Chapter 1 A Beginning

“Name?”

[Chen Su Ran]

“Age?”

[Over seven thousand six hundred years old…]

“Over seven thousand six hundred years old?”

Repeating herself, Bai Yingxue raised her head. She seriously raised her head to look at the disheveled black-robed Daoist in front of her, who responded with a helpless smile.

The girl clicked her tongue and shook her head. "Mr. Chen, according to your account of events, you were initially a victim, but later you joined forces with…the cultivator alliance of the Yun Zhou World that oppresses all living beings, is that correct?"

[Indeed]

Chen Suran nodded frankly, admitting this point.

He could sense that the seemingly young woman before him, who was actually quite young, barely in her early twenties, was also a Yuanshen cultivator like himself, and a great cultivator with a very orthodox and powerful Phoenix lineage.

For the Yun Zhou World, whose overall history was only about one or two thousand years, such a strong person could be described as unprecedented, a true Immortal seed, whose status was probably second only to the two True Immortals.

If she were to become a True Immortal, her strength would definitely be stronger than theirs.

And such a strong person was just an unremarkable 'Executor' under an organization called 'Zhuzhou Tian'.

Not long ago.

Accompanied by the sound of sirens that resounded throughout the heavens, an extremely huge and ferocious Divine Wood Battleship, a sight to behold, arrived from the distant reaches of space-time with brilliant flashing lights.

It charged straight ahead in a straight line, and the two Tribulation Transcending True Immortals, Miao Xingzi and Ta Long Daoren, naturally wanted to stop it.

[Guests are welcome…but unwelcome guests will not be welcomed]

Miao Xingzi was an old man with white hair and beard. At this moment, he raised a sword finger with his right hand in front of his chest, a halo of starlight lit up behind his head, and rolling waves of spiritual light surged out, sweeping across the surrounding void.

It could be seen that an extremely tiny, but extremely sharp and heavy, starlight sword exuding a faint white halo flew out from the top of his head, rapidly circling around him, turning into a bright sword ring.

Miao meant small, and what stars were both small and lethal?

Miao Xingzi traversed many universes and stars, selecting stars as materials, and finally found a suitable remnant of a great sun, taking a piece of its annihilated true gold and transforming it into this sword.

The sword ring formed by the Miao Xingzhi Jian distorted space-time gravity, warped light, and exuded a seven-colored combined ice-cold halo. Even a trace of its aura was like a mountain collapsing, a heavenly sword cutting across the sky, capable of cutting down anything.

[Do, go!]

The old sword cultivator gave a low shout, and a flash of silver light could be seen, breaking through layers of shadows and darkness, and flying towards the Divine Wood Battleship.

On the other side, Ta Long Daoren also snorted coldly and took a step forward.

With this step, layers of countless rune patterns connected to form a great array. As he stepped forward, it moved forward and then condensed into a small great array world.

Ta Long Daoren, the dragon he stepped on, was the dragon of the dragon vein. With one foot down, he could control the pulse of the spiritual veins in one area, and transform the surging spiritual flow of heaven and earth for his own use.

Unlike Miao Xingzi, this type of Daoist, who looked like a robust middle-aged man, did not have any straightforward means of attack, but he could stir up the spiritual tide of the void and affect the outer defensive array of the Divine Wood Battleship.

For a time, one could see a silver star and a dragon of spiritual veins staggered forward, crushing the remnants of many worlds along the way, heading forward with fierce momentum.

Then, the two of them heard a voice.

"Resisting arrest, assaulting an officer."

From the Divine Wood Battleship, a rather mechanical voice came, seemingly just pre-loaded content—but even so, this voice was righteous and awe-inspiring, carrying an unparalleled majesty, overwhelming the surrounding space-time: "You are suspected of preventing all beings from freely dreaming and violently resisting arrest, with extremely strong malice and aggressive desires. Now loading the second automatic combat AI 'Zi Ye Zi De' (what you do comes back to you)."

"The Divine Wood Battleship has three sets of combat AI, namely 'Kuan Da Chu Li' (leniency), 'Zi Ye Zi De', and the final 'Shi E Mo Zhu' (Devouring Demon Lord). The first two sets of combat AI are non-lethal. If the third set of combat AI is used, there may be unbearable events. Do not say you were not warned."

After that?

In fact, there was no after that.

Just as the Divine Wood Battleship was slowly announcing its broadcast, he had already taken action and suppressed these two country bumpkin Immortals.

Outside the Divine Wood Battleship, black metal towers stood tall, and streaks of lightning intertwined and resonated on them, instantly creating dozens or hundreds of pitch-black Chaos Lightning—each ray of lightning exuded a threat far greater than Miao Xingzi's flying sword. They merely hovered in the void, emitting piercing howls, and their aftermath tore apart the surrounding space-time turbulence, even agitating the world barrier of the Yun Zhou World, causing ripples in the spiritual energy like water waves.

The Lightning of Spiritual Decay instantly submerged Miao Xingzi's natal flying sword and corroded the Dragon of Spiritual Tide of Ta Long Daoren into a riddled mess, causing both of them to simultaneously have their Dharma bodies shaken, their surrounding spiritual light shattered, and spit out blood like mortals.

When 'Kuan Da Chu Li' was said, Miao Xingzi had already been slapped unconscious by an extending Divine Wood root and rolled into the storage bay. And when 'unbearable events' was mentioned, the Divine Wood Battleship accelerated, catching up with Ta Long Daoren, who was trying to turn around and escape, in the void. Its top directly collided with his lumbar spine, and after a crisp shattering sound, he was also brought into the storage bay.

Next…the Zhuzhou Battleship descended upon the Yun Zhou World, the Executor came to the mortal world, pacified all disputes, and then summoned all the Yuanshen Jindan from top to bottom, beginning to ask questions and test their composition one by one.

To be honest, Bai Yingxue herself felt pretty good about it—back in her previous life, on Earth, they were always invaded, and even resisting was very difficult.

But what about now? Under the guidance of the Minister, they could even establish a third-party neutral organization in the multiverse, striving for the well-being of all intelligent life in the entire multiverse!

How great was that? Meddling in the affairs of other universes…ah, no, it was fighting for the future of all beings, for the right of all beings to dream!

"Well, there's really nothing else going on on Earth right now…it's not bad to help people from other worlds."

Raising her head, Bai Yingxue looked beyond the Yun Zhou World, at the void of the multiverse.

This girl, who had the most orthodox Phoenix lineage, had long since reached the Earth Immortal realm and restored her peak strength, even surpassing it.

Having lived two lives, she had long since dreamed, so she could easily pass Su Zhou's dream trial. Su Zhou was very confident in Bai Yingxue, his old subordinate from a parallel world, so he entrusted her to pilot a Battleship Avatar alone to carry out missions in many small worlds in the multiverse.

In this way, it could also be regarded as paving the way for Bai Yingxue's advancement to the Heavenly Immortal realm in the future. After all, for the lineage of the Creation Phoenix, the Heavenly Immortal was just the most basic of foundations, just a beginning. As long as she accumulated enough experience and strength, she would naturally break through.

At this time, relying on the Divine Wood Battleship that was connected to her mind, the girl could see.

Everywhere in the multiverse, Executors of Zhuzhou Tian were descending.

Some broke into the center of the battlefield and sounded the siren—the sound of the Shi Xian Ming Shi Zhong (World Manifesting Bell) rang, temporarily invalidating the powers of the extraordinary in that world, causing all the lofty gods to fall into the mortal world and lose their divine power.

Some traversed the stars at the speed of light, the red and blue shifted spiritual light flashing, like a rotating police light. Wherever the Battleship passed, the hyperspace engine was extinguished, and the sub-dimensional demons were sealed. Although the Battleship could still move, it could no longer fire its main guns—all conflicts were temporarily quelled because the speed of light and electromagnetic force in this world were temporarily changed, and all their weapons lost their effectiveness.

Some also descended into the desolate Great World, turning mountains into lecture platforms and raising seas into water curtains, preaching the Dao and Dharma to the beings of other worlds, popularizing legal knowledge after class, reiterating the necessity of the right to dream, and leaving behind the Zhuzhou Tian police hotline contact information.

Many Executors, carrying the blessings of Zhuzhou, the Battleships of Zhuzhou, or alone, only carrying the principles of Zhuzhou Tian, went to many different worlds to defend the right of all beings to dream.

Although it was just a pilot project, when they really started to implement it, the many Executors who just wanted to give it a try were stunned to find that there were really many intelligent beings in this multiverse who were being suppressed from even daydreaming.

Yes—whether in the apocalypse or in troubled times, whether extraordinary or ordinary, when do those lives who are truly mired in suffering and oppression need to imagine, and when can they imagine?

They have no way to imagine a better future. They can only think about whether they can eat two more cornbread buns tomorrow, whether they can still survive tomorrow.

They even fear the arrival of the future, fear the setting of the sun, fear the dawn of a new day, a new day.

And what Zhuzhou wants to do is to illuminate them.

Bai Yingxue felt that Su Zhou was right.

Bai Yingxue felt that what Su Zhou was doing was correct.

Bai Yingxue felt that Su Zhou had the power to achieve correctness.

Therefore, Bai Yingxue was very happy to join it, becoming a part of Su Zhou's correctness, or rather, the 'Great Dao of Correctness'.

Just like a stream merging into a river, just like a river merging into the sea—as Zhuzhou Tian gradually improved, as the number of Zhuzhou Tian's comrades gradually increased, as the Great Dao represented by Zhuzhou Tian gradually spread.

The prototype of the torrent might be achieved as a result.

"I'm almost done with the statistics here…"

Lowering her head, the girl with the bloodline of the divine bird waved her hand, signaling the smiling bitterly Chen Suran to step down and wait for the upcoming 'judgment'.

Bai Yingxue looked around the Yun Zhou World, she nodded slightly: "Moreover, I also discovered a rather interesting thing."

"The Yun Zhou World is transformed from a fallen giant ship of an unknown Upper World…one ship is one world. Such a powerful Upper World may have clues that Su Zhou wants to know? I know very well that he is currently looking for news about that 'Huantian World'."

Although it might not be the Huantian World, it should have some clues.

Just as Bai Yingxue was about to report her findings here to Su Zhou.

Around the Sealed Universe.

[Supreme Primordial Saint…are you helping the wicked?!]

Fifteen Dao Harmonization experts, one Zhuzhou, and one Dao Harmonization standing behind Su Zhou with a blank expression, filled a round table.

This round table was located in a void small world, which had already been destroyed, leaving only the outer shell that had not yet been dissolved by the void. The inside was empty, silent.

But at this moment, an angry accusation sounded: [He wants to force us to accept his Great Dao, and even use this Great Dao to derive a set of laws to govern us Dao Harmonizations?!]

[Supreme Primordial Saint, you are the most knowledgeable among us, you should also be very clear about how ridiculous and unacceptable this is, right?]

Obviously, this time, Su Zhou pulled the Dao Harmonization experts from the worlds around the Sealed Universe to this independent small world to hold a meeting.

As the host of the meeting, he naturally put forward some undeniable, reasonable, and quite reasonable requests—the police chief lecturing on the law, very common.

But unfortunately, not all Dao Harmonizations thought so.

[Helping the wicked…hehe, it is indeed helping Zhou to do evil]

Regarding the accusations of other Dao Harmonizations, Su Zhou hadn't spoken yet, but the Supreme Primordial Saint behind him frowned slightly, and then relaxed: [But to be honest, I don't think there's anything wrong with this, is there?]

[Everyone is an old friend, I think you must understand what is right and what is wrong, you should also understand what is good for all beings and what is bad for all beings]

Saying this, the Daoist who stood with his hands behind his back shook his head slightly. He said rather dashingly: [You can't possibly deceive yourselves and say, 'What I'm doing is right', can you?]

[I have admitted my mistakes, determined to repent, and make up for the suffering that all beings have suffered because of my inaction. I suggest that you don't be too ungrateful, and stop being so stubborn]

Although from beginning to end, the Supreme Primordial Saint did not say what was right or wrong, and what the Dao Harmonizations had done wrong.

But, precisely because he said nothing, everyone understood.

It was like a former Russian joke—'Why are you arresting me? I didn't say who committed the crime!' 'Nonsense, who else could have committed the crime!'

Could it be that the Dao Harmonization experts were not clear about the dire situation in which the ordinary people in the many worlds under their command were living?

They just didn't care, or rather, they thought Su Zhou was making a big deal out of it.

[Using force to oppress people]

At this moment, there were still Dao Harmonization experts who were indignant and uneasy. Although they knew that Su Zhou's strength was indeed extraordinary, there were fifteen Dao Harmonizations present!

Therefore, he angrily accused: [Primal Zhuzhou, aren't you also oppressing us!]

"Oh?"

This sentence immediately made Su Zhou, who had been half-lowering his eyes and seemed half-asleep, raise his eyes, and his stern gaze swept across the entire scene.

Then, the youth slowly opened his mouth and said: "Supreme Primordial Saint, you used to be familiar with these Dao Harmonizations, and you have also become familiar with me recently, so you may be able to understand what they want to say better than I can…"

"Please translate for me, what is called oppression."

[This…]

The Supreme Primordial Saint coughed, he looked at the dozen or so old friends across the round table, and then sighed: [Is there still a need for translation, isn't it just oppression?]

Su Zhou raised his eyebrows and looked around at the Dao Harmonizations in front of him: "I asked you to translate for me, what is oppression."

The Supreme Primordial Saint shook his head with some embarrassment: [This, this is oppression]

Su Zhou was a little dissatisfied: "Don't you understand what is called oppression?"

The Supreme Primordial Saint equivocated: [Oppression…using force to subdue people, rather than reason…alas, everyone understands]

"Good! That's it!"

Hearing this, Su Zhou immediately slammed the table and shouted angrily: "You translate it for them, let them know, what the f*** is called f***ing oppression!"

And the Supreme Primordial Saint finally couldn't hold back, he took a step forward and cupped his hands to the Dao Harmonizations: [Fellow Daoists, oppression is, if you continue to oppress all beings, then this Primal Zhuzhou will use the same method to oppress you—this is called Zi Ye Zi De.]

[If you go further, then what you have to face is not 'Primal Zhuzhou', but 'Shi E Mo Zhu']

[Forgive me for speaking frankly, his strength is really greater than ours. As someone who has been through it, I advise you to bow your heads and admit your mistakes]