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Chapter 338 Ascending to Heaven in One Step

Lu Yan was not surprised by this at all.

Heaven is the foundation and core of the God mythology system.

This sacred heavenly world has now been forcibly dismembered by the suddenly appearing Heavenly Dao Ring, and hundreds of millions of souls that should have ascended to heaven have instead been thrown into the newly born underworld.

This would undoubtedly shake the stability and credibility of the myth of God from the root.

Under such circumstances, which are almost like a complete collapse, it is only natural that the intelligent God, who was originally suppressed by the real God to the point of almost being unable to breathe, would be able to take the opportunity to reclaim some of his own authority and power.

Moreover, the fate of the intelligent god had already been unknowingly and closely bound to Lu Yan.

He knew very well that if He did not intervene now to stop the true God from mending the cracks in the heavenly world, the final result awaiting Him would be that after the true God re-established heaven, He would continue to suffer that desperate process of assimilation.

Therefore, in Lu Yan's view, it was inevitable that the intelligent God would choose to act at this critical moment.

Of course, Lu Yan was also very clear that the fundamental purpose of the intelligent God's decision to help was to protect Himself.

Once the myth of God is completely dismantled and the real God is successfully expelled from this cyberpunk version, then for the intelligent God, His greatest enemy will immediately shift from that foreign real God to Lu Yan, who orchestrated all of this.

Therefore, what Lu Yan needs now is not to truly help the intelligent God completely expel the real God and drive this powerful alien deity out of this version.

What he needed more was to take advantage of this precious window of time when these two top beings were restraining each other, and to complete the newly formed underworld as soon as possible.

He will steadily transform all the benefits and power he has gained through this series of meticulous plans into the foundation and strength that he can control!

Accompanied by the celestial ring that stretches across the sky, it successfully forcibly separated a part of the heavenly world.

That relatively complete fragment of the Heavenly World, along with the immense energy and rules it contained, flowed continuously into the Underworld created by the Human Emperor's Banner, like rivers flowing into the sea.

In an instant, the entire underworld was expanding and evolving at an astonishing speed.

The original underworld, in terms of scale and resources, could at best be considered to have barely reached the level of a blessed land within the cultivation system.

Although it is a decent base, it is still quite far from being a true small world, relying only on the special system of the Divine Court of the Heavens.

But now, under the frenzied nourishment and replenishment of that vast collection of hundreds of millions of living beings' souls, as well as a portion of the primordial power of the Heavenly World.

This newly born underworld, like a rocket, soared to the top in one step, successfully leaping to the level of a true small world.

Its world's scope has expanded rapidly from a small area of ​​only about 400 kilometers in radius to a massive area of ​​5,000 kilometers in radius, like an inflating balloon.

Moreover, this expansion momentum seems far from reaching its limit, and it continues to extend into the vast unknown void at an astonishing speed.

A vast amount of pure and refined soul computing power, mixed with special rules that belong to the world and are full of order and reincarnation, is constantly intertwining, colliding and evolving in this new little world.

Ultimately, it coalesced into a thick and vast black earth, and towering mountain ranges that pierce the clouds.

Above the sky, the great black sun, which had not yet fully formed and exuded an aura of coldness and death, was radiating a light that was becoming brighter and deeper.

The radiance of the black sun continued to spread rapidly towards the outer regions of the small world, dispelling the endless void and chaos.

Fengdu City, located in the core area of ​​the entire underworld, was now emitting a series of thunderous roars.

As the core hub of the entire Netherworld and a key nexus for the future operation of the Divine Court Netherworld system, this Netherworld ghost city, entirely carved out of the mountains and filled with an ancient and majestic aura, is constantly growing and transforming along with the advancement of the entire Netherworld.

Those already towering and majestic black mountains now appear even more imposing and towering.

On the mountainside, the faint, indistinct yet majestic phantoms of celestial deities began to appear.

It's just like the immortal and indestructible Mount Buzhou in ancient myths and legends, which supports the operation of the entire universe.

The hundreds of millions of souls from heaven who unfortunately fell into this underworld gradually integrated into the new world's rules and order after the initial panic and confusion.

They themselves live in this cyberpunk world where technology and psionic energy coexist, and throughout their long lives, they have all come into contact with this extraordinary power of psionic energy to varying degrees.

This is especially true in recent years, after global corporations have intentionally or unintentionally loosened various restrictions on ordinary people's access to and practice of psychic powers in order to promote the God myth.

Among these hundreds of millions of souls, at least tens of millions were already qualified psionicists in their previous lives.

Their souls already possess potential far exceeding that of ordinary people.

Therefore, the moment they integrated into this brand-new underworld system and came into contact with the order and rules unique to the divine court underworld, they seemed to receive some kind of guidance and summons from the dark. Under the reflection and transformation of the divine court's order, they all became the most basic and the most numerous members in the underworld sequence.

The once somewhat empty and desolate Divine Court Underworld Transcendent System suddenly gained tens of millions of Sequence Nine Wandering Souls in just a few hours.

The addition of this unimaginably large force has infinitely broadened and solidified the foundation of the entire underworld system at this moment.

Anna, one of the key figures who orchestrated and planned all of this, is also currently in this underworld world undergoing earth-shattering changes.

Surprisingly, when she stepped back into this familiar underworld, the unique aura of technology and data that originally belonged to the Cyber ​​Holy Spirit on her body began to gradually fade and transform at a visible speed.

Instead, there is an ancient, purer, and more in line with the rules of the underworld, a chilling and majestic aura.

She seemed to have returned to that mysterious and eerie version, once again perfectly integrating into the divine court and underworld order and rules created by Lu Yan.

Back in the original Mysterious version, Anna had already successfully advanced to the rank of the Six Impermanent Yin General in the Underworld Path sequence through her own efforts and talent.

However, at this very moment, as countless souls from the Heavenly World plunged into the Underworld like rivers flowing into the sea, they were invisibly nourishing and strengthening the power of the entire Underworld pathway. As the nominal first person in the entire Underworld pathway, Anna naturally received the most direct and abundant power boost from this massive torrent of souls.

Her rank began to rise at an incredible, frantic pace.

Sequence Five: Judge of Karmic Fire! Can summon the crimson karmic fire that burns away all sins in the world, judge all spirits, and reverse cause and effect.
Sequence Four: Reincarnation Master! Possesses the secrets of life and death, reincarnation, can alter the destinies of mortals, open the gates of hell connecting the realms of Yin and Yang, and summon a hundred ghosts to roam at night.
Sequence Three: Acting on Behalf of Yama! Can act on behalf of Yama, bestow titles upon local city gods and land gods, wield power over a region of the underworld, and sever and manipulate the fortunes of heaven and earth.
Finally, the terrifying aura emanating from Anna gradually stabilized at the peak of the Sequence Three Yama's Substitute.

And she was only one step away from the true position of the supreme Ten Kings of Hell, which corresponded to her.

Even so, given her current status and strength as the acting Yama, she is still qualified to truly assume a portion of Yama's divine position and authority, becoming a pivotal figure in the underworld.

Although Anna was one of the biggest beneficiaries of this ascension process in the underworld, she was not the only beneficiary.

Within the original underworld system, there were still five powerful ghost gods and a legion of six thousand six hundred elite ghost soldiers and generals.

In this unprecedented wave of promotion that swept across the entire Divine Court and Underworld, the six thousand ordinary Yin soldiers who were originally only equivalent to the sixth-rank Impermanence Yin Marshal were all promoted to the fifth-rank Karmic Fire Judge.

His strength is already comparable to that of a Golden Core cultivator in the cultivation system.

The six hundred even more powerful ghost generals ascended to the rank of the fourth-order reincarnation registrar in one step.

His cultivation level is comparable to that of a Nascent Soul stage expert in the cultivation system, who is capable of founding a sect.

As for the five already powerful ghosts and gods, they took advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to completely break free from all previous constraints and shackles, and leaped up to the position of Acting Yama of the Third Rank, the same level as Anna.

With their current positions as Yama Kings, plus Anna, the newly appointed Yama King, acting as Yama King, six of the ten Yama Kings will be in the future Divine Court and Underworld.

Only now did the Pantheon, which symbolized the highest power center of the Divine Court and the Underworld, finally truly possess some of the legendary supreme majesty that ruled over all heavens and shook the universe.

However, if we were to say who benefited the most from this massive process of the ascension of the underworld, the one who would undoubtedly be Lu Yan himself, who planned and orchestrated it all.

The immense and unimaginable feedback power brought by the entire Divine Court Underworld transcendent system surged into his body like a flood bursting its banks.

The tens of millions of newly born Sequence Nine Wandering Souls, the six thousand Sequence Five Karmic Fire Judges whose strength is comparable to Golden Core, the six hundred Sequence Four Reincarnation Registrars whose cultivation is approaching Nascent Soul, and the six Yama Acting.

These newly emerging forces completely supported the vast underworld's extraordinary system.

As the ultimate beneficiary of all this, Lu Yan's own cultivation, which was originally the weakest among his many trump cards, is now breaking through at an almost insane speed, as if he were on a roller coaster.

His cultivation, which was originally at the peak of the Golden Core stage, broke through the bottleneck of the Nascent Soul stage in the blink of an eye.

And this momentum of breakthroughs is far from over.

In just a few breaths, his cultivation level had risen rapidly, directly reaching the peak of the Nascent Soul stage.

The Nascent Soul stage, a formidable barrier that had plagued countless cultivators, appeared so fragile and vulnerable in the face of Lu Yan's unimaginable accumulation and foundation.

With almost no pause, his cultivation level easily broke through the bottleneck of the Nascent Soul stage again, advancing rapidly to the mid-stage of the Void Refinement stage before finally coming to a slow stop.

The frenzied surge gradually subsided.

It should be understood that for ordinary cultivators, even if they are fortunate enough to refine a complete small world, it is almost a pipe dream to break through two major realms in succession by taking this opportunity.

Even just breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm requires immense luck and opportunity.

However, Lu Yan's current situation is fundamentally different from that of ordinary cultivators.

What he did this time was not simply to upgrade the underworld into a small world.

The countless souls that have been integrated into the underworld system are all native beings from this cyberpunk version, not some recreated creatures attached to the main god's small world.

This means that when this cyber version ends and undergoes version updates and iterations, the billions of souls that have been integrated into the underworld will also be updated and brought into the next brand new version.

Even if an ordinary strong person has reached the level of the only one in this world, they simply cannot fully carry over the impact they have caused in one version into the next brand new version.

These are the rules for version updates!
However, Lu Yan is different.

As the only unchanging entity among countless versions, Lu Yan is not only able to transcend versions, but also to alter and reverse the general trend of versions to a certain extent.

Just like how Anna, with his help, successfully ascended from an ordinary being in the mysterious version to a unique cyberpunk version of the Cyber ​​Holy Spirit.

The fundamental disruptive impact that Lu Yan has had on the Underworld system in this cyberpunk version will also be carried along with the wave of version updates to the next, and even the next, and even more distant future versions.

These hundreds of millions of souls, integrated into the concept of the underworld, will be like an indelible mark, continuing into countless future versions.

This terrifying ability, which is almost like tampering with the rules of the game, is something that even powerful divine courts like Heaven and the Heavenly Court cannot achieve.

This time, the hundreds of millions of beings forcibly abducted to the underworld are so numerous that they account for almost one-tenth of the total number of intelligent beings in the entire cyberpunk version.

Such a massive number nearly shook the very foundation of the entire version.

This means that once a version is updated, the influence of the Underworld will be forever etched into countless versions through information mapping. Even if the version rules are disturbed, the existence of the Divine Court and the Underworld at this moment cannot be erased.

He slowly raised his right hand and gently pressed his long index finger against the ancestral aperture between his eyebrows.

Some unknown spirituality seems to be conceived at this moment.

(End of this chapter)