29: My classmates are gods, so who am I?

That crack.

It was just the beginning.

In the eyes of everyone, filled with horror.

The hair-thin crack seemed to come alive.

In an instant, it covered the entire ten-meter-tall giant stone tablet!

"Crack... Bang!"

Accompanied by a sound like shattering glass.

The Awakening Stone Tablet, which carried the Great Xia Country's millennium of destiny and was hailed as the empire's foundation.

Under Su Ke Ke's fingertips, it disintegrated with a crash!

It didn't turn into rubble.

Instead, it sublimated into billions of particles, shimmering with golden light.

Like a splendid dream of fireflies, they swirled and danced.

Immediately after.

All the points of light, as if summoned by an supreme will.

Frantically converged, compressed, and reshaped towards the center!

A towering figure.

Formed by pure light and law, descended upon the world!

He wore a dark imperial robe with a five-clawed golden dragon and a flat crown.

Twelve jade tassels swayed with his breath.

Obscuring his eyes, which contained the sun, moon, and stars.

He just stood there.

A supreme majesty, originating from the depths of his bloodline and spanning a thousand years.

Enveloped the entire square like a deity.

All the students, teachers, and even General Gu Tiancheng, who was observing from thousands of miles away through a screen.

Felt their souls tremble at this moment.

Their bodies uncontrollably wanted to prostrate in worship!

"It's... it's the Great Ancestor Emperor!"

The white-haired principal, who had studied the history of Great Xia his entire life.

Cried out in a voice trembling to the extreme, then his knees went soft, and he respectfully knelt down.

The founding monarch of Great Xia.

The man who only existed in historical records and myths.

Had returned!

The phantom of the Great Ancestor Emperor.

First, he glanced at the stone tablet, which had turned into light dust and was swirling around him.

There was no anger in his eyes; instead, a hint of relief and liberation shone through.

Then.

His gaze, filled with endless majesty, fell upon Su Ke Ke.

First, there was astonishment, then an uncontrollable shock.

Finally.

All emotions transformed into a resounding, incomparably bold laugh that echoed through the clouds!

"Good! Good! Good! Hahahahaha, very good!"

"I exhausted my life, opened this realm, and protected the human race's heritage for a thousand years. I originally thought there would be no more waves in later generations. Who would have thought that from the bloodline of my Great Xia, such an unparalleled prodigy as you, whom even I cannot see through, could be born!!"

As his voice fell.

He suddenly raised his hand, pointing to the sky!

Throughout the Great Xia Country.

Innumerable invisible golden dragons of destiny soared into the sky!

Converging into a torrent that pierced through heaven and earth, roaring as it surged into his palm.

He didn't hesitate.

He transformed this energy, which had condensed the entire nation's millennium of destiny.

Into a pure golden, lifelike dragon-shaped imprint.

And gently pushed it towards Su Ke Ke.

The dragon imprint had no aggression whatsoever.

Instead, it carried a gentleness and reverence, like that of a subject towards a monarch.

It gently flew before Su Ke Ke.

Imprinted itself on her hand, and then disappeared.

This was not a reward; this was the bestowal of authority!

It was the emperor of the old era, offering to the deity of the new era.

The supreme governance of the entire nation!

In the command center.

Gu Tiancheng had already led all his soldiers to stand and salute the screen solemnly.

His eyes were red, his body trembling with excitement, and he roared his order:

"Highest red alert! Seal Jiangcheng! Everything that happened today shall be defined as 'Divine Birth Day'! Miss Su Ke Ke's status, from today onwards, shall be the highest faith of my Great Xia!!!"

After completing all this, the phantom of the Great Ancestor Emperor began to become transparent.

He looked at Su Ke Ke with satisfaction.

As if he saw an incomparably brilliant future for Great Xia.

Just before the phantom was about to completely dissipate.

A voice, carrying weariness and solemnity.

Rang directly in her mind:

"Descendant... be careful of 'Above'... I did not ascend, but was... 'taken away' by 'Them'... They... will come for you..."

The Great Ancestor Emperor's final warning.

Like a cold needle.

Instantly pierced through Su Ke Ke's layer of divine indifference.

A chill, originating from the instinct of life.

Crawled up her spine.

Making every hair on her body stand uncontrollably on end.

Who were "They"?

"Hiss~"

An unknown existence capable of making a peak 7th-stage founding monarch.

Use such humiliating words as "taken away."

The terror and immense power behind it needed no further explanation.

The very next second after the Great Ancestor's phantom dissipated.

A piercing roar came from the sky.

Dozens of armed helicopters, emblazoned with the Great Xia military emblem.

Broke through the clouds and hovered over the square.

Innumerable Soul Suppression Bureau special agents, clad in black combat suits and exuding a fierce aura, descended from the sky.

Quickly sealing off the entire campus.

General Gu Tiancheng's figure appeared on the gangway of one of the helicopters.

His gaze was fervent and respectful as he looked at Su Ke Ke, and he spoke through a loudspeaker, his voice echoing throughout the city:

"Welcome the Guardian Deity to her rightful place!!!"

At this moment, Su Ke Ke understood.

Her brief and warm "mortal life" was also coming to an end.

In the following days.

The entire Great Xia Country was plunged into an unprecedented wave of fervor.

The authorities, with overwhelming force, made everything that happened at the Awakening Ceremony public.

— The Great Ancestor's manifestation, the personal bestowal of national destiny, the descent of a deity!

The previously top-secret "Jiangcheng Ghost Realm Incident" was also declassified.

Su Ke Ke's great feat of leveling an A-rank ghost realm with a wave of her hand.

And the Great Ancestor's recognition intertwined.

Together, they forged the first epic of the new deity.

A brand new state religion, propelled by the full force of the government.

Was established at an astonishing speed.

Its name — "Calamity Wielding Sect."

The core of its doctrine was just one sentence: The Deity wields all calamities in the world, in exchange for the eternal peace of Great Xia.

Su Ke Ke's cold and aloof profile, captured during the Awakening Ceremony.

Became the sole official divine image.

Overnight, it replaced all celebrity idols.

Appearing on screens and shrines in every corner of the empire.

Meanwhile, at the eye of the storm, Jiangcheng No. 7 Middle School.

A bizarre and peculiar atmosphere was brewing.

In the classroom of Senior Class 3 (7).

Su Ke Ke's seat was empty, yet it was spotless.

On the desk, someone had placed a bouquet of wildflowers and two bottles of AD Calcium Milk.

All the classmates looked at the empty seat with complex expressions.

Finally, a boy couldn't hold back and wailed:

"Brothers, I'm losing it! Last week during the physics exam, I even copied Ke Ke... ah, no, the Deity's last big question! It turns out she got that question wrong too! I copied the Deity's wrong answer!"

"Then why don't you quickly ask the teacher to correct it! How can a Deity be wrong? Clearly, the question is wrong. If he doesn't agree, just say, 'I'm losing points, you're losing your life'... (he couldn't hold back and laughed)"

"That's nothing!"

Another classmate slapped his thigh, looking utterly resigned.

"Last month at the sports meet, I was in a relay team with her, and I even complained that she was running too slow, shouting from behind, 'Su Ke Ke, hurry up!' 'You're like a turtle!' Oh my god... I actually dared to rush a Deity! If I turn myself in to the Soul Suppression Bureau now, can I still get a lenient sentence?"

"No hope, just wait for the firing squad (facepalm)."

A girl in the front row slowly turned her head:

"I once lent the Deity an eraser, and it even had Peppa Pig on it... Do you think that eraser counts as a divine artifact now?"

The class discussion instantly veered off topic, and the atmosphere became lively and bizarre.

Just then, the class monitor pushed up his glasses.

And calmly said, with a tone that saw through everything:

"Haven't you understood yet? Why did the Deity want to attend classes with us, to experience all of this? Because she was tempering her heart in the mundane world, she was experiencing 'humanity'! We, the entire Jiangcheng No. 7 Middle School, are the coordinates the Deity used to anchor her own humanity!"

"We are not the Deity's classmates; we are a part of the Deity's mortal memories! This qualification is enough for us to brag about for a lifetime!"

At these words, the class first fell silent.

Then, a greater gasp of astonishment and cries of sudden realization erupted.

Meanwhile, in a corner of the campus.

Zhang Wei, surrounded by countless classmates and almost suffocating.

Finally found a chance to breathe.

She looked at the "All is well" message Su Ke Ke had sent her on her phone.

Zhang Wei felt both proud and a little lost.

Just as she was in a daze.

Several elderly men, dressed in ancient green robes and exuding a long-standing aura.

Like phantoms, they passed through the noisy crowd and appeared silently before Zhang Wei.

The leading elder ignored everything around him.

His gaze fixed intently on Zhang Wei.

He slowly unrolled an ancient scroll, emanating an aura of primeval times.

On the painting.

A majestic five-clawed golden dragon was soaring above the nine heavens.

The next second.

These elders, whose presence would make even Gu Tiancheng moved.

All knelt on one knee before Zhang Wei.

And solemnly said in an incomparably devout and excited voice:

"Your Highness, the ten-year period has arrived, the Dragon Vein has awakened, and we, by the last command of the Ancestral Dragon, are here to respectfully welcome you... back to the Ancestral Land!"

At the same time, in the live broadcast room.

The King of Ten Thousand Dragons touched his nose with his claw, wanting to sneeze.