Ordinary Group Leader: "With such high compatibility in the Sacred Treasury, how could they possibly have a fallout?"
Ordinary Group Leader: "It's probably just a simple duel."
Ordinary Group Leader: "Just like the fight between Bai Xuan and Luo Hao earlier."
She still placed complete faith in the capabilities of the Sacred Treasury.
The higher the compatibility, the greater the likelihood of walking together through life.
With the compatibility score between Bai Xuan and Zhixin, having a falling out in this lifetime was virtually impossible.
Besides, who in their right mind would take Morgana's words seriously?
Ordinary Group Leader: "Speaking of which, who won that last match?"
Richest Man in the Lighthouse: "You're asking about Leader Luo Hao and Bai Xuan?"
If so, I'd have to seriously question your IQ.
Did that even need to be asked?
Ordinary Group Leader: "Of course I mean the Marquis and Shendu! I'm not stupid."
No matter how strong Leader Luo Hao was, there was no way she could be stronger than Bai Xuan.
If everyone in the chat group had only a single cheat—the chat group itself—then Bai Xuan had two!
Although the [Authority of Nature] wasn't a system, how many systems out there could actually match the Authority of Nature?
Not to mention the absurdly high world tier of Bai Xuan's reality.
How could a single cheat user ever compare to someone running double cheats?
Cook Daigu Into Soup: "Most likely Shendu won. Didn't the battle between Shendu and the Marquis not too long ago end in Shendu's victory as well?"
Shendu: "Hmph!"
Ordinary Group Leader: "Judging from Shendu's tone, it looks like he didn't win?"
Ordinary Group Leader: "Did Marquis Voban actually win?"
The Most Ancient Godslayer: "No, a draw."
Marquis Voban replied indifferently, though a triumphant smirk crept across his face.
Shendu: "A draw?"
Shendu: "The moment you bought the Dog Talisman, you had already lost!"
Shendu never imagined that Marquis Voban would actually stoop to buying the Dog Talisman.
Just as Marquis Voban couldn't kill Shendu who held the Dog Talisman, Shendu was equally powerless against Marquis Voban when reinforced by the same talisman.
Naturally, their battle in the Virtual Battle Arena devolved into a complete stalemate.
Although Marquis Voban lacked the regenerative power of the Horse Talisman, as a Godslayer, his innate recovery was already formidable. Combined with a Godslayer's unique traits, no amount of grievous injury would cause him to lose combat capability—it only made him fight with greater ferocity.
Previously, Shendu could grind him down using the Dog Talisman. Now that Voban was also bolstered by the Dog Talisman, grinding him to death was out of the question!
What a sore loser!
The Most Ancient Godslayer: "A laughable argument."
The Most Ancient Godslayer: "I merely rectified my own shortcomings."
The Most Ancient Godslayer: "Furthermore, weren't you the one who told me to purchase it in the first place?"
Back when Marquis Voban had raged at Shendu for using the Dog Talisman to cheese fights, hadn't Shendu sneered and said, 'It's not like I'm forbidding you from buying one yourself'?
He was merely fulfilling Shendu's request.
Shendu: "A fellow who relied on external objects just to barely stand on equal footing with me is not worthy of speaking to me."
After dropping that line, Shendu went silent.
There was nothing he could say to refute Voban.
Because strictly speaking, it truly had been Shendu who 'advised' them to buy the Dog Talisman.
Even though it had been spoken in a mocking tone to taunt them for lacking sufficient points, he had indeed 'recommended' it.
Thus, having delivered his parting remark, Shendu logged off immediately.
Marquis Voban had just prepared a barrage of rebuttals—such as 'Are Heavenly Flames not external objects?', 'You're reduced to meaningless whining now', and 'Stop making excuses for your own failure'—only to find Shendu had beat him to the punch and gone offline, leaving all his prepared barbs stuck in his throat.
Ordinary Group Leader: "Incredible!"
Ordinary Group Leader: "Using the Dog Talisman to defeat the Dog Talisman!"
Ordinary Group Leader: "Though this also shows the Marquis was truly out of options against Shendu."
The Talismans were intrinsic powers originating from Shendu himself. If the Marquis hadn't been completely incapable of defeating Shendu on his own, why would he ever resort to buying the Dog Talisman?
Shendu's words weren't entirely wrong. To anyone else, the Dog Talisman was purely an external tool, as they couldn't assimilate it into their own being. It was like a magical artifact—and one that anyone could pick up and use.
If the Marquis had possessed the means to defeat Shendu through his own power, he likely would never have chosen this method to force a draw.
Still, one had to admit, that move was genuinely slick.
Meanwhile, the battle between Bai Xuan and Angel Yan had also drawn to a close.
Holy Guardian Left Wing: "Enhanced by the World Tree, your power is truly terrifying."
Holy Guardian Left Wing: "Tsk, tsk, tsk, what an exaggerated rate of progress."
Angel Yan couldn't help but marvel at the strength Bai Xuan had demonstrated in the Virtual Battle Arena under the World Tree's enhancement.
That level of power was simply absurd.
It wasn't just raw computing power; combined with Bai Xuan's own Authorities, it granted him the ability to rewrite concepts much like a Void Engine.
Even bolstered by the Sacred Treasury, she had been completely unable to break free from Bai Xuan's restraints.
To test more of Bai Xuan's capabilities, she had even deployed some of Queen Keisha's beyond-standard weapons, but that too ended in failure.
It wasn't that she couldn't harm Bai Xuan. Although his ascension had granted him the property where only gods could harm him, Angel Yan was fundamentally a god herself.
This was a conclusion Bai Xuan had verified during his sparring with Luo Hao.
Each world had a different definition of godhood, but as long as one met their world's criteria and held the title of a god, they could harm Bai Xuan within the Virtual Battle Arena.
The Virtual Battle Arena mapped all abilities and statuses from a member's native world into the simulation, naturally including the status of godhood.
In reality, however, it depended on which world Bai Xuan and the opponent were in and the specific laws of that world.
Yet even though the destructive yield of Angel Yan's weapons could threaten Bai Xuan—and even obliterate him in an instant if they connected—she still couldn't defeat him.
Because she couldn't land a hit.
Among the various divine authorities derived from nature following his ascension, space was included as a concept, granting Bai Xuan the ability to phase through dimensions.
Much like Obito Uchiha's Kamui, while he appeared to stand right in front of you, his true body was situated in another spatial plane.
In the past, Angel Yan could computationally redefine space to suppress his ability to use such techniques, but that no longer worked.
Enhanced by the World Tree, Bai Xuan's computational power surpassed hers. Before she could even begin parsing him, she was immediately counterattacked and repelled.
Even with the Sacred Treasury connected, the outcome remained the same.
While the World Tree was an apex artifact within mysticism—a partial manifestation of the world's will—overtaking celestial computers that various civilizations had spent thousands or even tens of thousands of years developing so effortlessly was honestly a bit excessive!
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