175: Chapter 175 Naming Room

The blue starry sky fell silent.

That yellowed photograph hovered above the black book.

In the photo, a young Liu Cuilan held a newborn infant.

Behind her, a woman who looked exactly like Liu Cuilan was looking down, holding a birth certificate.

The tip of her pen hovered over the "Child's True Name" column.

It hadn't descended yet.

Jiang Feng had already raised his hand.

*Snap.*

He pinned the entire photograph down from a distance.

The pen in the woman's hand also stopped half an inch above the paper.

A light chuckle echoed from the depths of the blue starry sky.

"You can stop a photograph."

"But you cannot stop the moment of birth."

Zero Seven's face turned pale, and she immediately spoke up.

"Mr. Jiang, this is a moment of an old birth."

"It's not a current record."

"It's tracing back to the point in time when you first arrived in this world."

Li Yan felt his scalp tingle.

"You mean this thing wants to travel back eighteen years to change Jiang Feng's household registration?"

Zhang Changlin's expression darkened.

"It's not changing registration."

"It's stealing a life."

Dragon Girl bared her small teeth, clutching the infant pod in her arms even tighter.

"The bad thing even knows how to file paperwork."

Jiang Feng looked at the woman in the photo.

"Try writing one."

The woman looked up.

Her face was indeed identical to Liu Cuilan's.

But her eyes were different.

When Liu Cuilan looked at Jiang Feng, her eyes held meals, sweaters, nagging, and a pile of trivial matters.

In this woman's eyes, there was nothing.

They were empty.

She gave a small smile.

"Child, you must have a name."

"Your mother didn't have time to fill it in back then."

"I will fill it in for her."

The pen tip descended.

Just as the first stroke was made...

Jiang Feng's right hand snatched forward.

*Boom!*

A section of the blue starry sky collapsed instantly.

He forcibly dragged the photograph along with the birth certificate out of the black book.

A System notification popped up.

[Detected: Original Birth Certificate Backup.]

[Function: Filling in True Name, binding God Name, overwriting reality household registration anchor.]

[Plunderable.]

Jiang Feng spoke indifferently.

"Plunder."

[Secret Art: Pangu Plunder activated.]

[Plundering Original Birth Certificate Backup.]

[Obtained All Attributes: 5 ganges sand.]

[Current basic six-dimensional attributes: 95 ganges sand.]

The blue light on the birth certificate instantly went out.

The woman's wrist in the photo jerked.

The pen snapped.

Li Yan was instantly amused.

"Good grief."

"Just as she was about to write, the pen was gone."

Dragon Girl nodded seriously.

"Master won't let her do her homework."

Zero Seven's lip twitched.

She realized she was actually starting to get used to this absurdity.

This was dangerous.

The blue starry sky began to vibrate.

The black book flipped its pages violently.

Page after page of old files flew out.

[Jiachen No. 17 Blue Star, Birth Records.]

[Dongjiang City Old Peoples Hospital, Maternal Records.]

[Paternal IOU, abolished.]

[Original Maternal Records, abolished.]

[Temporary Infant Ownership, abolished.]

[Childhood Shadow Key, abolished.]

Behind every page, a glaring red stamp was pressed.

[Plundered by Jiang Feng.]

Li Yan watched, dumbfounded.

"This book is quite self-aware."

"It even wrote its own post-mortem report?"

Zhang Changlin said in a low voice, "It's flipping through the old paperwork that's still usable."

Zero Seven added softly.

"There's not much left."

"Mr. Jiang has dismantled everything along the way, basically pulling out all its hooks."

Jiang Feng looked up at the black book.

"Still flipping?"

The black book paused for a moment.

Then, the pages flipped to the very end.

There was no blue light there.

Only a single page of black paper.

On the black paper, four words slowly emerged.

[True Name Vacancy.]

Zero Seven's pupils constricted.

"Oh no."

Li Yan frowned.

"What the hell is it now?"

Zero Seven's voice tightened.

"When everyone is born, the world recognizes an initial name for them."

"Even if they change their name later, there is an initial anchor."

"But Mr. Jiang's True Name column has always been empty."

"The First Blue Star didn't just decide to fill it now."

"It was waiting for Mr. Jiang to become a god."

Li Yan understood, and his expression became even uglier.

"Waiting for Jiang Feng to become a god, so the name becomes valuable before writing it down?"

"These things, their calculations are so loud I can practically feel the abacus beads hitting my face."

Zero Seven nodded.

"An ordinary name can only lock a person."

"A god's True Name can lock a deity."

On the black paper, the woman appeared once more.

This time, she wasn't in a photograph.

She stood in the center of the page, holding a second pen.

The barrel of the pen was made of bone.

Colorless blood dripped from the tip.

She looked at Jiang Feng and spoke very softly.

"Little Feng."

"Stop fighting it."

"Once your name is filled in, you will be complete."

Jiang Feng looked at her.

"You're quite persistent."

The woman smiled. "A mother is naturally persistent."

Jiang Feng raised his hand.

*Slap.*

A slap from across the air.

Half of the woman's face collapsed on the spot.

The entire blue starry sky shook along with it.

Li Yan took a breath.

"Satisfying."

"I could watch that slap ten times."

Dragon Girl's eyes sparkled.

"Master is hitting the fake grandma."

The woman's face slowly recovered.

But the bone pen in her hand had already developed a fine crack.

She finally stopped smiling.

"Jiang Feng."

"You have already become a god."

"You cannot go forever without a True Name."

Jiang Feng nodded.

"That actually sounds like something a human would say."

He reached out his hand.

"Give me the pen."

The woman paused.

"You want to fill it in yourself?"

"Yes."

"Once a True Name is written, it cannot be changed."

Jiang Feng looked at her.

"Which is why I can't let a thing like you touch it."

The woman's face turned completely cold.

The bone pen in her hand suddenly stabbed toward the black paper.

Not to write.

But to stab directly into the [True Name Vacancy].

Zero Seven cried out.

"It's trying to force an imprint!"

Jiang Feng stomped his foot.

Over ninety ganges sand of basic six-dimensional attributes pressed down.

The entire blue starry sky collapsed three layers deep on the spot.

The black book emitted a piercing grinding sound.

The bone pen was still an inch away from the paper.

Jiang Feng had already arrived.

He grabbed the woman's wrist.

*Snap.*

The wrist broke.

The bone pen fell.

Jiang Feng reached out and caught it.

[Touching: Original Naming Pen.]

[Function: Writing True Names, defining ownership, locking god sources.]

[Plunderable.]

Jiang Feng said, "Plunder."

[Secret Art: Pangu Plunder activated.]

[Plundering Original Naming Pen.]

[Obtained All Attributes: 8 ganges sand.]

[Current basic six-dimensional attributes: 103 ganges sand.]

The bone pen turned into colorless fragmented light in Jiang Feng's palm.

Then, it condensed back into an ordinary ballpoint pen.

The blue starry sky fell silent.

Li Yan stared at the pen with a complex expression.

"This thing... why is it so down-to-earth?"

Dragon Girl said seriously, "Master likes things that are useful."

Zhang Changlin also nodded.

"Ballpoint pens indeed don't leak ink."

Zero Seven no longer knew what to say.

The Original Naming Pen.

A supreme rule capable of locking a god's True Name.

After being plundered by Jiang Feng, it looked like a two-yuan pen from a stationery store.

Absurd.

But very Jiang Feng.

Jiang Feng held the pen and looked at the black paper.

The woman finally panicked.

"You can't write!"

"The True Name Vacancy belongs to the First Blue Star!"

Jiang Feng ignored her.

In the first column of the black paper, he wrote two words.

[Jiang Feng.]

The black paper vibrated violently.

The next column automatically emerged.

[Mother:]

The woman shrieked, "Write First Mother!"

Jiang Feng set the pen to paper.

[Liu Cuilan.]

*Boom!*

The entire black book exploded with countless cracks.

Old maternal anchors attempting to connect to Liu Cuilan were crushed by the "Maternal Anchor Non-Registration" authority as soon as they appeared.

Not a single chance was given.

A System notification sounded.

[True Name self-filling complete.]

[Reality anchor confirmed: Jiang Feng.]

[Mother anchor confirmed: Liu Cuilan.]

[Father anchor confirmed: Jiang Jianguo.]

[Family affiliation confirmed: Tianshu Dragon Garden, Dongjiang City.]

[Original Blue Star has no authority to overwrite.]

[Obtained special Divine Right: True Name Self-Retention.]

[Effect: No external existence can write, tamper with, call upon, or lock the host's unique True Name.]

[Reward All Attributes: 10 ganges sand.]

[Current basic six-dimensional attributes: 113 ganges sand.]

Li Yan slapped his thigh hard.

"Beautiful!"

"This is what it means to fill in your own life!"

Dragon Girl's tail curled up in excitement.

"Master's name looks good."

Zhang Changlin looked at that line of text and whispered:

"From today on, the people of Blue Star no longer need to fear having their fates written by them."

Jiang Feng reached out and tore off that page of black paper.

Then he threw it to Zero Seven.

Zero Seven caught it hurriedly.

"Mr. Jiang, this is..."

"Evidence."

Jiang Feng looked at the black book that was about to split apart.

"Take it back."

"Let Xiao Zhenjiang and the others see it."

"In the future, all birth records, Awakening records, and God Name records on Blue Star cannot be left for outsiders to fill."

Zero Seven was stunned for a moment.

Then, she nodded vigorously.

She understood.

This wasn't just Jiang Feng's business.

This was the first stroke of a new order.

Deep within the black book, the woman's body began to disintegrate.

Her face, identical to Liu Cuilan's, also peeled away bit by bit.

Beneath it, there were no features.

Only a layer of blue skin.

She stared intently at Jiang Feng.

"Do you think you're free just because you filled in your own True Name?"

"Jiang Feng."

"Names were not invented by us."

"The First Blue Star was merely registering them on behalf of someone else."

Li Yan's expression changed.

"What do you mean?"

The woman's mouth split open.

"You think the production line is the source?"

"Wrong."

"The Pangu model was merely a batch of pioneering tools from the old era."

"The one who truly wrote the words 'Pangu' is not on Blue Star."

Jiang Feng's eyes flickered.

The woman raised her hand and pointed to the back of the black book.

There was a golden seal there.

On the seal, there were no Blue Star characters.

Only an ancient symbol.

Like a closed eye.

Or like an inverted chess piece.

When Zero Seven saw that symbol, her whole body froze.

"Wuliang Heaven has no such mark..."

Zhang Changlin said solemnly, "A higher level?"

The woman chuckled lowly.

"He has awakened."

"Filling in your own True Name is equivalent to refusing registration."

"Those who refuse registration will be personally corrected by The Namer."

As the words fell...

The black book exploded completely.

The blue starry sky vanished.

Jiang Feng and the others stood once again upon the ruins of the First Middle School.

But in the center of the ruins, a small golden door had appeared.

The door was very narrow.

Only wide enough for one person to pass through.

A sign hung on the door.

A line of text was written on the sign.

[Naming Room.]

From inside the door, the sound of pages turning could be heard.

One page.

Another page.

Then, an aged voice spoke.

"Jiang Feng?"

"This name is unqualified."

"Come in."

"I will change it for you."