Glorious God Throne

Chapter 163

“So, diamonds and glass, when mixed with plastic products that only serve to pollute the environment, might be hard to distinguish. But after a great fire, the difference becomes crystal clear.”

Retrieving the “Puppet Master’s Journal” from Adams’ hands, Bai Yi flipped through all the entries that Adams had marked, gaining a comprehensive understanding of the world’s changes over the past few days. He smiled and uttered these words.

Adams had perfectly completed the task Bai Yi had assigned him.

Not only did he mark the valuable content appearing in the journal, and screen a group of humans matching the “diamond” description according to Bai Yi’s previous instructions, but he had also deliberately observed up close and recorded everything he witnessed.

Whether it was basic information about the individuals – their names, identities, personalities, abilities – or their performance during the natural disasters, including some unknown secrets, everything was recorded and ultimately became part of the “Human Selection Plan 1.0” version.

After Bai Yi finished the Eternal Night instance, all these observational contents were naturally handed over to him.

Adams’ efficiency undoubtedly saved Bai Yi a considerable amount of time.

Bai Yi went through the entire diamond list that Adams had included in the human selection plan – these were undoubtedly individuals who had performed outstandingly during these few days, standing out from the ordinary masses and worthy of being called “high-quality humans”.

The list contained familiar names to Bai Yi, such as Li Fufeng and Liu Ningshuang from the Special Case Investigation Team, Baili Zhaoxue from the Haotian Temple, and other elites from official extraordinary organizations worldwide – as official elites, they had all played their respective roles during the global disasters of the past few days.

There were also names Bai Yi didn’t recognize, apparently hidden civilians who had rapidly risen during the sudden catastrophe. Whether through powerful extraordinary abilities, extraordinary calmness and wisdom, or their breadth of heart in saving others, their courage and responsibility at critical moments – all of these were revealed in the Puppet Master’s Journal, entering Adams’ observation, and after being carefully examined, their names made it onto the human selection list.

—After all, in the sudden raging fire, plastic products would quickly deform, twist, and expose their ugly state of environmental pollution. True diamonds would only shine more brightly in the fire sea, with their radiance even illuminating those around them and saving more helpless ordinary people.

While Bai Yi was flipping through the list, Adams quietly floated beside him, his dark eyes flickering, seemingly still able to recall everything he had seen and heard during these days.

How marvelous, he thought.

……The White King was right.

Diamonds, glass, and plastic might blend together in ordinary times, pretending to be the same, but this was ultimately just an illusion. When they needed to reveal their true nature, this layer of illusion was more fragile than bubbles in sunlight – perhaps blown away by a mere breeze.

The little ghost directly faced the bursting of this bubble for the first time.

Life and death, destruction and salvation, all played out numerous times across the world in these few short days amid continuously erupting disasters, leaving a deep impression on Adams.

There were those who exposed their ugly nature at critical moments, pushing others to die just to secure their own escape; those who went against the fleeing crowd, rushing toward disaster zones to save completely unrelated strangers. Some national leaders worked tirelessly day and night to develop plans for evacuating all potentially affected citizens, while others who had monopolized the most national resources would flee with their families at the first sign of disaster, completely disregarding the life and death of those whose resources they had exploited…

People abandoning their spouses, parents sacrificing their lives for their children, strangers with no prior connection coming together in solidarity during disasters, cultivators exhausting themselves to save more people with their extraordinary powers, criminals who reveled in the apocalyptic chaos and unabashedly released human evil, making the disaster even worse…

And extraordinary organizations attempting to enslave ordinary people amid the social order’s collapse, and cult members seizing the opportunity of people’s panic to preach and expand their religious enterprises…

Everything Adams observed in these few short days was enough to write an essay titled “Human Diversity”.

At that moment, Bai Yi, who had been reviewing the human selection plan list, suddenly paused, his finger stopping on a particular name.

“Oh my!”

He let out a slightly shocked short syllable.

The stopped finger was on a name he knew extremely well – Li Daotian.

“…This is truly unexpected.”

His former “fellow cultivator” had actually appeared on Adams’ list, becoming one of the noted “diamonds”.

—If this list were to spread, the others on the list would definitely think the list-maker had gone mad.

“White King, is there something wrong with this selection list?”

Adams, disturbed by Bai Yi’s movement, floated over like the wind and carefully asked.

“No, you did very well,”

Bai Yi smiled and patted the ghost.

“…I just felt a bit surprised to suddenly see a familiar name on the list.”

Adams’ gaze followed his finger’s direction, paused for a second, and then recalled, “Oh, that person! I remember that not just him, but quite a few people from that hospital were also included in my selection list.”

“?” Bai Yi was genuinely surprised, raising one eyebrow high, “Are you saying that from that hospital, quite a few people were actually observed and selected???”

He repeated the key words from Adams’ sentence.

“Yes, yes,” Adams nodded repeatedly, “Although it was a psychiatric hospital before, the patients were unexpectedly talented. They were all self-awakened Spirit Forgers.”

A long line of question marks formed in Bai Yi’s mind.

……Self-awakened Spirit Forgers? Seriously?

Adams answered seriously, “It’s true. Not just the Seventh Hospital, many psychiatric hospitals had patients becoming Spirit Forgers during this time, across various countries.”

—Ever since Joey publicly appeared in the Roland Kingdom, introducing the new extraordinary system of Spirit Forging to the world, and with Bai Yi’s deliberate promotion, everything progressed like a fast-forwarded film. The spread of the Spirit Forging system accelerated rapidly.

The Roland Kingdom, with the world’s strongest Spirit Forger Joey stationed there, had already become the headquarters of Spirit Forgers. Countless art academy students and teachers embarked on this new artistic path.

Countries like Yao Country and the Chenxing Empire, having established cooperation with Joey, obtained methods of cultivating Spirit Forgers from him and began selecting and nurturing talents with relevant potential within their borders – the selection methods, of course, were also provided by Joey.

After a round of selections across various countries, they discovered a shocking fact – psychiatric hospitals actually had numerous potential Spirit Forgers. At least each hospital could find one or two, and some hospitals discovered even more.

Like the Seventh Hospital, which had exactly five.

Even patients who weren’t discovered to have relevant potential had an extremely high probability of being cured by the Spirit Forging system and returning to normal. Therefore, Joey’s emergence first changed not the fate of art students, but the fate of mental health patients worldwide, allowing many hospital patients to be discharged, almost causing doctors and nurses to lose their jobs.

Bai Yi was greatly amazed. “It seems I’ve been paying too little attention to reality and have missed some interesting developments.”

Seeing his interest, Adams naturally continued talking.

Although many psychiatric hospital patients left, there were certainly those who chose to stay.

After all, many were completely alone, abandoned by their families and thrown into psychiatric hospitals. They might as well stay in the familiar hospital with their fellow patients.

Most people in the Seventh Hospital were in this situation.

This time, the Seventh Hospital was caught in a fire during a thunderstorm. Due to causal connections, everything happening in the hospital was revealed in the Puppet Master’s journal and naturally entered Adams’ constantly observing eyes.

—Because of the scale, this fire wasn’t in the “Heavenly Master of Divine Calculation’s” prophecy. After all, there were too many disasters erupting worldwide for Bai Yi to see everything. His prophecy targeted large-scale disasters.

Thus, when the unexpected arrived, everyone was caught off guard.

However, the Special Case Investigation Team had previously distributed basic Spirit Forging techniques to those with aptitude and a clean past. This included the five people from the Seventh Hospital.

—They played a remarkable role in this unexpected incident.

Especially Li Daotian, who had fantasized about immortal cultivation for decades. Nicknamed the “Immortal Guest”, after obtaining Spirit Forging techniques, he stubbornly believed this was an immortal secret method. Excitedly, he practiced intensively for a day and night. His intensely concentrated emotions and will actually merged, genuinely igniting his spiritual nature. Suddenly, an ethereal immortal robe materialized on his body, with lifelike immortal cranes floating across it.

Others: !!!

Upon verification, they discovered this was a type of illusion similar to the Painting Spirit, which could add floating abilities, physical defense against blades and swords, and other yet-to-be-verified “magical techniques”.

Everyone was overwhelmed.

……Fine, if he says he’s cultivating immortality, then he’s cultivating immortality. After all, no one has defined exactly how immortality is cultivated, so they might as well let him be.

Recalling how Joey insistently called Spirit Forgers artists and transformed his bizarrely aesthetic works into new artistic movements, they suddenly felt Li Daotian was quite normal.

Especially the Special Case Investigation Team, they had recently witnessed Shi Cheng, who had followed Joey, manifest an invisible sword during a mission to chase a wanted criminal, directly disrupting the target’s mental awareness and causing immediate remorse – and he insisted on calling this “martial arts”.

……Perhaps this was the traditional skill of Spirit Forgers?

After hearing the entire sequence of events from Adams, Bai Yi also fell into a strange silence.

……He suddenly felt like a random black pot had been placed on his head?

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