Cyber Ghosts

Hao Ning thought that he would be back to the campus of Qingbei University after he came out of the “fake dormitory”. However, the scene in front of him did not seem like a university.

“Where am I?” Hao Ning thought. There was a huge warehouse before him. But it did not look like a warehouse. It seemed like a huge factory. There were a lot of production lines. Yet, all of them were shut down. Some workers walked back and forth. They were busy in adjusting or improving something. Those workers behaved weird as they were indulged in their work without vigor in their eyes.

Looking at the end part of the production lines, Hao Ning found many finished goods lying in a mess. He went closer and looked at them. They were Hunyuan Vat, Yin Yang Sword and some white gloves. Hao Ning had seen some before.

As Hao Ning searching around, Liu Shuai suddenly shouted, pointing to a direction. “Look, Immortal Tying Rope!”

Hao Ning looked at the direction Liu Shuai pointed. Yes. There were several Immortal Tying Ropes at the end of a production line.

“What’s happening here?” Hao Ning and Liu Shuai looked at each other. They rushed to the “production line” producing the Immortal Tying Rope. They saw two big words written on it “Shut Down”.

“Shut down?” Liu Shuai wondered. “Why was it shut down? Was this the production line of the Immortal Tying Rope? Was the Immortal Tying Rope Long Fei bought before manufactured over here?”

Hao Ning got closer to the Immortal Tying Ropes and looked carefully. He found a piece of paper. It looked like a test report, saying, “Unstable – Unqualified.”

“Oh, I see,” Hao Ning nodded. “It must be like this. The Immortal Tying Ropes they manufactured did not pass the test due to instability. So, they decided to give up this line.”

“Make sense.” Liu Shuai understood it too. He added, “that was the reason why the Immortal Tying Rope in Zhang Quan’s pocket exploded. it meant that this was unstable.”

Saying this, Liu Shuai raised his head and looked at other production lines. He found that many lines had “Shut down” on them.

“Weird.” Liu Shuai shook his head. “Why were all production lines shut down including this line? All of them were unstable and unqualified?”

“Hao Ning, Liu Shuai.” Zhou Yuan called both as they were talking. They turned back, seeing Zhou Yuan pointing to one place. They look at it. It was the place where they left the fake dormitory.

Looking back, they found fake Li Yufei and fake Chen Busheng were surrounded by a huge “container” in the open space. The container looked interesting. The sides had metal color and were opaque except the side facing Hao Ning and others. So, Hao Ning and others could see what Yufei and Chen Busheng were doing through this side. Ostensibly, the container seemed to move continuously with the men inside. As the men ran forward, the container seemed to move backward. And, the container could show various scenes for them such as dormitories, stairs or even stars. From their view, it was a real world. However, from the view of outsiders, it was a container wrapped by golden materials and moved itself all the time. For example, to the fake men, they thought that they were climbing stairs. Actually, they were moving to the same place. It was the stairs that were moving. And the materials wrapped in the container were silver metals. It must be the Pandora metal.

“It looks like that Zhou Yuan’s guess is right,” Liu Shuai looked at the happy “fake men” in the silver container, grumbling. “This must be the brain made by ‘Pandora metal’ in a container”.

Zhou Yuan and Chen Busheng ran to him as he was saying. Liu Shuai asked Chen Busheng, “hey, Chen Busheng. Do you still hope that Li Yufei lives in this container now? Even he is the true one?”

Chen Busheng looked at the silver container, saying nothing. He stood there, looked at it, and shook head.

“Yes.” Zhou Yuan nodded. “As you get the truth, you hope Yufei won’t live in a fake environment. You just asked me to create a fake Chen Busheng as Yufei’s company. But you forgot what you did is to make the same fake environment for him. As you know, the fake environment in front of us is made by Pandora metal, and the fake environment you hoped is made by your desires.”

“I know I was wrong.” Chen Busheng lowered his head. And then he raised his head and said, “if I can find Yufei, I will go and face him.”

“That’s my boy.” Zhou Yuan smiled, patting Chen Busheng on his shoulder. “That’s what you should do.”

“Hey, Master moment god, you also need to wake up.” seeing Zhou Yuan “teaching” Chen Busheng, Hao Ning stopped him. “Where are we now? Why is there such a huge warehouse-like this in Qingbei University? And we even don’t know its existence.”

“Because this is, in fact, not Qingbei University.” Zhou Yuan shook his head. After saying so, he realized his description was not correct. He corrected, “specifically, this is not in Pingjing. If my guess is right, we are in Chang’an.”

“Chang’an?” the three cried at the same time. “You said Chang’an, the ancient capital of past thirteen Dynasties?”

“Yes.” Zhou Yuan nodded. “You’re right.” added he.

“How is it possible?” Hao Ning and Liu Shuai shook heads hard. “It will take 2 hours from Pingjing to Chang’an by air. How can we stand in a warehouse in Chang’an without feeling anything?”

“But it is true.” Zhou Yuan curled his lips up with disapproval. “Don’t forget that Yi Pingzhi can disappear on our radar. I guess he must know how to move between spaces. And when we entered the fake dormitory, they use the technology to move the whole fake dormitory from Pingjing to Chang’an. And what you just said was wrong. The place we are standing now is not a warehouse in Chang’an. Here is the place directly below the First Emperor’s Tomb in the outskirt of Chang’an. I guess that they have excavated tens of square meters under the tomb!”

“Excavated? Below the tomb?” Hao Ning and Liu Shuai felt that it was unbelievable. They said to themselves, “you mean, the tomb above our head is the tomb of the first emperor of the Celestial Empire? How is it possible… It is so heavy; how can they bear it…”

“Err…” Zhou Yuan shook his head, “you look up at the roof and look down at the ground. Those are made by the Pandora metals…”

They looked down at the ground but nothing special found. They questioned Zhou Yuan, “how do you know about this?”

“Because Yi Pingzhi is still around.” Zhou Yuan shook his head. “I just searched all his dialogues around when you two were looking at the production lines and when Chen Busheng looked at fake Li Yufei. I also want to say that we could detect Yi Pingzhi’s Spiritual Flying Bugs, but you guys are just standing here, guessing what happened. You are so stupid…”

Liu Shuai and Hao Ning felt embarrassed by Zhou Yuan’s words. Chen Busheng could be forgiven since he focused on Li Yufei. But Hao Ning and Liu Shuai was drawn attention to the production lines and forgot Yi Pingzhi’s Spiritual Flying Bugs. They shouldn’t forget about this. So, they asked in embarrassment, “so what? Where should we go now?”

“No idea.” Zhou Yuan shook his head. “The signal is weak here. That’s all that I know. We have to find them out. Let’s go now.”

They, actually, did not walk. Instead, they were running. Zhou Yuan was right. This place was huge. The four ran along the production lines for a very long time.

Running along the production lines, they found that all of the production lines were written “shut down”. And a few products like Implements were put on the lines at a mess. They recognized some of them, but most of them had no idea.

After a long time, they finally arrived at a blue rice field. There were some words written on the board. It said, “Soul Rice Field”.

Soul Rice Field? They felt curious. They looked at it closer. The scene almost made them vomit. The so-called Soul Rice Field had been divided into many cells with people planted in them. Nine identical people were planted in one cell. When one of them came to age, it would kill himself by cutting its neck with a knife. And then a mechanic arm came and held the soul in hand with white gloves. The arm put the soul into a white bottle. And then the remaining would be sucked away by a sucker underneath it. In a short time, an embryo grew. The embryo might be injected drugs or something as it grew as fast as we could see. The embryo killed itself after it came into age. This was a cycle.

“Well, what are they doing?” Hao Ning never saw a brutal scene before like this. He couldn’t help screaming, “what are they doing?”

Liu Shuai, as a biological student, vomited for a while and wiped his tears. He squatted on the ground, looking at the “Soul Rice Field”, and saying with eyes closed, “they must deceive souls to reincarnate through clone technology.”

“What do you mean?” Zhou Yuan bewildered. He felt disgusting too. He stretched out a finger. Suddenly, a cloud of opaque fog wrapped them, flying toward. They flew for a long time to leave the Soul Rice Field.

“They must decode the system of the nether world and found a bug in the system. That is, the soul coming from a suicidal person would not be chased.” Liu Shuai relieved and said, “so, they cloned people all the time and reincarnated souls into the cloned persons through the system of the nether world. The reincarnation system cannot distinguish which one is a natural person or a cloned one. The system will allocate a soul for the body no matter what. So, they can accumulate more and more souls. As people are cloned, they will share one soul. That means the soul is changeable.”

“Why do they need so many souls?” Hao Ning wondered. “And, do you understand why the nine clones in a cell look the same? Why do they need so many identical souls?”

Liu Shuai looked at Hao Ning, shaking his head, “are you familiar with the bottles containing souls?”

Before Hao Ning said a sentence, Zhou Yuan screamed, “I remember. The bottle is the same as the one containing the soul of Super silver finger. I stole one that day.”

“Oh, I see!” Hao Ning said. That was the reason why persons in the stone-gambling were not afraid of aging. As their souls were too old, they could change their souls by fresh and identical ones in the bottles. And the souls in the bottles come from the Soul Rice Field, a place where people are cloned and killed all the time.

Saying this, Hao Ning cursed, “Xiao Hong and I once guessed that they would make a fake nether world through their technology and harvest souls by some ways we don’t know yet. As far as we know, they don’t have any sophisticated technology. They just used the simplest way by cloning persons. And the cloned people don’t have an idea or ability to think or do anything. They are the same. No thoughts or feelings. They are just cloned people without consciousness from their cradle to grave. They, actually, don’t need them to think. They need them because they are souls. That’s all!” Saying this, Hao Ning sneered. “Who can foretell that they used so advanced technology for their evil purposes.”

What Hao Ning thought, in practice, was more severe than what he said. The picture in which people were “planted” had been watched by Hao Ning in a movie called The Matrix. In the movie, the robots controlled the earth, planted and grew persons on earth. Unexpectedly, humankind had planted and grew themselves on earth before the robots did it.

“That is the reason.” Zhou Yuan said, quivering with rage, “That is the reason why the soul of silver finger I stole looked like an adult. But it wore nothing, and its IQ was so low. Because they were planted in the Soul Rice Field! The cloned people had no contact with the outside from their birth. They, of course, had no IQ at all.”

So far, Hao Ning had understood the whole story. He wanted to say something before he heard a voice from far away. He rushed toward the voice. The rest heard the voice too. They ran along with Hao Ning.

Not for a long time, the voice was getting louder and louder. At the corner, they found Yi Pingzhi was talking with Nezha there.

“Why are they staying together?” Hao Ning wondered. Not long ago, Yi Pingzhi had thought that Hao Ning and others were the companies of Nezha’s. And he killed four fake Hao Ning and others on a narrow road. Why, in a short time, did they both meet each other?

“No, I think this one is a fake Nezha.” Zhou Yuan corrected him, “do you remember we put Nezha’s Spiritual Flying Bugs into fake Nezha. As it is fake, he, of course, will do exactly the way the others want him to do.”

“Mr. Yi.” The fake Nezha said, “is this the workshop of Pure Land of Bliss? Why are there no other guys from the Split Sect?”

“The others are sent out for deployment,” Yi Pingzhi said. “We will deploy Pure Land of Bliss globally. This is our plan.”

“Pure Land of Bliss? Workshop? Deployment globally?” Hao Ning and others could not believe what they heard if they did not see the production lines of the Immortal Tying Rope before. They must consider that what Nezha said was nonsense. However, the workshop they mentioned seemed secretive because it was wrapped by opaque metals. The inside could be seen only through a window near the Nezha and Yi Pingzhi.

Hao Ning and others also wanted to see what was inside through the window. At the moment, Yi Pingzhi’s eyes moved with light coming out of his glasses. Yi Pingzhi frowned and looked at the direction Hao Ning and others standing, “we got companies?”

“They found us?” Hao Ning and others stopped walking and stepped back a little. They looked at Zhou Yuan who also wondered what was happening. He waved his hand, expressing that he did not know it.

“Is Yi Pingzhi’s glasses so powerful?” Hao Ning said in a low voice. “His glasses can see through Zhou Yuan’s Virtualized reality?”

“I don’t know. But we must be careful.” Zhou Yuan stopped his bragging. He whispered, “we’d better listen to them first.” added he.

Yi Pingzhi found that nothing happened through his glasses. So, he continued to say with a smile at Nezha, “Pure Land of Bliss has been the greatest invention so far based on the great prophecy of Heaven Master. Of course, Heaven Master has many ideas. He will have more inventions in the coming days. However, Pure Land of Bliss is the most important material to help us become immortals.”

“Yes, yes.” The fake Nezha nodded.” My uncle tried his best in his life, but he conferred immortals on only 365 persons. And your wish is to make everyone become an immortal. You are our mentor.”

“Thanks for your appreciation. This is not my wish. This is Mr. Fei’s great dream.” Yi Pingzhi waved his hand, disagreeing. “Mr. Fei’s dream is to make the whole world back to the prosperous time of the Celestial Empire, make the Celestial Empire culture standing out from the civilizations, and force all to bow before the regime of the Celestial Empire traditions.”

“Great, great idea!” The fake Nezha applauded. “Mr. Fei’s great dream is beyond our reach. The development in western countries falls into disgusting tricks which are much lower than Pure Land of Bliss we had before in the Celestial Empire period. And as Mr. Fei is talented at everything, he hopes to make everyone in the world become immortals. But I just want to know how Pure Land of Bliss can make a person be an immortal?”

“Do you know soul dopamine?” Yi Pingzhi smiled, looking at fake Nezha.

“Dopa…what?” obviously, fake Nezha heard the word the first time. “I don’t know this word.”

Although Hao Ning did not know what they were talking about, he was sure that Yi Pingzhi and fake Nezha met each other because of something. So far, Hao Ning was not sure what was the thing.

“Dopamine? Soul dopamine?” Liu Shuai screamed. He found that Hao Ning and the others were looking at him, he waved his hand and said, “I will explain it later. We listen to them now.”

“Oh, it is normal you don’t know about it.” Yi Pingzhi smiled. “This is the latest research result based on Heaven Master’s achievement. We found that there is something special in human souls. We called it the soul dopamine now. Human souls won’t stop pursuing something such as truth, success, belief or freedom and others because they have this kind of thing. And, the word dopamine means the hormone in the human body. It seems that the more hormone, the happier human will be.”

“I don’t know about it yet.” fake Nezha smiled. “Please tell me more,” added he.

“Ok. The soul dopamine is much more powerful than the one in the human body.” Yi Pingzhi smiled. “Heaven Master found that it is the critical element to belief seekers. If we give enough soul dopamine to the human body, we can make them pursue something crazily. It doesn’t matter what they are pursuing. The process they pursue is the most important. In the process, beliefs will emerge in human minds. The beliefs will be refined and be an essential part of an immortal. That is the essence of thearchy!”

Saying this, Yi Pingzhi took out a small bottle from his pocket. There was a thing shining golden light contained in it. Needless to say, it was the essence of thearchy Hao Ning, and the others saw before.

“You have seen the Soul Coin Material before.” Yi Pingzhi smiled. “It is used for the semi-finished Implements made by the Soul Coin Engine in the Immortal Tying Ropes. The results were not so good, and some accidents may happen in the manufacturing processes. However, the essence of thearchy…”

Saying this, Yi Pingzhi took a silver metal. “If it is used for the Pandora metal, the Pandora metal will become any Implement you want, such as Yin yang Mirror, Immortal Tying Rope, or Hunyuan Vat and so on!”

After saying this, Yi Pingzhi got a drop of the essence of thearchy on the metal in his hand. He said in a low voice, “scattering Beans as Soldiers!” The metal split into many golden little men immediately. Yi Pingzhi said to them, “Nine Dragons Shield of Divine Fire!”

The little men made a circle in the air and flocked together afterward. They became the Nine Dragons Shield of Divine Fire finally. Yi Pingzhi said again, “rush”. A burning dragon was activated in the Dragons Shield of Divine. It seemed that the burning dragon would burn everything inside into ashes.

“Very good. Very good!” Nezha laughed, clapping his hands. “Now I understand why you always defeated me by your magic power. That is because you have such a powerful thing.”

“Forget it. As you agreed to hunt for souls, the immortal killer sect should be under Split Sect’s control,” Yi Pingzhi smiled. “It doesn’t matter if I tell you the truth.”

“Oh, I see now!” Hao Ning said. “The treasure of Yi Pingzhi made it easy for him to defeat fake Nezha. It even can defeat real Nezha.”

“But…” Nezha frowned. “I can’t understand the relationship between the soul dopamine and Pure Land of Bliss?”

“Well, I just showed what it is and forgot to tell you about the relationship.” Yi Pingzhi stopped his mana, patting his forehead with a smile. “The soul dopamine, originally, is a product in the process of human truth pursuit. There are not too many in the world. And Pure Land of Bliss, as it is attached to the human body, it can force a soul to produce more soul dopamine. And more interestingly, Pure Land of Bliss is hidden in a place that cannot be detected by reincarnation. So, if Pure Land of Bliss can be attached to a soul, it will stay with the soul forever.”

“Bang!” The three in the Virtualized reality sat on the ground, shockingly. Chen Busheng couldn’t understand what they were talking about. Liu Shuai grumbled, “I understand what they want to do now. They do it. They really do it! Oh, my God. I am so stupid. I forget they can do it!”

Hao Ning turned back, looking at Liu Shuai tiredly, “are you…ok? Why do you say so? We have known Pure Land of Bliss ago. Right?”

“What Pure Land of Bliss!” Liu Shuai scolded. “They are producing drugs for souls!”

“Drugs for souls?” Zhou Yuan and Chen Busheng did not understand it. “What are the drugs for souls?” They asked.

“I am so stupid.” Liu Shuai shook his head. “I should have realized that they could make things like the Spiritual Flying Bugs through souls. Naturally, they had ways to make other things. The effects of the soul dopamine coming from Pure Land of Bliss to souls are just like the drugs to our bodies. Differently, the drugs could exhaust our bodies, Pure Land of Bliss exhaust our souls instead.”

Seeing Hao Ning and the others were still in confusion. Liu Shuai continued to explain it with gestures, “the Pure Land of Bliss in souls, the more people who have the soul dopamine in their souls. They will work tirelessly and focus on one thing all the time. During this process, they will use their souls’ energy until the energy is used up. In practice, it is just like the effects drugs bring to our bodies.”

Saying this, Liu Shuai patted himself on his head and continued. “When I saw Qili, I doubted that he must take drugs. Unexpectedly, his body did not take drugs, instead, his soul did. His soul had been totally damaged and could not escape from it forever…”

“Screw the Pure Land of Bliss.” Liu Shuai looked at the three, “Pure Land of Bliss, well, how ironic it is as it has a beautiful name. The right way to understand it is that when souls pursue their Lands, their souls become a purified land without thoughts or feelings. They must believe that the whole world is very clean.”

Listening to Liu Shuai’s explanation, Hao Ning and the others were shocked deeply. They had to admit that they had seen every case Liu Shuai mentioned.

“What a great job it is.” The fake Nezha thumbed up, excitedly. “After conducting various experiments, from the falling souls to Book Elf, and to Pure Land of Bliss. We never stopped our experiments. Great progress has been made over the past. And now, you can see, we are only half a step away from success.”

“I know what he referred to!” Zhou Yuan cried. “They controlled everything! And the sufferings of souls in the past years were a test conducted by them!”

Hao Ning also understood it. This was not the evil Kung Fu they guessed before. It was those who focused on souls and researched how to be immortals. In their pursuit of being immortals, they did something even a demon would not do.

“Interesting.” Yi Pingzhi grinned. He took out a fan from nowhere. “Here it is. We just stand here, and we got the key to being immortals. I planned to change the name of this place. I want to name it “Immortals in the Celestial Empire”, and I will write a book about my experience after I become an immortal to memorated what we, the offspring of the Celestial Empire, suffered on the way.”

“You are an elegant man!” The fake Nezha saluted. Subsequently, he frowned, “but I think that there are not enough Pure Land of Bliss we produced. When do we have enough essence of thearchy?”

“My boy, you just saw what you have seen before. We have planted many Pure Land of Bliss over the past.” Yi Pingzhi waved his fan. “And the latest Pure Land of Bliss, as long as it can attach on a soul, it can spread quickly to other souls who have the same minds through interaction and communication among them. By doing so, we can get more and more souls with Pure Land of Bliss. And…”

Yi Pingzhi pointed to a production line in the distance. Over there, some tardy persons were loading something. Yi Pingzhi waved his arm. A blue long needle in a transparent glass bottle flew toward him from the production line. “Now, do you know what it is?”

Nezha looked at it closely, shaking his head, “sorry, I don’t know.”

Yi Pingzhi grinned, “this is one of my inventions. I made it through fabricating the legend Ice Needle. I name it Garden of Silver Needle.”

Seeing Nezha was still in confusion, Yi Pingzhi smiled and continued, “think of it. There are many souls attached by Pure Land of Bliss. They will be not well in the future. And they, of course, will go to hospitals. However, so far, doctors have no clues about how to take care of this disease. So, I will present the Garden of Silver Needle as a gift to the world through my hospital, Yi Clinic. I will heal them based on our traditional Chinese medicine, making them recover. Moreover, the Garden of Silver Needle can also heal other diseases. But anyone who is healed by this Garden of Silver Needle will be planted a Pure Land of Bliss in his body. And magically, Pure Land of Bliss can improve themselves! In this way, our traditional Chinese medicine will defeat Western medicine, and we can get more and more essence of thearchy through it. I think, if my plan goes well, it won’t take a long time…”

“Great plan and idea!” The fake Nezha laughed. “I did not expect you are so crazy about Traditional Chinese medicine. Salute!” said Nezha with a bow.

“So is Mr. Fei.” Yi Pingzhi said, accepting Nezha’s bow. He sighed, “in the new era, traditional Chinese medicine is going down. And Mr. Hu, even advocates healing diseases through the combination of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. What he did betrayed to our traditions and our forefathers. Mr. Fei and I disagree with him and condemn him. But even so, Mr. Fei still wanted to protect him and ordered me to leave him alone. It is weird. Anyway, forget it. Now, there are many Garden of Silver Needles having been used in the market. And It won’t take a long time…”

“Oh, my God.” Hao Ning and the others screamed. They had such a big plan. Hao Ning looked at Liu Shuai and Zhou Yuan. He said after a while, “can we, can we do anything?”

Zhou Yuan shook his head. Liu Shuai looked at fake Nezha and Yi Pingzhi, having no idea except sitting on the ground. After a while, he said, “they have a well-planned plot. There is nothing we can do.”

“Mr. Yi. You needn’t explain more for Little Hai.” A voice came out before Hao Ning asked one more question. The voice continued, “tell me, what’s going on with Chen Busheng?”

A mid-aged man approached. Hao Ning and the others looked at him closely. It was Mr. Fei!

“My lord.” Yi Pingzhi bowed, “I have taken care of him. It is as expected that when I questioned him based on our plan. He said he wanted to maintain the status quo and stay with his lover. So, as per what Heaven Master said, I have to fabricate one to be his company.”

“Heaven Master, fake one?” Both Hao Ning and Chen Busheng understood what he referred to. “Heaven Master, he must be…” saying this, Hao Ning stopped himself because he saw Chen Busheng had clenched his fists.

If Heaven Master were Li Yufei, it could be beyond imagination that Chen Busheng’s most loved Yufei had planned such a big plot. That meant Li Yufei, the one Chen Busheng was looking for many years, was the demagogue of the plot. How would Chen Busheng choose? Or, did he have options?

“That’s good. No need to concern about it anymore!” Mr. Fei nodded. “Now, with the help of Heaven Master and Little Hai, you should accelerate your experiment. I will go to inspect what’s going on with Pandora metals. This is the key to becoming immortals.”

Saying this, Mr. Fei split the space, walked into the crack and disappeared.

Seeing Mr. Fei had gone, Yi Pingzhi said to fake Nezha, “you must do me a favor now.”

And then, Yi Pingzhi pointed to a pool in front of him, shouting, “scattering Beans as Soldiers!”

The water in the pool turned into golden and became many beans subsequently. The beans flew into the air, and exploded, becoming little men.

“Good, good.” Yi Pingzhi said, smiling and looking at the little men in the air. He continued to say, “Ancestor of human creation!”

The little men in the air became a woman with a human upper body and a snake lower body. It looked at Yi Pingzhi, saying nothing.

“Oh, my God!” Liu Shuai looked at the woman, trembling. “He, he made a Nuwa!”

“What?” What Liu Shuai said scared Hao Ning. He shook his head and said, “how is it possible?”

“The essence of thearchy.” Yi Pingzhi stretched his arm. A lot of essence of thearchies flocked together in front of the woman, and then flew toward the pool. The mixture of the remaining Pandora metals and the essence of thearchy looked like mud immediately.

“Ancestor of human creation,” Yi Pingzhi said, looking at the Nuwa that Liu Shuai mentioned. He continued to say with a smile, “it’s ready now.”

The woman said nothing. She kept drawing circles in the air. The “mud”, the mixture of the Pandora metals and the essence of thearchies, gradually turned into a man shape by her stir. The man was becoming a true man slowly. At last, it became a man. And then, the woman shouted in a low voice. Many golden lights came out of her body, flying into the man’s body. The man’s body emitted numerous lights, making the whole warehouse like a day. At the same time, the ground began to shake. It seemed like an earthquake was happening.

“Mr. Yi!” Nezha said nervously. “What’s happening? Anything is wrong here?”

“Ease!” Yi Pingzhi wiped sweat. He was also nervous about what was happening. He said in a high voice to the golden man, “Yi Pingzhi warmly welcome Heaven Master’s visit!”

“Bang”. The air at the other side stopped flowing suddenly and countless dots appeared in the air, like glowworms flying around. In a short time, those glowworms got together and formed a man shape. The lights out of the glowworms were not bright, but they shadowed the lights out of the golden man. Slowly, the glowworms man integrated with the golden man, becoming a white light. After the white light darkened, a young man floating in the air appeared. He looked at Yi Pingzhi in apathy, “Yi Pingzhi, why do you call me out in this unimportant world? Anything you want to report?”

The man looked like Long Fei. Hao Ning realized that he must be Li Yufei.

“Yufei!” Chen Busheng called. His distorted his face due to his anger became soft. He was reluctant to believe that the past innocent Yufei turned into a demon. He cried, “you are my boy, Yufei. What did they do to you?”

“Stop yelling!” Zhou Yuan held him. “We are not sure he is real or fake Yufei. And no matter how loud you yell, they can’t hear you!”

Zhou Yuan was right. Yi Pingzhi and the others could not hear Chen Busheng. They just talk with the floating Yufei respectfully. “Heaven Master, we follow your order and we got Chen Busheng over here. However, he insisted that he would maintain the status quo and stayed with you for the rest of his lifetime…” And then, Yi Pingzhi aired what Chen Busheng said, “I, of course, hope that I can stay with Yufei forever no matter what.”

“Ok, I noted that.” Heaven Master sighed, shaking his head. He continued to say, “he still can’t accept who I really am.” After saying this, he looked at the distance. “Days outweigh mana and minds outweigh mana. It is true.”

Unexpectedly, Yi Pingzhi and Nezha lowered their heads, not responding to what Heaven Master said.

Heaven Master continued to say to himself, “since something happened to me, my understanding of life is far from the micro-understanding of the common people. Since then, I have known that Chen Busheng would not accept such Li Yufei. I just don’t want to give up. So, I tried. But now…” Heaven Master said with tears dropping.

“He is Yufei, what…what happened to him?” looking at the floating Yufei, Chen Busheng cried like a child. “Why did you become like this? Why did not you become a virtual soul on the internet, but a man with macro-understanding? My boy, why? I am your Chen Busheng…”

Chen Busheng took a deep breath. He seemed overexcited, making him almost faint. Hao Ning and the others rushed to help him.

“Heaven Master,” seeing Heaven Master stopped for a long time, Yi Pingzhi said, “we continue our experiment or not? If we succeed, Chen Busheng and you can be immortals. At that time, you two can stay together forever.”

“You are right.” Heaven Master nodded. And then he frowned and said, “but the stubborn Jiang Ziya, he is not willing to confer immortals on us. You can do nothing even you have the essence of thearchy. We tried many times but failed.”

“Jiang Ziya?” Hao Ning looked at Liu Shuai and Zhou Yuan nervously. He was shocked because Nezha had been looking for Jiang Ziya. How did he present over here?

Yi Pingzhi smiled, pointing to fake Nezha, ” Heaven Master, this time is different. With the help of Little Hai, we can convince Jiang Ziya to confer on us. If he refused, we have a Plan B.” Yi Pingzhi said, taking out a blue crystal. Hao Ning knew it. It was Pure Land of Bliss.

“Well,” Heaven Master nodded. “Let’s try again. But you should remember that even the latest Pure Land of Bliss is still not a bright way.”

Yi Pingzhi nodded promptly, “Heaven Master, what you think is far beyond ours.”

After saying this, Heaven Master pointed to the sky. The dust on the ground started to fly in the air. The floating dust, just like what happened just now, became light out of glowworms. In a short time, it turned into a man’s shape. The light disappeared. An old man emerged. Hao Ning looked at him. It was Jiang Ziya!

“Jiang Ziya.” Heaven Master smiled, adding, “no matter how many times you exploded yourself, I can make you come to life again. Give up your struggle. You can go back to the Gods Creation World as long as you confer immortals on us. If so, we all get what we want. Happy ending.”

“Oh, my God.” After hearing what Heaven Master said, Zhou Yuan and Liu Shuai were shocked deeply. “Heaven Master, he wants to… wants to…”

They said several “want to” at the same time, which confused Hao Ning. He couldn’t help asking, “why are you so shocked when you saw Jiang Ziya?”

“No. The real one died. And this one.” Liu Shuai said, pointing to Jiang Ziya outside. He continued to say, “this one is made by Heaven Master through a way we don’t know yet. He can make one by restructuring molecules. A living one!”

“This…” Hao Ning was still in confusion. “Is this weird? We knew that Avalokitesvara’s kalasa also can make people come to life.”

“Not the same, not the same.” Liu Shuai shook his head. “To make people come to life again is to follow the rules of nature. For example, if you plant a seed, of course, it will grow leaves and fruits. However, Heaven Master changed the molecules of dust and restructured a new Jiang Ziya. He is very powerful now. Or I can say, he is near to…” saying this, Liu Shuai stopped, and swallowed saliva. He continued to say, “To the Creator.”

“Oh, my God!” Hao Ning looked at Chen Busheng, adding, “If he were Li Yufei, how could he do such things?”

Chen Busheng did not answer Hao Ning. He just stared at Yufei softly and said, “my little boy, he is powerful now. I understand now why he said that his understanding of life is far from others.”

“You should drink a cup of Lethe Water to forget your love for Yufei.” Hao Ning sighed. He continued, “you should remember, he is Heaven Master! He is a demon!”

“No, he isn’t!” Chen Busheng looked at Hao Ning, continuing to say, “I know, Long Fei also knows. I will stay with him even he was bewitched by something. I will help him correct it. This is my responsibility…” Chen Busheng said. He looked at Zhou Yuan. Zhou Yuan nodded.

“Hey!” seeing Yi Pingzhi and Heaven Master, Jiang Ziya swore, “you bitch. Forget your dream. I won’t do it for you!”

“Mr. Jiang.” Yi Pingzhi smiled. “You have to see who he is?” added he.

“Uncle!” Nobody noticed when fake Nezha began to vomit blood. It seemed that he was suffering from tortures. “Uncle, the plan for conferring immortals has been stopped. The original immortals-to-be have been eliminated. I am the only one left! Uncle, if there are no immortals-to-be, our plan will be in vain! If so, the will of Lord of Heaven cannot be fulfilled. At that time, what should we do?”

“Nezha!” looking at fake Nezha, Jiang Ziya couldn’t help screaming. “What happened to you?” He continued.

“Uncle!” fake Nezha continued to say. “What happened to me is not important. But if there are no Gods in the Gods Creation World, it would not be the Gods Creation World. The Shang and Zhou Campaign we launched will become a joke in the end?”

Jiang Ziya listened to him with eyes closed. After hearing what he said, he knew what happened. “Ok, ok. There must be Gods in the Gods Creation World, but…” he looked at Yi Pingzhi. Yi Pingzhi noticed and said promptly, “as long as you confer immortals in front of us, you can confer it on as many as you want. You will not be interfered and it’s up to you to confer on who or how many. We just stand nearby watching you. So, the immortals you will confer on will be the ones in the Gods Creation World. After conferring, we will send you two back to the Gods Creation World.”

“Oh, I see!” Liu Shuai said, patting himself on his thigh. “They want to watch and learn how Jiang Ziya confers immortals. Heaven Master can learn it. He can study things clearly based on some clues. They studied souls, beliefs and the essence of thearchy… But they never saw how to confer immortals. So, they want to watch how Jiang Ziya will do and learn the key part!”

“I understand now.” Zhou Yuan said. “That is the reason why they can do nothing with the essence of thearchy! They need the key!”

“We need to do something!” Hao Ning said worriedly. “If Jiang Ziya is beguiled by them into conferring immortals in front of them, those demons will be immortals in the end!”

“You are right. But what can we do now?” Liu Shuai said, frowning. “And you also heard that no matter what we do, Heaven Master can re-make a Jiang Ziya and beguile him into doing it again. We can do nothing!”

“You can do nothing, but I can!” Chen Busheng said. He was clear now. “Now I will go and talk with Yufei. My Yufei will listen to me!”

Saying this, Chen Busheng was going to go outside. Hao Ning and Zhou Yuan held back him and said, “hey, if Heaven Master doesn’t believe in you, he will kill you.”

“I don’t care what you are talking about or whether he will kill me or not.” Chen Busheng stopped, turning back and looking at Hao Ning and the others. “I also don’t care about the Gods in the Celestial Empire, the essence of thearchy. I am sure of one thing, my Yufei, he doesn’t dare to stay with me because of my wrong words. If I tell him that I am willing to stay with him, I don’t care who he is now. I just need to ensure that the one outside is the real one, and I am the real one. That’s enough! And, if Yufei is willing to accept me, he may stop what he is doing now. I cannot ensure whether he will give up or not, but it is worth having a try. If I succeed, you guys may know what to do next as their most powerful man is on our side.”

Hao Ning and the others kept silent. They had to admit that what Chen Busheng said was right. But they were not sure whether Heaven Master outside was real Yufei or not? Or how could Chen Busheng influence Heaven Master? They were not sure of it.

During their talk and hesitation, Jiang Ziya started conferring immortals. He waved his arms. An intangible common flag appeared in the sky. There were words on it: The Legend of Deification. Jiang Ziya murmured, pointing to the distance. He heard a voice when he just wanted to say something. The voice said, “uncle…Don’t do it!”

Hearing the voice, all of them looked for it. It was the other Nezha running toward them from the distance.