Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 1000: White Sword’s Scheme

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The Cangyun Realm held extraordinary meaning for Chen Huaian.

Here was his sect and so many disciples who adored him, and it was also Li Qingran’s home.

On the Earth Star, aside from some people in the Exorcist Division, he had no attachments.

If he truly had to choose between the Earth Star and the Cangyun Realm, he would unquestionably choose the Cangyun Realm…

He could not stand by and watch the Cangyun Realm be destroyed.

And the method to preserve the Cangyun Realm was simple: he could return to the Earth Star and slaughter those Ascenders from the Nine Heavens, which would lessen the pressure on the Cangyun Realm, right?

Just as Chen Huaian thought this, Zhang Mengchu beside him suddenly said, “Ancestor, do you still remember the Ascension Platform we built at your order? That Ascension Platform has completely changed its appearance. Could this be related to the appearance of those secret realms?”

Chen Huaian was momentarily stunned by the words.

He had indeed forgotten about the Ascension Platform.

When the Ascension Platform was being constructed, he did not yet know the relationship between the Electronic Girlfriend System and White Sword. Now that he knew the system was the middle corpse, merely a mouthpiece, then who wanted to build the Ascension Platform? It had to be White Sword.

White Sword’s purpose in needing an Ascension Platform was to accelerate cultivators’ ascension.

White Sword needed Immortals.

So perhaps White Sword had anticipated the current invasion of the Cangyun Realm long ago, and might even be using it to its advantage!

Once that thought appeared, Chen Huaian’s reasoning gradually cleared.

White Sword did not become the strongest existence in the Cangyun Realm by being foolish.

Even if he was cold and indifferent and didn’t care about the Cangyun Realm, he would definitely exploit the realm to gain enormous benefits.

“Old Zhang, is the Ascension Platform still in its original location? Take this Venerable One to see it!”

Zhang Mengchu nodded, “However, Ancestor, what do you intend to do with these people?”

Chen Huaian glanced at the pitiful looking Ascenders and the terrified expressions of those behind them, and sighed inwardly.

They were all oppressed people with miserable fates who had come to the Cangyun Realm seeking a slim chance of survival. Many Ascenders might not even have wanted to come here in the first place.

Moreover, compared to the abundant resources scattered across the Cangyun Realm,

the cultivators of the Cangyun Realm themselves were ubiquitous lethal threats.

“Check their hands for Cangyun cultivator blood. If none, arrange menial duties for them within the sect. If there is…” He paused, “then kill them.”

“Yes.” Zhang Mengchu’s face hardened as he quickly signaled the Enforcement Hall elders on both sides, then stepped before Chen Huaian, “Ancestor, this way please. The environment around the Ascension Platform has greatly changed. I will lead you.”

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Chen Huaian kept pondering what the Ascension Platform could have transformed into.

You don’t know until you see it, and what he saw shocked him.

The original site of the Ascension Platform was shrouded in thick mist, the surrounding mountains and rivers seeming to have been reshaped, faintly aligning with the Dao of Formations. The surrounding Spiritual Energy had been siphoned away and gathered into that basin.

Upon entering the area of spirit-turned-mist, the Ascension Platform itself was only an empty shell; in its place floated a hanging scroll above the platform.

The scroll hovered midair, enveloped by auspicious clouds and suffused with Immortal Qi. Even before drawing near, clear celestial music drifted forth.

On the scroll, the brushwork was bold, depicting mountains, rivers, and seas with majestic vitality—so vivid that, when focused on, the world within the painting was revealed to be the Cangyun Realm.

Countless tiny figures moved about inside the painting.

Some wielded swords fighting demonic beasts, some sat cross-legged in seclusion, their expressions varied and lifelike.

Chen Huaian could even see one figure calling down heavenly thunder, personally undergoing the tribulation.

“Ancestor, this is the ancient Cangyun-world artifact—the Nation Diagram.

Half a year ago Real Person Jade Compassion placed this treasure here.

According to her, she bestowed this artifact as a token of gratitude for the hardships Cangyun cultivators face, to aid our realm’s cultivators in stepping onto the path of immortality and securing Immortal status,” Zhang Mengchu bowed and reported from the side.

The corner of Chen Huaian’s mouth twitched barely perceptibly.

His gaze swept over the Nation Diagram, then to Zhang Mengchu beside him, and his mind cleared.

The aura surrounding the scroll was the Dao Rhythms of the Cangyun Heavenly Dao, an essence he knew all too well.

From this he knew the Nation Diagram was by no means Real Person Jade Compassion’s treasure.

This thing had to belong to White Sword.

And it wasn’t an ancient Immortal artifact either. This thing was new—created just half a year ago. It could not even be called an Immortal artifact; it was merely a scroll that outlined the Cangyun Realm’s Heavenly Dao laws.

Put bluntly…

It was a production line.

He stepped forward and raised his hand to touch the Nation Diagram.

Zhang Mengchu instinctively wanted to stop him.

Real Person Jade Compassion had warned—except for those determined to enter the diagram for cultivation, others must not touch this treasure, or they would be forcibly drawn into the painting, and if they failed to become Immortal they would never be able to exit.

But Zhang Mengchu thought again—who stood before him?

Their own Ancestor!

An ordinary cultivator touching it would fall into a trap, but for the Ancestor this was a constraint that could be broken with a single motion. How could such an artifact imprison him?

With that thought, Zhang Mengchu stepped back and stood silently to the side.

The instant Chen Huaian’s fingertip touched the Nation Diagram,

Boom—! A violent suction force suddenly erupted.

Time and space around them warped and twisted, trying to drag him forcibly into the painted world.

But he only narrowed his eyes slightly, steadied his mind for a moment, and the terrifying suction that could have swallowed top cultivators dissipated like a cow sinking into mud, vanishing in an instant.

Calmly, he sent his Divine Sense into the diagram. With a single sweep, his judgment was firmly set.

White Sword had altered the time flow inside the Nation Diagram, and using the myriad mountains and rivers around the Cangyun Realm as a foundation, had laid down a massive spirit-gathering formation that continuously supplied Spiritual Energy to both the Nation Diagram and the cultivators inside it.

The cultivators within the diagram had their Divine Souls protected by laws, neither dying nor perishing, and could train without restraint.

They need not fear going mad from Spiritual Deviations, need not worry about perishing while fighting demonic beasts, and faced no cultivation bottlenecks or constraints.

The diagram’s heavenly treasures and earthly wonders were inexhaustible; training resources were abundant.

Cultivators’ progress accelerated by leaps and bounds, without concern for outside matters—each one like a carefully manufactured assembly-line immortal soldier, rapidly honing their cultivation.

Chen Huaian slowly withdrew his hand, inwardly marveling at White Sword’s staggering maneuver.

“You overthought it, really overthought it.”

He shook his head and sighed.

This was White Sword’s long-laid plan, fully prepared for the coming war with the Earth Star’s Immortal World.

This Nation Diagram was essentially a mass-production training factory to produce Cangyun Realm Immortals.

At the same time, it posed a threat to him.

Immortals born from the Nation Diagram would be bound by White Sword’s causality; White Sword provided them their chance, and in time they would naturally attach themselves to White Sword, revering him.

With each Immortal born, White Sword’s side would grow stronger.

But he could not sabotage this just to weaken White Sword, right?

Although he had the power to destroy the Nation Diagram or reduce the output of Immortals…

wouldn’t that indirectly boost the Earth Star Immortal World’s arrogance?

“I need to come up with a plan.”

Chen Huaian stroked his chin and paced before the Nation Diagram.

He could not interfere with the birth of Cangyun Realm Immortals.

But he could not allow White Sword’s wings to grow any fuller.

He had to maneuver within this situation, turn it to his advantage, and use momentum to rise.

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