Chapter 687: Mundane Empire
"A Ghost Immortal? Or the true body of a Reincarnator?" Yu Yue casually set aside the axe in her hand, appearing behind Bai Mo the very next instant.
With the advancement of cultivation theories, the path of the Ghost Immortal became increasingly understood and accepted by more cultivators. Humanity even managed to develop Spirit Arts that allowed living people to voluntarily transform into yin souls.
Everything was done to prolong one's own life.
Initially, it was cultivators whose physical bodies had suffered severe injuries and had no hope of recovery. To prolong their lives and avoid becoming invalids, they voluntarily took the forbidden step of transforming from human to ghost.
Since the body was beyond saving, even becoming a burden, they might as well just live on as souls.
The Xierdesi Ark and the City of Second Dimension also provided technical support for this.
The former's official members were all cultivators who had voluntarily abandoned their bodies, while the latter was a group focused on human consciousness datafication. They had currently succeeded in datafying over eight thousand people, the vast majority of whom were previously paralyzed or severely disabled patients.
However, the process of fully datafying human consciousness still had a terrifyingly high death rate, with less than a twenty percent success rate. The remaining eighty percent of failures all ended in death.
As long as they could survive and preserve their existence, humanity was willing to try any path.
"It's been, fifty years since we last met," Bai Mo said, slowly materializing.
The moment he materialized, he felt countless arrays, poised for activation, already aimed at him. Yu Yue had set up an extremely complete defensive system around the house where Yun Jie's reincarnated body resided.
She could not bear for Yun Jie to die again.
Because he couldn't afford another death.
"It's you. You've completed your tribulation?" Yu Yue put away the axe in her hand after seeing that face, though she didn't rely on that thing to kill people anyway.
That was a face no one dared to impersonate, so she felt reassured.
Back then on Earth, there was a period when Bai Mo was known as the "Internet Slasher," because no matter where on Earth someone criticized him online, they would mysteriously die the next day.
It was even more so now.
Not to mention that impersonations would be sensed; if his true form wasn't concealed, ordinary people would be brainwashed just by looking at it a few times.
Anyone who dared to impersonate his face would be as foolish as wearing a nuclear radiation source as a pendant before the Spirit River Autumn.
This was the terrifying aspect of Immortals above the seventh stage; even a mere projected image contained dangerous information capable of distorting the mind.
......
Facing Yu Yue's inquiry, Bai Mo gently nodded.
Just then, she suddenly noticed that where Bai Mo was standing, the nearby ground seemed to be slowly twisting around him as its center, and peculiar patterns began to emerge.
These patterns seemed to have a life of their own, constantly extending outwards, eroding the original world.
"He's about to wake up," Bai Mo continued.
"Is that so?" Yu Yue forcibly suppressed the excitement in her heart as she sought confirmation.
She had waited for decades in the Manghuang Realm, precisely for this outcome.
"Within three to five days."
"You traveled all this way just to tell me this news?" Yu Yue didn't believe Bai Mo would be so idle as to come all this way; there had to be something else.
"Recently, I discovered an interesting organization."
"......"
"They call themselves the 'Mundane Empire'."
"......"
"Your two daughters happen to be high-ranking members of the 'Mundane Empire'."
"A small, unknown organization within the Federation, what merit or ability do they possess to attract your attention?"
Yu Yue recalled that over ten years ago, her daughter Yun Ru had indeed mentioned such a thing in a letter she sent her, but she had always avoided interfering with her children's affairs, especially since Yun Ru was already in her forties or fifties...
Based on her years of experience, anything noticed by Bai Mo was definitely not a good thing.
"They want to return to a hundred years ago, to a world of only mortals."
"Is that possible?"
"Who knows?"
Both Yu Yue and Bai Mo were beneficiaries of the current superhuman system.
Even though her two daughters had now joined this strange organization, Yu Yue had no high hopes for the future of this "Mundane Empire."
Because the superhuman group was simply too powerful. Even if the man beside her didn't interfere, ordinary people revolting to fight against a Federation government with several Immortals standing guard had absolutely no chance of victory.
Quantity could not make up for the vast difference in quality.
Even though in the Federation, over ninety-five percent of the population were just ordinary people, with less than two billion superhumans out of forty billion.
"Xiao Ru must be hiding some huge change from me. Otherwise, with her personality back then, how could she possibly join an organization that aims to overthrow the superhumans' very existence and seek benefits for mortals?"
Yu Yue still clearly remembered that Yun Ru, who already possessed Second Tier strength before she was even eight years old, had never in her heart considered herself and ordinary people to be the same kind of being.
Ordinary soldiers in standard power armor still couldn't block a single punch from the eight-year-old girl's tiny fist.
"If she comes to find you, give her this small gift." Bai Mo conjured a silver cross pendant in his hand. The tip at the bottom of the pendant gleamed with an unusual cold light, looking full of eerie danger.
"There's no telling, it might save her life one day," he added meaningfully.
Yu Yue saw a hint of what seemed to be appreciation in Bai Mo's eyes?
"You have unfathomable reach within the Federation. Couldn't you just have your people hand it to her? Who could stop you?" Yu Yue said, taking the cross pendant from Bai Mo's hand.
She found Bai Mo's reaction extremely strange. Her daughter was clearly trying to overthrow the superhumans' very existence, and that man would actually support it with an appreciative attitude?
Bai Mo did not answer.
"My task is complete, I'm leaving." Once again like a meteor, he hurriedly departed the Manghuang Realm, leaving Yu Yue troubled by many mysteries.
"......"
"He truly doesn't leave one at peace, even when he departs," Yu Yue said, gazing at the runes scattered everywhere around her doorstep, and let out a soft sigh.
"Qiankun Nuoyi — Activate!" The young woman stretched her neck, unleashing her powerful spatial ability to spatially teleport all the surrounding land "polluted" by Bai Mo entirely outside the village.
If she didn't do this, a horde of fortune hunters would probably soon flock to the excitement, and it wouldn't do to disturb younger brother Yun Jie.
Ever since the demonic entities completely vanished fifty years ago, the Manghuang Realm had welcomed a golden age of adventurers.
Countless adventurers began to frequent the desolate mountains and wilderness, places previously only inhabited by demonic entities, searching for the treasures accumulated in their lairs over thousands of years.
Like hyenas, they were also called fortune hunters.
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