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Chapter 203: Human Emperor Banner!
As Lu Yan finished his words, everything became silent in an instant.

There was an imperceptible tremor from the depths of the void, as if the curtain of eternity was gently moved by an invisible hand. A vast will that transcended life and death and reincarnation descended from the darkness, which was the gaze of the heavenly way of the end times.

All the laws of the universe resonated at this moment, and the entire world was moving in accordance with the will of heaven. The barn plains, including the No. 73 gathering place, seemed to have been stripped of the entire apocalyptic version and turned into an independent world.

Witnessing everything before his eyes, even Lu Yan, who had been prepared for this, couldn't help but feel excited.

Forging a magic weapon of merit is Lu Yan’s biggest purpose in choosing the doomsday version.

Ever since he learned that the immortals in the Xianxia version had the ability to resolve the crisis risks in the Changsheng version, entering the Xianxia version became Lu Yan's most important goal.

However, Lu Yan once used the Soul Banner in public in the demon version, while the Soul Banner is an absolute taboo in the fairy version.

Once entering the Xianxia version, Lu Yan's past use of the Soul Banner will inevitably be discovered by the major sects of both the righteous and evil paths, thus causing countless troubles.

At that time, don't even think about finding a way to solve the hidden dangers of immortality in the fairy-xia version. You will be lucky enough not to be hunted down.

Therefore, Lu Yan must cleanse the soul flag in his hand, and the best way is undoubtedly to refine a magic weapon of merit.

Lu Yan had obtained the method of refining a magic weapon of merit from the Qingwu Sect. Refining a magic weapon of merit required a large amount of merit and the singing of the people. This problem had troubled Lu Yan for a long time.

After this, Lu Yan began to intentionally bind the soul flag with the name of the underworld, and spread the name of the underworld in various versions to accumulate people's singing. In the process, the incense belief related to the underworld was accidentally born.

This time returning to the apocalyptic version, Lu Yan spared no effort to kill tens of millions of zombies. In addition to collecting wandering souls to upgrade soul flags, another key point was to accumulate enough merits bestowed by heaven to refine merit magic weapons.

The minimum requirement for refining a magic weapon of merit is three golden wheels of merit formed by a huge amount of merit. Lu Yan met this requirement by slaughtering zombies within a few days of returning to the apocalyptic version.

But then Lu Yan discovered in the process of studying the Golden Wheel of Merit that Lu Yan had owed a debt of gratitude to Heaven for eradicating the hidden dangers of the apocalyptic version. The merit bestowed by the Heavenly Dao of the apocalypse was Heavenly Merit, which was completely different from ordinary human merit.

If we use the ordinary human merit refining method to forge a magic weapon of merit, it would be too wasteful.

So Lu Yan continued to kill zombies in order to accumulate heavenly merits faster.

Some time ago, Lu Yan had successfully condensed ninety-nine golden wheels of heavenly merit.

The moment the ninety-nine golden wheels of merit took shape, Lu Yan already felt something in his heart that this was the limit of the golden wheels of merit allowed in this world.

Even if he subsequently gained a massive amount of Heavenly Merit, he still could not break through this limitation. Lu Yan clearly realized that the opportunity to forge a magic weapon of merit had arrived.

Since the magic weapon of merit is not forged with human merit, but the magic weapon is forged with ninety-nine golden wheels of heavenly merit, which is definitely an unprecedented feat in the fairy-xia version, so Lu Yan needs to abandon the previous method of forging the magic weapon of merit.

To this end, Lu Yan used the omniscience of the giant spirit to deduce a grand ritual that was theoretically feasible.

Slaughter millions of zombies in a super-large zombie tide, gather the massive Heavenly Merit brought by the slaughter of the zombie tide, and use the fortune of heaven and earth to ask this world to forge the Soul Banner into a vessel of Heavenly Merit.

This idea is obviously very bold. Theoretically, consuming the merits of the Heavenly Dao can borrow the power of this world, but in reality, it is difficult to achieve this without the corresponding methods of the ancient Taoist school.

The reason why Lu Yan was able to do this was entirely because he controlled the balance of the doomsday version and guided the direction of the entire doomsday version, and he had some influence on the doomsday heaven.

Relying on this influence, he has every hope of achieving this goal.

However, Lu Yan never expected that an ambush between the extraordinary people and the Jindan corpse kings would lead to the intervention of the supreme will.

Lu Yan suppressed that will, which caused the Supreme Will to become furious and accelerated the formation of the natural disaster corpse tide, directly making the scale of this ritual of forging the instrument of Heavenly Merit far beyond Lu Yan's original expectations.

There were more than 20 million natural disaster zombies, 100,000 extraordinary zombies, and even the Supreme Will mobilizing massive amounts of moonlight spiritual energy to forcibly help the zombies become extraordinary.

Such a large-scale zombie tide is rarely seen in the entire apocalypse version. The number of zombies even exceeds that of many small countries.

So when Lu Yan activated the ninety-nine golden wheels of merit and said "Please cast a vessel of merit for the way of heaven", what he attracted was not the rules of heaven and earth, but the doomsday version of the way of heaven!
Lu Yan used the natural disaster of corpses as a ritual, and requested to forge a vessel of Heavenly Dao’s merits, and received a response from Heavenly Dao of the end times!

The next second, a majestic aura appeared in the sky.

Everyone could see that a bright golden sun appeared above the sky covered by ghost fog. Its dazzling light even broke through the ghost fog that covered the sky and the sun, showing its greatness to the world.

"The sun and the moon shine together? Could it be that another special phenomenon has occurred that we don't know about?"

"First the crescent moon turned into a full moon, and now the sun has appeared. What happened?"

However, the next second, hundreds of thousands of people in gathering place No. 73 saw a scene that filled them with fear.

I saw the golden sun that illuminated the sky and the earth falling towards Lu Yan in the sky, and the golden sun was expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The invisible feeling of oppression seemed to indicate that once the golden sun fell, it could even destroy the entire barn plain.

But as time went on, someone in the No. 73 gathering place suddenly woke up and screamed:

"Without temperature, it's not the sun!"

"What exactly is that?"

"Have you noticed that the golden sun is similar to the halos behind the envoy?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone reacted immediately and looked behind Lu Yan.

And above the sky, Lu Yan, who was facing the golden sun, already understood in his heart that this sun was the last golden wheel of merit sent down from the heaven in the last days to break through the limitations of the golden wheels of merit in the world.

The limit of the world's golden wheels of merit is ninety-nine. After condensing ninety-nine golden wheels of merit, no matter how much merit one has, he cannot condense any more.

This is the limitation of the rules of heaven and earth. If you want to break this limit, you must have the powerful strength to break through the rules of heaven and earth.

But today, the Heavenly Dao of the Last World revealed another way for Lu Yan, that is, the Heavenly Dao personally broke through the limit and sent down the Golden Wheel of Merit. Perhaps it was the feedback from this grand ritual, perhaps it was because Lu Yan had thwarted the conspiracy of the Supreme Will twice, or perhaps it was the Heavenly Dao of the Last World's investment in Lu Yan. In short, the Heavenly Dao of the Last World sent down a Golden Wheel of Merit, which represented that Lu Yan had broken through the restrictions of the rules of heaven and earth.

The last golden wheel of merit slowly descended from the top of the sky behind Lu Yan. The light it emitted was brighter than the previous ninety-nine, as if it had condensed all the light between heaven and earth.

As the golden wheel approached, a mysterious sound of resonance of the great way suddenly sounded in the void.

As if they were summoned by something, the ninety-nine golden wheels of merit gathered from all directions. They intertwined and circled around the last golden wheel of merit in the void, and began to actively merge into the largest golden wheel of merit.

A moment later, an unprecedented sun of merit appeared in the sky.

The brilliance of the merits of the Heavenly Dao overshadows the entire world. Its form has surpassed the limits of ordinary golden wheels of merit, as if it has condensed all the power of merits between heaven and earth. Countless mysteries flow on the surface of the sun, and each one contains the supreme truth of the Dao.

The zombies in the apocalyptic version are not evil creatures in the sense of fairy tales, but another extraordinary path guided by the supreme will.

If the zombies created by these versions of the invasion were replaced by the devilish corpses, even the legendary incorruptible bones would be destroyed under the glory of this great sun of merit.

Just as the light of the merits of the Heavenly Dao illuminates the world, countless illusory figures emerge from all directions. They are the wishes of all living beings gathered from various versions.

The prayers of countless people echoed in the void, turning into streams of golden light that merged into the Sun of Merit. The entire gathering place No. 73 was shrouded in a layer of golden halo. Everyone knelt on the ground involuntarily and worshiped Lu Yan's statue.

The power of creation between heaven and earth was drawn by the wishes of all living beings, and countless mysterious Taoist rhymes manifested in the void.

When the ritual reached this step, the soul flag in Lu Yan's hand began to rise into the sky and actively merged into the great sun of merit.

The vast amount of Heavenly Merit continuously washed away the essence of the Soul Banner, just like a huge sun furnace melting the entire Soul Banner, and the dark surface began to be stained with a touch of gold.

At the same time, the will of heaven seemed to have transformed into a pair of invisible giant hands, grabbing the power of creation of this world, and all the mysterious rhymes of Tao gathered together.

The uncanny craftsmanship of forging by heaven and earth continuously forges the power of creation and the sun of merit into the soul flag.

The originally eerie and strange soul flag began to undergo amazing changes. The flag was no longer lingering with the dark aura that seemed to come from the depths of the soul.

On the Soul Banner, the merits of the Heavenly Dao condensed into golden silk threads that replaced the original material of the banner. The banner handle was like black gold, engraved with mythical cloud patterns and great truths. The whole Soul Banner exuded a majestic and righteous aura.

This change is not just on the surface, the space inside the Soul Banner is also undergoing an amazing transformation.

The Soul Continent began to glow with golden light, and countless heavenly virtues manifested in the void, bringing a whole new order to this small world.

The gloomy ghost fog that originally shrouded the Soul Continent gradually faded away at this moment, revealing a magnificent and majestic atmosphere of black and gold. Even the ghost fog that spread for hundreds of miles on the plains changed.

Whether it is the ghost fog or the soul continent, the essence of their souls has not changed, but under the forging of the Heavenly Dao, they have been integrated with the merits of the Heavenly Dao, and have been transformed from the original monsters and ghosts into the underworld in mythology.

At this moment, the Soul Banner has undergone a transformation from the root. Even though the Soul Banner did not have any causal karma accumulation before, it was ultimately a method of refining magic weapons and could not be considered a truly up-to-date means. The ability to display extraordinary power was largely due to the powerful soul computer transformation technology and the massive number of zombie wandering souls.

But at this moment, with such a majestic and righteous aura on the Soul Banner and the unprecedented instruments of Heavenly Merit, no one can say that these things are means of the devil.

What was affected was far more than just the small world inside the Soul Banner. The ghosts and gods that stayed inside the Soul Banner also began to transform.

The merits of heaven are like the warm spring rain, washing away the gloomy ghostly aura from their bodies.

The consciousness that was originally just simulated by the soul computer began to become real, and every ghost and god felt an unprecedented transformation.

They are no longer simple ghosts, but have acquired the true essence of underworld gods. With the blessing of heavenly virtues, they have acquired some of the divinity of underworld gods.

Outside the Soul Banner, the ghost soldiers and generals who were fighting on the battlefield were also experiencing the same baptism. The golden light enveloped their bodies, and the merits of the Heavenly Dao cleansed their essence.

The jet-black armor on their bodies took on a hint of black and gold, and the impurities of the soul fire in their pupils were all burned out, emitting a majestic aura.

The wandering souls of zombies are naturally incomplete. The reason why the six thousand ghost soldiers under Lu Yan are all at the peak of Qi training is not because Lu Yan does not have enough wandering souls, but because the incomplete souls of the wandering souls make it difficult for them to break through the foundation-building stage.

However, with the transformation brought about by the Instrument of Heavenly Merit, the originally incomplete soul merits of the Yin soldiers were completed, and a breakthrough to the foundation-building stage in the future is just around the corner.

In addition, the original ghost soldiers and ghost generals were just evil spirits that had been transformed by soul computer technology. They were still ghosts in essence, but they used soul computers to disguise their appearance to make it look better. They could not be called real ghost soldiers and ghost generals at all.

But with the baptism of Heaven's merits and the gathering of incense and vows from the end-of-the-world version, they also have some qualifications for the transformation into Yin gods and become the underworld legion recognized by heaven and earth.

On the battlefield, as the transformation was completed, the momentum of the ghost soldiers and generals suddenly changed.

The ghost general's spear and the ghost soldier's soul-catching rope seemed to manifest some of the power of the instrument of merit. It was easy for them to harvest souls, and they could even easily break through the extraordinary abilities of the extraordinary zombies.

The originally stalemate battlefield actually began to advance in the direction of the natural disaster and the tide of zombies.

When all the changes were completed, the strange phenomenon above the sky slowly disappeared, and the soul flag in Lu Yan's hand had completely transformed.

The soul flag was a deep black-gold color, and the mysterious runes on the flag were like a galaxy flowing through a majestic continent. The edge of the flag was surrounded by auspicious purple air, interweaving with liquid-like gold threads, forming a Taoist text that could seize the good fortune of heaven and earth.

Black gold is no longer a simple magic weapon, but a magic weapon that carries the merits of heaven and integrates the wishes of all living beings!
As the forging of the Heavenly Dao Merit Magical Treasure was completed, Lu Yan even vaguely sensed that the gaze of the Heavenly Dao from the end of the world seemed to be a little tired.

Forging a magical treasure of Heavenly Merit that transcends the boundaries of the rules of heaven and earth is also a burden for the Heavenly Dao in the last days, which is already in a bad state.

Lu Yan held the magical treasure of Heavenly Merit in his hand. With the help of the magical treasure of Heavenly Merit, he could feel the changes in the Heavenly Dao in the last days more clearly.

In the gaze that came down from heaven, Lu Yan seemed to feel a hint of expectation.

After a moment's silence, Lu Yan held the treasure banner and spoke loudly:

"This treasure was cast by me to clear the disaster of the end of the world and rectify the human race. It should be called: Human Emperor Banner!"

(End of this chapter)