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Chapter 616: We Don

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Continental Hotel, Broadcast Hall.

"Medicines are running out! Quickly mass-produce them!"

"Artifacts! Immortal artifacts! Dao artifacts! Stock is about to hit zero! Emiya, stop cooking—!!!"

"Damn! Liu Li Ge, we're running out of heavenly treasures and medicines! Are they here to complete missions or go shopping?!"

Unlike the noisy background, Su Lin was currently sorting through his belongings while watching the Disney Park scene on screen.

The sun cast rare autumn warmth, adding a distinctive hue to the fairy-tale world built by money and capital.

Someone had arranged a wandering artist to paint Zhou Mingrui and Nyaa-chan as the White Horse Prince and Princess, riding the same carousel, and gifted the artwork to them.

A reenactment of Lu Mingfei and Hui Liyi's monster duo?

No no no.

These two are an evil god duo.

New York has no Asakusa Temple, but it has St. Thomas Church; the only problem is the church has no fortune slips, only confessionals.

"December 25th, go to church with Zhou Mingrui—they're holding a burning ceremony there."

Su Lin rubbed his chin, watching Nyaa-chan, who seemed deeply close to Zhou Mingrui, and sighed: "If only she were an ordinary girl."

Then I could conduct a heresy trial against the harem crowd.

Recalling his first time ever going to an amusement park with someone, it was with Zhongli and Ke Lan on Valentine's Day.

Back then, they'd brought a kid along—somehow, it felt sad.

"Should I take a girl to an amusement park too?" Su Lin muttered, his gaze drifting restlessly around the hall.

"Hui Liye, your good sister, the gray-haired witch— which girl do you want to take?"

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan, with dark circles under his eyes, passed by carrying a pile of energy potions: "Sorry, forgot this former sister-in-law was here."

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan nodded apologetically toward Fa La, who maintained the high-energy barrier, then dashed off toward the alchemy chamber where time magic had been cast.

Fa La asked curiously: "Did you finally fulfill your wish to build a harem in this timeline?"

"I'm just a mover of shambles," Su Lin said, smiling faintly at Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan's back.

Based on Su Lin's understanding of Su Tuoni, he was probably just talking nonsense.

Come to think of it, Su Tuoni hasn't shown up yet—could he have been slashed by a cleaver?

I was hoping to get another worker.

Meng Qi, over there as the Main God, was fully occupied maintaining the Cause of All Fruits for Yuan Huang Express:

"If you're bored, come manage the backend of the Main God Space!"

Unlike the bustling backend operations team, the founder and partner of this "Infinite Flow Main God Space" was far too relaxed.

"The Main God is that white-haired little girl over there."

Su Lin pointed to Dada Liya, who was using the Great Vow Ship's core to project the effect of all worlds, assisting Meng Qi's Cause of All Fruits in deploying reincarnators.

"Then you've got to work too!" Meng Qi said.

Faced with countless timelines, Su Lin and the others agreed to have Logos and the Living Tribunal expand the existence of the Holy Grail War to all cosmic histories.

The sole multiversal Holy Grail War, held simultaneously with the local variant Holy Grail War.

Thus, whenever a reincarnator participates in the variant Holy Grail War and dies or abandons their mission in New York to return to the reincarnation space,

the Sky Fragment they carried and left behind will be recovered by the replicated Holy Grails of each world before the altered history merges with the origin of the universe.

Ultimately, through the connection of wish-power and the Cause of All Fruits, it returns to the Great Holy Grail of the Type-Moon universe—the Root Vortex.

The plan seemed feasible, but it still lacked enough executors to ensure reincarnators got drawn in—or to make things bigger.

"Senior Su Lin, we're running low on fragments!" Song Shuhang sent a message to warn him.

Su Lin looked, pulled out his own Skylight, took a tiny sip, then transformed it into thousands upon thousands of tiny lights.

"Go." Su Lin waved his hand, and the Lord Haotian fragments flew into Meng Qi's jade cup.

Through the smartwatch—i. e., the Wanjie Tongshi Symbol in smartwatch form—they granted each player a temporary ID.

This familiar maneuver was precisely the reincarnator deployment method Su Lin (trained in the reincarnation space) had learned.

Coupled with the fact that players, upon first arriving in the entire universe, had previously disguised themselves as reincarnators to infiltrate, attempting betrayal, infighting, incitement, and self-destruction,

they decided to add a new gameplay element to this simulation universe: directly adopt and slightly modify the reincarnation space's system and missions for immediate use.

However, since Meng Qi could only use the Cause of All Fruits to recover those bearing the Wanjie Tongshi Symbol, he couldn't freely traverse spacetimes without causal links, so each team was deployed only once, with no further management of subsequent transmigrations.

"The effect seems pretty good—why not make it permanent?" Su Lin suggested.

Future missions in the simulation universe could also be issued under the Main God's name.

"Have you considered the total scale of the cultivation world?" Meng Qi's lip twitched: "Besides, when I did missions under the Six Paths, I never got doorstep online shopping."

Good deeds, points, credits—this temporary Main God Space had multiple reward and exchange channels, allowing players to exchange their existing resources and items at the "Six Paths Reincarnation Lord."

Commonly known as: the pay-to-win recharge channel.

"Isn't that fine?" Ye Fan smiled amiably, watching the inventory of the merchant guild continuously shrink while sales soared:

"Era demands progress, models must evolve—open your horizons, my friend, during the startup phase."

Meng Qi lowered his head: "You're born with the Capital Saint Body—you can say whatever you want."

Shipments pass through the Tiancheng Zhetian Merchant Guild as a transit hub; Ye Fan, using his inheritance technique of "controlling the uncontrolled," could still apply tracking, enabling real-time monitoring of reincarnators who picked up the spoils.

"Honestly, we never expected we could actually build a space like this," Su Lin's gaze swept over the group.

From logistics to platform to exchange catalog, they built it all in less than half a day.

To be fair, this efficiency was indeed much faster than before.

And now, with the Holy Grail War appearing throughout the entire universe, finding the Loki-hidden timeline deep within the Tree of Time won't be so easy.

One move, multiple benefits.

"But you," Meng Qi eyed him suspiciously: "Are you planning to pour all your resources into this?"

The spirits of all immortals, the souls of all sages, and the entire Type-Moon universe have merged with the history of the Marvel universe.

"Life sometimes requires a gamble," Su Lin smiled, handing Meng Qi a golden page:

"Use this when you're in a situation you can't handle—it has some side effects and danger, but you'll still be able to escape."

Was this an invoice written in unknown script?

At a glance, its meaning was understood; the signatory was "Fire Virtue Star Lord."

"If there's no situation you can't handle, you're giving it to me?"

Meng Qi didn't ask what use the Fire Virtue Star Lord's IOU had—he only knew that whatever this guy pulled out would never be simple.

"Dream on," Su Lin chuckled: "You'd be better off signing a contract with me."

"Brother, I'm the Cause of All Results, not merely the Cause of All Results." Meng Qi said seriously:

"You don't have to give it to me, but just like a company gives its executives a car, shouldn't a partner like me at least get the best sword in the village?"

Like the Azure Jade Void Sword, and the Azure Jade Void Sword, and the Azure Jade Void Sword, and so on.

"You're not a sword cultivator—I'll find you a cross someday. That one Anan wears as a disguise in the Chaotic Universe—the one hung by the Fallen God."

"I originally waited for some distant day, when I'd truly be lonely, to use the Sword-Nurturing Art to raise my own sword maiden."

"True shut-ins are terrifying—you should get out more, wander the martial world."

"The Sword and Qin Master Meng's advice is well taken."

Su Lin didn't understand why Meng Qi disliked this elegant title—it was at least prettier than "Furious Blade" or "Raging Golden Giant," wasn't it?

"I won't disturb your tallying of good merit."

Amid the "I-want-to-slash-you" gaze of the Lord of the Six Realms, Su Lin approached Yi Leina, who was constructing the spacetime conduit and modeling the Imaginary Tree.

After millennia of slumber, the Imaginary Tree's tendrils served as her bed, bearing the overflow of Imaginary Energy spilling from the spacetime conduit opened by "Joy."

If there was any difference between her and Su Lin, who had become a Star God, it was the absence of the ultimate wish凝聚 by a hundred billion lives, a singular yearning forged from countless souls.

—Hope

"Is it done?"

"Almost."

Yi Leina glanced at the model and said: "But I don't have enough Imaginary Energy."

"Leave it to me," Su Lin said. "Help me create a few otherworldly rifts in other Parallel Worlds—I won't have any energy left after this."

"Got it," Yi Leina nodded firmly.

"As for payment—"

"Do I look like some money-grubbing woman?"

Su Lin blinked, then followed her unintentional gaze and turned to look at Fa La, who was maintaining a high-energy field barrier under low-magic rules.

He rested his chin on his hand, smirking: "You look adorable when you refuse to be outdone for my sake."

"What self-indulgent nonsense are you spouting? Aren't the magics of Kamar-Taj payment enough?" Yi Leina pulled at her lip: "Stop smiling! It's disgusting."

"That's really hurtful," Su Lin slightly raised an eyebrow.

He stepped aside and walked past her toward the model that had form but lacked Imaginary Energy and reality.

"I'm setting a flag," Su Lin said in a voice only the two of them could hear:

"After this incident is settled, come on a date with me to the amusement park?"

"After watching so many other people's love stories, you've finally gotten restless?" Yi Leina replied with a faint smile: "It's nice to hear you say something honest once in a while."

"Only once in a while?" Su Lin smiled:

"I've always been honest about liking you, my witch."

Yi Leina's pupils shrank sharply; she instinctively turned her head away and coughed twice.

"Smooth-talking fellow"

The terminal buds stretched endlessly, as if sensing their essence resonating, actively clinging and winding around Su Lin.

It yearned for the true meaning of "existence."

Then, holy light burst from Su Lin's eyes, and a series of brilliant, toothed light wheels formed behind him.

As if a primordial light had sliced through the void, the tendrils rooted into the surrounding chaos, growing steadily into a true "Tree."

The light wheels behind him began to rotate; brilliant radiance surged from his chest, rushing toward the increasingly flourishing tree canopy.

For a moment, all things dimmed.

Fa La's eyes burned with greater curiosity—not just her, but anyone with spare attention turned toward this place, wondering what Su Lin would do next.

"The leap in power escalation is too huge," Shi Hao glanced at the Skylight fragment Su Lin had given him earlier for fusion effects: "Could I use it like this too?"

"Don't even think about it," Ye Fan looked at the fragment's color, his eyebrow twitching, repeating: "I strongly advise you not to."

While the two were speaking, night had fallen without notice.

But tonight, for the first time, spirits from different worlds did not clash, and reincarnators did not reveal themselves—everyone hid, because anyone who looked up could see:

Amid the star-strewn night sky, countless colossal bodies, too vast to measure, appeared within the Milky Way!

Creation Authority: 【Primordial Light】

Reality Support: 【Skylight】

With eternal, indestructible truth, prove the meaning of your existence.

Throughout the cosmos, ripples surged.

Then came the drumbeat of heaven, stars falling, amidst restless rhythms and melodies.

The Amber King's colossal arm, forged from countless particles, descended; his hammer struck the void, forging a star wall.

In an instant, as frost spread, a flicker of Fuli's prism-like face flashed from a condensed singularity in some corner of the universe!

Then came the ultimate stars, stirred by wind; heroic figures raised their longbows, arrows aimed toward infinite heights.

"Star Gods?"

Nanuk appeared, his chest bearing a massive scar, golden blood streaming from it; Xing said, "Shouldn't it be my turn to appear?!"

"Isn't the real question why that group of Star Gods is also here?" Stark said, stunned.

"Merely the manifestation of a Path—but if they haven't perished yet, they should still be accessible."

Su Lin watched the figure who held a mask, a monocle, dice, and a book, proclaiming to the entire universe, "I love you, my lord Bishop, like a rat loves rice," then vanished; his fist clenched tighter.

He hoped the Star Gods would distribute their Path power, broadening all Star Gods' Paths, and thus naturally allow the summoning of other Paths' power when needed.

This was an exchange of equivalence, and also a way to practice the Path.

As the symbol of 【Existence】, Su Lin could, wherever he went, unfold the Path he carried, elevating the Star Gods' collective vision if he willed it.

"Otherwise, in both numbers and overall strength, the players fall short of the reincarnators in the Reincarnation Space."

Under Su Lin's manipulation, the Path power and the information-creations imbued within the Primordial Light began flowing through the Fourth Catastrophe Simulation Device into the players' personal panels and inventories.

"You possess a fragment of the First Celestial Dome, capable of altering cosmic reality."

Farah drew her gaze back from the fully grown Numerical Tree and asked, puzzled:

"But under the burden of the Divine Prohibition, it will exceed your current limits—you won't be able to sustain it long."

After all, it was only a fragment, and what Su Lin was doing was dispersing power while inserting several different cosmic laws; normally this might be fine, but under the influence of the Divine Prohibition: Absolute Separation of Heaven and Earth, he had to resist another layer of correction.

"Hibari."

She was the frequent visitor who vanished without warning and appeared without reason, now holding a game console and a pineapple bun emblazoned with the Disneyland logo.

"Add a BUFF."

"The worst kind of man is one who only uses women!"

Hibari snorted, repeating the exact line of the twin-tailed golden-haired female character in the game: "I won't listen to you!"

She tapped the tree.

"Forever."

The artificial construct, stripped of power by the outside world, flowed and repeated in time, repairing and resetting itself, thus achieving actual eternal constancy.

This concept, in opposition to another, significantly reduced the burden.

"Too strong—tone it down."

Su Lin stepped out from the tree's entanglement and said, "The power of idealistic concepts is truly useful."

He looked wearily around; many eyes were filled with confusion, fixed on Higan Yama Hibari.

"Is something wrong?"

"You can impose 'forever' too?!"

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