Crossover anime, and you call this a slice-of-life story?

"Holy crap?! Flying on a sword! A cultivator?"

"I knew it! I knew those videos online weren't special effects! There really are cultivators!"

"My mom asked me why I was kneeling while looking at my phone..."

"Why is it that when the apocalypse comes, I'm running on the ground while you can fly in the sky?"

"So the spiritual energy revival is real? The apocalypse is real too? Then can I awaken superpowers?!"

"Stop dreaming, upstairs. They must be a powerful figure with a strong mentor. What can a 996 office worker like you compare to them?"

"Am I the only one who noticed how handsome that guy is? I need all his information in three seconds!"

People reacted in various ways at the scene. One office worker stood there blankly, his briefcase falling to the ground: "So... is my monthly pension payment still useful?"

A high school student nearby jumped up excitedly: "That's so cool! I knew this world wasn't that simple! I want to become an apprentice! I want to cultivate immortality!"

His friend looked utterly hopeless: "Forget about it. Look at those people who ride swords, flying through the air. What about us ordinary folks? The apocalypse is here. You guys are flying in the sky, but I have an electric scooter and I still have to worry about traffic jams!"

"Come and gather at my Human Emperor Banner!"

"If you don't work hard at cultivating immortality, you'll just be brothers in the Ten Thousand Souls Banner."

Someone recorded this sentence and posted it online, and it instantly became a popular meme.

Various memes emerged: "Doomsday escape, VIP player vs. regular player" and "While you're running from the poison gas, the pro has already flown to the safe zone on his sword."

Even the apocalypse couldn't dampen the enthusiasm of a group of silly netizens. Instead of taking advantage of the apocalypse to burn, kill, and loot, they were contributing to society.

Even the damage caused by some strange beasts was not as great as the damage caused by humans themselves in the chaos.

A mother, clutching her child, huddled behind the ruins, watching the figure in the sky slay the monster, tears streaming down her face: "Thank you... thank you all..."

Meanwhile, similar scenes are playing out all over the world.

In a Times Square in the West, a blonde woman floats in mid-air, surrounded by a holy white light. She clasps her hands together and then suddenly opens them.

A curtain of light descended from the sky, enveloping the entire street. The moment the strange beast touched the light curtain, it dissolved as if it had been splashed with sulfuric acid.

"Angels! Angels have descended!" the devout believers cried out.

On another continent, at a tower bridge, an elderly gentleman in distinctive attire gently taps the ground with his cane.

The river water surged skyward, transforming into countless water arrows that pinned the approaching monster to the wall.

He removed his top hat and bowed slightly to the terrified crowd, as if he had just finished an afternoon tea performance.

At the edge of the rainforest, indigenous elders danced an ancient dance. The earth cracked open, and vines, like living creatures, entwined the invading beasts, dragging them into the ground.

Cultivators appeared in every continent and every major city.

After resolving the threat from Ginza, the young man in white did not leave the city.

He pointed his sword, and the longsword flew back to his feet, then soared into the higher sky—where several flying beasts were approaching.

"Look! He's going to take on so many people all by himself!" someone on the ground exclaimed.

The young man in white remained expressionless, his hands rapidly forming hand seals. Suddenly, dark clouds filled the sky, and lightning crackled within them.

"The Nine Heavens respond to the Origin, thunder resounds universally, by imperial decree!"

With a soft shout, dozens of purple lightning bolts descended from the sky, striking each of the flying beasts with pinpoint accuracy.

The monsters didn't even have time to scream before they were turned into charred remains by lightning and fell from the sky.

At that moment, time seemed to stand still.

Then, deafening cheers resounded throughout the sky.

People embraced and wept, shouting "hero" and "savior".

The fear that had been suppressed for days transformed into the ecstasy of surviving a catastrophe and the worship of great power.

Shangguan Yun also saw the scene of the white-clad youth slaying the alien beast in the live broadcast, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly.

He recognized this guy; he was the disciple of the only peak seventh-tier old monster in Shenzhou, and it seemed that he had now broken through to the early sixth tier.

However, the other person was much older than him, about the same age as his older brother.

When I first came to his house with his master, I was completely dumbfounded when I saw the strength of the two brothers.

He went into seclusion after returning home.

Now they're really making a name for themselves.

……

Meanwhile, the mysterious countermeasures bureau of the Japanese side also began to operate, and various teams were dispatched. Even Hachiman and his group joined the team to clear out the alien beasts after settling their families.

At the Shibuya Crossing, a colossal beast, ten meters tall, is wreaking havoc.

It resembles a giant ape, but has countless tentacles growing on its back, each with a sharp bone blade at the end.

The army's firepower could only barely slow it down, and could not cause any real damage.

Just as the giant ape was about to crush the soldier's head, a thick scale instantly knocked him to the ground, followed by several dark red crystals piercing through his body.

After their trials in another world, Kaito Kuroba, Hachiman Hikigaya, and Ayato Kirishima have developed an incredibly seamless teamwork.

It can even instantly kill ordinary third-tier alien beasts.

Yoshimura Eto and other ghouls who settled in this world also used their own methods to kill the alien beasts.

After a period of systematic training and detailed research on ghouls by the Mysterious Countermeasures Bureau, as well as devouring some captured ghouls.

Yoshimura Eto's strength has even reached the fourth rank.

The gigantic Kakuja form was terrifying beyond belief. If they didn't know her identity, many members of the Secret Countermeasures Bureau would have eliminated her as one of the monsters...

Gabriel and the other angels and demons are now also working for the Mysterious Countermeasures Bureau.

This experience of being able to directly fight monsters excited Gabriel, to the point that one could even call it a little crazy.

They completely used these strange beasts as their tools of attack.

He laughed heartily and blasted a strange beast to pieces with holy light.

Satania, who was playing a comical fighting style, was stunned when she saw Gabriel's ferocity and was immediately pinned to the ground by a tiger-like beast.

I don't know how a fourth-tier character like her was suppressed by a third-tier character.

In the end, it was Winette's Demon Trident that saved them.

The members of the mysterious investigation bureau who witnessed this scene silently looked away.

Tsk tsk, it's unbearable to look at.

At Gokou Ruri's house, watching Erkoya casually pinch the neck of a strange beast, which slowly dissipated into ashes amidst terrified roars, Gokou Ruri's family fell silent.

With this opportunity, Ercoa no longer hid his identity as a "familiar," shattering the worldview of Gokou Ruri's parents. Compared to the rain of strange beasts falling from the sky, it was even more unbelievable to them that their daughter had become a legendary magical girl.

Have they been misunderstanding their daughter all along? Is her usual performance art actually magic?

……

Chapter 339 Thousands of Fifth-Rank? Are you kidding me!

After learning from Shangguan Che that he had broken through to the late stage of the seventh rank, Zhang Shundao, the old monster of Taiyi Sect in Shenzhou, stroked his beard and was very pleased. Shenzhou had gained another powerful force.

Although he wasn't under much pressure dealing with these strange beasts yet, he had already sensed several terrifying auras from the spatial rift above his head.

Even he felt the immense pressure emanating from that aura, and he became pessimistic about the war to come.

After all, he is currently the strongest in the world at the peak of the seventh rank. If he is defeated, this world will eventually become food for alien beasts.

However, after hearing Shangguan Che's next words, "What's so special about that? My son has already broken through to the eighth level," Zhang Shundao almost tore off his own beard.

His slightly cloudy eyes widened instantly, flashing with a sharp light, like laser eyes.

"What did you say, brat?! Eighth rank? Your son?! If you dare to fool this old Taoist, I'll pull down your pants and beat you up like you did when you were a kid, believe it or not?"

Hearing the roguish remarks of the old Taoist priest who was originally so dignified, Shangguan Che's lips twitched.

This old man is older than his grandfather, so he naturally has the right to beat him up. He did get his pants slapped when he was a kid for stealing chickens from the old man's farm.

But how old is he now?

The head of the Shangguan family! How can a forty-year-old man face the world if he gets his pants pulled down and his buttocks spanked again?!

"It's true! My son really broke through to the eighth level! He told me himself, and I saw it with my own eyes. His aura was something you old man can't even dream of!"

"Shangguan Yun?"

"That's right!"

He had no doubts about Shangguan Jin; as far as he knew, only Shangguan Yun possessed such talent!

That kid's breakthrough to the mid-stage of the seventh rank was totally illogical!

Who is a kind person who destroyed a world and then jumped directly from the sixth rank to the mid-seventh rank?

Back then, he personally arranged for that kid to go into seclusion and cultivate his inner strength.

However, upon learning that Shangguan Yun had truly broken through to the legendary eighth rank, the old Taoist finally put his worries to rest.

Given that kid's terrifying combat power, even if there really is an eighth-level being deep within that spatial rift, they might not be his match.

His old bones can finally lie down and relax.

He only wanted to cultivate in peace and pursue the legendary eighth-order immortality or even the supreme ninth-order realm, which was unknown to exist.

Although cultivators categorize their strength by rank.

However, for those who have inherited the lineage, each realm has a corresponding name. We won't mention the realms before the fifth level. The sixth level can be called the Dao Observation Realm, the seventh level the Dao Source Realm, and the eighth level the Law Realm, which can also be called the Immortal Realm.

The ninth rank, according to the ancient terminology, can be called the Eternal Realm!

There are still some scattered records of the eighth rank in ancient times. As for the Eternal Realm, it is only a theoretical realm. Whether anyone has ever reached it is unknown.

The seventh-order beings are already capable of physically traversing the universe, but the universe in their world is silent and dark, and they have never discovered any other living beings in the universe.

Therefore, Shangguan Yun only liked to look at the stars every night, because he knew that there was no life on those stars.

After Shangguan Yun broke through to the eighth level, his divine sense was even able to extend to the edge of the universe.

That's right, their universe has an edge!

But the place was chaotic and devoid of any life.

This also confirmed to him that life only existed on the land beneath their feet in their universe.

Perhaps it's because different worlds have different latitudes and rules; the land beneath their feet is the core of the world.

There are also other worlds where the concept of a universe exists, and their universes are inhabited by many different races of beings.

For example, their Shenzhou is connected to an ordinary planet similar to their world, but without cultivators. The country on the other side of the passage is called Huaxia.

After he broke through to the seventh rank, he actually went to that world once.

The planet where China is located is called Earth. There are countless life-bearing planets in the universe there, far more vibrant than their world.

Among those inhabited planets, there are also races that possess extraordinary powers or cutting-edge technologies.

Because Earth is located in such a remote location, Earthlings cannot easily traverse the universe due to their technology, nor do they possess the powerful beings capable of doing so.

Therefore, the humans on Earth lived relatively peacefully.

After discovering the world where Earth is located, they left behind some methods to enhance the physical strength of ordinary people. Then, they conveniently destroyed the country called "Little Days" that had caused great harm to China, as well as other countries that jumped around, making China the ruler of Earth. After that, they took the initiative to sever their connection with that world.

They don't want to disturb each other's peaceful lives unless absolutely necessary.

Of course, they can also arrive at any time if Earth faces a crisis!

Compared to the leisurely demeanor of the old Taoist priest of Taiyi Sect, the other seventh-level powerhouses in Shenzhou were filled with fear and anxiety. Almost everyone contacted Zhang Shundao, but the reply they received was always "No need to worry."

This relieved some of their worries, but also left them feeling uncertain.

But since the strongest have spoken, they have no choice but to believe them.

As for the seventh-tier cultivators from other countries, they all stared solemnly at the spatial rift above their heads.

Feeling uneasy and even somewhat desperate, he felt that his easy slaughter of the beasts was just self-comfort.

Because they too felt a great terror from the depths of the crack, a power they absolutely could not resist.

However, there is good news: after the second wave of monsters fell, the spatial rift above seemed to have shrunk considerably.