Volume 1, Chapter 299 – World Core

The mountain range collapsed, and the sword scar, several miles deep, split the entire valley cleanly in two.

The terrifying shock woke the remaining strange beasts in the valley, and they all took flight at once, their wings blotting out the sky and the sun.

Shi Lan glanced at the countless strange beasts spreading outward into the outside world. Violet light flashed in her eyes like lightning. She swept out a palm, and astral qi erupted, condensing into a cyan giant palm thousands of feet long that smashed downward.

If these ancient variants entered the world, they would surely leave behind a tremendous blood debt.

Boom!

A giant peak hundreds of zhang tall collapsed. Countless ancient variants were crushed into bloody paste beneath that single palm. With one sword strike and one palm strike, Shi Lan had nearly exterminated all one hundred thousand of them.

Shi Lan withdrew her gaze and looked toward the green lotus rooted in the void not far away. Without the slightest hesitation, she attacked again.

By now, she had already vaguely realized what it was she was facing.

So this was the so-called world consciousness…

The roots of the green lotus were sunk into the void, endlessly drawing in the power of the world and strengthening itself. Its aura swelled rapidly.

At the same time, a terrifying repulsive force suddenly appeared around Shi Lan, as if it wanted to squeeze her out of this world.

The green lotus bloomed completely, radiating incomparable brilliance, like a second great sun in the sky, its divine might vast and resplendent.

Suddenly, one petal drifted down. Before it even touched the ground, it turned into a peerless sword light that tore across the sky and slashed straight toward her.

Shi Lan’s gaze sharpened. That sword light was exactly the same as the one she had struck out earlier.

It learned quickly…

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“Unfortunately, I’ve only learned the barest surface of swordsmanship…”

A black fissure suddenly opened in the void beside the green lotus. Shi Lan crossed space and arrived in an instant. Her expression did not change as she slowly threw a punch.

Boom!

The void shattered in an instant. Black ripples spread violently, and the roots of the green lotus exploded apart at once, torn into pieces. Its blazing spiritual radiance, resplendent as the noonday sun, was almost extinguished outright.

The green lotus writhed and struggled in the void like a living thing. Its remaining roots drew in the power of the world, trying to regenerate.

Seeing that the green lotus was nearly restored in the blink of an eye, the violet light in Shi Lan’s eyes flared. Behind her, a pitch-black illusory scene slowly unfolded, completely wrapping around the green lotus. The surging power of the world, using the green lotus as a medium, was drawn into Shi Lan’s body in an endless stream.

The energy she drew in was extremely mixed, filled with every kind of emotional fluctuation.

Shi Lan frowned. The sensation was disgusting, as though she had swallowed something profoundly filthy. The energy was immense, but its quality was uneven.

After a moment’s hesitation, Shi Lan sealed that energy outside her body.

Sensing that the power of the world was constantly draining away, the consciousness within the green lotus tried to cut it off, but before the Black Domain, it had no strength to stop it.

A ripple passed over the green lotus, and the torrent of world power surging toward it came to an abrupt halt.

Clearly, the thing attached to it had been forced to leave.

The green lotus lost its life aura and floated silently in the air like a dead object.

Shi Lan raised a hand and stored the green lotus inside her Qiankun Bracelet. It was almost equivalent to a ten-thousand-year spiritual herb, and was worth a great deal.

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The immense repulsive force still remained, which clearly meant this struggle was not yet over.

The entire sky gradually dimmed. Tribulation clouds capable of ending the world covered the whole world.

Looking at the tribulation clouds overhead, Shi Lan fell silent for a moment. Perhaps her strength was still not enough. The difference in form meant that she could no longer find the opponent she had just faced.

Without a medium, It could not be seen, touched, heard, or smelled.

This was world consciousness…

Rumble!

Endless lightning drowned the entire world. The world withered in an instant, and countless living beings were buried beneath the furious sea of thunder.

The might of heaven and earth could not be resisted, but that only applied to beings born in this world.

Shi Lan stood quietly where she was. The lightning touched her body, yet could not harm her in the slightest.

She made no pointless moves. Even if she could save one or two people, it would have no meaning at all.

Shi Lan pulled up the system panel and found the world core the system had mentioned earlier.

“Fuse.”

It was like a drop of cool springwater falling into her mind. Shi Lan’s thoughts instantly calmed. The rolling, raging lightning between heaven and earth came to an abrupt stop and vanished in an instant, revealing a world full of ruin and devastation.

A vague black shadow appeared before Shi Lan. It was a mass of energy filled with all kinds of negative emotions. Until now, it had been the thing governing this world.

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World consciousness should not have been like this, but Lin Mo, as the vessel of the world’s consciousness, had committed far too much slaughter through his endless reincarnations across many lives. The negative emotions born from that, like raging waves and stormy seas, had completely contaminated the world consciousness.

Even if things could begin again from the start, the karmic debts that had once occurred, together with those oceanlike negative emotions, would not simply disappear for no reason.

All of that had been borne by the It before Shi Lan’s eyes.

Shi Lan let out a soft sigh and slowly raised her hand. Her eyes were utterly indifferent, calm as an ancient well.

A black fissure opened. This fissure was different from the spatial cracks from before. Beyond it lay boundless chaos.

At this moment, Shi Lan had no way to deal with this mass of energy. She could only banish It into the endless void.

Looking at the ruins before her, Shi Lan raised her hand once more.

In an instant, the sun, moon, and river of stars reversed, and heaven and earth turned over!

The sun and moon rose in the west and set in the east as time throughout the world rapidly flowed backward.

With the world core in her grasp, Shi Lan was undoubtedly a deity in this world. With a single thought, the vault of heaven could be overturned!

Shi Lan stood above the nine heavens, like someone outside the painting, watching time race backward like a shuttle. There was not the slightest ripple in her heart.

The feeling was strangely familiar. She had once experienced the same thing within the inheritance of the Guiyun Sword Emperor.

At this moment, she was the Heavenly Dao of this world.

In the span of a finger snap, time reversed to the night she had arrived. Shi Lan left the skies above the mountain range and returned to that ordinary county town.

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Shi Lan slowly stopped outside a window and quietly looked at Ning An’s sleeping profile inside. The phone beside her pillow gave a slight vibration, and the screen lit up.

2:34 a.m….

Everything had returned to the point of origin.

Shi Lan moved her gaze away. Her sight passed through the wall and fell upon Ning Kangping and Qin Yinhua.

Although it had not gone as she originally expected, this could not be called breaking her word. She really had returned Ning An to them.

After one last look at Ning An, Shi Lan slowly left.

On the city streets at night, all kinds of vehicles still flowed back and forth. From time to time, a few drunkards reeking of alcohol staggered along the road.

Shi Lan strolled through the stream of traffic. No one could see her, as if she did not exist in the same space-time as they did.

In a dark alley, several burly men were pursuing a middle-aged man.

Time across heaven and earth suddenly froze. The men in pursuit were all locked motionless in place. Shi Lan stepped forward and took a transparent shard from the middle-aged man’s eyes.

The shard no longer held any special energy. It had become nothing more than an ordinary key.

Shi Lan held the shard, turned, and left, striding eastward.

As the night neared its end, Shi Lan walked ten thousand li and entered the capital. Without stopping for a moment, she entered an unnamed mountain manor.

It was the headquarters of the Wuji Sect.