The Old Gods

Chapter 944 A Dazzling Glow!

When it comes to cultivating divine weapons, Lu Ran is certainly experienced.

However, Ji Ye Dao encountered a new situation – his divine weapon domain was singular!

The upgrade of the Silent Night Blade will not add new domain effects. It seems to be created specifically to imprison the energy of others, and it will only focus on this path, without any other possibility of growth.

Lu Ran realized something: the divine weapons and magical artifacts in the hands of gods and demons are very likely to be specialized in a single field.

For example, there was the magical artifact called the Ghost Talisman, which was once pasted on the head of the Ghost Talisman Doll.

Although it is a fourth-order magic weapon, it is exceptionally pure and has only one function: targeting anyone who does not honestly reveal their true form.

For example, there's Yue Ling's crescent hook, Yun Jian's double stone mace, and Bi He's jade lotus pouch, and so on.
The above are all fourth-tier divine weapons and magical artifacts, with very limited domains and effects.

This shows that gods and demons seem to particularly enjoy going down a single, ultimately futile path.

Instead of, like Lu Ran, carrying the Eight Desolate Blades and the Glowing Light Blade, exploring and delving into a single core concept.

I don't know if there's any explanation for this.

If divine weapons and magical artifacts are specialized in a particular field, would they have a deeper level of expertise compared to those "versatile" divine weapons and magical artifacts at the same level?
For example, better spell effects, higher damage, etc.?

Lu Ran dared not make any rash judgments.

Based on the current situation alone, even with the Eight Desolations Blade, which combines three domains, he could shatter gods and demons!

At least against gods and demons, the damage from the Eight Desolations Blade is definitely sufficient.

The 25th day of the 11th lunar month is an extraordinary day.

Lu Ran has finally emerged from seclusion!
After eight days of painstaking research, Lu Ran stood on the shoulders of giants, wielding the Silent Night Blade to advance to the fourth tier, and smoothly obtained the Divine Weapon Domain.

"call!!"

Inside the underground secluded meditation room of Tianya Residence, a gust of wind and waves suddenly spread out.

Lu Ran was overjoyed, gripping the hilt of the sword tightly with both hands, feeling the Nightless Blade vibrate with a buzzing sound.

You have to really enjoy it!

Normally, the Silent Night Blade is silent and indifferent to its master, Lu Ran.

It wouldn't be accurate to call her aloof.

It's more like autism.
"Buzz~" The vibration of the Silent Night Blade gradually decreased and eventually subsided.

"Don't stop!" Lu Ran said immediately, "You've advanced to the fourth rank, surpassing the Heavenly Realm and reaching the ultimate Divine Realm! Aren't you happy?"

It was clearly the result of one person and one sword working together, yet in the secluded training room, only Lu Ran was cheering and jumping for joy.

"Ji Ye?" Lu Ran gripped the hilt of his sword with both hands and swayed back and forth. "Wake up, Ji Ye!"

Silent Night Blade: "."

My owner is so noisy.

"Silent Night, do you still remember when you first sensed the power of a domain on the streets of Rain Alley City? So many years have passed, and we have finally..."

[Silence.] A sudden thought flashed through Lu Ran's mind.

Lu Ran: ?
Who is the silent night talking to?
It looks like it's me, since this is a private chat. Holy crap! This is outrageous!

Lu Ran pouted for a while before standing up with his sword in hand: "Alright, let's go test it out and see how far the Silence Domain extends."

He dared not use his skills from the spot.

After all, the ends of the earth are still shrouded in thick fog, and some soldiers are advancing in the next round.

Once Lu Ran activates the Silence Domain, it will likely cut off the soldiers' path to advancement.

He arrived outside Tianya Residence, took several shadow guards, and went directly to the desolate peak in the northwest. After careful preparation, he conducted some experiments.

The result can only be described as a mixed bag.

When the Silent Night Blade is at the second tier, its Silence Domain covers a radius of 500 meters.

At the third rank, the range of the Silence Domain increases to a radius of three thousand meters, and it can restrict targets at the Heavenly Realm and below, imprisoning their divine power.

The silence domain unleashed by the fourth-tier Silent Night Blade expanded to a radius of ten thousand meters!
It's a full ten kilometers away!
Lu Ran recalled his previous battle with Nv Ying and realized that the Valkyrie had not used her full power at the time, but only the "Silent Domain" of the "three thousand meters radius" level.

It is sufficient to deal with the insignificant human ants, and it also just happens to limit people like Lu Ran who are at the Heavenly Realm.

Previously, Lu Ran might have thought that Nv Ying was going easy on him.

But after he personally wielded the Silent Night Blade and unleashed the ultimate Silence Domain, Lu Ran knew that Nü Ying's choice was very wise.

The Silence Domain is the domain for continuous spellcasting.

This requires the master of the divine weapon to continuously supply divine power.

The larger the area, the more exponentially the divine power required increases!
Lu Ran only confirmed the range of the domain with the Shadow Guard before hurriedly withdrawing his supernatural power with the Silent Night Blade.

The total amount of divine power required to open and maintain a top-tier domain of silence is enough to leave anyone speechless.

In just three or four seconds, Lu Ran, who was at the second level of the Heavenly Realm, had already exhausted his stored divine power!

What is this concept?
Let alone those from the Celestial Realm, even if the gods and demons themselves came, they would have to carefully weigh the pros and cons and calculate the gains and losses.

"Oh no," Lu Ran murmured, looking at Ji Ye Dao with a complicated expression.

Divine weapons are top-tier, belonging to the T1 level.

After all, the most powerful weapons and magical artifacts in the world are only at the fourth tier, and the Silent Night Blade has already reached the top of the mountains.

The realm of divine weapons is the pinnacle of the pinnacle.

It's a T0-level product!
The Silent Night Blade rose again from the mountain peaks, standing tall in the sky, far exceeding the limits.

But Lu Ran can't afford it!
Even with the assistance of the equally top-tier fourth-order magic artifact, the Blazing Phoenix Pattern Gourd, could Lu Ran maintain his domain for 8 or 10 seconds?

That's probably all there is to it.

Admittedly, the amount of divine power stored by Little Phoenix is ​​quite astonishing, but the problem is that the speed at which it replenishes its master's divine power is absolutely not keeping up with the speed at which Lu Ran consumes it.

How can this be good?

This experiment was made possible by Lu Ran's prior preparations, who positioned the Shadow Guards at distances of 3,000, 5,000, and 8,000 meters from him, using himself as the center point.

Only in this way can we test it out in one go; a radius of 5 kilometers is the limit of the silent domain.

Without prior preparation, how can you possibly provide accurate data in just three or four seconds?
There's a saying that goes: "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

But this is way too heavy!

They're still keeping the enemy silent.

In just a few seconds, everyone else was fine, but I was completely drained.
Based on his own situation, Lu Ran realized that he had to change his mindset.

His idealized vision of continuously imprisoning and crushing the energy of gods and demons is completely unworkable!

"What a divine weapon, what a powerful domain." Lu Ran shook his head helplessly, sheathing the Silent Night Blade at his waist. "I am unworthy of it."

As he was talking, Lu Ran's expression suddenly turned strange.

After changing his mindset, he suddenly realized something: using the top-level Silence Domain was similar to kissing Fairy Jiang.

It must be a light touch!

They must separate immediately upon contact!
Otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable.
"Tsk~" Lu Ran grinned, stood there for a while to recover, and then led the Shadow Guard back to the ends of the earth.

The dense fog was a huge help.

Lu Ran frantically absorbed divine power into his body, the mist condensed into streams, the streams gathered into rivers, the rivers merged into a mighty river, and the mighty river flowed into the sea.

As night deepened, the immense divine power filled every corner of his body, and Lu Ran couldn't help but feel uneasy.

The aura of the Holy Spirit is a power surpassing even divine power! Currently, Lu Ran is unable to utilize this energy.

Once he advances to the Divine Realm, he might be able to activate the Silent Domain with even purer Holy Spirit Qi, which would allow him to do so more easily.
Who knows.

After all, when fighting against Nüying before, even that Valkyrie with a complete divine position did not use the top-level Silence Domain.

"Ughhhhhh~~~"

Lu Ran stood up, stretched fiercely, and without wasting any more time, returned to the Heavenly Battlefield alone.

[Ruyi, where are you?] Lu Ran quickly arrived at the third heaven and tried to communicate with Madam Ranmen.

[Southeast Front, the sacred mountain of the heroines.] Jiang Ruyi spoke very quickly.

Lu Ran immediately realized that something was wrong.

Although she remained calm as always, with little emotional fluctuation in her cool voice, the speed of her speech clearly indicated that she was in a fighting state!
Lu Ran concealed his figure, flashing repeatedly, and headed straight for Mount Nüying, plunging into the torrential rain.

He was stunned by what was happening in the rain!
The female warriors and the jade deity should have been the main characters in this world.

However, at this moment, the enormous stone sculptures stole the show, and even the once fiercely contested front lines of the battlefield became peaceful.

The Faceless Jade Venerable clan retreated far away, seemingly afraid of being affected.

Several battle groups are currently engaged in combat near the sacred mountain.

Without exception, both sides in the war were towering stone sculptures.

Lu Ran scanned the area but still couldn't completely distinguish between friend and foe!
The third-class gods and demons, Cheng Hua, Yan Qing, and the merman, are being attacked by the soldiers of the Burning Gate, and are naturally the enemy.

In the midst of the torrential rain, Yan Qing and the merman were like fish in water, moving freely and effortlessly.

This rain was clearly from the eighth-rank god, the Rain Master. A simple divine spell directly propelled Yan Qing and the merman to the peak of their combat power, making them faster than ordinary gods and demons could fly.

This shows that the Rain Master is also an enemy.

Conversely, the fourth-rank god Mud Venerable, and the seventh-rank gods and demons Jiuzhu and Zhumu Demon should be on our side.
Mud God, Nine Bamboo, and Bamboo Demon were all guarding the vicinity of the sacred mountain and were not attacked by Nüying and the Burning Gate soldiers. Moreover, these gods and demons had already transformed the area around the sacred mountain into an environment of mud and bamboo forest.

The lush bamboo forest, attempting to withstand the heavy rain, made Yan Qing and the merman feel somewhat uncomfortable.

Unfortunately, the results were minimal.

"call!!"

Suddenly, the environment around us changed abruptly!
The heavy rain turned into a light, drizzling rain, and the distant mountains stretched endlessly, shrouded in mist.

The turbulent mudflow at the foot of the sacred mountain is now covered by a calm river surface.

On the sacred mountain, a huge stone sculpture stands in mid-air, holding a stone umbrella.

Burning Gate Heavenly General: Flower Shadow!
The Divine Art of Flower Support - Misty Rain in the Mortal World!

The divine rain summoned by the Rain Master had no environment to survive and had to retreat in disappointment.

Consequently, Yan Qing and the merman's movements were hindered, and they all fell to the ground.

"The villain!"

An angry female voice filled the heavens and earth.

The deity, holding an umbrella, flew in mid-air, staring intently at his long-unseen disciple.

She had assumed that Hua Qingying was dead.

Who would have thought that this wicked disciple was still alive?!
Moreover, he somehow found the path to godhood, and the wicked disciple transformed from a tiny and fragile human into a colossal stone statue.

Stone sculptures identical to those of the gods!

This is outrageous! It's utterly rebellious!
More than ten days ago, the warrior monk informed the gods and demons that a group of human villains had found a way to replace the gods and demons.

Now, looking at the clear shadow of the flowers again...
In recent days, Chenghua has really been thinking about what kind of people they are and where they found their path to defying the heavens.

But Chenghua never imagined that her timid disciple, who had once knelt before her with such devotion, would betray her!
Cheng Hua, her face contorted with rage, glared at the disciple who had forcibly altered the battlefield: "You wicked disciple, how dare you!"

Hua Qingying also looked back at the deity.

All the humiliations I've suffered over the years keep coming back to me.

The last straw that broke the camel's back was when Chenghua stepped on her, grinding her toes as she jokingly said that she would appear on her sister's altar on the first day of June next year.
Hua Qingying no longer knew how to express her submission in a way that would satisfy the deity.

So many years of submissiveness, kneeling and bowing, have only brought deep humiliation and enslavement.

They'll only escalate the situation!

In her most desperate moment, Hua Qingying met a mysterious young man.

He told me to stop worshipping the gods and come with him.

He says,

He is a man who is unwilling to accept defeat.

Regardless of what he called himself, to Hua Qingying, this young human was more like a savior from suffering.
"You wicked disciple! Stop casting your spell and get over here!"

The wrath of the gods terrified all things in heaven and earth.

Hua Tianjiang, who was originally gentle and graceful, now had a somewhat ferocious look on her stone face. She gripped the umbrella in her hand tightly and looked at the god who was both beautiful and ugly in the misty rain.

The misty rain of the world remains unchanged, showing no sign of dissipating.

Just as Hua Qingying was about to say something, her eyes suddenly narrowed.

Through the illusory mist and rain, she saw a dazzling light appear from the left side of the flower-shaped waist.

"Huh?" Chenghua's expression suddenly changed!
An extremely thin, dazzling line was drawn from the left side of the flower to the upper right.

The speed is outrageously fast!

The deity disregarded everything else, grabbed the enormous stone umbrella that had instantly constricted, and swept it down from his chest.

"Shu~"

The line is broken, but it's not completely broken either.

Lu Ran, who was hidden and invisible, held the Radiant Blade and had already slashed towards the chest of the flower-shaped umbrella. Suddenly, he flashed in place, letting the rapidly sweeping giant umbrella pass by.

To an outsider, the bright, thin line paused for a moment before continuing to move diagonally upwards.

It moved incredibly fast, reaching straight to the right shoulder of the flower-wielding man.

This is not finished!
The lines of light stretched all the way to the horizon, heading towards the thick sea of ​​clouds that enveloped the heavens and the earth.

"Bah!"

The chaotic battlefield between gods and demons seemed to fall silent for a moment.

Chenghua stared wide-eyed at the lines that were slanting across her body, feeling the terrifying fluctuations of divine power.

The battlefield was indeed deathly silent for a moment.

In Chenghua's eyes, the entire world seemed to slow down.

A thin line of light, light, was shallowly embedded in her stone body, slowly surging and splashing out little by little.

Its daybreak!

A vast torrent of rosy light, diagonally connecting heaven and earth, surged and flowed wildly.

The third divine weapon domain of the Glowing Blade: Myriad Glowing Light!

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