The Nine Kingdoms Cultivation World.
The Demon Suppression Bureau offices in the Capital of the Great Zhao Dynasty.
The lingering sunset spilled down, its crimson glow leaving people languid.
Inside a spacious Office Hall, a youth of seventeen or eighteen seemed to have just awoken. He rubbed his sleepy eyes and let out a lazy yawn, looking utterly at ease.
The youth wore a blue robe, his hair secured with a wooden pin and a small silver seal hanging at his waist. Though his expression was indolent, his features were handsome and refined, his bearing extraordinary. He was truly a beautiful man of a kind rarely seen in this world.
It was none other than Hong Yuan.
Of course, this was neither Hong Yuan's original body nor his divided body, Rosha, but a body Rosha had created with the tree of myriad phenomena.
Half a year had already passed since that battle against six Weavers, which had ended with Hong Yuan revealing his Spatial String Sorcery and killing Maguire and Adrian.
Once he had revealed his strength, his treatment naturally changed. The very next day, the upper ranks of the Wesseland Federation had eagerly offered fresh "goodwill."
All surveillance at the High Tower Institute's base was removed. This hardly even needed mentioning; trying to monitor a Weaver of Spatial String Sorcery was nothing short of a joke.
Moreover, every book, secret text, and precious manuscript in the High Tower Institute and the Federation's First Research Institute was opened to Hong Yuan without conditions.
The Federation also supplied Hong Yuan with resources equivalent to those allotted to a High Weaver.
Finally, Hong Yuan received the position of "Chief Consultant" to the Federation, with a status equal to the rotating chair of the Weavers' Council.
Hong Yuan understood, however, that this was