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Chapter 498 This time I won.
Back at Tianmen, the battle between Eileen and the Demon Emperor was nearing its end.

In terms of raw power, the Demon Emperor is ultimately no match for Eileen. The reason he was able to remain undefeated against Eileen before was entirely due to the support of the Great Immortal Fate, which was equivalent to using healing to withstand Eileen's damage.

However, An Rong's participation in the struggle for the Dao, and Eileen's possession of the struggle for the Dao state, is like having a healing reduction item equipped.

Her struggle against the Demon Emperor canceled out his struggle against the Demon Emperor's, causing the Demon Emperor's recovery speed to be significantly slower than Eileen's offensive.

If it weren't for its location near the Birth of Demon Pool, where the surrounding demonic energy could amplify its power, the Demon Emperor would have been defeated before Emperor Zhaoning.

At this moment, Emperor Zhaoning's surrender and withdrawal allowed the Tai Sui camp to gain the support of the Great Immortal Fate for the Great Xuan Royal Family camp, causing the Demon Emperor's condition to change from reduced healing to complete prohibition of healing.

Without the earth, water, fire, and wind constantly reshaping itself, the Demon Emperor gradually could not withstand Eileen's offensive.

After a few moves, the Demon Emperor clutched his pierced abdomen and staggered backward against the trunk of the golden tree beside the Birth Demon Pool.

Eileen pointed the finger at the Demon Emperor, severing all ties, and said:

"you lose."

The Demon Emperor had a hint of resentment in his eyes. He couldn't understand why this world, having already concealed itself sufficiently by severing its spiritual energy, could still attract the attention of powerful beings in high positions.

The alien deity before them clearly shouldn't exist here. Let alone now, after the spiritual energy has been severed, even in ancient times, the alien deity before them would be enough to break through the Heavenly Gate and ascend to the Upper Realm.

If it weren't for her interference, even Emperor Zhaoning, who commanded 16,000 golden-armored heavenly soldiers, would not have been able to defeat him in the struggle for the Dao.

Beyond the resentment in his eyes, there was even more helplessness.

Just like in ancient times, when he gathered the Tai Sui Immortal Fate and activated the Ziwei Exorcising Evil Array, he discovered that the power of the Upper Realm was unstoppable. He could only transform into a Demon Emperor and assist the Seven Stars in sealing the Heavenly Gate.

Now, facing Eileen, he once again experienced the helplessness he felt back then.

He turned his head and looked at Da Xianyuan, who had completely suppressed the three-legged golden crow, his eyes filled with regret.

It's a pity, if only he had more power.

Hopefully, thousands of years from now, future generations will witness another celestial being descend and find a way to break this deadlock.

He took a deep breath, looked at An Rong, and said:

"You've won this dispute."

With the Demon Emperor admitting defeat and withdrawing from the righteous path, Da Xian Yuan abandoned the demon race camp and transferred all blessings to the Tai Sui camp.

An Rong did not have the title of "Destiny Plunderer," but when the Demon Emperor abandoned his own path, he was no longer the chosen one of the plane. The power of destiny within him was transferred to An Rong's body through the Tai Sui Immortal Fate.

The aura surrounding An Rong surged, its radiance even surpassing that of Emperor Zhao Ning.

The appearance of Tai Sui Immortal Fate embodies the hopes of all those who longed to escape the upper realm in ancient times, and should be the only chosen one in the world's dungeon plane.

However, the Demon Emperor, as the previous Tai Sui, retained a portion of the fortune. In addition, Emperor Zhao Ning was too dazzling and relied on the position of Emperor of Da Xuan to force himself into the Chosen One of the Planes, which led to the current situation where fortune is divided into three parts.

The Demon Emperor's withdrawal has allowed the Tai Sui Immortal Fate to truly shine.

An Rong reached out his hand, and Da Xianyuan, who was beating the three-legged golden crow, stopped, turned around and came to An Rong, his dragon head lowered.

After the debate ended, An Rong gained the complete recognition of the Great Immortal's Fate.

Wu Changzhen arrived at the edge of the Demon Birth Pool, looked at the three-legged golden crow in the lake that was severely depleted of energy and looked extremely disheveled, and said:

"Are you still alive?"

The three-legged golden crow raised its eyes and immediately replied:

"Mr. Peace, could you give me a chance?"

Wu Chang shrugged and asked:
"That depends on what you're willing to pay for your life."

The three-legged golden crow transformed into human form and said with a wry smile:

“I’ve poured all my savings into the ritual to awaken divinity, so I don’t have anything of value to offer right now. But I can write an IOU and help you monitor the Illuminati.”

"With my strength, even if you don't kill me, I can't pose a threat to you. Killing me won't do you any good, but if you keep me alive, I'll be very useful. Please believe me!"

Wu Changlu looked thoughtful. He first had a brief conversation with Eileen, and then discussed it with An Rong for a while.

Judging from An Rong's expression, he had some concerns about what Wu Chang said, and his face was full of hesitation.

The two discussed for a full ten minutes, and in the end, An Rong was persuaded by Wu Chang and signaled Wu Chang to do as he wanted.

Wu Chang turned his head, cleared his throat, and said to the three-legged golden crow:
"You really think you can be my informant at the Guangming Society?"

The three-legged golden crow nodded frantically and said:
“As long as it’s not too top-secret, I can access it. I can cooperate with you to sign any contract or oath.”

Wu Chang looked at the Demon Emperor and asked:
"Senior Demon Emperor, you are very knowledgeable. I wonder if you have any similar magic that could prevent him from betraying me?"

The Demon Emperor coughed twice, released his hand from the wound on his abdomen, and dripped blood into the Demon Birth Pool.

A moment later, a red, transparent worm that resembled a candle worm crawled out of the water.

The Demon Emperor grabbed an insect and threw it to Wu Chang, saying:
“Feed it with your lifeblood, then let the firebird swallow it, and it will be unable to betray you.”

Wu Chang caught the worm, and a notification about the worm popped up in front of his eyes.

Item Name: Blood Pact Worm

Item Type: Consumable

Item Level: B

"Item Description: After feeding with blood containing primordial essence, the Blood Pact Worm can be bound to the player. When the bound Blood Pact Worm is consumed by the target, the Blood Pact Worm will parasitize the target's primordial essence."

If the target shows any sign of breaking the oath, the blood pact worm will open a channel within the target's body, warning the bound party and allowing them to launch a direct attack on the breacher's very essence through the blood pact channel.

Wu Chang thought to himself, "The boss is so generous. He just casually threw over a B-grade consumable. He truly deserves to be called the Demon Emperor."

In the world instance, apart from Lü Changgeng, who was particularly stingy due to the influence of the Light Society, the other important figures were all very generous.

Only this level of reward deserves the title of World Dungeon.

His inspiration did not raise an alarm for the Blood Pact Worm, which reassured him as he condensed a drop of essence blood and poured it into the Blood Pact Worm.

The gathering of essence and blood should have weakened him, but under the blessing of the Great Immortal, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth continuously poured into his body, instantly restoring him.

He took the Blood Pact Insect to the Three-Legged Golden Crow, but instead of moving forward, he stopped and placed the Blood Pact Insect behind his back.

"You say you can survive because you have value, but value isn't something you can just talk about."

“A useless person is worthless no matter how loyal they are, so you need to prove yourself.”

The three-legged golden crow swallowed hard and asked cautiously:
How can I prove myself?

Wu Chang stepped back two paces to the side, making way for Eileen, who was holding a sword behind her, and said:
"If you survive a sword strike from my lord, you'll prove your worth."

The three-legged golden crow trembled. He had witnessed the entire battle between Eileen and the Demon Emperor and knew just how strong Eileen was.

But now that things have come to this, he has no other choice.

If it were three sword strikes, he definitely wouldn't be able to withstand it, but if it were only one sword strike, and the Eternal Light in front of him held back a little, he should be able to withstand it.

After a brief silence, he forced himself to speak:

"it is good!"

Wu Chang nodded in satisfaction, then used teleportation to retreat to a distance, as if afraid of getting splattered with blood later.

Eileen put away the black sword, leaving only the Eternal Lake in her hand. She closed her eyes first, and when she opened them again, only golden light remained in her pupils.

She was going to use her full strength in this sword strike, a strength she hadn't even used when facing the Demon Emperor.

Under her urging, the sword energy of the Eternal Light pierced the sky, so high that even looking up, one could not see the end.

Seeing the sword light disappear into the sky, the three-legged golden crow began to panic. "No, are you serious?"

This is too long! Shorten it, shorten it! It'll kill us if it's this long. Perhaps hearing the prayer in the heart of the Three-Legged Golden Crow, the sword light on the lake began to shorten. However, this shortening was not a sign of weakness, but rather Eileen was compressing the sword light.

The sword light compressed all the way, shrinking from piercing the sky to only ten meters.

The three-legged golden crow was almost in tears. What he wanted was not this shortening, but something short and hard, which was far more deadly than something that was merely long in appearance.

But he didn't know that this was just the beginning.

As Eileen continued to pour energy into it, a white holy fire ignited on the Eternal Lake, the flames so intense they were almost liquid.

This time, not only was the three-legged golden crow shocked, but even the demon emperor who was watching the spectacle was so surprised that his eyebrows twitched.

The liquid immortal holy fire had reached the realm of a mid-level god, a power that even he couldn't unleash at his peak. If this sword struck him, even with the blessing of a great immortal, it would take him a long time to recover.

The otherworldly gods didn't even use this sword when they fought him, yet they were so serious about that golden bird. Could it be that the guy has violated some heavenly law?
The next moment, the giant dragon that Da Xianyuan had transformed into suddenly flew towards the Eternal Lake and disappeared into the sword's edge. With the blessing of Da Xianyuan, Eileen further propelled the energy on the sword. Both the sword's light and the liquid white holy fire converged into the sword's body along with Da Xianyuan.

She appeared to be holding an ordinary longsword, but everyone could sense that the sword's presence had become the center of the plane.

Everyone fell silent upon seeing the sword strike. The Demon Emperor turned his head slightly, somewhat reluctant to watch the sword descend.

The three-legged golden crow's mind went blank. He couldn't understand why, even if He Ping didn't intend to let him go, he would still go to such lengths. With this sword strike, it seemed as if he wanted to sever his next ten reincarnations. There was no great grudge between them, was there?

Before he could figure it out, he saw Eileen slash out with her sword.

The sword light flashed past his eyes. He could feel the sword blade entering his body and something being shattered. But to his surprise, the sword didn't hurt, and he didn't even feel that death was coming.

Could it be that this sword strike was too powerful, and he was too insignificant to even sense the danger?

The three-legged golden crow did not react when the sword was slashed out, but something else did.

The sky started to shake.

The sky trembled violently, as if it would collapse at any moment.

Not only Tianlan Province within the scope of the instance, but everyone in the instance dimension felt their bodies light at this moment, as if the ground beneath their feet was dragging them upwards. The feeling was very peculiar, as if they could take off into the air with a light jump.

Unlike the native inhabitants, the players not only felt an upward surge, but also a sense of unease.

They looked up at the sky, and faintly, they seemed to hear a furious curse coming from beyond the heavens.

The insults seemed like an illusion, yet they were also incredibly real.

Inside the Heavenly Gate, Wu Chang felt the ascent of the dungeon plane and proudly looked up at the sky:
"I won this time!"

An Rong's goal is to sever the connection between heaven and earth, completely cutting off the spiritual energy of the dungeon plane.

However, the essence of spiritual energy is the erosion of the abyss. As long as one remains in the abyss, one cannot escape its erosion. Even if the erosion is temporarily eliminated, after a long time, the abyss erosion will return with the extraordinary.

There is only one way to completely sever spiritual energy: to leave the abyss.

The world instance has been regressed from the Realm of Reason to the Realm of Desolation. Although the level has changed, it is still within the Abyss and there is room for maneuver.

Completely escaping the abyss is not so simple; it requires some complex procedures.

Since his failure in the Midnight Graveyard dimension, Wu Chang has been thinking about what he needs to do to escape the abyss, but he hasn't been able to come up with an answer.

First, to escape the abyss, the connection between the plane and the abyss must be severed.

This premise sounds unbelievable. It's as if the statement is trying to separate Earth from the universe, as if only a giant hand could grab Earth from the universe and put it into another universe to achieve this goal.

But his previous conversation with Christine gave him an insight.

That was what Christine told him: the Abyss Game they were in was just a portion of the Abyss that had been artificially extracted.

If the abyss is a boundless forest, then the Abyss Game is a tree specially cultivated by some being.

He had inquired about the Abyss from the Omniscient Crystal. The Omniscient Crystal could say very little about the Abyss, but there was one thing it could tell Wu Chang: although the Abyss Game only captured a small part of the Abyss, it was an existence of the same level as the Abyss, possessing the same starting point and ending point.

In other words, the end of the Abyss Game is the end of the Abyss; leaving the Abyss Game is equivalent to escaping the Abyss.

Narrowing the scope from "escaping the abyss" to "escaping the abyss game" significantly reduces the difficulty.

Because the Abyss itself is too abstract, he cannot see the connection between the Abyss and specific planes, but the Abyss Game is different; there are administrators in the Abyss Game.

If Eileen were to use the Sword of Order to slay the Administrator, making the Administrator, this embodiment of the Abyss Game, seen by the plane itself as an entity that disrupts order.

In order to restore order, the plane will sever ties with the Abyss Game and thus break away from the Abyss.

The second problem then arises: Wu Chang only knows that the administrator exists, but does not know how to attract him to the instance plane.

It's not like he can just confess that he was at the switch, putting himself in the trap to lure the administrator into the wasteland.

It wasn't until the emergence of the Faith Virus that he had a flash of inspiration and a bold idea.

Coincidentally, An Rong, who issued the hidden side quest, also wanted to free the world dungeon from the abyss, which led to Eileen's sword strike just now.

Eileen's sword strike did not slay the Three-Legged Golden Crow, but rather the Faith Virus on its body, or rather, the Faith Virus mark that attracted the attention of the administrator.

The administrator's gaze stemmed from the faith virus; the two could be considered one and the same.

When he first deployed the Faith Virus, he asked Shi Ning what the cost of using it would be.

Shi Ning told him that the price was that the faith virus would cause the instance to spiral out of control, greatly increasing the difficulty of the instance.

In other words, the Faith Virus itself is also disrupting the order of the instance plane, so it's not wrong for Eileen to use the Sword of Order to cut it down.

To prevent the Abyss Game Administrator and the Will of the Plane from making excuses and severing ties with the Faith Virus, Wu Chang specifically asked An Rong for control of the Great Immortal Fate.

The Great Immortal Fate is the embodiment of the will of the world instance plane. With it participating in the Sword of Order, the administrator naturally cannot deny it.

When Shi Ning and Hou Jingchuan initially planned to deploy the Faith Virus, they were worried that it would implicate Wu Chang, causing the Abyss Game administrators to discover that he had opened it and ban his account.

To their utter surprise, after the outbreak of the Faith Virus, the Abyss Game Administrator not only failed to ban Wu Chang's account, but was instead slashed by Wu Chang himself.

Moreover, this sword strike was extremely effective, and the continuous upward trend of the world dungeon indicated that it was breaking free from the abyss.

He thought to himself: "Abyss Administrator, I did this all to complete the mission. You are a magnanimous person and will surely understand my predicament. You will not hold a grudge against an ordinary little Karami like me."

He clasped his hands together, bowed to the sky, then turned to look at the three-legged golden crow, which was groping its wounds and wondering how it was unharmed, and said:

"Stop touching it. That sword strike was to test your courage. You faced my master's full-force sword strike and still did not beg for mercy or run away. You have passed the test."

The three-legged golden crow was stunned. Did I not want to run away then? I didn't have time to run at all.

In this situation, he dared not refute anything. Of course, he did whatever Heping said. He could only nod and thank Heping profusely, thanking him for giving him a chance to start anew.

He could simply take that sword strike as Peace showing off her muscles and telling him not to harbor any ill intentions or make any underhanded moves.

While the dungeon was leveling up, Wu Chang finalized the blood pact with the Three-Legged Golden Crow. The two recited the pact to the blood pact worm, and after the Three-Legged Golden Crow swallowed the worm, it used an item to escape the world dungeon.

As the instance plane continued to ascend, the sky became filled with lightning and thunder, turning gloomy as if the end of the world was approaching.

The players had no idea what had happened or what was about to happen; they could only look up at the sky in fear and wait for what would happen next.

Only the painter vaguely sensed Wu Chang's actions. He looked at the sky with suspicion and uncertainty, glancing at Wu Chang and Eileen from time to time, his eyes full of apprehension.

As he approached Wu Chang, just as he was about to ask something, the rising plane seemed to be pulled back by something, and the earth suddenly stopped and stood still.

The water in the Birth Demon Pool receded to both sides, and a huge stone gate, a hundred meters wide, slowly rose from the bottom of the lake and appeared before everyone.

The stone gate is over a thousand meters high, and after it detached from the Demon Birth Pool, it floated above everyone.

This enormous stone gate is the Heavenly Gate leading to the third level of the Abyss, and it is also the origin of all the problems in the world instance.

Now, it is also the end point for all problems within the world instance.

Once the Heavenly Gate is shattered, the world instance will be able to sever its final connection with the Abyss game and completely escape from the Abyss.

(End of this chapter)