low resolution.

Guan Luoyang tried for a while, but then found it too troublesome and put it aside for the time being.

"The intelligent programs that form the foundation of CD City are not only in chaos, but many of them are also completely stuck. It would be too much work for me to restore them to their previous state by myself. It's better to wait for some professional teams to be transferred from the United Government to help."

Just as he was thinking this, he saw Yan Zhen flying down from the sky.

"Brother Guan, Hei Cuodao has logged off to help you, but he can't find you. Where did you go?"

Guan Luoyang briefly explained the situation in reality.

Yan Zhen breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.

When they discussed their action plan, Guan Luoyang confidently stated that he was prepared to make another breakthrough before the battle, and that this battle was a sure thing with no major mistakes.

Let Yan Zhen and the others just focus on managing the game world.

However, in the field of science and technology, who claims to be invincible, and who dares to say they are undefeated? Time is like a knife cutting through the heavens, and for centuries, there has been a technological leap every three to five decades.

After the cataclysm, technological development in the major regions clearly took different paths.

No one knew what trump cards Jiushan and his team had up their sleeves. Now that the results were in, Yan Zhen could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

"Two of them left, but it's not a big deal. Having lost their original brains, it's foreseeable that they will be stuck at the level of level eight psionic energy for a long time. They've also lost their access to the game world, so they're not a threat."

Yan Zhen sighed, "Fortunately, although their technology in the electronics field is superb, they don't have any unexpectedly powerful weapons in terms of destructive force."

The Promised Land game world is indeed a feat that is difficult to replicate.

The technology for converting between electricity and psionic energy is also extraordinary.

It is important to understand that the transmission of public psionic signals is highly dependent on physical carriers and cannot be too far away from base stations and satellites.

Therefore, if powerful individuals want to receive the blessing of the masses' psionic energy, they can only wait for several satellites overhead to move together, which greatly slows down their movement speed and makes them easy to be detected by hostile forces.

With the means to convert between electrical and psionic signals, transoceanic signal projection and conversion become possible. It can be said that in the future, powerful leaders of the united regime, no matter where they are on Earth, will be able to receive psionic blessings from the masses.

After acquiring this technology from the Hachiyoin, the coalition government devoted all its efforts to modifying and installing it, and it played a significant role in this operation.

However, neither the game world nor the transformation of electric spirits can provide significant advantages in the overall situation; they do not possess decisive destructive power against top-tier psionic powerhouses.

"The potential of the game world is still huge and should not be underestimated."

Guan Luoyang said, "You should send some teams over as soon as possible to help repair and take over this game world. Also, send some experts in warp technology over here."

Yan Zhen agreed to all of them, and then said, "Although the game world is unstable right now, could you send a message to all the offline players to reassure them?"

"The wasteland is already chaotic. If they all go offline and are unaware of what's going on, it could easily lead to a major upheaval."

Guan Luoyang said, "That's not difficult. After all, the Heavenly Demon Crystal is not a real virus. Although it is highly infectious, it is still under my control. I can relax the Heavenly Demon Crystal's blockade on them a little and send them a message first."

(End of this chapter)