Chapter 1557: Macaque Incense-Burning Virus

Within the central array spirit computer's graphics card and display system, the Immortal Gate programmer army surged in without any obstacles, and swath after swath of ancient god zombie mining viruses were annihilated, destroyed, and deleted.

This dim, dark heaven and earth gradually recovered its light.

From the underlying logic of the Immortal Gate's central array spirit computer, various codes that had been suppressed for thousands of years began to revive; the graphics card and display system gradually recovered and were once again controlled by the Immortal Gate.

The Immortal Gate programmers tested it over and over countless times, checked it over and over countless times, and once again constructed the Immortal Gate's virus firewall.

This place has been reclaimed!

"Finally, this day…"

Divine Mechanism True Venerable's body trembled, a faint glimmer of tears flickering in his eye sockets.

Who says ancient cultivation practitioners have no emotions?

On the contrary, the more ancient a cultivation practitioner is, the deeper their emotions, the more inseparable their attachments, because these emotions have already persisted for tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years.

The reason mortals and low- and mid-tier cultivation practitioners have this misconception is that the emotions of ancient cultivation practitioners do not lie with them.

Beings of merely decades, centuries, or at most a thousand years—born in patches, growing in patches, withering and dying in patches, like wild grass—who would care about them?

Ancient cultivation practitioners also have their own deeply beloved people, things, and organizations.

Unlike when he had once studied at Clear Breeze University, Jiang Ding at this moment fully understood Divine Mechanism True Venerable's thoughts, and knew the place the previous version of the central array spirit computer held in their hearts.

Jiang Ding quietly waited.

"Jiang Ding, this is good now."

"The central array spirit computer is at least harmless now."

Divine Mechanism True Venerable took some time to calm his emotions, and said: "The graphics card and display system is the output port of the central array spirit computer, and it is now under our control. Even though the Ancient God Patriarch's divine abilities are astonishing, he cannot use the central array spirit computer to do anything externally; he has been completely sealed within the central array spirit computer's interior."

"We now only need to close the door and beat the dog."

"The next step,"

The Divine Mechanism True Venerable pointed deep into the central array spirit computer: "This is the central array spirit computer's power supply and cooling system. This is where the Immortal Gate's energy and magical power are stored, equivalent to a cultivator's dantian. If we break through here, we can completely cut off the Ancient God Patriarch's energy supply and put him in a deathtrap."

"Once we occupy the power supply and cooling system, even if we leave him alone, in tens of thousands of years we can starve him to death."

The Ancient God Patriarch virus is not a mere code virus; he is also an Immortal Dao being, requiring spiritual energy to sustain his life. Shutting down the system can suffocate him.

"Good."

Jiang Ding nodded.

His sword soul merged with his sword, transforming into a segment of code brimming with destructive aura, and charged toward the central array spirit computer's power supply and cooling system, all along the way—

virus codes were forcibly deleted and destroyed.

……

The power supply and cooling system is different from the graphics card and display system.

This place was a world wreathed in incense smoke, where macaques held three sticks of incense in their hands, kowtowing to a six-armed ancient Buddha statue in the sky. Boundless incense-fire viruses filled every corner of the world, controlling the entire power supply and cooling system, ensuring that the remnant soul true body of the Ancient God Patriarch within the central processor had enough spiritual energy to sustain itself.

This kind of incense-fire virus worship had already continued for thousands of years.

Until today.

Boom!

Amid terrifying destructive might, a great sun descended from the heavens.

Its radiance blossomed, shattering layer upon layer of incense-fire virus smoke clouds, forcibly deleting them. The incense-bearing macaques on the earth shrieked wretchedly as their fur, flesh, blood, and bones were burned to ash; the entire heaven and earth trembled in turmoil.

"Foe of the Buddha…"

"Foe of reincarnation…"

The eyeball of the six-armed ancient Buddha statue amid the dense incense-fire virus moved, and it slowly rose to its feet, filling heaven and earth. Its six arms each held a dharma seal, an unretreating golden wheel, a white lotus, a precious bell, a silken cord, and a precious sutra, as if upholding six worlds, and it charged toward the descending destructive great sun in the sky.

The six great Buddha worlds were like six world-chaos grinding disks, grinding to dust the souls of all beings—truly terrifying.

"Overestimating yourself."

The blue-clothed youth within the destructive sun said calmly.

Clang!

He struck down a sword.

The sky's light suddenly blazed bright and resplendent, illuminating heaven and earth.

The six paths—heaven, hell, animals, humans, and others—formed a ring and linked together, creating a Heaven and Earth Solar Divine Ring that breathed in and out the endless light between heaven and earth, all of it condensing upon the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword.

That was all, merely that.

This utterly ordinary sword strike was twisted and resplendent, carrying sword intent, sword-light differentiation, indestructible sword intent… everything of the Seventh Sword Dao Realm such as Heavenly Sword, slicing open the endless incense-fire sea of clouds, slashing into the six virus-Buddha artifacts in the hands of the six-armed incense-fire virus ancient Buddha, plunging wholly into them.

Was there anything that could block it?

No.

There was absolutely nothing that could block it!

Crack!

The sword of the sun descended, slamming into the six virus-Buddha artifacts. With only a sound of crack, the virus-Buddha artifacts—refined for thousands of years and constructed from countless virus codes—were severed and deleted by the sword light. No virus code along the way could obstruct it in the slightest; the six great virus cycles crumbled into ash and vanished.

Boom!

The six-armed virus ancient Buddha was blasted back a vast storage-space distance, crashing heavily to the earth, a terrifying wound appearing on its chest that nearly sliced its torso completely open. Countless data streams spilled out, and its entire aura plummeted rapidly.

"A mere split soul, borrowing some terrain advantage, dares to block this lord…"

"This is an insult."

Jiang Ding murmured.

Clang!

Another streak of sword light slashed forth.

Without any change, without any sword technique, the same sword strike condensing the Heaven and Earth Solar Divine Ring descended in a straight, level cut—one sword shatters ten thousand dharmas.

"Roar!"

The Six-Armed Virus Ancient Buddha roared in fury.

Flames ignited on his body—these were the Incense-Burning Virus flames, possessing terrifying replication and tampering abilities, able to effortlessly transform growth program code into virus code belonging to him.

These Incense-Burning Virus flames spread onto the Six-Armed Virus Ancient Buddha's body, turning him to ash. Having gained abundant nourishment, the Incense-Burning Virus flames instantly swelled countless times over, filling the sky, drawing the entire Taiqing Flying Sword into themselves, burning her, wrapping her, madly eroding and transforming her.

These—

Bang!

Beneath the sword-light, even the Incense-Burning Virus flames—boasted to be formless, intangible, undying, and inextinguishable—were reduced to nothing, forcibly slashed apart; from spirituality to code, to matter, all was utterly destroyed.

The Taiqing Flying Sword gleamed brilliantly, reversed course and flew back, landing in the youth's hand.

"Honestly, no surprises at all."

Jiang Ding said calmly.

Behind him, the Heaven and Earth Sun Divine Ring blossomed with radiance—infinite light, endless splendor, every beam a deletion-destruction program, annihilating all the macaque Incense-Burning Virus, destroying them, once again restoring this heaven and earth belonging to the Central Array Spirit Computer, returning everything to its proper track.

The Immortal Gate Programmer army followed in, further restoring the Central Array Spirit Computer's energy and heat-sink firewall.