163: Warlords
Of course, it's not that one can only rely on luck to find these 'Children of Fortune' nurtured by the Outer Domain World.
Although the Outer Domain World is currently in an extremely dangerous crisis, for all living beings within the Outer Domain World, this crisis also represents the arrival of a new era of great contention.
The Mythical Rank existences that once suppressed the living beings of the Outer Domain World no longer reside in the world. The ascension channels, which were largely sealed, have reopened. With sufficient internal foundation, as long as one acquires enough fortune in this era of great contention, there is a chance to ascend to the supreme Mythical Rank in the Outer Domain World.
Under this world background, those existences endowed with great fortune will attract each other. After encountering each other, they will defeat, kill, or subdue each other... like raising venomous insects, they will plunder each other's fortune through various means to strengthen themselves, until their own fortune and foundation reach a level that can push them into the Mythical realm.
Similarly, those who inherently possess fortune on Blue Star also have an extremely strong mutual attraction with these 'Children of Fortune' from the Outer Domain World when they are in the Outer Domain World.
In fact, because the 'Children of Fortune' bear the responsibility of 'saving the world' and have been catalyzed, these existences from the Outer Domain (relative) World, carrying Outer Domain fortune, are even more powerfully attractive to them.
Just as China can acquire the Outer Domain fortune from killing the Outer Domain 'Children of Fortune,' Outer Domain beings can also keep the fortune possessed by those from China in the Outer Domain World, thereby strengthening the Outer Domain World.
However, in the eyes of China's big shots, this operation by the Outer Domain World is simply brain-damaged.
At first glance, the rule they set up seems fine. Outer Domain fortune can not only be used to obtain Mythical Rank slots in the Outer Domain World, but also, after paying a certain percentage of 'handling fees,' it can be converted into one's own fortune in other worlds, making it a relatively common 'currency' across various worlds.
And the World Consciousness distributed the Outer Domain fortune among 'Children of Fortune' of various strength levels, and even created a rule where higher-ranked individuals cannot plunder lower-ranked ones.
This seemingly slows down the progress of China's powerhouses in plundering Mythical Rank slots in the Outer Domain World. By fostering them like venomous insects, it quickly cultivates a batch of Mythical Rank existences to contend with China's powerhouses, while also absorbing a batch of fortune from Blue Star. Overall, it appears to be quite good.
However, if one thinks carefully, the loopholes in this are simply too numerous to bear looking at.
In fact, in the eyes of China's powerhouses, this behavior of the other side doesn't resemble the resistance of a world facing external invasion at all.
Under these rules, the Outer Domain World is simply a heaven-sent training ground and hunting ground for China.
And those 'Children of Fortune' who are nurtured, rather than being Mythical Rank seedlings cultivated by the Outer Domain World Consciousness to resist invasion, are more like 'Great Fortune Elixirs' specially cultivated for stronger individuals to harvest and strengthen themselves.
China's big shots found this somewhat incomprehensible.
Just like before, when they were paranoid about the number of Mythical Rank existences in the Outer Domain World and fought wits with thin air, facing this situation created by the Outer Domain World, China's first reaction was still: Does the other side have some conspiracy?
Are they doing this to trick China's geniuses of various stages into entering, and then use self-destruction or self-detonation tactics to take them all out in one wave, creating a talent gap in China, attempting to cut off China's future, causing its weakening on Blue Star, and thereby attracting external enemies to besiege it, or something similar?
However, no matter how vigilantly the big shots who had such thoughts scanned and probed the Outer Domain World, they never found any signs of the other side doing so.
After multiple explorations and probes yielded no results, China directly performed a large-scale Mythical Rank divination ritual for the act of sending geniuses into the Outer Domain World, and ultimately obtained a result of 'all things auspicious'.
After obtaining this result, someone suddenly came up with a wild idea: "Is there a possibility that the other side doesn't intend to resist and just wants to surrender directly?
Is it possible that the current situation is the other side's World Consciousness directly selling off the living beings of the Outer Domain World as a pledge of allegiance, merely wanting to show its value in front of us, thereby achieving some goal or something?"
When this idea was first proposed, the big shots in China immediately reacted with 'impossible'.
From their perspective, facing invaders, no matter how strong the opponent, no matter how seemingly unbeatable, for the sake of their homeland, land, and people, they would fight to the last moment, even if it meant exhausting everything, and would never give up resistance.
It wouldn't be this kind of comical scene where, despite not yet reaching that point, and still having the foundation and strength to resist, the Secret Realm beings haven't even reacted, yet the World Consciousness not only directly surrendered but also directly sold off all the Secret Realm beings, like 'Your Majesty, your subjects are ready to die in battle, why have you surrendered first?'
However, upon careful consideration, if one doesn't adopt the identity and mindset of a Chinese person, but instead uses those countries on Blue Star other than China as a substitute.
Although it was initially difficult to substitute due to incomprehension, after multiple attempts, the final conclusion was: if it were certain countries on Blue Star, they might indeed react in this way when faced with such a situation.
Moreover, the most outrageous thing is that the probability of such a result is not low. In fact, they might even do something more extreme. This is somewhat absurd.
Still somewhat confused, China's big shots, to be safe, once again consumed resources to initiate a new round of divination rituals based on this speculation. The divination result directly affirmed this speculation.
China's big shots were utterly silenced by the result of the divination.
However, incomprehensible as it was, after confirming that there was no danger or conspiracy in the 'pledge of allegiance' offered by the other side, China's big shots naturally accepted it with great joy.
Then came the various disputes and interest allocations among the big shots and forces. After a series of arguments, physical exchanges, and interest trades, the final result was reached.