Lighthouse Richest: “You guys are being way too blunt.”
Lighthouse Richest: “@Filial Son, Old Fossil, I’m different from them. I just genuinely want to be friends with you.”
Lighthouse Richest: “Once the chat group’s travel function opens up, I’ll go to your world and help bring you back to life.”
Lighthouse Richest: “Of course, you know I’m a businessman, so I’ll need a little something in return—nothing much, just a few talismans will do.”
Filial Son, Old Fossil: “…”
Filial Son, Old Fossil: “You might as well just be straightforward.”
Basically, he still wanted his talismans.
Filial Son, Old Fossil: “@Just Ordinary Group Leader, send me my future. Once I break the seal, you can pick any power you want except for the Rat Talisman, Tiger Talisman, and Dragon Talisman.”
To come back to life, Shendu gritted his teeth and offered a pretty hefty price.
But still—
Just Ordinary Group Leader: “Do you take me for a fool?”
Just Ordinary Group Leader: “Don’t think just because I’m young, you can fool me.”
Just Ordinary Group Leader: “You promised Valmont treasure and didn’t give it to him.”
Just Ordinary Group Leader: “You promised to revive the other demons and didn’t follow through either.”
Just Ordinary Group Leader: “No way I’m trusting you.”
Shendu couldn’t really argue with that. Sure, the whole thing with Valmont’s treasure hadn’t happened yet, but he genuinely had no intention of paying up.
As for the talismans… well, he planned to test the other members’ strength first before deciding whether to actually hand them over.
Himouto Umaru: “Um, Shendu is the Fire Demon, right? One of the demons. And for demons, isn’t betrayal totally normal?”
Uchiha Dancing King: “That’s true.”
Boil Daigo into Soup: “Girl, you’ve found the blind spot.”
Lighthouse Richest: “Surprisingly can’t deny that.”
The Worst Evil Spirit: “Never thought of that angle.”
Just Ordinary Group Leader: “…”
Just Ordinary Group Leader: “So yeah, how about this—once the travel function opens, we go to your world, get what we want, and then we revive you.”
Just Ordinary Group Leader: “Unlike you, we actually keep our word.”
Just Ordinary Group Leader: “But after you’re revived, if you want to claim a mountain and rule somewhere else, that’s fine—just not in China, got it?”
For Su Yunqing, China was always China, no matter which world it was. You want to be a king? Sure. But not in China. And definitely not by massacring Chinese citizens.
That was something she absolutely could not tolerate.
Filial Son, Old Fossil: “…”
Filial Son, Old Fossil: “Fine, I get it.”
The situation wasn’t in his favor, so he’d lie low for now. He could always reconsider after coming back to life.
Before that, he’d take a look at the memory instance the information said it contained the futures of the other members. That way, he could gauge their strength.
The travel function still hadn’t opened yet. According to the chat group’s rules about member count, it would probably only activate once they hit fifteen members.
Right now, not counting the group leader, there were only thirteen members. Still two short.
The timing and number of new members joining were completely random, so no one knew when that would happen—but it probably wouldn’t take too long.
Bai Xuan was definitely interested in traveling to other members’ worlds, but he wasn’t in a rush either.
It wasn’t like he didn’t have other things to do.
Ever since his mindset shifted, Bai Xuan’s understanding of nature had deepened, and so had his control over it.
The ability to communicate with all things—which he’d awakened when he wanted to talk to Pikachu—had also undergone some kind of change.
In Bai Xuan’s understanding, his communication with all things was limited to beings in the natural world, like animals and plants. It was basically just a really powerful translation ability.
But he never expected that “communication with all things” didn’t just mean living beings—it also included a grand, supreme existence: Earth!
Earth has a consciousness!
This wasn’t a scientific definition, nor was it psychology or psychological science.
It came from the Mystical!
The chat group had activated the Spirit Awakening to screen members—who was it communicating with?
The World Consciousness!
More precisely, Earth’s consciousness.
It could also be called the Heavenly Dao, divine will, or the collective consciousness of civilization.
This kind of will and consciousness wasn’t defined by science, but rather existed more in myths, novels, Buddhist scriptures, Daoist texts, and all sorts of works separate from modern science.
All of these fell under the category of the Mystical.
Since Earth had a consciousness, then Earth’s consciousness was naturally something that could be communicated with.
And if we define things through the Mystical, it wasn’t just Earth—even the universe had its own consciousness.
Of course, Bai Xuan couldn’t communicate with the universe’s consciousness just yet, and he hadn’t tried either.
Most of the time, Earth’s consciousness was asleep. Apart from that one initial exchange when Bai Xuan first connected with it, it remained dormant.
Back then, the conversation had been mostly about the [Natural Authority]—but Earth’s consciousness didn’t really explain anything. It just gave Bai Xuan a vague sense of “you’ll know in the future” and then went silent. Bai Xuan could only sigh in frustration.
Still, that interaction made him realize that his ability to communicate with all things was far more powerful than he’d imagined.
If Earth’s consciousness could be communicated with, what about other things?
For example, fate?
According to mysticism, every nation has its own national fate consciousness.
Could those be communicated with too?
The answer was yes.
They couldn’t be freely chatted with like humans, and they wouldn’t answer every question, but communication was indeed possible.
China’s national fate manifested as a dragon—like a totem.
And because Bai Xuan was a part of China, he could feel a deep sense of warmth and kinship radiating from it.
Through this national fate, Bai Xuan could learn about all sorts of things happening within China’s borders.
For instance, places with hidden minerals or treasures; locations where special natural wonders existed; areas where powerful psychics or mutated creatures had appeared…
He could know everything happening in China.
Beneath China’s land, there was even a mysterious, indescribable space.
There, Bai Xuan saw countless pure, flawless orbs of light, forming a dazzling ocean.
Some instinct told him that each orb was a person who had once lived in China.
But this “ocean” wasn’t the underworld, nor did it involve reincarnation.
Reincarnation might indeed exist—but this wasn’t it.
These orbs only contained the memories of all Chinese living beings, not their souls.
If Bai Xuan wanted, as the holder of the [Natural Authority], he could certainly extract someone’s memories and transfer them into a compatible vessel, turning them into something akin to a soul.
