Zhang Xiaoman took a deep breath and gradually calmed his excited heart, a serious expression starting to form on his face.
"So now, all I have to do is write the name of the gang on this..."
Zhang Xiaoman looked at the Jade Token in his palm, his other hand slowly beginning to lift the brush.
"To establish a gang... well... let’s call it Star Alliance..."
This name came to Zhang Xiaoman after seeing the Enlightenment Kaleidoscope; he felt it sounded quite good, so he decided to use it directly.
Moving the brush slowly, Zhang Xiaoman carefully inscribed the name of his gang on the back of the Jade Token.
His handwriting was ugly, barely legible, but thankfully, nothing went wrong.
After finishing, Zhang Xiaoman put down the brush and quietly waited for a moment, wanting to see what, if any, changes would occur.
Looking at the crooked characters "Star Alliance" on the Jade Token, Zhang Xiaoman’s mind involuntarily began to recall all the tall tales he had told recently and that fictitious organization...
"Hmm... I never thought I’d actually draw an item that could establish an organization... I wonder if the System would give me some kind of gang territory or something..."
Zhang Xiaoman quietly waited for the changes that might occur next, even preparing himself to experience another anomaly.
Then, after about two more minutes, the Jade Token still hadn’t changed at all, it remained as it had been before without the slightest alteration.
Just as Zhang Xiaoman began to question if he had failed, he suddenly felt a lightness in his hand. When he looked down again, he was shocked to discover that the Jade Token had, at some unknown point, crumbled into a handful of fine powder.
"This, this... what’s going on... how did it just crumble... Could it be that the composition from those nine types of fur was wrong, so the item automatically destroyed itself?"
A sense of alarm struck Zhang Xiaoman, but before he could say anything, he felt something unusual in his palm.
Hurriedly checking, he discovered a neatly folded small piece of paper underneath the clump of green powder.
Clutching at a sliver of hope, Zhang Xiaoman unfolded the paper, only to be surprised to find that the content was much larger than expected—a map.
Zhang Xiaoman’s gaze focused intently on the map, and after a moment, an attribute panel suddenly appeared in his field of view.
——Go forth and find, then activate your gang!
Upon seeing this, Zhang Xiaoman paused for a moment and then let out a long sigh of relief, his anxious heart finally settling down.
"So it wasn’t a failure... I was scared to death. I thought I had lost my Ultimate Item just like that..."
With that, he looked back at the map and said in relief,
"As long as it’s not a failure, I can deal with searching for something... It’s much better than having nothing at all..."
He then began to scrutinize the contents of the map in detail.
"Eh? This map looks so familiar. Could this be the Pacific Ocean?"
Zhang Xiaoman was increasingly surprised as he looked at the scene depicted on the map before him.
He hurriedly opened the electronic map on his computer and started comparing it with the map in his hands.
After a while, Zhang Xiaoman finally confirmed that the map in his hands indeed depicted Earth’s largest ocean—the Pacific Ocean.
"Only, I don’t recall there being such a large island right in the middle of the Pacific Ocean..."
Zhang Xiaoman starred at the map in his hands for a long time before looking again at the electronic map on his computer screen, his mind flooded with question marks.
"Could it be that this map isn’t of our world? Could it be from another parallel universe, where Water Blue Star has this island, but in reality, our world doesn’t have the island shown on the map?"
Zhang Xiaoman shivered at the thought. If that was really the case, had he been busy for nothing?
"No, no, it can’t be that simple... This thing is an Ultimate Item, after all; it shouldn’t have such a big loophole..."
Zhang Xiaoman furrowed his brows and pondered, trying to find the key point.
"Maybe there has always been an island here, and it’s just that the governments of various countries don’t know about it... After all, the world is so big; there are many places in the sea that have not been explored, right..."
As he came to this conclusion, he couldn’t help but smile wryly and shake his head, glancing at the island on the map that was comparable in size to Ero Country and located right in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
To say it had never been discovered all this time, he himself didn’t believe it.
"The area of this island, just by eyeballing it, is probably close to a million square kilometers... Such a large place, if it really existed, would absolutely be known to others... Unless it appeared out of nowhere ’whoosh’ just like that..."
As Zhang Xiaoman thought this, his face suddenly became startled, and then his eyes widened:
"Perhaps that’s really the case! Maybe it’s a place just created by the System! Since it’s an Ultimate Item, it should be possible!"
With this thought, he felt his fighting spirit renewed and his gaze towards the map became more determined.
"No matter what, I must go there and check it out! Even if there’s no island, I’ll go to the spot marked by the System to figure out what’s there! Maybe there’s a Teleport Gate that could take me to that parallel plane or something!"
Zhang Xiaoman was emotionally stirred, his decision firmly made: "Tomorrow! I will set out tomorrow to find that place! After all, I would never give up such a precious opportunity by doing nothing!"
Within the limitless universe.
On a blue planet, inside a virtual game called "New World".
In the depths of the vast starry sky, a man in Purple Gold Armor stood proudly in the void.
Around him were many other players, all dressed in the same style of battle robes.
"Back in the day, during the beta testing of ’New World,’ due to a BUG, information about the Sect Establishment Order was leaked," said the man in Purple Gold Armor as he held it flat in one hand, his stern face exuding confidence and looking around with a piercing gaze.
"It is said that by using this Sect Establishment Order to create a gang, anything you think about at the moment of using it can be directly realized! With it, we can establish a legendary Gods’ Gang! Once that happens, I will become the Creator God! And you will all be crowned as Divine Beings of the universe!"
His voice was passionate and fiery, his smile devilishly confident.
However, because of his over-enthusiasm, he failed to notice the peculiar looks from the gang members around him.
"B-Boss... your hand..." Finally, one of the underlings couldn’t help it.
The man in Purple Gold Armor cast a sharp look over, seeing a minion nearby shivering while pointing at his own palm.
"Who gave you permission to point at me? Go back and cut it off yourself," the man said indifferently, then shifted his gaze to his left hand which had been holding the "Sect Establishment Order."
"What! Where’s my Sect Establishment Order!?"
His gaze suddenly narrowed, and his face revealed a shocked expression.
At that moment, a close confidant stepped forward to whisper in his ear, recounting the recent events.
The man’s face turned as cold as ice, and a dangerous gleam flickered in his eyes as a hellish fury began to burn within him, as if ready to consume everything under the heavens.
"Ye Liangchen! It must have been him! In this world, there’s no one other than him who could steal something from my, Long Aotian’s, hands!!!"
The man let out a long howl to the heavens.
"Ye Liangchen! You wait for me!! I, Long Aotian, will take my revenge!!!!!"