Chapter 536 I'm Done Pretending, You're a Reincarnator, Right?

Dusk.

The autumn rain, mixed with thunder, echoed from the sky. The strong wind stirred the dark clouds, blocking the sunlight and covering the plains and mountains.

Endless rain poured from the sky onto the earth in flashes of lightning, enveloping the massive city within the field of vision in a layer of rolling mist, filling the air with the smell of earth.

Lightning flashed like a forest, illuminating the darkness.

In this light, as bright as day, a magnificent city stretching for thousands of miles could be seen nestled in the mountains and plains. A huge array emitting five-colored light faintly floated above it, absorbing the spiritual light of the world.

New Calendar Year 1, October 15th, 7 PM, Central Continent, Central Earth, New Dynasty Capital.

This super metropolis, home to a staggering 57 million people, had six satellite cities and was protected by the five great sects of the Five Virtues Sect, who had established earth vein array disks in the mountains around it. Divine light crisscrossed the mountains, outlining the prototype of a giant array spanning thousands of miles.

Such a city would not be uncommon in the interstellar era. Any highly developed interstellar civilization could turn an entire planet into a giant city with a population of over 10 billion.

But considering that the level of folk technology in the Tianyuan mortal realm had not even reached the dawn of the industrial age, the fact that such a giant city with a population of over half a billion could be built could only indicate the reasonableness of the design, the excellence of the management, and the support of many superhumans to maintain order and a huge team to provide supplies.

In other words, it proved that behind it was a well-functioning, healthy, strong, and unified country.

The rain poured down. If it were the capital of the Zheng Yang era, the streets would have been flooded, but because the Hou Tu Sect had built huge sewer facilities during the initial design, using supernatural powers to lay the pipes, there was no standing water on the streets even in such heavy rain.

As the core of the Central Continent and the New Dynasty, the capital was far more prosperous than any other state capital or city in other states. Every street was part of the capital's grand array, and thousands of spiritual lights gathered into lamps, never extinguished even in the pitch-black rainy night.

The magnificent palace in the center of the city was even more majestic. The Wutong Observatory in the center was said to be able to view the entire Central Continent, a tool that allowed the Holy Emperor to know everything that was happening without leaving his house.

It was said that seventeen Real People and nearly ten thousand Heavenly Realm experts from the Five Virtues Sect had contributed to the construction of this city, using their power to move mountains and reclaim land for creation and construction.

"Hey, it's been raining too much lately..."

A resident living in the third district of the capital was about to go out to run an errand, but the heavy rain was hard to withstand even with an umbrella, causing him to sigh, "This Heavenly Phenomenon Array is good, but this period of backlash is really hard to bear."

According to rumors among the residents of the capital, His Majesty the Holy Emperor intended to build a 'Five Virtues Responding to Heaven and Bearing Qi Grand Array' in Central Continent, which could control the changes in the weather and govern the earth's veins. After that, there would be no more natural disasters on the land of Central Continent, and everything would be smooth sailing.

Under the protection of this grand array, even the 'Wild Sky Splitting Earth' method used by the old Zheng Yang Kingdom would be difficult to use, and the speed at which enemies in the grand array mobilized the spiritual energy of heaven and earth would also be drastically reduced if they were identified.

It was said that if the grand array in Central Continent proved to be effective, the New Dynasty government would lay out grand arrays in all ten states, forming a three-ring structure of the capital - Central Continent - Central Continent, transforming the Central Continent, which had experienced war and endured countless hardships, into a paradise on earth.

But the price was that during the construction of this giant array that regulated the weather in Central Continent, as the core hub of the 'Five Virtues Responding to Heaven and Bearing Qi Grand Array', the New Dynasty capital needed to withstand a period of Virtue Reversal.

In other words, whether it was heavy rain, storms, sunny days, sandstorms, or heavy smog... it would come from time to time.

The resident who was about to go out was a technician working at 'Clever Gold Gate', responsible for designing automatic array-laying mechanical puppets for the Responding to Heaven and Bearing Qi Grand Array. He could be considered to have cultivation, but he still didn't dare to go out casually.

After all, rainwater in a world with spirit was not ordinary. Even if it wasn't an evil rain with Virtue Reversal, even ordinary autumn rain contained rich water spirit energy, coupled with thunderstorms, which could very likely give birth to a trace of Gui Water Divine Lightning.

A cultivator like him who practiced the Gold Virtue path would really be struck by lightning if he went out casually.

"I wonder when this continuous rain will end."

With a sigh, the man sat at his door, waiting for the thunderstorm to ease slightly.

He wasn't annoyed. If anything, he was more like looking forward to it, "It is said that after this Responding to Heaven and Bearing Qi Grand Array is completed, things like the Zheng Yang remnants attacking everywhere will be impossible - as long as they intend to attack sensitive areas, or show malice, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth inside the grand array will refuse to respond to them."

"However, it's just theory. Who knows what mistakes will occur when the grand array is running? Even His Majesty the Holy Emperor can't fix all the mistakes, right?"

Thinking like this, after a while, he suddenly noticed something strange.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh...

The rain continued to fall.

But it was no longer icy cold.

Instead, it was a little warm.

"Huh?"

Noticing this, the man raised his head and looked at the sky. He found that although the lightning was still crackling continuously, it was no longer striking the earth, but winding and rising in the sky, crisscrossing in one direction.

He opened his mouth in surprise, wanting to say something, but a warm wind, unlike that of late autumn, suddenly blew.

Then, at the end of the sky.

A round of azure-gold light emerged like the rising dawn, dyeing the sky full of dark clouds with a golden color like the morning glow.

In the dim and gloomy rain, a sun was rapidly approaching. Wherever it passed, the evil aura formed by the reversal of heaven and earth in the clouds was naturally absorbed or dispelled, and the thunder flashed around it, as respectfully as subjects worshiping a king.

The clouds lit up, and the rain gradually stopped.

Just as the azure-gold light was about to approach the edge of the capital, all the Five Virtues Sect cultivators stationed around the area nervously took to the air, wanting to activate the grand array to deal with the unknown entity that was rushing towards them, it slowed down.

Then, it broke through the clouds and slowly landed.

A channel was opened in the thick and gloomy rain clouds. The light of the fragile, cylindrical beam, the glow of the deep red twilight sunset, and the bright azure-gold divine light shone on the earth together, like divine spears piercing down from the sky.

And a divine bird with a body length of a thousand meters descended solemnly from the clouds, descending in front of the cultivators and residents of the capital.

It was a divine bird with a well-proportioned body. Although it was still very sturdy, it had elegant long feathers, long four-colored plumes, and majestic wings. The golden crystal, like the sun in the sky, seemed to represent the great sun, covering most of the capital with its vast radiance.

"Chirp—"

A peaceful phoenix cry came from the divine bird's mouth, awakening everyone who was stunned by its posture.

At this moment, the man, who had been thinking about going to work but had now completely forgotten about it, found that under the feet of this divine bird, there seemed to be rows of people who were half-dead or even unconscious, hanging there.

It was a huge net made of cyan, composed of storm seeds. On each grid node, there were humans wrapped like spider cocoons.

"What is that..."

Although somewhat puzzled, the man's gaze involuntarily focused on these people - but in the next moment, this action of his seemed to trigger some kind of law. An invisible mental thought was transmitted, telling the man a lot of information.

——Feng Zhuodao, 37 years old, intended to induce the explosion of the volcano around Jinyan Fire Earth City, but failed.

——Ke Mingcheng, 63 years old, intended to destroy the Xishan Zuoer Peak mountain, creating a landslide, destroying twenty-four towns and villages of various sizes, but failed.

——Zhang Gulin, 45 years old, intended to poison the earth veins of the Qinglin Bi Zhong Prefecture capital, contaminating the earth veins, but failed.

——Jin Jing...

Just by raising his head and looking directly at them, the man could understand the crimes of those hanging on the cyan wind net.

One glance, thousands of crimes.

They were crimes that went straight to the soul, real and true, without any concealment or prejudice.

Each crime would indirectly or directly kill hundreds of thousands of people, or even more.

Because they possessed extraordinary power, and the targets of their infringement were all ordinary people, the scope of the harm was extremely large - a single Heavenly Realm expert, unleashing their full power, could kill so many people in a densely populated area. Although most of these criminals didn't have this strength, they possessed many insidious and powerful magical artifacts.

And these magical artifacts, without a doubt... all came from Zheng Yang.

The divine bird cried out loudly, even deliberately showing the people of the capital these sinners under its feet.

Openly judging crimes -

Sometimes, letting everyone know the existence of evil is more effective than silently punishing it.

"My God, those Zheng Yang remnants are so vicious?!"

"Because it didn't happen in Central Continent, I couldn't really feel it, but now that I see this..."

"Yeah, just thinking about it happening here makes me feel very scared..."

In this instant, at least nearly ten million people saw this scene.

They all exclaimed and sighed. While shocked by the crimes, they gradually came to their senses and remembered the identity of the azure-gold divine bird.

"It's Zhuzhou!"

"The newly appeared, very famous Kunlun divine bird!"

The Tianyuan world was too vast, and even with communication spells, the name of Zhuzhou mostly circulated in the places where it had appeared.

Although there had been rumors about Zhuzhou in the capital a few days ago, knowing about it and actually encountering it were completely different.

"Ah, I remember, it's the auspicious divine bird that is said to change the weather and reform disasters when it appears!"

At this moment, the man who was watching this scene also recalled the news about Zhuzhou, and he immediately became excited, "Does this divine bird also have the ability to openly judge crimes?"

However, because he cultivated the unique 'Taibai Observing Soldier Eye' of Clever Gold Gate, he accidentally discovered that behind the divine bird, not in the area of the cyan wind net, there was also a petite girl flying up and down, seemingly treating the half-dead Zheng Yang spies and maintaining their lives.

And on her body, there was not only no crime, but also a kind of inexplicable... vitality of plants and trees?

"Eh, that is..."

Not just the man who saw it by accident.

New Dynasty, Capital, Royal Palace Main Gate.

Arriving at the gate with his friend Cang Song, Ming Zhengde looked at the divine bird Zhuzhou, which had already arrived at the edge of the capital, his brows slightly furrowed, his eyes showing a hint of surprise.

Not only because of the Zheng Yang spies who had all been caught... but also because of the girl with insect wings who seemed to be circling around Zhuzhou.

"Is it a Kun race?"

He muttered in a low voice, his tone carrying a hint of uncontrollable disgust... but soon, Ming Zhengde saw that the other party was not the Kun race transformation he was familiar with, but another natural race with some Kun race characteristics, but born that way, "Could it be an alien race from the Hundred Thousand Mountains in the Western Continent?"

"Strange, why is there such a strong wood-based aura on this woman?"

Unlike most ordinary people and officials who were concerned about the divine bird itself, or even those sinners.

Ming Zhengde, who had already met Su Zhou and knew the other party's strength, was at most a little surprised by Zhuzhou's actions, but not too distracted. Instead, the insect girl with a strange, special, wood-based aura that made the man feel a slight movement in his heart, could not help but attract his attention.

"This kind of rich, vibrant wood energy, could it be... the legendary divine tree?!"

Ming Zhengde had visited the lairs of countless divine bird clans.

With his Five Virtues Divine Light, he had gained the trust of most divine birds, and in his rebirths, he had learned many secrets about divine birds.

Among them, there was a legend about the phoenix.

——Phoenixes do not perch on anything other than parasol trees, do not eat anything other than bamboo fruit, and do not drink anything other than sweet springs.

The latter two were easy to understand, just some kind of spiritual plant fruit and high-quality wine, but the parasol tree, according to the words of many divine birds, was an incomparably huge divine tree that supported the sky.

Divine Tree.

In the Tianyuan mortal realm, Ming Zhengde had never seen a spiritual plant that could bear such a title.

Even in the lives when he was the Ziwei Star Lord or even dominated the Heavenly Demon, he had never seen related existences in the Immortal Heaven or the Nine Nether Lands.

Each time he asked, even the most ancient divine bird families would only stammer and say that the phoenix had not been born, so the parasol tree would naturally not sprout... but this sounded like a fairy tale. If every divine bird family did not insist that 'when the phoenix is born, a divine tree must appear', Ming Zhengde would not have believed such a rumor that had not been seen for 30,000 lives, nor would he have believed the fact that the divine tree existed.

But this time, the insect girl beside the divine bird Zhuzhou had such a wonderful aura, so different from other wood-based spiritual plants.

It felt as if... she had always lived around that wonderful and powerful spiritual plant!

"Could it be... really a parasol tree?!"

Ming Zhengde was not stupid. Rather, his 30,000 lives of experience had made his thinking extremely agile - he instantly thought of Zhuzhou's personal secret realm, which could bear the earth vein sacrificial pillar. And the insect girl's posture looked so familiar and respectful to Zhuzhou, like serving a god...

In that case, could it be... just like Zhuzhou should be living in a secret realm, so he was unknown in the Tianyuan world, the so-called parasol tree was also coexisting with Zhuzhou, cultivated in the secret realm, so no one had ever seen it?

Thinking of this, Ming Zhengde's mood, which had been very bad due to the Zheng Yang remnant attacks, improved a lot. He stared at the divine bird in the distance and murmured, "So many variables that have never been seen in so many years... have all gathered together at once?"

"Really, beyond the plan, beyond expectations."

"Your Majesty, look!"

At this moment, Cang Song, who was looking into the distance with Ming Zhengde, was also excited. He saw Su Zhou slowly retracting the divine light on his chest, landing on the city wall under the guidance of many Five Virtues Sect cultivators.

The New Dynasty's most powerful official, second only to one and above ten thousand, waved his arms excitedly like a child, "Another divine bird has come to pay homage to you - such auspiciousness is enough to prove that our great cause is on the right path!"

"No, it can only be said... it is indeed better than before, but it can't be said that this is the right path."

Patiently correcting his friend's slip of the tongue, Ming Zhengde exhaled, "This is probably the information that Zhuzhou deliberately released to me."

"He may be closer to the Phoenix Path than I am - I only hold the divine power of the phoenix, but he holds a divine body and divine tree that are almost like the phoenix... If I learn this quasi-bloodline method and know the mysteries of the divine tree... in the future..."

Saying this, the man shook his head slightly and said nothing more.

Then, he smiled and stretched out his hand, and a phantom of a cyan array appeared in his palm, "So, Cang Song, you are wrong."

"This time, it is not him coming to pay homage to us."

"But we are going to meet him."

In the next moment.

A majestic male voice, vast and sweeping across the entire city, but not harsh, rang out in the sky above the capital.

[New Dynasty Human King, Ming Zhengde, pays homage to the virtuous divine bird Zhuzhou!]

The sound wave swept across the sky.

But unexpectedly, the azure sun on the city wall paused for a moment.

Then, it chirped loudly in response.

[Kunlun Zhuzhou, pays homage to the New Dynasty Human Emperor!]

After mutually praising each other, the situation, which had been somewhat tense due to Zhuzhou's sudden arrival, immediately eased a lot.

Su Zhou also lifted his divine bird form and landed on the city wall in human form, waiting for Ming Zhengde to welcome him.

At the same time, in the soul space.

"Pah, pah, pah! Disgusting!"

On the spirit of the Tree of Wisdom, after hearing Ming Zhengde's flattery, the snake spirit immediately made a gesture of wanting to vomit, "Virtuous divine bird, blegh, blegh, blegh, it makes me so sick!"

"What the hell is going on with the people in this pristine world? How can they not even recognize the phoenixes?"

Of course, although it made a very disgusting posture on the surface.

In reality, Yala was simply ecstatic.

"Hahahaha, how is it, Perfect? Zhuzhou is now a divine bird too!"

"The information spread in this pristine world will inevitably include related divine bird legends about Zhuzhou in your myths and legends of the myriad worlds in the future! And they will be divine bird legends related to the phoenix!"

"Are you satisfied? This is what I want to see!"

At the same time, on the side of the New Dynasty Royal Palace.

An old woman wearing a dark red robe, with wrinkled face, was also sitting in a rocking chair, squinting her eyes, staring at the azure-gold divine light in the distance with a trace of fiery red light revealed in the gap.

"Upright and magnanimous, without other thoughts, karmic fire on his body, but does not burn his own heart."

"The light of merit on this Zhuzhou's body is like... could it really be left over from the world-creating merit of the primogenial phoenix who opened up the world..."

After pondering for a moment, the old woman stopped worrying and shook her head with a chuckle, "In any case, this Zhuzhou is really a good bird... it's just that the five virtues around him are not complete, not as orthodox as Ming Zhengde's divine light."

"But this is not an important thing, after all, even Ming Zhengde is born of the fortune of heaven, follows the path of humans, and responds to the tribulation to cultivate this 'Heaven and Human Opening Five Virtues Divine Light'. It's normal for a divine bird who has never entered the world not to be able to cultivate it."

"I hope that before I return to my nest and die, I can help him a little."

"This New Dynasty Royal City is indeed extraordinary!"

As for Su Zhou, just like the surprise and joy that others had for him.

The various aspects displayed in the New Dynasty Capital also had various surprises for him.

First of all, there was the infinite power of faith gathered throughout the city and filling the sky.

When Su Zhou arrived at the capital, he was attracted by this power of faith. He could sense that this was a vast force far exceeding the power of faith of the ten billion residents of the entire Earth. It was the essence of the core prayers gathered by the 140 billion residents of the Central Continent of the entire Tianyuan mortal realm!

The people of the ten states firmly believed in the Five Virtues Sect and in the New Dynasty to open up a new future for them, so the vast public sentiment transformed into a torrent, suppressing it here.

Just relying on this power of faith, the evil aura of heaven and earth reversal that would appear around the capital from time to time was at most thrilling but not dangerous. The completion of the 'Five Virtues Responding to Heaven and Bearing Qi Grand Array' was inevitable.

"Very perfect, the entire grand array doesn't have any mistakes... I wonder how many times Ming Zhengde spent to construct such a perfect and tight system!"

With Su Zhou's vision and power, coupled with the deduction of the 'Light and Shadow Divine Eye', the fact that he couldn't find any loopholes at a glance proved that this grand array was truly flawless and without any mistakes...

And what is this difficulty equivalent to? It's equivalent to starting from scratch and making a completely new type of super-large game exceeding several hundred gigabytes, and running it for the first time without any bugs, clipping, lag, blocking, crashes, or model errors. All the code is clear and there is no inexplicable place!

"This Ming Zhengde has some research on the power of faith, earth veins, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and his Five Virtues Divine Light has truly been cultivated to the essence. Heaven, earth, people, and the five virtues are all complete, and he has already reached the realm of perfection."

"Bai Yingxue's Primogenial Phoenix inheritance, she herself hasn't fully understood it, and I myself am groping from scratch. I can learn some experience from Ming Zhengde to complement my divine bird form, or even the five elements reincarnation of my personal space."

At this moment, Ming Zhengde had transformed into a stream of light and flew over to personally welcome Su Zhou.

The two guys who had both taken a fancy to each other's divine power true bodies were now greeting each other in a formal setting, as the first official meeting between the New Dynasty and Zhuzhou.

The New Dynasty had welcomed many divine bird clans, so there were already corresponding specifications for this - the divine bird Zhuzhou corresponded to the highest specification, equal to the highest-level divine birds such as the Vermilion Bird, the Five-Spirit Peacock, and the Golden-Winged Roc.

Soon, under the gaze and praise of the residents of the entire city, Su Zhou entered the interior of the palace with Ming Zhengde.

Inside the Royal Palace.

Having left the gaze of thousands of people, the exchange between Ming Zhengde and Su Zhou, who were conducting a private meeting, became more relaxed and casual.

After roughly exchanging their recent activities, the two sat down inside the Royal Palace's study.

"Coming to visit should have a gift, but after thinking about it, I thought that you are a monarch of a country, rich in the world, so what gift could surprise you? Therefore, I traveled to the ten states to find the most evil people lurking in various places of the Zheng Yang remnants."

At this moment, Su Zhou had already handed over all the Zheng Yang remnants he had captured to the Five Virtues Sect cultivators in the capital. Ming Zhengde's confidant Cang Song was currently handling this matter.

The youth smiled, "As long as they are all openly punished and executed one by one, it can at least temporarily stabilize the public's sentiment, or even unite them against a common enemy, and even make the Zheng Yang faction suspicious and afraid to act rashly."

Su Zhou's words were indeed grand and righteous - he was very clear that now that the Heavenly Demon had secretly ordered the Zheng Yang Kingdom to recklessly attack various civilian facilities and peaceful cities, disrupting the situation and public sentiment in the Zheng Kingdom, it would definitely be a major blow to Ming Zhengde's plan.

So he took action, directly pulling out all the dark chess pieces, destroying the Zheng Yang Kingdom's eyes and ears, giving the other party a deterrent, so that the Zheng Yang side would not dare to act rashly and buy time for the New Dynasty.

This could be considered a very big gift, after all, not everyone had Su Zhou's supernatural power to窥探人 心, to be able to catch them accurately.

However, Ming Zhengde's interest in this was slightly lower than Su Zhou had imagined.

"What Real Person Zhuzhou has done is truly solving a major hidden danger for us."

Although he did seem very happy, he seemed to only be expressing his gratitude in a perfunctory manner, without any heartfelt joy, "However, some of these Zheng Yang remnants do not necessarily have to be executed. They may have other uses."

"This matter still needs to be discussed slowly, thank you Real Person for your trouble!"

"Oh?"

In response, Su Zhou raised his eyebrows slightly.

He wasn't stupid, the youth understood what this attitude meant.

——This Ming Zhengde clearly knew the identity of every Zheng Yang spy! At least all the thousands of spies that he had caught were known to him.

Whether he went to catch them or not, the other party could probably capture them all in a period of time afterward!

"How many times has this guy reincarnated? How can he remember even these small things so clearly?"

"Moreover, if that's the case, then why didn't he arrest them before, and waited until the Zheng Yang Kingdom launched a surprise attack before he was so astonished... ah, that's not difficult to understand, after all, my appearance brought unexpected events. In his original reincarnation plan, perhaps the Zheng Yang Kingdom never had the opportunity to launch an attack of this scale until the end."

Thinking in his heart, with just these few short exchanges, Su Zhou could roughly understand the information and mentality that Ming Zhengde possessed.

The information that the other party possessed might be more than he had imagined. Perhaps he even knew which of these spies could be won over and which had to be killed.

However, precisely because of this, the communication between an outsider disguised as a local divine bird and a reincarnator disguised as a normal person was indeed a bit like scratching an itch from outside a boot.

"Ah, so troublesome."

After frowning and thinking for a while, just as Ming Zhengde seemed to want to bring up the matter of the 'cooperation agreement' in advance, Su Zhou finally decided to give up this guessing game-like, inefficient communication method.

In the past, Su Zhou was also known for his straightforwardness on the Internet, never being a riddle man, always saying what he had to say.

Therefore, he acted.

In Ming Zhengde's surprised gaze, Su Zhou directly opened his personal space and shrouded the study with the aura of his personal space, creating an information isolation ability almost like that deep within the earth veins, preventing the prying of gods and demons.

"Divine, divine tree?!"

Sensing the aura of the Tree of Wisdom in Su Zhou's personal space, the Five Virtues Holy Emperor immediately stood up from his chair in shock, but before he could continue to speak, the youth said bluntly, "Ming Zhengde, think carefully, for the sake of the living beings of the Tianyuan mortal realm, and to avoid wasting time, I have decided to show my cards."

"First, let me introduce myself. I come from outside this world - not from the Immortal Heaven or the Nine Nether Lands, nor from the void outside the Tianyuan mortal realm."

"I am an existence from outside your entire great world."

Saying this, Su Zhou stretched out his hand and pointed at Ming Zhengde.

He said calmly, "And you, Your Majesty the Holy Emperor."

"You are a reincarnator, right?"

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