Chapter 652: Creation
The battle for dominance between these two sets of rules had long transcended the level of a single world, stretching across countless spatial layers.
They achieved the outcome of strengthening themselves and weakening the other by vying for control over the trajectory of each world's timeline.
The Spirit wished for Spirit Qi to revive on Water Blue Star.
The No Spirit, on the other hand, sought to maintain the world's original state.
Bai Mo, acting as a mere bystander, casually gave them easy-to-remember names.
The one bringing Spirit Qi revival to Earth was called the Spirit of Creation.
The entity challenged by the Spirit of Creation was called the No Spirit.
Water Blue Star was a world of mortals, unlike the Manghuang Realm, which boasted bloodline powerhouses capable of moving mountains and overturning seas. The individual humans themselves were quite weak.
Compared against the combat power assessment charts invented by Earth humans, individuals on this planet who could even reach the first tier were incredibly rare.
Thus, Bai Mo, who had reached a formidable eight-stage after awakening from his Reincarnation Tribulation, effortlessly read the thoughts and memories of every individual.
With his power, any life form not protected by a Life Field had their thoughts exposed as if directly in the open air.
All memories, all thoughts, were laid bare.
It was precisely from the memories of each of them that Bai Mo witnessed the traces of the Spirit of Creation and the No Spirit's battle on a higher dimension.
The protagonist chosen by the Spirit of Creation was the Emperor of the Seris Empire. Their game objective was to acquire eighty percent of the Origin Stones, then use a spirit-gathering ritual to awaken Bai Mo and bring him into the current world, thereby ushering in Spirit Qi revival for Water Blue Star.
The No Spirit, on the other hand, had chosen Lun Heping. Their game objective was to use all means to prevent the Emperor from altering the timeline and to maintain the status quo.
The Spirit of Creation attacked; the No Spirit defended.
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However, neither side had anticipated that Bai Mo, having grown excessively powerful, would awaken from his reincarnation long before the Emperor completed his collection objective.
Logically, after Bai Mo awakened from his Reincarnation Tribulation, he should have voluntarily emerged from everyone's souls and the present world, then departed Water Blue Star to return to Earth's spatial layer, allowing the Spirit of Creation to easily win this round.
But he did not do so. Instead, like Gaia in the past, he continued to hide within the bodies of Water Blue Star's humans.
Because he, too, wished to get involved.
Moreover, Bai Mo did not choose to side with the Spirit of Creation. He intended to snatch food from the tiger's mouth, verifying some of his ideas for the subsequent cultivation of the Immortal Dao, and attempting to guide Lun Heping in the direction he desired.
Compared to the Spirit of Creation and the No Spirit, Bai Mo's sole advantage was that he focused all his attention on this world.
For them, Water Blue Star was merely an infinitesimally small corner on the global battlefield, on which they placed no particular attention, and naturally, would not invest much.
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Bai Mo's chosen agent was Lun Qin.
As the instigator of Bai Mo's Daoization, the No Spirit, being the defender of the original rules, naturally harbored no goodwill towards Lun Qin, who was located in its home world.
However, to its eyes, lives below the seventh stage were not even considered shrimp. A casual wave of its hand, and a universally abandoned aura of misfortune would suffice.
Of course, with Bai Mo's protection, the misfortune could not harm Lun Qin herself.
It could only unleash its resentment upon those around her, causing continuous bad luck for everyone in her vicinity.
Only Origin Stones imbued with Bai Mo's power could temporarily neutralize this curse.
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Returning to the Water Blue Star chessboard.
"Sis, I want to avenge Mom and Dad! I'll make those who plotted against our family fortune pay with blood for blood, one by one!"
After watching the short video Lun Qin showed him, Lun Heping's mind was now entirely consumed by the words "blood for blood." The fate of Lancelot, the death-row inmate, filled him with immense empathy.
Lun Heping, having lost his adoptive parents, was just an ordinary commoner. If he were to confront nobles in court, he believed he would surely be the one to die, without exception.
If both the plaintiff and the defendant were ordinary commoners, the Empire's laws might still be somewhat useful.
Because everyone would be paupers, and the judges wouldn't be able to skim any profit, they would instead handle the case relatively fairly.
But the noble lords didn't play by those rules. With a wave of silver bullet tactics and bribery, the scales of justice were immediately and completely tipped by gold.
"Very well, do you have a plan?" the girl asked lazily.
"Uh... no."
"..."
"Oh, my foolish little brother!" Lun Qin pulled her cheap younger brother into a hug, then frantically ruffled his hair.
"I'm not stupid at all! Just killing a few minor nobles, I... I can definitely do it!" The boy struggled free from the girl who was half a head taller than him, declaring without an ounce of weakness.
"What an demonic older sister..." he muttered quietly afterwards, in a voice no one could quite hear.
"Here's the budget. A total of one hundred thousand, you can begin your performance now." The girl took out the cash she had prepared from within her long dress and shoved it into Lun Heping's arms.
The boy subconsciously sniffed the money in his hands. It seemed... as if... there was still a faint scent of a girl clinging to it?
"..."
And so, the young Lun Heping embarked on his first adventure (assassination) mission.
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It was still the familiar women's clothing.
This time, to shield himself from the sun, he had even specifically donned a hat.
He found his disguise skills growing increasingly proficient. As long as he didn't open his mouth, no one would ever know he was actually a boy.
The execution of the plan was merely the final step; the vast majority of the preceding time would be spent on intelligence gathering.
Modern technology had greatly amplified humanity's destructive power. Unlike ancient times, where ambushing and killing dozens of people at once was an extremely difficult task for a single individual, in modern society, anyone could devise numerous methods.
The first and most crucial step in assassination was intelligence gathering.
"Lao Er Von Lun Si Te. Enjoys frequenting the Green Lantern Bar at night, always with different female companions. On Saturdays, he consistently goes to church, suspected of having a long-term physical relationship with a nun within the church..."
"Lu Fu Von Duo Li Er. Leaves home at six every morning for fitness, his route is roughly..."
"Fu Lan Von Habsburg. Rarely leaves home during the day. Often races on the highway outside the city at night."
"..."
After a month of tireless effort, Lun Heping had roughly managed to gather some daily details about several minor nobles. However, he still couldn't determine who exactly was the murderer of his adoptive parents.
"Perhaps only one of them is the killer. Am I supposed to indiscriminately slaughter the innocent?"
Although Lun Heping had resolved to avenge his parents, he still felt qualms about killing unrelated individuals.
At the end of the day, he was no cold-blooded creature, nor did he wish to simply exact revenge on society.
Revenge had to be precise. Those who indiscriminately killed innocents were, at their core, merely cowards afraid to face a powerful enemy.
PS: No slacking!.
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