"Thirty-ninth item: Lower Gods, Middle Gods, and Upper Gods of the Main Universe have jointly petitioned to add six seats to the Main God Hall: three for Upper Gods as a group, two for Middle Gods as a group, and one for Lower Gods as a group, allowing them to participate in the Main Universe's highest Main God Conference...
How should they be punished?"
Unlike the previous thirty-eight questions, no one's opinion was solicited.
Instead, they directly began pooling ideas on how to punish all the gods who had united!
Judging by the attitudes of the Main Gods, none of them found anything wrong with this.
They truly deserved punishment!
Lowly gods actually dared to band together and attempt to attend the Supreme Council of the Main God Hall?
It was simply absurd, laughable, incomprehensible!
Upper Gods and Middle Gods were one thing. They had barely crossed the threshold of the Main Universe's chaotic laws and condensed true godhood.
But those lowly, wretched, insect-like Lower Gods, who had not even fully mastered the orderly laws of the Main Universe, actually dreamed of stepping into the Main God Hall with their base bodies—the hall that stood above all things in the boundless, infinite universe and controlled every established and unestablished law!
And they wanted a seat?
Who knew where they had found the courage and resolve.
"Strip the initiators of their godhood."
"Extract their consciousnesses and cast them into the core of the Chaos Storm."
"Impose divine punishment upon them all."
The Supreme Main Gods each voiced their opinions.
The Tumor-like entity said, "I support Calamity. He has plenty of ideas when it comes to punishment."
Again.
This good brother of his had set him up.
All the Supreme Main Gods turned their gazes toward Tang Chuan once more.
Under the stimulation of some strange sensation radiating from the black diamond-shaped crystal in his mind, Tang Chuan had only managed to keep himself from passing out until now.
With bloodshot eyes, he gave his good brother a faint smile. Why, thank you so much!
I haven't even said anything, and you're already supporting me?
Tang Chuan immediately withdrew his gaze, swept his eyes across the Supreme Main Gods, and said, "Choose one, or all three, of the punishments proposed above, and reward the few who did not participate."
The Tumor-like entity squirmed. "An exquisite statement. Rewards are very important."
The other Main Gods nodded as well.
They had indeed only found the matter incomprehensible and had all called for punishment against those who initiated such absurdity, yet not one of them had suggested rewarding the few who had not participated.
There had been no need. It had simply never occurred to them.
They were Supreme Main Gods, not mortal emperors. They had no need for policies of alliance-building, recruitment, division, and persuasion.
They themselves stood above all laws, masters of the creators of all things. Punishment was merely a posture they ought to assume. No one would question their supremacy; all could do was look up at them from beginning to end, until the infinite universe perished.
But rewards could indeed prevent this trouble from repeating after many cosmic eras.
When someone raised such a groundless demand again, gods who wanted the Main Gods' rewards would naturally stand against those inferior gods attempting to enter the Main God Hall.
Of course, more than anything, they were simply giving Calamity face.
The Cellular Galaxy nodded. "Agreed. Have them offer up six initiators for punishment, then select six resolute opponents for rewards. The rewards may be chosen from the Main God Hall's public Treasure Vault."
After saying that, it continued, "The fortieth matter..."
A Main God interrupted, "Hold on. Weren't there only thirty-nine?"
The Cellular Galaxy Entity looked calmly at them all. "This issue just arose. There are very few items left in the public Treasure Vault."
Someone asked, "I remember there being plenty?"
The Cellular Galaxy Entity explained, "Before the conference began, not everyone had arrived. Someone entered the Treasure Vault and ate a great deal."
After saying that, it glanced at the Tumor-like entity.
"Not me!"
Seeing that everyone except his closest brother was looking at him, the Tumor-like entity argued with reason, "It wasn't just me."
The Cellular Galaxy Entity asked in surprise, "Other than you, who else?"
The Tumor-like entity answered truthfully and seriously, "Xilivak Kumiya and Kaya as well."
Everyone's expressions turned strange.
Through the haze, another puzzle piece surfaced in his mind, like wilderness beneath lightning, the flash illuminating part of the path ahead.
Tang Chuan came back to his senses and understood something.
Weren't Xilivak Kumiya and Kaya both avatars of the Tumor-like entity?!
So this kind of joke worked here too? You arrest Lu Xun, what does that have to do with Zhou Shuren?
The Cellular Galaxy Entity voiced Tang Chuan's complaint. "They are both branches of your attributes."
The Tumor-like entity examined the matter seriously. "To be precise, Kaya is not entirely one. Part of Kaya comes from Star God's attributes. Mm, it should be said that Star God and I stole food together."
The translucent, mist-like entity with jewels shifting chaotically inside it—the Main God known as Star God—said speechlessly, "You asked for that portion of the attributes. The main attribute and consciousness belonged to you. It has nothing to do with me."
The Tumor-like entity said, "All right, then it was me and part of Star God who stole food."
Everyone was speechless.
The Cellular Galaxy Entity said, "I have added safeguards. The public Treasure Vault now requires more than two members to open silently. Now, each of you should contribute some items to replenish it."
The objects in the Treasure Vault were unimaginably precious throughout the boundless, infinite universe. Even gods coveted them.
But the reason it was called a public Treasure Vault was because it was the Main Gods' shared property, and anyone could take whatever they wanted from it.
For beings who stood above laws, they were merely objects worth sparing a second glance for. They were not especially precious.
It was like the assorted goods in a ten-yuan store in human eyes. Some were indeed interesting or useful enough to make people stop and look twice.
But they were not precious enough for people to crave desperately.
That was why the Tumor-like entity had been able to open the Treasure Vault so easily before the conference began.
And why, even after discovering it, the Cellular Galaxy Entity had been too lazy to care.
The Supreme Main Gods nodded. They did not think the act was particularly vile. In their eyes, the Tumor-like entity had merely been a little greedy for food. Sometimes, that "foodie" trait was even rather cute.
It was like there being only ten of your kind in the entire world, while the world's resources were so abundant they could never be exhausted.
If one of them took a bite of the ice cream in your hand, you might even find it endearing.
If you wanted ice cream, you could easily obtain thousands upon thousands of them. It could hardly be called an offense.
The sense of kinship among their kind was far rarer.
The Main Gods took out various objects. None cared who contributed more or less, and they tossed them all onto the table at the center of the conference. Their forms and functions varied greatly.
But this troubled Tang Chuan again.
You want me to take something out?
Do you want the garlic on me?
Do you want a secondhand Peach phone?
Tang Chuan suppressed his physiological reaction and looked calmly at the Tumor-like entity. "My new persona begins as a completely barren Mortal. Do not disrupt it casually. Help me provide two items."
The Tumor-like entity squirmed. "With pleasure, my Best Union."
Puff, puff!
As it spoke, its body rippled like waves and spat onto the conference table a worm that seemed to still show signs of life, shaped somewhat like an oyster shell, as well as something resembling a black hardened-plastic shoehorn...
A shoehorn.
In any case, Tang Chuan could not tell what it was.