Landmark of the 67 Paths

January 15, 221st year of the Galactic Era

Azure Planet, Red Arrow Empire, Eerga City, Eerga Coast.

As the southernmost city of the Empire, Erga was a rising star. Imperial soldiers liberated the city in 154 and drove the Frostplate Citizen to the other side of the strait.

From then on, Frostplate had no chance to challenge Red Arrow. Separated by natural barriers, it no longer had the ability to pose a threat to Red Arrow's capital.

For an empire's militaristic expansionist model, if a war has not achieved its objective, occupying some cities is called liberation, and only destroying a country is called conquest.

Aside from the military advantage of being separated from Frostplate by the sea and being able to bombard Frostplate with cannons, Erga, the southernmost city of the empire, may have made the greatest contribution to the Red Arrow Red Arrow changing the lyrics of their National Anthem. After that, it has not been particularly well-known.

The reason is simple: Erga has virtually no resources. It is surrounded by mountains, making it unsuitable for transportation development, and Azure Planet has no ocean, developing a port is impossible.

However, for a small city with a population of only 700,000, Erga actually has two universities, which were built during the Frostplate Age.

The Empire's attitude towards this place was lukewarm. Because there were many Frostplate here, they first established an autonomous state, granting the locals a high degree of autonomy.

However, despite being nominally Red Arrow territory, the area suffers from a severe lack of industry and businesses. To this day, 67% of the population in Eerga City is engaged in agriculture, and the Red Arrow's low social security system leaves this group in a state of insecurity and poverty.

Leisure, laziness, and backwardness are true characteristics of Erga.

No one cares about the news in this city, and even on the internet, few people know that there is such an inconspicuous little town in the southernmost part of the empire.

However, all of this has changed permanently today.

Kadan Folich, 34, is a simple farmer in Erga. Being a farmer on the outskirts of the empire is by no means a happy thing. The land here is not very fertile, and there is a lack of capitalized group operations. Without food factories to further process the crops, they can only be sold at extremely low prices.

Good morning, another terrible morning.

Living a solitary life, Cardan was not optimistic about his job. Next, he would drive a tractor, transporting haystacks, eating coarse salt biscuits and cheap wheat soda on his way to deliver them to the city. He could wander around the city, which had almost no entertainment, for an hour, but only for an hour, before returning to the farm to continue working.

This kind of life is the same every year, without any change, and it will never change.

The farmhands were nowhere to be found; they should have started working at this time. Cardan wandered around but couldn't see anyone. He opened his Personal Terminal, but it showed no signal.

"Damn the telecom operators, I knew their newly installed base stations were unreliable!"

Cardan was helpless. Without the internet, the work would only become more tedious. For the highly mechanized Red Arrow Farm, both the drones spraying pesticides and the automated farm implements needed to be connected to the internet to be used.

The Red Arrow Empire relied heavily on mechanized technology, which did benefit the vast majority of people, but it was not so friendly to those in remote areas.

Fortunately, Cardan didn't mind doing the work himself. He planned to drive the tractor out to the market to buy breakfast first, and then go to an area with signal to contact the manufacturer for repairs. It was really outrageous that the equipment, which he had only bought a few days ago, was already unusable.

The cold rays of the Artificial Sun fell on his shoulders. As always, he pushed open the door. The warehouse was brightly lit, as magnificent as a palace. He lowered his head, habitually got on the tractor, and was about to head to the farmland when he suddenly realized something.

—He didn't even turn on the lights, so why was the warehouse bright?

Cardin slowly turned his head, and a massive, pristine white stone monument rose from the ground, piercing through the warehouse ceiling. Its exquisite and mysterious patterns slowly emitted a pale golden light. The golden light, like shattered feathers, scattered and drifted in the air. Unlike the hazy, misty feeling of the Tyndall effect, this magnificent and wondrous spectacle felt remarkably delicate, gentle, and refreshing, filled with a sense of intimacy.

The old farmer, Cardan, stared wide-eyed at what was before him in disbelief.

Compared to the hole in his own warehouse, he was more surprised by the changes brought about by the sacred stone tablet—the land near it was being purified inch by inch by golden, feather-like fragments of light, turning into crystal clear crystal.

He unconsciously moved closer to the White Obelisk. In his mind's eye, he felt that he would not be harmed, and even deeply believed that this strange and mysterious spectacle would bring him a unique change.

Cardin stepped forward, reached out, and touched the obelisk.

You made the right choice.

"Who?! Who's speaking?" A voice suddenly echoed in his mind, startling Kadan.

Close your eyes and listen quietly.

Cardin was skeptical; he strongly suspected that the stone tablet in front of him was the work of the person who created it, but he had no better idea at the moment.

Compared to contacting the Empire's military, police, and secret service, he felt this was an opportunity bestowed upon him by heaven. Since it had appeared in his rural village, it was his property, and how he disposed of it was his own business.

'Could it really be a sacred object of the gods?'

Kadan thought to himself.

Although the Red Arrow Empire possessed advanced technology, it had lax control over religious beliefs. Almost all its people had their own faith, and Kadan, an honest and simple farmer, was no exception. He picked up the pendant around his neck, silently prayed for a while, and then pressed his hand against the stone tablet, closed his eyes, and quietly felt the spiritual energy.

Before the stars existed and chaos was formed, the Star Abyss was born. Sensing the arrival of the Destroyers, it summoned six Creators from the primordial universe. They respectively governed the powers of destruction, craftsmanship, domination, redemption, plunder, and the mysterious. As times changed, most of the Creators have perished, but their Path to Godhood remain forever...

[What is laid out before you is the path pioneered by the current successor to the [Dominion] —Li Aoz.]

[A true path to godhood.]

The next moment, Cardan felt an invisible and warm power surging from the stone tablet, penetrating his nerves and blood vessels, running from his extremities all the way to the top of his head. It was exhilarating and invigorating. His body temperature rose slightly, but he felt more energetic.

I have given you a small gift as a reward for your willingness to listen to my teachings.

Cardan took a few steps back, vaguely sensing something, an unknown force spreading within him. He looked at the Nurman tractor in the distance, 5.4 meters tall and weighing 10.9 tons, a clumsy and wild monster.

Cardan raised his hand, golden halos appearing in his eyes, and gently beckoned to the other person.

The heavy tractor immediately floated up, and not only the tractor, but all objects within a five-meter radius of it, and even himself, floated up, as if he had suddenly been placed in outer space.

With a casual wave of his hand, the heavy objects in the area rose and fell as he wished. He could lift a tractor with his bare hands and make a feather heavier than iron. This kind of power and the way he released it were not unfamiliar to him, thanks to the widespread education in the Empire.

Aoneng.

Cardan was certain that he possessed a supernatural ability called Aoneng.

The 34-year-old farmer played for half a day until he flew himself into the air, then was so frightened by the height that he fell down.

Cardan lay on the hay, staring blankly at the damaged ceiling for several minutes.

Then, he chuckled to himself.

Even if he were just an ordinary farmer, he would clearly realize that Eerga City would be completely transformed from now on.