As Lu Yan's words fell, silence descended instantly.
A barely perceptible tremor emanated from the depths of the void, as if an eternal curtain was gently stirred by an invisible hand. A mighty will that transcends life and death, cross beyond reincarnation, descended from the abyss, the gaze of the Apocalypse Celestial Dao.
All Laws and Dao resonate at this moment, the entire world operates in accordance with the will of the Celestial Dao, including Gathering Place 73 on the Grain Storage Plain, which seemed to have detached from the entire Apocalypse version, transforming into an independent realm.
Witnessing everything before him, even Lu Yan, who was prepared for this, couldn't help but feel his heart stirred.
Crafting Merit Treasure was the principal aim for Lu Yan choosing the Apocalypse version.
Since knowing that Immortals in the Xianxia version have the ability to resolve the crisis of the Longevity version, entering the Xianxia version became Lu Yan's most crucial goal. Latest content publıshed on 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭⚫𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦⚫𝘯𝘦𝘵
Yet Lu Yan had used the Soul Banner publicly in the Demon version, and the Soul Banner is an absolute taboo in the Xianxia version.
Once in the Xianxia version, Lu Yan's past use of the Soul Banner would inevitably be discovered by the major sects of the righteous and the demonic paths, bringing endless troubles.
At that moment, not being hunted would already be a great fortune, let alone finding a way to solve the crisis of the Longevity version in the Xianxia version.
Thus, Lu Yan must cleanse the Soul Banner, and the best way, undoubtedly, is crafting a Merit Treasure.
Lu Yan obtained the method to craft a Merit Treasure from the Cyan Simurgh Sect, which required a vast amount of merit and the song of the masses. This challenge plagued Lu Yan for a long time.
Afterward, Lu Yan deliberately bound the Soul Banner to the name of the Underworld and propagated the Underworld's name across various versions, accumulating the song of the masses, unexpectedly giving rise to a belief related to the Underworld.
This time, returning to the Apocalypse version, Lu Yan expended immense effort slaughtering millions of zombies, not only to collect roaming souls to enhance the Soul Banner but also to accumulate enough merit bestowed by the Celestial Dao to craft the Merit Treasure.
The minimum requirement for crafting a Merit Treasure is three Merit Golden Wheels formed from vast merit, which Lu Yan achieved in just a few days after returning to the Apocalypse version by slaughtering zombies.
But soon after, while studying the Merit Golden Wheels, Lu Yan found that his efforts to eradicate the hidden dangers in the Apocalypse version were favored by the heavens. The merit bestowed by the Apocalypse Celestial Dao is celestial merit, which is entirely different from ordinary human merit.
If crafted according to the ordinary methods for human merit to craft the Merit Treasure, it would seem too wasteful.
Thus Lu Yan continued slaughtering zombies to rapidly accumulate celestial merit.
In recent days, Lu Yan successfully condensed ninety-nine Merit Golden Wheels of celestial merit.
When the ninety-nine Merit Golden Wheels formed, Lu Yan had a clear sense that it was already the limit that this world could accommodate.
Even acquiring a massive amount of celestial merit afterward, he realized breaking this limitation wasn't possible, and the opportunity to craft a Merit Treasure had arrived.
Since crafting a Merit Treasure not from human merit, but with ninety-nine celestial Merit Golden Wheels, would be an unprecedented feat in the Xianxia version, Lu Yan needed to abandon old methods of crafting Merit Treasure.
Thus, Lu Yan utilized the Path of Omniscience of the Giant Spirit God to deduce a theoretically feasible grand ritual.
During a super-large zombie tide, by slaughtering millions of zombies, he gathered massive celestial merit from the slaughter of the zombie tide, borrowed the creation of heaven and earth, and asked this realm to forge the Soul Banner into a Heavenly Dao Merit Artifact.
This idea was evidently bold, theoretically consuming celestial merit could borrow the power of this realm, but practically it was tough without the related methods of the Ancient Daoist Sect.
Lu Yan was able to do so entirely due to his influence over the balance of the Apocalypse version, steering the direction of the entire Apocalypse version, thus holding some influence with the Apocalypse Celestial Dao.
Relying on this part of influence, he entirely hoped to accomplish this step.
However, Lu Yan never expected that due to an ambush of Transcendents and Golden Core Corpse Kings, an ultimate will intervened.
Lu Yan suppressed that strand of will, further inciting the wrath of the ultimate will to accelerate the formation of the catastrophic zombie tide, directly enlarging the scale of this ritual for crafting the Heavenly Dao Merit Artifact far beyond Lu Yan's original expectation.
Totaling over twenty million disaster zombies, a hundred thousand Extraordinary Zombies, even the ultimate will mobilized massive Moonlight Spiritual Qi to forcibly aid zombies in advancing to extraordinary.
Such a grand-scale zombie tide is rarely seen across the entire Apocalypse version, this number even surpasses many small countries.
As Lu Yan invoked ninety-nine Merit Golden Wheels and uttered "Please forge the Heavenly Dao Merit Artifact," what was drawn wasn't the Heaven and Earth Rules, but the Celestial Dao of the Apocalypse version!
Lu Yan used the disaster zombie tide as a ritual, requesting to forge the Heavenly Dao Merit Artifact, and received the response of the Apocalypse Celestial Dao!
In the next second, an aura of grand righteousness manifested above the sky.
Everyone could see, a radiant golden sun emerged above the cloudy sky shrouded in ghostly fog, its brilliant light even breaking through the shadowed fog, proclaiming its greatness to the world.
"Sun and moon shining together? Could it be a peculiar phenomenon we're unaware of?"
"First, the crescent moon transformed into a full moon, now the sun appears, what indeed is happening?"
But in the next second, tens of thousands of people within Gathering Place 73 witnessed a scene that filled them with terror.