781 A Mountain of Paperwork and a Sea of Meetings is the Death of a Man (2/2)

”There's no surrounding spiritual energy?”

”That's why I said to let those cultivators who can't generate their own magical power die. I also hope a group of cultivators like you guys can help me improve the environment of the place. For those of you who are close to ascension, you guys don't need to rely on the nourishment of the surrounding spiritual energy. Instead, you can use manpower to create spiritual energy veins. At that time, when you build it yourself, I will not interfere.”

Xuan Mo was silent.

Bai Ze, however, raised a more acute question, ”Can those who surrender to you still retain their freedom?”

”It depends on how you define freedom. In my pocket universe, I don't care whatever you guys want to do. But otherwise, don't think too much, just leave there with a peace of mind.”

”Then… Isn't that like a bird in a cage?”

”Otherwise, do you still expect to fly freely? What kind of surrender is that? Even if I can accept it, those other immortals who want to refine you guys into immortal treasures won't. You can only save yourself because you have become my possession, so don't neglect the root and pursue the tip.”

Bai Ze could not help but laugh and said, ”So to sum up, we are going to sacrifice Nine Regions and almost all of the living creatures. Then the remaining people will give up their freedom and become your pet in a cage? Don't you think this is a joke?”

Xia Xiaohe seriously said, ”Then another possibility is that you will lose the land and the lives of all people. All the freedom and liberties will go up in a smoker. From then on, there will be no trace of your existence… Which one would you prefer? Which one is better?”

Bai Ze was silent while Xuan Mo looked at Bai Ze. Her feeling was complicated and could not be uttered. After thinking about it for a long time, she decided to follow Bai Ze's judgment.

She decided to trust Bai Ze. Was it to rationally choose a way to survive, or to go to the end vigorously?

At this time, Xia Xiaohe said, ”To be honest, if I hadn't had a wonderful time in Nine Regions in the past decade, I wouldn't have bothered to give you this opportunity. Although the pocket universe is small and barren, it's still my treasure after all. Why should it be used for you? Moreover, I can only say these words to you two, because I think you two can still have rational communication. If it's someone like Wang Lu, I won't tell him even a word of nonsense.”

Bai Ze sighed in his heart.

If it was Wang Lu, he would never have talked so much with Xia Xiaohe. From the first moment he met her, he would immediately fight her to the death. He was that bold and unrestrained leader. In contrast, Bai Ze had suffered a lot of setbacks from the time of the Grand Competition, and had been used to humiliation and compromise.

Xia Xiaohe did find the right person.

After no one knew how long, Xia Xiaohe was somewhat bored. She said, ”Hey, have you thought about it? Don't tell me that this is a delaying time tactic, the immortal technique that I laid out won't give you a chance…” At the same time, she quickly dug out a novel and began to read it, which clearly showed that she was not worried at all.

And this attitude made the balance in Bai Ze's heart tilt to one side.

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”Is there another situation in Mount Qi? That place keeps giving out troubles. Everyday, it's either a dispute over a territory, or a rescue mission for those stupid donkeys…”

Hai Yunfan looked at the report presented by his secretary and complained impatiently.

Several secretaries and cultivators that stood below him trembled with fear, and no one dared to answer him even for half a word.

As one of the most powerful cultivators in Nine Regions, Hai Yunfan's aura was so fierce.

At present, his main job was to assist Wang Lu in dealing with the miscellaneous work with insufficient weight. Considering Wang Lu's current status and the highly centralized power of the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals, the documents that needed to be reviewed by Wang Lu could pile up like mountains every day. Wang Lu himself had recently shifted his focus toward the giant Divine Weapon, so more work had to be transferred to Hai Yunfan.

Even though Hai Yunfan's cultivation had been helped by Wang Lu in the past ten years, from reaching Peak Jindan stage and having extraordinarily strong primordial spirit. But dealing with thousands of documents a day still made him tired. In particular, most of these documents were just empty words and nonsense. Almost one-third of them were useless reports on learning important speeches and carrying out the spirit of a certain conference submitted by various schools and sects. Nine-tenth of the words in the whole article were meaningless, which made people reading it could not help but be angry.

Now the report on the situation in Mount Qi area also made him feel very impatient. The leader of Mount Qi School must have a mental illness, even if it was just a bit of disturbance, that person had to make a report about it. Now, that person even said that there seemed to be a change in the surrounding spiritual energy in the mountain and suggested further observation… None of the surrounding spiritual energy in the thousand-mile radius area from any spiritual mountain was not abnormal! Couldn't that person write something useful!

After he thought of this, Hai Yunfan shook his head, directly picked up his brush, wrote 'inspected' word on it, and then motioned the people under him to file it and no longer circulated it to a higher level.