Immortal Yuan City, the City Lord's Mansion, beside the Soul Pool, Lu Ye was conversing with the Heavenly Mechanism.
From very early on, he had realized that the Nine Provinces' Heavenly Mechanism possessed self-awareness. At the time, however, he had simply believed that this consciousness was the Nine Provinces' World Will. Only now did he learn that there were more complicated circumstances hidden within.
The Heavenly Mechanism was the Nine Provinces' World Will, and yet not entirely. It was the Artifact Spirit of the Heaven's Mystery Disk, formed by fusing with a portion of the World Will.
It bore the heavy responsibility of protecting the Nine Provinces and protecting the Human Race. For thousands upon tens of thousands of years, it had silently sheltered this realm, striving to lower the Nine Provinces' presence in the starry sky and keep it from being noticed by powerful beings of other races.
On this point alone, its contributions were enormous. Without its concealment, over all these years, perhaps some mighty expert would have detected the Nine Provinces' aura and then brought a devastating blow down upon it.
And when no one could perceive it, it must have made even more efforts.
For example, the Peerless Continent it had once saved. If the Nine Provinces Heavenly Mechanism had not sent Lu Ye and the others there, how would the cultivators of the Nine Provinces have known anything about the Peerless Continent?
It had the ability to shelter the Nine Provinces, and it also had the ability to monitor the nearby starry sky. It had detected the Peerless Continent's location early on, learned something of the situation there, sent Lu Ye and the others over, and used the Heaven's Mystery Pillars to open a connection between the two realms, saving the Human Race that had