“Hu…! So difficult!”

“The volcano exploded again!”

“Don’t look at Egene’s eye!” At the energy transmission center inside Anton, the huge monster who was guarding this place opened the evil eye in its belly, and one of the members was slow to react and looked at the huge eye.

He instantly died!

At the same time, the monster’s injuries were all healed!

“The energy center also exploded!”

The raid failed!

Once!

Twice!

Three times!

Looking at the words on the screen, they all fell silent.

Prompt: your game time is up; do you want to borrow time?

“No!”

Everyone was fatigued. If they continue raiding, their state would further deteriorate.

“Let’s go then!” The audience behind them also left.

“The Anton raid… is quite difficult. They raided it for a long time before today, and they spent a whole day on it today. However, they still couldn’t pass it.”

While the people were talking about it, the players who were in the raid got offline

Nalan Hongwu took out his communication jade and clicked on QQ before saying, “Today, everyone is tired. Let’s take a break.”

“No!” Zong Wu said furiously, “With more practice, we will surely succeed!”

“Enough!” Gu Tingyun said, “The teams are obviously not in their best state. Let’s take a break.”

“…” The people in the group chat fell silent for a while.

“No… What happened when you guys were in the volcano?” In the real world, some of the team members were warriors whose cultivation strengths had reached the Saint Warrior Realm which was equivalent to the saint-level, and there was a healer with perfect equipment. “How come you failed so many times?”

“What difficulties does the volcano pose?” Nalan Mingxue asked.

“It’s impossible to defeat the dungeon. The boss moves so fast that it’s like it’s teleporting; I can’t even see it clearly!” Zong Wu said, “Besides, the entire black volcano including the monsters and lava is completely in its control. Facing constant lava eruptions and all kinds of elite monsters, we were fighting in very bad terrain and the situation was very disadvantageous.”

Elite monsters were weaker, but even Tog was an elite monster.

In the Anton raid in the original version, lava eruptions could only be seen in the Black Volcano. But in the system version, the monster was the same one, so it knew all the skills.

“Can’t we attack with area of effect spells?”

“No. This attack reflection will affect everyone. If one member attacks it with an area-of-effect spell, the whole party will be wiped out!”

The group chat fell silent again.

Even the top masters with the best equipment couldn’t pass it!

Is this the power that a great god possesses?! “We can’t attack it at all?” Nalan Mingxue asked.

“Not exactly…” Nalan Hongwu recalled the prior scenes and said, “It has an energy shield around it, and the shield opens when it attacks. But it opens too fast, and I only got to hit it once by accident.”

“In other words,” Nalan Mingxue said, “You can only attack the moment it launches its own attack; you can’t be earlier or later than that, or you’ll be killed by your own attacks?”

“…” If they faced an ordinary master and had to attack him at the same time as him, every one of them could achieve it with ease.

But what if they were facing a powerful… god?! It was impossible to do that.

But if they didn’t attack, they would be killed.

With the great difference between the huge energy in Anton and that in humans, breaking the shield by force was even more unrealistic.

In the previous raids and group raids, they could win with strategies and tactics.

But in this raid, there were no shortcuts. They could only rely on their real strength and battle skills.

“If I practice more, I should manage it,” Nalan Hongwu said after a moment of silence.

“Old Ghost Nalan, didn’t you just return to the game. How come you’re so powerful?!” Zong Wu asked in surprise.

Then, his heart sank, knowing that he was surpassed again.

“I made a breakthrough lately and obtained lots of inspiration in ideas and battle skills.” Nalan Hongwu brandished his blade in his own courtyard. “I have a feeling of Entering Micro as the shop owner said.”

“Entering Micro?!” Zong Wu said in surprise, “Isn’t it some nonsense that the shop owner sprouted when he told the story named Terror Infinity?! He said that the people who reach the fourth level of the genetic lock, which is Entering Micro, would be existences as great as gods, and people reaching the fifth level of genetic lock would be… sages?!”

“It might be nonsense,” Nalan Mingxue said, “But I think there’s a point in his crude theory. After all, if one reaches a new realm, it’s a bit unreasonable to assume that his battle skills and control ability would still stay at the mortal level.”

“Old Ghost Nalan,” Zong Wu asked Nalan Hongwu, “How did you obtain the breakthrough?”

“… This…” Nalan Hongwu thought for a moment. “It’s hard to describe.”

“It’s a type of accumulation,” Nalan Hongwu said thoughtfully, “It’s like…a full dam. When someone opens it one day, the water pours out naturally.”

Now, he could understand any moves from any system swiftly.

“Everyone, go home and think about it,” Zong Wu said, “Let’s pause the raid for now.”

At least for now, he couldn’t think of a better solution but to improve himself.

During this period, everyone worked hard to obtain a breakthrough.

Battler skills… Entering Micro. Heavenly Sword…

“Metaphysical sword rises above anyone in history, worshipped by all swords…”

In one quiet chamber in Yuanyang City, Zong Wu, a middle-aged warrior, sat down cross-legged and calmed his mind.

His accumulation wasn’t as great as that of Nalan Hongwu. He had a vague understanding which was like the flash of spiritual light that he had obtained when he sat before the platform of that ‘true immortal’ who was giving the lecture on Dao in the Mountain of Mind and Heart.

However, all laws of nature including the doctrines in Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism and the wondrous truths were like flowers in the mist and moon in the water.

But now, he felt different.

The doctrines of Heaven and Earth and all kinds of wondrous truths… could they allow them to achieve the way of immortality?

Sun Wukong didn’t need any Great Dao or wondrous truths since he had his own Dao in his heart.

There are 3,000 Great Dao, and one must choose one to follow!

What Zong Wu urgently needed now wasn’t all kinds of laws of nature, but his own Dao!

If so, then he would like to ask, “All kinds of Great Dao; can any of you help me pass Anton?!”

Crack-!

Suddenly, a storm of wind and thunder rose in the sky above Yuanyang City!

The Mountain of Mind and Heart.

Mind and Heart were one thing, and the slanting moon and three stars represented the heart as well.

He didn’t know how much time passed.

“The highest excellence is like that of water” as shown in the Legend of Sword and Fairy.

All kinds of realms were reflected in his heart. But his heart was as empty as void!

“I see…” He slowly stood up in the quiet chamber.

– In the game –

– Underfoot Town –

After the era of destruction, everything in the previous world was destroyed, including the humans living there.

Now, the main city had been moved from Hendon Myre to Underfoot Town in another world.

GSD, the first trainer of all slayers, had left the small alley in the Back Street long ago.

“The sword should never hesitate!”

“A sword may conquer the flesh, but only your heart may conquer the mind!”

“…” The familiar voice echoed in his ears.

A swordsman with his eyes covered happened to enter the guild zone and seemed to see the familiar figure of the white-haired old swordsman whose voice sounded as open-minded as before but unfamiliar at the same time.

“Did you see me in another world? I can feel his presence from you, Young Man. What kind of a person… was he?”

The open-minded old swordsman who had taught all the slayers had also died in that catastrophe.

The short white-haired old man hesitated for a moment.

Suddenly, the whole world seemed to be devoured by darkness.

Only a lightning bolt shot up!

In this instant, he seemed to see… a longsword tearing open the sky and descending to the world like a god!

But in the next moment, the lightning bolt was withdrawn as if this move was controlled by him with his will!

“The thunder god has descended…! He… has surpassed us…” Looking at the adventurer who was walking away, the old man seemed to be murmuring feelingly to his other self in another world, “You… must be very happy.”

“Anton Challenge Team, it’s time to gather!”

Mr. Fang had just come down from upstairs when he saw the group, both young and old, walking together. Their fierce presence seemed to be able to force gods and buddhas to retreat.

“What are you guys doing?!” “Raid… Anton!”