Chapter 1 The Past

Not long ago.

Gu Family Shelter.

After confirming the relevant steps, Su Zhou, without any hesitation, directly took Tang Yuan and Gu Zechuan to conceal their whereabouts and then set off towards the 'Spirit Suppressing Tower Group' in the southwest.

"Since Captain, you've left, then I'll come and help out, temporarily protecting the Gu family."

Liu Wuxin volunteered to come to the Gu family shelter and guide the refugees to migrate towards the spaceship—although the Heavenly Devils would definitely attack the spaceship, they would also sweep away all the Qingqiu people's shelters in the surrounding area.

Bringing them back to the vicinity of the spaceship, at least there was the base built by Lin Chengde with the power of the Divine Wood, to protect them a bit, and with Liu Wuxin's strength, he could indeed protect the Gu family members who migrated all the way.

Of course, everyone could see Liu Wuxin's real purpose.

While advancing towards the Spirit Suppressing Tower Group, Su Zhou was communicating with Lin Chengde about matters related to weapons of mass destruction.

"If you really encounter a large number of Heavenly Devils besieging you, or discover a large number of Heavenly Devils gathering in certain locations, then I authorize you to directly use nuclear weapons."

These were Su Zhou's original words. The Far Reach did carry twelve nuclear warheads, but the yield wasn't large, all around 200,000 tons: "There are enemies, bomb. There might be enemies, bomb. Can't determine if they are enemies, bomb."

"In short, bombing first is definitely the right thing to do."

"But Captain, it's not easy to write the report if we use nuclear weapons indiscriminately like this—nuclear weapons are for our self-defense, not for active offense..."

Lin Chengde was obviously a little panicked by Su Zhou's overly aggressive action strategy, and he couldn't help but advise: "What I mean is, at least wait until we confirm they are enemies before bombing, right? It's really easy to end up in the Transcendent Court like this..."

"Oh? Chengde, are you saying that you are unwilling to go to the Transcendent Court with me?"

Immediately, Su Zhou began to put on airs on the proxy terminal, he snorted coldly, and didn't even call him Brother Lin anymore: "I didn't expect that our friendship wasn't even worth this, I understand, just plastic brothers."

"Hey, no, no, I'm willing, I'm willing, look at what you're saying, Captain!"

Lin Chengde behind the screen immediately shook his head and waved his hands, his long hair shaking: "Going to the Transcendent Court with you, Captain, is my honor!"

"As expected of Brother Lin, my good brother."

Su Zhou nodded in satisfaction, and then switched back to Liu Wuxin on the side screen—without waiting for Su Zhou to speak, the martial artist immediately took the initiative to chime in: "That's right, Brother Lin is also too cautious, what's wrong with using nuclear weapons to protect the Qingqiu people?"

"Mm." Su Zhou nodded again in satisfaction, and then looked at Tang Yuan and Gu Zechuan beside him.

Tang Yuan immediately said honestly: "Whatever you say, Minister, I'll do."

Although Gu Zechuan didn't understand what nuclear weapons were, but based on the context, he also knew that it should be some kind of magical artifact that could not be used lightly, and that its use was also to protect the Qingqiu people, so he also said straightforwardly: "What Your Honor says is right."

"Good, that's it, it seems that everyone has indeed reached a consensus on this point, I am very pleased."

Although it was just a joke, Su Zhou's meaning was also very clear—because of the mysterious nature of the Heavenly Devils, no one could be sure whether those who came were Heavenly Devils or ordinary Qingqiu people, and ordinary Qingqiu people could not possibly know that the people on the spaceship were Earthlings from the ancient Central Divine Court, naturally they could not approach in groups like the Gu family.

Therefore, as long as they encountered a large number of abnormal personnel approaching, then bombing them was definitely the right thing to do.

At this time, under the rapid speed of Su Zhou's Ardent Armor Rocket, and Gu Zechuan's guidance, the group had arrived at the periphery of the Spirit Suppressing Tower City.

Each super-giant tower, exceeding seven hundred meters, was completely a scaled-up version of Earth's tower buildings. They stood between heaven and earth, towering like mountains. The spiritual light at the top of the towers even pierced through the clouds, and the entire body flickered with cyan-blue brilliance and rune patterns.

The city, composed of over hundreds of equally gigantic towers, was scattered in the plains along the coast. From a distance, it looked like a giant matrix array, so orderly that it didn't seem like a city that humans could create.

Of course, it was indeed not created by humans—it was a creation of the Heavenly Devils known as Xiesui (evil spirits), for an unknown purpose, to house the Qingqiu people.

The three landed in the forest surrounding the Spirit Suppressing Tower City. Su Zhou used his spiritual power to conceal the auras of Tang Yuan and Gu Zechuan, and then used his power of wind and water to make himself almost spiritually invisible in the rainy weather. Therefore, no Heavenly Devils discovered their arrival.

"This place, are there no patrolling Heavenly Devils?"

Looking at the Spirit Suppressing Tower, Su Zhou didn't find the Heavenly Devil squads that he had expected. Gu Zechuan sighed: "Perhaps it's because we Qingqiu people have never dared to get close to this place... Except for us armor warriors who occasionally come to take a look in order to scout intelligence, the vast majority of Qingqiu people will absolutely not approach these Xiesui (evil spirits)... Heavenly Devil camps."

Gu Zechuan also learned the true face of those Xiesui (evil spirits) from Su Zhou and Tang Yuan, so he also began to call them Heavenly Devils.

"Mm, there are a large number of detection arrays, the entire city is actually shrouded in a layer of almost transparent protective shield."

Su Zhou also actively enhanced his spiritual eyes at this time, to see if there were Heavenly Devil troops hiding to ambush them. In his dragon eyes, although he did not find enemy troops, he saw a spiritual power shield that was semi-circular, enveloping the entire city.

The strength of this shield was not high, ordinary Transcendent stage cultivators could break it, but the problem was that this shield was clearly connected to a series of warning and counterattack formations. As long as it was attacked, it would definitely trigger drastic changes.

In addition, Su Zhou also truly smelled information related to the Great Existence from it.

"The structure of this array is completely different from the 'Central Divine Court' system inherited by Zheng Nation, and even the entire Earth rarely uses this kind of three-dimensional interlocking structure."

Su Zhou could see this, and what it represented was very simple.

"The technology used in these arrays should be from a certain Great Existence!"

Although Yala was asleep at this time, and Su Zhou couldn't use the snake spirit's knowledge base to distinguish which Great Existence it was, but as the saying goes, even if you haven't eaten pork, you've seen a pig run? Su Zhou had seen a lot and had a very rich life experience, he had really seen a similar array structure!

"It's the Manipulator, that woman!"

The Manipulator, one of the seven leaders of the Spirit Descent Society, was rumored to be the most comprehensive and powerful leader within the Spirit Descent Society. She had been active around the world for a long time. It was said that when she was young, when she was still a wealthy young lady, she had also studied in Zheng Nation. The Zheng Nation's Yan Sheng (Crafting Sage) was a classmate of hers.

Su Zhou wasn't interested in this kind of gossip. After all, the Manipulator had already lost consciousness due to trying to curse him, and was then burned to death by karma fire—what he noticed was that the fluctuations on the Spirit Suppressing Tower and the Manipulator's spiritual power fluctuations did indeed have a slight resemblance.

"Is it the 'Fate Pusher'... Strange, why is it this Great Existence?"

After confirming this, Su Zhou couldn't help but fall into a brief contemplation... Because before, the Heavenly Devils had appeared with the 'Six Paths of Reincarnation' system of supernatural powers of the 'Hell', 'Hungry Ghost', and 'Animal' three evil paths, he thought that this time the Great Existence should be the 'Lonely Master', and the other party was also very proficient in the use of souls, with a very high degree of similarity to the Muling Zhe (Shepherd), the black fan of that Lonely Master.

However, after realizing the other party's identity as the 'Fate Pusher', Su Zhou found that the Six Paths of Reincarnation in this legend also included not only the concept of 'death and reincarnation', but also represented the 'pushing of fate' and the 'control of fate' to a certain extent... The division and reincarnation mechanism of the Six Paths of Reincarnation did correspond to this Great Existence.

"This is bad, before it was just a guess, but now it seems that the catastrophe on Qingqiu Star is indeed related to the rampage of the Great Existence."

Su Zhou frowned tightly, he waved his hand, signaling Tang Yuan and Gu Zechuan to follow, and the three slowly walked towards the shield of the Spirit Suppressing Tower City. The young man's face was not good: "In this case, things are out of control, the importance of the Bingzhu (Warlord) seal and his true spirit fragment is likely not as important as I thought."

The actions of the Immortals and Gods in leaving the universe where Earth was located in the past and going to the other end of the Great Seal would undoubtedly lead to some flaws in the Great Seal—whether it was Yala's Holy Snake Spirit Litany or the Spirit Descent Society's monster gathering place that inexplicably obtained inheritance, they were all products of these flaws.

The Qingqiu Realm, as a realm connected to the main world, could undoubtedly be disturbed and influenced by the information of the Great Existence, thus giving birth to some inheritance, which was obtained by some people... Although Su Zhou still didn't understand what exactly happened, it must be related to the Fate Pusher.

"It seems that we can only take Plan C—after obtaining a sufficient number of Tiangang Disha (Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends) from the Spirit Suppressing Tower City and repairing the spaceship, we must send the Bingzhu (Warlord) avatar back... Dealing with a 'monster' left by a Great Existence is troublesome enough, we really can't let a Heavenly Venerate remnant spirit come out to stir up trouble again."

At this time, under the guidance of Gu Zechuan, the three had arrived next to the shield, and the white-haired youth also stopped in front of the shield.

He obviously knew of the shield's existence.

"Your Honor, there is an invisible shield here, protecting the entire Spirit Suppressing Tower City. If we forcibly break through it, it will cause a large number of Heavenly Devils to come out, which is very troublesome."

He said to Su Zhou, who was thinking: "However, our Gu family knows that this shield has a weak point. At the time of day and night alternation, it will be weakened a lot due to the changes in the world's spiritual energy. At that time, there will be a high probability that we can pass..."

As he said this, he found Tang Yuan laugh.

"Day and night alternation, that's too late."

Tang Yuan said so calmly, and very consciously reached out and held Su Zhou and Gu Zechuan's hands, and then activated his spiritualization ability: "Why do you think the Minister would bring me here?"

"It's all because of my powerful ability!"

"This..."

Hesitantly, before Gu Zechuan could react, he turned into a layer of invisible shadow, and the whole person was pulled by Su Zhou and Tang Yuan, and walked towards the invisible shield.

Po.

It was a matter of an instant, the three passed through the shield and came to the interior of the Spirit Suppressing Tower City, without alarming any Heavenly Devils or defense measures.

"Continue, we'll enter the interior of the Spirit Suppressing Tower."

Su Zhou was still thinking about why the Fate Pusher would be related to the 'Heavenly Devils', and also create such a huge Spirit Suppressing Tower. Tang Yuan nodded after hearing Su Zhou's instructions, and continued to walk towards a Spirit Suppressing Tower not far away.

Without any waves, under Tang Yuan's special spiritualization talent, the three were almost invisible in the material and spiritual worlds.

When the three came to the Spirit Suppressing Tower, the pale-faced youth couldn't help but look up and exclaim.

"It's so big... It really looks like a mountain, why would the Heavenly Devils build something like this?"

After saying that, he shook his head and stepped forward, entering it with Su Zhou and Gu Zechuan.

However, after penetrating the extremely thick walls of the Spirit Suppressing Tower, Tang Yuan and Gu Zechuan, who had finally entered the tower, couldn't help but widen their eyes.

"This, this is?!"

What they saw was unimaginable—the two shocked at the scene before them, and couldn't help but exclaim subconsciously: "What is this?!"

"Mm?"

Even Su Zhou narrowed his eyes after seeing it, frowned, and his mood fluctuated: "Actually..."

It could be seen that inside this tall and majestic Spirit Suppressing Tower, was an extremely wide and solemn steel hall. The hall was octagonal, and there was an extremely thick steel beam in the center, supporting the entire building.

Extending in all directions from the beam as the axis, were rows of huge columns as dense as a library.

In each row of columns, there were transparent culture tanks of almost equal size, and countless light red solutions were churning within them, carrying the figures within them up and down.

That's right, figures.

In Tang Yuan and Gu Zechuan's shocked gaze, and Su Zhou's carefully examining eyes, what appeared in everyone's pupils were the bodies of 'Qingqiu people' loaded in culture tanks.

There were old and young, men and women, and even infants were not uncommon.

But regardless of gender or age, everyone was in tanks, connected by countless cyan-blue threads, floating in the solution, eyes closed, as if sleeping.

Just on this floor alone, the number of canned Qingqiu people was in the hundreds of thousands.