A Scroll of Infinite Glory

Chapter 640 Divine Flame is most suited to me, and for this I will advance in rank.

Whether it's the Immortal Venerable Yongzhou, the Great Sage Boniu, or the Patriarch Shanlong, none of them are easy to deal with.

However, the three of them had already fought before and were wary of each other, resulting in a stalemate.

After Master Shanlong realized Guan Luoyang's presence, he deliberately lured him over. It seemed like he was actively seeking change, but in reality, it also contained an element of helplessness.

Guan Luoyang, on the other hand, was the one who made thorough preparations and took the initiative to bring about changes, thus creating an opportunity for himself in the moment of disrupting the situation.

The first time he enthusiastically addressed the patriarch Shanlong, misleading the other two, could be considered an unexpected stroke of good fortune after making a judgment on the spot.

The subsequent intrusion of these Saint Lord-level powerhouses caused the situation to change again, which was the opportunity that Guan Luoyang had planned in advance.

He should have directly controlled the Primordial Golden List at this moment to sense his Primordial Buddha Bone clone in the Underworld.

Then, Master Qingdeng, taking advantage of being in the underworld, could unleash the supreme power of the Crimson Lotus, and even receive assistance from several Yama Kings.

This interconnected system, with the clone as the central hub and the two supreme treasures as the endpoints, creates a powerful attraction to Guan Luoyang's true form across the vast eighteen layers of the underworld, a attraction that surpasses all other realms.

Guan Luoyang's true form's escape speed will thus be elevated to an unprecedented level, both actively and passively, crossing the southeastern boundary sea and rushing towards the underworld.

None of the people present could stop him.

This is the source of his confidence that, after sensing the auras of the three powerful figures, he still dared to come over and play with the divine fire out of mere curiosity.

However, when things actually reached this point, he did not carry out his original plan.

He was still smiling.

Looking at that ball of flame.

It turned out that his smile was not a response to the Eternal Day Immortal Venerable; he had completely ignored the Eternal Day Immortal Venerable's words.

Because at this moment, Guan Luoyang's emotions were entirely devoted to the flame in his hand.

His smile contained a joy of meeting someone too late, a melancholy sigh of regret, and even a touch of tenderness.

The Seven Elders of Yanbo and the others had just broken through the last layer of palace restrictions when they unexpectedly found three powerful figures standing in addition to the person they had been chasing. Their movements were momentarily halted.

But in the blink of an eye, these Saint Lord-level powerhouses realized that the four people who had arrived at the Pure Azure Hall earlier seemed to be on four different sides.

The way the group positioned themselves immediately created a comprehensive restraint on Guan Luoyang.

Although they have different positions, it is clear that the most valuable divine fire has now been obtained by Guan Luoyang, and he is the one who should be targeted.

By this point, the opportunity that Guan Luoyang had created was gone.

Even if he wanted to leave now, all parties could definitely stop him if they acted simultaneously.

A strange light flashed in the eyes of the Eternal Day Immortal Venerable. When these Holy Lords suddenly broke in, he realized that it was the best opportunity for them to escape, and he was prepared to intercept them. He did not expect that Guan Luoyang would not take any action.

Moreover, this person is still directly wielding the Eternal Divine Flame, without taking any roundabout measures.

Could it be that his mind was damaged by the Eternal Divine Fire?

Bo Niu Dasheng put away the wine gourd, his ten fingers hanging down, his hands seemingly empty yet not empty, and his expression was somewhat unfathomable.

The Eternal Divine Fire is a top-tier treasure in the world for refining pills and crafting weapons, but it is also very difficult to control.

In past calamities, there have been instances where powerful individuals accidentally came into contact with the Eternal Flame, damaging their minds but not dying. They wielded the flame and wreaked havoc, feeding it at any cost, which caused the flame's power to grow ever stronger until they themselves were reduced to ashes.

After the divine fire's power increased to a certain level, it even temporarily transformed the traces of past calamities contained within it into reality, causing many ancient powerhouses to reappear in the world and create great chaos.

Therefore, after the great calamity of antiquity, the Heavenly Court took this divine fire into the Pill Department, intending to use the medicinal energy of the heavens and the alchemy techniques nurtured by the Pill Department to diminish the ferocity of this divine fire.

This divine fire is now much weaker than it was at its peak in ancient times.

However, if a mad Celestial Venerable were to recklessly offer up divine fire and use it for murder, he could still pose a significant threat to figures like the Eternal Day Immortal Venerable and the Great Sage Bo Niu.

"Holy Lords of the Heavenly Court's four departments of Fire, Plague, Mountain, and Water, heed my command! For now, set aside your past grievances and join forces to seize the Flame of Eternal Calamity!"

Immortal Venerable Yongzhou suddenly spoke, flicking his sleeve to send out a bamboo scroll.

The bamboo slip instantly enlarged, hovering in the air, with four talismans lined up on it.

They are clearly just four vermilion-colored talismans with simple and ancient patterns, seemingly without much mystery.

But when you actually see these runes, it's as if your vision is pulled to the highest point of the Great Void Sea, overlooking all the heavens and myriad worlds.

In the vast chaos, distances are immeasurable, and countless indistinct worlds drift and rise and fall.

The myriad principles permeate the world, both within and beyond.

For isolated world groups, the part of the Great Dao located on the periphery of the world group should have converged with chaos. This is also the reason why life is scarce in many universes, its development is slow and tortuous, and it is often destroyed by various disasters.

These countless world groups connected by Taiqing Chiming are somehow linked together in the dark.

The Great Dao is like a silk thread, and the myriad paths are like strands, drifting through the chaos without being assimilated. They all gently cross the infinite chaos and are drawn to the central position of Taiqing Chiming, making life more prosperous and the true spirit continue endlessly.

These threads of the Great Dao of all the heavens and myriad realms were originally things that neither emperors nor sages could sense.

The reason they can vaguely glimpse this scene is because four different colors are manifested within the threads of the Great Dao: the incense of the divine way, the changes of injury and illness, the earth's bearing of things, and the rise and fall of things like water.

This is precisely the Great Dao talisman that only the Heavenly Venerable in charge of the Heavenly Court can inscribe.

As the head of the Dan Department, Master Shanlong also possessed such a treasure seal, but when he saw these four talismans, his expression changed drastically and his mind was shaken.

The Great Dao Seal is a mark placed wherever it is placed. It is only activated when there is a specific matter to be handled that the seal is used to record a mark.

None of the four talismans before us carried any specific commands; they were simply displays of authority.

This means that the person who holds these four talismans can issue an order on behalf of the four Heavenly Venerables.

The Eternal Day Immortal Venerable is merely an Immortal Venerable of the Fire Department, yet he possesses such a thing. Doesn't this mean that the four departments of the Heavenly Court have already formed an alliance under the leadership of the Fire Department?

The holy lords present were equally shocked upon seeing these four great talismans.

In particular, the Seven Elders of Yanbo recalled receiving orders from the Heavenly Venerable of the Water Department to obstruct the Patriarch of Good Dragon, though they were not yet aware of the reason at the time.

Looking back now, it must have been the Eternal Day Immortal Venerable who mobilized the various Holy Lords to cooperate in order to seize the divine fire in the Pure Azure Palace.

"Good! With the Great Dao Seals of the Four Departments of Heaven here, I'm afraid seven or eight out of ten of the Holy Lords present are temporary allies. What's there to hesitate about?"

The Seven Elders of Yanbo, no longer holding back, made their move without hesitation.

The seven true waters intertwined, and endless waves rippled outwards, making the open space in front of the Pure Azure Hall appear boundless and vast, with the shadows of many worlds rising and falling in the water.

Things in water are the opposite of things in reality.

If those worlds are actually at their peak, their reflections in the water may have already decayed; if those worlds have just been created, their reflections in the water may already be in their final stages.

If those worlds are blessing one person, perhaps that person has already perished, crumbling and transforming into many worlds.

The nearby holy lords, upon witnessing such divine power, were all terrified. They unleashed their great magical power and hastily retreated, not daring to touch the boundary of the endless waves.

As the saying goes, "Time flows like water, and all things come and go; the cycle of formation, existence, decay, and emptiness is governed by the way of water, which governs rise and fall."

This "Seven Methods of Exhaustive Practice in the Boundless Water Calamity" is a powerful divine power for dealing with calamities, and for the Lord of the Holy Land, it can be described as a specialized means of mutual restraint.

Although the holy masters present were in groups of four or five, none of them were as tacitly in sync and as deeply rooted as the Seven Elders of Yanbo. How could they dare to resist?

Moreover, at this time, they were not enemies.

The Seven Elders of Yanbo were targeting only Guan Luoyang.

Guan Luoyang did not turn around, but he could already feel an endless expanse of water spreading out behind him, with towering waves rising up.

As the waves surged in, they reflected one Guan Luoyang, two Guan Luoyangs, three, ten, a hundred, and countless Guan Luoyangs!

Even though Guan Luoyang was facing away from the water, the reflections on the water were all of Guan Luoyang's face, the same height and similar build, only some were pale, some were stiff, some had rotten faces, and some had white hair, all filled with greed that wanted to take his place...

In that instant, trillions upon trillions of identical people had already covered the upright water surface, staring at their reflections outside the water, their original forms!

Guan Luoyang, however, was still looking at the flame in his hand.

He did not escape as originally planned because... the unique characteristics of the Eternal Flame far exceeded his expectations!

When Guan Luoyang attempted to contact the Eternal Calamity Divine Flame using the Primordial Golden List, the impact he experienced in that fleeting glimpse of light allowed him to gain a deep understanding of the essence of this divine flame.

This divine fire was simply the most suitable thing for him that he had ever seen.

Guan Luoyang's cultivation progressed too quickly, and his own experiences, compared to those of some ancient reincarnators, were not as complex or rich as they seem.

However, he was good at listening. After achieving success in his cultivation, whenever he entered a new realm, he could trace back to the past and present and browse all things. Although he had not personally experienced them, the breadth of his knowledge and the depth of his mind were in no way inferior to those ancient people.

In particular, he also obtained all the information about the Reincarnated Ones stored in the Last Songs Chapter, including exchanges and gatherings between high-ranking members of various chapters.

In terms of overall breadth of vision, he surpasses even those who survived from the distant past, such as Taiqing Chiming.

Even so, Guan Luoyang had never seen or imagined that he could encounter something as suited to his taste as the Eternal Divine Flame.

This flame gathers traces of countless calamities, records those brilliant past events, and leaves behind the shadows of bygone days. How similar it is to Guan Luoyang's vacuum mind realm!

But if they only represent traces of the past, then the Book of Fate, the Spring of Shennong, the Records of Akasha, and so on in certain worlds seem to be such treasures as well.

That's not actually the case.

Because Guan Luoyang's path, every time he recorded it, was a burning of his own soul. He used the light of his whole heart and soul to illuminate the things he wanted to achieve, and then let those things become part of his own light, continuing to extend.

His essence has always been independent of those things, yet after encompassing them, it shines with an even more intense brilliance.

Only the Eternal Divine Fire could resonate with his unique qualities.

However, the Eternal Divine Fire was not as fortunate as Guan Luoyang.

Guan Luoyang was able to gradually grow stronger in one world after another that wasn't particularly powerful.

The Eternal Divine Flame was born in an overly powerful world. When it first attempted to record, the powerful external traces destroyed its potential to develop a complete thought process.

While it remains unique in essence and continues to roam freely to collect behaviors, it has lost the ability to think clearly.

When Guan Luoyang saw it, it was as if he saw a version of himself who had died young and regretted it.

That's why, after his setback on the Hongmeng Golden List, he instinctively reached out and grabbed it.

The towering water surface, with its countless figures crashing down, seems to bring thoughts to a standstill.

The figure of the Eternal Day Immortal Venerable suddenly appeared in front of Guan Luoyang, and was submerged in countless water shadows.

The next moment, amidst the countless figures, a single point of emerald green light suddenly appeared, flashing upwards and drawing a straight line.

"You possessed boundless talent, yet your ambitions remained unfulfilled throughout your life. You gained immense power earlier than I did, but you were unable to act as freely as I did!"

Guan Luoyang burst into laughter and raised the torch in his hand.

"Hahaha, then let me help you!"

In that instant, countless boiling sounds surged from his body.

Black robes descend from the sky, the Taiyuan Divine Spear, the Golden-Winged Roc, Hellfire, Jade Axe and Long Staff, Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty, Soaring Light, Demonic Sect Sword Song...

Boxers, martial artists, vampires, Taoist priests, warriors, mechs, ferocious beasts, ghost immortals, strange creatures...

Thousands upon thousands of projections separated from Guan Luoyang's body, far fewer than the trillions upon trillions of reflections in the water, but each projection was unique.

Even a lowly soldier who was once forced by the emperor to fight against Guan Luoyang had his own distinct facial features and an appearance that was different from others.

At the very moment the projections separated, the emerald green flame that Guan Luoyang held high burst forth fiercely along with them.

A single spark of emerald fire in mid-air transforms into three thousand fiery dragons, their vibrant green shimmering as they swirl and dance!

The countless water shadows, which he had just broken through, were now using various methods to surge forward again when they encountered the emerald vortex formed by three thousand divine dragons coiling around them.

All the shadows that came into contact with the emerald green flames vanished into nothingness in an instant.

In the blink of an eye, the impact of the trillions of water shadows appeared thin and weak, as if only a thin line remained.

But in reality, their numbers are constantly being reborn as soon as they die, and have not decreased at all for the time being.

The reason for this stark contrast is that the emerald green vortex high in the sky expanded many times over in the blink of an eye.

The flames at the edge of the vortex grew increasingly intense and bright, while in the center of the vortex, an unimaginable void formed, with a roaring sound that seemed to engulf the entire Heavenly Palace Array and even expand into the outer chaos.

Under the immense pressure of such a vast void, even billions of water droplets could only transform into a weak, tortuous line of water, infinitely approaching collapse.

The waterline spun rapidly, and was torn and twisted by an invisible force from time to time. The seven large faces of the Seven Elders of the Misty Waves began to appear on the surface, shocked and astonished, roaring in resistance and struggling desperately.

The three humans didn't come at all. Of the remaining thirteen Holy Lords present, nine belonged to the Plague Department, Water Department, and Fire Department. They also made their moves, unleashing three great divine powers.

The combined attack of cold, emptiness, disease, and decay, along with the supernatural array that connects the four elements and the four spirits, is a true method of offering sandalwood prayers for the past, present, and future!

The three magic arrays expanded with dazzling light on the ground, and then rose with a roar.

Although it appears to be just three more slender pillars compared to the emerald vortex, they do indeed slow down the vortex's operation.

The remaining spectators could vaguely see the view above through the emerald vortex.

As the Eternal Day Immortal Venerable raised his palm, the three thousand kinds of light from the Great Thousand Worlds and the Divine Path's prayers each transformed into a feather and suddenly came to his side.

Three thousand luminous feathers danced and swirled around him, creating a chaotic and disorganized scene that made it seem as if the palm of the Eternal Day Immortal Venerable was empty.

In reality, however, there was the "Supreme Mahayana Shattering Light Qi," which shatters all illusions, for all things are originally empty, and light gathers in the void. It converged between his palms and fingers and was unleashed with the majesty of ruling the heavens and the Dao.

Although he was surprised by Guan Luoyang's Taoist skills, which allowed him to control the Eternal Calamity Divine Fire, he also noticed that Guan Luoyang was severely damaged.

The initial contact ultimately left Guan Luoyang with injuries, and using the myriad projections in the Vacuum Mind Realm as a fuse to control the Eternal Calamity Divine Flame was an even greater burden.

With his initial-stage Heavenly Venerable cultivation, if he were in good condition and used the supreme treasure hidden in his sleeve, he might be able to fight for a few rounds against Eternal Day Immortal Venerable, a mid-stage Heavenly Venerable.

However, given his current overwhelming advantage, Immortal Venerable Yongzhou is confident that his opponent will be unable to withstand his attack.

Both the Observer Master Shanlong and the Great Sage Boniu seemed to be interested in watching the battle.

Guan Luoyang, however, waved his hand casually, swinging his left arm to directly meet the attack from the Eternal Day Immortal Venerable.

He was indeed injured and burdened, but once a cultivator reaches the seventh level or above, there is a condition where all previous negative states can be restored.

Advancement!

He controlled the primordial chaos, comprehended the two great ten-star relics, and had been cultivating deeply at the initial stage of the nine-star level for a long time, accumulating profound knowledge. When he finally understood the will of the Netherworld Lord, he glimpsed a few opportunities for breakthrough. However, at that time he was only three or four parts confident, so he did not rush to try to break through.

After arriving at the Southeast Boundary Sea, he traveled around fighting, encountering various powerful Saint Lords, and incorporating them into his mind realm, constantly consolidating and increasing his chances of advancement.

By the time he arrived at the Heavenly Palace, he had already achieved four or five tenths of his goal.

"I originally planned to accumulate 60% to try, but for the sake of the Eternal Flame, I'll move it forward a bit."

The eternal divine fire flickered, seemingly rejoicing as well.

(End of this chapter)