The Khufu Pyramid descended, and the Pacific Empire began its invasion.
The skies above the Nine Provinces were overcast and gloomy. If one looked down upon the land from above, they would see strands of black-red calamity qi rising everywhere. War and military disaster were about to erupt, and the killing aura of the world was almost boiling over.
Lu Jun felt this power surging upward without end, and the Metal Element Calamity Talent was born in response to the tribulation.
Within his spiritual universe, the platinum-colored star sea surged vast and turbulent. The imprints of the Tai'a Sword Seal and the Divine Seal method rose and fell within it. At this moment, a brand-new imprint was born beside them, its form constantly shifting.
One moment it resembled blades, swords, halberds, and cauldrons; the next moment it resembled knife coins and copper currency. Its entire body shone with black, cyan, crimson, white, and gold brilliance. At first glance it seemed to change endlessly, yet a cold metallic luster ran through it all as a constant.
The Metal Element Calamity—Taiyi Golden Radiance! Taiyi, also called Taiyi the One, was regarded as the origin of the Dao.
Taiyi Golden Radiance traced back to the most ancient meaning of metal. Most often it represented the iron weapons of war and conquest, or the most ordinary equivalent—metal currency. Therefore, the imprint manifested by this Calamity Talent had no fixed form.
Just like Summon Wind and Call Rain, Taiyi Golden Radiance pointed directly toward the origin of the element. It could involve the transformation of matter, possessing powers such as turning stone into gold and transforming the earth into steel.
If the host could excavate its fundamental power, then with a single thought he could command all the metals under heaven, gathering them into one body, greatly enhancing killing power, slaying even Emperors, or freely combining their properties to create divine iron and immortal gold never before seen.
The moment the three imprints of the Metal Element star sea stood side by side.
The killing aura around Lu Jun shot straight into the heavens.
Rumble—!
In an instant, a star in the western sky that was already bright erupted with even more dazzling brilliance. Previously, the surrounding stars could not obscure its radiance, but now even the sun's light was forced aside. A golden blazing sun hung high in the west.
Two suns shared the sky, east and west competing in brilliance. Even the projection of the Nine Provinces formed by Khufu using the power of Orion seemed dim and insignificant before them.
When this strange phenomenon fell into the eyes of those who understood it, they turned pale with shock and murmured to themselves:
"This is the celestial omen of Venus Crossing the Heavens."
Venus, the Taibai Star, was already the brightest and largest star in the night sky, visible to ordinary people with a single glance upward. It also symbolized military calamity and chaos.
When Venus appeared in the daytime and surpassed the brilliance of the sun, it was called Venus Crossing the Heavens. It signified upheaval in the world, the overthrow of kings, and the rise of new rulers—one of the most ominous celestial omens.
At this moment, Lu Jun was harnessing that ominous and majestic power, about to transform it into a sword to cut down the source that had plunged the world into endless war.
Buzz—buzz—buzz!
And it was not over yet.
Lu Jun stood solemn and dignified. The White Tiger pendant around his neck broke free on its own and floated above his head. The metal melted and reshaped itself, transforming into a radiant White Tiger Tally. It reflected the Taibai Star shining across the heavens as the calamity qi from all directions surged in.
Metal Element Super Tier Magic, White Tiger Tally! Its first-level effect was called Strike of Arms.
The White Tiger was the object that suppressed evil and governed warfare. Once the tiger tally was cast forth, the world fell into turmoil.
With Lu Jun casting it in his Ascend to Godhood state, it could be released without controlling the star particles, and its power even reached the peak of the Super Tier.
The effect of White Tiger Tally, Strike of Arms was wondrous. If Lu Jun slew powerful enemies one after another, he could refine the metallic killing aura of battle and store it within the tally. When needed, he could then release this immense power.
At its simplest and most brutal, it could multiply the power of Metal Element magic several times over, awaken the potential of divine weapons, or even summon the projections of legendary divine weapons from history to aid in battle.
At this moment, above Lu Jun's head was a deep platinum vortex, with the White Tiger Tally shining at its center. Images of enemies falling flashed past. With every movement he made, Taiyi Golden Radiance resonated with the metallic calamity qi from all directions. Endless metallic brilliance shone as countless phantoms of divine weapons surrounded him.
He seemed like the incarnation of the ancient mythological Taibai Emperor of Infinite Calamities.
When he slightly raised the Tai'a Sword, the Taibai Star in the heavens immediately blazed with even greater brilliance. The two echoed one another, as if two dazzling stars had overlapped.
Lu Jun seized this once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity. The momentum of heaven's timing, earth's advantage, and human harmony pushed forward as he poured all the power of his eight elements in the Ascend to Godhood state into the Tai'a Sword, elevating it to the extreme.
After this strike, unless he reached the Forbidden Curse level, it would be exceedingly difficult for him to perform such a technique again.
Clang!
Immediately afterward, Lu Jun swung the Tai'a Sword with fierce determination, unleashing a sky-piercing sword light. The moment it appeared, it illuminated billions of miles. The infinite metallic killing aura of the Nine Provinces was stirred, and the heavens turned white, yet this white carried an indestructible metallic nature.
The platinum sky was filled with unmatched sharpness. All the citizens across the Northern Plains of the Nine Provinces felt pain in their eyes. Unable to see the sky clearly, they instinctively lowered their heads, no longer daring to gaze directly at the platinum heavens.
At the same time, the immense power directly shattered the mirage, and no one could see the battle taking place in the Northern Plains anymore.
All of this sounded lengthy, but in reality it erupted in a flash.
The sword light Lu Jun slashed out seemed frozen in eternity, and in the next instant collided with the Spear of the Nether God that had pierced through the distant void.
Clang!
A crisp sound echoed across the skies of the Nine Provinces.
The platinum sword light's immense power was restrained and vanished in a flash. In that instant it severed the Spear of the Nether God, its remaining momentum continuing forward as it swept toward the magnificent pyramid in the sky, pointing directly at the ten-thousand-zhang sinister shadow standing at the summit, expanding from a single strand until it filled the entire field of vision.
This sword radiance illuminated the Nine Provinces with cold brilliance. This sword seemed to split open the heavens, drawing a dividing line across the world.
Hmph!
Seeing this, the Nether God Khufu, high above, gave a cold snort. With a wave of his grand sleeve, the bright platinum sky was replaced once more by a grim black night, while rolling nether energy surged toward the heavens.
The sword light Lu Jun unleashed advanced relentlessly within the profound darkness. The indestructible metallic nature flowed through it, impossible to extinguish, continuing until the end of the night where no trace of light could be seen, no aura could be sensed, its result unknown.
When everything finally calmed, the sky above the Northern Plains gradually returned to normal. It no longer alternated between nether radiance and blood light surging skyward, nor between platinum brilliance and black darkness, nor did the stars dim while the Taibai Star shone alone.
The towering Khufu Pyramid, which had been accidentally summoned by the Triangular Chaos Mirror, also vanished without a trace.
Only a cold echo remained, resonating through heaven and earth:
"Not bad."
In midair above the Northern Frontier, Lu Jun floated in his Ascend to Godhood form, his face slightly pale, the magic energy of his eight elements nearly exhausted.
When he heard the words of the Nether God Khufu, the sternness on his face became even more indifferent.
If it had been an ordinary mage, even a Forbidden Curse Mage, receiving praise from an Emperor and surviving an Emperor's full-power strike would have already left them ecstatic with joy. It would have been enough to be regarded as the greatest honor of their lifetime, and the world would be astonished.
But before the projection of Khufu disappeared, Lu Jun had seen everything clearly.
That lofty Nether God had a corner of the sleeve of his magnificent magic robe torn open, and faint black blood seemed to be seeping out from it.
As for the latter, he did not dare to be completely certain. He murmured to himself,
"Did I injure him?"
Lu Jun's sword, poured with his full strength, had not been erased. Instead, it pierced through countless spaces and left a wound upon Khufu's true body in the distant Underworld!
"The indestructible nature of metal…"
His heart remained calm as he recalled the might of the Metal Element in the past. At the Beginner Level it could wound Intermediate mages, at the Intermediate Level it could break the defenses of Commanders. Now, at the Super Tier, it naturally possessed the power to pierce the might of an Emperor!
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