Chapter 26
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Chapter 26: The Descending of the Heavenly God!
The lance is the Immortal Lance.
It is about two meters long.
After removing all the mottled marks on the lance, which looked ordinary before, it finally revealed its shiny side.
The sapphire-like lance tip was exposed in the air, and the light flowed around the tip like a ribbon, dispelling the darkness.
Following the sharp edge of the lance downwards, there was a rhombus-shaped box carved with strange patterns.
However, those patterns were not ordinary patterns. In this world, only An Lan, who wielded the lance of immortality, and Bai Lian who silently gazed at everything in front of the water mirror, knew about it.
They are words.
It is an ancient text that only circulated in the remote and poor villages where An Lan lived.
[Bai Lian]
Yes.
The name "Bai Lian" was arbitrarily taken by her and inscribed on the outside of the treasure box.
An Lan turned her head to look at the immortal lance shrouded in divine light.
Unlike the cold and fierce gaze she had just cast on the Eternal Lord, her eyes became extremely gentle.
It was as if she saw not a lance, but her most beloved companion.
So, in fact, yes.
To An Lan, the immortal lance was not only the sacred weapon that accompanied her to conquer countless realms, but also a testament to the bond between her and Bai Lian!
That was before she ascended to the Immortal World.
Clumsy Bai Lian said that when her eyes recovered and she could see the outside world, she wanted to give her a gift.
At that time, she was looking forward to that day every day.
Of course.
She was looking forward to that gift, but she was more eager to see what the "girl" who had always been with her looked like with her own eyes.
That day finally arrived.
She walked out of the emptiness of the world and finally saw Bai Lian as she wished.
Just as she was surrounded by excitement and happiness, Bai Lian suddenly became embarrassed and started apologizing to her.
That appearance was far more awkward than she had imagined.
"What’s wrong?"
She asked patiently and then learned that the gift promised by Bai Lian had fallen through.
Bai Lian had originally planned to give her a handy weapon and had even prepared the materials, but a big problem arose at the critical moment.
In these past few days, Bai Lian has tried every method she could think of, including but not limited to hitting it with a hammer, burning it with fire, sawing it with a saw, grinding it with an iron stone, and biting it with her teeth. However, after a series of attempts, not even a scratch was left on the material, let alone turning it into the form of a weapon.
That what should we do then?
With a mournful face, Bai Lian could only directly give the raw material to An Lan.
This hard thing can also be used as a brick.
The brick may be ugly, but it can at least be considered a weapon.
A long time has passed, but An Lan still remembers how Bai Lian looked when she was almost crying in a hurry that day.
At that time, she wanted to laugh out loud, but she was afraid that she would make Bai Lian cry. So she generously accepted the "brick" and comforted Bai Lian. Since it was a handy weapon, they would have to build it together!
This sentence became their agreement.
Many years later, they tried every way to grind together for a long time before finally grinding out the prototype of the Immortal Lance.
This lance carried too much for An Lan.
Therefore, even after becoming a Heavenly Lord, she didn’t refine the Immortal Lance again. At most, she just added some small decorations she liked on the lance, such as the small starry points embedded on the tail of the lance.
Because of this, the Immortal Lance was much weaker than other fairy weapons that Heavenly Lords were good at using.
However, An Lan didn’t care.
Because this was what Bai Lian had given her, and what Bai Lian gave her was the best!
She gently stroked the lance’s body and slowly closed her eyes.
At this moment, she returned to the world of emptiness.
She couldn’t see anything, yet she could see everything!
She saw Tong Yao grinning foolishly.
She saw the Eternal Lord roaring.
She saw the imprints of myriad ways of the Great Tao trembling.
She saw Bai Lian looking at her from afar again!
She flashed a bright smile and said, "I haven’t won you enough time, so how could I easily die here?"
Bai Lian nodded and said, "I believe you won’t die so easily, because you are An Lan."
An Lan smiled even brighter and said, "After we overcome the obstacle of the Eternal Lord, I will come to Red Dust and take you home."
"Okay."
A simple "okay" meant more to An Lan than any inspirational words in the world.
She was able to come this far with Bai Lian because of the promise they made to each other!
Since it has already been agreed upon, she absolutely cannot break her word.
She slowly reached out her right hand and lowered it, and the tip of the Immortal Lance pointed directly at the head of the Eternal Lord.
Without the invasion of the Great Tao nor the bursting of spiritual power, there was only this simple action and an ordinary smile.
But in the eyes of the Eternal Lord, all these ordinary things are no different from the collapse of the world.
This is a declaration of war!
Immortal Heavenly Lord An Lan declares war against him!
In the past, he would never have had the slightest fear, but after experiencing the sudden change just now, his heart was in chaos.
Even An Lan, who has greatly damaged cultivation base, can make him fall into the mud and get covered in dirt. Now that she has suddenly recovered her full strength and completed the final way of the Great Tao, what chance does he have against her?
The Eternal Lord dared not to continue to imagine.
He only wanted to escape immediately, but at that moment when the thought arose, a bone-chilling coldness swept in from all sides, like a towering wall blocking any possible direction he could escape.
There is no way to retreat!
"If you want to kill me, then you have to be prepared to be killed. The great Eternal Lord, don’t you even have that kind of preparation?"
An Lan’s voice descended from the high heavens.
This is clearly the Eternal Lord’s divine kingdom, but she usurped the Eternal Lord’s divine throne as soon as she spoke.
Her voice seemed like an oracle that could control everything. As the oracle descended, the illusory images formed by the traces of the Great Tao all knelt down and bowed their heads.
The scene was so spectacular that Tong Yao didn’t know where to put her hands and feet.
Suddenly, the constant buzzing sound of chanting that had been hovering above the square disappeared completely.
Everything returned to calm, with only the Eternal Lord staring at An Lan intently.
From the beginning, he wondered if An Lan’s decision to appear was a trap, but even after he had destroyed her physical body and shattered her soul, there were no unexpected developments, so he let his guard down.
Who could have foreseen that momentary relaxation would become the prelude to his downfall?
No.
In fact, even if Ganlu didn’t come, there was still a chance that An Lan would be "revived" under his refining process.
Trap!
This is all a trap!
The Eternal Lord’s eyes were bloodshot, "Do you take me as your stepping stone to cross to the other shore?"
"The Other Shore?"
An Lan pondered over the term carefully.
Then, after about five breaths, she suddenly burst out laughing.
"What is the Other Shore? I never believed in those boring rumors, I only believe in everything I hold in my hands and everything I step on!"
With a lance in hand, she stepped towards the divine kingdom under her feet.
An Lan was exerting all her effort in that moment.
The space ruptured and time disordered where her toes passed, and everything was crushed into nothingness.
A hurricane swept across the wide square, instantly tearing dozens of traces of the Great Tao apart.
Tong Yao, who was laughing and watching from the sidelines, was suddenly caught up in the chaos. She desperately dodged, but ultimately the hurricane grabbed onto her left ponytail. Fortunately, an invisible force swept her away from the Eternal Kingdom just in time, or else she might have become bald Tong Yao sauce.
"What are you doing? Are you trying to murder your savior?!"
Tong Yao, clutching her stomach, shouted in anger and frustration.
However, An Lan within the Eternal Kingdom seemed to have completely ignored her words, and the terrifying momentum accumulated on her body was becoming even more intense.
In the next moment, the already dim Eternal Kingdom suddenly stirred up an endless tide of spiritual power. The waves were like hungry beasts converging from all directions, determined to engulf the Eternal Lord in one bite.
The Eternal Lord roared and raised both arms.
It was necessary to stop An Lan. Once An Lan landed, his already damaged divine kingdom would inevitably be penetrated by a single strike. At that time, he would become nothing but fish meat to be butchered by An Lan at will!
"Divine sense is selfless, true god is boundless…"
A series of obscure and difficult-to-understand words burst out of the mouth of the Eternal Lord.
The traces of the Great Tao that were suppressed on the ground instantly trembled and stood up again, as if assisted by the divine.
Under his imperial decree, the traces of the Great Tao rose against the trend and went straight towards An Lan.
But this is simply not effective.
How can the mere traces of the Great Tao withstand the crushing of nine complete ways of the Great Tao?
"You are no different from a mantis trying to stop a car!"
With a cold sneer, An Lan didn’t even need to wield her lance to protect herself.
She simply extended her right leg down, and in an instant, divine power was released. Under this impact, the virtual image twisted and screamed, dissolving like ice cubes in despair and pain.
A black crack was thus drawn across the clear sky.
Looking closely, this is not a divine kingdom at all, it is clearly an endless abyss that tortures evil spirits!
The Eternal Lord gritted his teeth and now was not the time to give up on treatment.
He simply gave up the traces of the Great Tao and played all the remaining immortals’ tools and symbols one by one.
The way he raised his hands made him look like a giant god holding up the sky.
How does that matter to the giant god?
"I am killing gods!"
The Immortal Lance fell like thunder, shattering all the immortal tools that blocked its way in just an instant.
An Lan’s expression remained unchanged, and all of this was within her expectations. The lance that she and Bai Lian had forged together was as strong and indestructible as its name suggested!
"Let me see if you truly are eternal and indestructible!"
The immense pressure fell on the back of the Eternal Lord, shattering the muscles of his arms.
Severe pain also kept gnawing at his spirit.
Never give up, never ever give up!
The Eternal Lord sacrificed his right eye to the void, calling forth boundless darkness.
He intended to use this darkness to dodge An Lan’s all-out attack and then readjust his stance.
Just then, the tip of the Immortal Lance shone brightly.
Like throwing a flash bomb in deep water, there was a loud boom that echoed in all directions and a myriad of blue light instantly dispelled the darkness.
The blue light shone on the Eternal Lord and in the blink of an eye his skin was corroded into a horrifying grayish-brown color.
People who didn’t know what had happened might have thought that the Eternal Lord had rolled around in acid.
"My life force is fading away?"
The face of the Eternal Lord changed drastically. He quickly cut off the decayed flesh on his hand, but it couldn’t stop the spread of decay. He then cut off his right arm but it was still ineffective. Only then did he realize that the force of corruption had already locked onto his very existence.
The only way to have a chance of survival now is to go all out and kill An Lan. Otherwise, if this continues, even if An Lan doesn’t make a move, the Way of the Great Tao inside his body will dissolve along with his physical body.
He will fall from the Heavenly Lord realm to the Emperor realm, and then from the Emperor realm to the Demigod realm.
And that’s the end of it, as a Demigod, it’s impossible to withstand such a vicious force of corruption.
The Eternal Lord looked up at the sky and saw only An Lan, wrapped in a blue comet, streaking across the sky.
He roared in anger, "If you can forsake the Way of the Great Tao to seek a path of survival, why can’t I?"
"Just come and give it a try then!"
The Eternal Lord no longer hesitated.
He clenched his right hand and at that moment, the once awe-inspiring Eternal Kingdom began to collapse inward.
Since you are willing to abandon the Way of the Great Tao, why bother holding onto a mere kingdom of one god?
With absolute confidence, the Eternal Lord believed that as long as he could kill An Lan and Ganlu here today, even if he had to shed all his blood and had only a breath of life left, he would reign over the heavens again in ten thousand years!
"The Yin and Yang are chaotic, the sky is stained with blood!"
In the midst of the earth-shattering roar, his body shattered into pieces, and several ways of the Great Tao flew out one after another like giant dragons.
The collapsed divine kingdom turned the world upside down, and even someone as powerful as An Lan felt herself sinking into a quagmire.
But this didn’t pose a challenge for her at all.
The power manifested by the convergence of nine Great Ways far exceeded anyone’s imagination, and compared to before, it was an exponential increase in strength!
Her face was calm as she raised the Immortal Lance high, gathering thousands of spells into a divine light, and then fiercely smashed it down with the might of a lifetime.
"The timing has changed, and I will become the supreme being of the human race!"
The divine music was reverberating.
At this moment, the colors of the heaven and earth were changing.
The majestic power of the Great Tao descended from the sky for millions of feet, while on the other side, the Great Tao bursting out from within the Eternal Lord was like a giant holding up the sky, launching a fierce impact.
After crossing countless shattered spatial rifts, the two finally collided together.
Boom!
The silent explosion swept across the heavens.
Bai Lian couldn’t see anything. What lay within her gaze was a vast expanse of white mist.
It’s strange, but this time she had no worries in her heart.
Perhaps it was because she saw her master’s belief deep in her heart through the water mirror in front of her.
Even if there are a thousand gullies and ravines, I’ll come to you!
Shortly after, the vast expanse of white mist dissipated slightly, and the battle situation reappeared.
All she saw was An Lan holding the Immortal Lance, thrusting it into the Dharma body condensed by the Great Tao.
Fight against four with one!
She didn’t step back, nor did her steps have any instability.
She moves forward, forward, and continues to move forward!
The Dharma body appeared with more and more cracks, and the same number of cracks appeared on her body as well.
Finally, with a popping sound, the Dharma body was directly pierced and shattered.
As it shattered, what crumbled was the Eternal Lord’s entire hope.
An Lan encountered no obstacles and took a step forward, piercing through four Dharma bodies with her lance. Then, she took another step and shattered the way of the Great Tao directly. Finally, she took one more step forward and plunged her lance into the chest of the Eternal Lord.
"Splash–"
The Eternal Lord spat out a mouthful of blood, but it was annihilated halfway.
"You…"
His body was rapidly crumbling.
"Eternity is nothing more than this."
An Lan’s voice was as cold as ice, her right arm was broken and fell to the ground due to intense impact, and she picked it up and reattached it as if nothing had happened.
This time she wouldn’t give the Eternal Lord any chance!
"Crush!"
An Lan clenched her left hand.
The first step is to erase the last remaining bit of residue from the Eternal Kingdom.
The Eternal Lord let out a miserable scream.
"Soul Crack!"
An Lan stabbed the Immortal Lance into the Eternal Lord’s Sea of Divine Sense.
The Eternal Lord let out another miserable scream, and his body exploded into nothingness. However, he soon resiliently reformed and coalesced once again.
An Lan’s expression finally changed slightly.
The Eternal Lord deserves to be the number one person in the Immortal World, even though the Ways of the Great Tao has left his body, it is still not easy to kill him.
"Sever the future!"
An Lan invaded the river of time with the way of the Great Tao, intending to eradicate all the Eternal Lord’s futures in the turbulent waves, completely cutting off any possibility of him living on.
Naturally, the Eternal Lord was unwilling to die like this. He consecutively made sacrifices of his own body, in order to obtain a slim chance of survival from the Heavenly Way.
Left eye, left hand, viscera and bowels…
His body became increasingly broken, to the point where even the poorest beggars on the street looked much better than him.
However, even after paying such a great cost, he could not find a way out.
The Way of Incompleteness cannot compare to the Way of Completeness.
Whenever the Eternal Lord struggled, An Lan broke his "spinal column" once.
Time and time again.
However, in the end An Lan simply gave up on the future of killing the Eternal Lord.
There is no longer any need for that.
In constant sacrifice, the Eternal Lord has lost his fairy nature. At this moment, he is disheveled, with dirty and tangled hair full of scabs, as if he hasn’t washed it for months. He is also blind in both eyes, with a broken right leg and a missing left arm. He is dressed in ragged clothes and covered from head to toe in disgusting black mud.
This is the Five Decays of Heaven and Man!
An Lan retrieved the Immortal Lance and silently watched as the man who once stood above all the immortals punched.
"Go away, go away, don’t come near."
The Eternal Lord waved his dirty right arm, and as he moved, the empty sleeve of his left arm also followed along.
After half an hour of hitting, he still didn’t hit anything but accidentally twisted his foot and fell to the ground with a thump.
So he rolled on the ground like that.
"Whoever dares to kill me, whoever wants to kill me, I am eternal and immortal, no one can kill me, haha, hahaha…"
An Lan sighed.
This person is no longer the Eternal Lord, as the eternal energy has been extinguished after the sacrifice.
She casually pointed the lance and pierced through the head with one blow.
The next moment, the broken man lost his vitality and shattered after trembling a few times.
From now on, there will be no eternal existence in this world!
An Lan put away the Immortal Lance.
This starry sky has been shattered, and countless planets have been destroyed. Fortunately, she had already had concerns and deliberately chose a deserted area.
Anyway, it’s not the time to think about these things now. With her current strength, isn’t it simple to defeat Red Dust?
"I’ll come pick you up right now!"
An Lan was full of heroic spirit.
Suddenly, a figure appeared next to her and grabbed her collar.
It was the outraged Tong Yao.
"You’re something, An Lan. If it weren’t for me saving you and you cultivating my Ten Thousand Calamities Refining Cultivation Method, you would have died long ago. As a result, your attack just now almost caused me serious injury!"
An Lan didn’t say anything, she just silently watched Tong Yao.
Tong Yao suddenly felt worried.
What if An Lan came at her with a punch…
She whispered, "I don’t want to fight you. I’m reasoning with you. Why are you being so aggressive? I…"
"Splurt."
An Lan suddenly burst out laughing.
Tong Yao was extremely embarrassed and asked, "What are you laughing at?"
An Lan said, "I just think you look particularly pleasing today, and a little bit cute."
"Nonsense!" Tong Yao was so angry that she stomped her feet. After a moment of commotion, she quickly changed the topic, "Quickly, come with me now to save Elder Martial Sister Bai Lian."
An Lan nodded, "I had such intention."
They walked together and headed straight to where Bai Lian was.
…
At the same time, within the red light sphere.
Red Dust stared expressionlessly at Bai Lian’s profile, maintaining this state for a long time.
Bai Lian suddenly said, "Master didn’t die, instead it was the Eternal Lord who died."
Red Dust’s breathing became rapid and agitated.
Her chest rose and fell slightly, making it hard to maintain calmness.
"Do you think you can end everything now by relying on An Lan?"
Bai Lian said, "Maybe."
Red Dust laughed out loud and said, "Do you know why I didn’t merge with the new Blank Tao?"
Bai Lian didn’t say anything, she had just shared her own conjecture not long ago.
But now it seems that all three of her conjectures were wrong.
Red Dust’s face changed in an instant with an extremely gloomy expression. She growled in a low voice, "It’s because during the process of waiting for you to lose consciousness, I naturally ascended to become the Faramita Immortal!"
"You said something?"
Bai Lian’s face also changed, and this time she really lost control of her emotions.
Only by merging with the Blank Tao can one ascend to become the Faramita Immortal. This is a principle that has been summarized over countless cycles of reincarnation.
However, Red Dust became the Faramita Immortal without merging with the Blank Tao, is it because she herself is the Blank Tao?
No.
It’s already meaningless to be tangled up in this.
"This means that your plan has failed?"
"Failed?" Red Dust said. "Yes, it failed. It failed when you reached the four hundred million, seven thousand, three hundred and twenty-first cycle of reincarnation. I became the Faramita Immortal, but the balance of the Heavenly Dao was not disturbed. The catastrophe still came."
Bai Lian:"…"
"Hahaha, isn’t it funny?" Red Dust suddenly lost her composure. She seemed to have lost her sense of direction and her whole person looked a bit manic. "It’s useless, completely useless. I’ve exhausted everything and still can’t stop this damn catastrophe!"
Her voice was extremely hoarse.
Bai Lian quickly said, "Calm down."
"Calm down. How can you ask me to be calm? Can you tell me how to end this catastrophe? Can you help me end it? I am now a Faramita Immortal. Even if An Lan mastered the nine ways of the Great Tao, she still couldn’t be my opponent. You can’t run away. You can only stay by my side forever and go through it all with me!"
Red Dust opened her arms.
She waved her sleeves, stirring up countless red waves, which rushed towards Bai Lian and threatened to engulf her.
At this moment, she showed Bai Lian her complete and unreserved self.
Just as she said before, she had been hesitating whether or not to kill Bai Lian.
She and Bai Lian both turned into humans, and even if she killed Bai Lian, she wouldn’t die.
Many times she wanted to make a move, but in the end, she held back.
Now she completely gave up on her plan to kill Bai Lian, she wants to wipe out Bai Lian’s current consciousness, make her forget what happened in the past, and then accompany her forever and ever!
Bai Lian clenched her teeth tightly.
"I won’t let you have your way. Such a future is not something that either you or I should have."
She exerted all her efforts to guide the Past Stele and Present Stele.
She had been preparing for a long time, although she couldn’t completely detonate those two steles, but it was enough to let them leak some of their power.
But at this moment, Bai Lian suddenly felt a gentle ripple.
That is…
"Jianmu?"
The source of the ripple is the branch of Jianmu that Ruomu gave her before she left.