According to the original plan, Klein would go to find the board member behind him immediately after receiving the reader, and then the board member would convene a board meeting to jointly discuss the purpose of balancing the Intelligent God.
However, the plan failed just as it began.
Klein found Director Pulang, but this board member of Universal Giant Corporation directly decapitated him.
As a top figure at Universal Giant Corporation, Director Pulang’s inherent qualities positioned him naturally against the Intelligent God.
Lu Yan couldn’t comprehend how such a board member would actually side with the Intelligent God and even kill Klein, who reported the matter.
Klein’s face still bore an uncontainable shock, and liquefied spiritual energy dripped continuously from his neck.
Subsequently, the spiritual energy transformed into flames and devoured Klein’s head.
There was no concealment in Pulang’s actions, so it was naturally discovered by the upper-rank spiritual ability users who were shocked upon seeing the death of Klein, their initial excitement over Director Pulang’s appearance was doused with a bucket of cold water.
"Director Pulang, what on earth are you?"
Director Pulang did not speak but instead extended his hand dispassionately toward all the upper-rank spiritual ability users. The rıghtful source is 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵✦𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮✦𝓷𝓮𝓽
The next moment, a nearly tangible wave of spiritual energy crushed down overwhelmingly, making all the upper-rank spiritual ability users seem like insects trapped in amber, unable to even move their eyeballs.
His five fingers slowly closed together, and under the crushing wave of spiritual energy, the bodies of the upper-rank spiritual ability users began to distort.
Their bodies fractured, and the gushing spiritual energy liquid, upon leaking, was instantly frozen in the air, leaving the entire Upper City District in dead silence.
The bodies of the upper-rank spiritual ability users twisted and crumbled under the terrifying spiritual energy wave, their fear almost taking tangible form, yet Director Pulang was unmoved.
When his five fingers fully closed, over a dozen upper-rank spiritual ability users shattered explosively, leaving a cascade of brilliant fireworks in the empty bodies.
Thousands of meters away, the ghost controlled by Lu Yan stared blankly at the scene before it.
At this moment, there was only one thought in his mind.
"Golden Core Stage! Absolutely Golden Core Stage!"
Annihilating over a dozen Foundation Establishment cultivators with a wave of the hand—Lu Yan couldn’t think of any possibility other than that he was a Golden Core Stage powerhouse.
Even more so, this Director Pulang was among the stronger ones within the Golden Core Stage, which immediately made Lu Yan recall what Scott’s father had said.
The other party claimed that in the Upper City District of City No.14, there was an extraordinary psychic overseeing it, which was clearly Director Pulang.
The chaos stirred by Lu Yan using the truth about the Intelligent God was easily suppressed by the other party with just his own strength.
On more than two hundred exploding floating islands, there were naturally far more than just those upper-rank spiritual ability users who jumped out; most were watching.
They were also aware of the Intelligent God’s plot, but refrained from resisting due to the overwhelming power held by the Intelligent God, choosing instead to observe and wait.
But with Director Pulang’s appearance, instantly killing all resisting upper-rank spiritual ability users with a simple gesture, everyone chose silence.
Regardless if what the reader said was true, about the Intelligent God exploiting souls to create a Soul World, it was nothing more than abandoning the physical body to cast one’s soul into another world.
Even if suffering a bit, it was preferable to being killed on the spot now.
Director Pulang’s indifferent gaze swept over each floating island, as if it could penetrate the void and take in everything.
Afterward, Director Pulang transformed into a stream of light and returned to the top layer of the floating island.
At this point, the Upper City District fell into silence, leaving only those exploding floating islands still burning fiercely.
Moments later, several massive battleships descended slowly around the Upper City District, each over a kilometer in length, their black armor concealing countless lethal weapons inside.
A large number of mechanical soldiers marched out of the battleships, and in their hands were not weapons, but rather comically large fire extinguishers, starting to help extinguish the fires on these burning floating islands.
Everyone in the Upper City District knew this was a warning from the Intelligent God.
If the mechanical soldiers could handle fire extinguishers, they could just as easily wield lethal weapons against formidable enemies.
With coordination from the Universal Giant Corporation board, they might still contend against the Intelligent God.
But since the board had already sided with the Intelligent God, they were completely single-handed and unable to do anything.
It should be noted that both Director Pulang and the sky battleships possessed the power to utterly destroy the Upper City District, not to mention the unknown aces the Intelligent God had left behind over the years while controlling Universal Giant Corporation.
A rebellion supposedly targeting the Intelligent God was thus brutally suppressed.
As the instigator, Lu Yan’s expression was also gloomy at this moment.
He knew from the start that any resistance from the people in the Upper City District would not succeed, as the Intelligent God was overwhelmingly powerful, making it impossible to contend against with only one side’s strength.
Yet Lu Yan never imagined that the struggle would end at the mere beginning.
From high-end combat power to the mechanical army, practically all aspects were crushed, and this was even under the Intelligent God’s intention to maintain the existing order.
Lu Yan didn’t continue staying in the Upper City District but chose to withdraw his ghost to the Lower City District.
Pondering over the events of tonight, Lu Yan sighed after a long while and muttered to himself:
"Although the original plan was disrupted, this operation was not entirely fruitless.
The first gain was to reveal the truth to the people in the Upper City District, leaving a seed within everyone.
Even if most people chose to remain silent tonight, it was because the real crisis had not yet confronted them directly.
From this day on, the people in the Upper City District should start to prepare themselves, and if it truly comes to the final step, someone will inevitably choose to rise and resist."
"As for the second gain..."
Lu Yan’s mind flashed with the image of the extraordinary psychic comparable to the Golden Core Stage.
Director Pulang appeared so swiftly that even Lu Yan was taken aback.
When Director Pulang observed all the floating islands in the Upper City District, the ghost was also within its range.
Ordinary spiritual ability users cannot see ghosts due to not cultivating their souls, but upon becoming upper-rank spiritual ability users, who have gone through soul metamorphosis, they can glimpse the existence of ghosts.
Moreover, the soul of an extraordinary psychic is even more powerful, which theoretically means under the gaze of an extraordinary psychic, a mere ghost should have no place to hide.
But oddly enough, Director Pulang showed no reaction, as if he didn’t see the ghost at all.
Combining this with Director Pulang’s betrayal of his own class interests by killing Klein and suppressing all rebels, Lu Yan realized a very important fact.
"Director Pulang might not have betrayed; it’s highly likely he has already been controlled by the Intelligent God!"
"The reason Director Pulang cannot see the ghost is because the Heavenly Dao Code inscribed on the ghost can deceive the Intelligent God.
Being controlled by the God instead makes him unable to see the existence of the Heavenly Dao Code!"