Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 867: How to Choose

[Warning! Player detected in an extremely dangerous environment! Three processing options are now provided!]

[Option One: Spend 999 top-grade spirit jade! Host's True Body temporarily escapes into the Cangyun Realm!]

[Option Two: Spend 9999 top-grade spirit jade to accelerate the merging speed of the Cangyun Realm and Earth Star, and temporarily lift the Heaven and Earth suppression.]

[Option Three: Abandon the True Body and merge with the Cangyun Realm avatar! Free!]

[Warning! Player only has three breaths of time to think!]

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Actually, Chen Huaian possessed far less than three breaths for contemplation.

Inside Taishang Laojun's Great Formation.

The fusion of heaven and earth proceeded at a blistering pace.

Scarce moments existed for deliberation—once complete, the boundless compression of heavenly might would squash him flat. His Divine Soul would vanish entirely, leaving not even a trace of dust.

Gazing upon the trio of choices, a flurry of ideas raced through his thoughts in that instant.

Flee to the Cangyun Realm? But Earth Star would be forsaken.

What of his duty as the Dragon Soul inheritor?

What of Muscle Tyrant?

What of his comrades in the Exorcist Division?

He might simply walk away unscathed, yet would the Nine Heavens Immortals spare them?

Never.

His withdrawal would doom them to gruesome fates.

All prior endeavors would crumble to dust.

"This Venerable One cannot depart."

Chen Huaian lifted his gaze.

Combine with the Cangyun Realm avatar?

Yet an avatar remains merely an avatar. Forsaking his True Body, would he retain his true self?

Gratis offerings often prove the costliest.

Full faith in the Electronic Girlfriend Game system had eluded him always.

Thus...

"Hasten the fusion! Remove the Heaven and Earth constraints, even if it grants This Venerable One... just a sliver of time!"

His resolve hardened.

Instantly, 9999 top-grade spirit jade disappeared from his Cangyun Realm cave dwelling.

A faint sigh echoed near Chen Huaian.

It resonated across every corner of the Cangyun Realm's terrain as well.

Cangyun Realm, Moon Shadow Sect's back mountain.

This spot had transformed into the Moon Shadow Sect's ultimate forbidden zone. Beyond the trysts of ancestor and Sect Master, it concealed a supreme Spirit Vein forged from nine premium Celestial Jade Marrows.

Endless spiritual mist enveloped the area.

Typically, only whispers of wind through ancient pines stirred the silence.

Yet now.

*Thump!*

A colossal rumble erupted from the planet's depths.

Resembling a heavy pulse or thunderous drumbeat.

Cultivators in the midst of their "trial" atop the Ascension Platform sensed the earth quake fiercely beneath them.

Before reactions could form, an overwhelming, choking spiritual pressure burst forth abruptly from the Moon Shadow Sect's rear forbidden grounds.

*BOOM——!!!*

The ground cracked wide.

A brilliant Spiritual Energy column, spanning a thousand zhang wide, akin to a roused white jade azure dragon, thundered skyward, shattering peaks, piercing clouds, and thrusting into the firmament!

"That... that is..."

"A Spirit Vein eruption?!"

Sect Masters gaped in shock at the heaven-linking Spiritual Energy pillar.

What cataclysm birthed this sudden celestial spectacle?

Where anomaly lurks, demons dwell.

This Spiritual Energy raged too wildly, shone too pristinely—beyond mortal command.

But this marked merely the onset.

Upon the white jade azure dragon's cloud assault, it refused to fade—instead morphing into an endless torrent of Spiritual Energy, surging upward toward the unattainable Upper Realm for Cangyun Realm denizens.

...

Cangyun Realm, Upper Realm.

In cloud-shrouded depths, a hidden sanctuary.

Beneath a blooming peach tree, White Sword and Tu Shan Yue faced off across a Go board.

White Sword clutched a white stone, poised to drop it and claim victory.

Abruptly.

*Hum——*

The pavilion, towers, and terraces quaked fiercely.

Horizon clouds roiled as a colossal Spiritual Energy flood, like a shattered levy, gushed from below, scattering the encircling mist in moments.

That Spiritual Energy pressed too relentlessly, too savagely.

White Sword's fingers shook uncontrollably.

*Clatter.*

The stone tumbled free, crashing onto the board and ruining the intricate pattern.

Game forgotten, he sprang to his feet.

For once, shock cracked his eternally icy, aloof visage.

"This is..."

He witnessed the torrent of Spiritual Energy surging from the Lower Realm. Instead of dispersing wildly, it was directed by an unseen precise power, flooding straight into the heart of the Upper Realm—the [Origin Core].

This served as the pivotal anchor for merging the two realms.

Normally, such a fusion demanded careful, gradual efforts over many years...

Yet now.

The Origin Core churned violently, swelling outward.

With endless Spiritual Energy pouring in.

It whirled madly, swallowing and blending at breakneck speed.

*Crack! Crack!*

Shattering noises from the Boundary Wall resounded across the whole Cangyun Realm.

"White Sword brother, what's happening?"

Tu Shan Yue stood up with curiosity, approached White Sword, and spotted the Spiritual Energy river too. She clapped excitedly, gazing at him with pure admiration:

"As expected from White Sword brother—you pulled in every bit of Spiritual Energy from the Cangyun Realm's Lower Realm just like that! Incredible!"

White Sword: "..."

His eyes narrowed sharply.

Though he desired a swift merger of the realms to advance his future schemes... he intended to deliver that push himself.

Not by any force outside his grasp.

...

Lower Realm, Ascension Platform.

A fresh transformation unfolded.

As the Boundary Wall slowly melted away, the heavens transformed into something utterly alien.

"The sky... the sky is tearing apart!!"

One cultivator jabbed at the horizon's edge, crying out in alarm.

All eyes turned toward it.

There, the former cloud boundary turned sheer, unveiling strange, ever-shifting visions never before witnessed.

A... steel forest emerged.

Myriad "glass giant towers," far taller and sleeker than Cangyun Realm's peaks, pierced the skies.

They gleamed with rainbow hues in sunlight, dazzling even at noon.

Interlacing those towers ran dark rivers.

On them, endless streams of four-wheeled "iron boxes" rushed by ceaselessly.

No traces of Spiritual Energy rippled from them.

Just an eerie clash from clashing civilizations.

"That... could that be the Immortal Realm?!"

"The Heavenly Palace! Is the Heavenly Palace coming down?!"

"See those iron boxes! Racing a thousand li daily without Spiritual Energy—they're surely Immortal artifacts!"

Naive Cangyun Realm cultivators erupted in frenzy.

They dropped to their knees, bowing fervently to the illusion, deeming it fabled Immortal destiny.

Within the throng.

Just a handful wore odd, faintly wistful looks.

Su Qinian smacked his washing-machine artifact to halt it, sharpening the view of the far-off oddity. Staring at the sky's familiar CBD skyscrapers, his lips twitched: "Holy cow! This... isn't that the ancestor's world?"

Lin Fan gripped his sword, eyeing the twinkling neon in the vision, a flicker of bewilderment in his gaze: "This spot... feels familiar? That barbecue joint was tasty."

"Earth Star structures showing in Cangyun Realm—does it signal major trouble on the ancestor's end?" Zhang Mengchu furrowed her brow, worry creeping in, "Now that I think, the ancestor hasn't called us over in ages."

The scene screamed irregularity.

...

Upper Realm, Cloud Pavilion.

White Sword drew a heavy breath, quelling the turmoil within.

No matter the cause.

The momentum was unstoppable; a loosed arrow never returns.

With fusion hastening, his strategies must accelerate too.

"Jade Compassion."

White Sword's tone chilled once more, though laced with unusual urgency.

"Yeah, what's up?"

A small figure coalesced from emptiness.

"Go down to the Lower Realm yourself."

White Sword gestured at the Ascension Platform beneath.

"Oversee the gathering as the 'Welcoming Immortal.'"

"These cultivators must grow up fast. Fusion's speedup demands early prep; no more leisurely picking of talents."

"Yes—!" Real Person Jade Compassion saluted with clasped hands, stretching the reply playfully.

This is so irritating.

White Sword wiped out the Immortal Realm back then.

Now White Sword craves Immortals everywhere.

Hmph, men flip-flop for sure.

With everything set.

White Sword returned to his seat by the Go board.

Yet his mind wandered far from the game.

His eyes shifted toward the golden Thunder Eye at his side, which had been quivering faintly throughout.

"Something feels off."

White Sword's eyebrows knitted deeply, his fingers drumming idly on the Go board without thought.

"This massive disturbance surely isn't mere natural evolution."

"Some anomaly must be at play..."

His thoughts drifted to that lower corpse, Chen Huaian, presently "vacationing" on Earth Star.

"Could it be him?"

"No... impossible." White Sword shook his head in self-derision, "A loser lost in a cozy haven, stripped of all ambition, how could he unleash such a world-shaking uproar?"

Yet suspicion ran deep in his bones.

No matter how slim the odds—one in ten thousand—he needed to verify it.

"Heavenly Dao."

White Sword thrust out a finger, jamming it onto the Thunder Eye, his voice frosty cold.

"Revert the view."

"I must witness..."

"Exactly what's unfolding on that Earth Star?!"

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