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Chapter 262 A glimmer of hope

The Fragment of the Immortal Hero Version is the only medium between the Immortal Hero Version and the Great Collapse Version.

In the previous version, Changsheng Tianzun's Xuanpin Gate was shattered by Jiang Zhiwei's sword, conceptually erasing all traces of Changsheng Tianzun left in the Xianxia version, which can be said to have been a major blow.

Jiang Zhiwei revealed that the Eternal Celestial Venerable is suspected to be the only one in this world who has had contact with the Xianxia version, and has received teachings from the immortals. He can be said to be the enemy of the entire immortals.

Even after the Great Collapse version was laid out and a wisp of will projection was sent down, the Eternal Celestial Venerable was still wary of Jiang Zhiwei and the immortals behind the fragments of the Xianxia version.

Although Jiang Zhiwei claimed that he could not interfere with the Great Collapse version and did not even know the specifics of the Great Collapse version, how could the Eternal Heavenly Venerable believe him?

If Jiang Zhiwei were to unleash another sword strike, even the Eternal Heavenly Venerable, as the only one in this world to have transcended several versions, would find it difficult to withstand such a wound.

As long as the fragments of the Xianxia version remain intact, even if the Celestial Venerable of Immortality were to project his will, he would not dare to truly attack Lu Yan.

However, the Celestial Venerable of Longevity had other plans. When He first descended, He sensed that the Great Collapse Heavenly Dao had not yet fully recovered, and His Heavenly Dao Favor also descended upon Lu Yan. He knew that Lu Yan would definitely destroy the version fragments and release the Great Collapse Heavenly Dao in the future.

Therefore, the Eternal Celestial Venerable used a counter-strategy, devouring numerous version fragments to create an opportunity for Lu Yan to threaten the major version forces while simultaneously sending down more projections of will.

Even a little over a month ago, the demon army of Changshengtian wiped out a version faction that had escaped a version fragment, all in order to allow Lu Yan to gather consensus among the various versions more quickly and destroy all version fragments as soon as possible.

The moment the rules of world destruction completely destroyed the fragments of the Xianxia version, all cause and effect were already set in stone.

With the appearance of the Eternal Heaven, the power that had been obscuring Lu Yan's true spirit began to fade, allowing Lu Yan to glimpse the truth.

"What a deep scheme! What a ruthless calculation!"

Lu Yan was deeply moved, and he could no longer remain calm.

The most crucial point of the Celestial Venerable of Immortality's scheme this time was that he perfectly exploited Lu Yan's greed and desire to survive.

They thought destroying the version fragments was a way out, but little did they know that this was the true purpose of the Eternal Celestial Venerable.

Everything happened in the blink of an eye. Lu Yan only had time to figure out the reasons behind the whole thing before the Eternal Heaven, reflected in the sky above the Great Collapse version, changed again.

Above the sky, the phantom of the Eternal Heaven emitted a deep halo, enveloping the entire realm in an ancient and mysterious aura.

Immediately, the boundary between light and shadow began to distort, and countless streams of light fell from the crack, like a shower of stars descending to earth.

Those streaks of light were not real stars, but tens of thousands of terrifying demons.

The demons streaked across the sky, their long, luminous tails trailing behind them. Their descent was not chaotic, but rather followed a mysterious trajectory, as if their future had been anchored by some unseen, supreme power.

A tremendous roar resounded throughout the heavens and earth, space began to crack and the laws of nature became disordered, and the very origin of the Great Collapse Realm was forcibly distorted at this moment.

The primordial energy of heaven and earth in the Great Collapse Realm began to become violent and restless, and the originally calm and flowing earth veins surged and undulated like a frightened dragon.

Wherever those demons landed, the earth cracked, forming bottomless ravines from which black chaotic energy surged, devouring all life in the surrounding area.

"How can there be so many demons?"

Above the city built by the Immortal Alliance, powerful figures from several versions gathered and raised incredulous questions.

Those demons that fell from the Eternal Heaven to the earth each possessed at least the cultivation level of the Golden Core Realm. Even searching the entire Great Collapse Realm wouldn't be enough to gather tens of thousands of Golden Core experts.

The fact that a single faction like the Eternal Heaven could gather so many Golden Core demons is enough to make the powerful figures of all other factions tremble.

"No! Look closely, these demons have obvious spacetime distortions around them, and the flow of time on their bodies is different from that of the outside world!"

Suddenly, a powerful figure in the crowd exclaimed.

The powerful figures from all versions looked in the direction of the sound and then revealed expressions of sudden realization.

"It's time freezing! The Eternal Heaven left behind a special object that can freeze time countless years ago."

Before reaching the age of one hundred, beings that enter the Great Collapse Realm will be sealed in a field of time stagnation, causing their age to remain forever at that moment.

It is precisely through the accumulation of thousands, even tens of thousands of years, that the Eternal Heaven has been able to release so many Golden Core demons!

However, even if we understood the reasons now, it would be of no value.

At least until the end of this great battle, these Golden Core demons will not reach their lifespan limit, and the powerful figures of each version will still have to face a massive army of Golden Core demons.

A jet-black meteor, imbued with an eerie aura, streaked across the sky and crashed down upon magnificent cities, instantly igniting a war that engulfed the entire Great Collapse Realm.

In the newly destroyed cave world, a colossal demon, hundreds of feet tall, fell from the sky, like a giant monument awakened from ancient times, tearing countless Dao patterns into the surrounding void, causing the heavens and earth to tremble.

The upper body of this demon resembled a bodhisattva seated in a crouching posture, its skeleton covered with countless scarlet eyes, each harboring a resentment that was almost tangible.

The lower half of this enormous demon was formed from countless drifting black mists. These mists were not ordinary mists, but rather hundreds of millions of tiny Gu worms that seemed capable of devouring all living beings.

This incredibly bizarre demon was none other than the Skeleton Bodhisattva, the Thousand-Eyed Witch Ancestor, and the Myriad Gu Mist, who had once ambushed and killed Lu Yan.

The three powerful demons who were originally at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage have now merged into one. With the combined power of the three who have reached the peak of the Great Collapse Realm, the aura of this peerless demon has reached the Divine Transformation Realm.

Unlike the true gods in the Kingdom of Gods, who rely on faith and a flawed divine kingdom to unleash their divine power, this peerless demon before them has truly crossed the boundary between mortals and gods.

When demons descend, the void trembles, the laws of nature are disrupted, and the spiritual energy between heaven and earth is forcibly twisted into strange vortexes.

The hundred-foot-tall demonic body emitted a metallic ringing sound from its bones, and countless scarlet eyes turned simultaneously, locking onto Lu Yan below.

The skeletal bodhisattva chanted demonic scriptures, syllables that could not be described by human language, spitting out from the skull's mouth.

The demonic chant was filled with endless resentment towards Lu Yan. If Lu Yan hadn't triggered the rules of world destruction that day and severely injured the three great demons, would they have been forced to give up their own selves and merge into one?
The evil intentions of the three powerful enemies transformed into the purest killing intent, attacking Lu Yan.

"The Underworld!"

Faced with the terrifying power of the Nascent Soul Realm, Lu Yan did not hesitate at all and immediately chanted the name of the Underworld. The Human Emperor Banner fell into his palm, and a complete small world was about to break through the world and descend into the Great Collapse Realm.

Faced with the demons in disguise, both the army of the underworld and Lu Yan's Xuanpin Gate became utterly vulnerable.

Under absolute suppression of realm, Lu Yan could only use his most trump card, the Netherworld Small World that had once annihilated a True God.

The void above shattered, revealing a vast underworld, as if a huge hole had been forcibly torn open in the sky.

Through the cracks in the void, one can vaguely glimpse the endless mountains formed by the aura of the Human Emperor, and the surging, ceaseless flow of the Yellow Springs water.

This vast little world pressed down on the Nascent Soul demon, and the aura of the Human Emperor rose from the mountains, as if the mountains were gathering into shackles to drag the Nascent Soul demon into them.

The shackles were not physical objects, but rather the tangible manifestation of the Human Emperor's rules, bearing the infinite weight of the entire small world.

As long as it is dragged into the Netherworld, even a powerful demon god can only be obliterated by the rules of the Yellow Springs Water and return to the most primordial nothingness. But the moment Lu Yan revealed his trump card, the Eternal Heaven reflected in the sky trembled slightly, and its size, which was ten or even a hundred times larger than the Netherworld, sealed off the void.

The void rift torn open by the Emperor's Banner healed instantly. No matter how the artifact of Heavenly Merit was activated, the Netherworld could not be made to reappear.

The entire world has been taken over by the Eternal Heaven.

Freed from the constraints of the Netherworld, the countless scarlet eyes on the Nascent Soul demon lit up simultaneously, shooting out thousands of blood-red beams of light, each powerful enough to turn mountains into dust. The Gu worms in the Myriad Gu Mist emitted a faint buzzing sound, like the whispers of death, bewitching the mind.

With a life-or-death crisis looming, Lu Yan could no longer afford to worry about anything else.

"Heavenly Dao!"

The two words that Lu Yan uttered seemed to pierce through the barriers of time and space, echoing in every corner of the Great Collapse Realm.

Like a majestic decree falling, the Great Collapse of the Heavenly Dao manifested between heaven and earth.

It was not a physical entity, but rather the supreme will representing the order of the version. Countless golden patterns appeared in the void, like the meridians of heaven and earth being lit up one by one. They intertwined to form a vast and boundless map of the Heavenly Dao, covering the entire Great Collapse Realm.

In the previous version of Honkai Impact, the rules were chaotic. Whichever faction occupied a territory could spread the rules of that faction's fragments. This chaos and disorder made it difficult to maintain in the long run, which resulted in the absence of a complete and unified set of rules in the version of Honkai Impact.

As the Great Collapse Heavenly Dao broke free from the suppression of countless version fragments and fully manifested, everything changed.

At this moment, the primordial energy of heaven and earth became exceptionally active, and the rules within the Great Collapse Domain were boiling. The originally chaotic and disordered fragments of rules began to spontaneously converge towards a center.

Mountains, rivers, plants, living beings, and even the void itself trembled at this moment, as all things reverently welcomed the unprecedented birth of the Heavenly Dao.

Suppressed by countless fragments of rules for tens of thousands of years, this is the first time in this version that the Heavenly Dao has descended. It is an indescribable majesty and solemnity, as if an ancient and enduring will has finally awakened, ready to take control of the world's course once again.

In the center of that vast and boundless Heavenly Dao diagram, Lu Yan's figure appeared incredibly small, yet he was completely integrated with it. He was no longer Lu Yan, but the embodiment of the Heavenly Dao, the manifestation of the rules, and the executor of order.

At this moment, he transcended the constraints of the mortal realm and faced the demon god in a near-primitive manner.

This was one of the deals between Lu Yan and the Great Collapse Heavenly Dao, allowing the Great Collapse Heavenly Dao to descend into the world. Then, Lu Yan, imitating the urban version, completed the act of replacing Heaven with man, borrowing the Great Collapse Heavenly Dao with his own power.

This is Lu Yan's greatest reliance in resisting the projection of the will of the Eternal Heavenly Venerable.

His cold gaze fell upon the earth, encompassing all things and beings in the world. Even the hundred-foot-tall Nascent Soul demon, which had gathered three great demons, was nothing more than a straw dog in Lu Yan's eyes at this moment.

"Punish!"

A single, simple word, yet it contains the purest power in the universe—order and rules.

The moment this word was uttered, heaven and earth trembled, and all paths bowed down. The magnificent Heavenly Dao diagram suddenly shrank, transforming into a golden lightning bolt that struck directly at the Nascent Soul demon.

The once menacing demon god turned to fear, and the hundreds of scarlet eyes filled with bones revealed an unprecedented panic.

Even though his own power has surpassed the limits of the Great Collapse version, he is still as fragile as an ant under the Heavenly Dao.

"Heavenly Venerable! Heavenly Venerable!"

The demonic beings ceased chanting the demonic scriptures and shouted loudly, their voices like a call that transcended time and space, attempting to awaken a being slumbering in the Eternal Heaven.

The skeleton of the Bodhisattva trembled, and the eyes of the Thousand-Eyed Witch Ancestor all looked up at the sky. The mist of ten thousand Gu swirled and danced, forming a strange resonance that pushed the call to the depths of time and space.

At the same time, tens of thousands of demons scattered throughout the Great Collapse Realm also chanted the name of the Heavenly Venerable in a loud voice. The voices of countless demons intertwined, forming a strange and powerful rhythm, like the most primal prayer in the world.

"Heavenly Venerable!"

"Heavenly Venerable!"

Countless chants broke through the barriers of version boundaries, reaching the other side of time and space.

At that moment, Lu Yan seemed to see the threads of fate unfolding before his eyes, and the truth hidden behind layers of fog.

The next moment, in the reflection of the Eternal Heaven in the sky, an unimaginably huge hand slowly emerged. The hand was so large that it seemed capable of containing the sea of ​​stars and destroying the world.

The lines on his palm seem to show the submission of all realms, with each line reflecting countless great principles, and a profound and mysterious great will bearing them.

Even the newly born Great Collapse Heavenly Dao was no match for this unimaginable giant hand.

The Heavenly Dao Chart collapsed, and the myriad rules gathered there were suppressed by its palm, like a firefly facing the vast starry sky.

The Eternal Heaven, as a fragment of the version, still exists and occupies the rules of the Great Collapse version. This means that the newly revived Heavenly Dao is not complete and has not truly controlled the Great Collapse version.

The underworld, a miniature world, where humans replace the heavens—this was originally Lu Yan's last trump card, but everything had already been incorporated into the calculations of the Eternal Heavenly Venerable.

The suppression of the Netherworld by the Eternal Heaven and the giant hand that seemed to be from the heavens suppressing the Heavenly Dao were all part of the carefully woven threads of fate for Lu Yan.

Everything had been planned from the moment the Eternal Heavenly Venerable projected his will, and Lu Yan could neither break free nor escape.

The Heavenly Dao state that Lu Yan had entered by substituting himself for Heaven was gradually dissipating, and his seemingly omnipotent power was also waning, like dust falling to the earth.

Above the heavens, only the newly born Great Collapse Heavenly Dao remains, attempting to restore order and resist the hand of the heavens.

Having lost their version fragments, the powerful beings who had become native inhabitants roared to the heavens, slaughtering demons. Above the sky, the rules of the Great Collapse version transformed into thunderbolts that continuously bombarded the Eternal Heaven.

This was the last struggle of the Great Collapse Heavenly Dao, and everything seemed to be in vain.

Under the cover of Heaven's Dao, in a place unknown to anyone, Lu Yan slowly opened his palm, a wisp of Yin and Yang energy intertwined in his palm.

The moment the Great Collapse Heavenly Dao manifested, Lu Yan used the Heavenly Dao's concealment to take away the last wisp of world-destroying rules left behind after the destruction of the cave world.

As soon as he realized that his true spirit was being deceived, Lu Yan knew that all his schemes had been incorporated into the Longevity Celestial Venerable's plan.

Like a meticulously designed game of chess, where every move is predictable, how could one possibly defeat the Celestial Venerable of Immortality?
Lu Yan's only chance of survival is to introduce an external force that the Celestial Venerable of Immortality had not anticipated, in which way he can hope to break the deadlock.

Looking across this world, the only external force outside of the calculations of the Celestial Venerable of Immortality is the Seed of Supreme Divine Power!
Lu Yan had not forgotten that when he decided to destroy the fragments of various versions in the order they were placed, he initially planned to target the Xianxia version first.

If things had gone according to the original plan, the Eternal Heaven would have descended to earth the moment the fragments of the Xianxia version were destroyed. At that time, the Great Collapse Heavenly Dao had not yet been fully formed, and the rules of world destruction in Lu Yan's hands were also incomplete, making it almost certain death.

It wasn't until the Seed of Supreme Divine Power suddenly underwent a strange change that caught Lu Yan's attention, causing him to abandon his initial idea and prepare to start with the fragments from smaller versions.

The mutation of the Seed of Supreme Divine Power was not without reason. Now, recalling when Lu Yan was blinded by the True Spirit, only the Seed of Supreme Divine Power broke through the illusion of the Eternal Heavenly Venerable and gave Lu Yan a glimmer of hope.

This was an external force that the Celestial Venerable of Immortality had never anticipated, and a cause and effect that even Lu Yan had never realized.

That is why Lu Yan placed his last hope on the Seed of Supreme Divine Power.

Lu Yan intends to seize this opportunity to break the seed of supernatural power with the rules of world destruction and obtain the supreme supernatural power!
(End of this chapter)