Free Web NovelInside the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate, in front of the Lords Manor.
Man-eating Monk Zhang Xuan, who, in strict adherence to his master's command, had sacrificed everything to merge with the Spirit Mark's authority for power, and had guarded the Divine Kingdom's operational core for countless ages until his body decayed, never once thought of giving up. He chased after the group that had escaped from the Lords Manor, taking a step forward.
And so, the earth rumbled violently, and the stirred dust erupted from the cracks in the ground like a tide.
Immediately after, an iron fist, covering the sky and sun, covered in violently vibrating Spiritual Energy fluctuations, slammed down. The highly compressed air shrieked in protest, and the sparks generated by intense friction fled in terror in all directions.
“Boom——!”
A deafening roar resounded.
The tightly clenched, enormous iron fist was intercepted by something unknown, unable to advance another inch less than two meters from the ground.
Under a shadow.
Lord Huaiyuan, whose entire body except for her face was covered in sky-blue fur, wore a playful smile. She raised a hand, spreading her five fingers, and effortlessly caught the iron fist smashing down above her head.
“Tsk! Just average!” She spat dismissively, looking at the crowd in front of her and saying, “You all go first. I have some old scores to settle with this guy. I’ll be right there.”
As her voice fell, her arms were covered in red and blue ripples.
Then, she raised her hands, clenched her fingers, and embedded them into the skeletal iron fist as if crushing tofu.
As Lord Huaiyuan exerted force with her arms, Man-eating Monk Zhang Xuan, who had transformed into a giant, trembled violently underfoot.
After a low rumble, the dozens of meters tall giant was thus lifted over her head with both hands and effortlessly tossed into the air.
As they advanced, the wind whistled past their ears.
Watching Lord Huaiyuan effortlessly toss the giant into the air like a ball, the system couldn't help but say to Gu Qianqian in her mind, “See that, Gu Qianqian? This is the effect of pushing physical strength to its limit! And she wasn’t even using her full strength yet!”
Who is Lord Huaiyuan?
She's the one who broke a Calamity's ribs with one punch!
Overturning a urban legend that had barely reached Calamity level, wasn't that as easy as breathing? the system thought.
“So, don't always complain that your Spirit Mark's advancement direction is problematic, and that you don't have as many mysterious innate abilities as others' authorities... Would I ever harm you?”
What is power? Power is maximum attack!
You are suited for putting all points into strength. Other allocation methods won't work for you! the system thought.
“Hmm...” Gu Qianqian pouted, thought for a moment, and said, “Although that Sister is indeed very powerful, I always feel like she isn't very smart.”
The system, “...” Smart? Do you have the right to call others smart in this regard?
As the system grumbled inwardly, just about to ridicule Gu Qianqian's inexplicable confidence, Bai Kai, Lord Bing, and their group, who were walking ahead, suddenly stopped and collectively looked up at the sky above the southern city wall.
There, the grotesque Rift that the Shaman King had torn in the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate had vanished at some point.
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Prosperity Beijing, Si Ye Hui Headquarters, Observation Room Two.
“We have a picture! We have a picture!”
Amidst the excited cheers of a Night Watch operative, the image of Yumen Pass appeared on the large screen directly in front.
In the sky, dark clouds stretched for a hundred miles, churning.
Illusory crimson sparks, torn from above the southern wall of the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate, rose up, converged, flickering on and off like a columnar nebula, shooting straight into the sky, piercing through the clouds, allowing the faint light of dawn to fall.
That hazy yet clean light, as if freshly washed, made one feel as if a deity might descend from the heavens, treading upon the scattered light.
“Unknowingly... it's already dawn?” a Night Watch operative murmured.
No sooner had he spoken than he saw the sparks that had risen into the sky quietly fall after reaching a certain height, scattering onto the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate, which was covered in grotesque cracks, erupting into a dazzling bright light.
A flower quietly bloomed from the dazzling bright light.
The faint light of dawn, the yellow sand like smoke and mist blown by the wind, and a giant flower blooming on the ancient city pass, enveloped in firelight, with dreamlike and vibrant colors, and rising flames... Viewed from the monitoring screen, it looked like a fantastical scene that would only appear in a game or a film and television drama.
“Secretary... is that a miracle flower?” a young Night Watch operative asked Wu Yuhui beside him in a low voice.
“...” Wu Yuhui opened her mouth, hesitated, and finally just shook her head silently.
Judging solely from its enormous appearance, it indeed matched most of the characteristics of the miracle flower recorded in the si ye book, but only most of them... After all, the miracle flower recorded in the si ye book was not enveloped in firelight, nor did it have sparks like gold dust scattered over its petals.
The next moment, the cracks began to close.
Countless tiny, chaotic, oppressive black lines appeared in the sky above the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate, converging together like a pitch-black, light-devouring spherical lightning storm, scattering countless terrifying branches that swept across the invisible light curtain outside the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate like whipping lashes, as if to prevent the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate, damaged by the Shaman King, from repairing itself.
Ultra-high frequency shrieks erupted, continuous and unending.
Inside the observation room, the values of various monitoring instruments began to change rapidly: night erosion degree, Calamity reaction, Spiritual Energy density... fluctuating wildly at alarming rates, with piercing alarm sounds incessant.
All the Night Watch operatives present were in a flurry.
“Time... 【Unconventional Calamity Event: Time】? My goodness! Do such Calamity-level events really exist?”
“Secretary adult...”
“Quick! Record the data! That's an unconventional Calamity event with only two known occurrences worldwide, the data is precious!”
An unconventional Calamity event refers to a special event whose harm reaches or even exceeds Calamity level, but for which no corresponding Psychic or urban legend causing the event can be found.
Such events involve a large number of uncertain factors, lack information, and follow no conventional patterns. Almost every time they occur, they require specialized analysis and research before appropriate decisions can be made.
The 【Unconventional Calamity Event: Time】 had only occurred twice worldwide, and neither was within Z Country's borders. The useful intelligence held by the Night Watch was minimal, knowing only that this type of unconventional Calamity event was related to time distortion.
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In the chaotic observation room, someone suddenly exclaimed softly, “Everyone, look, it's repaired! The Divine Kingdom Jade Gate, destroyed by the urban legend code 0, is repaired.”
As his voice fell, the Night Watch operatives in the observation room seemed to have been paused in an ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) instant, frozen in place. One second later, everyone simultaneously looked at the screen, with surprise in their eyes.
The light curtain enveloping the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate, which had been covered in grotesque cracks like a shattered crystal ball, returned to its original state as if time had flowed backward.
The wind and sand grew thicker, and that ancient and magnificent God Kingdom seemed as if it could merge into the wind and sand at any moment, quietly disappearing.
“Why? Why did you lie to me?!”
As if greatly provoked, the Shaman King, who was in the midst of a fierce battle with Psychic such as Doji Ten and Fujiwara no Shoguuji, suddenly let out a hoarse roar.
Heaven and earth trembled.
The torrent of Spiritual Energy that erupted from the Shaman King's body suddenly forced back the unprepared Psychic.
The next moment.
Just as the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate was about to transform back into endless yellow sand and merge into the vast Gobi Desert, outside the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate, on the wilderness adjacent to Sanlongsha, something colossal was slowly coalescing...
No one saw what it was.
But everyone sensed its arrival.
Even the Night Watch operatives thousands of miles away in the Night Watch Headquarters observation room felt the terrifying oppressive presence it brought through the screen.
They dared not move, dared not blink, dared not even breathe.
It did not notice, or perhaps simply did not care about, the gaze of countless eyes and the prying of numerous spiritual senses, but everyone, human or urban legend, observing its existence felt a sensation—a feeling that any transgression at this very moment would invite endless pain and despair...
Finally, that terrifying oppressive sensation dissipated.
Everyone gasped for air, using both mouth and nose, greedily filling their lungs as if they had been pulled from drowning.
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But the next moment, everyone held their breath again.
A bizarre, colossal black shadow, as if from the most terrifying nightmare yet exuding a distorted and ultimate beauty, appeared out of thin air on the wilderness outside the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate.
urban legend, code 0!
It slowly approached the Shaman King, extending a limb as if to caress a child.
Enveloped in the shadow cast by that limb, the Shaman King's Spiritual Energy fluctuations, which had originally dwindled to the point of collapse, surged dramatically...
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On Zixiao Platform.
Zhang Huainan, dressed in a Daoist robe, sat cross-legged in the center of the altar.
Around the altar, eight people, including the elders of Da Chunyang Palace and Hua Sang, watched the aged figure on the altar with solemn expressions.
Suddenly, Zhang Huainan opened his eyes and announced loudly, “The time has come!”
The next moment, the eight people around the altar began to chant softly, one after another.
First, the two on the north side chanted softly, “Zixiao is brilliant, commanding thunder to bring rain, relieving drought.”
Immediately after, the two on the south side were heard chanting softly, “Zixiao is brilliant, subduing ancient energies, felling altars and breaking temples.”
Then, the four on the east and west sides also began to chant softly.
“...Giving birth to all things, saving lives and delivering births.”
“...Cleansing miasma, liberating dead souls.”
When their voices gradually ceased, Zhang Huainan finally began to chant softly, “Zixiao is brilliant, as soon as Qi converges, thunder rumbles, slaying ancient spirits, punishing illegitimate deities, safeguarding the kalpa, healing ailments...”
Nine high-level Psychic, in five different directions, using all their Spiritual Energy to activate the Zixiao Platform, truly embodied the “Five Thunders Striking the Top.”
And so, thunderclouds quietly gathered over the wilderness outside the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate. Accompanied by a heaven-drumming sound that subdued all things, a bolt of lightning appeared out of thin air, scattering five sky-obscuring electric lights, drawing an insurmountable boundary just as the urban legend code 0 was about to touch the Shaman King.
As the electric light gradually spread, countless currents splitting from it violently spread in all directions, pulverizing any figures attempting to approach.
The mortal world trembled, and on the Gobi Desert, vast yellow sands rose into the air, with electric arcs dancing on every inch, even every grain of sand.
The urban legend code 0 roared in furious indignation, but its extended limb could not advance another half-step. After a few seconds of stalemate, it retreated unwillingly, gradually fading into nothingness...
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Meanwhile, inside the Divine Kingdom's operational core.
Lu Yibei suddenly woke up.
A strong sense of weakness washed over her, as if she had slept for a thousand years and hadn't fully awakened.
She stared blankly at the golden light around her, like an ocean. After a few seconds of thought, calm analysis, and bold hypothesis, she came to a conclusion—it was over, she had been thoroughly tricked!
“Damn Hong Bian! I kindly offered help, and you had the nerve to set a trap for me?!”
