Young Man, Come Learn to Cook with Me
Sensing the birth of a new Machine God Mind, Bai Qiuran quietly entered the Consciousness Domain, then found a secluded spot and inscribed the "Chain" of the Immortal Emperor Shuhua onto this nascent consciousness.
In this urgent situation, Bai Qiuran did not imprint any complex Thought Imprint on the Machine God Mind this time, but only one thing: obey all orders from the Immortal Realm and him.
The "he" here refers to Bai Qiuran himself, and "the Immortal Realm" naturally refers to an individual who can represent the Immortal Realm. Of course, according to the characteristics of the "Chain" spell of the Immortal Emperor Shuhua, this representative must be someone that Bai Qiuran believes can represent the Immortal Realm.
After casting the spell, Bai Qiuran and Tang Ruowei stayed near the front lines of the Immortal Realm for about a year. During this year, the newly born Machine God Mind gradually grew to the point where it could spread its thoughts from the original Machine God's Consciousness Network to the entire Machine Puppet Divine Court.
It sounds like it's growing very fast and amazingly, but for humans, it's really just about a year of learning how to crawl.
This newly formed Machine God is even struggling to control the forces of the few remaining Grand Warband of the current Machine God. However, if it's just about enclosing Machine Puppet units within frames and Mobile them to designated locations, this new Machine God Mind can still accomplish that.
Under the instructions of Bai Qiuran and Le Zhentian, the newly formed Machine God Mind began to direct all units of the Machine Puppet Divine Court that were in their original territories to leave their original territories and gradually withdraw to the Immortal Realm's control range within the Consciousness Domain, leaving these large areas of Void territory to Eden for management.
In the Material World inhabited Kinfolk the Blue-skinned People under the command of the Machine God, a vast and advanced world, people who lived a life of ease and complacency suddenly heard a strange statement broadcast by the Machine God today.
The statement was rather long, which is inconsistent with the concise and efficient approach that Machine God has always been known for.
The statement primarily expresses a sincere apology on behalf of the Machine God to the vast number of material beings that have been kept in captivity for so long, and announces that from today onwards, the Machine God will leave this world, allowing the Intelligent Lifeforms in this world to become independent and autonomous masters of the world.
After this statement was issued, some of the Machine Puppet's important facilities did indeed transform. The jets, trailing flames, slowly rose into the air, leaving behind long tail flames, and departed from this world through a crack that suddenly appeared in the sky.
Upon witnessing this, the Blue-skinned People felt no joy of freedom; instead, they were gripped by an indescribable panic.
Although the Machine God apologized to them in a previous statement, attributing the mistake to himself, the current fact is that they have been abandoned by their own god and have become the god's forsaken people.
This fact has led many Blue-skinned People to blame each other for their mistakes, and some have even acted very irrationally.
When Eden's Spaceship landed in the world of the Blue-skinned People, all the Blue-skinned People Mechanical City in sight were strangely paralyzed.
Countless Blue-skinned People gathered in the open square. They neither ate nor drank, nor did they do anything. They just stared blankly at the sky, seemingly lost in thought.
Occasionally, a Blue-skinned People would suddenly go insane, clutching his head and screaming. Then, without looking back, he would run to the edge of the sky plaza and plunge over the railing. When someone did this, it would often inspire a dozen, twenty, or even dozens of people to jump after him.
At the very bottom of the City, blue blood converged into small rivers flowing through the streets, and the corpses of Blue-skinned People who had fallen from the sky and died had piled up on the ground.
The people of Eden quickly began to restore Order to the world.
They arrived at the square where the Blue-skinned People were gathered. The person leading the group in this world of Eden was the same Blue-skinned People Elder that Bai Qiuran and Tang Ruowei had met before, the one who had been imprisoned in Shenlada No. 1 Prison by the Machine God as a "political prisoner".
He walked to the sky plaza at the highest point of the Blue-skinned People's capital, and looking out, all he saw were the indifferent eyes of his compatriots. He was completely lost and hopeless about the future.
The Old Man felt a pang of sorrow, but he quickly rallied, turned to his compatriots, and asked, "My fellow countrymen, today we have finally achieved independence, why do you all show such expressions?"
No one answered his question. The few Blue-skinned People who weren't so apathetic glanced at him, then turned away and stared blankly at the sky.
The Blue-skinned People Elder was not discouraged. He walked among them and asked each of them individually, patiently asking all the Blue-skinned People in the square.
Finally, a young Blue-skinned People who didn't seem so numb answered his question.
"Old man, we're like this because we can't see a future."
The young man said in a powerless and desperate tone, "All along, it was the Machine God who arranged our lives, feeding us, clothing us, enabling us to walk, sit, and lie down, and protecting us as we grew up healthy. Everything we have comes from the Machine God's gifts, and our ultimate goal in life was to become the Machine God's servant through the Ascension Ceremony. Now that the Machine God is gone, who will feed us, who will clothe us, and when we grow up, to whom will we be loyal?"
"That's a good question. Of course, we cook for ourselves, weave our own cloth and make our own clothes, and when we grow up, we are loyal to ourselves, to our own civilization and race."
The Blue-skinned People Elder looked at the young man whose face showed confusion and patted him on the shoulder.
"Let's start now... Young man, I see you have good potential, why don't you come and learn to cook with me?"
The entire Machine Puppet Divine Court withdrew into the Consciousness Domain and the Myriad Heavens and Worlds of the Immortal Realm.
This was an agreement reached by Le Zhentian through Bai Qiuran and the Collective Consciousness of the Eden Chief and the Rainbow Sheath Clan. For the Immortal Realm, this agreement was indeed a huge win.
The Void is boundless. In the Void, the size of a territory is not actually very significant. In some finite Void, countless worlds can overlap, but in some unimaginably vast Void, there are simply not many worlds.
The Immortal Realm is currently far from having enough manpower. Territories lacking control are like water without a source or duckweed without roots, utterly meaningless. The Immortal Realm itself still has a vast Consciousness Domain that it has not yet fully mastered, let alone adding a Machine Puppet Divine Court. At that time, the Immortal Realm's control over the Machine Puppet Divine Court will definitely drop to its lowest point.
Therefore, rather than forcibly incorporating the former vast territory of the Machine Puppet Divine Court into the territory of the Immortal Realm, it would be better to give it to Eden as a favor.
Given Eden's current strength, it would be extremely difficult for them to completely take control of the former territory of the Machine Puppet Divine Court. After the Machine Puppet withdrew, countless giant infants were left behind in the countless Material World that were once ruled by the Machine God.
Although Bai Qiuran and Eden had an agreement to leave basic facilities to prevent these races that had degenerated into giant infants from starving, it would probably take tens of thousands of years for the Eden World to get everything back on track.
For at least the next tens of thousands of years, Eden will be at a disadvantage when facing the Immortal Realm. Moreover, the Immortal Realm controls the Consciousness Domain and is protected by the Consciousness Barrier, which allows them to attack or defend as well. If something terrible comes down the Void River, Eden can help the Immortal Realm defend against it first, acting as a buffer for the Immortal Realm.
Therefore, in the foreseeable future, the situation around the Immortal Realm has completely stabilized, and it can finally enter a period of stable development.