Insufficient balance

  "Hey, Wanyu, how do we unseal the second seal?" Feng Xiao couldn't wait to remove all the seals and see Xuan Yuan's true appearance.

  "Master, to lift the second seal... it requires... a baptism of Qilin's blood." Xuan Yuan Wanyou said somewhat nervously.

  Plop!

  He almost fell over as his foot slipped on a loose stone.

  What is a Qilin? It's the leader of the Five Sacred Beasts of the Tianlong Continent, and can almost be considered the top existence in the Tianlong Continent. Looking for a Qilin to bleed? What a joke, its fart alone could kill countless 100-level players multiple times.

  "Master, Wanyi knows it's very difficult, but at least there is still hope. I believe that one day, Master will be able to do it. Wanyi has not given up for tens of thousands of years, and now isn't she successful? Now what Master needs to do is to quickly become stronger." Xuan Yuan Wanyi softly comforted Feng Xiao, for her, the master was now her only hope.

  "Don't worry, Wanyu, I won't give up so easily. If I haven't tried, how would I know it's not possible?" Wanyu's words stirred up Feng Xiao's pride: How could he lose to a little girl? Moreover, the Xuan Yuan sword was his long-time goal in reality, and now that he was in the game, how could he easily give up.

  The seal that can bind Xuan Yuan Sword is not so easy to open, let's take this as a trial for me. Feng Xiao made up his mind in secret.

  "Wanyu, can you tell me what's going on with the God-Demon War? And why was Xuan-Yuan Sword sealed?" Feng Xiao asked out his puzzling questions. Just now when Xuan-Yuan Wanyu mentioned the God-Demon War, he didn't have much emotional fluctuation, after all every game has its own background, maybe the God-Demon War is just this game's historical background.

  "Wanyan also knows a little about the specific reason, Wanyan only knows roughly one part, does the master want to hear?"

  "Uh, Wan'er said I'll listen, and from now on... you don't have to call me Master anymore, it's a bit... awkward. You can call me Feng Hun or if you'd like, Feng Gege is fine too." The title of "Master" was really a bit... too evil for someone modern like Feng Xiao.

  However, Feng Xiao seems to have completely forgotten that Xuan Yuan Wen Er has existed for at least tens of thousands of years, and if we really talk about seniority...

  "Ah, yes, Wind... Brother Wind."

  "Feng Gege, do you know about the Realm of Gods? The Mortal Realm is on earth, while the Realm of Gods is in heaven. From the moment Pangu opened up the sky and the primordial chaos began, the Realm of Gods has been watching over the Mortal Realm's prosperity and evolution, peace and war, rise and fall."

  "The divine realm is also divided into the Eastern Divine Realm and the Western Divine Realm. The Eastern Divine Realm is what you Huaxia people call the Immortal Realm, ruled by the Jade Emperor with the mighty Buddha sitting in charge. The Western Divine Realm is ruled by the God King Zeus. There is little contact between the Eastern and Western Divine Realms, but there is no conflict either."

  "The merciful Tathagata Buddha, the majestic Jade Emperor, the kind-hearted Queen Mother, and many companions as close as family. There was no poverty or greed in the mortal world, no oppression or war. Life in the divine realm was simple and peaceful, and we all believed that such a life would continue forever, until one day, everything changed completely."

  Feng Xiao sat quietly on the grass, listening in surprise to Wan Er's mythical story.

  "The Tathagata Buddha's billion-year wheel-turning ritual of purification is finally being held, and the ritual will cause the Buddha's spiritual power to be reborn, becoming even stronger. On this day, the Tathagata Buddha will lose all his spiritual power, and it will be the weakest moment in a billion years. However, the gods are not worried at all, because there is no enemy in the realm of the gods, and even if there were, they would not pose a threat to them."

  However, just as the baptism ceremony began, at the moment when the Buddha's law power was completely lost, a terrible scene occurred. In the sky above the divine realm, many strange creatures suddenly appeared out of thin air, and each one was incredibly powerful. The gods, who had grown accustomed to their comfortable lives, were caught off guard and didn't have any defensive mindset. They watched in horror as the Buddha was killed with a single blow by the leader of these beings. It was on that day that the Buddha passed away, and the divine realm began its war against these self-proclaimed "demons".

  "Is the Buddha dead?" Feng Xiao asked in surprise.

  "It is, in the unbelievable sight of all the gods, that the Buddha passed away, and the faith of countless people in heaven also collapsed."

  "They call themselves demons, but no one knows where they came from or why they're attacking the heavenly realm. All they do is mercilessly destroy and slaughter, as if they have an eternal vendetta against the heavens. The gods, led by the Jade Emperor, rise up to resist, while also seeking help from the Western Heavenly Realm. But they are too powerful, especially their leader who calls himself the Demon King, even the Great Sage Equal to Heaven was defeated by him. The gods retreat in defeat, disappearing every day, and the heavenly palace suffers massive destruction daily."

  Finally, the Western God King Zeus led the Western gods to come and support in person, because they were worried that the next target of the Demon Realm would be them. However, unexpectedly, the Eastern and Western gods joined forces, but still lost, because that demon king was too powerful, in the previous war, he didn't even use his full strength, when using his full strength, the demon king's power was not inferior to that of the Buddha.

  "In desperation, the gods finally thought of their last hope..."

  "What is it!?" Feng Xiao felt his heart being stirred up, every sentence that Wan Er said was a shocking and astonishing news.

  "Extermination of the Gods Formation!"

  "In ancient legend, Xuan-Yuan Sword's God-Slaying Formation!?" Feng Xiao exclaimed.

  "With the Wan Blood Spirit Pearl and the Dong Huang Bell, Xuan Yuan Sword, Pan Gu Axe, Lian Yao Hu, and Huang Tian Tower as guides, they formed the 'Nine Heavens Array', with the Xuan Yuan Sword as the core, which can trigger the God-slaying Array that can destroy the heavens and earth, and devour all the heavens. However, when gathering the ten great divine artifacts, the gods were shocked to discover that the Dong Huang Bell, Pan Gu Axe, and Huang Tian Tower had disappeared."

  "But reality could no longer afford their hesitation, and under duress, the gods had to use the Wanxie Lingzhu and the Fuxi Qin, Shennong Ding, Kongtong Yin, Kunlun Jing, Nüwa Shi to form the 'Lost Array', and inject the divine power of the Lianyao Hu into it. With the Xuan Yuan Sword as the core, they forcibly activated the 'God-slaying Array'."

  "Did it... succeed?"

  "Perhaps, I didn't see the situation at that time. The God-slaying Formation was successfully activated, and countless gods were unable to withstand its pressure and fainted. However, the Demon King's strength was still beyond everyone's expectations, and he actually withstood the power of the God-slaying Formation. In the end, the Demon King was only sealed away and did not disappear. And when I woke up, the first thing I heard was 'The heavens and earth have been reversed'. I couldn't understand the meaning of this sentence, and no one ever mentioned it to me again. From that day on, although the Demon King was sealed away, it was extremely strange that... the expressions of the gods became even more fearful, as if there was something a hundred times more terrifying than the Demon King."

  "The aftereffect of forcibly activating the God-slaying Formation with the Lost Array has finally appeared. All seven ancient divine artifacts that participated in the God-slaying Formation have been sealed, and no one in the Divine Realm can unseal them. Moreover, the core Xuan-Yuan Sword has been added with the seals of the other six divine artifacts, a total of seven extremely powerful seals."

  "The war between gods and demons only lasted for a month, but that one month was enough to make the divine realm go into decline. After the demon king was sealed away for 100 days, I... transformed into a sword spirit and took on the mission of searching for the body of chaos."

  Feng Xiao listened quietly to Xuan Yuan's narrative, but his heart had already stirred up a huge wave.