Chapter 704: Reviewing the Ten Great Anomalies of Gensokyo: Otto Charges the Tree

First, Su Lin must make a solemn declaration.

The group members are holding a wedding in Gensokyo, not launching an attack on it.

The void cracked with spiderweb-like fissures; countless blood-red thunderbolts struck simultaneously, ancient war souls crossed time and space to return, killing aura surged to the heavens, divine light and demonic miasma raged together, a sea of soul force ebbed and surged into thousands of divine-demonic ultimate arrays.

"Did you know?"

Meng Qi turned his head toward Su Lin, who stood at attention with hands hanging limply at his sides, dumbfounded, and said: "I wouldn't be surprised if they started singing 'Congratulations on Your Wealth' next second."

Unfortunately, you guessed wrong.

The River of Time spread from all directions, dreamlike and illusory, wreathed in misty light, while Chen Nan's inner world suddenly erupted, and countless living souls rushed toward the ultimate arrays.

Like a comet streaking across the sky, it shattered continuously, forming a magnificent scroll slowly unfurling.

——【Ancient, boundless aura permeated; beneath the snow-white, twin Sal trees, a corridor of sword stelae pierced heaven and earth, framing the ethereal figures of the red-haired youth and the white-haired girl.】

Before them, sword and scabbard crossed, planted in the cracked, blood-red earth.

Vast soul power was being absorbed by the snow-white sword, while the twin Sal trees carved upon the scabbard grew mysteriously radiant.

"That sword?!" Now it was Weigong Shilang's turn to be dumbfounded.

It was the only true sword he owned, the very one borrowed not long ago by the Purple Gold Divine Dragon, the same sword used during the film shoot.

Shhh—

The sword returned to its scabbard, where it was continuously refined within the boiling pool of living souls, merging inseparably with the scabbard.

The God of Space-Time glanced at the blood mist left behind by the sword cultivators of Song Shuhang's world from their talent performance, and gave a command to the Blood God beside him; true to his spirit of not wasting anything, the characters "Devouring All Realms" were also absorbed by the sword beneath the twin Sal trees.

Twelve thousand divine-demonic artisans, wrapped in dazzling light, unleashed different laws, accompanied by Horned Sihou's roars and gale winds, golden afterglow falling upon the sword.

Boom—Boom—Boom!!!

All sword stelae shattered instantly; the ultimate array was breached by Bai Hong; the moment the blade pierced the River of Time, the waves of time froze, and the figures of the countless gods and demons vanished.

"In ancient times, we fell into madness, obsessed with the Holy Grail, seeking to return to the mortal realm; fortunately, we were suppressed at the cost of our lives by the Sword Sect and the Holy Maiden, preventing harm to the myriad worlds."

The God of Space-Time gently stroked his white beard and summoned the sword, once merely a prop used in filming:

"Today, with the souls of all beings and the primordial essence of gods and demons, we restore your lost divine swords."

"The lines are done—Your Majesty, could you please lower the sword from my neck?"

He handed the newly forged sword, capable of stabilizing temporal chaos, to Dada Liya, whose eyes sparkled with delight, while cautiously pushing away the Skyblue Jade Void Sword.

"The materialization of the Holy Maiden's soul has granted us ancient divine-demons rebirth; our heroic bodies, long existing outside the Divine Tomb, consume no primordial essence, allowing us to return to the world in full strength."

The God of Space-Time explained: "Even if the souls of all beings are devoted to forging as they just were, they will revive within a few days."

"But why… specifically… a movie?" Weigong Shilang asked painfully.

"Because the Great Dragon didn't know what to give, but he remembered how often the Space-Time Old Man and that other Lu kid hang out together." The Purple Gold Divine Dragon took human form, wearing an expression of self-satisfied brilliance:

"It's best to ask the person directly—Lu Mingfei, don't rush; we've prepared a separate wedding gift for you too."

Lu Mingfei glanced at the Skyblue Jade Void Sword resting on his neck, swallowed hard, and sweat broke out on his forehead.

Would you be calm if a sword was on your neck?!

"A thousand trials, a hundred lifetimes of hardship—they say it was incredibly difficult for the two of you to come together."

Chen Nan retracted the Divine-Demonic Map and appeared before everyone:

"And since that Mr. Lu insisted the ceremony must be grand, ideally following the theme of rekindling fate, we followed his suggestion and continued the previous story."

Of course, there was one thing Chen Nan couldn't say aloud.

By now, no one thought the "story" was just a story.

"So that's why…" Su Lin suddenly understood.

"Mr. Su… I'm innocent, truly!" Lu Mingfei patted his chest, nearly weeping: "I'm a victim too!"

"No problem—death cancels debts."

"Then that's great—but may I ask, you're not planning to make me die once, are you?"

It would be better to just have a collective wedding choir—no, compared to these abstract gifts, the real question now is…

"Zi, the weather's nice today, isn't it?"

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From the gap, Han Bafang returned, face dark, fanning herself with a fan; her eyes flickered slightly.

Chen Nan's body hair stood on end; his gaze sharpened instantly, as if he'd been targeted by a venomous snake. He glanced at the rogue dragon beside him whistling, then stepped half a pace back to create distance.

"You…" she frowned, about to demand an explanation.

Hōrai-san Kiyohime appeared out of nowhere, blocking the group, smiling: "My friend is holding a wedding at the Hakkaisan Shrine—why are there so few youkai here in Gensokyo?"

"Not enough?" Han Bafang narrowed her eyes.

"The high-quality girl resources—Minglian Temple, Jiling Palace—are all absent," Hiyori walked beside Su Lin and sighed: "If we were to hold a concubine selection, Your Majesty would be greatly troubled."

"Ara~ Both Yuyuko and I came here—isn't that enough?" Han Bafang smiled brightly.

"Just now, I wandered nearby and found only faces I've seen during this period."

Hiyori asked curiously: "Even in Gensokyo, where information barely flows, shouldn't this commotion have drawn more attention?"

Su Lin's gaze swept over the Red Moon Mansion group, Zihua, Fujiwara Mei Hong, Teacher Huiyin, Magirasa, Xianglin, and lingered slightly on Kōfu Fūgō.

He remembered she once said she'd seen him at the Kappa mech competition.

Now that he thought about it, excluding the three ghost sisters brought by Yuyuko, all the youkai and humans present were those he'd encountered and interacted with recently.

Except for Shotenmaru Fumi, who seemed to have crashed and wasn't seen; the others…

"That's why you don't understand journalism. Back when I shared a dorm with my junior, Nidhogg Lu Odin, my news department could monetize information every single day."

"Esteemed Daoist, though I'm a cultivator, I do hold a diploma from China's Communication University—genuine journalism major."

"All of you, shut up! Journalism is a vital tool for revealing truth—what kind of journalist just buys and sells information?!"

Fenger, bruised and battered, and Jiang Shan, disheveled, were arguing with a short-haired girl wearing a white mask, sunglasses, and holding an old-fashioned camera.

Su Lin had the illusion that over there were not three people but three dogs.

"Go kill them, yes, kill them all." Su Lin shoved Lu Mingfei, who was itching to fight.

"Right?" Kaguya pulled up her sleeve, revealing a gentle, demure smile like that of a neighbor's girl, and whispered: "One Ren, two You, three Da, eight are all half gone."

At this moment, some eyes in the shadows had fixed on Yuyin Kaguya; she glanced toward the direction where Yuyin Yonglin stood with her back turned, sensing only a faint glimmer of her gaze, and a faint smile curled at her lips.

"Forget it, I won't press the issue of numbers." Yuyin Kaguya took a deep breath and shook her head slightly.

"The Fantasy Realm has always been a secluded land, cut off from the outside world; such unprecedented, unimaginable scenes are simply beyond its capacity to bear."

"You all previously resolved a trouble for the Fantasy Realm, so please complete your wedding as soon as possible and leave."

It seemed he was plotting something, but was frightened out from behind the scenes by so many beings carrying outside-world information.

"Does 'leave' include Eternity Pavilion too?" Kaguya smiled.

Yuyin Kaguya's smile grew slightly more helpless.

"How could it? Eternity Pavilion is an indispensable part of the Fantasy Realm's history; we merely hope you will cooperate a little."

"What if I refuse?" Kaguya walked toward Yuyin Kaguya, amid the confused glances of the other Fantasy Realm inhabitants.

"No other unfamiliar yokai have come despite all this commotion. Outside the Hakurei Shrine, isn't this no longer the Fantasy Realm we once knew?"

Yuyin Kaguya: "."

"You've been altering the truths that have appeared within the Fantasy Realm all this time. Though I don't care about those memories, I can't help but feel uneasy."

Kaguya continued: "The outside-world information carried by my friends cannot be altered, and you've been troubled by the two vampires affected by them, haven't you?"

"All you need is the Hakurei Shrine as a venue, isn't that right?" Yuyin Kaguya's smile remained unchanged, but countless red eyes had already appeared, peering out from the gaps behind her.

"Everything I've done is for the Fantasy Realm. Don't worry—there may even be more trouble for you later."

Zzzzz.

Shhh—!

A formation of fighter jets, emblazoned with the Stars and Stripes, broke the sound barrier like birds flying in a triangle, trailing seven-colored smoke; the loudspeakers broadcast: "Arrived at coordinates, extending the most sincere greetings to the President!"

The fighter jets simultaneously executed a ninety-degree vertical climb and turned back.

Sanae: "U. S. forces stationed in Japan?!"

"I once ran for president."

Su Lin raised both index fingers to calm Yuyin Kaguya's frozen smile and said: "Don't worry—friendship between humans and yokai will last forever."

【@Su Su Tuoni Stark, don't tell me you brought an entire U. S. military force here?】

Su Su Tuoni Stark: 【I only prepared a Iron Man disco. The Fantasy Realm has no oil—why would the U. S. military come here?】

Then what are these fighter jets in the sky?

Suddenly, from the cockpit of one fighter jet, Reed Richards, his temples streaked with gray, ejected himself, cradling a pocket universe; he saluted Su Lin, then hurled it into the sky.

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Ion streams gushed from the leap engines; a steel sky unfolded as countless space-carriers emerged from glowing spots.

First came the superheroes with flight capabilities, dressed like oversized spandex cosplay outfits; they unleashed their powers or pulled triggers, filling the sky with ribbons and fireworks.

Su Su Tuoni Stark deactivated his stealth mode, and his Iron Legion poured down from above.

He looked at Doctor Strange, who was using the Ring of Levitation to summon a teleportation array, and retracted his nanotech faceplate: "What are you doing here?!"

"Why wouldn't we be here?" Strange replied. "Didn't he send invitations to the entire universe?" He handed over an invitation.

"How did I not know?!"

Su Su Tuoni Stark widened his eyes: 【@Su Lin, are you getting married today too?】

Watching the sky fill with more and more figures—even a horned devourer of worlds appeared—Su Lin blinked, staring blankly at Loki, who was on his phone nearby.

"Yes, Dad. Yeah, the wedding… the wedding of the founding president. You didn't show up for any of the big events before, so now you can bring Asgard along. Thor, that idiot, is already here. Uh… hold on."

He caught Su Lin staring at him, hesitated, then asked: "Isn't today your wedding with Lady Kaguya?"

Su Lin: "?"

Loki spread his hands: "She just told me that."

Everyone's gaze slowly shifted to Kaguya.

"Hehe~" Kaguya stuck out her tongue and tapped her own head.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Reimu scratched her head. "But if Kaguya's getting married too, then another wedding means more incense money—or the gods will get angry."

Thanks for the invite, my fist is already clenched.

Su Lin turned to look at the other side; what mattered more now was Yuyin Kaguya—this was clearly intentional.

She stared blankly at Kaguya, disbelief flashing in her eyes, then her face darkened like stormy water, an invisible pressure of suffocation spreading out.

"Hm?" Kaguya tilted her head, feigning ignorance. "Could the consequences be that serious?"

As her words ended, the surrounding heavenly realms and pocket dimensions collapsed without warning.

Near the Hakurei Shrine, the landscape reverted to cherry trees and cliffs—but as if fast-forwarded, the seasons raced past, the sun and moon shifted, and the transformation from sea to land occurred in an instant.

Finally, on the rotting crossbeam of the torii gate, night-blooming purple wisteria burst into full bloom.

In the distant past, a giant dragon with closed eyes lifted its head and exhaled a light of nothingness, pouring over and covering all things in the world.

【None】

All perception, all laws—even the self—were stripped away.

Teacher Yan Sen's pupils trembled; when he came to his senses, he looked around and saw a golden-haired woman and a masked black-haired shrine maiden performing a ritual amid lightning and thunder on a barren cliff.

Seven-colored spiritual light converged from countless sources; the weakened dragon opened its dragon eyes, listened to the prayers, nodded slightly, dissolved its form, and transformed into black-and-white qi that surged into the shrine maiden's body. The world began to be stripped away from that moment.

Slowly, more and more yokai gathered here, until the figures of outsiders appeared.

Cycle after cycle, the passage of time consumed…

"One hundred twenty-nine thousand six hundred years?" Teacher Yan Sen murmured to himself.

Without sound or motion, all things returned, leaving only the gaps of the realm-beasts to dissipate around the shrine, as everyone stood silently beneath the shrine's torii gate.

Yuyingzhao's slender fingers clenched into a fist, gripping tightly; a trace of blood marked the edge of her bitten lip: "That is the cycle for one reboot of the Great Barrier."

"Is it not said that the number of heaven and earth spans 129,600 years as one yuan?" Meng Qi raised an eyebrow.

"And?" Kagami raised her hands on her hips, puzzled.

"You've been hiding this from us all along?"

"To recognize the existence of Gensokyo will lead to its destruction." Yuyingzhao fixed her gaze on Kagami, her voice cold: "Kagami, I have tolerated you many times, but this time you've gone too far!"

"So, just now, one Gensokyo was destroyed?" Kagami pressed on.

"My lord!" Kagurablu rushed over in panic.

The next moment.

The sky split into numerous crystal-like wounds, each fissure reflecting strange scenes.

Greedy, malicious, and curious gazes surged in, and some dust-like beings were swept inside.

A scroll unfurled, strange symbols assembling into words all could understand: 【The Golden List of All Realms is about to open! Ranking the Ten Great Anomalies of Gensokyo】

"Did Feilu invade Qidian?" Su Lin rubbed his eyes, confirming he wasn't mistaken.

A grand voice echoed throughout every corner of the world: 【This World's Destiny Arena: Location — Gensokyo】

"Tangma also did it." Kleen opened his phone; though there was no network, he glanced at his reading preference recommendations.

"Tsk." Yuyingzhao unclenched her fist, sweeping her gaze over those around her:

"Please leave quickly. Gensokyo does not host guests who disregard its rules."

【Ranking complete. Now playing the Ten Great Anomalies of Gensokyo!】

【When I was young, my sister died on the battlefield. They told me her soul was immortal, that her spirit would ascend to heaven.】

Su Lin: "Wait."

【A God of Light must be chosen.】

Wait!