Game Cultivation World: I'm really playing games

"You brat, you're still not strong enough. Just take your men and watch from the side. We'll take care of this!" Old Zhi's eyes flashed like lightning as he looked at Xue Tianhan, his tone leaving no room for argument.

Xue Tianhan gritted his teeth, his heart filled with resentment, but he knew he couldn't act rashly at this moment. He nodded to Elder Zhi and Xue Donglan, and shouted loudly, "Senior Sister, Master, you must hold on!"

After saying that, he waved his hand and led Xiao Qi and the others to retreat quickly, while keeping a watchful eye on the battlefield, ready to provide support at any time.

The wise elder brandished the Jade Purity Bamboo, and the bamboo shadows transformed into thousands of sword energies containing the indomitable will of the human race, colliding with the Heavenly Emperor's attack.

Xue Donglan's imperial weapon sword struck down almost simultaneously, carrying the chill of the Northern Sea and the starlight of the Immortal Realm, carving the first crack in the roulette wheel: "Junior brother, remember the 'Heaven-Defying Sword' that your senior sister taught you, you must strike the 'Heavenly Dao Seam' of the roulette wheel!"

Her white robes were soaked with the essence of the Immortal Emperor, and each sword mark brought out a large number of Heavenly Dao runes. Those runes fell around the Star Pavilion and transformed into the phantoms of Xiao Qi, Green Snake Lady and others, blocking the fatal attacks for them.

However, Yuan Tiandao's counterattack came too quickly.

As the roulette wheel spun for the second time, the traitorous "Ziwei Immortal King" suddenly attacked from behind Zhi Lao, his "Heavenly Dao Thorn" piercing right through Zhi Lao's soul: "Old man Zixu, I'm sorry, the Yuan Tian Dao is just too powerful."

He grinned maliciously, the tip of his sword wrapped with the golden soul of the old man. "Besides, it gave too much, power surpassing that of an Immortal Emperor. Who wouldn't want it!"

"So you betrayed the human race?" Elder Zhi turned around angrily, and forty-nine sword qi phantoms suddenly appeared on the flag—those were the remnant souls of the human race's powerful ancestors, burning their last divine soul power.

He tried to mobilize these powers to break free from the Heavenly Dao Thorn's restraints, but the Purple Star Immortal King's sneak attack was too deadly, and each exertion of force tore the wounds in his soul even wider.

At that moment, the bronze runes on the bodies of the twelve Immortal Emperor puppets mysteriously merged together and suddenly fused amidst the roar of the Yuan Tian Dao.

A blinding golden light engulfed the entire sky, and a golden figure a hundred feet tall shattered the void and descended. The world-destroying light condensed in his palm burned a pitch-black hole in the space within a thousand miles.

"You old bastard, go to hell!" The Jin man's sinister laughter, mixed with the powerful pressure of Yuan Tiandao, pressed down. With each punch, countless attacks, carrying the distortion of space and time, rushed in like a tsunami.

With his broken protective aura surviving, the old man used the Jade Bamboo to unleash its last bit of azure light, which combined with the sword array formed by the remnants of the human souls to create a protective shield.

Each sword aura that collided with the golden man's attack sparked brilliant sparks, but also accelerated the dissipation of those human remnant souls and phantoms.

Xue Donglan's eyes were bloodshot with rage. She brandished her sword, wanting to rush to the rescue, but was entangled by the Heavenly Emperor. She watched as the figure of the Wise Elder grew smaller and smaller in the golden light, and the cracks on the Emperor's longsword spread at a visible speed.

The blood coughed up by the old man was mixed with fine Dao patterns—a sign that his soul was collapsing.

"It's freezing!" The old man suddenly turned his head, his eyes shining brightly despite the blood trickling from his lips. The last few wisps of the flag's remnant soul transformed into a stream of light and entered his body. "Remember... the backbone of humanity, forever..."

The words abruptly stopped, and the golden man's all-out attack finally landed. The figure of the old man, along with his roar, was annihilated in the dazzling golden light. Only the three-inch jade bamboo transformed into a stream of light and flew towards the cold light sword in Xue Tianhan's hand.

"Master!" Xue Donglan repelled the Heavenly Emperor with a single sword strike. Suddenly, the Emperor-grade sword burst forth with a blinding blue light, and silver-blue blood seeped from the fine cracks on its blade. She stared at the spot where Elder Zhi had vanished, letting out a mournful howl. Her sword intent surged, and a miniature cosmic phantom behind her trembled violently, as if it would tear the entire space apart.

"Junior brother, we are no match for you, you must leave quickly." Xue Donglan's white robes shattered into dust in the golden light of the Heavenly Dao Wheel, and the silver-blue Immortal Emperor's essence surged from every wound, condensing into a solid chain on the main axis of the wheel.

Her left hand dug deep into the gaps between the gears with her five fingers, and the sword energy bursting from her fingertips traveled along the grooves of the wheel, fiercely engraving the last two strokes of the word "defying the heavens" into the core of the Heavenly Dao.

"Cangwu! Lead the disciples to form the 'Big Dipper Return to Silence Formation'!" Her right shoulder had already been scorched through by the bronze puppet's world-destroying light, yet she still raised her head, staring intently at the spatial rift that Xue Tianhan was about to step into. "Buy time for my junior brother!"

Three of the immortal swords belonging to the Cangwu Peak Master had shattered in the previous clash. Now, he plunged the remaining thirty-three immortal swords into his dantian, and the essence blood of the Immortal King transformed into star chains that wrapped around the edge of the wheel: "The thirty-six peaks of the Heaven-Defying Palace, today I will follow the Palace Master to reincarnation!"

Thirty-six figures sat cross-legged in the void at the same time, their natal soul flames blooming between their brows forming a dazzling star ring around the wheel—this was a forbidden technique passed down for 100,000 years by the Heaven-Defying Palace, using the divine souls of all the peak masters as a guide to forcibly freeze the trajectory of the Heavenly Dao Wheel.

Xue Tianhan's fingertips dug blood from the sword hilt as he watched helplessly as his senior sister's right leg transformed into countless sword energies as the wheel spun. The silver-blue sword beams, however, moved against the direction of the gears, biting out gaps that prevented the wheel from closing.

Her left eye had been blinded by the power of Heaven, yet she still used her intact right eye to fixate on his position. The curve of her lips, tinged with blood, was more resolute than ever before.

The Heavenly Emperor's roar exploded from the center of the roulette wheel: "You lowly wench! You think you can sever my resonance with the roulette wheel by sacrificing your very essence as a Celestial Emperor?"

A golden fist, crackling with world-destroying light, slammed into Xue Donglan's body, which was pinned to the roulette wheel. "Shatter!"

But those attacks, which were accompanied by distortions of time and space, vanished without a trace when they touched the "heaven-defying" patterns flowing across her body.

These two large characters, formed from the Immortal Emperor's origin and ten thousand years of obsession, are merging into the core of the roulette wheel at a speed visible to the naked eye. Each stroke is peeling away the eroding runes of the Primordial Heavenly Dao, revealing the dark golden "Defying Heaven Palace" star map imprint beneath.

"It's cold! Let's leave quickly!" Xiao Qi staggered to Xue Tianhan's side, the Karma Destiny Plate spinning wildly in her hand, its surface covered with cracks. "Senior Sister used her natal star core to lock the 'Karma Pivot' of the plate. Every time your soul fluctuations become stronger, her soul disintegrates a little!" Karma threads kept breaking at her fingertips, turning into ashes and dissipating in the air.

The surging silver-white waves in the space-time rift had already touched Xue Tianhan's toes. He looked at the roulette wheel one last time and saw that his senior sister's only remaining upper body was being pierced by countless golden chains, but she was still buying time for herself to escape.

Xue Donglan's imperial weapon longsword had long since shattered, but the posture of holding the sword was forever frozen in the direction of the crack, as if that was the last guiding light for the sword cultivators of the Heaven-Defying Palace.

"Senior Sister!" He felt a metallic taste in his throat, and the Cold Light Sword suddenly let out a mournful cry.

The moment he gritted his teeth and stepped into the space-time rift, he heard a loud crash behind him as the gears of a wheel shattered, followed by thirty-six almost overlapping roars belonging to the peak master of the Heaven-Defying Palace.

"Want to leave? Not so easy." The Heavenly Emperor raised his hand, and three golden rays of destruction tore through the void, heading straight for Xue Tianhan's brow.

At the critical moment, a powerful "Guardian Seal" suddenly erupted from his body, transforming into a golden light shield that blocked the attack.

This was a life-saving trick that Elder Zhi had given to Xue Donglan, but Xue Donglan left it to Xue Tianhan. This secret technique transformed into a beam of light that enveloped Xue Tianhan and sent him to the Sea of ​​Time.

The turbulent flow of time and space tore at Xue Tianhan's soul, yet a final sword intent was clearly heard: it was Xue Donglan's unique sword technique, which accelerated his journey to the ocean of time before the roulette wheel completely collapsed.

As the crack closed, he saw the top of the wheel radiate a silver-blue light more dazzling than the sun—it was the brilliance of Xue Donglan's Immortal Emperor origin and the wheel's core perishing together, burning away the last glimmer of hope for the inheritance of the Heaven-Defying Palace amidst the raging flames of calamity.

Within that beam of light, there were no last words, only countless sword energies forming an ever-forward-pointing arrowhead.

However, at that moment, a beam of light shot out, and Xiao Qi stepped forward without hesitation, using his body to block the "world-destroying golden light" that was aimed directly at his back.

The Karma Destiny Plate shattered instantly under the impact of the powerful force, and Xiao Qi's body flew backward like a kite with a broken string. Golden blood gushed from the wound on her chest, which was the world-destroying power of Yuan Tiandao raging.

"It's cold..." Her voice was like melting ice, and in the wound on her chest, the causal threads were perishing along with the power of destruction. "Look, I can finally take a blow for you..."

The last thread of cause and effect on her fingertips wrapped around the hilt of the Cold Light Sword, leaving behind the essence of her causal laws before she breathed her last.

Holding Xiao Qi's gradually cooling body, Xue Tianhan closed his eyes in the light, his heart filled with hatred and resentment.

In the ocean of time, mist swirls, mysterious and unpredictable.

Xue Tianhan opened his eyes and saw clone number 527 leading the other 999 clones.

“Main body, we have been waiting for you.” Avatar No. 527 stepped forward, the silver-gray spacetime crystal cluster at his fingertips shimmering. “Only by merging with our power and then with the Chaos Primordial Spirit can we have a chance to defeat the Primordial Heavenly Dao.”

Xue Tianhan nodded and gently laid Xiao Qi's body down. The Chaos Immortal Flame condensed in her heart into an inextinguishable flame.

He then began to merge with his clones, countless memories flooding his mind, each clone's experiences and insights becoming part of his power. At the same time, he fully engaged with the primordial chaos spirit, completely merging himself with the power of chaos.

When Xue Tianhan returned from the ocean of time, the Great Cataclysm had entered its most frenzied phase.

"Yuan Tiandao, today is your end!" Xue Tianhan's chaotic Dharma form fully manifested, and on his thousand arms, he held Zhi Lao's Jade Bamboo, Xue Donglan's Broken Sword, Xiao Qi's Karma Destiny Plate, and other weapons.

The longsword in his hand shone brightly, the laws of time reversed the rotation of the wheel of heaven, the laws of space cut the golden chains into countless pieces, and the chaotic immortal flames ignited the remnant souls of all the rebels.

At the core of the Primordial Heavenly Dao, the golden-faced phantom roared repeatedly: "You think you can defeat me by fusing with my clone and the Primordial Chaos Spirit? The uniqueness of the Heavenly Dao is unshakeable!"

"Then you may try, the Law of Time? Epoch Reversal!" Xue Tianhan shouted, and the speed of the roulette wheel slowed down by ten thousand times in an instant. He could clearly see in the gaps of the roulette wheel that Xue Donglan's sword mark, Xiao Qi's causal lines, and Zhi Lao's jade bamboo fragments were all trying to win him this precious "moment of eternity".

"Spatial Laws? Twelvefold Strangulation!" The voice of clone No. 527 exploded in his sea of ​​consciousness. Twelve layers of folded spacetime twisted together like gears, trapping the Heavenly Emperor and the Golden Man in different spacetime rifts. In each rift, there were phantom images of their former traitors attacking them.

Finally, Xue Tianhan closed his eyes, feeling the resonance between the chaotic primordial spirit and himself.

When he opened his eyes again, all he saw was the "Primordial Cocoon of Heavenly Dao" in the center of the roulette wheel—the core of the Primordial Heavenly Dao and the tombstone of all the departed.

"Cold light sword, slash!"

The moment the sword blade struck, the entire space-time seemed to be split in two.

From Xue Tianhan's perspective, he "saw" the memories of all his clones flowing on the sword blade. Each memory transformed into a sword aura, merging with the Chaos Immortal Flame, the Law of Time, and the Law of Space to form the "Sword of All Beings," capable of severing all Heavenly Dao.

From Yuan Tiandao's perspective, they saw countless figures of rebels—from the white-haired old man at the beginning to the recently deceased Xiao Qi and Xue Donglan, each wielding a different sword, all slashing at the same target.

The sound of the cocoon breaking apart is like the simultaneous birth of billions of stars.

Xue Tianhan knelt in the center of the newly formed chaotic space and saw that Xiao Qi's essence of the law of cause and effect had given birth to intelligence, her senior sister's sword tassel had re-condensed on the hilt, and the fragments of Zhi Lao's Jade Bamboo had turned into patterns on the scabbard.

What brought tears to his eyes most was at the core of the chaotic space, where the Time-Space Beast and the Sacred Beast lazily flicked their tails, their paws resting on a new jade slip, its surface shimmering with golden patterns:

【Defying Fate】: Protecting the cultivators of this world through the great calamity of the era, mission complete!

[Reward]: Meet all the souls who died in this battle.

Xue Tianhan knew that a new story was just beginning.

(End of the book)