Chapter 151: Late Game (3)
Nazzeck pulled his consciousness from Fu Tong's sea of consciousness, saving himself. His eye bled, and his blood vessels ruptured.
Fu Tong also recovered. He glanced at his status.
Status Attributes
Health: 23,806,410 / 23,806,410
Mind: 3,213,333 / 13,199,120
Qi: 950,999 / 999,999
Strength: 877,514 + 691,666
Vitality: 879,385 + 716,666
Dexterity: 875,382 + 706,666
Agility: 999,999 + 731,666
Intelligence: 875,176
Wisdom: 882,324
Divinity: 999,999
Charisma: 100
Luck: 100
He took a lot of mental damage earlier, but he was slowly recovering. Fu Tong shifted his attention to Nazzeck and inspected his health bar.
Unlike normal cultivators, bosses like Nazzeck had higher HP and MP. His health bar was as long as the 420-mile-long health bars of soul games' bosses. In the game, Nazzeck's HP and MP were set to 500 million by default, and they fluctuated, depending on the player's actions.
The self-detonation earlier dropped Nazzeck's MP by half, but his HP dropped by only 10%. He was far from being defeated.
Fu Tong returned his attention to the clothing mod screen. He swiped the neuron core of Nazzeck and put it in his inventory.
Nazzeck screeched, sensing the missing star core within himself. His status attributes instantly dropped by 90% until they matched cultivators of the same peer.
Fu Tong didn't stop there. He summoned the Furry Mod and switched Nazzeck's appearance to a female goblin!
The giant eyeball vanished like smoke, reemerging as a one-meter-tall ugly green goblin. Nazzeck became a "SHE". By switching genders, Nazzeck's same-gender damage immunity was no longer effective against Fu Tong.
"!!!"
Sensing danger, Nazzeck roared, stopping time once more.
The world turned dark once again. Fu Tong, who adjusted his stance and prepared to launch an attack on Nazzeck, was frozen in time. His eyes shifted as he could still sense the time dilation.
Nazzeck gritted her teeth. This development coincided with some of the visions which he had foreseen. If she continued fighting against Fu Tong, she would be killed instantly.
However, Nazzeck refused to retreat without teaching Fu Tong a lesson. She shifted her attention to the city below. Her eyes cast upon Jin Yu, Ji Zixuan, Li Wushuang, Long Xueyao, and Tang Youyan.
She had another idea. Instead of targeting Fu Tong or his wives, she would kill someone else.
The mortal world that Fu Tong had come from—that would do.
And she knew the person who could help her cross the dimension and invade Earth.
"I can't defeat you, but that doesn't mean I can't get my revenge!"
Nazzeck, in her goblin appearance, turned tail and flew away. She fled from the battle while the world was frozen in time.
She set a trap.
Fu Tong frowned deeply, but a sneer crept onto his face. He had been upgrading his raw status attributes using divine shards for so many years. Moreover, he had recently been in seclusion under the Fusang Tree in his farm dimension, and he had more than enough divine power to use big moves.
His mind recited a trigger word of a sage-grade spell, which could only be used by abyssal stars, aka those who were related to the Time Lord.
"ZA WARUDO!"
The silly trigger words were from his game mod. Everybody knew the reference.
The entire world got darker. The universe was plunged into complete darkness. However, Fu Tong's divinity attribute dropped by 10,000 and gradually decreased by 100 every second. His max Qi also degraded to 799,999 as a backlash from using the time manipulation spell without possessing a completed bloodline.
In exchange for the penalties, Nazzeck's movements got sluggish. As though chains had bound her arms and legs, she could no longer move.
On the contrary, Fu Tong was the one who could move in this domain. He charged toward Nazzeck.
Not giving her a chance to retaliate, he brandished the sage sword and beheaded her in one swing!
That wasn't enough. Nazzeck's HP only decreased by half, yet her goblin physique vanished.
"Nice trick, but you've fallen for my trap!"
The voice of Nazzeck echoed in Fu Tong's mind. Instantly, Fu Tong's time domain shattered. Nazzeck recovered his abyssal star physique and reappeared in the sky, blocking sunlight and starlight. His gender returned to normal.
His HP, MP, and Qi were recovered to 100%! The plundered artifacts, core, and other equipment were restored to his original body!
Fu Tong's eyes widened. He didn't remember giving Nazzeck this ability in his game mod. A split second later, he recalled that the Time Lord possessed a life-saving artifact, which could reverse time when he died. It was implemented in the latest game version, which the game developers had made.
"That stupid Phase 4!"
Because of this item, the final showdown between a player and the Time Lord consisted of four phases. The first phase was a fight between cultivators. After the Time Lord was defeated in the first phase, he transformed into the original abyssal star and continued the fight. The third phase occurred in the player's sea of consciousness. And lastly, when nothing worked, he reversed time and redid everything from scratch. The players had to go through the first three phases once again to end him.
In addition, the game had a difficulty scale setting. On a higher difficulty, the Time Lord's time artifact could be used multiple times. Therefore, the fight got more tedious and annoying.
Fu Tong suspected that Nazzeck might have an inferior version of the item. He regretted that he didn't patch his clothing mod or the furry mod to cover this game version.
Making sure, Fu Tong rechecked the clothing mod.
Nothing mentioned the time-reversal artifact.
Since he didn't have a choice, Fu Tong summoned the command console, using the ultimate move. He searched for the time-related data file or item.
The item list appeared. At the top, the command console revealed its code name.
Item_TimeResetOrbComplete
Item_TimeResetOrbIncomplete
There was no other description, but that was enough information. He tried deleting them.
The system warned him immediately.
Deleting a sage-grade item requires 500,000 merit coins.
You currently have 666,666 merit coins. Will you delete it?
The mannequin in the farm dimension had been working hard. They generated many merit coins every second in the real world. As the world developed, the rewards grew exponentially.
Fu Tong asked to make sure.
"What about deleting a sage? Will it be the same price?"
Deleting a sage NPC requires 500,000 merit coins.
You currently have 666,666 merit coins. Will you delete it?
Fu Tong looked back at Nazzeck and smirked.
"Delete that motherf-cker."
Affirmative!
Meanwhile, Nazzeck divined his fate and calculated his battle plan. He knew he couldn't defeat Fu Tong directly, but Fu Tong also couldn't possibly defeat him, who possessed the artifact of his father.
The artifact was bound to his soul, and it could be used nine times in total. As long as Nazzeck was careful, he could overpower Fu Tong and take advantage of his superior MP pool.
The staring contest lasted only three seconds. However, those three seconds were Nazzeck's mistake.
Fu Tong's system activated!
Nazzeck's soul shook. He slowly disintegrated into nothingness, and he didn't understand what hit him.
"T-This!"
A second later, Nazzeck divined this ability and figured out the origin of this power. He glared at Fu Tong with resentment.
"FU TOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNGG!!"
Fu Tong raised his middle finger. "Sayonara, asshole."
Nazzeck gradually disappeared. His power failed to activate, and he vanished forever.
The battle ended. Fu Tong let out a long sigh.
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As soon as Nazzeck's existence vanished, Pei Gui Hong flinched. He looked at himself and saw his hands and fingers fading, turning to ash. He panicked.
"What did I do?! How?!"
As someone who was resurrected and pledged allegiance to Nazzeck, he couldn't sustain his existence and soul without Nazzeck's divinity. Following his master, he vanished right in front of his comrades.
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Within a day, the news of Nazzeck and Pei Gui Hong's deaths reached Xia Chen and Dong Huang's ears. While leading different armies, they couldn't stop smiling.
"Now!"
Xia Chen and Dong Huang believed that Nazzeck and Pei Gui Hong were killed by Fu Tong, and that Fu Tong should be injured or in a critical condition after the fight. They mobilized their forces, marching toward the Divine Cloud Sect. Long Baiqi and Xiao Shashen followed them.
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Saint Realm
The survivors from the Lu Clan, along with Dong Bai and Lu Potian, had found refuge on Long Yunfei's planet. While staying there, they relied on the Azure Long Clan's spying artifact to monitor the Divine Cloud Sect and Fu Tong's movements.
Lu Potian and Dong Bai were concerned about Fu Tong after the coup. They knew that Dong Huang would eventually target him because of the abyssal star bloodline and his secrets. Thus, they had been asking Long Yunfei to mobilize forces to the mortal world.
At first, Long Yunfei seemed reluctant. However, a decree from the supreme sage, the Heavenly Dao, came from the sage realm.
They were to form a crusade against Nazzeck, Dong Huang, and the uprising forces in the immortal realm. Every related clan had to comply with the edict, or their clan would be considered an accomplice of Nazzeck and his comrades.
Long Yunfei had no choice. He mobilized all cloud dragons, rain dragons, and fire dragons. They descended into the immortal realm, a lower dimension of the saint realm.
Among them, disciples of the dragons followed. Two of them were Fang Yuan and Xiao Ri.
Xiao Ri, the embodiment of Pride, and Fang Yuan, the embodiment of Gluttony, would soon join the fray. However, nobody knew what they were thinking while they were following their masters.