Game Cultivation World: I'm really playing games

For the first time, the Heavenly Emperor's expression turned serious. He knew Xue Donglan's realm; a peak Immortal Emperor against a half-step Immortal Emperor was an overwhelming advantage. Even though he had borrowed the power of the Heavenly Dao of the Immortal Realm, under such absolute realm suppression, it was still like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

"You think you can turn the tide with the blessing of the Heavenly Dao?" Xue Donglan's sword energy locked onto the Heavenly Emperor's World-Devouring Chain, and with a slight tremor, the latter shattered.

Her sword intent surged, and a miniature cosmic phantom identical to Xue Tianhan's sea of ​​consciousness condensed in the void. "Don't forget, my Heaven-Defying Palace has been an enemy of the Yuan Tian Dao for an entire era."

Within that miniature cosmic phantom, stars twinkled, containing boundless power of laws. Xue Donglan waved her jade hand, and countless beams of light, imbued with the laws of spacetime, poured forth like a galaxy, sweeping towards the Heavenly Emperor.

For the first time, the Heavenly Emperor's Heavenly Eye revealed fear. He finally remembered that Xue Donglan was not only Xue Tianhan's senior sister, but also the personal disciple of Daoist Zixu. Her strength had long since reached its peak, comparable to the Heavenly Dao of the Immortal Realm.

Just as the beam of light was about to touch the Heavenly Emperor, he hastily mobilized the power of the Heavenly Dao to form a golden shield in front of him. However, the shield shattered as quickly as paper under the impact of the beam of light.

Xue Donglan's eyes were icy cold as she gave a soft shout: "Break!"

The imperial weapon sword shone once more, and an even more powerful sword beam shot out from its tip, carrying a world-destroying aura, piercing straight into the Heavenly Emperor's chest.

The Heavenly Emperor tried to dodge, but found that the surrounding space had been sealed off by Xue Donglan's sword intent, so he could only grit his teeth and endure it.

The sword light struck the Heavenly Emperor, instantly unleashing a dazzling brilliance. The Heavenly Emperor's body was sent flying, crashing into a distant stone wall and leaving a huge dent.

The Heavenly Emperor struggled to his feet, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth. His eyes widened in fury as he roared, "Xue Donglan, I will avenge this!" With that, he transformed into a golden ray of light and swiftly fled.

Xue Donglan sheathed her imperial weapon sword, slowly walked to Xue Tianhan's side, looked at him gently, and said softly, "Junior Brother, it's alright now."

A warm feeling welled up in Xue Tianhan's heart. She looked at her senior sister gratefully and said, "Senior sister, thank you so much!"

Xue Donglan nodded slightly, then turned to look at everyone and asked, "Is everyone alright?"

Taiyi Zhenren and the others shook their heads, their eyes filled with admiration and gratitude as they looked at Xue Donglan.

"Now is not the time to relax." Xue Donglan said solemnly, "Yuan Tiandao will launch the Great Calamity of the Epoch in three days. We must be prepared."

Everyone nodded, their eyes revealing a determined look.

“The Northern Dipper Immortal King…” Xue Tianhan looked at the place where the Northern Dipper Immortal King had just been, only to find it in a mess, but the Northern Dipper Immortal King was nowhere to be seen.

"Don't worry, the Big Dipper Immortal King won't die so easily," Xue Donglan said. "He is the ruler of this star field, and he has his own methods." Xue Tianhan breathed a slight sigh of relief after hearing this.

“Let’s leave here first and find a safe place to discuss our options,” Xue Donglan said.

Everyone nodded and followed Xue Donglan out of the underground palace.

……

Inside the Star Treasure Pavilion of the "Heaven-Defying Palace" in the center of the Azure Starfield, Xue Tianhan drew the thirteenth chaotic pattern on the star map with his fingertips.

With three days remaining until the Great Calamity of the Epoch, the spiritual energy within the pavilion was boiling like magma, and everyone was making tense preparations around the "Nine Heavens Chaos Array," which was a hundred feet in diameter.

Xiao Qi sat in the center of the array, and with a flick of his wrists, three hundred and sixty fragments of the Karma Destiny Plate floated into the air, each one tied to a thread leading to nothingness.

Her forehead was covered in a fine sheen of sweat, but a stubborn smile lingered on her lips: "It's cold outside. This crisis is exceptionally dangerous. If anything happens to me, you must make sure I survive."

Before she could finish speaking, a fragment of the destiny chart suddenly cracked, and she coughed up blood, but the causal thread on her fingertips remained tightly clenched.

"Xiao Qi!" Xue Tianhan stepped forward and hugged Xiao Qi, saying worriedly.

"It's alright, just remember what I said." Xiao Qi gently touched Xue Tianhan's cheek.

"Does that mean it doesn't count as anything?" Xue Tianhan asked.

"It's nothing," Xiaoqi said, her eyes darting away, forcing a smile. "It's just that the simulation was too mentally taxing. I just need a rest. Look at everyone, everyone's working so hard to prepare." She glanced at the busy crowd around her. "We can't let our guard down either."

"Don't worry, we'll all be fine. I will never allow such a thing to happen, not even to Yuan Tiandao."

"Okay, then you go ahead and get busy. I still need to have my fortune told." Xiao Qi gently pushed him away, lowered her head and focused on fiddling with the fragments of the horoscope, her hair falling down to cover the worry in her eyes.

Xue Tianhan wanted to stop Xiao Qi, but was stopped by the Green Snake Lady.

The queen of the Devouring Python Clan was now enveloped in an icy blue glow, the residual power of eternal freezing from the Cold Marrow Immortal Venerable: "Young Master, please don't disturb Little Seven. Meiniang and I have already used foxfire and a water curtain to protect her." She flicked her tail, and dozens of illusory water dragons rose into the air, forming three layers of defensive barriers around her. "As for you, you should go check on the others. Miss Feng Yi at the Burning Heaven Platform has consumed too much of her essence blood; I'm afraid she won't last much longer."

Xue Tianhan's expression tightened. He glanced at Xiao Qi one last time before rushing towards the Burning Heaven Platform.

On the "Burning Heaven Platform" at the top of the Star Pavilion, Feng Yi, Xiao Bai, and Xiao Long used their life essence to nourish seven bronze totem poles. Each totem pole was entwined with the phantom of a golden crow about to ascend to immortality, which was the remnant soul of an ancient divine beast that she had awakened using the secret manual of the Heaven-Defying Palace.

“It’s cold,” she said, turning around. Her long hair was now stained golden-red with her blood essence. Her breath was weak, but her gaze was firm. “When the war begins, we will transform into totem power to help you unleash the ‘Nine Heavenly Slashes’ of the Cold Light Sword. But these remnant souls of the Golden Crows are too unstable. I’m afraid…” She coughed violently, and blood splattered on the totem pole, which only made the phantom of the Golden Crows more violent.

"I'll do it!" Xue Tianhan stepped forward and injected the Chaos Primordial Spirit into the totem pole, temporarily suppressing the Golden Crow.

"That's enough, you go and do your own thing, leave this to me!" Feng Yi gritted her teeth and pushed him away.

Xue Tianhan clenched his fists, gave Feng Yi a deep look, and then turned to head towards the Samsara Palace.

Wang Fuxi, along with Venus and Taiyi Zhenren, was repairing the fragments of the "Zhou Tian Xing Gui Jing" (Mirror of the Celestial Orbit) in the "Reincarnation Hall" at the bottom of the Star Pavilion.

"What are you doing out here? Go back and hurry up and fuse with the Chaos Primordial Spirit." Xue Donglan appeared at the door looking disheveled, with traces of battle still remaining on her Emperor-level longsword. "The Star Orbit Mirror's repair progress is too slow, and the power of the Primordial Heavenly Dao is constantly increasing. We don't have much time left!"

Xue Tianhan nodded, found a corner to sit cross-legged, and began to fully integrate with the Chaos Primordial Spirit, feeling every fluctuation within the Chaos Space.

Qingyao's Ice Soul Dao Seed is rotating in the center of the miniature universe, transforming the life essence of the Cold Marrow Immortal into Heavenly Dao runes that can be devoured;

Little Yellow and Little Black were lying by the Chaos Pool, using a Tai Chi pattern to filter the world-destroying power overflowing from the roulette wheel—for the past three days, everyone had been trading their lives for time.

……

When the first wisp of calamity fire dyed the boundary marker of the Big Dipper Starfield red, Xue Tianhan finally saw the "Heavenly Dao Wheel" that blotted out the sky.

The golden chains along the edge of the roulette wheel were tens of thousands of feet thick, and each one was engraved with a familiar face—those cultivators who had been harvested by Yuan Tiandao in the Immortal Realm and the Lower Realm, who had now become the "cogs" of the roulette wheel.

"Remnants of the Heaven-Defying Palace, your struggles are futile." The Heavenly Emperor's voice came from the center of the roulette wheel, his brow now completely occupied by the Eye of Heaven. "Look at the hundred thousand runes on this roulette wheel; each one is the burning soul fire of your companions!"

He raised his hand, and twelve illusory figures of Immortal Emperors stepped out from the crack in the roulette wheel. They were You Sha and the others who had escaped from the Northern Sea. At this moment, their bodies had been transformed into bronze puppets.

Xue Donglan's expression was solemn, because the aura emanating from the Heavenly Emperor had surpassed that of the peak Immortal Emperor, and those Immortal Emperor puppets seemed to have transformed into sharp blades of the Yuan Tian Dao.

She gripped the imperial weapon longsword tightly, the shadow of the roulette wheel reflected on its blade. The miniature cosmic phantom appeared and disappeared behind her, but it was no longer as dazzling as before.

The twelve Immortal Emperor puppets launched their attacks simultaneously, distorting space and time under their power. Attacks carrying the laws of world destruction surged forth like a tidal wave.

Xue Donglan swung her sword to meet the attack, and each collision made her hands go numb. Fine cracks appeared on the imperial weapon sword, and her white clothes were torn open by the aftershocks of the attack, with blood seeping out, which was particularly conspicuous under the blood-red calamity clouds.

"Disciples, listen to my command! Follow me and kill!" As soon as Xue Donglan finished speaking, the thirty-six peak masters of the Heaven-Defying Palace simultaneously took to the air, each summoning their natal magic weapons to form the "Zhou Tian Xing Dou Sword Formation" behind her.

These elders, who usually live in seclusion in the Star Pavilion, are now surrounded by surging immortal energy—they are all at least at the peak of the Immortal King realm.

"Protect the Dao!" The leader, the Cangwu Peak Master, was a mid-stage Immortal Emperor. With a roar, thirty-six immortal swords transformed into streams of light, condensing into an inverted galaxy above Xue Donglan's head, blocking all the world-destroying laws of the twelve Immortal Emperor puppets.

However, the bronze runes on the puppet suddenly lit up, and each attack was wrapped with the corrosive power of Yuan Tiandao. In the blink of an eye, three immortal swords shattered, and the three peak masters were sent flying backward, spitting out blood.

"Old fools, do you really think my puppets are just decorations?" The Heavenly Emperor's cold laughter came from the depths of the roulette wheel. The twelve puppets suddenly split into afterimages, turning into twenty-four attacks that fell simultaneously.

Xue Donglan was the first to step forward, brandishing her longsword and unleashing a torrent of sword energy.

Although she displayed the full strength of a peak Immortal Emperor, the Heavenly Emperor's power, which surpassed even that of a peak Immortal Emperor, gradually made her feel somewhat powerless. Each clash with him caused her blood and qi to surge.

Just then, Elder Zhi's figure suddenly appeared from the "Heaven-Defying Treasure Banner" at the top of the Star Pavilion, and the three-inch jade bamboo in his hand shone brightly.

Elder Zhi's strength also surpassed that of a peak Immortal Emperor. His powerful aura instantly spread out, even surpassing Xue Donglan's peak Immortal Emperor strength, causing the surrounding space to distort.