Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 892: Vulnerability
Previously on Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal?...
Cangyun Realm, located within the Upper Realm.
Before White Sword, the colossal, golden eyeball quivered a few times.
It conveyed a message: The Dragon Kings of Gold and Silver desire an audience.
"Those two lizards from Canglan?" White Sword's brow arched slightly. "No time."
This was not a statement of arrogance.
He genuinely lacked the time resources.
Currently, he was personally overseeing the intricate process of merging Cangyun and Earth Star. This undertaking necessitated his direct guidance at the Origin Core, the crucial junction for connecting the causal links between the two worlds.
Not far from this scene.Tu Shan Yue knelt with grace upon the clouds, her hands supporting her rosy cheeks. Her nine luxuriant tails swayed gently in the ethereal currents behind her.
Her eyes, naturally possessing a captivating, soul-snaring charm, now shone with the pure adoration of a devoted fan, fixed with unwavering infatuation upon the profile of the man before her.
Within her line of sight,
unfolded a spectacle that seemed capable of overwhelming all existence.
White Sword was seated in a cross-legged posture, suspended amidst the primordial chaos enveloping the Origin Core.
There was no discernible sky, nor any ground beneath him.
Only an infinite void, stretching into profound depths.
Yet, within this boundless emptiness, countless billions of luminous ribbons drifted, densely packed.
These ribbons were not static; they moved with a fluid grace, akin to a celestial river. Each one emanated an aura of deeply mystical Laws. They intertwined, traversed, and pulsed within the darkness, resembling the cosmic Meridians, or perhaps the flowing hair of celestial beings.
And White Sword occupied the very center of these billions of starlike ribbons.
He was clad in robes as pure white as the freshest snow, his long hair cascaded like a silken waterfall, and a subtle, incandescent glow radiated from his form. Against the backdrop of this immeasurable, boundless chaos, he appeared as minuscule as a speck of dust, yet simultaneously as majestic as the singular master of this entire Cosmos.
With elegant precision, his slender fingers lightly touched the void.
His movements were graceful and unhurried, reminiscent of a master musician strumming a zither.
*Zheng—*
As his fingertip brushed past, a silken ribbon, symbolizing the "Polar North Ice Plains" of the Cangyun Realm, was drawn by him. It traversed unimaginable dimensions of time and space, slowly extending to connect with another cyan ribbon, which represented the "Kunlun Mountain Range" of Earth Star.
The instant the two threads met.
*Rumble—*
Tu Shan Yue experienced a profound illusion:
She perceived spectral forms of innumerable towering snow-capped mountains materializing within the void, witnessed roaring rivers surging through the chaos, and observed the very Spiritual Energy of the Cangyun Realm transforming into a dragon, crashing forcefully into the Earth Veins of Earth Star.
Mountains, rivers, oceans, cities, the myriad living beings...
Countless magnificent vistas were brought into being and dissolved, meticulously reformed by White Sword's fingertips.
He was engaged in the act of world-weaving!
From a divine vantage point, he was forcibly delineating the causal relationships between two distinct worlds.
It must be acknowledged that, originally, no causal link existed between Cangyun and Earth Star.
After all, they were two entirely separate dimensions, two celestial bodies adrift in the vast universe, destined never to intersect.
However, the existence of Chen Huaian and Li Qingran acted as two exceptionally resilient threads, compellingly forging a definitive bond between these two parallel worlds.
Leveraging this established connection, the Cangyun Realm had finally secured the coordinates of Earth Star and initiated its steady approach.
And now, White Sword's crucial task was to transform this singular bond into an intricate network.
For instance, anchoring the causality of a sacred Spiritual Mountain within Cangyun Realm to a desolate mountain upon Earth Star.
Consequently, even before the two worlds fully melded, the mountain from Cangyun Realm would gradually manifest on Earth Star, appearing as a "mirage" or a "folded space"; simultaneously, the barren mountain on Earth Star would be imbued with the potent Spiritual Energy of the Cangyun Realm.
As the geographical features began to overlap, the lifeforms inhabiting them would inevitably encounter each other.
Cultivators and ordinary mortals, formidable demonic beasts and common wild creatures, advanced technology and ancient cultivation arts...
With the onset of such interactions, new causal threads would sprout prolifically, like tenacious weeds taking root.
The Origin Core would then utilize these continuously expanding "threads" to draw Earth Star closer, much like a fisherman reeling in a net, until the two worlds completely collided and merged into a single entity.
At that culminating point, these "threads" would no longer serve a purpose.
The energy stored within the Origin Core would be largely depleted, its monumental mission fulfilled.
This was, by its nature, an extraordinarily challenging endeavor.
After all, Earth Star was, in the end, a world distinct from the Cangyun Realm.
Furthermore, there existed no pre-existing subordinate relationship.
It was unlike the scenario between Cangyun and Canglan; merging those two realms had been a comparatively straightforward process.
As the common saying goes, a melon forcibly plucked from its vine will not yield sweetness; a world coerced into merging is even more susceptible to catastrophic collapse.
However, as White Sword commenced his intricate work.
A rare flicker of astonishment, seldom seen, actually began to manifest upon his normally placid and unperturbed countenance.
"Strange..."
He lightly flicked his fingertip,
observing as the two luminous ribbons fused with almost no resistance, emitting even a joyful, delicate chime, as if... long-separated companions were finally reunited?
The process was significantly smoother than he had initially anticipated.
He found that on Earth Star, numerous vestiges, seemingly originating from the Cangyun Realm, still persisted.
These were evident in the scattered fragments within ancient myths, the severed lineages of certain cultivation paths, and even the topographical features of mountain ranges and Earth Veins...
All exhibited remarkable concordance with the Cangyun Realm.
Consequently, the connection between the two worlds encountered minimal resistance. Instead of severing, the intertwined causal threads acted like long-lost puzzle pieces, becoming progressively more robust and tightly bound as the worlds merged.
"These two worlds..." White Sword narrowed his eyes, his gaze appearing to penetrate the chaos and the boundless Cosmos, seeking an older, more concealed truth: "...knew each other previously?"
The term "knew" was merely an abstract representation.
White Sword contemplated; perhaps Earth Star was once an integral part of Cangyun, or vice versa. Such a connection would elucidate the presence of the lower corpse on Earth Star, a world of that nature.
White Sword declared his unavailability.
The Giant Golden Eyeball could only hover nearby, observing with keen anticipation.
Its gaze flickered towards Tu Shan Yue; it was evident that this infatuated fox, with love-struck eyes, was beyond salvage.
"We request an audience with His Lordship White Sword!"
"Did you convey our message?"
What a racket!
The Giant Golden Eyeball narrowed its eye.
Suddenly, the sky above the Canglan Realm's Divine Realm grew dark.
The Gold and Silver Dragon Kings continued their incessant chatter, praying into their phones, attempting once again to contact the Giant Golden Eyeball.
The very next moment,
their colossal dragon pupils contracted to mere pinpricks.
Above the darkened expanse, the very fabric of space appeared to liquefy under intense heat. The clouds were ripped apart, and a colossal eye, seemingly forged entirely from virulent golden lightning, slowly materialized and opened.
Gazing down upon the entirety of the Divine Realm without a trace of emotion, only two words were inscribed across the celestial dome—"SHUT UP".
*BOOM—!!!*
Without affording the two dragons any opportunity to react,
lightning that filled the sky, a cascade of pure gold, descended like a waterfall. It coalesced into two dense columns of thunderous retribution, striking with precision and brutality directly upon the foreheads of the two divine beasts.
"ROAR————!!!"
Accompanied by two agonizing dragon roars of despair,
the ground of the Divine Realm was shattered, forming two colossal, bottomless craters.
A pungent aroma of incineration immediately permeated the atmosphere.
The once majestic and divine forms of the Gold and Silver Dragon Kings were instantly rendered as black as charcoal, their scales curled and charred, wisps of black smoke and crackling electric arcs still emanating from their bodies.
The torment that pierced the soul, the excruciating pain, caused these two supreme Deities, who stood at the zenith of the Canglan Realm, to lose control of their bodily functions. They writhed uncontrollably on the ground, their blackened tails clutched in agony.
Ultimately, the two dragons could only contort themselves into two still-twitching, blackened masses of flesh, trembling, not even daring to draw a loud breath.
An instantaneous and profound silence enveloped the entire world.
Having expunged its wrath, the Giant Golden Eyeball resumed its placid hovering beside White Sword.
...
After a brief interval.
The flowing, luminous river of starlight, resembling shimmering ribbons, gradually faded, receding back into the void.
White Sword retracted his fingers, gently massaging the space between his brows.
His countenance, flawless and god-like, betrayed a subtle, almost imperceptible hint of exhaustion.
The intricate weaving of causality between two grand worlds was, even for him, a considerable mental undertaking.
Observing White Sword cease his actions, the Giant Golden Eyeball expeditiously glided forward.
In the following instant, it was sent hurtling away by a swift kick from Tu Shan Yue.
Only once Tu Shan Yue had concluded her dedicated ministrations, meticulously peeling a freshly washed immortal fruit for White Sword,
did the Giant Golden Eyeball finally secure the opportunity to approach White Sword.
It narrowed its eye, wriggled its form a few times, and proceeded to relay the report garnered from those two "charcoal geckos" of Canglan:
"The Canglan Realm is facing a critical crisis."
"That individual named Li Qingran... or rather, the trial-taker, has illicitly acquired a unique Million-Year World Ring without undergoing any requisite approval procedures."
"Furthermore, she has also slain the progenitor of the Canglan World's Son of the Realm—the Peak Battle Master Tang Ritian."
"Currently, the Son of the Realm, Tang Er, has suffered a severe mental collapse and is teetering on the precipice of succumbing to darkness."
"Our query, as two lesser dragons, is this... was the deployment of this Million-Year World Ring orchestrated by you? Furthermore... how are we to rectify this predicament?"
A few moments of silence hung in the air.
White Sword's finger, poised between his brows, paused, his forehead creasing slightly.
"Million-Year World Ring?"
He had not granted authorization for such an item.
That artifact represented the manifestation of the Canglan Realm's Laws, a strategic resource of the highest caliber, requiring explicit endorsement from the Electronic Girlfriend System for acquisition.
However, Li Qingran's current cultivation realm was merely at the Battle Ancestor level; she utterly lacked the authority and the capacity to absorb a Million-Year World Ring.
"The system... is experiencing a malfunction?"
A flicker of genuine uncertainty crossed White Sword's gaze.
Regarding the demise of Tang Ritian, or the subsequent descent into darkness of the Son of the Realm...
Such matters held no significance for him whatsoever.
What importance did the lives of a few individuals carry?
Even if that entire world were to crumble into dust, he wouldn't concern himself, provided it didn't impede the impending fusion of Cangyun and Earth Star.
However, the unusual distribution of resources warranted a thorough inquiry.
"Investigate this matter."
White Sword cast a frigid look toward the colossal Golden Eyeball, his voice like chipping ice.
"Ascertain the location of this discrepancy."
"Should those two lizards have absconded with the resources themselves... then eliminate them and prepare them for a stew."