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Chapter 496 Now it's just the two of us.

As An Rong participated in the struggle for the Dao, the power from the Great Immortal Fate was severely diverted. Whether it was Emperor Zhao Ning in the Ziwei Exorcising Array or the Demon Emperor in the Heavenly Gate, their fortunes were diminished.

The Demon Emperor's recovery speed slowed down significantly, while Emperor Zhaoning's strength dropped from the peak of the Archangel to a level between the Archangel and the Archangel.

The support the two received from Da Xianyuan decreased, while Wu Chang and other players in the Tai Sui camp gained the status of "Contender of the Dao".

Status Name: Contender

"Status Description: Your faction has gained the recognition of the Great Immortal Alliance. As contenders for the Dao, you will determine the future of this instance."

When you fight against non-competitive cultivators, you will receive the blessing of the Great Immortal Affinity; when fighting against competitors, the blessings from the Great Immortal Affinity will be partially offset on both sides. If one of the competitors' beliefs wavers, they will lose a portion of their blessings depending on the degree of wavering.

The "Contender of the Way" status, in terms of its effects, aligns with the rules of world dungeons.

The dimensional rules of the world instance are that humans and demons cannot coexist. The effect of the "Contender of the Path" state is that there is only one path in the instance instance, and only one choice for the future.

Just as if demonic energy suppresses spiritual energy, the demon realm can continuously emit demonic energy to erode the outside world, but the Ziwei Exorcising Array cannot affect the demon realm.

Among those vying for the Dao, once one side's resolve wavers and they fall into a disadvantageous position, they will be abandoned by the will of the plane, also known as the Great Immortal Fate.

For Wu Chang, the blessing from the Great Immortal's Affinity was not important; what mattered was that between those vying for the Dao, the blessing from the Great Immortal's Affinity could be neutralized.

With this effect, it's only a matter of time before the Demon King is defeated by Eileen.

His battle with Emperor Zhaoning will become the core of the world dungeon battle.

Fearing that Emperor Zhaoning might flee if things went wrong, he didn't rush to activate the Hero's Certificate. He wanted to first stabilize Emperor Zhaoning in his normal state and also test the quality of the Golden Armored Heavenly Soldier.

He switched the Peacekeeper to fire-overlay mode and then injected energy into it.

A thick column of energy erupted from behind the peacekeeper, shooting straight into the sky and exploding like fireworks when it reached its highest point.

Brilliant sparks drew an arc in the air before raining down on the temple.

Emperor Zhaoning noticed the anomaly coming from above. He pointed his finger, and dozens of golden-armored heavenly soldiers merged their auras into one, transforming into a shield in front of him and blocking the attack that was concentrated on Lidi Temple.

The other golden-armored celestial soldiers each employed their own methods, with some adopting a defensive stance, remaining vigilant while defending against attacks, and using stillness to counter movement.

Some of them unleashed their full spiritual energy, braving the rain of light as they charged toward Wu Chang in the sky.

Wu Chang's attack was merely a greeting. The light rain was powerful, but it contained little energy. Furthermore, since the attack was divided into tens of thousands of parts, the damage caused by each part was even more limited.

When they landed on the golden-armored heavenly soldiers, they exploded and turned into a light mist, not much different from ordinary raindrops.

However, the golden-armored celestial soldiers who were touched by the light rain had their armor's luster dimmed instantly, and their strength dropped from the Demon King Realm to the ordinary Earth Immortal Realm.

On Wu Chang's attribute panel, the "Contender of the Dao" status turned light red, and a new label appeared in the status notes: "Contending for the Dao".

The moment the light rain dissipated, two golden-armored heavenly soldiers arrived before Wu Chang.

In order to fight Wu Chang, the two heavenly soldiers also transformed their bodies into a size of ten meters.

As soon as the first Heavenly Soldier made his move, Wu Chang felt the temperature around him plummet. The chill permeated the mecha and formed an ice crystal in front of him, radiating a bone-chilling cold.

This chill not only attacked him directly, but also reduced his physical reactions and energy circulation, and even tried to freeze his source power.

When another celestial soldier made his move, he unleashed thousands of sword lights. The density of the sword lights he unleashed was similar to the rain of light he had previously unleashed, but the power of the celestial soldier's sword lights was not dispersed. Each sword light was equivalent to a normal attack launched by an earth immortal.

Wu Chang couldn't help but click his tongue. The prototypes of these two heavenly soldiers were clearly Leng Shan and Jian Xing.

The two didn't really make a move when fighting the BOSS, but when dealing with him, their clones were the ones who rushed to the front.

The two heavenly soldiers were not only fierce in their attacks, but their attacks also carried the true essence of the immortal abode, making them extremely troublesome. Even he did not want to be hit by such attacks.

The celestial soldiers can use the abilities of their prototypes, but they also have a problem: they lack soul and are too rigid.

If it were the real Sword Star and Cold Mountain, they would definitely lock onto him with their minds when using their abilities, but the Heavenly Soldier cannot do that and can only release them non-targeted.

He first used his mystical domain to envelop the ice crystals in front of him, severing the already weak connection between the ice crystals and the heavenly soldiers. Then he teleported the ice crystals out of the mech and blocked the sword light.

The ice crystals collided and exploded with the sword light, and a blue chill poured out, freezing the sword light in mid-air.

Then Wu Chang drew his mecha sword, shattering the sword light as he slashed at the Sword Star Heavenly Soldier.

Sword Star Heavenly Soldiers swung their swords to defend, but how could Heavenly Soldiers, who only replicated Sword Star's fighting instincts, be a match for Wu Chang, who possessed the immortal affinity of Martial Star?

He precisely found the weakness of the Sword Star Longsword, shattered the blade with a single strike, and then thrust it into the Heavenly Soldier's chest.

The heavenly soldier was pierced through, and his body exploded instantly.

Under the master-level mechanical control, the Peacekeeper in Wu Chang's hands was as agile as if he were using his own body.

He turned and slashed with his sword, shattering the surging ice mist behind him. Then, he thrust his sword straight in, the blade's energy parting the cold tide, rushing to Lengshan Tianbing's front and slashing upwards diagonally, splitting Lengshan Tianbing in two.

This is the second weakness of the Golden Armored Heavenly Soldiers: they can only coordinate macroscopically according to Emperor Zhaoning's command, and the individuals do not know how to advance or retreat.

Wu Chang shook his head slightly, thinking to himself that the Golden Armored Heavenly Soldier had a lot of energy, but his actual level was nothing special.

If the peacemaker had been able to travel longer, he might have been able to cut through the 16,000 golden-armored heavenly soldiers.

He maneuvered his mech to accelerate toward the third golden-armored celestial soldier, intending to break his attack first and then fight him, just as he had done with the Cold Mountain Celestial Soldier. However, he discovered that the third golden-armored celestial soldier used a movement skill to escape to the side.

Ok?
How could this golden-armored celestial soldier be so intelligent?

Before Wu Chang could figure it out, he saw that among the golden-armored heavenly soldiers rushing towards him, several heavenly soldiers moved very nimbly, not only blocking his retreat, but also using control skills instead of attack skills.

With every skill, the target is firmly locked onto him without any deviation.

It is obvious that although these golden-armored celestial soldiers are weaker, their operating mode is more refined than that of the Sword Star Celestial Soldiers and the Cold Mountain Celestial Soldiers.

He looked towards the Temple of Etiquette and saw that players were being brought back by the Golden Armored Heavenly Soldiers. The Golden Armored Heavenly Soldiers placed the unconscious players at designated locations according to their positions when the Purple Star Exorcising Array was activated.

Every time a player enters the town, the eyes of one of the golden-armored celestial soldiers become alert.

Wu Chang's face showed a look of sudden realization. No wonder the players whose source energy had been drained were no longer a threat, and Emperor Zhaoning was still in a hurry to send troops to capture them.

It turns out that players can not only provide energy and be crushed for the Great Immortal to absorb, but also serve as external brains for the Golden Armored Heavenly Soldiers, giving these soldiers sentience.

The moment he noticed this, the golden-armored celestial soldiers who had been charging up unleashed their skills on him. More than a dozen control skills came crashing down on him from all directions, flying at extremely high speeds and all locked onto him.

Even if he mastered martial luck and could use martial arts to break through skills, he still wouldn't have enough time to deal with so many skills.

Once he gains control, he will be dragged down and killed in the same place.

What awaits him next are dozens of celestial soldiers who are charging up their control skills.

He sighed, realizing he had underestimated Emperor Zhaoning's abilities. If the Golden Armored Heavenly Soldiers could achieve this, even if the Peace Envoy had enough stamina, he wouldn't be able to single-handedly defeat the Lidi Temple.

In that case, it's time to use it.

Item Name: Proof of Heroism

Item Type: Consumable

Item Level: A

"Item Skill: Unyielding"

Note: This item can only be used in the Wasteland, and the user's level must not exceed 30.

"Skill Description: After activating the Hero's Proof, you lose 1 point of maximum health per second. This effect cannot be reversed by skills or items until the dungeon ends or you enter the next dungeon. During the duration of the Unyielding effect, you will be free from any control, tireless, and unrestrained, reaching your best state."

"Item Skill: Reversing the Tide"

"Skill Description: Burns all current physical attributes, locking all attributes except Inspiration and Willpower to 1 point. All burned attributes will be condensed into a single strike to reverse the desperate situation. After releasing the attack, the Unyielding state will automatically end."

"Skill Notes: Even in the most dangerous and desperate situations, one can still become the key to turning the tide; this is what is known as the hero's moment."

The Hero's Certificate was the reward he received when he hunted down Lin Jiang and reclaimed the highest authority for the four major organizations.

He had just used the Wuqu Star Lord wooden carving and needed a trump card to replace it. Guided by inspiration, he chose this item. Unfortunately, during the subsequent dungeon runs, he never encountered an opponent who could force him to use his trump card. With the advancement to the Realm of Reason imminent, he thought he would never have the chance to use this item.

Unexpectedly, at the end of the world instance, Emperor Zhaoning gave him the opportunity to use the Hero's Proof.

The Hero's Proof's Unyielding skill prevents the loss of maximum health per second from being reversed by skills or items. This means that once the item is activated, the maximum health will be locked and can only be reduced, not increased.

Therefore, he must make thorough preparations before activation.

He first reached out and took the "Heart of the King of Giants" sponsored by the painter. As he used the prop, the huge heart first shrank to the size of Wu Chang's fist, and then turned into a ball of pure life force, flowing into his body through his palm and merging with his heart.

dong dong.

dong dong.

Throughout Zhenyue City, all the people could hear a muffled, thunderous heartbeat coming from the sky, as if the steel puppet of the peace envoy was being given life.

The heart of the King of Giants will grant the user a temporary maximum health based on their current attributes.

Wu Chang, piloting the Peacekeeper, currently has a total of 2186 attributes. With the item conversion, Wu Chang gains an additional 1093 points of temporary maximum health.

Even if the giant king who provided this heart were still alive, his value probably wouldn't be much higher than this. It must have been really difficult for this heart to increase such a large amount of vitality in one go.

With the 200 HP boost from Peach Fairy and Wu Chang's own 335 HP, his current HP cap is 1628.

In conjunction with "Heart of the King of Giants," which reduces all life deduction effects by 30%, and the Tai Sui Blessing, which reduces the rate of life essence loss by 10%, he extends the duration of Unyielding to 2713 seconds.

The reason Hou Jingchuan initially thought the Hero's Token was not very valuable was because ordinary players in the Wilderness Realm, even if their secondary attribute was health, would only have a maximum of seventy or eighty points.

This amount of health cannot be used entirely for Unyielding, since Unyielding only provides immunity control, not invulnerability. With low health, it is easy to die from unknown area-of-effect attacks.

Therefore, for the average player, the effect lasts for less than a minute at most.

Hou Jingchuan never dreamed that Wu Chang could extend the effect of the prop, which lasted less than a minute, to forty-five minutes.

After the foreplay was over, Wu Chang took out the Hero's Token, which had transformed into a bracelet.

As the Proof of Heroes was used, it transformed into a golden-red light that enveloped the Peacekeeper. As the light dissipated, a golden-red cloak formed of energy appeared behind the Peacekeeper.

In his indomitable state, he felt an inexhaustible energy within him, an energy that urgently needed to be released.

He took a deep breath, brandished his mecha sword, and charged straight toward the sacrificial altar.

The dozen or so crowd control skills hit him, but apart from reducing his permanent shield, they did not stop his movements in the slightest.

During his charge, he focused all his energy on the mecha's longsword, and when he encountered any golden-armored soldiers blocking his way, he would deliver a devastating blow.

The speed of their charge, combined with the huge difference in their attributes, caused the golden-armored heavenly soldiers blocking their path to be instantly cleaved in two vertically.

One celestial soldier was cut down, and the next celestial soldier followed closely behind to fill the gap.

This celestial soldier had sharp eyes, and the player connected to him by origin had already been captured and taken to the Temple of Rites.

He had been waiting for this opening, wanting to strike the moment Wu Chang finished his move.

Whether it's martial arts or magic, a complete move is divided into three parts: the attack phase, which mobilizes power and energy; the burst phase, where the move is unleashed; and the recovery phase, where one gathers energy to prepare for the next attack.

Just like throwing a punch, if the fist hits the first person, the second person who makes contact with the fist at that moment will not be injured. The puncher must retract the fist before throwing it again in order to injure the second person.

But what he didn't expect was that after Wu Chang cleaved the heavenly soldier in two, he didn't pause for a moment. Instead, he swung his long sword back up and slashed at him from below.

The force of the blade did not weaken; in fact, it intensified.

Before he could seize the opening when the attack was finished, his vision was split in two with a flash of light.

Watching the heavenly soldiers who filled his gaps being killed by Wu Chang in the same way, he didn't understand why there were no gaps between Wu Chang's moves until he was shattered.

This wasn't because Wu Chang was highly skilled in martial arts. Even though the Golden Armored Heavenly Soldier had been weakened, he was still at the level of an Earth Immortal. In order to achieve the effect of instant kill, he used all his strength with every strike, striving to break through the opponent's moves and kill them in one go.

This kind of wide-ranging fighting style will inevitably have skill recovery animations.

The key to his ability to have no finishing move lies in his unyielding effect.

The description of Unyielding's skill, "Ignoring any constraints to reach the best state," not only means that he will not fall into weakness due to negative status, but also that he will maintain the best state no matter what the situation.

The power vacuum during the closing phase was also deemed a period of weakness by the Unyielding Spirit and was forcibly passed through.

This allows him to have an inexhaustible source of power within him, enabling him to continuously unleash new power.

While this method of constantly unleashing one's full power is undoubtedly powerful, it also consumes an enormous amount of physical strength, resulting in fatigue that is not simply one or two times greater.

However, the tireless nature of the Unyielding effect perfectly compensates for this shortcoming.

Uncontrollable, tireless, and always in top condition, Wu Changhua is a formidable weapon in group battles.

Since it was his first time in this state, he wasn't used to it at first and was still chopping away one slash at a time.

Later, he understood the true application of perseverance, and then he started spinning.

Wu Chang had never experienced this state, and Emperor Zhaoning had certainly never seen it either.

Based on his own experience, Emperor Zhaoning gathered golden-armored heavenly soldiers to surround Wu Chang tightly, intending to overwhelm him with sheer numbers.

Unexpectedly, Wu Chang spun around and charged into the ranks of the golden-armored soldiers, his long sword spinning as he maintained his full power throughout the attack.

The golden-armored celestial soldiers could easily shatter anything they touched, and because they had no way to stop their attacks, they couldn't even slow down the speed of the celestial soldiers' spin.

He was like a spinning top that never stopped, pulverizing everything it touched.

In the blink of an eye, the peace envoy was less than a kilometer away from him.

Emperor Zhaoning reacted quickly. He realized that the dense formation not only failed to stop Wu Chang, but also made the space too cramped, so the spells he released would be blocked by the other golden-armored heavenly soldiers.

He immediately adjusted the formation, trying to disperse it and leave a gap in the center so that the golden-armored soldiers could use their skills to focus fire on Wu Chang.

The golden-armored celestial soldiers closest to Wu Chang formed the Mountain-Suppressing Formation, and a huge phantom, as large as a mountain, covered the area where Wu Chang was located from above.

The Zhenyue Formation is connected to the Ziwei Exorcising Formation, which is equivalent to mobilizing the power of the earth to press an entire mountain down on the target of the formation, making it impossible for the target to struggle for a short period of time.

Immediately afterwards, the golden-armored celestial soldiers on the outside dispersed, their size shrinking back to normal human size, preparing to cast ranged spells.

But Emperor Zhaoning didn't know that Wu Chang was waiting for the moment he would disperse the enemy formation.

The reason he didn't rush to the ground at full speed from the start was because flying at full speed was too fast. At Mach 4, even he wouldn't have time to react and wouldn't be able to strike accurately. He could only smash the golden-armored heavenly soldiers along the way with his bare body.

However, forces are reciprocal; the damage from shattering the golden-armored celestial soldiers would also rebound onto him.

According to the calculations of the Omniscient Crystal, once he gains speed, the knight will not die from the shield provided by his bare hands; he will only be able to kill five golden-armored celestial soldiers by crashing into them.

The temporary maximum lifespan and life deduction reduction only apply to his physical body and do not include the mecha. Even considering the mecha's own defense, the maximum maximum lifespan he can kill is only seven golden-armored celestial soldiers.

Therefore, when the initial formation was dense, he was unable to directly charge into the altar.

The formation has now changed from a dense formation to a dispersed one. In that instant, according to the peace envoy's calculations, there are only six golden-armored heavenly soldiers blocking his path between him and Emperor Zhaoning!

So, it's now.

As he accelerated, the Zhenyue Formation, which was supposed to suppress even the Demon Emperor himself for a moment according to Emperor Zhaoning's plan, failed to hinder the peace envoy in the slightest.

With a flash of light, Emperor Zhaoning only saw four clouds of golden dust explode in the air. The next moment, he felt a tremor beneath his feet and a loud bang erupted beside him.

As the core of the entire Ziwei Exorcism Array, the Earth Altar is protected by the earth veins. Wu Chang's hard landing only created a large crater on the altar, without shattering the entire altar.

Amidst the smoke and dust, the first thing Emperor Zhaoning saw was a golden-red cloak, followed by a huge human-shaped shadow.

A powerful airflow blew out from the peacekeeper, dispersing the smoke and dust that rose into the air.

Wu Chang, driving the peace envoy, arrived before Emperor Zhaoning and said:
"Now it's just the two of us left."

(End of this chapter)