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Chapter 905 Extra Chapter: The Three Immortal Swords, Gods

South of Taiping Village.

"...It's getting late. Let's find a place to rest first, and then we can discuss where to go next."

Standing at the entrance to the mountain path on the edge of the village, the girl in red looked up at the sky and turned to her companion beside her.

The girl wore a neat red short robe and had a beautiful face. However, her short hair was tied into two buns with two lantern-shaped hair ornaments, which gave her a capable air.

Her companion was a boy with his messy hair casually tied up, dressed in clothes made of animal skin and coarse cloth. He had regular features and a handsome face, but his eyes revealed a kind of innocent stupidity.

At this moment, upon hearing the girl's suggestion, the boy looked at the houses in the village and asked, somewhat puzzled, "Looking for a place? There's no need to look. There are so many houses here, I can sleep anywhere."

Girl: "..."

Is that your house? You think you can just move in and live there?
However, the girl had almost gotten used to it. Ever since she encountered this savage on the mountain, she had been annoyed by this inexplicable fellow countless times.

This guy grew up in the mountains and hadn't been down for over a decade. The only person he knew was his deceased father. He had never even seen a woman, and he had absolutely no common sense about the world below.

So the girl had to explain these basic things to him all the way, feeling like she was taking care of a child.

So now that things have come to this, she no longer wants to be angry; it's just a waste of time.

"...No matter how many houses you have, they're not yours. If the owner doesn't agree, you can't just move in. Do you want to be a robber?"

The girl casually offered an explanation, then interrupted the boy's next question: "Stop! Don't ask me what bandits are. Anyway, you don't know anything down the mountain, so one more or one less won't make a difference."

"You wait here, I'll go find the village chief and ask him to let us stay the night."

The boy was still puzzled, but he obediently scratched his head and said, "...Oh. Then I'll go watch that person in the red dress dance over there."

The girl nodded and turned to leave, but after taking only two steps, she turned back to the boy, put her hands on her hips, and gave him a warning:
"Yun, Tian, ​​He! Listen up, whatever you have to do, wait until I get back. Don't cause any trouble!"

The boy continued scratching his head: "I understand, Ling Sha."

The girl gave a soft hum and turned to leave after hearing his agreement.

—At this moment, high above the clouds in Taiping Village.

Li You sat cross-legged atop an ancient greatsword, suspended in the clouds. He looked down at the young men and women below, his eyes filled with an indescribable longing and reminiscence.

Before coming here, he never expected that he would end up in this world... the world of Chinese Paladin.

Even for him, this world and the story of this game are already extremely distant childhood memories.

But the story of this game left a deep impression on him, and even after many years, it has not faded.

Therefore, Li You was pleasantly surprised to be able to travel here this time.

With his current abilities, he could certainly prevent many tragedies from happening—that was his initial plan.

But now... the situation is different from what he thought.

Li You watched Ling Sha gradually disappear into the distance, then looked at the peculiar sword on Tianhe's back—a sword with an unusually long blade, no guard, and a faint blue glow—and his brows furrowed slightly.

The sword's material was neither gold nor wood, and its shape was strange. However, the immense spiritual power hidden within it, flowing slowly, could be clearly sensed by Li You even across the heavens and the earth.

However, as Ling Sha walked away, the flow of spiritual energy within the sword slowed down, and the faint light emanating from the sword also subsided.

Tianhe, carrying his sword, was oblivious to all this. This boy, who had never seen the world below the mountain, was heading with great interest toward the ancestral hall in the village where Zhong Kui was performing his ghost-catching act.

"……Well."

Li You observed the actions of the two individuals and sensed the changes in the sword, a thoughtful expression appearing on his face.

Their story can be said to have begun with that sword, but it was also because of that sword that it led to an imperfect ending.

Li You was fully aware of the key points. And now that he was here, preventing the seeds of this tragedy from sprouting would naturally not be difficult.

But as mentioned earlier, their meeting was the beginning of everything. If Li You had intervened, the entire game's story would have ended prematurely.

If that were the case, it wouldn't be a good thing for the characters in the original storyline.

Therefore, Li You ultimately decided not to interfere with the main direction of the original plot, but only to intervene at crucial moments.

He could have simply made friends with Tianhe Lingsha and the other characters who would appear later, just like he always had, and then offered help when necessary—that was his original plan.

But now, he sits alone on the cloud, not taking advantage of the most opportune moment when Tianhe Lingsha has just come down the mountain to get to know the two of them.

Thinking of this, Li You touched his left hand.

Although his hands were empty, Li You could see pale golden chains wrapped around him, connecting him to the divine power, magical power, and all other extraordinary powers within his body.

Those invisible chains contained an extremely powerful spiritual force that transcended the realm of the human world.

If the Eye of Heimdall is activated, one can even see the image of a majestic female immortal faintly emerging behind the chains of spiritual energy.

With this chain in place, whenever his extraordinary power is applied to any living being in this world, the other party will sense it.

The change in Li You's expression and the reason he changed his original plan mainly stemmed from this unexpected chain.

As for the origin of this thing, we have to go back to when it first arrived in this world.

……

A few days ago.

When Li You first arrived in this world, things were somewhat different from before. The place Li You arrived at was not Qingluan Peak, where the story begins, nor this Taiping Village.

He arrived at a desolate mountain range, located on the edge of the game map "Mount Buzhou" according to the map.

Upon arriving in this world, the system immediately popped up a notification informing him that since all of the system's functions had now been unlocked, various restrictions on future world travels would be significantly reduced, greatly increasing his freedom.

For example, in the current world, Li You's main quest has become "witnessing the end of the Qionghua Sect," with no other additional conditions.

This was originally an inevitable event in the main storyline of the game. In other words, even if Li You did nothing, he only needed to find a place to wait, and the main quest would be completed automatically after a while.

In addition, the system also provides prompts related to the main storyline.

[Time remaining until the main storyline begins: 10 days.]

These changes in detail show that the system is no longer hindering itself, which is certainly a good thing.

Since there was still some time before the main storyline began, Li You thought about it and decided not to rush to Qingluan Peak.

Although I don't know why I ended up in this desolate place, far from where the main storyline begins, since I'm already here, I might as well wander around.

The origin setting of the Legend of Sword and Fairy world is slightly different from reality, but Buzhou Mountain is always a pillar supporting the sky, and the ancient divine dragon holding the candle guards its deepest part.

There was nothing of value over there, so Li You had no intention of going there to cause trouble.

But the map in the other direction, called "Fengshenling," is a different story.

Fengshen Mausoleum is an ancient tomb suspended in mid-air, or some say it is an ancient ruin. It contains many divine artifacts and is protected by divine power.

For example, deep within a palace in the Fengshen Mausoleum lies the divine bow used by Hou Yi to shoot down the suns.

In the game, the main characters came to this place because of this bow.

Li You also had some interest in this ancient divine tomb. Or rather, there was something he had wanted to do since he was a child, and he wanted to accomplish it there.

Therefore, after determining his course of action in this world, Li You saw that he still had plenty of time, so he immediately flew to the Fengshen Mausoleum.

Naturally, the Fengshen Mausoleum is guarded by many guardians, from mythical beasts like Tianlu and Xuanwu Huanling to heavenly soldiers like Yueyu and Cangjiao. The outer perimeter alone is heavily guarded.

However, in front of Li You now, these so-called immortals and beasts are actually powerless to fight back.

Li You didn't even have to take action himself; he simply used his spiral sword to conjure numerous weapons that hovered around him, and he knocked down all the approaching guards.

He was very measured in his attacks, only beating living creatures until they were unable to resist, while the celestial beasts and heavenly soldiers in spirit form were simply scattered and disappeared by him.

And so, he ventured deep into the Fengshen Mausoleum and found Houyi's Sun-Shooting Bow.

This divine bow was placed in a palace inside the Fengshen Mausoleum, surrounded by numerous traps and strict guards, clearly indicating that no one was to be allowed to come into contact with the artifact.

In the game, you would need to navigate a maze to get through here, but Li You was clearly too lazy to bother with that.

He was surrounded by divine weapons and blades, breaking through the middle and destroying the mechanisms and walls completely. He walked almost in a straight line to the Houyi Sun-Shooting Bow.

Looking at the black and red longbow floating above the high platform, radiating divine light, Li You smiled and reached out to take it.

Then, just then, the person I expected appeared.

"...Sinner, how dare you steal the divine bow!"

A majestic voice echoed through the palace, and then a spiritual energy barrier appeared around the platform where Hou Yi shot down the sun, repelling Li You's hand.

At the same time, a figure with an unusual posture appeared in front of Li You.

The figure had a human body and appearance, but had wings on its back, hands shaped like bird claws, and no legs. It stood on a dark green pearl and floated in mid-air.

He was clad in blue-green armor and wore a tall crown. His pale blue eyes, devoid of pupils, stared at Li You as he angrily declared, "I am the divine general Jumang, ordered to guard the Fengshen Mausoleum."

"Sinner, your hands, stained with the sins of killing, are unworthy to wield this divine weapon! Step back!"

Li You wasn't annoyed. Instead, he looked at the self-proclaimed divine general and asked curiously, "You call me a sinner. Can you see my past and present lives?"

In the game, Jumang rebukes Ling Sha as a sinner. As a god, it's not surprising that he can see the past lives and sins of mortals.

But Li You comes from outside the world, and he is also a god, only a god of a different system, and he has hidden his divine power.

From any perspective, it's impossible for Jumang to see through his origins.

Jumang seemed to have no regard for Li You, saying only, "Although I cannot see your past and present lives, the murderous aura on you must belong to someone who has slaughtered countless people. You are not worthy to wield Hou Yi's Sun-Shooting Bow!"

"You have trespassed into the Fengshen Mausoleum, damaged the tomb, and stolen divine artifacts. Your crimes are heinous! I will take away your two souls and six spirits, and then imprison you in jail for eternity!"

Having said that, Jumang revealed his murderous aura.

Listening to the divine general's "judgment" of him, Li You remained unperturbed, instead revealing a satisfied smile on his lips.

"I'm just waiting for your words."

Jumang: "...!?" The next moment, the god general saw flames that seemed capable of burning the sky and boiling the seas erupting before his eyes!
"boom!!"

—A moment later.

Li You held the heavy Houyi Sun-Shooting Bow in one hand, sat with his legs crossed on the high platform where the divine bow was originally placed, and casually played with this divine artifact.

It must be said that, after all, this bow was used by Hou Yi to shoot down the suns, and its power was truly remarkable. At least, Li You had no similar bow or crossbow that could compare with it.

However, to be honest, Li You doesn't really need such a divine bow.

So he simply put down Hou Yi's Sun-Shooting Bow and looked down at his feet.

There, the green pearl that Jumang once possessed was now covered in cracks, as Li You casually stepped on it.

Around the precious pearl, Jumang's fragmented spirit still faintly appeared. He struggled against the divine power exerted by Li You, angrily shouting, "...Sinner, how dare you defy your superior!"

Li You didn't even bother to respond to his angry curses, and simply said, "The fact that I didn't crush this bead is giving you a chance."

"A mere spiritual clone dares to judge me? Are all so-called divine generals so blind?"
"I'm waiting for your true form to arrive, giving you a chance to reclaim the divine bow. Aren't you just using this to buy time?"
"But you're too slow. If you don't make it in time, I'm really going to just grab the stuff and leave."

Jumang's remaining spirit was enraged: "You...!!"

But no matter how arrogant he was, Jumang had already realized Li You's power. He knew that there was no way his spirit body could snatch the divine bow back from this sinner, so his true body was indeed rushing from the God Realm to this side.

Seeing that the sinner had seen through his plan, Jumang stopped speaking to avoid humiliating himself. However, the spiritual energy fluctuations in the broken pearl became more and more intense.

Without further ado, the divine general finally stopped keeping Li You waiting. Soon, Li You sensed a powerful aura of spiritual energy spreading out from outside the palace where he was located.

In this world, all extraordinary powers are based on "spiritual power," so even gods use this kind of power.

"finally come."

Li You smiled, said no more nonsense, and stomped on the pearl of Jumang's spirit body, causing the angry rebuke of that spirit body clone to dissipate. Then he casually put Houyi's Sun-Shooting Bow back in its original place.

Yes, his purpose in coming here was never this divine bow, but... Jumang himself.

To put it bluntly, he's here to stir up trouble.

As for Hou Yi's Sun-Shooting Bow, if he didn't have respect for the hero who once shot down nine suns, he might have just thrown it away to spite Jumang.

As the immense spiritual energy outside the palace descended, another figure appeared before Li You.

Sentence body.

Its appearance was the same as the previous clone spirit, but the spiritual energy on its body had more than doubled.

He looked at Li You and said, "Sinner! Your hands are stained with blood. You broke into the Fengshen Mausoleum, which is already an unforgivable crime. Yet you dared to attack the spirit of a divine general! I will cast you into the underworld to be tortured day and night!"

Li You merely yawned at his arrogance: "Stop dawdling, if you're going to do it, hurry up, I need to go back and feed the dogs."

Jumang was furious: "Sinner, die!"

Enraged, he said no more, leaping down with outstretched wings and unleashing a torrent of powerful spiritual energy from his body!

"Long plumes of smoke descend upon the miasma—!!"

Countless clouds were stirred by his spiritual power, and like sharp blades, they were swept up by this vortex of spiritual power and rushed towards Li You!

Faced with this terrifying attack, Li You merely rolled his eyes:
"Don't shout out the names of your moves when you're fighting, aren't you ashamed?"

Li You snapped his fingers while complaining. Then, the divine general Jumang saw eight fire dragons rise from around Li You, roaring as they rushed towards him!
The eight fire dragons were so lifelike that even their eyes shone with divine light, and the smoke and storm he stirred up were instantly shattered in front of the fire dragons!

"boom--!!"

...When the god Jumang regained consciousness, he found his face in close contact with the ground of the Fengshen Mausoleum.

A foot casually stepped on his back, without actually applying much force, but Jumang felt as if the entire ancient divine tomb was pressing down on his back, making him completely unable to move.

"What...!?"

He couldn't understand.

As a divine general, and having specifically descended from his divine form to this place.

In general, this would be impossible, because the human realm and the divine realm have long been separated. It is only because this place is the Tomb of the Gods, and he is the guardian of the tomb, that he was able to do it.

Even so, even with his true form descending, he couldn't withstand a single move from this sinner who had trespassed into the Fengshen Mausoleum.
Who exactly is this guy? Even those demon lords, do they have this kind of power?

Thinking of this, Jumang's voice finally changed: "...Who exactly are you, and what is your purpose! Breaking into the Fengshen Mausoleum and attacking the divine generals, are you trying to rebel against the Heavenly Realm!"

Li You then looked at him and said seriously, "I didn't intend to do that. Actually, I came mainly to beat you up."

Jumang: "!?"

As he spoke, Li You, regardless of whether he understood or not, grinned and said, "That's right, I was deliberately picking a fight! How do you feel now?"

Jumang glanced at Li You, confirming that he wasn't just saying it casually, but truly meant it, and immediately flew into a rage:

"Insolence! How dare a mere mortal defy his authority! You..."

"Snapped--!!"

Li You waved his hand in mid-air, and his divine power transformed into an invisible palm, striking Jumang's face.

This slap completely stunned the divine general.

He lay on the ground, looking at Li You with half his face, still somewhat incredulous, with an expression that said, "My mom has never hit me," which amused Li You.

"That's the expression I want to see!"

As Li You spoke, he clapped his hands with satisfaction.

"Gods are inherently emotionless. The gods of this world were created by the great god Fuxi, who ruled the heavens, high above all, and once dominated the human world."

"Later, war broke out between the two sides. Thanks to the protection of the Goddess Nuwa, the human race was not destroyed by the gods."

"Later, although the Heavenly Emperor Fuxi seemed to have reflected on the fact that even gods could make mistakes and ordered the closure of the gates to the Heavenly Realm, separating the realms of humans and gods, it seems that there are quite a few gods like you who despise mortals!"

Jumang was dumbfounded.

"...Who exactly are you? How do you know all this?! And how dare you disrespect the Heavenly Emperor!"

The fact that Li You just said contained ancient secrets is secondary; the key point is that his tone not only showed no reverence or equality towards the gods and the Heavenly Emperor, but also carried a strong sense of sarcasm.

Even Jumang, a divine general, had never heard of such earth-shattering words.

"Sinner, sinner—!! You will surely be punished by heaven!!"

Li You had no reaction to Ju Mang's breach of his defenses.

With his current level of cultivation, he was already able to sense the level of the powerful beings in this world when he first arrived.

Therefore, he knew very well that although the Heavenly Emperor Fuxi was indeed incredibly powerful, he couldn't do anything to him.

Or to put it bluntly, even if this Heavenly Emperor really wanted to do something, he would probably have to think twice.

Speaking of gods of a realm, Li You has killed some before.

Of course, the more crucial factor in his expression of this attitude is that the great god Fuxi in the world of Chinese Paladin is not the same as the god of the same name in Li You's original world.

Li You knew that Fuxi created civilization by interpreting the hexagrams, but the Fuxi of this world, although also one of the Three Sovereigns and the incarnation of Pangu, was, as he had just said, the "Heavenly Emperor" who created the gods and ruled over the human race.

If it were Nuwa or her descendants in front of him, Li You would naturally not be impolite. But he had absolutely no respect for Fuxi and the gods of the Immortal Sword world.

Li You didn't know much about the Legend of Sword and Fairy series. Apart from the TV adaptation he watched as a child, he had only played the fourth installment of the game.

Therefore, he didn't know the specifics of Fuxi's story, but the great achievements of this Heavenly Emperor were all written in the game's data, and Li You would never have misremembered them.

He deliberately came to Fengshenling to cause trouble, luring Jumang's true form to beat him up. This was because he had had enough of this so-called god general's arrogance back in the game.

He was arrogant and looked down on ordinary people, holding the power of life and death in the blink of an eye. Li You had harbored a grudge against this man since the days he played the game, and now that he had the chance to personally beat him up, how could he miss it?
However, Li You did not intend to take Jumang's life.

Although he disliked the god's attitude, Jumang was not entirely unreasonable in the game.

At least when he first appeared, since Ling Sha's intrusion into the Fengshen Mausoleum was not for personal gain, Ju Mang did not intend to take away Ling Sha's two souls and six spirits.

However, after that, this divine general showed "absolute leniency" because Ling Sha hesitated even slightly. He even attacked Tianhe directly because he couldn't understand Tianhe's answer to the question. He truly showed no mercy at that time, directly injuring the group.

The words and actions of the divine general Jumang exuded an air of superiority, not even giving mortals a chance to argue.

The same is true in this world now. This person immediately denounced Li You as a sinner, and didn't even bother to ask a single question.

If that's the case, then it's reasonable that he was beaten instead of getting a trial, right?

Aren't you a divine general? Aren't you very powerful? So it's only natural that you can't beat me now and that I'm trampling you under my feet.

If Jumang hadn't at least maintained some restraint and hadn't refrained from attacking at the beginning of the game, what Li You would have used to retaliate against him now wouldn't be the Spiral Sword, but the Mortal Blade.

—However, on the other hand, although Li You did not intend to spare Jumang's life, his actions were more painful for the divine general than killing him.

After all, as a high-ranking divine general, when had he ever suffered such humiliation?
Therefore, at this moment, Jumang's spiritual power surged, seemingly about to unleash a destructive burst to perish together with Li You!
Li You naturally sensed the fluctuations of spiritual energy within Ju Mang's body and raised an eyebrow.

However, given the difference in strength between the two sides, even if Jumang wanted to self-destruct, he wouldn't be able to do it in front of him.

Just as Li You was about to unleash his divine power to suppress the futile attempt of this divine general, he saw a golden divine light descend from the sky and fall in front of him!

The golden light was dazzling yet very gentle, and at the end of the golden light, a star gate appeared.

Golden light descended, enveloping the divine general Jumang, and a gentle force moved him away from Li You's feet, sending him aside.

Then, the star gate opened, and the figure of a goddess appeared from within.

Her hair was styled in a nine-dragon flying phoenix bun, adorned with a crimson silk robe embroidered with gold threads, and a long skirt with colorful sleeves. Her naturally beautiful eyes and dignified, ethereal appearance were so striking that one could not look directly at her.

Li You became serious at this moment and stopped paying attention to Ju Mang, who had been rescued.

Unexpectedly, this has alarmed this person—

Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden!

(End of this chapter)