CHAPTER 158: CHAPTER 157: STRUGGLE ON THE VERGE OF DEATH, CELESTIAL DAO OF WAR?

In the camp, the various factions heard the dialogue between the two ghost gods and immediately understood that the claim of destroying the tomb to banish the Beimang Forbidden Land was merely an excuse.

What the Blood God truly intended was to use them to force the other ghost god to return to life.

From beginning to end, they were nothing more than pawns manipulated at will by the ghost gods.

The factions felt anger rising within them, but as soon as they saw the two hundred-meter tall ghost gods manifesting in the world, their anger instantly vanished.

No matter what thoughts they harbored, in the face of such terrifying, colossal beings, they all felt so fragile and powerless.

The Giant Spirit God stood atop the mountain peak, with golden inscriptions flowing around him endlessly; with every gesture, he divided the abundant ghost qi into thousands of weapons, each of which seemed capable of cleaving mountains.

Each breath made the air around him still, emanating an overpowering aura that made mountains tremble.

Opposite him, the Blood God fused with eight hundred Yin Soldiers, runes flickering on his Profound Armor, resembling a river of stars flowing in the night sky.

These Yin Soldiers transformed into giant arms or formed indestructible armor, changing with the flow of thought. Each Yin Soldier was an individual spirit body, yet together they formed this formidable giant.

The two forces collided in the void, their invisible waves boiling the fog within a hundred miles. Each step taken by the Giant Spirit God trembled the earth a bit.

The Blood God constantly changed forms within the enveloped clouds and mist, the eight hundred Yin Soldiers flowing through his body like dark rivers.

Deep within the spirit vein surrounded by clouds, Lu Yan sat silently, watching the unfolding drama.

To outsiders, the two ghost gods appeared gigantic at a hundred meters, but only Lu Yan could see that most of the ghost gods were illusions formed by gathered ghost qi.

Even after completing the ghost god transformation and pushing the Giant God Technique talent skill to its limit, the Giant Spirit barely reached fifty meters, while the Blood God was only thirty meters.

The collision seemed intense, but neither side suffered any damage, with all spells and divine techniques unleashed on the surrounding hills.

As for the trembling mountains and land fissures, it was Lu Yan who had previously set up the second-tier Earthquake Array, able to induce earthquakes by leveraging the force of the mountains.

Combining various critical techniques with illusion techniques, the battle appeared convincingly real.

Lu Yan glanced at the corner of the virtual interface, watching the version change value reach 95%.

"The Giant Spirit God spent a large amount of soul computation power creating an unprovable spiritual qi era, and the relevant information has been conveyed to various factions through the murals in the Beimang Tomb.

Inside the tomb, He Dongsheng and Mu Chunqiu, who didn’t enter the main chamber, escaped unharmed, and the cultivation technique ’Chang Chun Skill’ spread through them."

"Once this ghost god confrontation is complete, using this real power to announce the advent of the spiritual energy revival era to the world, the version change value can be pushed to 100%!

Once completed, it will be my moment to act as humans do in place of the heavens and establish the ultimate foundation!"

As Lu Yan murmured, the version change value shifted to 96%.

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The great battle darkened skies and obscured the sun; the once picturesque Beimang Mountain seemed scorched by artillery, with large parts collapsing and rivers drying up.

Countless people flocked to Luo City to broadcast the shocking ghost god war live. The Federation Government initially tried to block information but eventually chose to let events unfold.

Finally, successive battles seemed to push both ghost gods to their limits.

The golden inscriptions around the Giant Spirit God dimmed, while the Blood God had his soul body fractured, revealing the unified Yin Soldiers.

With the last collision, the imposing bodies of both ghost gods simultaneously disintegrated.

As they disintegrated, the version change value reached an astonishing 99.9%.

At this precise moment, an indescribable sense of crisis suddenly surged within Lu Yan, prompting him to instinctively look toward the sky.

The pervasive ghost fog transformed into Lu Yan’s gaze, allowing him to clearly see the scene above at twenty thousand meters high.

A bomber, not of Federation models, was tracing a perfect trajectory at supersonic speed, aiming directly at Beimang Mountain!

How could a bomber penetrate the Federation’s heartland?

Undoubtedly, this was the Urban Celestial Dao’s interference in reality; otherwise, the bomber would have been shattered into fragments by anti-air missiles as it approached the border.

Lu Yan chuckled softly upon witnessing this, his deep eyes seemingly able to discern the frail will above the sky.

"Is this your final measure?"

Lu Yan had long realized that even if the Urban Celestial Dao was weak, it couldn’t lack any countermeasures.

Even a dying beast struggles fiercely, let alone the Celestial Dao?

Hence, while Lu Yan outwardly promoted spiritual energy revival, he was actually always on guard against the Urban Celestial Dao.

Upon seeing the bomber, Lu Yan understood the Urban Celestial Dao’s ultimate card.

The bomber came from the United States, the great nation that rivals the Eastern Federation.

The Urban Celestial Dao, using its final strength combined with reality’s crisis, provoked enmity from the United States’ higher-ups.

The spiritually revived Beimang Mountain lies within the Federation’s heartland, unreachable by the United States; the research achievements on spiritual qi by the Federation will inevitably disrupt the balance between these two great nations, which the United States absolutely doesn’t want to see.

Coupled with interference from the Urban Celestial Dao’s will, it prompted the United States’ leadership to make a mad decision.

Drop a nuclear bomb to destroy the Beimang Mountain Forbidden Land!

This approach seemed insane but offered a lifeline to both the United States and the Urban Celestial Dao.

Lu Yan previously realized that after the Urban Celestial Dao was supplanted, there were two directions: the spiritual energy revival version he guided and the version of a world war that completely violates existing order and peace, initiating a global conflict.

If the United States successfully bombs the Federation’s heartland, destroying the sole spirit vein, the ensuing conflict between the two great nations would become irreparable.

Once the two great nations go to war, every other country in the world will inevitably take sides, and the war’s scope will only expand, eventually engulfing the globe.

The hope for spiritual energy revival vanishes, a world war begins, allowing the Urban Celestial Dao, as the behind-the-scenes orchestrator, to abandon past order and development for peace and leap into becoming the War Celestial Dao!

This is a path of resurrecting through demise!

"A clever idea, but you have no chance."

The Soul Banner fell into Lu Yan’s hands, and as he waved it, the previously weakened ghost god Yin Soldiers returned to their prime.

Gazing into the twenty thousand meter high sky, Lu Yan whispered:

"Form the array, shoot Sirius!"

Using the two ghost gods as array eyes, eight hundred Yin Soldiers as array nodes, the second-tier masterpiece array, the ’Shoot Sirius Array,’ instantly took shape.

This is the highest rank grand array recorded in ’Array Profound Mystery,’ with a complexity that even a third-tier Array Master may struggle to set up, yet for the Ghost God Computer, any complex array can be easily completed.

Setting up the Shoot Sirius Array is incredibly challenging, making it impractical for normal engagements, often used as a protective grand array in marketplaces.

Yet once the Shoot Sirius Array is configured, its killing power is unmatched among second-tier arrays, even capable of severely injuring a Golden Core adept if targeted.

Massive ghost qi flowed within the array, a black long bow manifested within it.

Drawing the bow, nocking the arrow!

Under the midday sky, stars tumble, as the Northern Dipper descends its brilliance upon the array, transforming into a glittering starry arrow.

In the next moment, like a comet’s trajectory cutting through the sky, the ghost fog and clouds above were pierced instantly, revealing a vast hole that stretched skyward for several kilometers.

Such an unusual phenomenon immediately captured everyone’s attention.

The next moment, everyone could witness the rise of a second sun above the sky.

The dazzling nuclear explosion’s glow rapidly spread across the sky, causing numerous retinas to scorch upon directly viewing the explosion’s light, succeeded by intense shock waves and explosive sounds that swept through the land.

At the very instant of the nuclear explosion, the pervasive malice lingering in Lu Yan’s perception vanished completely.

Soon, before Lu Yan’s eyes on the virtual interface, a line of text popped up.

[Version Change Value: 100%]