"What is this? A patchwork monster version?"
Lu Yan stared at the introduction on the version update interface before him, his mind filled with question marks.
Having experienced more than ten version updates, this was Lu Yan's first time seeing a version patched together from dozens of others.
Even though he hadn't entered it yet, just from the text introduction and the involvement of a vast number of This World's Only One, Lu Yan could already imagine the chaotic scene of the Grand Collapse version where demons ran wild.
The danger level of this special version would definitely not be low.
"So, does this mean I got played by Jiang Zhiwei?"
Lu Yan couldn't help but mutter to himself.
According to Jiang Zhiwei, the outcome of the special version would affect the direction of the entire Xianxia version and the distribution of interests among the major sects.
In addition, there was a hidden rule in the special version: once you exceed a hundred years of age, you can no longer enter.
Because of this, the major sects racked their brains to select and cultivate True Disciples under a hundred years old to benefit the sects.
Among the top ten orthodox Xuan sects and the seven major demon sects, the Taiyi Sect valued the special version the most, where True Disciples under a hundred held a status comparable to a Divinity Transformation Daoist Monarch.
After muttering a few words, Lu Yan had made up his mind.
Whether it's from the transaction with Jiang Zhiwei or from the dangerous level of the four versions, the Grand Collapse version was the only choice.
The first three versions might not be as chaotic as the Grand Collapse version, but they hid too many uncertainties.
In contrast, as described in the text introduction, the Grand Collapse version had factions belonging to the Xianxia version, and as a True Disciple of Taiyi Sect, Lu Yan would still be able to find some conveniences.
Of course, the most important point was that Lu Yan wanted to maintain his relationship with Jiang Zhiwei, and completing the transaction with Jiang Zhiwei was essential.
With this thought in mind, Lu Yan spoke in the stagnant space:
"Choose, Grand Collapse version!"
Lu Yan felt the stagnant space begin to change.
Unlike the multiple version updates he had experienced before, the Grand Collapse version presented an entirely different scene from the start of the update.
Space twisted and tore, as if countless invisible hands were tearing at the curtain of reality. The dilapidated Ancestral Hall began to collapse under this force, bricks and tiles turned into streaks of light and scattered, walls dissolving like foam.
In an instant, the familiar building vanished without a trace, replaced by a desolate wasteland stretching endlessly.
Under the dark red sky, crumbling walls and ruins lay sprawled across the barren earth like the bones of an ancient beast. Decaying energy wandered in the air, forming a faint dark purple mist, drifting with the wind.
"Is this the Grand Collapse version?"
Lu Yan was a bit dazed, rising into the sky from the ruins of the Ancestral Hall, surveying the environment around him.
Looking around, the Taiyi Cave Heaven, where Lu Yan once resided, had turned into a vast ruin, with broken stone pillars protruding crookedly into the sky, and broken array patterns scattered across cracked floor tiles.
Dozens of miles away on the wasteland, a palace seemingly built of mountains appeared as if it had fallen from above the sky, crashing into the wasteland and leaving a deep pit, its erosion by time seeming to span millennia.
Among the scattered stones, ancient massive Dao inscriptions occasionally flickered with weak light, like dying stars.
The wild wind howled across the wasteland, kicking up countless tiny dust particles that hovered over the silent ruins, like the whispers of ancient souls that refused to disperse. Dıscover more novels at 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵✦𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖✦𝙣𝙚𝙩
"This is... a dead blessed land!"
Lu Yan's heart was filled with shock.
Up to now, Lu Yan had only seen two cave heavens and blessed lands: Cyan Simurgh Sect's Qingwu Blessed Land and Taiyi Sect's Taiyi Cave Heaven.
Taiyi Cave Heaven formed a world beyond the mundane, and even the slightly inferior Qingwu Blessed Land was a crystallization of countless years of effort by the orthodox Xuan sects.
But now, in this wasteland of a blessed land, the Spirit Veins were depleted, and the Spiritual Qi in the air was almost as thin as in the initial city version.
Moreover, most of the Heaven and Earth Rules here were shattered, with rule fragments unable to support a complete rule, and even the Central Celestial Palace maintaining the blessed land had fallen from above the sky to the earth.
Such a scene greatly shocked Lu Yan.
"The wars in the Grand Collapse version can destroy a blessed land; what in the world happened in this patchwork monster version?"
As Lu Yan pondered, suddenly his Divine Soul trembled, and an indescribable sense of crisis surged into his heart.
His body turned into a rainbow and vanished from the spot, only for a blue beam of light to pierce through the afterimage he left behind and strike the ground in the next second.
The array patterns on the ruins were easily torn open as the blue beam pierced through and into the depths, leaving a bottomless black hole.
One could imagine that if the blue beam had struck him, even a Golden Core Dharma Body would certainly have suffered a severe blow.
Lu Yan focused his gaze in the direction the blue beam came from, then froze in astonishment.
In the distance, the clear sky was gradually covered in shadows, and above the sky, a massive metal Floating Fortress loomed like an ancient giant beast, emanating a dreadful technological majesty.
Every inch of alloy armor on its surface shimmered with a ghostly glow, countless energy circuits flowed over its surface like veins, emitting a heart-palpitating power fluctuation.
The blue beam of light originated from one of the cannons on the Floating Fortress.