Secret Buyer

"In the Contract, it is stated that within ten years, if you have not emerged from the Five Finger Mountain, then everything I have taken shall return to you."

"Good." The Pope of the Pantheon solemnly nodded, and in the darkness, hands emerged, making a respectful bow.

He then faded away, departing.

The thick fog summoned by him rose anew, surrounding the mountain summit where all Celestial Humans still prostrated, Lin Changle quietly stood aside, his head bowed.

They looked towards the dignified World Venerate.

The World Venerate smiled and raised his head, gazing at the canopy intertwined with the Bodhi Tree and Immortal Light. The canopy blocked the view from beyond the heavens, yet could not obstruct his gaze.

He spoke calmly:

"From this moment henceforth, High Heaven City shall be established, within the city, no longer must the teachings be hidden, myriad beings may exist openly."

"Also from today onwards, High Heaven City shall not be under the Federation’s jurisdiction, nor within its laws."

"As per my words, can Heaven and Earth heed the decree?"

Each sentence from the World Venerate’s mouth resounded like a great lion’s roar, issuing a divine decree through the powers of the Tao Te Ching’s pen.

The pen of Tao Te Ching, which wrote the Tao Te Ching, seemed to have the power to directly move the rules of Heaven and Earth.

Thus.

Zhang Fusheng could feel that the pen seemed to be integrating with Heaven and Earth, and Heaven and Earth appeared to be weighing something.

Then.

Heaven and Earth indeed acquiesced, as if Zhang Fusheng had fulfilled some ’precondition,’ and this small Heaven and Earth truly began to separate from the Federation!

Chongyang City——no, High Heaven City, and even the whole lost world started to rumble softly,

The grand sound like a lion’s roar also spread to all directions under the amplification of Heaven and Earth!

Beyond Heaven, across the World Plateau’s forty-eight cities, and even to the provinces connected by each ancient city...

Finally, the capital.

On the mother star, this place of circular Sky and Square Earth resonated with this sound everywhere.

Within the echo of this sound,

The lost world became an independent entity——Zhang Fusheng even witnessed, in the wilderness, a great beast that had been hunted,

Yet after the beast perished, what emerged was a complete soul!!

He was first stunned, then overjoyed.

"Six Paths of Reincarnation... in the lost world, the jurisdiction of the Six Paths of Reincarnation is no longer endured!"

"The souls of deceased beings are no longer extracted by the Six Paths of Reincarnation dissimulated by the Investigation Bureau and the Speaker!"

Zhang Fusheng murmured to himself, truly exhilarated, as countless thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant,

For instance, constructing a new ’reincarnation system’ within this small Heaven and Earth, or building cities across vast lands to accommodate tens of hundreds of billions of civilians...

In that case, how many complete souls would be handled and grasped by him?

This former Chongyang Heaven and Earth, now the Lost World, wouldn’t it essentially become his ’territory’?

"Compassion, compassion."

The World Venerate smiled, turned, and walked into the grass hut, his voice like a reverberating bell:

"The cities shall rise today."

Thus.

Under the gaze of stunned eyes, High Heaven City remained unchanged, but in the wilderness, new cities emerged from the ground!

No more, no less, precisely eighty-one great cities, guarding around High Heaven City,

Everything within was complete, yet empty, without a trace of human presence.

"This realm shall be named the Other Shore, it is the [Realm of the Beyond]."

"All who aspire may come to the Realm of the Beyond."

The World Venerate’s final words, accompanied by the lingering resonance of Heaven and Earth, echoed in the cities of the mother star.

He then walked into the grass hut, gently closed the door, observantly reviewing the myriad gains within the Contract.

In this moment.

After a brief silence.

The World Plateau’s forty-eight cities, forty-nine great provinces, and even the capital.

All were in a fervent uproar!