Xi Heng raised his hand and took it, only to see the precious mirror turn into a faint light, becoming a beautiful bluish-purple pattern on the back of his hand.

She spread her fingers and twirled her hand, asking in confusion, "Is this... a personal magical artifact?"

“Every cultivator can use this interface to access the shop, events, gift packs, secret realms, teleportation and other systems.”

"The more I listen, the more it sounds like a game, an online game at that. Will there be dungeons to play?"

"Because the Senluo Domain has not yet been assigned to any entity, other functions are temporarily unavailable. Only the shop is unlocked, where you can exchange True Spirit Points for supplies."

"Hmm?" Xi Heng opened the online store page.

Finally, she landed from ten thousand meters in the air, stepping onto the fertile land beneath the sacred tree.

The area in front of us is about 80% similar to Changping Jingzhong City, the only difference being that the central sacred tree is much smaller.

Most of the monks from Changpingjing entered this illusory world to take refuge and continue their daily lives.

A prominent screen stands in the center, displaying only one line of large red text:

"Three days remain until the second wave of the Kuroshio Current arrives."

There was always a sense of tension among the residents of the city, with people glancing at the central screen from time to time.

She guessed: "Due to the power of the imaginary number domain, the Black Tide was transformed into waves of attacks, like a city defense game?"

In this way, the cultivators of Changpingjing can deal with it slowly without worrying about being completely overwhelmed by the surging black tide and unable to rise again.

However, this method can only protect themselves; other outer cities remain unprotected.

Without Xi Heng's arrival, the Black Tide would have soon submerged dozens of outer cities, leaving no place for cultivators to survive in the entire Senluo.

After glancing at the city scene, she turned her gaze to the mall interface.

He glanced casually at the basic materials and magic weapon sections and found that almost all the items for sale were miscellaneous things that he couldn't use at his current level, so he immediately flipped to the section for Nascent Soul Realm cultivators.

"Most of them are already sold out..." Xi Heng looked at the gray and white product page and asked in confusion.

"Most treasures at the Nascent Soul and Dao Integration realms will trigger a buying frenzy as soon as they appear, and the few remaining stock are either too expensive or ineffective for ordinary cultivators," the mirror explained.

"Is that so?" Xi Heng shook his head. "Then this mall won't be of much use to me."

"As for the training methods, they may meet your needs."

"Oh?"

She listened and clicked on it, and saw the option 'Harmony with the Dao' at the very end.

Without hesitation, switch immediately.

Then, dozens of Dao Integration Techniques appeared before her eyes, making her feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of them.

"Really... so many."

She blinked, and thus began to inexplicably doubt the imaginary number field itself.

Are all these methods of achieving harmony with the Dao genuine or fake?

"The price is one million True Spirit Points? How can this be obtained? Can it be exchanged for Spirit Stones?" she asked immediately.

The female guide responded: "You can trade independently after the trading post opens, or you can bring items rich in true spirits and hand them over to the Mirror of Spirits for recycling."

"What is the Mirror of Emptiness?"

"It's on the lines on the back of your hand."

"Oh, so this is the little mirror that just appeared?" Xi Heng replied casually, then browsed the shop interface for a while longer, discovering many novel items.

What attracted her most was a Time Stone, which cost a thousand True Spirit Points and was said to contain the power of time.

Despite having such a rare attribute, its annual sales volume is zero.

On the other hand, the Tai Chi Orchid, which is five times more expensive and contains a small amount of Yin-Yang elements, sells over 100,000 units annually...

"If it's not a fake, then I might really be the only one in the world who can feel the power of time," she thought.

After browsing through the vast array of items in the online store for fifteen minutes, I finally closed it.

Xi Heng turned his attention back to the main matter at hand and asked the lines on the back of his hand, "How do I return to reality?"

"There is a rift outside the city that connects to the Black Tide of the present world." A response immediately fell into his ears.

The girl then said no more, and the surrounding scenery immediately changed, from the virtual city to the virtual wasteland.

"Using abilities in this virtual world is no different from using them in reality..."

In the distance of the wasteland, a cloud of black mist is gathering and taking shape, beneath which many ghostly figures appear.

As I drew closer, a line of text suddenly appeared before my eyes:

【Heartbreaker (Black Tide)】

【Living Hair Demon (Kuroshio)】

【Thousand Spider Monsters (Black Tide)】

【Shroud Armor (Black Tide)】

【…】

After considering the names, they also thought about the level of each monster.

Most of them are at the Foundation Establishment or Golden Core stage, with some stronger or weaker individuals at a higher or lower level.

No matter how strong they are, they can't get past the Nascent Soul stage.

For Xi Heng, it was as simple as raising his hand to wipe it away.

She hadn't made a move yet because she was curious about the monster information prompts that appeared before her.

Once you focus your attention, you can access a catalog feature that details how to deal with these vengeful ghost monsters and their weaknesses.

Below, there are even comments from various domain addresses, with several popular comments providing more detailed explanations.

"...This realm is really strange." Xi Heng still couldn't get used to the game-like feeling in the imaginary domain, and raised his hand to close the interface again.

Back to the present moment, he flicked his finger and released golden light, instantly dispersing the gathered black mist.

The mist dissipated, and the monsters that had been wandering within it disappeared amidst their struggles and howls, revealing a rift behind them that connected to the real world.

An eye peered inside through the crack, instantly emitting a purple light that pointed directly at her.

A powerful mental shock struck, but the girl casually moved him into a dream.

No matter how much the eyes behind the rift in the present world glare at you, it will have no effect.

She raised her finger and conjured a golden sword in the air, piercing through the sky and striking the center of her pupil, causing it to tremble and melt away.

Then, in a flash, he stepped into the rift in the mortal world.

A sense of overlap between illusion and reality emerged. Xi Heng gently closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he saw that all around him was pitch black, with the wails and screams of vengeful ghosts accompanying him.

"It's so noisy," the girl said calmly.

The fingertips then emitted light, as if a flashbang had exploded, with white overwhelming the darkness.

The light slowly rose and expanded, transforming from a star-like shape into a sphere, and then into a giant sphere several meters wide, flickering continuously like a malfunctioning light bulb.

Each flash clears away the vengeful spirits within a kilometer radius and expands the area covered by its light.

Xi Heng then shifted his attention and glanced at the back of his right hand.

Upon returning to reality, the lines on the back of the hand that the mirror had transformed into disappeared, as if they had never appeared at all.

If it weren't for the rift behind her that led to the illusory world, she might have doubted whether what she had just experienced was just an illusion or a demon in her heart.

After thinking it over, his attention turned to the surrounding Kuroshio Current.

Seeing that it seemed to be surging in from all directions like a flood, the girl only slightly raised her right arm.

Then, the golden light surrounding him gathered into a thousand golden swords behind him, their blades turning upwards and soaring high into the sky.

Thousands of golden swords were launched into the sky in waves, like a torrential downpour of golden light pouring down on the heavens.

When it flies to a certain height, it becomes a sky full of golden starlight.

The raised right hand was suddenly lowered, and golden light fell from the sky, with countless meteors of all sizes plummeting down.

The stars fell one after another, and their speed increased rapidly as they fell.

The golden sword, which had been flying 10,000 meters in just two or three seconds, was already as huge as a tower when it fell to the ground.

Rooted in the earth, it caused overlapping and explosive golden fluctuations, each layer stronger than the last, with a vast range, its power obliterating all darkness within.

In an instant, the darkness within a thousand miles was replaced by golden light, and countless enormous golden semicircles suddenly rose from the ground.

In the center of the golden light, a halo of light appeared behind the neck of the white-haired girl, slowly rotating.

Driven by the power of the Divine Transformation, a massive amount of spiritual energy surging from within the Spirit Fire Space was drawn into the Golden Light Technique, causing its power to increase several times over.

The black tide continued to make up for its deficiencies, while the golden light falling from the sky kept exploding out more and more.

Thus, the situation reached a strange equilibrium.

The Black Tide launched various attacks targeting the soul or body in an attempt to break this balance, but to no avail.

The golden light was endless, interacting and eroding the black tide, lasting for a long time.

……

Volume 1: Chapter 343, A Date with the Swallow and the Nightingale

It has been eight months since Xiheng and Heichao started their war.

The great battle raged from spring to late autumn, with the golden light filling the sky and the black tide locked in a protracted and relentless struggle.

The darkness stretched endlessly, while the dazzling golden light rippled ceaselessly; the battle between the two seemed to have no end.

Xi Heng's true form is within boundless golden light, continuously drawing spiritual power into his spells; these actions have become almost instinctive.

Even if one's attention is diverted to other matters, it is not a problem to keep only half of one's attention on this battle. The bombardment of golden light is almost a planned automatic program, repeating continuously like normal breathing.

She has a weak sense of time, yet she maintains natural patience even after such a long time.

Nowadays, the bombardment of spells has become a rhythmic drumbeat.

Each time the golden sword fell from the sky, it was like a dense drumbeat striking the earth, the deepest bass drum.

The continuous sounds had already depleted one-third of her spiritual energy reserves.

Before engaging in battle with the Black Tide, Xi Heng estimated that once two-thirds of the stored spiritual energy was consumed, the fully formed Black Tide would collapse and perish.

"Another eight months will be enough," Xi Heng murmured to himself amidst the boundless golden light.

For a cultivator like her, who has ten thousand years to live, two Augusts are really nothing.

Proportionally, it's like how it takes an average person four or five days.

Xi Heng was in the same mindset, continuing his actions with ease, causing a massive amount of golden light to fall like shooting stars.

From the start of the battle until now, she has only used this one offensive move repeatedly.

There's no need for fancy tricks or ingenious methods to deal with the Black Tide; a pure, golden light wave attack that has a restraining effect on the vengeful spirits is sufficient.

Use spiritual power to keep attacking, until one of them can't hold out in this war of attrition and is defeated.

The Black Tide side had a similar attitude, wanting to wear her down to death.

Since the Black Tide was born to annihilate all cultivators in this world, and since there is a Nascent Soul cultivator blocking the way, then we should use all our strength to defeat him.

It could not defy the reason for its birth and flee or temporarily avoid this battle. Even though its intelligence had begun to worry that the amount of spiritual power in Xi Heng's body seemed to be greater, and that it might actually be able to wear it down, it would not give up in accordance with its judgment.

The Great Grudge has no rationality; even if Xi Heng retreats now, it will find a way to chase after him.

There was no room for maneuver between the two sides; they could only fight and destroy each other.

……

Over time, Xi Heng sent another letter to Yin Wanluan, saying that he was still fighting and had gained the upper hand.

The letter begins by stating that this was a year and four months after the start of the war with the Kuroshio.

To date, the Kuroshio Current has significantly decreased in size, and its concentration has become much weaker across all regions.

However, the offensives of both sides became even more intense.

The Black Tide, having fought against the Golden Light for a year, harbored an unyielding resentment and was determined to fight to the death, making the battle increasingly massive.

The entire Changpingjing had been transformed from a well-ordered city into flat, scorched earth by the erosion and bombing of gold and black.

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