As the women arrived one after another, the main hall of Afang Palace, which had originally held only Ye Ting, quickly became lively.
These girls who shared close relationships with Ye Ting had gathered not only to congratulate him, but also to witness this historic moment.
As the last person entered the hall, the once bustling palace gradually fell silent.
Other than Ye Ting, seated upright upon the throne, all the women below—whether human or divine—looked up at the man before them with anticipation written across their faces.
Among them, deities such as BB, Hecate, Aphrodite, and Athena, who held authority over Qin's laws and were closely tied to the Qin people, could already sense that power boiling over.
And the ritual Ye Ting had long prepared was about to begin.
To control Alaya, the first thing Ye Ting had to do was make contact with her.
If he could not even touch Alaya's true body, how could he speak of controlling her?
Normally speaking, however, a collective consciousness like the Counter Force was far beyond the reach of mortals.
The Counter Force itself existed, but it was utterly impossible for her to appear in reality in physical form—she could not even remain in reality as a spiritual entity.
That was because she was a consciousness born from the collective, her essential existence residing within the consciousness of every individual in that collective.
That was precisely why, after breaking through Gaia's obstruction back then, Ye Ting had not thought of retaliating against Gaia—he had no way to retaliate against someone he could not find.
As another Counter Force, Alaya was naturally the same.
But to Alaya, Ye Ting was different.
Ye Ting was now the supreme ruler of Qin's two billion people, a king jointly revered by humanity.
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