Ten thousand I am across the heavens

Xu Duo never imagined he would have to face an enemy that even the Shadow of a Village couldn't handle alone. These six individuals possessed diverse abilities, each incredibly powerful. The most formidable could fly through the air and directly manipulate gravity. Others could transform their bodies into various machines to unleash light cannons, summon various spirit beasts, absorb the skills of others, and the specific abilities of the remaining two were unclear. However, they were unlikely to be weaker than the others.

An enemy of this caliber is capable of hunting down the village's Hokage, so why would they target such a nobody like him?
Little did Xu Duo know that his diligent work completing missions for the village was all for the sake of constantly advancing his status, gaining more connections and resources. In doing so, he had also earned a formidable reputation outside the village, becoming a highly respected ninja both within and outside the village. While he wasn't yet qualified to inherit the position of the next Kage, he was certainly the most powerful and renowned ninja of his generation.

Outside, he was even known as the Flying Leaf Sword Saint because he preferred to fight with a Chinese longsword, displaying extremely graceful movements. His swordsmanship was also unpredictable. Despite his mediocre speed and strength, he was difficult to defend against, always catching opponents off guard. The more one tried to defend, the easier it was to break through.

The Dugu Nine Swords, as a top-tier sword technique, doesn't require a high level of internal energy; its strength lies more in the exquisiteness of its sword moves. Therefore, even in a different world, it can still be used with ease. While the Lingbo Weibu (Lingbo Steps) does require some internal energy, after switching to chakra-driven techniques, he could still manage to execute it, his incredibly graceful and elusive movements making him like a falling leaf. You try to catch him, but he's always blown aside by the breeze, impossible to touch.

Facing the combined attack of two powerful summoned beasts, he moved with ease, his sword lightly leaving wounds on the two massive beasts.

Thick beams of light would occasionally strike his direction, but he would often move with incredible speed, like a moth fluttering in the air, brushing past the gaps between the destructive beams.

His combat destructive power seems rather ordinary, but in actual combat, it's surprisingly difficult to hit him. It's almost as if he's so afraid of pain that he's maxed out his dodge ability.

However, martial arts techniques in the world of wuxia also have their flaws. Specifically, their design doesn't take into account certain supernatural phenomena. For example, manipulating gravity is unheard of for most martial arts masters. Only unparalleled techniques like the Great Shift of the Universe could possibly achieve a similar effect.

When the creators designed the Lingbo Weibu (a martial arts technique), they did not consider the special situation where the user would be pulled by gravity.

After a series of quick movements, Xu Duo was suddenly interrupted by a powerful attraction, and was then slapped away by the spirit beast. An ordinary cultivator would likely be seriously injured by such an attack. But he seemed completely unharmed, climbing out of the rubble.

This scene also puzzled the powerful being who controlled gravity. When he was slammed into the rocks, he seemed to make some strange movements, making it seem as if his body didn't suffer much impact during the collisions.

The moment he was sent flying, his entire body seemed to turn into noodles. As if boneless, he was slowly compressed like a spring when he hit the wall.

Xu Duo, having gotten up, didn't become careless despite not being injured; instead, his expression grew even more serious. His recent technique of neutralizing force was one of his greatest trump cards. It was a unique skill he had developed after studying and integrating various martial arts techniques from ancient and modern times, both Chinese and foreign. It didn't rely on internal energy, but solely on physical training and practice of movements.

When attacked, he completely relaxes his body, making it as soft as a sponge at the moment of impact, thus minimizing his injury. When colliding with walls or other objects, his body acts like a spring, cushioning the impact over a long distance and minimizing damage. The stronger his basic physical attributes, the more exaggerated the force absorption effect. With his current Jonin-level physical abilities, to seriously injure him using taijutsu alone, it would require at least that green-vested, watermelon-headed guy from the same village activating his Azure Beast form.

While suffering this attack, Xu Duo did not retaliate. He concealed a large number of throwing weapons in his green vest. These were all handcrafted by him. With the help of his throwing technique, they could draw very strange arcs in mid-air, making it difficult for people to predict their flight trajectory and thus be hit.

The hidden weapons were coated with a highly potent poison, a specially concoction that was extremely fast-acting and extremely potent.

In the past, when he encountered enemies whose swordsmanship was far superior during missions, he would resort to poison and hidden weapons. But this time, his darts were repeatedly deflected by some inexplicable gravitational force, failing to hit his opponent at all. Moreover, even when he coated the blade with poison, it often proved ineffective.

The spirit beasts might be affected by the poison, but the powerful figures with black rods stuck in their bodies seemed completely unaffected. They were as if they weren't even alive; even if they were injected with a deadly poison that would kill an ordinary person with a single drop of blood, they were completely unaffected.

He was truly at his wit's end. Besides the abilities from the martial arts world, he also possessed the ninjutsu of this world, with his Fire Release and Wind Release being particularly powerful. However, those were only strong at the Jonin level; in a battle at this level, the only ninjutsu he could muster was Madara's Dance.

His lack of offensive power was now glaringly obvious. The techniques that ordinary ninjas could learn and master were simply insufficient to be effective on this battlefield. He tried hard to recall his abilities from his past lives, and even those from the martial arts world before that. The skills he possessed were useless here. The killing techniques of the Gu realm might work, but the problem was that he was extremely weak back then. He was just a factory worker tightening screws. How could he possibly know any killing techniques? Even if he did, could he possibly use them here?

Seeing no way to break through his defenses, he had no choice but to make a desperate gamble, channeling all the chakra within his body to his fingertips. Following a technique he had learned, he compressed all his power into his fingertips, then unleashed a burst of energy. In an instant, a torrent of blood spurted from his fingers, but also a golden sword aura that decapitated his mechanized opponent in a flash. The sword aura traveled at terrifying speed; even with the opponent's exceptional physical abilities, he couldn't dodge it in time.

This was the Six Meridian Divine Sword technique he had stolen last time. However, since there was no internal energy in this world, relying on reading martial arts manuals to operate them was extremely dangerous. Even if he could occasionally manage to execute it successfully, it would cause serious damage to his body.

Seeing that his move was truly effective, he dared not slacken his efforts and repeatedly pointed. Each finger felt as if it were being sliced ​​into a thousand pieces, spurting out copious amounts of blood, but he also unleashed five sword energies in succession, forming a sword array that swept outwards. The first to be hit was the gravity-manipulating expert, who was surrounded by the five sword energies. His intake speed was simply too fast, and he himself had almost no mass, so the gravity and repulsive forces finally had no effect, and he was directly breached, his head being severed. The two greatest threats to him. The loss of the expert's head allowed him to breathe a sigh of relief. Without ranged attacks, pure physical attacks were ineffective against him. And since he himself did not use ninjutsu, that guy who could absorb others' chakra would be relentlessly attacked if he fought him.

It seemed he had completely turned the tide, even having a chance to win. Thinking this, he decisively redirected the remaining power of his sword energy towards one of the powerful figures whose abilities were unknown. This person seemed to be constantly looking for an opportunity to approach him. This meant the other party might be dangerous, perhaps possessing illusion magic or other mental abilities. Illusion magic was rare in the martial arts world. This was one of his biggest weaknesses. Fortunately, his agile movements prevented the other party from getting close.

At this moment, the remaining five sword energies attacked together, giving the opponent no chance at all, and cut him into several pieces.

Now that only three relatively skilled individuals specializing in physical attacks remain, Xu Duo finds it much easier to deal with them. Although one of them can summon a large number of spirit beasts, most of these beasts are also adept at physical attacks. Against someone who has mastered the top-tier technique of dissipating force, the threat is extremely limited. Even though his left hand is now covered in blood and he can no longer use the sword energy he just unleashed, the outcome seems to be decided.

Unfortunately, he was clearly unaware of any information about the so-called Six Paths of Pain. Just as the village's many ninjas were jubilant, preparing to join him in annihilating their powerful enemy, one of these six experts suddenly opened his maw and swallowed the corpses of the others in front of him. Meanwhile, the massive number of summoned beasts, fearless and relentless, nearly overwhelmed him, giving him no chance to stop them. In fact, he had no ability to stop them anyway.

But only a moment passed. A scene that filled him with despair unfolded. The people whose heads and bodies he had just severed crawled out of the creature's gaping maw, their injuries completely healed.

Xu Duo's face immediately showed despair. At this moment, his physical strength was almost exhausted. Without any powerful bloodline, his stamina was extremely limited. Even if he possessed the most advanced fighting skills, they would be useless without the stamina to use them.

At this moment, the opponent had fully recovered. The Heavenly Dao, skilled in manipulating gravity, directly attracted him. Exhausted, he had no strength to resist this time. Pierced through his body by black rods, his chakra could not flow normally, and he instantly fell to the brink of death.

He was about to die here in this lifetime. Suddenly, everything in the world slowed down. Then, he heard a murmur in his ear.

"Do you want to understand the meaning of life? Do you want to truly live?"

If Lanno heard this voice, he would definitely curse out loud. After all, these fourth-tier powerhouses from the fourth dimension are really shameless. They can't even bear to make up a recruitment line themselves.

The current Ghostly Demon Lord directly copied lines from the minds of the extraterrestrial demons, leaving Xu Duo completely bewildered. Not only him, but other transmigrators who, in their various transmigrations, ultimately faced certain death in dire straits, encountered the same scenario.

Then they felt a message appear in their minds, essentially saying that the Ghost Realm would intervene and give them a second chance. It then said they were exceptionally lucky, chosen by the Ghost Realm, and would help them travel through various worlds to eventually find their way home.

Upon hearing this, Xu Duo froze on the spot. He truly hadn't expected that after transmigrating twice, he would encounter a fellow townsman from the Gu Realm. According to the other man, he was a transmigrator who had existed long before him. Now, his strength was unfathomable, and he remained here to recruit more of his fellow Gu Realm wanderers. He would guide them through a wicked world and ultimately return to the Gu Realm. The price for accepting his help was that they fulfill his long-cherished wish upon returning to the Gu Realm. To this end, before returning, this senior, who called himself the Ghostly Space, could provide them with every possible form of assistance, like a cheat code.

What else was there to say? Of course, he agreed. After all, according to what the other party said, to return to his original world, he needed to traverse one small world after another, experiencing hardships and dangers time and time again, just like now. Without a reliable senior to provide assistance, how could he possibly return alive? The other party had helped him so many times; it was only right to do them a favor when he returned.

Xu Duo could never have imagined that he was now merely a consciousness. The so-called transmigration was nothing more than a fabrication by the other party in this illusory world. The help offered seemed invaluable, but it was nothing more than an empty promise. In this virtual world, providing them with assistance required nothing but a thought, granting them any kind of cheat, no matter how exaggerated. And when they returned to the Gu Realm, they would indeed need to truly sacrifice their own power, even their lives, to repay everything they had gained.

The Ghostly Demon Lord intends to use this risk-free and highly profitable method to cultivate powerful variables loyal to him. Whether these variables will ultimately have a chance to return to the Gu Realm, be molded into powerful elite warriors, or be directly devoured by the Ghostly Demon Lord, remains to be seen.

The Ghostly Demon Lord has long since learned to conceal his fangs, appearing harmless, even a benevolent mentor. He is no longer as savage as before, forcibly killing and stealing souls. Instead, he subtly guides his victims to willingly surrender their souls.

[To be continued]

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