189: Chapter 189: The Great Immortal Realm? I'll beat them all up!

Jiang Ning was still pondering how to spend those 1.5 million merit points—whether to first replace all the toilets in the Immortal Realm with smart ones or save up for something else.

Just as the thought popped up, she noticed the Command Center had become terrifyingly quiet.

The multicolored clouds overhead were blindingly bright, painting the entire sky in vibrant hues. Beneath the clouds, the thunder had ceased, and the wind carried the scent of all things returning to life.

Yet amidst this tranquility, the group of men from the Engineering Battalion in the Command Center, including Company Commander Zhang, were all dumbfounded, their mouths agape and expressions frozen. The way they looked at Jiang Ning was no longer just surprise; it was the look of mortals seeing a true deity—a mix of reverence and fear that left their brains paralyzed.

The education they had received since childhood was completely wasted today. This kind of event wasn't in any textbook, nor was it written like this even in myths and legends.

A person, right before their eyes, had shattered a core inside their body, popped out a tiny person, and then even the sky changed its appearance.

This was more bewildering than witnessing a nuclear explosion firsthand.

"Consultant Jiang... you..." Company Commander Zhang's lips trembled for a long time, his throat so dry it felt like it was smoking, before he squeezed out a sentence, "Have you become an immortal?"

Jiang Ning opened her eyes and let out a long breath.

The entire world felt different to her now.

She could "hear" every beat of the Pillar of the World deep within the planet's core, and could even sense the faint sound of a leaf falling onto a rock hundreds of miles away.

The sensation was as if she had been looking at the world through a layer of frosted glass before; now the glass was gone, and everything was crystal clear.

"It's too early to be an immortal." Jiang Ning stood up and stretched her neck, her bones popping and cracking. "I just swapped in a larger battery; the battery life is a bit longer now."

She said it lightly, but to the others, it sounded like a clap of thunder.

A larger battery? You call this a larger battery? Then what are we? We wouldn't even count as AA batteries, right?

Jiang Ning ignored their crumbling worldviews and turned her head to look at Manager Qian, who was huddled in the corner.

The old man had long since collapsed in terror, shaking like a leaf and wishing he could bury his head in the ground. To a Golden Core cultivator like him, the aura Jiang Ning released during her breakthrough was simply divine wrath.

"Manager Qian, get up." Jiang Ning's tone was flat. "The pillar is fixed. The subsequent daily maintenance and energy allocation will still need your Wanbao Pavilion to handle it."

Manager Qian shuddered and scrambled to his feet using both hands and feet. He bowed so low his waist was almost touching the ground. When he looked at Jiang Ning, his eyes were full of both fanaticism and dread, as if he were seeing a founding ancestor descended to earth.

"Consultant Jiang... No! Ancestor Jiang! Your merit in saving the world..."

"Alright, enough with the flattery." Jiang Ning waved her hand. "The job isn't finished yet."

Having his flattery cut short, Manager Qian's old face turned beet red. He didn't dare say another word and stood aside obediently.

Jiang Ning's attention returned to the main screen.

On the 3D map, the energy flow of the entire Immortal-Mortal Realm was clear as day. Although the Pillar of the World was fixed and outputting spiritual qi steadily, the spiritual vein network of the entire planet was still a mess.

The previous Silence Storm had wreaked havoc on this world. Now the source was plugged, but there was congested energy everywhere that could burst at fragile spiritual vein nodes at any moment.

"The main pipe is clear, but the small pipes underneath are all clogged and leaking everywhere." Jiang Ning pointed at the dark red high-risk areas on the screen. "We must thoroughly clear them and re-plan everything; otherwise, saving the world will turn into destroying the world."

Just as she thought this, the system panel in her mind popped up.

[Host has advanced to the Nascent Soul Stage. Unlocked 'Advanced Spiritual Vein Restoration: Planetary Array Chapter'.]

[Suggestion: Utilize the existing global spiritual energy tower network to construct a 'Merit Spirit Gathering Array' covering the entire planet. Fundamentally organize the spiritual veins and let the spiritual qi find its own optimal distribution plan.]

Below the panel was an extremely complex array diagram. This array used the Pillar of the World as the center, tens of thousands of spiritual energy towers spread across the globe as nodes, and the underground spiritual veins as the circuitry.

This wasn't just restoration; this was treating the entire goddamn planet as a circuit board and rewiring it.

A surge of engineer's excitement welled up; Jiang Ning felt this task was interesting.

She suddenly turned her head and looked at Company Commander Zhang.

"Company Commander Zhang!"

"Present!" Company Commander Zhang subconsciously stood at attention, his shout shaking the air.

"Pass down my order: initiate the 'Planetary Reboot Project'! Notify all engineering teams and all sects to switch their spiritual energy towers to 'Array Eye Mode' and max out their energy reserves! Within three hours, I want this array to cover the entire globe!"

"Yes, ma'am!"

Company Commander Zhang didn't understand a single word of what "Array Eye Mode" meant, but he understood "execute orders." He grabbed the communicator and roared with all his might: "Command Center orders! Initiate 'Planetary Reboot Project'! All units, all spiritual energy towers, switch to 'Array Eye Mode'! Energy reserves to one hundred percent!"

The directive traveled through the quantum communication network, instantly reaching every corner of the Immortal-Mortal Realm.

Qingyun Sect, back mountain.

The Sect Leader was leading the elders in bowing toward the Forbidden Land at the multicolored clouds that hadn't yet dissipated when his communicator suddenly rang.

After hearing the instructions, his face flushed with excitement: "Did you hear that! Junior Sister Jiang is going to reorganize the mountains and rivers! Everyone, get your asses over to guard the spiritual energy towers! Put every single spirit stone we have into them! If anyone drops the ball, I'll stuff them into the reactor as fuel!"

Blood Evil Sect.

The puppet new Sect Leader was trembling as he watched the miraculous sight in the sky.

When the order arrived, he jolted and scrambled out of the main hall.

"Quick! Reinforce the main tower! All disciples, hear my command: whoever dares to slack off will be thrown directly into the Blood Pool!"

In an instant, the entire Immortal-Mortal Realm was in motion. Righteous and demonic paths alike, under Jiang Ning's coordination, became gears in the same massive machine.

In the Command Center, Jiang Ning closed her eyes, and her consciousness instantly spread across the entire planet.

The Immortal-Mortal Realm became a 3D model in her mind that she could operate in real-time.

With a single thought from her.

Deep underground, those violent spiritual energies that had been clogged for thousands of years were forcibly cleared into a main channel by her, surging forward joyfully.

Next, in the dried-up "Endless Sea," countless cracks opened on the seabed. A torrent of spiritual qi gushed out, instantly filling the seabed; the pure spiritual qi even condensed into a layer of sparkling thin ice on the surface.

Finally, a massive energy net, centered on the Forbidden Land and following the planet's longitude and latitude lines, spread outward with incredible speed, eventually closing at the highest point of the sky!

At that moment, the spiritual qi of the entire Immortal-Mortal Realm instantly became docile.

Those chaotic and violent stray spiritual energies, after being filtered and transformed by the grand array, turned into the purest and gentlest nutrients, evenly sprinkling over every corner of the world.

In the mortal kingdoms, elderly people who had been sick for a long time felt their bodies lighten, and their chronic ailments actually vanished. The crops in the fields grew at a rate visible to the naked eye. In the major sects, countless cultivators who had been stuck for years felt their minds clear and broke through on the spot.

"A miracle... this is a miracle!"

Countless people rushed out of their homes—mortals and cultivators alike—and knelt devoutly toward the Forbidden Land.

In the Command Center, Jiang Ning looked at the global energy map on the screen, which had completely turned from red to golden-green, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Done.

[Ding! 'Merit Spirit Gathering Array' construction complete!]

[Planetary spiritual vein reorganization finished. World stability increased to 'Safe' level!]

[Obtained merit points: 2,000,000!]

[Host's current total merit value: 3,560,000!]

[Unlocked 'Nascent Soul Stage Infrastructure Manual', unlocked blueprints for 'Cross-boundary Teleportation Array Advanced Version (Immortal-Mortal Realm Custom)'!]

Looking at this income of two million, Jiang Ning felt great. This wave wasn't a loss; it was a massive profit! She was pondering whether to use these three-plus million merit points to build a Dyson Sphere first or to spread teleportation arrays across the entire galaxy.

Suddenly, blood-red warnings flashed wildly on the system interface.

[Warning! Detected high-dimensional spatial coordinate lock-on from the upper realm (Great Immortal World)!]

[Due to your forced repair of this broken world and the construction of an over-specified planetary-level array, you have seriously interfered with the upper realm's energy balance, attracting the attention of the 'Great Immortal World Inspector'!]

[The opponent is expected to descend into this realm via coordinates in three days. Please prepare accordingly!]

The smile on Jiang Ning's face froze instantly.

"I knew it, this job isn't that easy to do."

She raised her head and looked up at the sky, her expression no longer relaxed.

Great Immortal World? Inspector?

Jiang Ning gave a cold laugh.

"I just finished laying the foundation, and I was worrying about having nowhere to test the power of my new weapons."

"Whoever dares to come to my construction site to cause trouble, I'll show them what the 'Iron Fist of Industrialization' means!"