Heaven-Slaying Sword Drawing Technique, the True Worldline (3K)

Bai Cangshu looked at the Drop Card in his hand, which glimmered with a faint red sheen, and frowned.

This City God was far too weak.

Facing him, the other party had displayed almost no ability to resist. Even the bizarre magical artifacts used by the other demons had not appeared.

Only his survival ability was somewhat decent, thanks to the Special Creation: City God Temple.

For someone like this to produce a Red Quality Drop Card, there were only two possibilities.

First, the Infinite Dimensional Space, in order to encourage him to "bravely kill enemies" in such a high-risk world, had thrown caution to the wind and deliberately enhanced the information intensity obtainable from drops.

Second, the City God’s current state was abnormal, and his strength had been severely weakened. As a result, he possessed only rank and information intensity, while his actual power was extremely feeble.

Bai Cangshu was more inclined toward the second possibility.

He crushed the Drop Card in his hand.

You opened a Drop Card

You obtained Dimensional Points *6500

You obtained Item: Imperial Edict Token (Extremely Rare)

You obtained Item: Harm-Avoiding Pill (Rare)

Bai Cangshu froze and instinctively stopped. It was not that the jade token shimmering with purple radiance mattered much to him. On the contrary, the pills contained in that small white jade bottle made his mind stall for an instant before racing at an unimaginable speed.

Harm-Avoiding Pill *3

Quality: Rare

Description: Special pills refined by cultivators who practiced the Dao of alchemy in a certain world

Effect: After consumption, grants minor damage reduction for a short period of time

The effect of these pills was not powerful. To Bai Cangshu as he was now, it could even be called negligible. But the pills themselves were exceptionally special!

This thing gave Bai Cangshu an entirely new understanding of this world.

He had already known that this was an enormous Native World that combined the worldviews of countless myths and supernatural tales, but this further confirmed the world’s peculiar nature.

More accurately, this world’s "unhealthiness."

The Harm-Avoiding Pills came from Black Myth: Wukong, a world where immortals, demons, and Buddhas alike had to rely on miraculous elixirs refined from demons to sustain their longevity. It was also a world that devoured people.

As he pondered, Bai Cangshu noticed many yin spirits gathering in one place, restless and agitated. With a thought, he crossed the distance in a few strides.

It was a sword. More precisely, a broken sword embedded in the ground. A long-rotted corpse clutched its hilt, keeping its body from collapsing.

Beneath the skeleton, faint red light gathered, clearly resembling the core of an array.

That was also why so many yin spirits had gathered here. Dense Yin Ghost aura emanated from this place, as though the Yellow Springs and hell itself lay below.

In front of the remains, Bai Cangshu saw a stone stele covered in dust. With a casual wave, he scattered the dust and revealed the words beneath—A generation’s Great Hero Yan Chixia was buried here—left by the City God.

The writing was neat and still radiated incense and faith energy. It had probably indeed been left by that City God.

Yan Chixia was one of the main characters in the A Chinese Ghost Story series. He cultivated spells and possessed the ability to defeat most ordinary demons in that setting.

Bai Cangshu shifted his gaze and quickly noticed the wound on Yan Chixia’s back, one that had nearly cleaved him in two. He reached out to touch it.

A golden radiance flashed first.

Clang!

Sharp sword qi shot in every direction, passing through Bai Cangshu’s body and piercing several yin spirits.

The yin spirits screamed before dispersing.

Bai Cangshu’s hand, unaffected, continued deeper. The next moment, a jet-black sword gleam emerged from within the corpse.

Bai Cangshu’s pupils contracted. The scene before him suddenly changed, as if a terrifying sword technique capable of splitting heaven and earth apart had struck him. He almost instinctively activated his qi to block it, but regained his senses even faster.

Splat!

The black sword gleam passed through his body, slicing open the ground behind him where the fog had dispersed, and continued all the way beyond the limits of sight.

Special Reincarnator EX051, you suffered the backlash of Magical Artifact: Xuanyuan Sword (Broken). Based on the effects of Musō Tensei, you have negated this attack.

Special Reincarnator EX051, you suffered an attack from Ability: Heaven-Slaying Sword Drawing Technique. Based on the effects of Musō Tensei, you have negated this attack.

Bai Cangshu reached out and grasped the magical artifact from the mummified Yan Chixia’s hand. With a slight exertion of force, he sensed an immense, sinister Demonic Aura rising from beneath the ground.

The howls of countless wandering souls came from every direction.

Beneath Lanruo City, there was actually a ghost city connected to the Nine Nether Hells?

And the Lanruo City God had actually hidden here. This part likely contained a rather complete story line.

Bai Cangshu guessed that if he had spoken with the City God, the latter would have gone on to explain why Yan Chixia had died here, the origin of this ghost city, and why the residents of Lanruo City above had become neither human nor ghost.

But Bai Cangshu had not been willing to waste time. He had directly punched the City God to death, and now he simply pulled up the broken sword.

You obtained Magical Artifact: Xuanyuan Sword (Broken)

Boom!

Demonic Aura surged into the sky. The hidden illusory passage above was instantly broken through by that incomparably dense aura, opening directly into Lanruo City.

Within Lanruo City, countless humans who had transformed into demons after the city walls and homes were destroyed by the terrifying impact howled as they were swallowed by Demonic Aura.

"Who is it? Who has lifted the seal…"

A voice that sounded both male and female emerged from the passage of Demonic Aura. Bai Cangshu stood at the entrance as the aura battered him without pause, yet he showed no reaction. His body even began absorbing the Demonic Aura.

It was as if every pore had opened on its own. The faint sound of the Yellow Springs surging could be heard.

The voice within the Nine Nether Hells seemed to immediately notice Bai Cangshu’s existence as well.

"A Yellow Springs Body… who exactly are you…"

Bai Cangshu vaguely saw an enormous black mountain. In a corner of the Nine Nether Hells, the Black Mountain Old Demon normally could not enter the human realm, though its true body had some degree of pedigree.

Bai Cangshu lowered his head and examined the Xuanyuan Sword and the Imperial Edict Token from earlier.

Xuanyuan Sword (Broken)

Quality: Extremely Rare

Description: A magical artifact used by Great Hero Yan Chixia of the Xuanxin Sect to eliminate demons and defend the Dao, forged in imitation of an ancient famous sword

Usage Requirements: Possession of an energy system such as mana or spiritual power

Effect 1: This sword inflicts additional effects on Demon Species creatures and ignores most of their immunity abilities

Effect 2: Damaged, currently unusable

Effect 3: Damaged, currently unusable

Imperial Edict Token

Quality: Extremely Rare

Description: A special jade token used by the Yin Moon Dynasty to appoint Yin Gods

Effect 1: Can be presented at the Consecration Altar to request the Demon Lord to appoint a Yin God with this item (insufficient reputation, cannot be used)

Effect 2: Holding this item allows you to join Faction: Yin Moon Dynasty and obtain an initially friendly reputation level

Looking at the Imperial Edict Token, Bai Cangshu guessed that the City God’s most precious drop—the reason his quality had been inflated—was probably another Imperial Edict Token, the one that had allowed the Heavenly Court to appoint him as a True God!

Moreover, it was precisely because something had gone wrong with that item that the City God’s strength had declined to such a pathetic extent.

Ghost City: Lanruo has disappeared

Mission: Lanruo City God has been completed

You obtained B-rank Anomaly Point *1, Dimensional Points *8000

Seeing that the Black Mountain Old Demon could not emerge, Bai Cangshu shot into the sky and returned to the surface. A sliver of sunlight was now breaking over the horizon, while great amounts of black smoke rose throughout the city.

They were signs of Yin Ghosts being purified by the sun.

In the distance, the dying shrieks of the Snake Demon intertwined with Skylark’s furious roars.

As for Life of Silence: Qiqi, she stood atop a massive mausoleum at the edge of the forest. The killing intent around her had nearly solidified into substance.

The instant she saw Bai Cangshu appear, she flashed directly behind him. Her chilling killing intent nearly collided with Bai Cangshu’s Three Parts Return to Origin Force.

The surrounding air howled and spiraled, forming an eerie whirlwind.

"Have you dealt with that pointless matter?"

"We should set out."

Bai Cangshu looked at the mausoleum and thought of the enemy Life of Silence had mentioned: a cunning reincarnator who had become a so-called Nirvana Holder before the previous Space Title Competition and betrayed the Space.

His strength should have been rather formidable.

"The Black Emperor? Heh, probably just a smokescreen…"

Qiqi nodded, but then shook her head.

"Maybe he knows I will definitely come to kill him, so he deliberately tried to deceive me in reverse."

Bai Cangshu shrugged. He did not know much about the reincarnator codenamed Ruofeng Lin. One title cycle ago, he had not yet entered the Space.

But judging by the progress of the current top reincarnators, it was highly unlikely that a Sequence 0 Black Emperor had truly emerged.

He noticed that after Life of Silence revealed her killing intent, the effect of that Clear Sword Heart seemed to disappear. There was neither that terrifying mind-reading ability nor that sense of utter clarity.

"Yes. If I do not kill him, I will never reach that realm."

The girl’s voice was cold and clear.

Bai Cangshu grinned at her words. This was precisely the kind of method he liked best.

He clapped his hands and, without caring about Skylark, who was still fighting the demons, said,

"Then let’s go, Your Majesty. Let’s go kill him happily~"

The sun rose, yet the capital of the Great Gan Dynasty remained steeped in deathly stillness. The vast city was covered in dust and cobwebs.

In the imperial court, all the civil and military officials stood solemnly beneath the dragon throne with their heads lowered. Upon the throne sat a man in imperial robes, his voice low.

"Have all nine mausoleums been completed?"

A voice immediately answered.

"Seven have already been completed."

Ruofeng Lin was not angered. He looked at the so-called Deathly Silence Hunt Mark above his head and sneered inwardly.

"Imperial Advisor, is there any news from the Nanzhao Kingdom that I asked you to investigate?"

Pudu Cihang, clad in white Dharma robes and wearing a benevolent expression, recited a Buddhist invocation before answering.

"With the Ten Thousand Mountains blocking the way, we likely cannot find the person you mentioned in the short term."

Ruofeng Lin’s heart settled further. He calculated the timing of the next Heavenly Dao scan. He felt that the ritual had been thoroughly prepared, lacking only a sufficiently large target to draw the attention of the Heavenly Dao and the upper realm in his place.

"Little Sister Qiqi, you had better come quickly…"

Below him, the bodies of all the court officials had already been hollowed out by insects, leaving behind nothing but skin. As sunlight shone down, the tattered national fortune and Dragon Qi seeped bit by bit into Ruofeng Lin’s body.