143: Chapter 143: Something Happened Back Home

When Jiang Ning asked, "Who supports this, and who opposes it?" the entire conference hall became so quiet that a falling needle could be heard.

Everyone, including the representative from Country F who had just been the first to state his position, subconsciously held their breath and lowered their heads, not daring to meet her gaze.

At this moment, they truly experienced the meaning of "words carrying the weight of law" and the power of "life and death in one's hands."

Within this absolute domain suspended ten thousand meters in the air, this woman's will was the only truth.

Time passed, second by second.

No one spoke.

Silence was the best answer.

“Very good.”

Jiang Ning nodded, appearing very satisfied with this result.

“Since no one has any objections, then from this moment on, the agreement is officially in effect.”

“Director Zhao.” She turned her head and looked at Director Zhao Lixin.

“Present!” Director Zhao Lixin immediately stood up, his back straight as a ramrod.

His face was filled with an irrepressible excitement and pride.

Today, he had witnessed history with his own eyes.

He witnessed Xia Country leap from being a participant and follower of the international order to becoming the creator and leader of a new order!

And the one who created this miracle was the girl before him, who was younger than his own granddaughter.

“You handle the negotiations for the subsequent details with them.” Jiang Ning's tone was as if she were delegating a trivial matter. “I have only one principle.”

“Not a single word of any clause involving our core interests can be changed.”

“As for the insignificant matters, such as the order in which they receive infrastructure aid or what they offer in exchange, you can let them 'compete' for those themselves.”

“Yes! I guarantee the mission will be completed!” Director Zhao Lixin answered loudly.

He naturally understood Jiang Ning's meaning.

The so-called "competition" was to let them fight among themselves and bleed each other dry in order to vie for the "benevolence" of Xia Country.

An overt ploy.

A blatant, overt ploy.

But despite that, in the face of an absolute gap in strength, these people still had to obediently jump into the pit.

Having finished her instructions, Jiang Ning ignored the despondent national representatives.

She turned and walked straight out of the conference hall.

For her, this so-called "Global Summit" was already over.

What remained were merely technical issues of how to divide the cake.

And she had never been interested in dividing the cake.

She was only interested in how to make a bigger, better, and harder cake.

...

Jiang Ning returned to her temporary office on the top floor of the Peace Palace.

Calling it an office, it was actually just a vast, open platform where one could directly see the sea of clouds outside.

She sat cross-legged and began to organize the massive gains brought about by her breakthrough to the Golden Core and the emergence of "Sky City."

First was merit.

When she single-handedly suppressed the globe and established the Xia-led "New Psionic Order,"

A golden force of merit and aspiration, ten times larger than the previous "hand-crafted immortal island" and "tribulation ascension" combined, converged from all directions.

Part of this power came from the fervent worship and pride felt by the over one billion people within Xia Country.

The other part was even more peculiar.

It came from those countries that had just been forced to sign "unequal treaties."

It came from the billions of foreign citizens who were deeply shocked, subdued, or even terrified by her power.

Awe is likewise a powerful force of aspiration.

When a person's power is strong enough to crush all living beings, making everyone realize that obedience is the only choice,

Then this obedience itself will transform into a power similar to faith.

This massive golden light of merit flooded into Jiang Ning's body, rapidly stabilizing her newly attained Golden Core realm.

Her cultivation, which had only just entered the Golden Core stage, surged forward under the push of this power.

Early Golden Core...

Peak of Early Golden Core...

Mid-stage Golden Core!

In less than an hour, her cultivation had crossed a minor realm, reaching the level of the Mid-stage Golden Core stage.

If this cultivation speed were to spread to the Immortal-Mortal Realm, it would be enough to cause the collective mental breakdown of those old monsters who might not progress a single bit even after hundreds of years of seclusion.

At the same time, the system's notification sounds rang frantically in her mind.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the Epic Hidden Mission — "Founder of the New Order"!]

[Mission Evaluation: Perfect! Beyond Limits!]

[Mission Details: Facing the joint siege of the old world hegemonies, you did not choose compromise or retreat. Instead, you used the most direct and shocking method to show the world the meaning of "the power of Infrastructure Construction." You personally buried an old era and personally inaugurated a new epoch led by you. From today on, your name will become the only taboo and the highest myth on this planet.]

[Extra Achievements Earned:]

['Truth is Only Within Range': You used a clean and efficient orbital cannon strike to prove to the world that caliber is justice.]

['Flying Territory': You made everyone understand the ultimate dimensional strike of "you can't hit me, but I can hit you."]

['Unequal Treaty': You used an agreement to achieve strategic goals without shedding blood that would have taken decades of war in the past.]

[Comprehensive Evaluation: SSS-rank!]

[Reward Settlement in progress...]

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining merit points: 50,000 points!]

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining a special technical blueprint — "Cross-boundary Teleportation Array (Immortal-Mortal Realm Targeted Version)"!]

Fifty thousand merit points!

Looking at her total merit points on the system panel, which had instantly ballooned to nearly ninety thousand, even with her calm heart, Jiang Ning couldn't help but take a deep breath.

She was rich.

This time, she truly became wealthy overnight.

Ninety thousand merit points were enough for her to exchange for several top-tier treasures in the system mall that even those at the Nascent Soul Stage could use.

However, what she cared about more was the newly acquired technical blueprint.

“Cross-boundary Teleportation Array (Immortal-Mortal Realm Targeted Version).”

As the name suggested, this was a super-engineering project that could precisely locate and open a stable passage to the "Immortal-Mortal Realm."

“It's finally here.”

A trace of complex emotion flashed in Jiang Ning's eyes.

The Immortal-Mortal Realm.

That was her "hometown."

A place she was once incredibly familiar with, yet also loathed immensely.

There were strict hierarchies, cruel laws, and so-called "sect-mates" who would use any means necessary to fight over a tiny bit of cultivation resources.

She once thought she would never return in this lifetime.

But now, when the road back was truly laid before her, her heart was surprisingly calm.

Perhaps she could go back and take a look.

Not for revenge, nor to show off.

She just wanted those conservative, self-important old fogies to see.

What truly constitutes cultivation.

What truly constitutes the Great Dao.

Just as she was pondering how to plan the "return home" project,

Inside her storage space, the "star-fixing compass" she had seized from Sect Leader Lu Yun—which she had since repaired and modified—suddenly vibrated slightly.

A faint, intermittent message, as if it had traversed endless time and space, was transmitted from the other end of the star-fixing compass.

Jiang Ning sent her divine sense into it.

It was a distress signal sent using the unique encrypted divine sense of the Tianyan Sect.

The content of the signal was chaotic, filled with terror and despair.

“...Help... the sect... has been breached...”

“...Blood... there's blood everywhere... Master... is dead...”

“...Demons... they are devils... devouring everything...”

“...Spirit veins... exhausted... the world... is... collapsing...”

“...Save... save us...”

The signal stopped abruptly there.

Jiang Ning's brow furrowed.

Something had happened in the Immortal-Mortal Realm.

And it was something big.