Chapter 1 Outside Sword Pavilion

Outside the Sword Pavilion.

Huang Taiji stared at the sword formation suspended in front of him and said in a deep voice, "Cai Longshen, we have already lost the initiative."

Huang Taiji paused for a few seconds, originally intending to say that he could overlook Cai Longshen being influenced by Ichikawa Mi, and they could all work together for one last stand.

But considering Cai Longshen's status as the grandson of the chief elder, accustomed to being the center of attention, these words would only enrage him and make him refuse to cooperate.

So he changed his words, "Now the last hope is to awaken the Primordial Celestial Venerable. In fact, if Cai Longshen wasn't afraid of battle and the Primordial Celestial Venerable wasn't asleep, the Lawful faction would have a chance to win. No, even a certain win. Because there is a confidante of the Primordial Celestial Venerable in the Evil faction."

"But things are always unpredictable. Reality isn't a comparison of data; reality is full of variables." Cai Longshen's cold voice came from inside the Sword Pavilion. "That's you. I can leave at any time. For me, failing the dungeon only means losing a level. I don't plan to participate in the year-end massacre dungeon anyway. Losing a level is unimportant; I can leave at any time." Huang Taiji frowned, then understood something.

"So that's how it is." Xiao Yuan said loudly, "Since you can leave at any time, there's even less reason to fight. If you win, there might be a turn for the better; if you lose, you're just repeating the same path. But that requires taking risks. Why should I take risks?"

Cai Longshen laughed, unfooled. "Why do you think the Primordial Celestial Venerable can be awakened? Even if he wakes up, can he defeat the Evil faction?" The head hanging on Yin Yao's waist bit the small horn. "The Primordial Celestial Venerable is a Star Official. When he suppressed the water-attribute fiend, he must have looked at his own face. He knew he could live, so he took the risk."

"That's why he firmly believes the Primordial Celestial Venerable can be awakened. If death was certain, the Primordial Celestial Venerable wouldn't have chosen this path. Since he did, he must have seen a glimmer of life in his face. It's just that the subsequent development was unexpected; he's in a state between life and death, unable to wake up."

Cai Longshen sneered, "Took a risk and turned himself into a living dead. If you could awaken the Primordial Celestial Venerable, why wait until now? Don't waste your breath trying to trick me into risking my life. I won't help you."

After speaking, he ignored the two people and one corpse outside the Sword Pavilion. Neither Xiao Yuan nor Yin Yao was weak, but seeing the last helper's indifferent attitude, they inevitably felt despair.

"Let's go." Xiao Yuan covered her chest and left. Yin Yao silently followed. Huang Taiji stared at the Sword Pavilion for a long time, then silently turned and left.

The Murong family's cemetery was overgrown with weeds, gray tombstones and lush weeds blending together. *Dong, dong, dong, dong,* muffled knocking sounds came from inside a stone coffin. The Primordial Celestial Venerable lying inside seemed to have come alive, but the Greedy Divine General and others knew that what had come alive wasn't the Five Elements Alliance's genius, but the water-attribute spiritual anomaly that had merged into his body.

The Greedy Divine General raised his blood-colored long saber and slashed down with all his might.

The blade embedded into the stone armor but didn't split it open. He raised the saber again, his arm muscles bulging. He slashed seven times in a row, finally shattering the power of Qifu and the Mountain God. The hard, gray-white stone armor shattered into pieces, revealing the Primordial Celestial Venerable inside. The charred humanoid inside the coffin thrashed violently, a circle of black light rippling from his waist, impacting the stone coffin. The evil practitioners all retreated.

The Greedy Divine General, having learned his lesson, suppressed his greed for the props and didn't dare approach. Ichikawa Mi stayed far away, sensing carefully, and smiled. "There's the aura of a soul. He's reviving. He's sensing the fierce aura again, feeling the fluctuations of the soul fragments. But he seems unable to leave the Primordial Celestial Venerable's body."

The Hundred-Kill General stared at the violently trembling body. When the previous coffins were unsealed, the fiends inside had left on their own.

"He's sealed, sealed in his body by the Primordial Celestial Venerable using some method. What a remarkable junior." The Greedy Divine General frowned, forced to face a new problem. "We need to find a way to break the seal."

"No... wait a little longer." Ichikawa Mi seemed to sense something, looking towards Murong Fu's mausoleum, her gaze seemingly penetrating the blue stone, seeing the tomb palace. "I can feel something awakening inside." As soon as she finished speaking, as if responding to the water-attribute spiritual power's call, Murong family ancestors' tomb palace trembled violently, and the entire cemetery shook as if an earthquake was occurring. Then the stones sealing the tomb palace exploded with a *boom*. A ball of scarlet fire emitting high temperatures burst out of the grave. The scorching heat forced the Greedy Divine General and others to retreat. The fireball circled above the cemetery, then crashed straight down into the stone coffin.

It crashed into the Primordial Celestial Venerable's body, followed by a stream of emerald light. Under the green light's illumination, the vegetation near the forest grew wildly. Unrestrained growth filled with vibrant life, dragging faint light and merging into the silk light, merging into the Primordial Celestial Venerable's body. Then a thick, earth-yellow light ball floated out, unassuming and unadorned, slowly and heavily flying towards the stone coffin.

Next, from the dark and gloomy tomb palace entrance, a stream of pale white sword energy arrived first, shooting into the Primordial Celestial Venerable's body with a *shui* sound. At this time, the thick, earth-yellow light ball finally pressed itself onto the Primordial Celestial Venerable's abdomen and merged into it.

*Ding! You have successfully collected the Five Elements power. Shenjian Shanzhuang is now closed. Those who have not arrived will be randomly teleported to any location in the Shanzhuang.*

*The final battle begins. Please eliminate the enemy.* The Evil faction's Lingjing Xingzhe simultaneously received a prompt from the Lingjing. As the Five Elements gathered, white, green, black, red, and yellow colors alternately flashed within the stone coffin, gradually merging into black and white. An indescribable, ineffable pressure descended from the sky, enveloping the entire cemetery. A terrifying aura brewed within the coffin, as if a dreadful fiend was being born. Another ancient demon was awakening.

"Retreat!" The Greedy Divine General's voice was low and urgent. The pressure made him feel as if he was facing a Heavenly King, or encountering an elder of the Lawful faction. Without a doubt, this was Dominator-level power. At their level, only Dominator-level bosses could create such a scene.

*Ding! The Evil faction has successfully awakened a demon. Shenjian Shanzhuang is now closed. Those who have not arrived will be randomly teleported to any location in the Shanzhuang. The final battle begins. Please eliminate the enemy.*

Cai Longshen stood on the roof of the pavilion, looking at the cemetery from afar, his gloomy expression revealing solemnity and dread. "The Evil faction has completed the main quest. They've successfully awakened a demon." Even from a distance, he could still feel that terrifying aura. A Dominator-level aura, which seemed to have a natural suppression on him as a God of Plague. Just smelling a trace of it made his heart palpitate, producing an unspeakable fear.

"It's time to leave." Cai Longshen rubbed the copper ring in his palm. He actually realized that he had been tricked, but he wouldn't admit that his selfishness and weakness had been exploited by the enemy, leading to this dungeon failure. The reason he hadn't left yet was just... stubbornly waiting for the final result.

On the main road of Shenjian Shanzhuang, Jiang Ju ran towards the cemetery, cursing and gnashing his teeth. "We still lost. I can self-destruct one more time, I can self-destruct one more time!" He followed the terrifying aura.

Yin Yao bit the small horn, her voice dejected and low. "We guessed wrong. They didn't want to extract the power from the Primordial Celestial Venerable's body; they wanted to occupy his body. We have no hope..."

The aura and pressure emanating from the stone coffin made her tremble slightly, her heart filled with fear and despair. Xiao Yuan bit her lip tightly, drawing blood. Huang Taiji sighed. "Life and death are determined by fate." In fact, he had already been aware of this when the Greedy Divine General took the stone coffin. He had foreseen the ending when Cai Longshen refused to take action and stood by.

*Wǎ guàn bù lí jǐn shàng pō. Jiāngjūn nánmiǎn zhèn qián wáng.* (A clay pot never leaves the steep slope. A general can't avoid dying in front of the battle.) From the day he became a Lingjing Xingzhe, he had prepared himself to return to the Lingjing. It was just that he was ultimately unwilling, losing so frustratingly.

The black and white colors converged. A charred hand rested on the edge of the coffin. Then, a charred humanoid sat up. He slowly opened his eyes, his gaze hollow and blank. "Who am I?" Murong Fu, Murong Long... The hollowness and blankness in his eyes gradually faded, replaced by cruelty and madness.

"Who I am doesn't matter anymore. I am who I am, doing whatever I want." The Greedy Divine General and the others who had retreated to a distance exchanged glances, suddenly understanding the reason why Murong Long had fallen into demonic obsession. He seemed unable to distinguish whether he was Murong Long or his ancestor Murong Fu. Falling into demonic obsession wasn't rare, but confusing oneself with one's ancestor was strange and difficult to understand.

In addition, Murong Wenxing's blood letter mentioned that Murong Long's corpse had been destroyed by him, and his soul and Five Elements power had been dismembered and entrusted to clansmen for separate management. However, after the coffin was transported back to Shenjian Shanzhuang, it went directly into Murong Fu's tomb. This detail originally seemed unreasonable, but now, seeing Murong Long's state, the Greedy Divine General and others realized that Murong Long's situation was probably not just a simple case of falling into demonic obsession.

At this moment, the maniacal Murong Long opened his mouth and inhaled, the black and white Qi turning into a rolling vortex. Strands of white, black, red, and yellow energy were stripped from the earth, tombstones, and vegetation of the cemetery, flowing into his mouth. The things from which the energy was stripped either turned gray-white, or were sandified, or withered, quickly losing their color. The Greedy Divine General and the evil practitioners felt the source power in their bodies rapidly flowing away, being devoured by Murong Long, and immediately retreated in shock.

"Strange and overbearing power," Ichikawa Mi said in a low voice. "This is the characteristic of the fusion of the Five Elements spiritual power. Does that mean the five Lawful professions can actually fuse? After the Five Elements fuse, they can actually devour the power of other professions. What an enviable secret technique. If I could also cultivate the Five Elements secret technique..."

The Greedy Divine General said greedily, "The Five Elements spiritual power can fuse, but the five Lawful professions cannot.

No one can possess five character cards at the same time. However, I suddenly remembered an intelligence report from many years ago." Ichikawa Mi and the other two retreated, looking at the old Greedy Divine General. When the Greedy Divine General was dominating the Lingjing, they were still minors. "The military instructor's intelligence database recorded that the Five Elements Alliance once gathered scholars to study the power of the Five Elements. Although the official side kept it secret, the number of people participating in the research was large, and it was difficult to maintain secrecy."

The Greedy Divine General recalled this, arousing the military instructor's attention. "We specially sent special agents to collect relevant information. But later, we didn't see any remarkable changes in the Five Elements Alliance, so we gradually stopped paying attention. Now it seems that the official research was most likely on the secret technique of Five Elements fusion. So the official side failed."

The Hundred-Kill General said, "Inevitably. Just as the Divine General said, no one can possess five character cards, unless they cultivate the Five Elements secret technique like Murong Long."

Ichikawa Mi suddenly said, "Perhaps there is another way." She looked at the Five Elements set on the Primordial Celestial Venerable and Murong Long's body. The Greedy Divine General, Snake Woman, and Hundred-Kill General immediately turned their heads, all looking at Murong Long, their eyes burning, the greed in their eyes no less than the Greedy Divine General's.

*Kacha, kacha.* The charcoal-like fragments on Murong Long's body cracked and fell off, revealing...

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