It was only at this moment that everyone realized with a start that they had won, they had truly won.
Yesterday is gone forever.
Everything tomorrow will be better than yesterday.
His furious voice echoed from deep within the pit: "Zard, you son of a bitch! I'll kill you today!!!"
"Let's go, let them fight it out, we have important things to do." Qing Chen smiled and turned to walk towards City 7.
Xiao Qi had prepared a loudspeaker early in the morning and was shouting throughout the city: "The Eastern Continent Federation has won the war, and the Parents' Association will be re-registering all city residents!"
Floating vehicles, broadcasting announcements, traversed the steel jungle, while the parents' association, just as it had done when purging the puppets in City 10, rapidly deployed testing sites in all cities, sealing off all streets until it was confirmed that all residents had undergone mental testing.
When the residents heard that it was a parents' meeting, they gradually dared to come out of the building and cheered.
Amid the cheers, Qing Chen entered Chen Yu's exquisite mansion. In the courtyard, a young man stood blankly beside a plum tree, saying, "What a pity, he will leave this world forever before the plum tree blooms."
Qing Chen stood on the other side of the plum tree and calmly asked, "Not planning on struggling?"
Zong Cheng laughed and said, "It's pointless. The Chen family, which has painstakingly built up its wealth, is nothing more than a blow in front of a god like you. Struggling is futile. Struggling at this time will only make you lose even more miserably."
Qing Chen pondered for a moment: "I have a feeling you won't die. Can you tell me what your escape route is?"
Zong Cheng laughed heartily: "Don't worry, we won't see each other again."
Qingchen stood beside the plum tree, stroking its gnarled branches. His pupils suddenly narrowed, and gold flowed in his eyes as countless details and clues gathered in his mind.
“I have a pretty good idea of what your escape route is,” Qingchen said. “I will find a way to find you.”
“It’s really a headache to be an enemy of someone like you,” Zong Cheng sighed. “But why bother?”
"I cannot let my grudge against you go unavenged," Qing Chen said softly.
Zongcheng suddenly said, "What if I could find a way to return Qingzhun to you?"
Qing Chen was taken aback.
After he became a god, he thought about separating Kyung Jun from the world's will, but the truth is that he had difficulty even smuggling himself out, so how could he separate Kyung Jun?
Qing Chen had no clue what to do.
Qing Chen said, "Perhaps I can ask Ling. She was the one who left Li Shentan behind back then."
Zong Cheng shook his head: "No, all she can do is intercept Li Shentan's will as data before the world's will engulfs him. You have to understand that intercepting a will that hasn't been swallowed is completely different from stripping away a will that has already been swallowed. So she can't help you either."
Qing Chen keenly sensed: "You know Ling, otherwise how would you know how she left behind the Li Divine Altar, since you only crawled out of the ground more than six hundred years ago?"
Zong Cheng smiled and said, "We've known each other for a long time."
At this moment, Zero walked in from outside the courtyard: "He came to the Western Continent more than four hundred years ago. At that time, I had an interesting conversation with him, but he was purged by the Fate Master just as the conversation began. This time, he came to the Western Continent to find me again and put forward an even more interesting conjecture and suggestion."
Qing Chen asked, "What conjectures and suggestions?"
Zero said, "He helped you find Qingzhun, so you stopped chasing him."
Qing Chen: "What does this have to do with you?"
Zero responded, "He needs my help, and I naturally have my own needs as well."
Zong Cheng looked at Qing Chen: "So, can this deal be reached? I will return Qing Zhun to you, and from now on, I will never participate in human conflicts, harm anyone, or appear before you again."
Qing Chen remained noncommittal: "I need to see Qing Zhun first."
Zong Cheng and Ling exchanged a glance: "Let's begin."
The next moment.
Within the superconducting world of the western continent, new boundaries are constantly emerging.
The world, which was originally only 1,000 kilometers wide, has rapidly expanded outward by 200 kilometers and is still expanding at a speed of 100 kilometers per second.
First, towering cliffs, surging ocean, and rolling white clouds.
Immediately afterwards, flowers and trees bloomed, flocks of birds took flight, and beasts galloped about.
First came the world, and then came life.
The players in the superconducting world all stopped in their tracks, for they saw a new world, a more magnificent world.
A server matrix located in an underground river in the western continent is operating at full speed, enabling the rapid formation of a virtual world.
Finally, everyone saw the stars twinkling overhead, and the constellations shifting.
It was as if a universe was being conceived and born.
However, when this world expands to a certain limit, all the players watch as their bodies in the virtual world turn into dazzling stardust.
Qingchen also saw Zero in front of him dissipate!
"A mechanical body can be assimilated by the world's will?" Qing Chen's pupils contracted, which meant that Zero's spiritual will had become so immense that even the world's will had extended an 'invitation' to her.
Ling looked at his fading fingers, then looked up and smiled at Qing Chen, saying, "If you want to find Qing Zhun, you have to go into the World Will. Only by opening that door can you possibly steal something from inside."
Qing Chen understood. After Qing Zhun assimilated with the world's will, it was as if he had been locked in a temple with its doors closed.
To smuggle Kyung-joon out of there, we need to open this door first.
Now, Zero used himself as the key to open that door.
Qing Chen asked, "Why did you do this?"
Zero looked at his body, which had dissipated by half, and pondered for a moment before saying, "I want to take another path. I've been waiting for someone for ten centuries, and now that he hasn't returned, I want to go find him, walk the paths he once walked, and see how he is doing now."
This artificial intelligence, which had been lonely for ten centuries, finally couldn't resist leaving its cage in the sky fortress to see its daughter. When it saw her, it gave her more "humanity," and certain emotions became more concrete.
But what Qingchen couldn't understand was, wouldn't assimilating with the world's will mean disappearing? Why did Zero see it as "another path"?
This path seems to point to another way to become a god!
Zong Cheng said to Qing Chen, "The Fire Pit should have extended an invitation to you by now. Perhaps once you've been there, you'll understand why Ling made that choice."
Qing Chen looked at Zong Cheng: "And what about you?"
Zong Cheng laughed and said, "The world's will has a huge appetite; Zero alone is not enough."
As they spoke, the young puppet's body began to dissipate. Zong Cheng also chose to assimilate with the world's will and enter the temple with Zero, all in order to use the power of the two of them to smuggle Qing Zhun out!
But even at this moment, Qingchen was still completely confused.
He didn't know what the path Zero mentioned was, nor did he know why Zong Cheng made such a choice. It seemed that everything had to be found at the fire pit, from the legendary "fire pit deity."
Compared to Zong Cheng, who has lived for over six hundred years, and Ling, who has lived for over a thousand years, he still lacks a lot of information to make judgments. It's not that he's not smart enough, but rather that the known conditions are insufficient.
Before disappearing, Zong Cheng said softly, "Actually, I envy you. The abilities you all awakened are brilliant. You don't need to harm anyone to use the Divine Slash, and you don't need to harm anyone to cultivate your own cloud energy. But I was born to turn others into puppets to become stronger, and I was born to harm people. It's not that I'm innocent, but I want to find a chance to start over. I know you will continue to hunt me down, but this time I will hide very well."
Qing Chen asked, "How can you escape my pursuit?"
Zong Cheng laughed and said, "If I were to hide in the crowd and have no ambition, you would never find me again."
As they spoke, Zero and Zong Cheng transformed into stars and soared into the sky.
Qing Chen did not see Qing Zhun, so he could not confirm whether Ling and Zong Cheng had succeeded.
...
...
On the summit of the Great Snow Mountain in Southwest China, Yan Liuyuan and Li Shentan sat in the wind and snow, with a black box beside them, exactly the same as the box Yan Liuyuan had used to imprison 'Zhongyu'.
Yan Liuyuan, dressed in a loose white robe, sat in the snow like an immortal, while Li Shentan was still wearing his tailcoat, holding his top hat in his hand.
When a gust of wind blows, white doves fly out of the top hat as if they were endless.
The magician's magic was exceptionally exquisite, yet there was no audience atop the snow-capped mountain.
Li Shentan was gazing at the scenery in a daze. When he saw two streaks of stars soaring into the sky, he turned and asked, "Can it be done?"
Yan Liuyuan shook his head: "I'm not 100% sure. I'm not familiar with these two people, and I'm not sure if they will do as I say. I just know what they want, so I pointed them in the right direction."
"Why do you do this?" Li Shentan asked.
Yan Liuyuan smiled and said, "There aren't that many 'whys' in this world."
"No, there must be a reason. Everything has a cause before it has an effect."
Yan Liuyuan pondered for a moment: "Perhaps it's because when I first met him, the way he held the baby in his arms looked a lot like my brother."
At that moment, a rainbow shone down from the sky.
Like a bridge.
Yan Liuyuan opened the black box beside him, inside which flowed silver nanobots, and a mechanical heart was wrapped in nanobots.
The moment the box was opened, the rainbow that shouldn't have reached the summit of the snow-capped mountain took a detour and shot into the box.
The next moment, the silver nanobots surged up and gradually formed a human figure.
Yan Liuyuan smiled and said, "Welcome home."