One Sword, Slaughter

"Fucking Ma Baoguo, one-shotting me? I'll kill you!"

"Hold the line, hold the line! Don't be afraid to lose XP!"

"Forget the mobs, kill the boss!"

"Charge..."

The players shouted and yelled, their cries rising and falling in waves.

From somewhere in the crowd, one of those sand sculpture players suddenly belted out a line.

"Broadswords, swing down on the Japs' heads..."

Before the tune had even fully faded, the surrounding players caught it like a contagion.

Every single player joined in the chorus.

"Broadswords, swing down on the Japs' heads..."

Over a hundred voices sang in unison, and the momentum was nothing short of impressive.

Ye Yu, who had been watching the whole time, felt for a moment as if he were back on Earth.

He took a deep breath, his gaze fixed on the Holy Light Cross Sword still hanging in midair, yet to fall.

Demi-God-level deities generally had no divine skills of their own.

But that didn't mean a Demi-God had no means of attack.

Most deities in the World of Gods walked the path of Faith.

Any deity who followed that path was never truly independent.

Strictly speaking, they were all sub-gods of a High God.

Take this batch of Demi-Gods from Arbor God City, for example.

Aside from Ye Yu, every one of them was a sub-god of Great God Arbor.

Before forming their own divine skills, they could borrow some of his by channeling their Faith in him!

The Arbor Cross Slash Ma Baoguo had unleashed was one such skill.

But Ye Yu didn't walk the path of Faith, so he couldn't borrow skills from Great God Arbor!

In fact, Ye Yu hadn't actually learned any divine skills yet.

Still, that didn't stump him.

He swept his gaze across the ground, casually picked up a self-made Bamboo Sword that some player had dropped.

Then, he murmured to himself.

"System, convert all Contribution points into Divine Power."

In less than a second, the electronic voice rang out.

"Ding! Conversion complete. Host currently has 2,177 Divine Power points!"

The sudden influx of over two thousand Divine Power made it surge through Ye Yu's body, giving him a feeling akin to being reborn!

He pondered for a moment.

"Over two thousand Divine Power?"

"Should be enough."

As the thought flickered through his mind, he slowly raised his arm.

The Bamboo Sword in his hand pointed at the Holy Light Cross Sword hanging in midair.

A roar burst from his throat!

"Slash!"

The moment the word left his lips, over two thousand Divine Power points were drained in an instant.

At the same time, a long sword radiating overwhelming force coalesced in the air.

The next moment, that sword unhesitatingly slashed down toward the Holy Light Cross Sword.

A thunderous crash, like a bolt from a clear sky, exploded in midair.

Ma Baoguo, who had just one-shotted a wave of players, instinctively looked up.

When he saw that the Holy Light Cross Sword he had borrowed couldn't even withstand a single blow before dissolving into nothingness, his face twisted in shock.

"Not good!"

But before he could react, the sword in the void had already come crashing down.

Boom!

Ma Baoguo's Divine Power and the sword Ye Yu had conjured collided, sending a towering shockwave surging through the air!

The entire square was a blinding expanse of white, dazzling to the extreme!

The players who had just respawned were all stunned.

"My god, what is this?"

"It's Brother Yu making his move!"

"Yeah, I saw it too—Brother Yu just swung his sword!"

"Brother Yu is this strong? Love it, love it!"

Amid the players' exclamations, the white light gradually faded.

When everyone's eyes could see again, they were shocked to find Ma Baoguo, who had been rampaging against them moments ago.

Now lay quietly on the ground, a cold corpse!

The players froze for a moment, then erupted into thunderous cheers.

"Brother Yu is awesome!"

"So cool, one-shotting the boss!"

"Turns out Brother Yu is this powerful!"

"I dunno, but this NPC feels a bit pretentious, right? Didn't act earlier, only made a move when we were about to break..."

"Pfft, what're you saying? Talk trash about my idol, and see if I don't beat you down!"

The players were ecstatic. Ye Yu's single slash had not only killed Ma Baoguo but also wiped out the remaining Scorpion Lions, leaving them dead in a heap.

This meant the Story Event should be over!

Sure enough, within seconds, all players received a notification from the game system!

"Dear players, congratulations on successfully slaying the Demon Cultivator Ma Baoguo and defending the Lingxiao Immortal Palace."

"Event rewards are being calculated. Please look forward to it!"

Seeing the system prompt, the players' cheers grew even louder!

Many high-fived each other in celebration, beaming with joy!

The most over-the-top was Bao Lao Er, who ran straight to Ma Baoguo's corpse.

"Everyone move aside, let me take a photo for the memories!"

The surrounding players chuckled and cleared a path.

Bao Lao Er stepped forward, planted one foot on Ma Baoguo's head, and struck a cool pose!

Then he let out a weird yell!

"Enemy slain, I go to strip his clothes!"

The players around him burst out laughing!

Ye Yu watched the jubilant crowd and shook his head.

At that moment, he felt somewhat relieved.

But he was also reflecting deeply!

In the fight with Ma Baoguo, he had been overconfident.

He had thought that with the Sand sculpture players, killing a mere Ma Baoguo would be a trivial task.

But looking back, that wasn't the case.

The players had performed well enough.

Yet they still couldn't match Ma Baoguo.

The main reason was that Ye Yu hadn't followed the Faith path, and he had overlooked a huge advantage for gods who did—being able to borrow powerful attack methods from the deity they worshipped!

And he, Ye Yu, had no such edge.

Fortunately, he had been decisive. At the critical moment, he had the system directly convert his Divine Power into an attack method.

That was how he eliminated Ma Baoguo.

Of course, this approach wasn't without drawbacks.

After all, using Divine Power directly for an attack was an incredibly extravagant move—wasteful, to say the least.

"Ding! Host has won the Divine War. Do you wish to merge Ma Baoguo's Divine Domain?"

At that moment, an electronic voice rang out abruptly.

Ye Yu heard it and replied without a second thought.

"Merge."

As the voice fell, a strange sensation surged into his heart.

At that moment, he could clearly "see" Ma Baoguo's vast Divine Domain visibly merging with his own.

At the same time, a crystal resembling a piece of quartz suddenly flew out from Ma Baoguo's corpse.

The crystal flashed and vanished into his body.

"So this is the Divine Spark?"

Ye Yu felt a flicker of joy.

He had started the Divine War with Ma Baoguo, when it came down to it, wasn't it all for this very thing?

This thing had plenty of uses!