World Situation (Thanks to Rudder Master Yin Qi Dai for the Reward)

After the Silver Radiance Gate's avatar failed in its surprise attack on Jinling and was instead captured and refined to death, the global situation seemed to quiet down all at once.

Now,

one being from the Spirit Realm had broken through the blockade and descended upon the American Federation, turning the entire American Federation into its vassal state.

The rest of the world was almost in the same state as China, if not worse.

Australia had basically fallen.

It had never had much of a presence in the global landscape to begin with. Even its kangaroos had more of a presence than the country itself.

Even after changing from a colony into a sovereign nation, it had merely changed its name. In essence, it was still a colony.

Its appearance had simply become a little less ugly.

At the end of the day, it was merely a place for Western capital to exploit and dump goods.

As for places like New Zealand...

You could think of them as the backyard vacation spots for the wealthy of the Western capitalist world.

Some people would say, "But the people there have a high happiness index, blah blah blah!"

Wasn't that obvious? If you had a huge backyard full of gardeners, would you really let those gardeners go hungry and cold, until they turned your backyard into a complete mess?

Of course not.

Even if you lived in a lush green backyard without worrying about food, clothing, or expenses, you were still only a gardener.

With a single word from someone else,

your paradise-like life could be ended at any moment.

It was just that many people lacked the vision to see that far ahead.

But there had never been any shortage of people who wanted to become gardeners. That was understandable. People