Chapter 711: Call Me Your Majesty

"Captain, I remember we just arrived in Gensokyo."

"That's right."

A group of black Lunhuizhe stood frozen in place.

"Our mission is to investigate why the previous Lunhuixiaodui disappeared in Gensokyo?"

"Hmm."

"Then why—"

【Task Triggered: Lunhuizhexiaodui has been collectively killed. Participate in the Revival Match and investigate anomalies in Gensokyo.】

"We got wiped out the moment we landed?"

"I’ve got some extra memory of a Sage in my head."

"Me too. What about you, Captain?"

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Don’t know. My thoughts were almost blank. Just a moment ago I was teleported from the Master God Space, and the next thing I knew, I was told I was dead and had to enter a Revival Match.

Above, there was this thing called the Golden List, broadcasting a completely incomprehensible ranking.

What kind of Dragon Clan is this—Hirari activating Tenkuu Hakai while Lu Mingfei, wielding a giant sword, stomps on a black serpent, and they’re fighting each other?

【Commentary: Lu Mingfei, determined to change the fate of his beloved, chose to become a King. Identity: Nidhogg, Odin, Elden Lord, Last Pyre King, Radiant Martial God, Immortal King.】

Slap—!

Not far away, a transmigrant boy, who bore a Lord Panel and had aimed to become the Great Lord of Gensokyo but died halfway, slapped himself.

"What the fuck? Who sent me here?!"

He recognized everyone above, but what the hell was this ranking? Even the previous ones made no sense.

Otto liked Karin, Karin liked Yae—he knew all that—but who the hell is Yae in love with Otto? And why is she called Yae Reimu? A worldline where the Hakkaisan Priestess was adopted by the Yae family?!

And there’s some guy named either Hunyan or Xiao Yan, the Flame Emperor, refining all living beings, preparing to use the Vast Heaven Emperor as an ingredient for pills? Are you even from the same universe?!

You refine heaven, refine earth, refine people—why don’t you just say you’re Gu Yue Fangyuan?!

【"Chunqiu Cicada, take me through the River of Time one more time."】

Black robes flapped violently, his gaze deep as an ancient well. Under the crowd’s encirclement, the man smiled faintly—and exploded violently.

【Top 7 Anomalies of Gensokyo: Featured Protagonist—Gu Yue Fangyuan】

Breathing ceased abruptly, followed by a series of slaps.

"Teacher Luo, please don’t—"

A hand suddenly grabbed the transmigrant boy.

"I don’t go by Luo." The transmigrant boy stared blankly at the man beside him—black hair, black eyes, vaguely resembling the figure currently being ranked on the Golden List.

He glanced up at the sky.

"Oh, I’m Gu Yue Fangzheng."

"Pleasure to meet you."

After several seconds of silence, with a swift whoosh, the transmigrant boy vanished, leaving behind a trail of dust.

"Why run?"

Fuck! Everyone knows Fangyuan’s favorite alias outside is Fangzheng! If I don’t run, am I waiting to die?!

Forget the Revival Match, forget the Golden List—all he could think of was escape.

Wait, who just spoke?

The moment this thought arose, the surrounding space slowly solidified. The man calling himself "Gu Yue Fangzheng" stared at the transmigrant boy trapped inside the crystal in his hand, lost in thought.

"Where did I slip up? Whatever. Deal with this first."

He thought, and returned to the Golden List space, tossing several crystal shards into a corner.

"National Destiny Battlefield... digitizes all things into parts of oneself, then turns them into poison and injects them into other worlds, slowly infecting and assimilating them. Let me see... found you."

A hand like a deep blue starry sky crossed dimensions, churned the abyss, and finally clutched a soul with a terrified face.

"Quality doesn’t even match the Heavenly Gods I used to play with."

He sneered, then opened the Ten Thousand Worlds Golden List and cursed: "Four ranked, only two usable—can’t you fix this ranking?!"

【Respected Master, I merely trace back time and space according to karmic weight, reflecting the images and memories these beings hold of others.】

"That’s all you’re good for!" Su Cangqiong waved his hand irritably. A speck of fortune, a speck of faith, a speck of spiritual light, and a fragment of time-space sliced off from the Golden List.

He squeezed the soul in his hand, tore off a piece, and shoved it into the time-slice.

Moments later,

"Jie~ Jiejiejiejie" A low chuckle echoed. A black-robed figure wreathed in demonic aura—“Xiao Yan”—gazed greedily at the man before him: "This Seat—"

"Jie your old mother!" Su Cangqiong slapped the "Flame Emperor" on the head. "Go refine pills for me!"

He repeated the process, grabbing a black-skinned Lunhuizhe and peeling off a strange, glowing soul fragment.

"This quality’s decent."

Another time-slice took human form—now resembling "Lu Mingfei."

"Wait, bro," the long-haired, giant-sword-wielding Nidhogg looked bewildered.

Before he finished speaking, Su Cangqiong kicked him out of the Golden List’s interior space and ordered him to carry the Golden List’s poison.

"Keep ranking. If my Ultimate Battle Team plan succeeds, restoring your true form will be nothing more than a thought." Su Cangqiong sneered.

"But if you slack off, I’ll turn you into a System Sprite and send you to be fucked."

Slap!

Su Cangqiong slapped his own face, his cheeks twitching.

"With the holder, endure the tribulation of emotions."

Slap!

His chest heaved. He took several deep breaths, then gathered his words.

"I can elevate you. I can also take back everything I’ve given you."

【I—I understand.】 The Ten Thousand Worlds Golden List trembled, respectfully: 【Master, you—】

"Call me Your Majesty."

【.】

"Deaf?"

【Your servant obeys.】

"Hahahaha—cough—choked."

Kaguya choked on her own saliva, coughing violently while covering her mouth.

"Laugh again and I’ll refine your Eternity poison into pills."

This damn Golden List ranks the same person twice?!

Su Lin felt a faint, subtle unease—not negative, but the Golden List had chosen the perfect moment: right when he feared his cultivation was reaching its peak, his laws scattered and unmerged.

"My eternity was already yours—you just didn’t want it. Ah, tired... don’t want to run anymore..."

"I envy Hirari so much. Lived indoors for years and still had the energy to run toward the sunlight—reality and fiction are clearly different."

"Wait, Lu Mingfei took Hirari for a ride in a sports car—don’t you have a Ferrari?"

Hakkaisan Kaguya lay on a rock like a sunbathing seal, limp, arms draped over her body, looking utterly spent.

"Use your system, Master God, or prayer—can’t you just summon a car?"

Makes sense.

Su Lin opened his system, preparing to exchange for a nuclear-powered dump truck to send this woman to another world, then write a light novel titled: “Is the Eternal Pavilion’s Useless Kaguya a Hero? Did Someone Get It Wrong?”

"And your sword—why does it feel stronger than before?" Kaguya glanced at the Azure Jade Void Sword.

Stronger?

Su Lin looked down at the azure-blue longsword in his right hand.

Come to think of it, I just swung it casually—and now it can slice through space effortlessly.

Wait a second.

Su Lin temporarily recalled the sword into his backpack to check the description.

【Azure Jade Void Sword】: A sword of slaughter, yet not a sword of killing. Forged by Yuan Shi Tianzun, Grand Master of Yuxu Palace in the Tianyuan Realm, it flowed through the Three Realms, later seized by an unnamed hand, sparking great chaos. Finally, the Tianyuan Realm’s Heavenly Court sealed it with twelve layers. (I saw all beings in suffering; thus I raised this sword to question the light of heaven.)

Previously, I lent it to Meng Qi as a prop—he ended up absorbing three of Yuan Shi Tianzun’s seals, enhancing his own cultivation.

What’s going on now?

He drew out the Azure Jade Void Sword again, infused a thread of immortal power to examine it closely. A seal of crimson radiance and azure light emerged—mysterious in pattern, now dimming like silk being unraveled.

A flash of spiritual light was absorbed by Su Lin. He suddenly understood the meaning of the characters on the seal—was it [Emperor’s Seal]?

Hold on, when I became the Emperor of the Journey to the West Heavenly Court, it didn’t react.

[Unlocked]

Light flashed. The seal rotated, like an ancient mechanism activated—and irreversible. Before Su Lin could react, crimson blood calamity flooded the heavens.

"All beings suffer; only self-redemption saves!"

"Wandering through birth and death, sinking endlessly in the sea of suffering!"

"Kill—to end suffering by killing!"

"KILL!!!"

A tidal roar surged, annihilating all. The rising starlight shattered. Violent blood-spirit energy converged, staining every star in the sky crimson, and surged toward Su Lin’s spiritual consciousness.

—Put down the sword!

The blade’s edge began to spew You blue spiritual light, as if the sun, moon, and stars were howling across its surface; an image of celestial deities falling appeared—amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood, these resentful wills all turned their gaze toward the one holding the Skyblue Jade Void Sword, as if crossing the distances of time and space.

“I haven’t killed as many as I have in my dramas—this is ridiculous.”

Su Lin’s expression remained calm, but before he could respond, the blood shadows knelt in unison, then vanished.

Bloodlight exploded instantly, and the surrounding forest was blown sideways by a furious wind.

Tiny specks of stardust drifted, forming a vortex of deep blue light.

“.”

Something feels off.

Su Lin stared at the sword in his hand for a moment, then turned to the space behind him: “How much longer are you going to watch?”

“Huh?!”

As if startled, branches and dead leaves nearby were violently torn apart in empty air.

“A ferocious demon…”

A slightly panicked girl materialized, raising a talisman card and aiming it at Su Lin and Kaguya: “Don’t you dare wreck Gensokyo—if this resurrection match is fought with talisman cards—”

She looked as if facing a monstrous god, timid yet refusing to retreat, ready to challenge Su Lin to a duel.

Is there really a girl among these outsiders who loves Gensokyo so much—and swears to defend its peace?

Old Purple is just too cruel.

If all else fails, make her a spirit servant—eight-colored team: red, orange, green, blue, indigo, violet, black, white—wouldn’t that be nice?

“She looks familiar,” Kaguya murmured, squinting closely.

Familiar?

Carrying a two-stringed huqin, with golden hair tied in a bow at the back, her presence was faint…

“Saizhou Lin?” Kaguya ventured.

Su Lin turned sharply in surprise, and the sword slipped from his palm, sinking into the ground.

“Eh?!” The girl blinked. “You’re Kaguya…”

This is bad.

Did Saizhou Lin come out to fight in the resurrection match?

Having settled all matters, Yagumo Shizu hummed a tune as she stepped into the gap; one by one, her Shenying vanished, leaving only darkness and the one.

“Good day, it’s been a long time~” She smiled, closing her blooming parasol.

“If you insist, it hasn’t been that long,” said the slender girl in red-and-white shrine maiden robes, her pupils flickering with a nonhuman vertical slit:

“To you, our human lifespan is but a single nap, a hibernation.”

“I haven’t hibernated in a very long time,” Yagumo Shizu said, a hint of surprise in her voice:

“But I never expected even you to be resurrected. Had I known, I’d have paid the price to erase the incident with the Moon Princess~”

“That’s what they call cleverness backfiring—you think you’re omniscient, but you’re merely driven by obsession, stirring the boiling pot to create a false calm,” the shrine maiden sneered without restraint:

“Each reboot of the Great Barrier, whether you or the demons and gods of Gensokyo, are nothing but magnets for authority.”

“Even without these sudden arrivals, eventually, the authority that endlessly absorbs and grows through Lunhui will spill over during stirring, scorching your false facade to ash.”

“Put away your useless tricks.”

[The Realm of Omniscience and the Unknown]

Countless red eyes slowly closed, blurring the many landscapes of Gensokyo.

“Such a rare reunion, and you speak such cruel words…” Yagumo Shizu tapped her lips with her folding fan, disappointed.

“You’re the one consumed by obsession. But then again, it’s natural—each Lunhui requires resewing fragmented souls, even I cannot bear it.”

“Shrine maidens were born to stand with humanity, to exterminate demons. To laugh and frolic with demons daily would be the true anomaly,” the shrine maiden said coldly.

“I have come to resolve this final anomaly—to restore Gensokyo’s history to its proper course.”

Yagumo Shizu said nothing, slicing open a boundary line with her fan, revealing countless Bōrei Shrines across timelines within the rift.

The wooden torii of the Meiji era overlapped with the concrete foundation of the Heisei years; cherry blossoms of spring merged with winter snow, and morning sun poured down torrential rain.

“Wanna bet?” Yagumo Shizu smiled.

“Bet? With your current state—or do you think those outsiders causing chaos can change anything?”

“After all, the unknown is what’s interesting~”

Yagumo Shizu’s smile faded. “Though I could waste several Lunhui with you, this opportunity is rare. You wouldn’t want to miss it, would you?”

Crackling—!

In an instant, the void’s breath collided with the boundary demon’s realm of illusion and reality; the Great Barrier shattered with the sound of breaking glass.

The shrine maiden smiled, her dragon eyes fixed on her: “What will you bet?”

Yagumo Shizu’s lips curled upward:

“Before all possibilities vanish, let’s see whether the Dragon God’s resentment destroys the Great Barrier first—or whether twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty years of Bōrei karma drag you back to the mortal world.”

As the barrier neared collapse, countless wishes and prayers coalesced into glowing specks, drifting to every corner of Gensokyo.

In an instant, a gap beyond the concept of the world swallowed the entire Gensokyo.