Chapter 349 - 345: National Fortune Arena Tournament

Chapter 349: Chapter 345: National Fortune Arena Tournament

’Did I transmigrate? Is this still the Empire of Service?’

As consciousness returned, the young woman’s head was splitting, and a man stood before her, saying:

"Li Longyun, the National Fate Tournament is happening right now. Are you ready?"

As he spoke, he tossed a card in front of the young woman, his expression cold.

"Our Great Zhou Empire has been beaten back to our last Progenitor Planet. This is our final chance."

"The nation is on the verge of collapse, but we absolutely cannot lose our spirit in this final battle."

As the man spoke, Li Longyun finished processing the memories in her mind and finally understood where she had transmigrated.

This was a future tens of thousands of years later. The former Empire of Service had been destroyed, replaced by countless Divine Countries that now dominated the galaxy.

The cultivation system of these nations was called the Way of Faith!

Through the countless streams of faith in the galaxy, one could turn the virtual into reality, bring beings of the past into the present, and ascend to godhood through the belief of the masses.

Thus, the people of this era did not practice the Martial Dao. Instead, they had a collective legacy known as the Annals of Ages and Peoples.

And through these memories, Li Longyun discovered that the objects of faith in this era were actually literary and artistic works from another world, given by Fang Can of the Golden Era.

It seemed that because these works were fragmented and incomplete, the interstellar humans of this age believed them to be records of a real past, allowing them to be summoned through faith.

For example, the Norse pantheon worshiped the invincible God of Thunder, the Greek pantheon had Zeus...

The Three-Body pantheon had the "God of Darkness and Trees," Luo Ji; the Death Note pantheon had the "God of Death and Wisdom," Yami Tsuki...

The Annals of Ages and Peoples held a National Fate Tournament at regular intervals. During these tournaments, the beings worshiped by each nation could descend from the virtual realm and manifest in reality to fight. The victorious nation would then receive corresponding territory and rewards!

’What about Celestial Emperor Fang?’ Li Longyun couldn’t help but wonder.

’Theoretically, the more powerful a deity’s domain and abilities, the greater the strength they should display in this national war.’

’So, the one who began and ended the Golden Era, the source of all faith, the god of all creation—he should be invincible if he were to be manifested.’

’Why can’t I find any trace of him in the Annals of Ages and Peoples? No matter how I search, I can’t find his name.’

Then, she discovered the reason in the memories of her new body.

It seemed that after the Empire of Service fractured, all living beings combined their faith with past history to create a divine object called the Annals of Ages and Peoples.

The final result was the creation of the Annals. However, everything in the entire universe related to history, whether memories or written words, completely vanished.

The only thing left that recorded history was the Annals of Ages and Peoples, floating in the cosmos!

Now, the only way to recover history was through archaeology, by excavating the memories hidden within the true historical texts.

And to summon a deity for battle, one had to actively speak their true name and recite their glorious epic. Only then could they be summoned!

Almost instantly, Li Longyun’s heart began to pound.

Before she transmigrated, she was a history buff. Her major had been the Appreciation of Ancient Literary and Artistic Works, and her knowledge of the Golden Era was second to none.

While her mind was racing, the young man before her was already sneering.

"Looks to me like you’re scared. Hurry up, pick a task, choose an ancient battlefield to complete it, and get your nation wiped out sooner. It’ll make things easier for me."

"I, on the other hand, have a C-class deity from the Golden Era—Gojo Satoru! Your Great Zhou will surely fall today!"

The young man’s words enraged the citizens of Great Zhou. A flood of curses overwhelmed the air, but in their hearts, they knew the chances of victory were minuscule.

Facing his arrogant taunts, Li Longyun sneered and said, "Just you watch."

As she spoke, a list of choices appeared before Li Longyun:

1. Fang Can

2. Earth God from Journey to the West

3. Upper General of Lingling

4. Kamen Rider Ryuki

...

Seeing the figures that appeared before her, Li Longyun’s breath caught in her throat. She had spotted an incredibly familiar name.

’It’s actually Celestial Emperor Fang? Is there even a choice?’

Almost instantly, Li Longyun shouted, "I choose Fang Can!"

Her words caused an uproar. Everyone started discussing, "Who is Fang Can?"

"Is she crazy? Why not pick the Upper General of Lingling? He’s the God of Comedy with hundreds of billions of faith points."

"Exactly! Who the hell is Fang Can? Nobody’s ever heard of him. If you don’t even know his story, you’ll only be able to summon an incomplete version."

"Even the Earth God from Journey to the West would be better. At least he has ’god’ in his name."

...

Similar comments flooded the bullet screen. Countless citizens sighed at Li Longyun’s choice, feeling she was being far too reckless.

But Li Longyun said nothing. Instead, with a solemn expression, she began to recite what was essentially required reading from the history books:

Fang was a banished immortal, descended from the heavens.

Upon the ruins, he founded the Empire of Service. He selected the beautiful to be his divine attendants and granted titles to secure his nation’s foundation.

He created the Mind-Net to connect all, so thoughts were shared and none could hide.

He gifted the people a hundred crafts; with steam and iron rails, the world changed day by day.

He led warriors beyond the sky, breaking their shackles to roam the sea of stars. He united good and evil into a single sect, awing all heroes into submission.

He built the Tower of Karin to pierce the heavens and mined the Moon Palace for stone to forge a celestial ladder. He tempered steel to move mountains and concealed mysteries within nanochips.

He raised the Hall of Thought to banish all discord, rendering the people as open-hearted as infants. He sent down a rain of knowledge to dispel ignorance, letting the masses grasp the workings of the world in a flash of insight.

Though his body has departed, his Way endures, a legacy lasting a thousand ages. Though stars may shift and the world may change, his sacred flame is never extinguished. This is what is meant by: "With a wave of his sleeve, he remade the heavens and swapped the sun and moon; with a flick of his finger, vast oceans turned to fields."

Fang’s great deeds shake antiquity and illuminate the present; not even the Immortal Gods can compare.

As the last word fell, Li Longyun bowed deeply and declared, "This junior, Li Longyun, pays her respects to the source of all faith, the god who began and ended the Golden Era, Celestial Emperor Fang!"

...

The moment she spoke, the entire venue fell silent, only to erupt into a massive uproar immediately after.

"What the hell? The source of the Golden Era?"

"Such arrogance! Has this Li Longyun gone completely insane?"

"If that’s true, his divine status would be even more terrifying than the Annals of Ages and Peoples, which is itself born from the faith of the masses in this interstellar age!"

...

Although the people present hadn’t lost all their memories, they only had a superficial understanding of the Golden, Silver, and Black Iron eras.

Therefore, they couldn’t accept what Li Longyun claimed about a "god who began and ended the Golden Era."

But unfortunately for them, what Li Longyun said was correct.

The next moment, the Annals of Ages and Peoples began to erupt with boundless light, attempting to create the hero named Fang Can from myth.

The result... was failure!

This was because Fang Can’s existence was the source of all faith since the Golden Era.

The literary works circulating in this world—Dream of the Red Chamber, Journey to the West, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Battle Through the Heavens, Death Note, The Three-Body Problem...

The faith in all of these works came from Fang Can.

And the Annals of Ages and Peoples was born from the combination of these literary works and the faith of all beings.

In a way, the Annals could be considered something created by Fang Can, a sort of half-child of his.

A fountain’s spray cannot rise higher than its source. Naturally, the Annals of Ages and Peoples could not create its own creator.

If Fang Can, the god who began and destroyed the Golden Era, were to truly manifest, his power level would be, at a bare minimum, the Eighth Turn.

Therefore, it was impossible to manifest Fang Can’s existence from the virtual realm.

In that case!

There was only one other option.

In the next instant, time in this universe began to shift and warp.

The great power of the Annals of Ages and Peoples began to pierce through time, flowing backward into the past.

Since it could not create Fang Can, it would simply snatch the real Fang Can from the past and bring him to the present future!

This was possible because, in this spacetime, the past, present, and future all existed simultaneously.

Therefore, the Annals of Ages and Peoples and Fang Can actually existed within the same time loop.

But just as that terrifying power was about to seize Fang Can, he and Ying Han had already vanished completely from this universe.

Due to a small deviation of fate, the power of the Annals of Ages and Peoples brushed past Fang Can, missing him.

But this was not the end. The power that had been channeled into the past had not disappeared.

The next time Fang Can returned to this universe to sever the threads of karma...

...what awaited him would be this universe’s National Fate Tournament!!!