Chapter 402

Chapter 402: The Fall of the Honored Position! The Stark Reality!

"…"

Yun Ye glanced at her.

Yuexin had been forcibly suppressing her advancement to the Mystic Realm over the years to avoid being consumed, but her body had already transformed ninety percent into something akin to a ‘god.’

She was just one step away from a higher life, sacred like many in the Mystic Realm, possessing astonishing traits that influenced the world merely by existing.

The hazy glow around her was not an effect; even strikes from the Sun Star could not break through. For ordinary cultivators, it represented the most despairing barriers.

Yet, for the current Yuexin, this power was merely a passive radiance.

Even so, she was powerless to change the current state of Tomorrow Society.

"The Fourth Seat actually agrees to go to war…"

Multiple higher-ups exchanged glances, realizing that maintaining the Force of Freedom was a far greater drain on their personalities than they had imagined.

"I also agree to go to war, even though this will make countless people resentful. But without war, Tomorrow Society truly cannot move forward."

Liu Mian spoke up, no longer just the temporary 1st member, but now a 2nd Level member with a voice of authority.

As long as they returned to the right path, Yun Ye could tolerate their past mistakes. After all, during the era when Dao Artifacts were temporary, they couldn’t have been too wrong. Now that the Dao Artifacts were strengthened, and he had become the chief, these people would find it harder to exploit loopholes, and they could only serve Tomorrow Nation diligently to obtain resource allocation.

"Liu Mian, are you insane? This is a decision involving the lives and deaths of hundreds of thousands!"

"Yong Fa’s suggestion is terrifying; if we make this decision, many Dao Artifact wielders here might face their artifacts collapsing overnight!”

"Ha ha! Dao Artifact wielders aren’t as weak as you think. If it’s purely about goodness and beauty, why should it materialize into a path? Only what is feasible is the path!"

The entire national assembly hall erupted into chaos, with nearly all higher-ups opposing the decision.

"Seventh Seat, what do you think?"

Yun Ye suddenly spoke up.

The room fell silent.

Everyone turned to the Seventh Seat, who had not said a word from beginning to end.

This stunning woman had kept her eyes closed, and it was only after being asked that she reluctantly opened them. She adjusted her posture and lightly said, "I naturally choose the option with the greatest chance of success. Haven’t you always been weighing your choices? If we follow the most superficial understanding of the path of tomorrow, it should be everyone equal, with all resources evenly distributed, but you haven’t done that, have you?"

"This time, you can weigh your options as usual. Everyone sees the correct direction; it’s just a simple choice, much easier."

"Weighing options? … This time, the stakes are rather high, so high that I cannot bear it," Yun Ye leaned back, facing a dilemma once again.

This time, how should he choose?

"Chief Wei Yang!"

Yong Fa suddenly shouted, "It’s just sending them to their death; that’s the only way to win. I will take all the blame upon myself. Even if I’m sent to the gallows, it doesn’t matter. I, Yong Fa, want to see Tomorrow rise!"

“To win, we must be ruthless. Do you want to see the forty million people of Tomorrow Society all die here simply because of ridiculous feigned kindness, having to abandon the only possible way to victory?”

Yun Ye looked at Yong Fa, countless memories flashing in his mind.

He suddenly realized.

Tomorrow Nation had already traveled through twenty years and arrived at a crossroads where a choice must be made.

Although the True Heaven Instrument had completely failed, unable to deduce the heavenly secrets or know the fate of Tomorrow Nation, just by organizing the existing information, all the higher-ups in Tomorrow Nation understood the terrifying nature of the two major powers and their own powerlessness.

The two major powers were just the beginning; they still needed to face even more terrifying and higher-level forces…

The current speed was insufficient!

Aside from Yuexin and Qi Lian, Yun Ye did not inform anyone else about the secret of the moments of reincarnation. The related information obtained from the two sects was completely sealed.

The reason was simple: victory was absolutely impossible…

The two major powers were already a major headache, and above them were forces at the three heavens level, as well as the Royal Path and Immortal Path powers. This was not something that decades of technology could make up for; with all their might, it was completely impossible to triumph…

Only despair remained!

"Uuuuuuuuu!"

A strange sound echoed through the conference hall.

Everyone looked up, surprised.

"What is this?"

"What happened?"

Including Yun Ye, all the higher-ups rushed out of the hall. This sudden change made everyone present alert.

However, once they left the barrier-encircled hall, everyone was shocked.

The world was undergoing a great transformation.

Some kind of mournful song resonated in the sky.

Countless lights surrounded a figure ascending, and it dissolved at the highest point, merging with the heavens and earth.

The mournful song continued without stopping, resonating throughout the world, its influence vast enough to nearly envelop the entire realm. If one listened carefully until the end, they would naturally understand certain things.

Understanding this information nearly made the expressions of all the Tomorrow Society leaders turn into a mix of laughter and tears:

"They actually said… Honored Position?"

"Such an existence has actually fallen?"

"Are you kidding? What level of existence is that? Its scale is limitless and completely surpasses our understanding. Perhaps its individual power even surpasses super spirit veins. Not to mention their high essence; a True Immortal could contend with a super formation, let alone an Honored Position?"

However, this was not the most terrifying part.

Because the fall of the first Honored Position was just the beginning. Over the next ten days, a staggering ten Honored Positions would fall in succession!

The fall of Honored Positions, a rare occurrence over the past few centuries… no, thousands of years, happened ten times in just ten days!

Even though the people of Tomorrow Society were unaware of the moments of reincarnation, they understood that significant changes were happening in the Red Heaven realm.

A storm capable of changing the world had begun to rise!

"Have the moments of reincarnation truly arrived? How many more years do we have?"

Yuexin whispered.

"…"

Yun Ye’s expression was stiff. He suddenly thought of Yin Yue Kong, the one sealing an item referred to as the key to the great ritual by the Red Heaven.

Soon after, a battle erupted somewhere in the Red Heaven realm, leading to the fall of ten currently unreachable existences!

The impending storm could hardly be described by mere words.

He had a bad feeling.

What exactly was the great ritual?

Why would it attract True Immortals to cleanse the mortal world?

What was the key that had been sealed? If he died, would he be unable to activate it?

—No, it was impossible. If he died, perhaps that power would bring him back to life, allowing an uncontrollable person to decide his own aftermath. Such foolishness, even from the perspective of ordinary beings, was impossible. These ancient powers were simply ancient people, not monkeys.

"It seems that I must choose this sacrifice… sacrifice a few to save the many? When will I no longer have to make such choices?"

Yun Ye stood at the intersection of light and darkness, his feelings hard to describe.

He gave orders to the army of Tomorrow Nation.

War was the only answer! Only through war, only through deaths, could professional slots return, and the power of the ascent law could increase!

"Starting today, the army will no longer record spirit patterns for the ascent law, but directly inscribe the law itself to maximize efficiency…"

A large number of spirit patterns could form the Walking Law, but the cost of strengthening spirit patterns was dozens or even hundreds of times that of strengthening the law.

In theory, even if Tomorrow Nation had a large number of spiritual realm cultivators each year aiming to reach the heights of the ascent law via spirit patterns, it would take at least a hundred years.

Tomorrow Society did not have that time left.

The Heavenly Path ascents were extremely difficult, especially for followers of the path of tomorrow.

Out of ten spiritual realm cultivators, only one or two could reach the eleventh tier of the Heavenly Path and inscribe the ascent law. This ratio was excessively disproportionate compared to the hundreds of spirit patterns.

Even if a million people advanced to the spiritual realm, there would only be ten thousand or twenty thousand improvements in the ascent law. On average, each spirit pattern could only enhance by 10,000%. While that sounds like a large number, in reality, the number of cultivators had reached forty million, spreading the effectiveness almost to nothing.

They should not have allowed ordinary beings, who could not break through the eleventh tier of the Heavenly Path, to cultivate the Spiritual Law; this would significantly reduce the efficacy of the Heavenly Path.

Such mistakes would only be corrected when there was no alternative left.

"How similar this is; our beliefs actually hinder us from following the correct path. Constant compromise, this is the reality."

"Let the cultivators of Spiritual Law send themselves to death, let those of no value stop practicing Spiritual Law… this is the most efficient and likely path to victory!"

"If we do not exploit, we cannot progress. Not even in the world of cultivation, huh?"