This is not an MMO game copy

"As far as I can remember, the last immortal emperor on earth was Emperor Hong of the Youxiong clan. He later became the Central Heavenly Emperor, and I'm not Guangchengzi..."

"So what are you going to do?"

"...Naturally, we're imitating Zhang Tianshi's story of clearing mountains, destroying temples, and exorcising the six heavenly ghosts. The current environment of this 'copy' world is destined to lead to the extinction of the extraordinary. The mythological era is long gone, and the heavens and the underworld have disappeared. In the Inuyasha movie, Penglai Island is devoid of immortals and has instead become a refuge for mortals and half-demons. It was even invaded by several great monsters at will, and they were powerless to fight back. It's clear that this major trend is unchangeable."

Xia Yan said:

"You never know. A monster like Douya Wang, who cultivated a true body as huge as a mountain in his lifetime, died suddenly and inexplicably due to a series of accidents. This is also an inevitable result of the general trend of extraordinary extinction. Even if I have Monkey Brother to protect me, I don't intend to fight such a fate head-on - so, having someone to act as a shield is the best!"

"what?"

"After all, he is the Son of Heaven. If there is any trouble, they will only look for the Zhu family first. By the time they find me, I will have already retired and run away."

"You are such a despicable person!"

"I only deceived the emperor, but I am nothing compared to someone who takes a flower and deceives other travelers on the road, saying that it can bring good luck and then sells it for money."

"That person is not me."

"How dare you say you don't have this part of your memory!"

"..."

After retorting to the piece of shit, Xia Yan picked up the Yongle Encyclopedia that Zhu Yuanyu had sent to move, which contained the Yin-Yang, medicine, divination, Buddhism, Taoism, etc., the original copy that would be burned during the Wanli period, and began to read through it. It contained the ancestral cultivation methods and various classics of various schools in the Central Plains of this "copy" world.

For at least the next three years, he will have to stay in this ancient society and continue to travel throughout the territory of the Ming Dynasty. He has a lot of things to do, and time is very precious and cannot be wasted.

The ones he looked through first were the "Zhengyi Weimeng Talisman" inherited from the Tianshi Mansion in Longhu Mountain, the "True Spirit Position Chart" inherited from Maoshan Sect's founder Tao Hongjing, and the "Shangqing Lingbao Dafa - Huanglu Dazhai Jiao Shen List" inherited from Donghua Sect's founder Ning Quanzhen...

......By the way, it’s a pity that the "Taiping Jing" could not be passed down.

Afterwards, Xia Yan read the ancestral skills of Longhu Mountain, Maoshan School and Donghua School in the translation and analysis provided by [Wugui's Error], while summoning [Conceptual Gift - Divine Whip] from the magic weapon page, and began to use his magic power to temper and strengthen the spirituality of this magic weapon.

(PS: Updates will be made as normal tonight... and, you should be able to guess what the protagonist is going to do~!... Also, why is redi considered a banned word again... What a magical banned word library!)

Third instance: 94. Artificial Virtual Heaven and Privileged Realm of Thought [Heavenly Law] (4k+)

Is three years a long time?

At the beginning, Xia Yan thought it was very long.

A total of more than a thousand days and nights, three cycles of spring, summer, autumn and winter, which is much longer than the length of his previous two "copies" and the interval between the two "copies" combined.

After all, he had only been in the first 'copy' for over half a month, and only a few days in the second 'copy' participating in the Romanian Holy Grail War.

Therefore, three years would seem very long to him. Even if he had a lot of things to do, more than a thousand days and nights would be difficult to endure, not to mention that with the productivity of ancient society, there was not even paper to wipe one's butt. He could not achieve complete fasting at present, so it was not surprising that he felt a little uncomfortable... But he was wrong.

By the time Xia Yan came to his senses from the busyness of his life, time had already flown by, and in the blink of an eye he had spent a year in this "copy" world.

What made him realize that he had been there for more than three hundred days without noticing was that he was traveling back and forth between the various prefectures in the Central Plains and the capital of Shuntian Prefecture with the official seal of the Daolu Si appointed by a mysterious emperor who practiced Taoism, while at the same time he was practicing the way of ghost immortals, trying the visualization method of the Monkey King, and asking for the ancestral cultivation techniques and classics of various schools in the Central Plains from Zhu Yuanyu, which were collected by the old Zhu family.

Then, one day after returning to the capital and dealing with Zhu Yuanyu, who had been tricked by him into cultivating into a ghost immortal, he went out to take a look and saw that the entire capital was bustling with activity in a blanket of silver. Whether it was the residences of dignitaries or the homes of ordinary people, Spring Festival couplets were posted on them all, and even the streets and alleys were hung with colorful lanterns, and a grand lantern festival was being held.

Only then did Xia Yan realize that a whole year had passed since he had stayed in this 'copy' world.

Then, looking back, he saw the human-machine monkey that had been following him from beginning to end, with an indifferent expression that had not changed at all.

There was silence for a long time.

"...Holding onto a thigh is indeed a good thing, but this thigh is too big, and it is inevitable that it is too bland and boring."

Xia Yan let out a sigh.

During the past year in this 'copy' world, he had lived a fulfilling but dull life, not as urgent as the previous two 'copy' worlds.

All this is thanks to the fact that the human-machine monkey, as an intelligent NPC teammate, is so superb in the world view of Inuyasha's plot that he doesn't need to care about the original plot direction at all, and even jumps out of the main process of the "copy", messing up the original plot.

As a result, he no longer felt the urgency to complete the 'copy' and was able to freely explore the 'copy' world and do what he wanted.

But Xia Yan also knew in his heart that all this could not last forever.

Therefore, he was so busy practicing martial arts and refining magic weapons that he forgot about time.

Until now.

"Brother Monkey, is this how the gods view days and time?"

Xia Yan muttered to himself to the human-machine monkey:

"Immersed in my own affairs, by the time I regain awareness of the changes in the outside world, it seems like only a year has passed, but the world has already changed dramatically."

The human-machine monkey did not respond.

As an intelligent NPC teammate, as long as the mechanism of assisting in combat is not triggered, he will not have any unnecessary actions other than following.

Of course, He should also react accordingly to certain things based on His original "memories", but it is obvious that in this "copy" world, there are no people or things that can make Him react specifically based on His original "memories".

Xia Yan didn't expect the human-machine monkey to respond.

After explaining what he thought.

He flew over Shuntian Prefecture on his sword, looking down at how people living in the Ming Dynasty celebrated the New Year in the ancient society five hundred years ago.

I just watched quietly for a whole day.

Then, Xia Yan closed his eyes and waved his hand. The flying sword under his feet instantly turned into a green light and flew back into his hand. However, before he could start free fall under the action of gravity, he immediately felt a buoyancy appear out of thin air under his feet and lifted himself up.

Xia Yan opened his eyes and looked down.

I found myself standing on a flowing gauze-like body, with clouds and mist surging like snowy waves. Fine rays of light flowed between the cloud patterns, as if thousands of rays of morning light were woven into them, sometimes soft and fluffy, sometimes gathering and dispersing like the tide...

...It took a year for the [Great Holy Grail] and [The Error of No Return] to finally successfully analyze and collect all the information about the somersault cloud under the human-machine monkey's feet. After importing the existing information into the Rider job framework, even if it still couldn't achieve a 1:1 replica, a low-spec copy of the somersault cloud was still created.

Although he couldn't somersault and cover a distance of 108,000 miles in an instant, he could fly into the sky and hide underground on clouds without any problem, and his speed was no slower than flying with a sword.

It even inherited a small part of the characteristics of the somersault cloud, and could achieve instant movement within a certain range by consuming mana, which should be barely considered a common cloud-flying technique in the classical immortal cultivation system.

Of course, his unorthodox method of practicing the ability to fly in the clouds cannot be considered orthodox.

In the past year, Xia Yan had come up with more unorthodox methods than just this low-end copycat version of the somersault cloud.

After making sure he could stand firmly on the ground, Xia Yan raised his hand, with the back of his hand facing down and his palm facing up. Along with a brilliant golden glow, a small and exquisite nine-story pavilion-style stone tower about one foot high appeared in his hand.

Then, he began to climb higher on a cheap copycat version of the somersault cloud. The capital of Shuntian Prefecture on the ground gradually became smaller and smaller, until it was completely hidden by the clouds and could no longer be seen. At this time, Xia Yan had already risen into the troposphere at an altitude of ten thousand meters.

Then, he threw the exquisite stone tower in his hand up and sacrificed it. The stone tower quickly grew larger in the face of the strong wind and turned into a stone tower more than ten meters high.

This is the [Great Holy Grail].

After a year of refining, and with the cooperation of the spirit of the artifact, Justisisa, in modifying the function of the [Great Holy Grail] internally, this magic weapon has already acquired some of the charm that Xia Yan had originally envisioned.

Now, as he sacrificed it, golden rays of light suddenly appeared on the surface of the stone tower of the [Great Holy Grail].

Bursts of thunder suddenly sounded high in the troposphere, and one after another hexagram formations with the sun and the moon embedded in them used in the heroic spirit summoning ceremony continuously appeared in the air with the stone tower as the center.

Then, against the backdrop of a heroic spirit summoning scene composed of strong winds and lightning, one after another half-real and half-virtual figures appeared in the heroic spirit summoning ritual formation.

If there were someone here who was familiar with the sacrifices in various parts of the Central Plains, he would definitely feel that the figure appearing in the heroic spirit summoning formation at this moment was very familiar. And if there was a Taoist big-nosed man or an old bald donkey from Buddhism, he would probably be shocked on the spot.

Because those half-real, half-virtual figures are all gods and Buddhas enshrined in palaces, temples and monasteries across the Central Plains.

Among them are the Tianzun Xingjun from Taoism, the Buddha and Bodhisattva from Buddhism, as well as many ancient people who have left their names in history and are worshipped with incense.

But whether it is the gods and Buddhas worshipped by Taoism and Buddhism, or the ancients worshipped by Confucianism, they all surround the [Holy Grail] which has turned into a nine-story stone pagoda, and appear in the form of golden bodies they have created in the temple.

Then, when the shadows of these ancient gods and Buddhas walked out of the heroic spirit summoning formation, clouds of light appeared out of thin air beneath them, supporting their bodies as they stood above the mist.

After all the half-real and half-illusory figures appeared in the clouds, the ground beneath their feet connected into one, so that the shadows of all the gods, Buddhas and ancient people were arranged in thirty-six rows with the nine-story stone pagoda at the center.

At this time, Xia Yan summoned out the [Conceptual Gift - Divine Whip], holding the 21-section wooden whip that was three feet six inches and five points long, and injected magic power into it. This magic weapon instantly emitted a brilliant glow.

At the same time, talismans appeared in front of the phantoms summoned by the [Great Holy Grail].

If you look closely, you can find the corresponding talismans on the phantom among the twenty-one sections of the Divine Whip, with four talismans on each section, for a total of eighty-four talismans.

In the rosy glow, countless invisible and intangible threads spread out from the divine whip and connected with the talismans of the phantom bodies arranged in thirty-six rows above and below, together constructing a rosy glow network that encompassed all the phantoms of the gods in the thirty-six rows and the nine-story stone pagoda in the center.

Then, when this network of rosy light spread out, thousands of auspicious mists descended, and the mists under the feet of the immortals transformed into golden auspicious clouds. There were also magnificent scenes such as palaces, ceilings, golden lamps, jade dew, necklaces, and colorful rosy light, which appeared in the thirty-six lines of auspicious clouds respectively. There were also immortal music floating in the air and ethereal Buddhist chanting, which was vast and seemed real and illusory.

The phantom of the god bathed in the rosy glow also became real at this moment, with divine power awe-inspiring and majestic, just like the legendary heaven manifesting its magnificent power on earth.

Xia Yan raised the divine whip with some difficulty.

He could feel that the magic weapon in his hand had become very 'heavy', as if it was not a whip at all, but a lever. He had to use all his strength to lift the object on the other end of the lever.

At the same time, he could clearly sense that, along with his movements, the celestial figures linked to the [Conceptual Ritual Outfit - Divine Whip] within the same rosy glow network also raised their jade scepters, ruyi (a sacred instrument), treasure vases, swords, spears, and halberds in sync with him...

...If nothing unexpected happens, as long as the Divine Whip is struck down, those phantoms of gods will also swing down what they hold and strike out a thundering blow together. Through the talismans in front of them, they will merge into the sky net constructed by the rosy clouds, and then gather on the Divine Whip, becoming part of the Divine Whip's power.

In other words, as long as the [Conceptual Gift - Divine Whip] is chopped down, it is equivalent to the entire thirty-six-layer heavenly immortal phantoms working together to strike.

As for how powerful this attack is?

Xia Yan didn't know.

I don't want to try it easily.

After all, this was just a technical experiment and test for him. After swinging the Divine Whip but it fell into the air without a target, which was a thankless task, he slowly dropped the [Conceptual Gift - Divine Whip] in his hand.

Then, the shadows of the gods around him dimmed one by one, and soon disappeared without a trace like a dream bubble, along with the palaces, ceilings, golden lamps, jade dew, necklaces, colorful clouds and other beautiful scenes.

Only a nine-story stone tower remained floating above Xia Yan's head.

Prove that everything that just happened was not an illusion.

Afterwards, Xia Yan stepped on the Tengyun and flew towards the stone tower. He entered a light door that suddenly opened on the surface of the stone tower. In the blink of an eye, he appeared in the endless sea of ​​flowers inside the [Holy Grail].

Today, on the sea of ​​flowers of the [Great Holy Grail], there are towering stone statues, and the appearance of each stone statue can correspond to the phantom of the gods that have appeared in the outside world.

There was also a silver-haired figure standing in the sea of ​​flowers, waving the magic wand in her hand, controlling pieces of mud and soil, shaping them into brand new stone statues.

Xia Yan walked forward.

As if noticing his arrival, the silver-haired figure stopped what she was doing and looked back.

Immediately afterwards, a playful voice with a girl's unique lightness, as sweet as a silver bell, and with a hint of laziness and narcissism, reached Xia Yan's ears.

"How did the experiment go?"

"Excellent! It only took her one year to fully master the golem technology of [Crown of Wisdom], and she even managed to create a physical carrier that could allow the phantom's concept crystallization to possess her for a long time. You're truly a genius witch."

Xia Yan smiled and praised:

"I just tested it outside. Using the incense and faith of the gods to condense the concept crystals, it is indeed possible to summon the corresponding phantoms. As long as the [Greater Holy Grail] contains a statue that the gods' phantoms can possess, it does not need to occupy the Holy Grail's available Holy Grail War Servant Class quota, and can directly summon these phantoms."

"Where's the thought key pattern on that concept dress?"

Irena asked:

"Can it be activated?"

"It's activated. Just as we expected, the reason the [Conceptual Costume - Divine Whip] became inert after leaving the Type-Moon world is because it was completely unable to connect to the special magic base of the Thought Key Pattern."

"As long as we engrave the Divine Whip's sigil on the concept crystals of the immortal spirits beforehand, grant them the 'Absolution Seal,' and summon the immortal spirits from the outside world, we can activate the thought key pattern in the [Conceptual Gift - Divine Whip] and temporarily construct a privileged domain on the thought disk... I'm going to call it the [Heavenly Rule]. What do you think?"

"Are you really planning to build an artificial virtual heaven yourself?"

"if not?"

Xia Yan shrugged.

"In this world, I've been reading the 'Zhengyi Weimeng Talisman', 'True Spirit Position Chart', and 'Shangqing Lingbao Dafa - Huanglu Dazhaijiao'. Almost all of them required the help of immortals, but I can't contact the heavens in this 'copy' world, let alone having to leave this 'copy' world in the future."

"So, we can only rely on the conceptual crystallizations condensed by the incense offerings of the gods and immortals from all over Shenzhou to bypass the need for 'gods' assistance... The Type-Moon world's magic system is pretty crappy, but as long as it involves concepts, it is indeed an expert. The 'Zhengyi Weimeng Talisman,' 'True Spirit Position Chart,' and 'Shangqing Lingbao Dafa - Huanglu Dazhaijiao' don't really require divine power; they simply rely on their honorable names and functions as ritual symbols."

"But have you ever thought about it?"

A strange look appeared on Irena's face.

"You used the [Great Holy Grail] to circumvent the inherent limitations of Ghost Immortal cultivation, possessing the spiritual foundation of 'Ghost Immortal - Xia Yan' to assemble your 'divine soul'. You then infiltrated the spiritual foundation with the [Great Holy Grail] and [No Return's Error] at the soul level, analyzing and gathering intelligence on the Great Sage Equaling Heaven. In this way, you cultivated the so-called 'Great Sage Equaling Heaven Visualization Method'... But at the same time, you also gathered the conceptual crystals condensed from the incense offerings of the Heavenly Court immortals, intending to use the thought key pattern within the conceptual gift of the Divine Whip to coax me into creating a virtual Heaven. You even planned to name the privileged area of ​​the thought disk 'Heavenly Law'..."

"...Don't you think it's unlucky?!"

"Uh."

(PS: I finally got around this stuck point orz... Let me explain it, the stuck point is the enhancement I gave to the protagonist, that is, how to clearly explain the use of the concept gift set - the Whip and the Holy Grail to create a virtual heaven and the privileged area of ​​the thought disk... and how to explain the protagonist's final change of mentality as concisely as possible... In short, I finally got it done)

Third instance: 95. Possession Realm and Westward Journey (4k+/Transition)

He tricked Zhu Yuanyu, who was obsessed with cultivating immortals, into practicing the method of ghost immortals, and guided the Jiajing Emperor of this "copy" world to embark on the path of incense and deification. He used him to forcibly integrate and organize the sacrifices of the three religions of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism in the entire Central Plains.

Then, while using the [Great Holy Grail] to collect the concept crystals condensed from the incense of the gods from all over the Central Plains, he used the [Conceptual Gift - Whip to Smash the Gods] to "pardon and seal" them. Finally, after Irena mastered the golem technology of [Crown·Light of Wisdom], the golem she created served as the material carrier of the concept crystals of the gods' phantom spirits. She used the [Great Holy Grail] as a magic weapon to create the "prototype" of an artificial virtual heaven, and successfully activated the thought key pattern in the [Conceptual Gift - Whip to Smash the Gods]. He successfully completed the technical test of the [Temporary Thought Disk Privileged Field] and prepared to officially name the technology [Heavenly Law].

However, he had also devised a Ghost Immortal cultivation method called the 'Monkey King Visualization Method'. He relied on the [Great Holy Grail] to continuously create the spiritual foundation of 'Ghost Immortal - Xia Yan'. He then used the incomplete third method to materialize the soul, and finally refined it into a 'thought' that constituted the 'divine soul'...