Chapter 781: Pili Shenzhou, the Pinnacle Yearned for by Warriors!

Located east of the city that was halved, the Sea of Yellow Springs had long since been a forbidden realm for all cultivators within the entire ocean.

No birds flew above the Sea of Yellow Springs, and its murky yellow waters were steeped in absolute desolation.

The decaying waters churned into towering waves, and at the bottom of that dead, silent sea... something seemed to be faintly awakening.

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Within the Cultivation Realm, that ancient immortal hall drifted upward, and a pair of eyes, cold as ice and seemingly having weathered countless calamities, looked down from the immortal hall upon this parched earth countless years later; withered white hair spoke of endless vicissitudes and shifting worldly affairs: "Having endured innumerable tribulations... now, my Hidden Heaven Sacred Realm... has also fallen into decline..."

At the lowest tier of the immortal hall, an invisible power seemed to cause those frozen crystal coffins to slowly open.

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"Times have changed... oceans turned to mulberry fields." On the Continent of Immortal Ruins (the Eastern Continent), a figure standing as straight as a sharp sword piercing the sky was like a majestic eagle perched at the peak of the mountains, his cloudy eyes occasionally flashing with a vigorous sword light.

Gazing at the distant white clouds, the mountains, and rivers scattered like stars across a chessboard, this world felt endlessly strange amidst the familiarity.

"Time passes like a white stallion slipping through a crevice... beneath the Ask-the-Heaven Peak... the Dugu Sword Tomb, the Dugu Family... I wonder if they still exist today..."

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"Calamity... destruction! I smell... a delightful scent..." To the north of Canglan City, beneath that massive fortress crafted from black stone and inhabited primarily by dwarf craftsmen, an ominous aura also began to gradually diffuse.

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In the Radiant Kingdom of God, at the summit of the gods, atop that towering divine temple, stood a dreamlike palace cast entirely from crystal.

Within Princess Isabella's eyes shone a divine light akin to pure golden glaze.

Her body, as if entirely devoid of gravity, slowly floated upward.

If a Saint-level powerhouse were here, they would be horrified to discover that the divine light within her body was actually radiating from the inside out.

Although that power still seemed somewhat incomplete, it was undeniably the power of a deity!

From the inside out, rather than the outside in... that was power completely belonging to herself!

"This time, I will definitely give you all a massive surprise!" The corners of her mouth curled slightly, and her eyes seemed to traverse endless time and space, piercing through to that ancient battlefield.

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And at this time, in the Origin Internet Club.

Following Teacher Fang's instruction, though this group of salted-fish students had not completely turned their fortunes around, they had still made considerable progress.

In the Cemetery of Ash, Saint Leyton was seen with a small round shield in his left hand and a slender greatsword held in his right.

A great halberd, like a falling mountain peak, smashed down ruthlessly.

The shield in his hand tilted slightly, parrying, and while neutralizing the opponent's force, it also seemed to carry a strange, potent energy.

Boom!

Parry!

"Success!"

Before the final Lord of Cinder, the Twin Princes of Lothric, Saint Willy held his staff high as magical radiance transformed into a thin wall of light, blocking all the incoming spells from the opponent.

With a gentle shake of the staff, countless magic crystals hovered around his body like sharp swords, and soul arrows formed from magical light flew out silently!

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They had clearly all begun to gradually master these high-intensity combat techniques and had forged an incomparably strong mindset; even when facing powerful entities several times stronger than themselves, they showed no panic at all, and could even calmly confront the enemy to turn defeat into victory.

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Of course, as for clearing the game... they were still a little bit away.

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However, by this time, regarding various combat techniques, most players in the shop had already improved to a certain degree, and for those who could unhurriedly play their way into the late game of Dark Souls, their combat techniques could truly be considered those of... grandmasters of a generation.

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Of course, there were also rather dorky ones, such as a portion of the elves.

On Rorlyn's screen, she was still stuck in front of the Farron Breakdancers at this moment.

Playing with tears streaming down her face, it was simply unplayable, a nightmare for the mechanically challenged.

"Ah... I can't do it, I can't do it..." Rorlyn was utterly conflicted, "Let's watch a bit of the new drama..."

But considering she had gone from being unable to pass Iudex Gundyr at the very beginning to now being able to fight up to the Farron Undead Legion, her combat techniques had still improved significantly.

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At this time, Boss Fang looked at the quest list:

Kings' Cram School (Primary)

Quest Objectives: 1. Train the scrub students to the advanced level (combat techniques), 2. Train outstanding students to master level or above

Completion Rate: (1) 88%, (2) 74%

Quest Reward: League of Legends

Under... Teacher Fang's earnest guidance, it was obvious that this group of scrub students had still improved a lot, and the quest was nearing completion.

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"Boss! Are you watching the new drama or not!" Just as Boss Fang was looking at the system quest, he heard such a shout.

The branch shop in the Dongxuan Mystic Realm did not require Boss Fang to worry about all aspects of it as often as before, appearing relatively peaceful, so Boss Fang did not stay in the new shop at all times.

For instance, at this moment, he was still staying in the Canglan City shop.

At this time, Boss Fang had assigned Li Qin'er plus several old employees from the Yuanyang City shop to manage it.

Meanwhile, the Canglan City shop had also begun recruiting employees from the outside.

"Merlin...?" Elder Li Wuya was clearly still helping Boss Fang handle the matters regarding the external recruitment of employees.

"Watching, watching, watching!" At this time, Boss Fang took the opportunity to send another message in the "Boss Fang's Tourism and Sightseeing Group," "Forming a group to watch the new drama, the veteran driver is starting the bus, anyone getting on?"

"Which one are we watching first?" Nalan Mingxue asked.

"Let's watch this 'Pili Divine Land' first."

Su Tianji: "Count me in!"

Nalan Mingxue: "I'm coming!"

Jiang Xiaoyue: "Me me me!"

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A large crowd of people gathered very quickly.

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At the same time, located at the branch shop in the Dongxuan Mystic Realm.

The new customers were basically the disciples and elders of the Haotian Faction.

There were also a small number of cultivators and warriors from other sects and mystic realms who came to congratulate, as well as passersby in the Dongxuan Mystic Realm who walked past Boss Fang's shop and came in out of curiosity.

For the time being, there were only a few hundred people in total.

Inside the new shop of the Dongxuan Grotto-Heaven, the crowd milled about, torn between the various games and television dramas on offer—for this establishment boasted them all—as they discussed animatedly, "Which one should we try first?"

"There are simply too many..."

"How about we first try this 'New Arrival'?" Elder Xiao Yunhe suggested.

Before long, quite a few people began clicking open this "Pili Shenzhou."

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This was, in essence, a martial arts setting, much like the initial premise of "Feng Yun."

Even if the subsequent escalation of power would naturally imbue it with a certain mystical color, it still retained the very purest system of the former.

And precisely because of this, for the martial artists, this was perhaps an unscalable, majestic peak!

It was also an unprecedented legend!

At this moment, Nalan Hongwu, Zong Wu, Liang Heihu, and a host of other martial artists were also following along, watching via Manager Fang's tour cart.

The scene before their eyes gradually darkened...

Concomitantly, a sea of clouds surged and churned, mountains rapidly receding beneath their feet, and then their vision swept upward along an unprecedented sword peak that pierced straight into the heavens.

A mountain of such immense height seemed already linked to the celestial realm, where peals of thunder and flashes of lightning clashed and converged, all blazing around them.

Someone stood precisely atop this absolute peak amid the clouds.

"A martial artist!?" Nalan Hongwu and the other martial artists, and even many warriors from the Canglan City shop, widened their eyes in sheer disbelief.

Dark-red demonic flames flared upward, a sword unsheathed, intertwining with thunder that danced wildly like dragons and serpents.

In the darkness, blade-qi manifested a sliver of blinding, brilliant light, and in that single instant, it seemed as though even the roaring thunder paled by comparison!

Opposite him, black and white currents of qi circulated, and a colossal aura constructed an incomparably vast yin-yang taiji diagram between heaven and earth.

The blade-qi and the taiji collided, and countless terrifying surges of energy scattered in all directions like a primordial tempest, resulting in a single instant of—shattering mountains and cracking earth!

"This... this is also a martial artist!?"

One must understand that in this world, only after countless years of humanity's unyielding, relentless development did the martial artists of today come to be, yet they had always been relatively weak.

But at this very moment, seeing the clash between these two martial artists, this incomparably terrifying, awe-inspiring might, the world-destroying tyranny in their every gesture, this... was also a martial artist!?

In this fleeting instant, it was nothing short of a revelation from the heavens!

This was, quite simply, the pinnacle of which all martial artists could only dream!

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