For Zhang Yang back then, New Year's Day was hardly a holiday worth celebrating.
Zhang Yang had been closing a major deal near the border, far from his younger brother studying in Capital City and his fiancée back home. He had no idea how they were doing, but based on the news he could gather, all he could do was take refuge in the only Safe Zone.
It was what was now known as the Seventh Domain.
His life in the Seventh Domain followed the exact opposite course from the first half of his life.
In the first half, he had endured hardship before finally tasting success.
Here, however, they gave you one piece of candy first, then beat you ten times with a club.
During the first few years, terrifying gods roamed outside, but under the rule of the [World-Destroying Church], order within the Safe Zone remained stable.
Back then, the church had two major figures: Yusi Wen Daoqian and Divine Envoy Sima Ji.
Working together, these two led the survivors in building a haven where they could settle down and make a living, even in a land of death surrounded by gods.
Using his old knack for reading people, Zhang Yang found a reasonably stable livelihood in the Safe Zone and spent his spare time searching for his younger brother and fiancée.
But there was no word of either of them. His search yielded nothing.
Life was not as comfortable as it had been when he was a big boss on Earth, but at least he had food, warm clothes, and peace.
Five years later, when humans began awakening their sequence abilities and discovered that these abilities could kill those arrogant gods, Zhang Yang thought the call for humanity's counterattack would finally sound.
Instead, the sequence ability users