Glorious God Throne

The former Seventh Hospital had been converted into a temporary shelter. Many windows were sealed, buildings were reinforced, and basements were specially expanded to store sufficient food and water resources… In Bai Yi’s view, these preparations would be enough even for a typhoon.

Nearby, there was a stationed military unit. Every member was a martial arts practitioner who had cultivated internal energy and could mobilize immediately to support the shelter when danger came.

Since this place had been used as a fortress and counterattack position during wartime, many buildings from that era still existed, making the hastily built shelter even more effective than others.

But the Return to the Void catastrophe was different from clearly defined natural disasters – everything was unknown. How the disaster would manifest and how severe it would be were complete unknowns. This meant countries had to consider every aspect when building temporary shelters. However, limited by time and technology level, they simply couldn’t account for everything.

They might protect against fire but not earthquakes, earthquakes but not floods, floods but not typhoons… Because of this, most ordinary people could only store enough food rather than hiding in tightly sealed shelters from the start – it would be ridiculous if they ended up trapped inside when the sky fell and earth cracked.

Only when disaster truly struck could they respond specifically – whether to go high or low, board ships or hide underground. If everything truly became unsalvageable, they might even have to launch humanity’s seeds into space…All possibilities were considered by various countries as much as possible.

This included calculating the abilities of powerful extraordinaries. The variables brought by the spiritual energy revival created many extraordinaries, whose existence would inevitably increase humanity’s survival chances.

The power of ordinary people couldn’t be ignored either.

So many shelters and other self-rescue projects could be rapidly built thanks to ordinary people’s contributions.

Whether ordinary people or extraordinaries, whether original hospital staff and patients or regular residents assigned here, everyone was diligently working on infrastructure, striving to build the temporary shelter as perfectly as possible to accommodate as many people as possible – this would be where many would live in the future.

Take Li Daotian for example – he used Spirit Forger techniques to create a complete “immortal cultivator set” for himself. His Taoist robe floated ethereally, and his forged spiritual sword’s only special property was levitation. Usually riding his flying sword into the sky, he perfectly captured the immortal cultivator style.

But now, this “immortal cultivator” who was actually a Spirit Forger but insisted on pursuing the “fantasy cultivation” path was, like other extraordinaries, honestly working to build the shelter – the only difference was that while ordinary people carried bricks, he controlled invisible spiritual energy to command his flying sword to carry more bricks.

Because everyone was so busy their feet barely touched the ground, even when Li Daotian saw Bai Yi, he couldn’t immediately share his cultivation progress.

Bai Yi was equally busy.

Except for children under ten, no one could remain idle. As soon as Bai Yi arrived at the Seventh Hospital shelter and met the old director, he had to register and be assigned corresponding tasks.

“…You say you’re a Spirit Forger? A Spirit Forger applying to join the publicity team?” Aren’t publicity teams mostly ordinary people?

At the registration desk, the person filling out forms looked up in surprise at the youth before them.

Wearing a black casual hoodie, with messy black hair falling over his brows, pale skin with particularly noticeable dark circles under his eyes, and a fluffy black cat perched on his shoulder. When two pairs of jewel-like black eyes looked over expectantly, it gave the staff member a strange sense of similarity. ɽ𝒶ŊＯＢĘ𐌔

“Yes, yes. I want to join the publicity team.” The youth nodded with curved eyes, even seriously raising the cat’s paw as he tilted his head and asked, “Is that not allowed?”

“Uh? It’s allowed…”

But is this how you use a Spirit Forger? Isn’t this a waste of talent?

A string of question marks appeared in the staff member’s mind.

The so-called publicity team, as the name suggests, was responsible for promoting and helping people overcome despair and other negative emotions, guiding them, and getting them actively involved in infrastructure and other disaster response work. Though seemingly unnecessary, it was actually very important.

Except for a very few people, most people’s psychological endurance had limits. Facing the crisis of world destruction, without proper guidance, their thoughts could easily go astray. Simply giving up and wallowing in despair would be one thing, but most frightening were those who not only gave up themselves but wanted to drag others down with them.

In the current social atmosphere, these people whose thoughts couldn’t receive timely guidance were like hidden bombs. Not only were they unhelpful to the Pan-Human Alliance’s cause, but they might also hinder everyone’s progress at critical moments.

That’s why the publicity team was needed.

But previously, those who joined the publicity team were ordinary people with strong empathy, communication skills, and influential abilities.

Extraordinaries often chose other positions that needed them more. Or even if there were one or two extraordinaries on the publicity team, they were usually powerful martial arts practitioners responsible for protecting the ordinary team members as they traveled between shelters to conduct promotional work.

The versatility of the Spirit Forger profession meant they could handle multiple jobs, especially in support roles. Becoming a publicity team member seemed too wasteful.

Could this youngster think the publicity team’s work was easier?

The staff member couldn’t help but suspect.

If it were an adult standing there, she would have voiced these doubts already, but facing an eighteen-year-old youth, both Yua Country’s regulations and the staff member’s personal feelings made them more lenient. Even if he was an extraordinary, even if he really thought the publicity team’s work was easier and wanted to join to avoid other work, it didn’t matter.

…However, once he actually joined, he would learn this wasn’t an easy job either. Still too young and naive.

Sighing inwardly, the staff member didn’t say more, only repeated to confirm, “Are you sure about joining the publicity team? Are you sure you understand what the publicity team does?”

“Definitely!” The youth showed no impatience, just smiled and nodded repeatedly, “Don’t worry, I’m a very capable Spirit Forger, super talented at influencing people’s senses and emotions. Let me encourage everyone, I’ll definitely get everyone to cheer up and work with focus and energy!”

“Meow!” The black cat, its paw held and waved, lifted its head excitedly and meowed once, as if agreeing with his words.

Using Spirit Forger abilities to influence others’ mental states? That indeed seems suitable for publicity work.

The staff member was surprised.

Though experienced and knowledgeable, knowing that if strong enough, Spirit Forgers could even modify human thoughts and will, indeed possibly achieving such things. But how long had Spirit Forgers been developing? Besides Joey, was there really any Spirit Forger who could reach this level? To achieve what the youth described, he’d need several more years of cultivation. Kids really are too naive…

Despite internally criticizing, the staff member still carefully wrote down Bai Yi’s name and handed him the publicity team credentials. “Alright, wait on the side for a few minutes, someone will come soon to take you to the publicity team. They’ll tell you what to do then.”

“Thank you, elder sister.” Bai Yi excitedly accepted the credentials, not forgetting to lightly smile and wink at the staff member, his whole being seeming to glow, “Maybe before long, the other publicity team members can all come back for reassignment!”

“…?” The staff member was speechless.

Can only say the kid’s too ambitious and energetic! Hope reality won’t shatter the kid’s dreams when he encounters those difficult publicity targets…

Three days later, this staff member saw the boastful youth again, with many publicity team members following him. These people’s expressions were all very strange, occasionally glancing at the youth as they came straight to her.

“Are you here to apply for a job change?” The staff member put on a comforting smile, looking at the youth walking in front, “It’s okay, if the publicity team work really doesn’t suit you, you can have one chance to request a transfer…”

“No, I got promoted, I’m now the only publicity ambassador~” The youth holding the cat shook his head, then turned to point at the others, drawing a circle with his finger, his smile deepening, “They’re the ones who need job transfers. I can handle all the publicity team’s work alone, other people can go do work that needs them more, no need to waste manpower.”n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

“…??”

Others nodded. “That’s right, Student Bai Yi’s publicity talent is too strong, he’s a natural MLM leader- no, natural publicity ambassador! We really have no room to contribute! Maybe in a few days, other cities will want to borrow Student Bai Yi to promote (brainwash) to the masses there!”

“…???”

Above the South Sea, the former floating ship had become a tower reaching to the heavens, its top seemingly extending into the clouds, where geniuses from various countries had gathered.

Here, they opened the door to a new world, encountering knowledge from other worlds they had never seen before.

The wizards’ way of thinking about studying truth actually matched well with scientists, and these people were already geniuses among geniuses, so they quickly broke through their original horizons, opened their minds limited by cognition, and frantically absorbed new knowledge like sponges.

Many of their proposed viewpoints even gave Palmer significant inspiration. With the joint help of these top human geniuses, “Calamity Truth” Palmer seemed to gain many insights and began improving his original spell achievements.

And all achievements would benefit this world in the future.

Now with Return to the Void approaching, even if their desire to explore other world knowledge was deeper, these geniuses suppressed their curiosity and impulses, focusing all attention first on research that would most help humanity’s current situation.

The first thing to flow out of the Life Tower was the Life Marker.

According to Palmer, the original Life Marker’s function was to sense and mark the life force of all living beings and establish some ritual connection with his Life Tower.

The reason he could preemptively extinguish life and harvest life force before many planes were destroyed was that he had placed many hidden Life Markers in planes he had visited before.

Now, combining some ideas from this world’s scientific research field, he modified the original Life Marker, mainly removing the sacrifice ritual and strengthening the connection with the wizard tower, modifying the Life Marker towards being a signal source and transmitter.

If time permitted, they could do even more.

The Life Tower gathered the world’s top scientific research geniuses. As long as they were given an idea and direction, and had enough time to pursue it, they could potentially achieve any result.

At this stage, everyone’s goal was to build a super server in the Life Tower that didn’t rely on technological system networks but used wizard spells as its core and could receive signals from all Life Markers – in case they faced catastrophic disasters in the future and network communications were interrupted, they could still establish new communication methods through this super server.

Of course, this goal hadn’t been achieved yet. Currently, the Life Markers couldn’t communicate with the wizard tower like networks, only simply receive “signals” to confirm the life force intensity in certain places and transmit energy in reverse.

The principle was simple. The sacrifice ritual’s spell could harvest life force and transmit it to the Life Tower, essentially energy transfer between Life Markers and the Life Tower, so Palmer could completely reverse transmit energy from the Life Tower to each Life Marker. This energy wasn’t limited to spiritual energy, life energy, Source power, etc.

Once various shelters lost contact, the Life Tower could judge roughly how many people were still alive in each shelter through the life force transmitted by Life Markers, and could also send energy to sealed shelters for extraordinaries to cultivate, for treating injured people, and for growing crop seeds, without worrying about food depletion.

–Since spiritual energy revival, ordinary crops’ growing cycles had rapidly shortened, and spirit flowers and fruits were especially energy-rich, so food had always been the least worry. But no one could guarantee what this world would become in the future, so storing various crop seeds in advance was very necessary.

On this foundation, if they could survive the Return to the Void disaster, they would have time to develop more functions in the future.

With such aspirations, many simple-function Life Markers flowed out from the Life Tower to various parts of the world.

The Seventh Hospital also received one beacon.

–It was a compass-like wheel.

As soon as it arrived, all extraordinaries were gathered together. They had to temporarily set aside their work to place this beacon in the safest location and activate it according to the instructions sent down, making it the most important core of the entire shelter.

At this time, the countdown numbers in Bai Yi’s vision had gradually decreased, slowly approaching zero as time passed.

At one moment, Bai Yi seemed to hear huge bell sounds echoing through this universe sea. He knew Return to the Void had arrived!

The awakening degree of the Rhythm of All Things suddenly began to soar.

His consciousness seemed to leap out from its shell, rising high in the sky, yet also like plunging into extremely deep seas. His whole being was like returning to the state of being nurtured in the womb, his soul returning to the state before birth, merging with the world’s Source as one, and the entire world opened to him without reservation like a mother’s embrace.

A sentence unconsciously floated in his mind:

“Heaven and Earth were born with me, and all things are one with me…”

In this special state, his consciousness seemed to merge with the world as one, seeing somewhere far from Blue Star…

In that distant starry sky, invisible world barriers cracked open, and void storms descended. Formless void qi raged in space, condensing into vast black rain above countless stars. Star after star was destroyed, like a magnificent elegy being performed.

This storm gradually approached Blue Star from distant star regions.

The illusory countdown reached zero at this point–

[Nightmare Game version has been updated.]

[System has been upgraded. As the player has opened Creator permissions, you have the right to make any modifications to the game system.]

[Unique Reality Mission [Final Day] has opened–]

[The end has come, the fate of infinite worlds has reached its endpoint. As you who were born as the hope of infinite worlds, please bring hope to these infinite worlds and pioneer a future for all beings’ fate.]

Thus, when people on Blue Star looked up at the sky, they saw large patches of starry sky darken, followed by countless extinguished broken stars washing over like a storm.

The entire sky was covered by stellar ashes, and many star fragments penetrated the clouds, becoming burning meteors through intense friction, thunderously falling from the sky!