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Chapter 246 A new era
Hundreds of true disciples present were staring at the Human Emperor Banner in Lu Yan's hand with shocked expressions.

The light of Heavenly Merit was majestic above the long black gold banner. Just by bathing in the light of Heavenly Merit, the rolling demonic energy around the seven sects of the Demonic Path dissipated for the most part.

Among them, those who practiced the evil magical powers of Jindan felt uneasy. The ghosts in their magic weapons were roaring and the bone demons were screaming. It seemed that the whole world was showing hostility towards them. The heavenly calamity from heaven could befall these evil practitioners at any time.

The Ten Thousand Souls Banner is well-known in the world of immortal cultivation. The method of refining it is notoriously harmful to the natural order. Once the banner is completed, one will suffer untold calamities.

At present, the aura of the Human Emperor Banner is so majestic and righteous, and it is most effective in restraining evil spirits. Even if Lu Yan took the initiative to claim that it is the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, I am afraid no one will believe it.

With the appearance of the Human Emperor Banner, the rumors about Lu Yan holding the Ten Thousand Souls Banner were naturally refuted.

But what followed was an extremely shocking truth revealed.

Zhenjun Chanfa was looking at the 6,600 ghost soldiers and generals lined up in neat formation behind Lu Yan. These ghost soldiers and generals were blessed with the merits of the Heavenly Dao and had transformed from ghosts into heroic spirits.

What's more important is that the aura of the ghost soldiers and generals is connected to the vast realm behind them. Even though Master Chanfa is in the early Nascent Soul stage, he is unable to see through the realm of the ghost soldiers and generals.

If so many evil soldiers and ghosts formed a killing array, even a Yuanying Zhenjun would die with hatred.

The young man holding the long banner magic weapon and the extremely powerful ghost soldiers and generals made Master Chanfa think of the turmoil that was circulating in the cultivation world a year ago.

At that time, dozens of medium-sized sects and families' Jindan Yuanying, in order to seek the treasures of the underworld, rashly imprisoned the underworld's representative in the world of immortal cultivation, and sent troops to hunt down the underworld's messengers.

This incident caused great turmoil. The messenger from the underworld returned strongly after disappearing for a while. With a wave of his hand, he summoned thousands of ghost soldiers and generals to strangle the golden elixir and Nascent Soul.

From the early stage of Golden Elixir to the great true monarch and great demon king at the peak of Nascent Soul, dozens of powerful men died at the hands of the messengers of the underworld.

Afterwards, he even confronted the natural disaster demon tide in Wushan, killing dozens of Nascent Soul Demon Kings alone. This angered the demon clan and they even sent out demon gods in the state of incarnation to try to find the trace of the messenger from the underworld.

But in the end, frightened by those ghosts and gods from the underworld, as well as the Lord of the Underworld who briefly appeared, the Demon God never dared to take action himself.

After the battle against the natural disaster and the demon tide, some people claimed that the messenger from the underworld was the first person below the god in the world of immortals.

Although many people believe that the messenger from the underworld is merely using the army of the underworld to show off his power, no one dares to deny this fact.

At this moment, Lu Yan displayed the mighty military force of the underworld, and this information immediately emerged in the minds of the three True Lords.

Inside the gauze curtain, Lord Shasheng no longer played around as usual, and his charming voice took on an unprecedented solemnity.

"Are you the messenger from the underworld?"

Lu Yan did not respond. He used the Human Emperor Banner in his hand to bless himself and his eyes calmly swept over the three Yuanying True Lords who were leading the group.

The seemingly calm eyes revealed a terrifying pressure that seemed to be the ups and downs of the world, which made the three Yuanying True Lords excited and subconsciously avoided Lu Yan's gaze.

Although there was no response, the terrifying pressure that seemed to penetrate into the soul still explained everything.

The entire cave world fell into silence for a moment.

The three Yuanying True Lords did not know that if the time were to go back to two days ago, the vast world constructed by the soul computing power on the Soul Continent could deter powerful enemies, but it was far from enough to make the three genius Yuanying dare not look Lu Yan in the face just by the pressure.

But in the past two days, the probability cloud, which serves as the core of Laplace's demon's omniscient calculations, has been completely integrated into the Soul Continent. Under the regulation of the probability cloud's rules, the Soul Continent has gradually taken shape as a small world.

In addition, there is a black sun of extremely high status in the sky above the Soul Continent. The probability cloud evolution starry sky has completely incorporated the black sun into the Soul Continent system, adding a bit of pressure to the Soul Continent at the level of status.

Although Lu Yan seems to be very powerful at the moment, in fact, only Lu Yan himself knows that he is just using the tiger's skin to pretend to be a big banner.

The three Yuanying True Disciples are definitely not ordinary Yuanying cultivators. Lu Yan may be able to use the army of the underworld to fight against one Yuanying True Lord at the moment, but if all three of them attack together, Lu Yan will have no chance of survival.

After establishing a deal with the Great Collapse of Heaven, Lu Yan had long understood that if he wanted to seize this opportunity to build the God Forging Court and achieve the Second Heavenly Dao, he must not take the usual path.

Lu Yan's own strength alone is definitely not enough to compete with the other eight powerful version forces, especially with Changshengtian watching secretly.

The first solution Lu Yan thought of was to borrow the power of the Alliance of Immortals.

As a force at the top of the Great Collapse Realm, the League of Immortals is not as strong as other forces in terms of peak combat power, but the methods of its cultivators can be said to be endless.

Especially the method of changing life at the same time, which can naturally restrain some version forces with lower lifespans. Once he can use the power of the League of Immortals, the possibility of Lu Yan completing the transaction and destroying ten version forces will be greatly increased.

However, it is not an easy task to take advantage of the power of the Alliance of Immortals.

The League of Immortals is originally a loose alliance united under the threat of external forces. Not only is there a struggle between good and evil within it, but there is also constant struggle within the sects of both sides.

Lu Yan is just a true disciple of Taiyi Sect. He cannot even guarantee his right to speak within Taiyi Sect, let alone rely on the power of the entire League of Immortals.

If one wants to influence the entire League of Immortals, one must either accumulate prestige over time or use absolute strength to shock the entire League of Immortals.

Lu Yan could not do the former, nor did he have the ability to do the latter.

But Lu Yan knew very well that in order to intimidate the monks of the Immortal Alliance, it was not necessary to show strong strength. You just needed to make everyone think that you were strong.

Lu Yan made a big fuss about the Red Lotus Demon Sect wanting to step on He Dongsheng to gain power, just to naturally reveal his identity as the messenger from the underworld.

In the apocalyptic version, Lu Yan slaughtered many extraordinary people and corpse kings. In the fairy-xia version, he slaughtered Yuanying Zhenjun and demon kings, disrupting the entire world of immortal cultivation. He had already made a great reputation.

In the Great Collapse version, Lu Yan relied on his magical powers to destroy a large number of satellite-level war fortresses, which were all evidence of Lu Yan's strength.

Lu Yan didn't need to take any action, just relying on these powerful achievements was enough to overwhelm all the voices of dissatisfaction.

The moment the three Yuanying True Lords took the initiative to avoid Lu Yan's sight, Lu Yan clearly realized that his plan had been half successful.

The vast Soul Continent hangs high above the sky, with six thousand six hundred ghost soldiers lined up in formation, and the entire cave world is eerily silent.

No one would doubt whether Lu Yan has the strength to suppress the entire Immortal Alliance.

Even if the Ten Thousand Spirits Array is activated, it may not be able to fight against the army of the underworld from another world.

Chanfa Zhenjun, who already had something to hide, tried even harder to suppress his inner thoughts, fearing that Lu Yan would notice something.

As for the people from the Red Lotus Demon Sect, their faces were as pale as if they had lost their parents.

They never imagined that things would develop to this point.

After a long period of dead silence, Lu Yan finally spoke and broke the silence in the cave world.

"I'm very disappointed in you."

Lu Yan's voice spread throughout the world along with the aura of the Human Emperor.

"Before coming to the Great Collapse Realm, I went to meet a man named Jiang Zhiwei and made a deal with him."

The disciples from all the major sects showed doubts and asked each other in a low voice:

"Who is Jiang Zhiwei?" "Have you heard of Jiang Zhiwei?"

“Could it be a certain Nascent Soul True Lord who has gone into hiding, or a Divine Transformation Dao Lord?”

Even the three True Lords with the highest status, Chanfa, Yunlu and Shasheng, frowned in confusion.

Lu Yan took in everyone's expressions and said in a calm tone:
“I almost forgot, you don’t know his real name.

But he has another title that you may have heard of."

"The first true teaching of Taiyi Sect!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of the many Jindan Yuanying present suddenly changed, and there was disbelief on their faces.

"How can it be!"

"It would be fine if I just wanted to meet the First True Disciple, but to make a deal with the First True Disciple, even if the Underworld Messenger is invincible below the level of Divine Transformation, he is not qualified to do so!"

"That is the first true teaching, the first true teaching that once killed the evil demons of the outsiders with a sword. Just a trace of turbid air that leaked out turned into a huge turbid forbidden area."

“Although the records of various sects have never called the First True Transmitter an Immortal, even the group of Immortals have already tacitly acknowledged the First True Transmitter’s status.”

Especially Master Chanfa, his expression was extremely ugly.

The longer you sit in the position of Taiyi True Transmission, the clearer you will be about what the First True Transmission is like.

He ascended the throne of the True Disciple at the age of fifty. He had never seen the First True Disciple once in fifty years, and he had very little contact with the first ten True Disciples, because they had already left the mundane realm long ago. Even the Divine Transformation Taoist was not worth mentioning in the eyes of the first ten True Disciples.

The fact that Lu Yan was able to make a deal with the First True Disciple was completely beyond the imagination of Master Chanfa.

True Lord Chanfa immediately looked at True Lord Shasheng's chariot, and True Lord Yunlu made the same move.

Although the True Lord of Killing is named after killing, he was born in the Heavenly Demon Sect and has practiced the Heavenly Demon's method of confusing the mind. He also possesses a broken magical treasure called the True Word Order.

The Truth Word Order can identify lies, even those truths that are misleading. Even a Taoist master who has reached the state of being a deity can only block the Truth Word Order and cannot deceive this incomplete spiritual treasure.

Inside the gauze tent, True Lord Shasheng had already taken out the incomplete magic treasure and said in a hoarse voice:
"it is true."

What Lu Yan said was true. Before entering the Great Collapse Realm, he really made a deal with the First True Conveyor.

The three Yuanying Zhenjuns' breathing stagnated, and the look in their eyes when they looked at Lu Yan had changed from fear to awe.

Lu Yan silently watched the actions of the three Yuanying True Lords. There was nothing wrong with the reaction of the True Word Order, because what Lu Yan said was true. He did make a deal with Jiang Zhiwei.

This deal was even proposed by Jiang Zhiwei, who allowed Lu Yan to enter the Great Collapse Realm on the condition of eradicating the Changsheng Tianzun's back-up plan.

Thinking of this, Lu Yan suddenly realized something.

The deal that Jiang Zhiwei mentioned was just to allow Lu Yan to enter the Great Collapse Realm, without any other requirements.

"When Jiang Zhiwei proposed the deal, he had already anticipated that I would use his name as a shield, so he didn't mention the specific content of the deal?"

Such a thought flashed through Lu Yan's mind.

Amid the shock of many disciples, Lu Yan spoke again:

"The Immortal Alliance has wasted tens of thousands of years in the Great Collapse Realm. Although there are a large number of rare resources here, this world has undergone drastic changes. The Immortal Alliance must make changes."

Lu Yan did not claim that this was the content of the deal with Jiang Zhiwei, but in the eyes of others, these words of Lu Yan were the content of the deal between him and Jiang Zhiwei.

After hesitating for a while, Yunlu Zhenjun asked:
"May I ask the messenger from the underworld, what kind of changes are these?"

"It's very simple!" Lu Yan looked sharply at the entire cave world and said loudly:

"The Immortal Alliance will begin preparations for war from today, vowing to drive these old enemies out of the Great Collapse Realm!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the whole place was in an uproar.

If Lu Yan had not established prestige through his own battle record and the deal with Jiang Zhiwei, this one sentence alone would have been enough for the entire Immortal Alliance to expel Lu Yan from the Cave Heaven World.

The Immortal Alliance is already surrounded by powerful enemies, and taking the initiative to start a war now is tantamount to digging its own grave.

Even if Lu Yan really has invincible strength below the level of God Transformation and can fight against many versions of forces, he will definitely not be able to expel these forces from the Great Collapse Realm.

Because in this world, the existence of the core territory is an irrefutable truth, and even a powerful alliance like the Immortal Alliance at its peak cannot destroy the weakest version of the force.

As long as the core rules exist, there is no possibility of truly destroying the version forces and expelling them from the Great Collapse Realm.

The eyes of many true disciples began to change. They started to whisper, doubting whether the First True Disciple could really make such a ridiculous deal?

At this moment, Lu Yan loosened his right hand that was tightly holding the Human Emperor Banner, reached into the storage space, and took out an item.

It was a broken scepter full of technology, cut entirely from silver-white metal. It looked like a special key, but only half of it was left.

Everyone's attention was attracted by the scepter in Lu Yan's hand.

“This item is called the Key of Omnics. It is the key to activate the Omnic City and also the symbol of the highest power in the Omnic City.

At this moment, the Omnic City has been destroyed, and the scepter that symbolizes the highest authority in the Omnic City has become a piece of scrap metal."

As he finished speaking, Lu Yan loosened his grip and let the Key of the Artificial Intelligence fall to the ground.

“Not only the Intelligent City, but also the core territory to which the Intelligent City belongs has been destroyed from the root.

All the defenders guarding the Smart City have evacuated, and the Omniscient Mechs have fled with the remaining war fortresses to a more remote and desolate area. Smart City no longer exists!"

"If you have any doubts about this, you can go to the Intelligent City to find out."

There was no movement in the Mantra Order, and the meaning it represented caused all the true disciples to fall silent again.

This time, no one denied Lu Yan's order to prepare for war.

Everyone was looking at Lu Yan. He stood under the sky, his figure seeming to cover the entire world.

At that moment, he seemed no longer to be a young monk, but some kind of existence beyond the world, proclaiming an irreversible truth.

“I declare that a new era has arrived!”

(End of this chapter)