126: Chapter 126 A Great Battle Is Imminent!

In the Source Realm, Thousand Light City, Supreme Tower.

Chen You sat in a luxurious private room, a massive golden wish interface floating before him.

"Let's begin," he murmured silently, clicking the "Ten Consecutive Wishes" button.

No hesitation, no delay.

The four words, "Draw Cards for the Nation," imbued this Pay-to-Win act with a sacred sense of mission.

Buzz—

Ten beams of light shot into the sky, one of which flickered with dazzling purple!

[SR Battle Soul · Night Patrol Guard]

"..."

Chen You's expression was blank. His fingers moved like phantoms, clicking again.

"Ten Consecutive Draws!"

Blue light flashed.

"Again!"

Purple light flashed.

"Keep going!"

Purple light flashed!

...

Chen You's expression gradually became ferocious. He had given up thinking, merely mechanically repeating one action—clicking.

He was now an emotionless card-drawing machine.

No, he was a "gambler" addicted to drawing cards.

It wasn't until the ninetieth draw!

Still nothing!

A guaranteed pull after a hundred draws, always yielding the current UP.

Chen You stared at the screen, his finger hovering over the button, silent for a full three seconds.

He wasn't hesitating; he was adjusting his mentality.

He, Chen You, the immortal path pioneer of Huaxia, the chosen one, how could he be this unlucky...

Did the guarantee really only appear at the very end?

Damn system, you really only target rich people, don't you?

Forget it, money isn't an issue anyway!

"Come out!"

He tapped down with one finger.

Instantly, the wind and clouds changed color!

Endless Purple Heaven Divine Thunder was born from the void, tearing space apart to transform into an ocean of lightning.

A World-Purifying Green Lotus slowly bloomed within the sea of lightning. The auras of two completely opposite Great Daos—holiness and destruction—intertwined, evolving into the terrifying phenomenon of the primordial chaos before creation.

That familiar pressure, seemingly originating from the source of his bloodline, descended once more!

A figure, clad in golden chainmail, wielding a three-pointed double-edged halberd, his divine eye on his forehead tightly shut, stepping on seven-colored auspicious clouds, descended indifferently amidst thousands of streaks of lightning and the rhyme of the Green Lotus Dao!

[Heavenly Dao Resonance! Mythical Descent!]

[Congratulations! You have obtained the civilization-exclusive Mythical ssr battle soul · Erlang Shen, the True Lord Manifested as Saint - Yang Jian!]

He's here, big brother!

Before Chen You could react, the system prompts arrived one after another.

[Detecting that the player possesses a unique Mythical Battle Soul. Proceed with star ascension?]

"Yes!"

[Consuming 'ssr battle soul · Yang Jian' x 1. Star ascension successful. Current star level: One Star!]

Chen You did not pause, directly choosing to continue wishing.

The second hundred draws, the ninetieth draw, the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder reappeared, and Yang Jian descended.

The third hundred draws, the hundredth draw, the guaranteed pull.

The fourth time...

The fifth time...

Finally, Yang Jian was raised to five stars.

Chen You's eyes turned cold. He opened his Battle Soul backpack and unhesitatingly selected "Decompose" for all the SR and R-grade battle souls piled up like mountains.

[Obtained Battle Soul Essence x 897500]

"Strengthen!"

He clicked on Yang Jian's enhancement interface and poured all the Battle Soul Essence in.

Light flickered, and numbers jumped wildly.

[Erlang Shen, the True Lord Manifested as Saint - Yang Jian +10]

[Erlang Shen, the True Lord Manifested as Saint - Yang Jian +30]

[Erlang Shen, the True Lord Manifested as Saint - Yang Jian +60]

...

[Erlang Shen, the True Lord Manifested as Saint - Yang Jian +99 (MAX)]

After completing all this, Chen You finally let out a long breath.

To max out the enhancement, he had to draw a few more times. He was left with 78441 gold coins.

He moved his somewhat stiff wrists and neck, feeling only a sense of emptiness.

He had entered Sage Mode.

[Ding~]

Just then, a crisp notification sounded—a message from a friend.

Chen You clicked it open; it was Yue Zhi Shi.

[Yue Zhi Shi]: Guild Leader Chen, how are preparations for the Guild Hegemony War coming along?

Chen You leaned back in his chair, his fingertips lightly tapping the chat box.

[Chen You]: Guild Leader Yue, what do you want to say?

[Yue Zhi Shi]: As an ally, Moon Gods Radiance can provide maximum assistance to Guild Leader Chen.

Assistance again.

Chen You already understood the rules for the Guild Hegemony War: allied guilds could provide aid.

However, their level could not exceed the average level of the assisted guild.

Furthermore, the number could not exceed ten people. If the target guild had ten or fewer members, the assistance could not exceed the target guild's member count.

In other words, even if Chen You allowed Moon Gods Radiance to assist, he would only gain a Level 20 Elf God Clan fighter.

Was he supposed to lead them to slaughter seven in and seven out?

Moreover, wouldn't the lie about his seven brothers be exposed?

How would he hide Huaxia's information in the future... No, how would he conceal Huaxia's information?

[Chen You]: Thank you for the kind offer, but truly not necessary.

He closed the chat box.

Chen You got up, walked out of the private room, and called out directly to Hill.

"Hill, book a room."

...

Over the next four days, the Source Realm was in an uproar.

All the major guilds were frantically preparing for war, buying equipment and potions at high prices, and organizing elite players to clear difficult dungeons.

The entire world was filled with a tense atmosphere, like the calm before a storm.

In the training room.

Chen You sat cross-legged, his eyes tightly shut.

Before him, two "jade brilliance" flying swords transformed into two streams of light, circling and dancing within a fixed area. Sword qi crisscrossed, forming a death zone.

Letting the jade brilliance automatically farm monsters while on cooldown, he himself focused entirely on circulating the Nine Revolutions Primordial Chaos Art.

His routine was monotonous yet highly efficient.

The first thing every day was to run the Destruction Mode of the Tomb of Thousand Lights once.

As for the Wailing Valley, he could no longer enter because his level had surpassed the dungeon's limit.

The daily Supreme Lottery still yielded incomprehensible Profound-grade trash, which he casually tossed into storage to gather dust.

Aside from routine reports, all his time was spent in the training room.

Spiritual energy surged through his meridians like roaring rivers, impacting the barrier of the Fifth Layer of Qi Refining again and again.

Finally, on the evening of the fourth day, with a nearly inaudible light sound within his body, a surge of spiritual energy far more powerful and pure than before erupted!

[Congratulations! Your realm has broken through! Current Level: 20 (Fifth Layer of Qi Refining)!]

Chen You slowly opened his eyes, a sharp gleam flashing through them.

He glanced at the system time.

Less than fifteen hours remained until the Guild Hegemony War.

He did not get up, but instead closed his eyes again, consolidating his newly broken-through realm.

Time ticked by, second by second.

When the sun rose again, all players in the Source Realm, whether in the main city, the wilderness, or in a dungeon, subconsciously stopped what they were doing.

They all subconsciously looked up at the sky.

The entire Source Realm seemed to have had the mute button pressed.

Immediately following that, a blood-red announcement covering the entire sky, like a burning scar, was imprinted in the vision of every player!

[World Announcement: This month's 'Guild Hegemony War' is about to commence!]

[Matchmaking Mode: Random Match]

[Battlefield Rules: Attack and Defense Battle. The attacking side must destroy the defending guild's core, the 'Shadow of the Pedestal,' within the specified time. The defending side must guard the 'Shadow of the Pedestal' from destruction.]

[Matching has begun...]

The blood-red text burned in the sky, exuding the aura of iron and fire.

In the training room, Chen You slowly stood up, spiritual energy surging around him, his robes moving without wind.

He raised his head, his gaze seeming to pierce through the barriers of time and space, landing upon the blood-red announcement.