Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 988: You Were Given a Chance

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Outside the world barrier of the Canglan Realm.

What should have been a chaotic, clamorous battlefield had fallen into an eerily quiet stillness.

The Abyss Gate remained wide open.

But no more demons emerged from the Abyss.

Those demons that had already come out had also stopped their slaughter alongside the vassals of the Canglan gods.

All warships of the intelligent mechanical civilization had entered a silent state.

The normally savage Star Devourers had, for the first time, grown quiet.

All lifeforms in this universe gazed up at the figure sitting cross-legged amidst the vast sea of stars, but it wasn’t that they wanted to look—they couldn’t move.

At a certain moment.

Chen Huaian finally opened his eyes.

The Heavenly Dao laws around him gradually converged.

That overwhelming pressure that had frozen everything around him also receded like a tide.

Poseidon found he could move again, staring at Chen Huaian with shock and uncertainty. The terror of having lost control over his own body moments ago still lingered in his heart.

The Abyssal Lord clenched his fist, a flicker of confusion appearing on his hideous face.

Though he had no idea what had just happened.

The feeling of dread from earlier had undoubtedly come from that mysterious man.

Inside the ships of the intelligent mechanical race.

The central star brain’s ports were continuously flashing red warning alerts:

【Attention! Attention!】

【Ultra-stellar energy fluctuation detected! Evacuate immediately! Evacuate immediately!】

An ultra-stellar-level energy fluctuation—completely unprovokable.

Let alone ultra-stellar; even stellar-level was more than enough to give them a thorough thrashing.

But just as they were scrambling to flee, the red warning lights gradually shifted to yellow alert status, then to green safety prompts.

【Target energy fluctuation decreasing!】

【Target energy fluctuation has vanished!】

【Target has vanished!】

【Zone secure, safe passage confirmed.】

The group of mechanical beings crowded around the central star brain were dumbfounded.

What the hell...

That mysterious carbon-based lifeform was still floating out in the universe!

How had the target vanished?

With no attack target, all fleet cannons ceased operation. They had to manually aim those cannons at the cross-legged silhouette in the void.

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Chen Huaian glanced at the three civilizations, all of which dared not move.

Becoming a Saint under the watchful eyes of so many enemies was indeed highly risky. If the process had been interrupted, all his efforts and sacrifices would have been for nothing.

But in the end, the result was satisfactory.

It had both protected his little disciple and the Canglan Realm, and intimidated the three civilizations.

With that little display of his just now, these three civilizations should know when to stop and scram, right?

Though he had become a Saint, his foundation was still unstable. He needed some time to solidify his Saintly path, so it was inconvenient for him to personally deal with the three civilizations.

But if... these three civilizations didn’t use their heads.

He wouldn’t mind turning this patch of space into a little more cosmic dust.

With this thought.

Chen Huaian rose to his feet and drew his sword.

Clang—!

The blade had yet to leave its sheath, but a frigid Sword Intent was already drifting out.

He stood silently in the void.

One sword. One man.

And across from him was a dense sea of enemies from different civilizations.

A flash of Sword Radiance gleamed in Chen Huaian’s eyes.

The Chaos Sword was held horizontally before his chest.

The entire star field suddenly shuddered.

The heavens spun, the earth whirled—!

That was the most immediate sensation felt by the creatures of the three civilizations.

The fleet seemed to be swept into a turbulent current, helplessly drawn away by an inexplicable, mighty force.

As for the demons from the Abyss—whether they were the vanguard that had already set foot on Canglan Realm’s soil or the main force far away across the sea of stars—they were all flung away at the same instant by an irresistible power.

They pierced through the shattered Boundary Wall, swept past burning stars, and under countless horrified gazes, were pushed all the way to the void billions of miles away from the Canglan Realm.

When they finally stabilized themselves and looked up.

A silver-white Sword Curtain spanning heaven and earth stood silently before the Canglan Realm.

On the Sword Curtain, Sword Intent flowed, radiating brilliance for tens of thousands of feet.

The mountains and rivers of the Canglan Realm, the auspicious beasts surrounding Li Qingran, the various gods of the Canglan Realm—all were shielded behind this Sword Curtain. Any energy attack that tried to approach the Sword Curtain turned into nothingness the moment it made contact.

Before the Sword Curtain.

A figure in white.

Chen Huaian’s pale hair drifted like smoke and mist, gently dancing amidst the surrounding starlight.

He stood alone, his form slender, but there was a momentum about him that merged the Canglan Realm behind him, and even the billions of stars around him, into one entity. Just standing there motionless, he pressed down like a majestic city wall, making it hard for everyone except Li Qingran to breathe.

“What... just happened?”

Silence fell over the three civilization armies.

The Abyssal Lord’s scarlet pupils were locked dead on Chen Huaian, his eyes filled with confusion.

Part of his demon legion had already set foot on Canglan Realm’s territory, and the Abyssal Plane had also connected with the Canglan Realm. Yet in just a moment of distraction, his Abyss legion had been forced back, all the demons swept away by a force.

Looking around.

He sensed that the intelligent mechanical civilization and the Star Devourer horde shared the same confusion.

In the blink of an eye, they had all been isolated outside.

The Canglan World, which had already been like a meal on a plate, was now enveloped in a silver-white curtain of light.

“Everyone.”

Chen Huaian held his sword in one hand and clasped the other behind his back, saying coldly:

“Today, This Venerable One has become a Saint. I do not wish to invite karmic entanglements or create bloodshed.

I will give you a chance—go back to where you came from.”

“He’s telling us to leave!” The Abyssal Lord narrowed his eyes, his voice hoarse. “On what basis? He’s just a somewhat strange human.”

The central star brain’s cold, electronic voice rang through all fleet channels: “Target energy level assessment—no energy level detected.

Energy level: zero! Threat level: none!

Suggestion: Joint attack, concentrate fire, instant annihilation!”

Zero energy level?

The mechanical beings had never seen something with no energy in their entire existence.

Every substance in this world, even a speck of dust, possessed energy.

But the star brain’s judgment was an absolute command.

The star brain was their brain. If the star brain said it was fine, then it was fine!

The Abyssal Lord let out a scornful laugh. Dark energy coalesced on his massive claw. He reopened the Abyss Gate, roaring furiously: “Charge! Tear him apart! Turn every living thing in the Canglan Realm into nourishment for the Abyss!”

The Star Devourers also let out low growls.

Having finally found such a weak and delicious planet like the Canglan Realm, how could they let it go so easily?

The next second.

The attack began.

Hundreds of millions of main cannon beams fired simultaneously, converging into a torrent of energy powerful enough to destroy a galaxy, shooting straight at Chen Huaian.

The Abyss Gate fully opened. Countless demons spread their wings and took flight, forming a boundless black tide that blotted out the sky and covered the sun.

The Star Devourers slowly pressed forward. Their bodies eclipsed the starlight, and everything they passed was swallowed by darkness.

The void trembled.

The Laws shattered.

The full-force assault of the three civilizations was enough to turn any world into scorched earth.

And Chen Huaian stood right in the face of this cataclysmic attack.

His eyes darkened slightly.

“You were given a chance!”

It was an extremely soft sigh that brushed across the entire sea of stars.

Before the words had even faded, Chen Huaian struck out with his sword in a backhand motion.

This sword strike showed no Sword Light and produced no sword hum.

But behind him.

That silver-white Sword Curtain, spanning who knows how many millions of miles across the deep void, let out a faint “crack” like fragile glass.

Then, the Sword Curtain shattered inch by inch.

The broken, supreme Sword Intent did not dissipate. Instead, it transformed into a snowfall.

Countless chilling sword energies condensed into frosty blossoms, scattering and drifting like a river of stars cascading down, or like moonlight flowers falling from the cold palace of the moon.

They fell with unparalleled beauty and gentleness toward the formations of the three civilizations.

One crystalline “snowflake” landed leisurely on the brow of a Star Devourer.

In an instant, this invincible, colossal being froze completely. Its massive maw remained in its devouring posture, and between its jagged fangs was still wedged half a shattered, faintly glowing star—but it could no longer bite down by even a hair’s breadth.

Snow fell into the raging tide of demons.

The surging Abyss legion was instantly stripped of time itself.

Countless ferocious, shadowy figures remained in their roaring, charging poses, claws extended forward, leathery wings spread wide, yet they were pinned dead in the void like insects sealed in amber.

Snow swept across the sky-blotting steel jungle.

The vast, mighty interstellar fleet hovered in place. The light of their main cannons at the bows, enough to destroy planets, was still dazzling—yet it was forcibly cut off, unable to emit even half an inch.

A long wind blew across the sea of stars. Silence reigned supreme.

“Clang——”

It was the crisp sound of a blade returning to its sheath.

Chen Huaian flicked his sleeve and turned, his wide robe billowing, not a speck of dust clinging to him.

He stepped across the void, walking back toward the Canglan Realm without casting another glance behind him.

Behind him, everything withered.

Wherever the frost and snow touched, it was the journey home.

The Star Devourer’s starlike, massive body collapsed silently.

The demon tide didn’t even stir a ripple of struggle before it vanished like a single drop of inferior ink into the vast Heavenly River.

And the once-invincible fleet rapidly dissolved and disintegrated amidst the gentle falling snow.

Everything was breaking apart, peeling away into the most basic particles.

In a single breath.

The three civilizations that had invaded the Canglan Realm, along with their ambition and arrogance, all scattered into dust within this Extinction Sword Intent.

Just like a flurry of heavy snow.

Falling silently into this long, unknown night.

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