Immortality: Grinding Experience Starting as a Paper Craftsman

Chapter 145 Purple Cloud Descends, Paper Ruler of Heaven's Might

Above the heavens, the deep purple clouds, imbued with the might of celestial calamity, surged and boiled with thunder, like an inverted abyss, devoid of rain, only filled with the pure aura of destruction resonating within.

Under the glaring purple light, the blue bricks and white walls of Changning County lost their original color, leaving only the paleness of life and death.

Gu Yan, dressed in a black robe, hovered in mid-air directly above Changning County, the violent pressure of the tribulation clouds pulling his long hair back.

He raised his head and faced the crimson thunder dragon that had emerged from the clouds.

This thunder dragon is not an illusion; its scales are formed from extremely compressed thunder plasma, each one gleaming with a sharp edge that can pierce through the void.

Those emotionless, vertical pupils were fixed on Gu Yan, as if he were staring at a thief who was trying to steal the power of the Heavenly Dao.

The ensuing laws of destruction also firmly enveloped the entire world.

Gu Yan frowned deeply.

He could sense that the tribulation lightning was not only aimed at the divine and demonic golden core within his body, but also at the city beneath his feet that had nurtured the incense and divine path.

The Way of Heaven is most ruthless, regarding all things as straw dogs. In order to eliminate anomalies, it will not hesitate to purify the entire land where the anomaly resides into ashes.

run.

This was the first thought that flashed through Gu Yan's mind.

If he immediately flees a thousand miles away and directs the lightning tribulation to the desolate Hundred Thousand Mountains, he can fight against the might of Heaven without having to hesitate.

However, when he glanced down from the corner of his eye, he abruptly stopped in mid-air.

Li, the owner of the steamed bun shop in the west of the city, knelt in the snow, while the shopkeeper, with tears streaming down his face, leaned on the doorstep. Tens of thousands of people were offering him their purest incense and prayers without reservation.

If he ignores all of this, the nine thunder dragons will fall into the city and completely erase Changning County from the map of the Great Wei.

Gu Yan's fingers, gripping the folding fan, turned white, and a struggle flashed in his eyes.

He was a calculating paper craftsman, and a commander of the Demon Suppression Division who never suffered a loss.

But at this moment, the newly formed golden core of the divine demon within his body trembled violently.

Whether it's a compassionate divinity or an unruly demonic nature.

If he were to retreat at this point, an irreparable rift would appear in the mind of this golden elixir.

After all, he has taken offerings from countless families. If he can't even protect his own followers, what kind of deity is he cultivating?

Since there is no way to retreat, then we will not retreat.

Gu Yan tucked the worn-out folding fan into his sleeve, clasped his hands together in front of his chest, and let out a low growl.

"Black Tortoise Formation, activate!"

Deep underground in Changning County, the Xuanwu Earth Vein Pearl emitted an unprecedentedly rich yellow light.

The ground of the entire county shook violently, and an extremely solid, earth-yellow light curtain rose from the ground, like a giant inverted tortoise shell, tightly protecting Changning County, which spanned dozens of miles.

On the surface of the tortoise shell, countless ancient tortoise and snake totems vie for attention, shimmering and dancing.

Gu Yan's body merged directly into the very top of the light screen. He used his physical body as the core of the formation, determined to bear the wrath of heaven for the people of the city with his own strength.

Above the clouds, the Thunder Dragon let out a deafening roar.

The first bolt of heavenly lightning, which was the dragon's claw, crashed down with a piercing shriek that tore through space.

Purple light pierced through the heavens and earth.

The scene depicted in plain line drawing freezes at this moment.

The purple lightning bolt struck the yellowish-brown light screen directly.

There was no deafening roar, because the sound was directly annihilated by this terrifying energy.

The black robe covering Gu Yan's body turned to ashes in an instant, revealing his tough flesh covered with divine and demonic patterns.

"Click."

The seemingly indestructible basalt light barrier was now covered with spiderweb-like cracks.

Gu Yan's eyes widened, his left eye radiating divine light, while his right eye churned with demonic energy.

He forcefully mobilized the divine and demonic golden core in his dantian, continuously injecting abundant spiritual power into the great formation beneath his feet.

The crack had just appeared when he forcibly mended it.

He channeled the terrifying power of thunder into the deep underground water veins of Changning County through the array.

The underground river was boiled, turning into countless white steam that gushed out from the cracks in the wilderness outside the city, melting away all the snow within a hundred miles.

He withstood the first wave of lightning tribulation.

Unfortunately, fate did not give him a chance to catch his breath.

The massive body of the Thunder Dragon rolled in the clouds. The second, third, and fourth bolts of lightning were no longer single strikes, but transformed into a torrential downpour of purple lightning.

The sky above the entire Changning County turned into a purple ocean.

The light of the Xuanwu Grand Formation flickered precariously in this vast ocean.

Blood began to flow from Gu Yan's mouth and nose; the blood was the color of lead and mercury with a hint of gold.

Even with the protection of the Xuanwu paper armor, his skin began to crack inch by inch, revealing his bones, which were as white as jade.

We can't protect them anymore.

If we continue to use the formation to resist, the backlash from the collapse of the formation will turn Changning County into ruins in an instant.

A ruthless glint flashed in Gu Yan's eyes.

He deactivated the Xuanwu Formation, shrinking all the earth vein defenses to protect only the city buildings and people below, while exposing himself completely to the boundless sea of ​​lightning.

"Come."

Instead of retreating, Gu Yan advanced, soaring into the sky amidst the boundless thunder.

The divine and demonic golden core within his body was operating wildly.

The white divine light transformed into a compassionate Dharma image hundreds of feet tall, shattering all the descending lightning.

The black demonic energy transformed into a pitch-black demonic blade that stretched from the sky to the earth, flowing upstream and slashing directly into the depths of the tribulation clouds.

The fifth, sixth, and seventh lightning tribulations were all blasted apart in mid-air by his relentless physical combat.

Purple lightning rained down from the sky.

Gu Yan's appearance was extremely tragic. Not a single piece of flesh on his body was intact. The residual power of lightning continued to rage in the deep wounds that exposed bone, preventing the self-healing of the Divine Demon Golden Core.

His breath had sunk to rock bottom, and with each breath he spewed out a mouthful of blood mist.

But his spine remained ramrod straight, suspended beneath the thunderclouds, like an invincible war god.

A brief silence fell over the depths of the calamity clouds.

This deathly silence is not the dissipation of the heavenly tribulation, but rather the brewing of the final and most terrifying destruction.

The purple tribulation clouds that originally stretched for hundreds of miles began to collapse toward the center at a speed visible to the naked eye.

All the tribulation clouds and all the lightning converged into an ultimate lightning dragon, only ten feet in size, as solid as if it were cast from purple gold.

The eighth and ninth lightning tribulations merged into one.

The purple-gold thunder dragon didn't roar at all. It just stared coldly at Gu Yan, then opened its mouth and silently pounced down.

The moment it pounced, the area surrounding Changning County was sealed off.

The gravity between heaven and earth, hundreds or thousands of times greater, condensed at a single point and superimposed on Gu Yan's body.

Gu Yan's face turned ashen as he struggled to move his fingers.

This is an attack that has already violated the laws of heaven and earth, a truly annihilating blow.

Let alone Gu Yan, who has just formed his core, even a true Nascent Soul expert standing here would probably be cleaved into smoke by this attack.

To resist head-on would be certain death.

A strange smile appeared on Gu Yan's blood-covered face.

This is the moment he's been waiting for.

The Way of Heaven is a collection of rules; it has no consciousness, only judgment.

It judged Gu Yan to be an anomaly that disrupted the balance, so it unleashed lightning as punishment.

As long as this judgment is fooled, the lightning punishment can be neutralized.

Gu Yan used his last bit of strength to take out the severed finger from his storage ring, the one he had previously used to form his core.

The severed finger had exhausted its life force after helping Gu Yan condense his golden core.

However, its hard material, which belongs to a Nascent Soul stage expert, and its extremely restrained rules of destruction remain completely intact.

"This is utterly deceitful!"

Gu Yan whispered, her ten fingers dancing in front of her like butterflies flitting among flowers.

Within his dantian, a wisp of the most primordial aura from the Divine Demon Golden Core, along with a mouthful of his life essence, was sprayed onto the severed finger that had just reached the Nascent Soul stage.

Immediately afterwards, countless gray-brown paper figures flew out from his sleeve.

These paper figures were quickly assembled and folded in mid-air.

In the blink of an eye, a giant paper doll, identical to Gu Yan in size, appearance, and even the aura of gods and demons emanating from it, appeared in mid-air.

Gu Yan slammed the severed finger, which was stained with his own original aura, into the center of the paper doll's brow.

He then quickly withdrew all his life force and spiritual power, used the Paper World Concealment Technique to transform his body into a thin, transparent piece of paper, which drifted down with the wind and stuck firmly to the eaves of a house in Changning County below.

In the void, the locking mechanism of the Heavenly Dao experienced a brief disruption.

In the perception of the Heavenly Dao, two Gu Yans suddenly appeared below.

One of them had an aura as faint as an ant, while the other, Gu Yan, who was suspended in mid-air, not only exuded a strong aura of a divine and demonic being, but also had a power belonging to the rules of a high-dimensional godhood provoking the might of heaven at the center of his brow.

The Heavenly Thunder Dragon made its choice without hesitation.

Ignoring the transparent piece of paper pasted under the eaves, it slammed into the paper doll with the severed finger of a god embedded between its eyebrows with a destructive force.

This is a clash between rules.

The purple-gold thunder dragon represents the purification law of this world.

The severed finger of a Nascent Soul cultivator represents a destructive law that transcends this world.

At the moment of contact, there was no earth-shattering explosion, only an absolute black hole with a diameter of several thousand feet flashed by in mid-air.

All light, all sound, all matter were completely swallowed up in that brief moment.

All light, all sound, all matter were completely swallowed up in that brief moment.

The paper doll vanished into nothingness the instant it came into contact with the object.

That seemingly indestructible severed finger, even under the collision of ultimate thunder and law, let out a crisp sound of being unable to bear the weight, and its surface gradually became covered with dense cracks.

The purple-gold thunder dragon, under the backlash of the Nascent Soul rules, exhausted its last bit of heavenly might and dissipated into the world.

The thick purple tribulation clouds, having lost their support, began to disintegrate rapidly.

A ray of golden sunlight pierced through the crack in the clouds, cutting through the darkness like a sharp sword, and fell upon the snow-covered bluestone slabs of Changning County.

The heavenly tribulation has ended.

Changning County has been saved.

The transparent paper fragment that Gu Yan transformed into drifted down from the eaves, retrieved the broken finger of the Nascent Soul stage, and re-formed a physical body in a secluded pile of rubble.

He collapsed helplessly in the ruins, his body covered in wounds.

The Divine Demon Golden Core spun extremely slowly in his Qi Sea, squeezing out the last bit of spiritual power to repair his collapsing body.

That was too dangerous.

If the material of that severed finger from the Nascent Soul stage had been even slightly weaker, he would have truly perished today.

However, he ultimately won.

He successfully formed an unprecedented divine and demonic golden core, and during this world-destroying tribulation, he tempered his physical body to an incredible degree.

Given time to recover, he can certainly travel to the land of Dongzhou.

Just as Gu Yan had taken a few healing pills and was about to find a place to stabilize his Golden Core realm, his expression suddenly changed.

The sky above Changning County was enveloped in a dazzling, precious light.

From the due east, three long, flowing cloud boats, each a hundred feet long, soared through the sky.

On the flying boat, sword energy soared into the sky, and dozens of inner sect elders of the Flowing Cloud Sect stood in the air, their expressions solemn.

From the due west, a ghastly green, poisonous cloud rolled in.

Within the poisonous clouds, a centipede hundreds of feet long could be vaguely seen writhing, with several Golden Core cultivators from the Valley of Ten Thousand Poisons standing on its back.

To the due south, the Azure Dragon Sect's wooden warships resembled a moving forest, blotting out the sun. On the deck of the warships, the Azure Dragon Sect's leader personally led the team, his face ashen.

And directly to the north, in that direction where the oppressive force is most terrifying.

A massive white jade chariot, pulled by a nine-headed, snow-white dragon, slowly rolled through the void.

The carriage was surrounded by celestial music and falling flower petals.

A purple-gold banner hung on the carriage, with the words "Cangxuan" embroidered on it.

That was the Cangxuan Sect, one of the few super overlords in the Eastern Continent with a Nascent Soul stage expert in charge.

Following the lead airship, countless other airships from various factions arrived in quick succession.

These powerful forces, who usually held a high position and wouldn't even give Changning County a second glance, came out like sharks smelling blood.

Gu Yan lay in the pile of rubble, watching the massive army pressing in from the sky, his mind racing.

He got it.

The heavenly tribulation and strange phenomena he triggered during his breakthrough were so terrifying that they directly misled these sects.

This led them to mistakenly believe that a reclusive master in Changning County had broken through to the Nascent Soul stage, or that a fallen Nascent Soul master had been resurrected in this place.

They came on a pilgrimage, but also to test the waters.

If they discover that the person who caused the strange phenomenon was just him, the newly formed Core Formation Commander who was seriously injured and could barely stand, then they will find out that he was the one who caused the strange phenomenon.

These supposedly righteous and noble families, who usually spout righteousness and morality, will absolutely transform into the most greedy wolves in the next second, tearing him apart, searching his soul, and forcing him to reveal all his secrets.

The divine and demonic golden core within him will be dug out and used as an excellent material for alchemy; his physical body, capable of withstanding heavenly lightning, will be refined into a top-tier corpse puppet.

A cold glint flashed in Gu Yan's eyes, and after only a moment's thought, he came up with a solution.