Chapter 1226 - 307: Exchange

Chapter 1226: Chapter 307: Exchange

This riddle-spewing salesman called Holy Spirit Immortal Venerate actually had some real stuff, but Ning Zheng still found himself a bit speechless listening.

Book of Life and Death?

Sounds so fancy, but it’s probably just a logistics ledger!

Stuffing energy and resources into this balloon-shaped "human" packaging, treating people as batches of materials.

And in the ledger, you log the Realm, age, lifespan, personality of this humanoid package...

Forming a material counterflow between the "Netherworld" and the "present world." ℴ

Like a water cycle where vapor rises into the sky, then turns back into rain and falls to the ground.

In front of the supreme existences.

There are no small concepts like individuals, lives, races.

Only reforms of the environment, and grand restructurings of Heaven and Earth.

Behind him, Night Mad Cultivator was chatting with Jiucai Rong.

Jiucai Rong: "This is even less like the traditional sixfold Reincarnation, this is Reincarnation on the axis of time!"

Night Mad Cultivator: "Indeed, once people die, they follow time to grow old and die, arrive at the end of time, then reach the land of the apocalypse, and from there cross over to the source of time to reincarnate."

Jiucai Rong: "Doesn’t that make us a logistics hub, a shipping warehouse?"

Night Mad Cultivator: "We’re in charge of all the reincarnations along the entire River of Time, doesn’t that mean you can reincarnate into whatever time period you want?

Shuttling through eras and epochs, time travel—our civilization level is practically myth-tier! That’s insanely cool!"

The two of them were excitedly bouncing ideas off each other.

The way the world had developed to this point was just absurdly fun!

This wasn’t the traditional Underworld; this was a new-type Underworld, cool enough to blow up the sky!

And somehow we’d already gotten this badass without even noticing, and finally had the right to sit at the table and bargain with the big shots?

And also.

These ancient Immortal Venerates were this "kind"? Really willing to sit down and negotiate with us?

Trying to rope us in?

Though.

We did seem worth poaching.

Our Jiu Shui Immortal Venerate and Shadow Crocodile Immortal Venerate—both are once-proven, forever-proven, literally unkillable.

They’ve already died in the past.

That still counts as a minor power bloc.

If we keep stirring up trouble, it’ll get on their nerves; better to just absorb us? Everyone splits the cake together?

Ning Zheng ignored the two blacksmiths behind him, eyes shining as they watched the cutscene CG.

He rubbed his brow and looked at Holy Spirit Immortal Venerate: "According to what you’re saying, doesn’t that mean our future has become the Netherworld of the land of death?"

"Our future is clearly a dawn full of hope."

"It’s just a label," Holy Spirit Immortal Venerate replied with a gentle smile.

Ning Zheng did not believe it was "just a label."

If names didn’t matter, why would I have renamed the Immortal Realm into Xirong Manor?

After I changed the name, Xi Rong’s reputation shot up, crazily +2 +2; the name itself even carries feng shui.

The other side was trying to shake the national self-confidence of our side.

We future folk are full of youth, hot-bloodedness, and vitality.

If we long-term brand the [Future] as the Underworld, even treat ourselves as a dead land of the dead—filthy, dark, devoid of life...

What future do we have left?

Granted, we were the ones who started this, turning Embers into this filthy, gloomy look.

But these guys wanted to fully turn it into a Netherworld; their intentions were vicious.

They wanted to corrupt the "future" that Xian pioneered, poison the ethos of the future, stigmatize it as: the Underworld.

Ning Zheng kept a straight face and continued, "After establishing this Reincarnation, how much authority do we actually get?"

Holy Spirit Immortal Venerate said, "Past, present, and future are all your subjects; you’re the true Life Immortal Venerate."

"All of them are Heaven’s Chosen of your Xi Rong platform, logging into your platform, then reincarnating into our [Prehistory]."

"Gender, identity, the strength setting of their True Spirit, how many lives they reincarnate, what race they’ll be in their next life—all of it is decided by you people of the Underworld."

"Doesn’t your Xi Rong have a [Login] character-creation page? Just use that; once they log in, they can reincarnate wherever they want, and the whole world will live under your Xi Rong platform."

Ning Zheng: "..."

This whole world really is a ramshackle troupe; using my Xi Rong platform’s login page for this—isn’t that a bit too slapdash?

If he agreed, his authority would be on par with the three Supreme Immortal Venerables.

It’d be just like when the Prehistory Celestial Phenomenon Immortal Venerate treated the Immortal Venerates of the Immortal Nether Realm as peers.

Sharing Heaven and Earth, holding banquets together, chatting as equals.

They really could provide emotional value.

Even if you, future Immortal Venerate, are a total weakling as an individual, they still genuinely treat you as a fellow Daoist and co-governor of the realm!

Ning Zheng was tempted.

This pancake was way too fragrant; this test—what official could resist this kind of test?

If I help Xian wipe out these ancient existences, what can Xian give me?

Will it be more than what the three Supreme Immortal Venerables are offering?

All I have to do is be a mole in the Immortal Realm and the Netherworld, sabotage my own people, erase their potential.

All I have to do is slander this place as a Netherworld, a rotten, dark land of death...

Ning Zheng coughed twice. "Allow me a bit more time to think; this matter is of immense importance."

"Of course."

Holy Spirit Immortal Venerate showed understanding.

Jiucai Rong, ever the socially adept one, immediately led this Immortal Venerate out. "Let me show you around!"

Jiucai Rong paused. "The current Immortal Realm is really something else—full of vitality, vastly more interesting."

Holy Spirit Immortal Venerate smiled. "It is quite interesting."

Next, under Jiucai Rong’s guidance, he took a tour around the current Immortal Realm.

He quickly realized that the place was crawling with Jiucai Rong-style ideological instructors.

Their job was simple, just two things.

1. Act as propaganda commissars.

Everywhere they went, they preached the greatness of Xi Rong, its historical significance, explaining Xi Rong from every angle.

2. Act as Holy Mothers.

Running around breaking up fights, spouting all sorts of cringe "good person" theories, basically brute-forcing the Immortal Realm’s stability.

You have to understand, this kind of stability doesn’t align with the laws of history!

Any Civilization Dynasty that gets toppled must undergo a massive purge: clans enslaved, accounts settled, everything divided and devoured...

When the wall falls, everyone pushes!

The Immortal Realm should inevitably experience a destructive-chaotic rebirth, a great upheaval lasting years.

These people acting as Holy Mothers were forcibly maintaining stability!

But ordinary good people with guns pointed at their heads can’t push many reforms and just get bullied.

So they simply decided to be aggressive, crazy Holy Mother bitches.

Their mouths were downright poisonous, with that duplicitous Holy Mother double-standard tone, going around telling people to let go of grudges and stop bullying the weak.

They even claimed that they were the true rogue United Nations!

The deeper he thought about the structure of the Immortal Realm, the more respect he felt for Xirong Manor’s management chops.

Capable, resourceful, ambitious, and with an imagination that runs wild, completely off the beaten path!

No wonder they’d previously scammed the Immortal Realm and the Netherworld in one go.

After walking a lap, Holy Spirit Immortal Venerate glanced at the slogans plastered all over the walls, saying "Revenge Requires Application," and felt slightly relieved, thinking:

’They’re more Demon Cultivator than Demon Cultivators, seriously raising Holy Mothers and Water Army on the Forum, even more outrageous than Ten Thousand Beasts raising a friends-list.’

’A civilization this twisted should be fine; they probably won’t reject our "benevolence."’

’Still, we need a backup plan: rebuild our new Xi Rong platform. If they refuse Reincarnation, we’ll build our own Reincarnation, open our own path to the past, and realize material counterflow.’

Put simply, if you won’t do it, plenty of others will!

’And while I’m at it, I’ll tour the Immortal Realm and try to sow discord among the Immortal Venerates of the various Immortal Domains, lure them into joining our effort to forge Reincarnation, promising them equal rights. They won’t say no.’

When it came to familiarity with the three Neutral Immortal Venerables, Holy Spirit Immortal Venerate knew them ten thousand times better than Xi Rong!

They’d all been old acquaintances for gods knew how many years; the industries of the three Neutral Immortal Venerables had long-term dealings with him.

How long had Xi Rong even known them? A few days?

Holy Spirit Immortal Venerate was more aware than anyone that their relationship actually wasn’t close.

The current Immortal Realm was a total ramshackle troupe, foundations way too thin; one push and it topples. Those Immortal Venerates who’d joined temporarily were very easy to turn.

And so-called wars between Immortal Venerate domains were never about meatheads charging in swinging!

This kind of step-by-step probing, recruiting, and dividing was the true way.

The best form of war was never to get hot-headed and treat battle as the starting trumpet.

Combat should always be the final hammer-blow in the chain.

You treat the decisive battle as the clear-stage reward where you get to watch the other side’s faces twist in despair and agony!