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Chapter 574 All Zero

"An imaginary life form!" Lan Cuihua exclaimed in surprise upon hearing Lan Caihe's account. "So the core created another real cosmic emperor?"

"Yes!"

Lan Caihe nodded. "In order for her to possess power approaching that of a true cosmic emperor, the Holy Sword will be wielded by her. She is a divine being, possessing the power of the Holy Sword. Once released, it will not be bound by the core!"

"Not bound by the core? Is she out of control?"

"That's right! Originally, the Holy Sword quest was proceeding normally, and once the ownership of the Holy Sword was determined, the final boss wouldn't possess it. She was just a powerful creature to test the players' combat strength. But now, because of the Black Card Emperor's actions, all players' Godhood Points are zero, and the ownership of the Holy Sword can't be determined. So, it will become the final boss's weapon!"

Lan Caihe sighed and said, "I wonder what kind of monster it is. In terms of combat power alone, the core calculation results show that if the combat power of the cosmic emperor that invaded was 100, then the combat power of this ultimate BOSS wielding the holy sword is at least 95."

"That's strong!" Lan Cuihua exclaimed. "What if no one can kill her?"

"If no one can destroy her, she will probably kill everyone and destroy the core as well. My mission will be interrupted, and this illusory world that the core sustains will also disappear!"

"The core is too ruthless; it's created a formidable enemy for itself!"

Lan Cuihua shook her head repeatedly. After annihilating the projection of the Cosmic Emperor, Wu Tian's combat power recovered, and his physique returned to its prime. However, his cultivation seemed to have reached a bottleneck, and his combat power did not actually increase much.

Xinglun was successfully resurrected and reached the level of Tathagata, greatly increasing his combat power. However, his cultivation method was flawed.

These two are the main fighting force. If they join forces, they should be able to defeat the final boss who wields the holy sword, but they may also suffer some losses.

After all, during the last battle with the projection of that Cosmic Emperor, Xing Lun was killed, and Wu Tian also lost three thousand years of cultivation.

The Conferred God Platform can only protect the player's Heavenly Soul and safeguard their weak physical body. If a being of the level of Star Wheel or Martial Heaven suffers physical damage, their core cannot be perfectly restored.

"The core is really stupid. With this foundation, why not create a powerful guardian warrior, at least one of the level of Wu Tian? When the True Universe Emperor descends, let him join forces with Wu Tian and the others, and maybe they can win."

Lan Cuihua shook her head and sighed, pounding her chest.

Lan Caihe said, "The core doesn't have these emotions. Things have come to this point, and there's nothing we can do about it. There are only ten days left; let's see how the Holy Sword mission ultimately ends!"

Lan Cuihua said, "Now I actually hope that the Black Card Emperor will stop playing these tricks... Never mind, I'll have someone send him a message. Big sister, can you help me find out where he is?"

"It's on an unnamed mountain, but for the past three hundred years, that mountain has been called Chiyang Mountain. I'll send you the coordinates... Huh!"

Lan Caihe suddenly looked surprised, and Lan Cuihua, seeing this, quickly asked, "What's wrong?"

"His data...something's not right!"

"Haven't his data always been off?"

"This time it's even more unusual; his threat level against Unicron keeps fluctuating, and it just seemed to have exceeded 100,000!"

"Over 100,000?" Lan Cuihua said. "I seem to remember that Wu Tian's threat level against the Cosmic Emperor was 170,000, and Xing Lun's was 180,000. Is the Black Card Emperor getting close to them?"

"That's right. Although this is just an estimate, it still has some reference value. The Black Card Emperor's threat level to the Cosmic Emperor has been increasing in the past, increasing by about one point every three years, with a maximum of just over a hundred points. How could it suddenly increase by so much..."

Lan Caihe was utterly perplexed, but unfortunately, the core system couldn't provide an explanation either, only continuously sending her garbled information.

At this very moment, on Mount Chiyang, a red sun slowly rose behind Zhou Nan, and Zhen Ge was like a condensed sun, its light shining in all directions.

At the foot of the mountain, the mountain god of Chiyang Mountain knelt down excitedly and said to the little fairy Feixiong and fairy Yuji beside him, "Do you see that? The red sun is rising! This place is called Chiyang Mountain because of this scene, which hasn't appeared for almost two hundred years!"

Flying Bear Fairy asked curiously, "What is the significance of the rising sun?"

Jade Maiden gazed at the mountain guardian sitting motionless in the distance and asked, "Is it True Immortal Chiyang displaying his abilities?"

The mountain god of Chiyang Mountain said, "Of course it's the work of True Man Chiyang. Perhaps he has made another breakthrough."

The red sun rose and hung in the sky for half a day before setting. When the sun's light disappeared, on the summit of Chiyang Mountain, Zhou Nan pressed his right index and middle fingers together on his brow. As he slightly lifted these fingers, a golden vertical line lit up on Zhou Nan's brow, as if he were about to open a divine eye.

But in the end, the Divine Eye did not appear; instead, a card slowly flew out from it.

This card is called "Old Dragon King - Master Ao," and it's a one-star black card.

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Card Name: Old Dragon King - Master Ao

Card color: Black

Card Star Rating: One Star

Usage Level: None

Mana cost: None

Explanation 1: Use this card to summon the Old Dragon King, Master Ao, to fight for you.

The Old Dragon King, Ao Jiaozhu, is a fantasy god created by the player Black Card Emperor. He is set as an energy life form with 13500 HP, 135 attack power, and an uncertain attack speed. His class is a sealing body.

Explanation 2: The Old Dragon King Ao Jiaozhu possesses the skill [Dragon Fist], a passive effect. The Old Dragon King Ao Jiaozhu has superb combat instincts and combat skills.

Explanation 3: The Old Dragon King Ao Jiaozhu possesses the skill [Super Clone], an active skill. When this skill is released, the Old Dragon King Ao Jiaozhu can instantly create six real clones. Each real clone will share the power of the original body, and this effect can only be maintained for a period of time.

Explanation 4: The Old Dragon King Ao Jiaozhu possesses the skill [Divine Dragon Master], an active skill. When this skill is released, he can use his own power to create wind dragons, thunder dragons, water dragons, and fire dragons that control wind, thunder, water, and fire.

Note 5: The Old Dragon King, Lord Ao, follows the will of the Creator; players are encouraged to explore the details themselves…

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Strictly speaking, this card is just a conceptual model card, and its foundation is only three units of Qi.

This energy is not the aura of a king, but the "energy of the old dragon king," a unique energy body that can be seen as a mixture of wind, thunder, water, and fire. It was generated by the energy transformation within Zhou Nan's body, and he had only accumulated three dou of it over the past three hundred years.

The one who refined this energy to become a god was the Old Dragon King.

Therefore, Zhou Nan named it "The Aura of the Old Dragon King" to distinguish it from the aura of a king.

Since the Old Dragon King Ao Jiaozhu's foundation is the "Aura of the Old Dragon King", he naturally cannot use light radiation nuclear energy techniques such as [Subduing Heaven Profound Yellow] and [Destroying Divine Halberd].

Of course, if you combine it with a cultivation technique card and use the core's computing power, you can let the old Dragon King Ao Jiaozhu learn palm techniques, as well as qi blasts, somersault clouds, and other methods. But if you do that, the old Dragon King will no longer be pure and will be no different from the King Overlord True Monarch card, and will also be based on the King Overlord Qi.

The current Dragon King, Master Ao, is very pure. Although his foundation is only three Dou Qi, he can at least imagine it as a card.

Of course, this old Dragon King is still far from being good enough.

In Zhou Nan's view, he was still missing at least two soul abilities.

The first one is the [Super Escape Technique].

This is one of the Old Dragon King's most distinctive abilities. An Old Dragon King who can't perform spatial jumps would be missing half of his soul; high martial arts skills alone are not enough.

The second is powerful special effects attacks such as [Acupoint Strike] and [Kidney Strike].

The original Dragon King's attack effects, such as "Acupoint Strike" and "Kidney Strike," are like divine skills, even targeting city gates and tanks with them.

Zhou Nan also wanted the Imaginary God, the Old Dragon King, to possess such magical abilities.

Unfortunately, this is too difficult. With his current level of expertise, Zhou Nan is simply unable to analyze the energy composition of the [Super Escape Technique], [Acupoint Strike], and [Kidney Strike], and therefore cannot transform it. So this God of Imagination does not have this ability.

As for his current abilities, [Dragon Fist] comes from the real item [True Dragon Horn], and the remaining two skills are simply energy differentiation, which are purely Zhou Nan's own creations.

In Zhou Nan's mind, the Dragon King must have the power to control water, fire, wind, and thunder, so he endowed him with the four energies of wind, thunder, water, and fire. Since his name is the leader, he must be able to summon followers.

"The previous battle cards were all from the King of Tyrants lineage; this is the first one from the Old Dragon King lineage, and it still needs improvement!"

This Old Dragon King card was created by Zhou Nan using his magical abilities. He first crafted the Old Dragon King, a figment of imagination, and then used it to create a card.

The difficulties involved are indescribable. In the past three hundred years, he has only managed to complete one card out of three dou of Qi, but this card represents Zhou Nan's highest achievement in the fields of Mahavairocana and Qigong.

In fact, Zhou Nan was simultaneously refining the two Imaginary Gods, Old Dragon King Ao Jiaozhu and Panda Sword Immortal Pan Tiequan. At first, the refining speed of these two Imaginary Gods was about the same, but later, perhaps because of the previous [True Dragon Horn], the refining speed of the former accelerated, while the latter stagnated.

The creation of this card also marks a breakthrough in Zhou Nan's ability to transform. If his previous realm was the entry level of the Tathagata Realm, then now he has completed a certain transformation and truly crossed the threshold of this realm, which can be called the initial stage.

With his realm improved, the [Domineering Aura] technique also benefited. Now, the upper limit of the Domineering Aura in Zhou Nan's mind and the daily recovery speed have increased from one dou to one thousand dou, a full thousand times increase. The upper limit of the foundation of all Domineering True Monarchs has also increased from one cang to one thousand cang.

"This is just a minor advancement. I can vaguely sense that there are two more similar minor advancements in my cultivation, perhaps what we could call the mid-stage and late-stage Tathagata Realm. It seems that each advancement I achieve will double my foundation by current standards..."

Zhou Nan seemed to have a sudden realization.

"In other words, if I reach the late stage of the Tathagata Realm, then the upper limit of the Kingly Aura will increase to three thousand dou, which is one cang, and the upper limit of the Kingly True Monarch's foundation will also increase to nine thousand cang! This nine thousand cang is another extreme number, which is called a realm! Unless I reach the Daoless Realm above the Tathagata, I will definitely not be able to break through the limit of this realm..."

Zhou Nan longed for the Holy Sword even more.

In terms of improving one's Radiance Realm, it is essentially an improvement in one's ability to transform one's methods.

Without the Holy Sword, his cultivation could only be honed slowly, like refining the aura of the Old Dragon King, experiencing various transformations. Three hundred years to refine three battles of qi was far too slow.

If one possesses the Holy Sword, one can directly use the card law to make one's body automatically transform and cultivate, greatly increasing the speed of cultivation, and perhaps reaching the perfection of the Tathagata Realm in a very short time.

"Although I can see the road ahead, I can't be too ambitious. The potential of all my self-created cards has been raised, but I still need time to slowly raise their foundation to the limit..."

"As for this Old Dragon King card, it's really just an achievement card, a model. Its foundation is too low, and it doesn't have much combat power. Unless you can create a technique similar to [Overlord Aura] and refine a large amount of Old Dragon King Aura every day, it can become a true combat power card like the King Overlord True Monarch card. Without the Holy Sword, it's not worth considering..."

The aura of the King is a special kind of energy. Zhou Nan can now obtain a thousand dou of the aura of the King every day. This aura of the King is actually generated automatically by the energy transformation within his body. Its foundation is the Supreme Emperor Technique, twenty-three years of silent meditation, twenty-six years of closed-eye meditation, and sixty years of withered-heart meditation that Zhou Nan has cultivated.

If Zhou Nan could transform his internal energy to generate the "aura of the Old Dragon King," he could do it now, but it would take a hundred years to achieve a single battle, which would be very slow.

This is because there are no cultivation methods.

To obtain this kind of technique, hoping to create it yourself is unrealistic. Borrowing core computing power is possible, but it's not easy to control, because Zhou Nan can only use card synthesis to try and gamble. He tried many things, but none of them worked.

The best way, of course, is to obtain the Holy Sword and let it guide you.

"Let's focus on strengthening the foundations of the Nuclear-Powered Sword Immortal and the True Greatsword God General. As for the other Imaginary Gods, continue monitoring players like Zhang Daqian and Tu Sanjia. Don't let them gain any Godhood Points. I want to see who the core will give the Holy Sword to when everyone's points are zero!"

With a thought from Zhou Nan, all the Kings and Hegemons scattered throughout the Investiture of the Gods world sensed it. They dispersed and acted in the directions indicated by Zhou Nan's primordial spirit leaving his body.

After players like Dinosaur Emperor Zhang Daqian and Deep Sea Demon Tu Sanjia were resurrected, they were dismayed to find that each of them was followed by at least one "master," such as Super Demon, Guang Chengzi, Yun Zhongzi, Duobao Daoren, and so on.

"I'm being followed. Nezha is right behind me. I have no doubt that if I fight a monster, he'll attack me!"

"Me too, I was followed by the Old Man of the South Pole!"

"I'm in such a terrible situation! Both Cihang Daoist and Yuding Zhenren are watching me!"

"Hahaha, the Four Demon Generals are all eyeing me!"

"The Deep Sea Demon God Tu Sanjia was just killed. I saw it with my own eyes. Everyone, please don't farm Godhood Points."

"Shall we still gather?"

"Gather them up my ass! Wasn't being wiped out once enough?"

The players were exchanging messages. Some players were honest and stopped farming points, which made them safe. Others were defiant and tried to fight the monster, only to be immediately killed by powerful players following behind them. They couldn't dodge or escape.

Time passed, and finally the last day of the Holy Sword quest arrived.

"Regional Announcement: All players' Godhood Points are zero, calculation in progress... Godhood Quest is void!"

"Regional Announcement: The final boss will descend upon the Fengshen World in ten minutes. Please prepare for battle!"

(End of this chapter)