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Chapter 671: Changes

"Time is of the essence."

"Understood!"

The temporary inter-realm gate constructed using Louise's body could only exist for six hours.

But that was sufficient, for more human tools were continuously disembarking onto Water Blue Star from the other side of the passage.

They were mixed among the teleported troops, ready to become new spatial beacons at any moment.

To them, the body was merely a tool, one that could be abandoned at any time to complete a mission.

Those who had barely clawed their way out of the desperate hell where everyone had abandoned them had already come to view everything lightly.

...

A small, optically-cloaked military base began to be rapidly established within the Earl's mansion.

Dozens of field engineers, leveraging the God Body network, mobilized thousands of machines transported from the other side of the gate, preparing to construct the core building of this base — the God Body Beacon.

This was a truly colossal teleportation device, capable of summoning the main forces of the Land of White, unlike the temporary passages.

The Moon-God-class ground attack airships built on Earth could also be genuinely "summoned" by the God Body Beacon.

...

"In the blink of an eye, eighty years have passed," muttered the owner of a gigantic skeletal claw from behind the gate.

It was an enormous creature, starkly different from ordinary skeletons; it was precisely this creature that had just torn open the temporary passage for the vanguard of the Holy Progenitors.

Its spine was over ten meters long, ending in a ferocious whip-like tail, and the soul flame leaping within its rib cage was so powerful it almost seemed to spill out from between its bones.

But the most peculiar feature was its right claw.

At the convergence of the five finger bones of its right claw, another human face faintly emerged.

It was the face of a lovely girl, yet it grew in such a bizarre location—the palm of a hand—making it exceptionally horrifying to behold.

...

This was Xiao Chou, the Lord of the Boneyard Realm, formerly known as Xiao Yan.

Twenty years prior, he had chosen to achieve immortality simultaneously via both the Ghost Immortal and Human Immortal paths.

During his Reincarnation Tribulation, he ingeniously fused the staff, which continued to house the soul of his elder sister, Xiao Hen, with his own body.

This was because inanimate objects like staves simply could not cultivate on their own, meaning any soul residing within would have its cultivation forever stagnant.

To bring her into immortality with him, Xiao Chou, the Lord of the Boneyard Realm, decided to sacrifice his right hand, allowing Xiao Hen's soul to reside within it until it could undergo flesh-and-blood transformation, at which point he would reshape a body for her.

The flesh-and-blood transformation of a Martial path Human Immortal was a process of creating a clan.

At the ultimate stage of this conceptual path, even a single drop of a Human Immortal's blood falling onto a stone could potentially infect it, giving rise to a new race originating from themselves.

Of course, this was simply a conjecture; with Xiao Chou's current nascent Human Immortal cultivation, let alone a single drop of blood, even an entire arm would struggle to transform into a powerful, independent clan.

"Eighty years have passed. Have things changed much in the outside world? Is Ramdo dead? Don't tell me that scoundrel will be nothing but bone fragments by the time we fulfill our millennium-long pact."

At the mention of Ramdo's name, both the Lord of the Boneyard Realm and his right hand became somewhat unstable, their soul flames trembling incessantly.

If not for him, neither of them would have ended up in their current half-human, half-ghost state.

Xiao Chou would still be Xiao Yan, the promising young talent, revered and celebrated in the Human Federation, instead of being cooped up in the desolate Boneyard Realm, silently serving as a trailblazer.

"Someone told me that Ramdo is not only alive but living quite comfortably, having secretly advanced to a Divine Path Immortal.

However, out of deference to the might of the Land of White, he still maintains a very low profile, and not many in the Federation are aware of his true status."

Decades had passed, and the Federation saw new generations replace the old; there was still no news of Yun Jie, who disappeared early on, nor of Teach, who nearly destroyed the Moon with his machinations.

The factions formerly under their command had also been scattered by the wind and rain.

The once splendid Yun Family main city still stood, but the people and things within were no longer the same.

The first generation of transcendents rose too quickly; their family forces had only emerged twenty or thirty years ago, completely lacking sufficient foundational accumulation, relying entirely on a single generation of geniuses for support.

Once the main pillar suddenly disappeared, the young "monkeys" who hadn't fully matured beneath the tree could only scatter and flee.

...

In contrast to the struggles of their predecessors, several transcendents who underwent tribulation later on brought good news.

Over the decades of Human Federation's space exploration, overtly, one Celestial Immortal, one Human Immortal, one Divine Immortal, and one Ghost Immortal had emerged, alongside the Celestial Immortal Xu Xuanling, who was gradually recovering from a fundamental deficiency. The Federation, with hundreds of billions of people, had a total of five Great Immortals.

Secretly, there might still be some individuals like Ramdo, living anonymously for various reasons.

After all, the Dao Stele left by Bai Mo on the Moon in those days could accommodate countless people's consciousnesses for enlightenment simultaneously.

Moreover, since each person had only three opportunities, monopolizing it was meaningless.

So, the Federation turned it into an open tourist area in the capital... anyone who wanted to come could, and they only charged a symbolic one-dollar admission fee.

...

The emergence of local Seventh-Tier Immortals completely reshaped the entire power structure.

The original council, composed of dozens of Sixth-Tier council members, was forcefully infused with several grand figures.

Fortunately, the council was well-prepared, knowing that such a situation was bound to arise in the future, and had already laid out a long-term reform plan—

To restructure the previous council into a tiered council.

Seventh-Tier transcendents would serve as Sun-Disciple Councilors, each possessing 500 votes in the tiered council.

Sixth-Tier transcendents would serve as Bright-Moon Councilors, each possessing 20 votes.

Fifth-Tier transcendents would serve as Morning-Star Councilors, each possessing 1 vote.

As for those below, they had no voting rights.

If anyone had an objection, they could challenge a voter; if they won, the voting rights would be theirs.

Everyone was equal, but some might be more equal than others.

However, the word "equality" was generally no longer mentioned in the Federation, because no one would believe it if it were spoken.

Those who held voting rights, apart from their human appearance, had physical structures that were completely different species from ordinary people.

This became a plight for medical students in the Federation, who now had to memorize several different sets of human anatomical structures, along with their corresponding medical theories and operational mechanisms.

They often had the misconception that they were quite similar to veterinarians who used to treat humans on the side.

...

The success of Ramdo's advancement was clearly a secret, yet it happened to reach my ears from tens of thousands of miles away.

Xiao Chou's first reaction was that he had been used.

Someone wanted to use him as a blade to cause trouble for Ramdo.

But this was also an open conspiracy, for he indeed harbored a bone-deep hatred for Ramdo, even changing his name to Xiao Chou because of it.