The Meeting the World Is Watching

In just a few short days, the world had been shocked again and again.

First, a peak in the Alps had burst into light and risen into the sky, defying all reason. Then one miraculous change after another had appeared on the mountain. Before people could recover from the astonishing events, Bai Yang announced before the entire world that he would establish a sanctuary and preach the Way. And right after that, a war that shocked the world had erupted...

Several million people had died in that battle. However, the civilians who had gathered there had all been forcibly driven away by the various countries, so 99 percent of the dead had been soldiers from those nations.

The death toll was high, but nowhere near enough to cripple any one country. After all, those millions of soldiers had come from many different nations; only by pooling their forces had they formed a coalition army of more than two million. If a single country had sent out that many troops and lost them all, it could have declared itself annihilated...

The military losses were still within what the countries targeting Bai Yang could accept. But the troubles that followed were what kept them awake at night.

First, the public outcry and panic caused by the incident meant the governments had to give their people an explanation. The people didn't dare—and wouldn't—go looking for Bai Yang, so they could only turn to their governments.

Second, banks were demanding repayment for no apparent reason, while major corporations were signaling that they would terminate their partnerships. That was the real killer, piling even more trouble onto these countries and leaving each of them in a frantic scramble.

There was no denying that, in the wake of this incident, the upper echelons of every country