Chapter 68

Fourteen third-level great demons faced off against a single Black Iron-level Maintainer, the power disparity between the two sides being completely lopsided.

Even if Sun Ran had previously managed to slay five great demons, this time there were fourteen, almost three times as many, and their combined combat strength was even more terrifying.

The game administrator watched in shock and turned to Chang'e: "Director, what should we do?"

Chang'e, looking at the scene in Hebian County, frowned and said, "Let's see how it goes. This Rose Tree Spirit has a channeling technique. Since he mentioned it, he might have a way to counter them."

In Hebian County, Sun Ran stared intently at the rapidly approaching demons, his mind gradually emptying as he began to release his first high-powered Daoist technique since becoming a Maintainer: Heaven Embracing Earth!

Heaven Embracing Earth: A fourth-level Daoist technique, filling the body with supreme magical power to mimic the great force of heaven and earth!

One advantage of this technique is that its power limit is quite vague. Although it is a fourth-level technique, the total amount of data it can accommodate far exceeds that.

In other words, the more powerful the caster's magical power, the more data they can mobilize, and the more terrifying the power they can unleash!

Sun Ran, using second-level authority to cast a fourth-level technique, needed at least one hundred seconds to mobilize the data. He flew from the city wall, taking nearly three minutes and two hundred seconds, mobilizing a total of 4.1 levels of data, equivalent to twenty times that of a third-level technique!

In the fabricated resume created by the central AI, Sun Ran had once possessed Daoist techniques on par with a national master, like Yuan Tian罡 and Li Chunfeng of the Tang Dynasty, whose cultivation reached the heavens and earth, capable of stabilizing a nation's fortune.

To leverage this advantage, the game company immediately infused Sun Ran's possessed body with fourth-level magical power when he requested it.

If it were another Maintainer, the game company's efforts would be in vain, as even if they provided the magical power, there would be no corresponding skills to use. But Sun Ran was just in time. Under the control of fourth-level magical power, this massive amount of data was fully released into the fourth-level technique, Heaven Embracing Earth.

As soon as the technique was activated, Sun Ran's body began to grow, reaching nearly fifty meters in height in an instant, becoming a towering giant. The giant was no longer the refined Sun Ran, with a savage face, bulging muscles, and three heads and six arms, each arm holding a different weapon—swords, spears, whips, wheels, and more.

This was the Daoist body, which could only be activated with great magical power, and its power was immense.

The previous Sun Ran would never have used such a brute-force form of Daoist technique, finding it too crude. But after communicating with the central AI, he tried to change his fighting style, and this technique was an experiment.

In the Guanghan Palace,

The moment the Daoist body appeared, the AI issued a warning: "Attention! Attention! High-intensity data burst detected! Intensity 4.1! Intensity 4.1!"

On the holographic screen, Sun Ran's massive Daoist body was immediately covered in a glaring blood-red aura, indicating an extremely dangerous entity. In comparison, the blood-red auras around the third-level great demons seemed very dim, like small stars next to a bright moon.

At this moment, if Sun Ran wished, he could destroy all of Hebian County by himself!

The hall was silent, and the game administrators were stunned for a while before one of them uncertainly said, "This can't be real, right?"

Although they were mentally prepared, this was still too extreme.

As the director, Chang'e contacted Sun Ran: "Hey, what's going on?"

A voice with a hint of laughter came through: "Fourteen third-level great demons, I had to do this to beat them."

The game administrators were speechless, their hearts filled with sympathy for the demons.

The nearly fifty-meter-tall giant was visible to everyone in Hebian County, and the people were stunned, then fell to their knees, muttering, "The heavenly deity has descended! The heavenly deity has descended!"

Yang Tingyong, in the flower hall of the county magistrate's residence, also saw this scene and was amazed, asking the guard Bai Tingxuan, "Why is Daoist Changqing's Daoist technique so powerful? Could he really be a heavenly deity?"

Bai Tingxuan was also shocked but quickly found a reasonable explanation: "Sir, you may not know. In our sect, my senior brother's Daoist cultivation is astonishing, and the elders of the sect consider him a once-in-five-hundred-years genius, on par with Yuan Tian罡, who wrote the 'Tui Bei Tu' a thousand years ago."

In this world, Yuan Tian罡 was also a super powerful being, with a poem praising him: "His name shines like the moon over a thousand autumns, his voice like a thunderclap through the ages." He had countless legendary stories, many of which were even more exaggerated than what Sun Ran was doing now.

Of course, the Maintainers all knew that this Yuan Tian罡 was actually a Silver-level enforcer hired by the Confucian world to secretly protect Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty.

But with this precedent, the psychological impact on Yang Tingyong was much less, and he could at least accept it, sighing, "To have the fortune to witness such a person as Changqingzi, I am truly blessed."

On the other side, the Great Peng Demon, being the fastest, flew ahead and was the first to reach the scene. When the change occurred, it had no time to react, letting out a terrified "Ah!" before seeing a massive black shadow accompanied by a gust of wind come crashing down.

Everyone saw the fierce Daoist body take a step forward, one arm holding a nine-section golden whip, and lash out fiercely, striking the Great Peng Demon.

With a loud "Peng," the Great Peng Demon's body was torn apart in mid-air, showering the sky with a rain of blood and flesh, and a cloud of black feathers fluttered helplessly in the air.

The overwhelming might of an ancient deity!

The demons, who had been charging forward, all slammed on the brakes. The faster ones instinctively turned and ran. This was not a power that could be countered by human, or rather, demon strength. In front of this giant, they were no different from ordinary people.

Why wait any longer to run?

Number Three was also shocked. He could see that the power of this technique had already surpassed the fourth level, otherwise, it would not have been able to tear the Great Peng Demon to pieces with a single strike.

With such a powerful technique, even if he sniped now, he could not break through this massive Daoist body or cause any damage.

What to do? Number Three thought rapidly, and after a moment, a plan for a mutual destruction emerged.

He immediately ordered his mercenary team: "All charge forward. If you die, you'll get a bonus of fifty thousand upon return!"

This was, after all, a game world, with no real threat to life, and money had infinite power. Stimulated by the huge reward, the demons who had already stopped and retreated immediately turned around and charged at Sun Ran again.

"Come on!"

Sun Ran laughed loudly, his voice like thunder shaking the four directions. He walked down the street, his footsteps rumbling, causing the ground of Hebian County to tremble slightly.

He swung his weapons wildly, not bothering with any techniques, relying solely on brute force. Any demon that was grazed by his weapons was severely injured. If hit directly, they would explode into a rain of blood, with no room for negotiation, completely one-sided domination.

The number of demons rapidly decreased, and Number Three, who had been hiding hundreds of meters away, watched quietly, his expression still calm, but his eyes glinting with a ghostly light.

Even with all his subordinates charging forward, they still could not cause any damage, or even make him panic, which made his first hope fail. But he was still waiting.

In just two minutes, all fourteen great demons were destroyed, and the demons in Hebian County were completely cleared, not a single one left.

Sun Ran let out a slight sigh of relief and began to exit the Daoist body state.

His withdrawal was very deliberate. Although he exited the technique, he did not abandon control of the data already gathered, meaning he still firmly controlled this data and could call upon it at any time.

This required extraordinary data control ability, which Sun Ran had in abundance.

"Opportunity has come!"

Number Three, hiding on the roof of a tavern, called out silently, immediately gripping the rune sniper rifle in his hand, his eyes glowing even more intensely, aiming the crosshairs at his opponent.

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