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Chapter 243 The Second Way
The Great Collapse Realm, the Mountains Realm.

Lu Yan turned into a rainbow light, traveling across the endless mountains and heading towards the direction of the Immortal Alliance.

And in Lu Yan's mind, he was still thinking about the transaction with the Great Collapse of Heaven two days ago.

At that time, Lu Yan only borrowed the Human Emperor Banner that the Way of the End of the World helped him to forge to increase his persuasiveness and make the Way of the Great Collapse of the World give him more benefits.

But unexpectedly, after seeing the Human Emperor Banner, the Great Collapse of Heaven seemed to have made up its mind and actually threw out something that even Lu Yan had not expected.

Casting God Court!
The theory of the Divine Court has been circulated in many versions. The powerful ones take the pantheon as their foundation, gather thousands of gods and use incense and faith to build a Divine Court that shakes the world.

The weak ones are just a few minor gods who gather together to occupy an area and call themselves the masters of the divine court. They are not the real divine court.

In addition to these two types, there is a third type of divine court.

They feed on the authority of heaven and earth, and share control of the universe with the original heavenly way. The gods in the divine court cultivate merit and compete for authority, using the heavens as a chessboard and all living beings as chips.

In many versions of legends, such as Heaven, Paradise, and Pantheon, they are all the third type of divine palace.

Due to its huge size, the information disturbance affected countless versions. Although it was unable to expand its influence to many worlds due to the unique characteristics of this world, its reputation will be passed down forever.

Such a divine palace can be called the Second Heavenly Way!
The God-Forging Court promised by the Great Collapse of Heavenly Dao must not be the first two types, it can only be the Second Heavenly Dao God Court.

In many versions, countless people have tried to establish the Second Heaven, some of which are the only ones in the world, but only a few have succeeded in the end.

The greatest difficulty in establishing the Second Heavenly Dao is that it requires the original Heavenly Dao to share its own authority, so that the status of the Divine Court and the Heavenly Dao remains equal.

This is definitely not something that can be achieved simply by being powerful. The Way of Heaven acts in accordance with order. According to legend, the Lord of Heaven went through 1,750 calamities before he was able to reverse the order of heaven and earth, gain recognition from the Way of Heaven, and share control of the world with it.

Without such ability, it would be in vain even if one has achieved great accomplishments.

In the Great Collapse version, due to the oppression from many versions, this world has not given birth to the Heavenly Dao for tens of thousands of years, so that when the Heavenly Dao of Great Collapse was born, it had a will that was completely different from other Heavenly Daos.

Lu Yan is the only person who has broken the impasse in these tens of thousands of years, and the only opportunity for the perfect version of the Great Collapse of Heavenly Dao.

It was precisely because of this that Lu Yan was able to make a deal with the Great Collapse of Heaven and allow the Great Collapse of Heaven to give up the opportunity to Forge the God Court.

Of course, Lu Yan also knew that although the Great Collapse of Heaven seemed generous, it actually had other intentions.

Lu Yan is not the only one in this world and is not limited to the Great Collapse version.

Even if the Great Collapse of Heavenly Dao shares the authority of Heavenly Dao, Lu Yan will not always hold the authority. Most of the time, the entire version still operates in accordance with the Great Collapse of Heavenly Dao.

Compared to what he can gain from it, the authority of the Heavenly Dao in the Great Collapse Realm is actually not important to Lu Yan.

Establishing a Supreme Divine Court with many famous versions was undoubtedly a tremendous opportunity for Lu Yan, so he naturally agreed without hesitation.

The deal was done, but destroying the version fragments is not an overnight task.

Lu Yan was able to crush the Intelligent Machinery City entirely by relying on his own magical powers to restrain the intelligent machinery creations. If there were two true Nascent Soul powerhouses in charge, Lu Yan would never have it so easy.

Therefore, after Lu Yan agreed to the deal with the Great Collapse of Heaven, he prepared to look for those weak version forces, relying on the power of the underworld and the characteristics of the Unchanged to defeat the version forces, and then destroy the version fragments with the rules of world destruction.

But what Lu Yan didn't expect was that the Great Collapse of Heaven seemed to see through Lu Yan's little thoughts and directly threw out another big pie.

“The more powerful the fragments of the destroyed versions are, the more blessings of the Heavenly Dao authority you will gain when projecting multiple versions during the Casting of the Divine Court.

If we completely destroy the forces corresponding to the Ninth Heaven, we can use the power of the Great Collapse to build the foundation of the Divine Court."

This condition made Lu Yan give up his previous thoughts.

The promise of the Great Collapse of Heaven could completely enable the Divine Court to ascend to heaven overnight, so Lu Yan naturally did not want to miss such an opportunity.

However, it is absolutely impossible for Lu Yan to fight against the Nine Heavens including the League of Immortals and destroy its version fragments with his current cultivation level.

But since he was able to agree to the deal, Lu Yan actually already had some vague ideas in his mind, but it was still unknown whether they could be implemented.

The Great Collapse version will only last for less than five months, so Lu Yan must seize every minute.

After making a deal with the Great Collapse of Heaven, Lu Yan headed directly towards the direction of the Immortal Alliance.

Lu Yan must gather the resources of the Immortal Alliance and improve his strength as much as possible during this period of time in order to have a chance to complete the transaction.

As they crossed several mountains again, the scene in front of Lu Yan suddenly changed.

At the end of the mountains, above the barren ridges, a vast territory slowly unfolds like a sky curtain.

With just one glance, Lu Yan confirmed that this realm was a cave world, and also a fragment of the fairy-xia version.

Looking around, seventeen fairy islands are suspended above the nine heavens, with fairy light and spiritual charm flowing on them.

They are not stationary, but are moving slowly along some mysterious trajectory, just like the stars orbiting the sky in the universe, interweaving into a vast formation.

The invisible array patterns transformed into the vast principles of heaven and earth and merged into the world of cave heaven. Any slight movement would be suppressed by the force of the sky.

And below the seventeen fairy islands, countless practitioners shuttled through the sacred mountains between the caves and heavens.

Between the sacred mountains, countless spiritual veins gushed out like awakened dragons, and myriad spiritual auras rose into the sky, turning into an endlessly flowing waterfall of spiritual energy.

Some of these practitioners walked in the air, with clouds appearing and disappearing under their feet to capture the spiritual charm of the sky. Some flew on swords, with the sword light as fast as lightning to cut through the spiritual illusion. Others sat cross-legged on the top of the spiritual peak, with spiritual energy swirling around them like a dragon, breathing in and out spiritual charm to resonate with heaven and earth.

Lu Yan noticed that these practitioners, without exception, all had cultivation levels above the foundation-building stage.

There are tens of thousands of foundation-building cultivators in front of him, which is an extremely large number even in the version of immortal cultivation.

However, in this Great Collapse version, this cave can accommodate so many practitioners, which is enough to show the huge size of the Immortal Alliance.

Before Lu Yan approached the cave world, five foundation-building cultivators riding flying swords broke away from the cave world and flew towards Lu Yan.

The five monks were wearing uniforms of different colors, and they were obviously from different sects. At the moment, these monks left the cave world with obvious displeasure on their faces.

Obviously, Lu Yan's arrival was not a good thing for those practitioners who were welcoming the eruption of spiritual energy.

The leader was a sword cultivator in white. The originally angry sword cultivator restrained his anger a little when he saw Lu Yan's extraordinary demeanor and asked seriously:

“The Spiritual Rhythm Conference of the Blessed Land is rare, and the number of people who can collect spiritual rhyme is limited. All sects and schools need to be reviewed before entering.

This fellow Taoist looks unfamiliar, please take out your identity token for verification."

“I don’t have an ID token.”

As soon as Lu Yan finished speaking, the white-robed swordsman was slightly stunned, and the yellow-robed monk behind him also suddenly changed his expression, and immediately asked in a deep voice:
"No identity token? Where are you from, spy?"

After a slight pause, the yellow-robed monk bowed to the white-robed swordsman and said:

"Brother Wu, this person doesn't know the rules and trespassed into the blessed land. He must have other intentions. He must be thrown into the Spirit Prison for interrogation!"

As soon as this was said, the other three monks also responded. "How could we, the monks of the Immortal Alliance, not have identity tokens?"

"It would be fine if he showed up at any other time, but he showed up at the Cave Paradise during the Lingyun Conference. There must be something fishy about this."

"Being able to catch a spy during the Lingyun Conference is also a great achievement."

Senior Brother Wu in white looked hesitant. It was indeed suspicious that Lu Yan did not have an identity token, but he also knew that the other cultivators wanted to take advantage of the situation to teach Lu Yan a lesson because Lu Yan had rashly come and disturbed their opportunity to collect the spiritual energy of the cave.

Lu Yan is just a foundation-building cultivator who doesn't even have an identity token. He is definitely not from the Ten Great Mysterious Sects or the Seven Demonic Sects. According to the rules, it would not be a problem even if he is thrown into the Spirit Prison and interrogated.

But for some reason, when facing Lu Yan, Senior Brother Wu felt vaguely uneasy, which prevented him from making a decision.

Senior Brother Wu's hesitant attitude immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of the yellow-robed monk.

Just as he was about to speak again, one of the seventeen fairy islands above the cave world suddenly began to fall slowly, with fairy light like rain and a golden rainbow turning into a bridge.

"It's Taiyi Sect!"

"This Lingyun Conference is actually hosted by Taiyi Sect."

"It is said that among the seventeen great sects of the Immortal Alliance, the Taiyi Sect's true disciple is the strongest. I just don't know which Taiyi True Disciple will be responsible for hosting this Lingyun Conference."

Just as everyone was talking about it, a cultivator stepped onto the Golden Rainbow Bridge and appeared at the top of the fairy island.

Everyone was stunned, because they could clearly see that the cultivator in front of them, wearing the purple robe of Taiyi Zhenchuan, was only in the initial stage of foundation building, and even his basic foundation was extremely weak, not even as good as some core disciples of the major sects.

"How could this be?"

"The Taiyi True Teachings for the initial stage of foundation building?"

“Could it be that the Taiyi Sect has no one left? They actually let a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator ascend to the position of True Transmission and even host the Lingyun Conference.”

"Silence! The disciples of Taiyi Sect will make their own decisions. You must not make any noise!"

Amidst the discussion among the crowd, only Lu Yan showed a look of surprise.

The person who hosted the Lingyun Conference was none other than He Dongsheng, who had a close relationship with Lu Yan.

As a true disciple of Taiyi Sect who is less than a hundred years old, He Dongsheng will naturally appear in the Great Collapse version along with the version update, and even rely on his position as a true disciple to become a high-level member of the League of Immortals.

Above the fairy island, He Dongsheng felt the hostile gazes of tens of thousands of foundation-building cultivators below, and his face turned slightly pale.

Ever since becoming Mu Chunqiu's apprentice, He Dongsheng has been doing well, and even with the help of Lu Yan, he was promoted to the level of Taiyi Zhenchuan.

There was much criticism within the Taiyi Sect about He Dongsheng's promotion, as they all believed that He Dongsheng, who relied on luck, was not worthy of being the true successor.

If the Tenth True Disciple had not insisted on protecting He Dongsheng, He Dongsheng would probably have been removed from his position as True Disciple at the True Disciple Conference.

As they entered this trial of heaven and earth, without the protection of their master Mu Chunqiu, Lu Yan also disappeared. He Dongsheng, who was only in the name of a true disciple in the early stage of foundation building, was even less taken seriously.

It is relatively better within Taiyi Sect. After all, He Dongsheng has been recognized by the Tenth True Disciple, and the First True Disciple personally teaches him the Dharma. At least the major True Disciple will not openly target He Dongsheng.

But this is not the place where Taiyi Sect has the final say. Outside Taiyi Sect, there are countless cultivators from the Ten Great Mysterious Sects and the Seven Great Sects of the Demonic Path who are trying to make a name for themselves by stepping on He Dongsheng's head, so as to gain the opportunity to be promoted to the true teachings.

As far as He Dongsheng knew, the reason why He Dongsheng hosted the Lingyun Conference this time was deliberately set up by people from the Red Lotus Demon Sect, who wanted to step on He Dongsheng to become famous.

Many people within Taiyi Sect have long been dissatisfied with He Dongsheng. After all, the resources that the true disciples of Taiyi Sect can obtain are the most among all the immortal sects, and its strength is also recognized as the first.

He Dongsheng's infiltration into the true sect tarnished the reputation of Taiyi True Sect, so many people acquiesced to the setup of the Red Lotus Demon Sect and wanted to add fuel to the fire to drive He Dongsheng out of the position of True Sect.

"I'm probably the only one who has been forced to this extent."

He Dongsheng smiled bitterly in his heart, but he could only bite the bullet and speak through the sound transmission array:

"The underground spiritual energy erupts once every three years. I will preside over the division of the spiritual energy at this spiritual energy conference."

As soon as the words fell, a foundation-building cultivator immediately refuted:

"You are just in the early stage of foundation building. What qualifications do you have to host the Lingyun Conference?"

"Please ask the real Tai Yizhen to come over."

"I didn't expect that the Taiyi Sect, which is known for its strict selection of true disciples, would have such a villain who relied on nepotism to rise to power."

"Get off! Get off!"

Normally, even if the foundation-building cultivators present were dissatisfied, they would not dare to confront Taiyi Sect's true teachings head-on.

But as those misleading whispers echoed among the crowd, emotions of anger and hatred spread quickly like a virus, turning into rolling waves that swept across the land.

The anger of tens of thousands of foundation-building monks disturbed He Dongsheng's inner demons, causing his movements to suddenly freeze. Even though he had a plan in his mind, he was unable to react at this moment.

"The Red Lotus Demon Sect's magical power of entanglement with karma!"

The magical power of being entangled in karma can transform people's resentment into karma. Even a Jindan Zhenren will feel disturbed and uneasy when facing the karma, and may go astray if not careful.

He Dongsheng is only in the initial stage of foundation building. Even with magic weapons protecting him, he can hardly resist the power of karma.

As time passed, He Dongsheng's face became paler. At this moment, on another fairy island, a young man in red clothes with extraordinary demeanor fell from the sky, exuding the pressure of a middle-stage Jindan.

The young man in red smiled at the pale He Dongsheng and asked softly:

"It seems that Junior Brother He is not familiar with such a big occasion. In this case, I will host this Lingyun Conference on your behalf. What do you think, Junior Brother He?"

He Dongsheng opened his mouth, but was powerless to refute.

At this moment, a familiar figure appeared in front of He Dongsheng.

Among the tens of thousands of people present, no one could see clearly how Lu Yan appeared.

Lu Yan looked up and down at the young man in red in front of him, then slowly raised his right hand and flexed his index finger.

A breath of the rule of destruction lingered on Lu Yan's index finger. In a trance, the young man in red seemed to see a prosperous realm collapse at Lu Yan's fingertips, and life, order, time and space fell silent in an instant.

The golden elixir magic weapon, supernatural powers, and protective spiritual light were shattered layer by layer, and the body of the young man in red heavily smashed towards the fairy island where the Red Lotus Demon Lord was.

The arrogant mid-stage Jindan cultivator was as insignificant as a mosquito that was easily flicked away by Lu Yan.

Then a careless voice sounded between heaven and earth, as if the power of heaven and earth drowned out the voices of tens of thousands of foundation-building cultivators.

"Who are you?"

(End of this chapter)