Chapter 611 - The End Of The Summit (1/2)
With this renowned, powerful, and just Venerable Dragon God’s reassurance, no one in the summit had any doubts on it. Everyone became excited, and messages sent via telepathy flew endlessly across the place.
The scene was as if they had already completed the task and countless Heavenly Merit was raining down on them…
Those cultivators that were all high and mighty were acting just like beasts whenever it concerned their benefit.
At that moment, someone finally spoke coldly, “Nothing will drop into our laps just like that from the sky. If there is going to be an astronomical amount of Heavenly Merit, the initial investment from us will also be astronomical, right?”
Everyone quickly calmed down from their excitement and turned to look at that person.
This person who threw a wet blanket was a young man with average looks and a very stable, concrete aura. It was obvious that his foundation was very solid.
Someone recognized this young man. He was the inheritor of a random Upper Realm Descended One and had always flaunted it. He was prideful and would talk down to other cultivators as if they were dirty peasants, and he will always compare the Upper Realm and the earth with every chance he got.
On this point itself, he was not good in interpersonal skills unlike how Master Ma was. Even though the latter was also an inheritor of the Upper Realm Descended One, he never spoke of it and gained the most benefit from it while keeping it all to himself. He used the bone of the Upper Realm and donned the skin of Mount Indigo to equip himself with it. No one could point anything out.
From the tone of this young man, he would either already be a guide for those from the Upper Realm, or was a backup guide for them.
Xie Dong stood on the circular center stage in prolonged silence and looked at the man.
The atmosphere of the summit quickly became awkward. For a moment, no one knew what to say.
Suddenly, Xie Dong snapped harshly, “Since even you understand that nothing will fall into your laps, then why would you even ask such a nonsense question in the first place! If you wanted to obtain generous returns yet refuse to contribute, then you should just pray that you are reincarnated into a better background next time!”
The young man flushed bright red at that. Just when he wanted to retort, the people beside him pulled him down to his seat.
He remembered what happened with the lightning just now and relented. He kept quiet with his head hung low.
Xie Dong was quite furious about this. These people were so disappointing!
They refuse to contribute, and still dared to want more! Did they really think that he was here to beg for their help?
What a joke!
This Great Wall Summit started because the higher-ups wanted to gather more manpower and to rally all forces that were willing to be united so that all of them could survive difficult times together.
From what he could see now, these people were hopeless for them to rely on! They could never become the reliable Great Wall!
The true power still laid within the Truth Department themselves and the system that sustained the Truth Department – the countless ordinary people that was struggling to survive.
Maybe the individual powers in the summit were strong, but that was exactly why most of them were extremely selfish and would fight over the smallest trivialities. They were completed self-centered and hoped to become a god or immortal by themselves so that they could take control.
What did he even say just now?
Even if he had shown them the way to obtain a great amount of Heavenly Axiom, the young man still dared to complain that the required contribution was too much…
It was just like someone sharing the method to escape the poverty trap, but received complaints that the method was too tiring.
However, it was still inappropriate for him to generalize that to the crowd as there were still some good souls among the bunch.
Xie Dong scanned the summit with his eyes and knew that he had lost his composure. Thankfully, those good people will not mind the anger that he had shown just now.
After all, his fury was targeted towards those who wished to get a free lunch.
After this hiccup, Xie Dong thought that two-thirds of his goals.
The Human Defence and the Earth Defence has finally gotten some basic results. They could move on with implementation after the summit.
How about the Heaven Defence, you ask? Hmph, he might just suggest the higher-ups look for that somewhere else. If they were to rely on these people, there would be major trouble awaiting them.
Then, he continued to speak, “Let’s resume our previous topic. As long as we establish the mooncake as our moon shield, there will be no need for us to wait until the day where everything is complete. In the process of building it up, the Heavenly Axiom should be able to sense it and consequently distribute some Heavenly Merit for those who are proactive as an incentive. What do you think of that, Venerable One?”
“That’s not wrong,” Fang Ning assured.
He had tried to trick the Heavenly Axiom by swearing to establish the Milky Way Nets Above Snares Below. As a result, the Heavenly Axiom had given him thirty thousand locked Heavenly Merits, and only a mere hundred of it was free to be used.
With that as a reference, Xie Dong’s statement was indeed accurate.
Of course, he would not keep himself quiet and refuse to support Xie Dong.
On the issue of defense building, his core benefit was the same as what the Truth Department wanted.
If the moon shield could really be built, the society would stabilize further, and his entertainment and enjoyment supply would then be protected and guaranteed.
That was his truest thought from the start till the end. Anything about a chaotic world was not something that he wished to be a part of, nor was he interested to be in it.
He was living well now, and he had no plans to build everything from the start and live his life from the bottom once more…
Besides, he knew clearly how cruel an apocalypse could be.
From what Anderson had managed to compile, information about the Upper Realm was filled with scenes of a true apocalypse that came one after another.
After all, before Anderson descended, the Upper Realm was already neck-deep in the flames of war and the smoke from beacon fires.
The thinning of vitality had caused such a big impact that affected all ten realms across the skies. No being could escape from it.
Even the daughter of the leader of the Celestial clan had to starve. Even though Chong Daqing’s huge appetite was a contributing factor, one could always visualize the whole of a leopard even though he was gazing at a spot through a pipe. By looking at Chong Daqing, which was a small segment of the society, one would wonder how those in poverty managed to survive, knowing that they were the lowest in the social ladder?
The people in the Upper Realm had the habit of praying for the rain or using other supernatural methods to solve all agricultural problems. However, they could no longer pray for the rain with the lack of vitality, which had directly lead to frequent disasters.