"It’s done. What’s next? Recreate everything from scratch?"

  Morning Star heaved a sigh of relief after he had killed the last god in Heaven. He sneered at the creator in sarcasm.

  The once peaceful yet corrupted realm was now a half-destroyed dimension as Morning Star and Lilith eradicated all immortals, including all first-generation archangels.

  Michael was killed by Lilith per ordered by the creator.

  Morning Star destroyed Heaven by the order of the creator.

  The creator, in turn, destroyed Hell and all demons, emptying the Netherworld.

  On a black planet, no civilization remained. Only ruins, corpses, and soul fragments were left behind.

  Karma River no longer existed in this realm. No karmic chain or snake presented to give any immortal karmic power.

  Mortals in this universe were still clueless about what had happened to the afterlife worlds. They continued living their lives and enjoyed their ignorance. However, two of the culprits were exhausted even though their cultivation base was stronger than everybody else.

  16 broken black wings of Lilith no longer revealed their majestic aura. Their color dimmed as if she was on the verge of death from various soul injuries.

  Morning Star was in the worse shape. He lost count how many times that his soul injuries relapsed during the fight against a thousand 10-wing gods.

  On the other hand, the creator, currently appeared as a bald genderless humanoid being without an eye, a nose, hair, or an ear, smiled from ear to ear.

  "Well done, my children. Now that I have obtained all the lifespan I need, the next Heavenly Dragon Gathering Festival will be easy."

  Heavenly Dragon Festival?

  Lilith knew of this festival. It was something that she wanted to join, but the creator never revealed any information about its existence or detail."

  "What’s that festival anyway? Why did you have to kill off everything? If I had known that you wanted to free me to kill everyone, I would have stayed in that godforsaken dimension and raised Zhang Tong," Lilith complained in frustration.

  No monitor or any tool could open a portal to Tong’s universe unless the creator, the one who was holding the administrator power of this universe, created a new system skill and connected them.

  In fact, Lilim’s system and the creator’s system was the same. Each universe had one karmic river, one managing system, and one administrator. They were the three "One Law" that controlled the entire universe’s fate.

  But now, the creator’s universe turned into a broken one, while Tong’s universe was completed.

  "It’s an emergency, my children. You see, the festival is more important than managing this corrupted universe. Once I get a high rank in the festival, we can always recreate lives and repair the karmic river. I might even get to rule the higher dimension and other dragons!"

  The creator slowly transformed into a dragon, and his voice turned into that of a female. He revealed that he was a she. Her true form appeared as a one-kilometer-tall rainbow scaled fairy dragon.

  16 Rainbow wings slowly merged into a pair of semi-transparent sparkling wings. Her scales looked soft and fragile, yet they could withstand a full-power strike from any 12-wing immortals with ease.

  Her dragon figure was similar to Tong’s nine cursed children. Only, her skin color was different. Tong’s children were all red drakes, but the creator was a full-fledge fairy dragon. They were on a different level.

  The humongous size shocked Morning Star and Lilith.

  "What are you?"

  This was the first time that the creator revealed her identity.

  "Your creator, your ancestor, and your administrator, my foolish children. It has been fun playing with all of you for trillions of years. But it’s time that we have to part."

  The creator opened her mouth. A black hole emerged and pulled Morning Star and Lilith into it.

  Morning Star, aka Lucifer, stared at his father (now mother) with a bitter smile, "We did everything for you. I punished evildoers for you. I even betrayed my brothers and sisters for you. Is this how you repay us?"

  Lilith didn’t say anything. She mumbled something to herself before a red semi-transparent screen opened before her.

  [Will you transfer the Lilim Heritage Universe?]

  Lilith snickered. She was the one who renamed the fragmented universe as her daughter’s heritage. It would sound like an online game had she replaced the [Universe] with [Online].

  This was a fail-safe program that she had rigged the creator’s universe in the case that something bad might happen to her in this realm. She could abandon her body and send her soul into that world regardless of the dimension rift condition. With 16 wing strength, she wasn’t afraid of the risks during the transfer.

  "Yes!"

  [Rebirth in …… 3 …… 2 …… 1]

  [Enjoy your new life in Lilim Heritage Universe]

  Lilith’s body slowly disintegrated into nothingness. Yet, she sneered at the creator.

  "You can go and enjoy that stupid festival, mother! Once I see you again, you’ll pay for what you’ve done to me a billion times!"

  \r \r \r

  Lilith’s body and soul were no more.

  As for Lucifer, he closed his eyes and shed a tear. For the first time, he prayed for Tong, Friday, and Medusa’s safety.

  ’Medusa, I’m sorry that I’m a failure of a father. I should have allowed you to cultivate both arts.’

  ’Friday…… I hope that you can mature and become strong like your mother.’

  ’Tong…… Dong Zhou. I hope you can cleanse your soul and start anew. You have done your time…… more than enough.’

  ’All of you can’t return to this universe anymore. No matter what the future brings, live strong.’

  That was Morning Star’s last thoughts before he was sucked into the black hole in the creator’s mouth.

  The creator closed her mouth and scoffed, "Good riddance."

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  She clicked her tongue and dismissed the system menu in annoyance. However, she resummoned it again to peek at what Tong and others were doing.

  Several live broadcast screen appeared. The inter-universe link was never broken. Instead, it was her who told Athena to interfere with the trial and sent a backup goddess and Lilim into that universe.

  Everything was for the sake of creating a backup plan. The entire trial world that Tong was living in was there to serve as her new home in the case that she had died in the upcoming festival.

  ’Dong Zhuo is indeed a good seedling. Sending him to train in Hell and tossing him there was a good choice. Now, keep breeding and raising more monsters for me. Make them stronger than me or Lilith, so I can reincarnate as one of them. Oh, if I win at the festival, I won’t need them anyway. HAHAHAHA!!’ ……

  Lilith’s soul went through a dimension warm hole and arrived in Tong’s universe.

  Unfortunately, due to the hacking program that she had installed in the creator’s system in advance, she arrived at Lilim’s sub-dimension world, where Tong and Lilim kept their nine monsters here.

  Since Lilith’s real body was destroyed to trigger the transfer, her souls entered one of the drake monsters.

  Coincidentally, she got the body of Lilith, the monster with the same name.

  Lilith immediately disposed of the owner’s baby soul and took over the physical body.

  Upon gaining control of her new form, Lilith grumbled.

  ’8-Wing strength? How lame! I had 16, damn it!’

  The other eight siblings stared at Lilith as if they were aware of the change. They walked backward and hissed at Lilith.

  ’How cute! They sound like cats!’

  At first, Lilith wanted to kill all of them. But after seeing their innocent action, she changed her mind.

  ’I should improve this race. They’re so cute!’

  Lilith approached one of them. She got in front of Adam, a drake who stood in front of other siblings to protect them.

  *HISSS!* (You, who are you!?)

  Lilith smiled at Adam, "Relax. I’ve come in peace. I’m sorry that I’ve taken the body of your sister, but I mean no harm." ……

  Tong, Medusa, Friday, and even Liu Yang felt as if they almost had a heart attack.

  Liu Yang widened her eyes as she tried to locate the cause of the sudden shaking heart. Upon finding nothing, she bit her lower lips and gazed at the empty sky.

  ’This feeling, something is terribly wrong! It’s like one of my biggest karma chains has been forcefully cut off!’

  Dong Bai also clenched her heart and panted. Uncontrollably, teardrops rolled down on her cheeks as an image of Morning Star appeared in her mind. She wailed in front of other confused allies.

  As for Medusa, aka Diaochan, she frowned and swallowed her tear. She took a deep breath and looked at the North Star.

  ’Was it you, father?’ .

  Tong stopped chasing Liu Ping and clenched his chest, thinking that Liu Ping might have done something to him.

  "What the f.u.c.k did you do, Ping!?"

  The dragon skull on a flying bone saucer turned around. Its teeth clattered, yet Tong could hear Ping’s voice.

  "Leave me alone, Zhang Tong! We’ve fought enough! I want to live in peace!"

  It was a lie. Liu Ping could sense that he wasn’t strong enough to fight against Tong at the moment, so he was buying time.

  "Oh, really? Then, why is the system log record tells me that you’re planning to r.a.p.e my wives and torture me?"

  Tong flipped his admin monitors to Ping and revealed the detailed log file, which displayed Ping’s thoughts when he reincarnated into a skeleton body.

  "……"

  Ping stopped running away and transformed into a n.a.k.e.d human. He retained his previous life’s physical body and appearance, but his strength was that of an 8-wing demon even though he didn’t have any wing.

  Had Ping been able to cultivate, he would have become a true monster that Tong wouldn’t be able to defeat in his lifetime.

  Ping was also aware of this fact, and he was hoping to buy time until he could get his first wing.

  Unfortunately, Ping didn’t know that Tong and Lilim had the power to delete his cultivation strength. The power of the administrator was absolute.

  "You’re getting c.o.c.ky, Zhang Tong. You’re just a coward who relies on others to do your job!"

  "Are you sure? I killed you once in the previous life myself, and I killed you a billion times in Hell, no?"

  Ping’s anger soared. He stopped bickering with Tong as he had another idea.

  He planned to consume Tong’s body and get his revenge today! As long as Ping could touch Tong, the latter would die regardless of his cultivation strength.

  Ping charged at Tong at his full speed.

  Although surprised by the sudden attack, Tong’s muscle memory reacted in time. He dodged Liu Ping’s hand that came for his neck.

  Ping’s body expanded outward like a balloon. His skin transformed into bone frames before they detonated into small fragments, leaving only one human skull that was storing Liu Ping’s soul inside.

  A million bone fragments scattered everywhere. A hundred of them hit Tong’s body, but they couldn’t even cause a scratch mark on his skin.

  However, they got stuck to Tong’s body like glue, which was Ping’s aim.

  "I GOT YOU NOW, ZHANG TONG!! YOUR BODY IS MINE!!"

  The bone fragment began to absorb Tong’s life force. One piece of bone could drain 1,000 years of lifespan per second, and over a hundred of them got stuck on Tong.

  His attack was effective against stronger foes!

  But still, Tong didn’t look fl.u.s.tered. He raised his eyebrows, amused by Ping’s struggle.

  "Is that all you can do?"

  Tong fiddled his admin menu. He clicked Ping’s name, which was highlighted as an [Error Reincarnator].

  [Will you disable [Error Reincarnator]’s abilities?]

  "Yes."

  *RUMBLE*

  All bone pieces fell off from Tong’s body. They also released the life essence that they had drained from Tong back into the air.

  Tong didn’t mind that he lost half a million years of lifespan just now. After all, an administrator could deposit or withdraw lifespan from the universe pool.

  In the pool, Lilim stacked over a billion years in there to maintain the entire universe and the karma river. Tong could embezzle a few any time he wanted to.

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  Zuo Ci: "Don’t waste your lifespan, Dong Zhuo. Every year is precious. Think of the time when you’re still a mortal with less than a hundred years of life force."

  Tong: "I know. Ping just caught me off guard."

  As usual, Zuo Ci observed the situation and advised Tong from the sideline via the admin communication channel, which was similar to the clan chat system.

  Meanwhile, Ping sensed that something had infiltrated his mind. All of a sudden, he couldn’t feel the connection between his bone fragments and his power.

  "NOOOO!!"

  Ping screamed as his power slowly faded. The flame in his skull dimmed, and his consciousness blurred.

  Without special abilities, the skeleton, which was created by [Necromancy] system skill, disintegrated into dust. Ping’s soul was released into the world.

  Tong didn’t let Ping get away this time. He manipulated karma chains, which tied him and Liu Ping together for many decades. Although some of them were severed by Lilim, the grudge that they had formed a new chain.

  "Jesus Christ. I finally catch you, my boy. It’s time for some Hell!"

  Tong wouldn’t send Ping back to the river of reincarnation as the other otherworlders. After all, this bastard was beyond help.

  Chapter 547 - Epilogueception (1) (Yellow Turban Family / Former Enemies)

  Chapter 547 – Epilogueception (1) (Yellow Turban Family / Former Enemies)

  Tong got back to his kingdom at last. His family, wives, children, subordinates, friends, and his people celebrated for his return.

  Commoners cheered that their emperor was still alive and kicking. The majestic 10 demon wings were the proof that he was still in power.

  Everybody inquired about what had happened after his disappearance, and Tong told them about the deal he had with Lilim.

  When Diaochan, Dong Bai, and all officers heard that Tong tricked Lilim into giving him the system authority, they laughed for days.

  Tong resumed his emperor position and abolished the election plan to maintain his authority. Still, he started distributing wealth and land rights to common people, merchants, and his loyal subordinates.

  Since the country was unified, no one argued about their rewards. ……

  Years passed, yet the promised gate never opened. Tong, Medusa, Friday, Li Feihong, Liu Yang, and even Pu Jing waited for the home trip, but it never appeared.

  Tong tried to enhance his universe admin tools to see the other side, but he couldn’t find anything.

  Confused and baffled, they turned to Lilim, who was still under the influence of Tong’s brainwashing effect.

  Lilim regained her senses after 500 years of everyone’s help. Unfortunately, the [Eye of Domination] with the enhancement of a 10-wing demon at that time damaged her soul and her memory. She only remembered that Tong was supposed to be her husband, and they promised to be together forever.

  Without Lilim’s knowledge and experience about the administrator system, everyone was at a loss.

  By the time that it reached 1000 AD, all otherworlders gave up waiting to return to the Netherworld.

  Still, everyone had a different future and fate after the civil war had ended. ……

  = Zhang Jiao, Zhang Liang, Zhang Bao, Bo Cai =

  Five years after the southern campaign ended, the four reestablished a cultivator sect, called [Zhang Han Heaven], which represented the royal family sect.

  Zhang Jiao acted as the sect master, which his brothers became his assistance, just like when they had found the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Bo Cai worked as the chief elder, and he passed down the story of Tong’s deeds to the later generations.

  The sect dominated in Julu, their hometown. Yellow banners along with their new slogan – Heaven is Eternal. Han Dynasty is Invincible. Everyone in the town wore yellow bandanna or yellow clothes to show respect to Zhang Jiao and Tong.

  After Tong had returned and hugged his father in front of all nearby civilians, Bo Cai sculpted a giant stone statue of Tong and Zhang Jiao hugging, and it triggered a new culture. Children were more outgoing and weren’t afraid to hug their parents in public. Vice versa, parents always hugged their children to express their love.

  Misunderstanding occurred. Julu ended up becoming the city of love from the outsider’s perspective. Many young couples and their families came here to celebrate their wedding here, believing that was a sacred ground for lovers.

  Zhang Jiao adapted to the changes and the misunderstanding. He changed his sect’s guideline and favor love-and-peace principle.

  Unfortunately, he messed up and formed a Yin-Yang Sect, which encouraged dual-cultivating instead.

  In the end, Tong returned to Julu and tweaked a few guidelines and its teachings so that his father’s sect wouldn’t be branded as an evil or an immoral sect.

  The sect lasted for a thousand years before a multi-dimensional gate finally opened in 1200 AD.

  Zhang Jiao and others didn’t know what his descendants and their friends dealt with the dimension gate, but Tong looked distressed when he visited Zhang Jiao and bestowed various system skills to him.

  Zhang Jiao received [Private World] system skills and other necessary abilities from Tong. He was ordered to migrate his entire country into his private world. But that was the last time that the Zhang Tong and Zhang Jiao could be together.

  Fifty years after Zhang Jiao migrated everyone into his dimension, Li Feihong visited Zhang Jaio and his sect in their dimension world to inform a piece of shocking news.

  \r \r \r

  Zhang Tong was dead. ……

  = Sima Family =

  After being crippled, Sima Yi, Sima Lang, Sima Fu, and all Sima Clan quit their jobs and migrated to Xiapi.

  Years later, Sima Yi married Zhang Chunhua and had prodigal sons as in history. Sima Shi and Sima Zhao expressed that they wanted to become an official and uproot all the corruption and Tong’s dictatorship.

  However, Sima Yi advised them not to as Tong was too powerful for them to handle.

  Sima Zhao believed in his father, but Sima Shi didn’t. Sima Shi attempted to take the imperial exam to take an official job.

  Unfortunately, Sima Shi was killed on the road while he was on the journey to Ye City.

  Surprisingly, the culprit of the incident was Xu Chu, who everyone believed to have retired along with the Cao Family.

  Sima Zhao wanted to avenge for his elder brother. But again, Sima Yi advised him not to. Sima Yi told his son to report this incident to the officials, so Tong and others could handle it instead.

  Sima Zhao didn’t believe in his father. He hired various cultivators and searched for the murderer.

  Unfortunately, Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, Dian Wei, Xu Chu, and Cao Ren raided the Sima House and killed everyone, including Sima Yi, Zhang Chunhua, and Sima Zhao. ……

  = Cao Family, Xiahou Family =

  After losing Cao Cao, all Cao and Xiahou House retired from the political world and lived in Qiao City, Cao Cao’s hometown.

  They made a tomb for Cao Cao to respect for his deeds in the other timeline even though this world hated him.

  When Tong returned and resumed his duty as the emperor, Xiahou Dun visited Tong and asked to clear Cao Cao’s name.

  Tong demanded that Xiahou Family and Cao Family had to serve him if he did so, which Xiahou Dun accepted.

  As promised, Tong published a new statement at Chibi and Wulin Port, telling the local population that they had completely investigated the epidemic outbreak during the southern campaign and found out that Cao Cao wasn’t the creator of those poison barrels. Instead, it was the work of Gan Ji, who plotted to use them as a sacrifice to kill Dong Bai’s soldiers. Unfortunately, the masterminds died, and Cao Cao ended up taking the blames.

  Tong even built Cao Cao’s statue at Chibi Port and created a story that Cao Cao tried to collect all poison barrels in one place so that Gan Ji couldn’t use it against the people. Tong went all-out to the point that he erased several soldiers’ memory about the incidents.

  Cao Cao’s name was cleared after a few years. Xiahou Clan and Cao Clan adhered to their promises, in which they became Tong’s subordinates.

  A year before the East-West war, Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, Dian Wei, and Xu Chu increased their cultivation strength to 10 wings.

  One day, they found out that the surviving Sima Clan’s descendants were plotting rebellion. They assassinated Sima Shi as a warning to Sima Yi.

  Unfortunately, Sima Zhao insisted on going through with his brother’s goal. The two clans acted on their own and avenged for Cao Cao’s children in the other timeline by killing all Sima Clan members.

  From that day, they continued to act as Tong’s hidden swords.

  But when Cao Cao was reborn as Cao Xian and Tong’s son, Tong appointed Xiahou Yuan as a temporary grand commander of a new legion – Wei Han Legion. Jia Xu and Xun Yu were also reassigned to support this unit as they were from the old Wei.

  Cao Mengde redeemed himself and worked for Tong this time. He grew up and took the helm of Wei Han Legion, which would take an important role in the 300-Year East-West War in the future. ……

  = Liu Ping =

  After getting caught, Tong forced him to reincarnate as a dung beetle so that Ping had to live by eating feces forever. Tong also sealed Ping’s bug body in a small glass box.

  At first, Ping resisted by not eating any food provided by Tong. After all, they were human dung.

  Although Ping no longer had any special ability, Tong kept injecting lifespan into him. Ping wanted to commit suicide by starving himself to death, but the starvation torture was too unbearable. Ping ended up eating the poop to live.

  The taste was awful. He could hardly digest it since human poop wasn’t a dung beetle’s primary food. They only ate herbivore creatures’ feces.

  Ping wanted to die, but he couldn’t die. He embraced this humiliation and torture.

  Somehow, Ping got used to eating human feces after 500 years. At that point, Tong got bored torturing Ping. He squeezed the bug and used the system authority to shatter Ping’s soul to pieces.

  Ping got his peaceful death, and his soul fragments entered the reincarnation river. He didn’t remember anything afterward as all his past and present memory was erased forever.

  Unfortunately, Ping didn’t forgive Tong for what he had done. The karma chain between Tong and Ping remained, which would come back and haunt Tong in the latter days.

  Because of that karma, Zhang Tong died in the fight against the creator in the higher dimension. ……

  = Pu Jing, Chen Gong, Zhang Miao =

  Pu Jing had once dominated the declining Roman Empire and almost restored it to the former glory with his intelligence alone. Unfortunately, Romans hated other races and believed that their race held the supremacy over the Asian and black people. Some of the Romans even envied him because of Pu Jing’s modern knowledge that outshone their culture. They saw Pu Jing as a slave-born Asian man and refused to accept his leadership.

  Pu Jing proved them wrong by killing many hostile roman aristocrats secretly and openly. With Chen Gong and Zhang Miao’s help, they took over the Kushan, allied with the declining Parthian Empire, and destroyed half of the Roman Kingdom during the 10 years that Tong was away.

  However, cultivators complicated the war. Septimius Severus, the rising emperor of the Roman Empire, declared that Pu Jing and his forces were the nemeses of the Romans. He united the native cultivators and pushed back against Pu Jing’s mercenary forces.

  In 220 AD, the Immortal Emperor Severus bribed the Parthian Empire and had them backstab Pu Jing Army, excused that Pu Jing was a Han Dynasty’s spy that came to ruin their forces.

  Afterward, the Romans assisted the new rising country, the Sassanid Empire, the descendants of the glorious Persian Empire. They replaced the weakened Parthian with the Sasanians. Then, Severus appointed the Sassanid Emperor, Ardashir the First, as their vessel.

  History changed. Sasanians became a vessel state for the Romans. Ardashir raised his weapons against Pu Jing and coordinated with Severus Army. Against the two giants and various native cultivators, Pu Jing’s western campaign failed.

  Chen Gong and Zhang Miao were captured and killed during the fight, but Pu Jing managed to flee and return to where he had started, China.

  Pu Jing decisively surrendered himself to Tong, who had returned from Lilim’s dimension. He even swore allegiance to Tong with his immortal oath.

  Tong appointed Pu Jing as the overseer of the west. He ended up in charge of monitoring the Silk Road and the relationship with the western countries.

  After maintaining his position for more than thirty years, in 255 AD, the Roman Empire and the Sasanid Empire and waged war against Tong’s Han Dynasty as they were afraid of Pu Jing’s influence.

  The East-West War occurred. All Tong’s elite generals and strategists were sent to fight against the Romans.

  Supported by Tong’s elite officers, strategists, and advanced weaponry, Tong’s forces utilized their modern military knowledge and trampled on the countless soldiers of the western alliance army. Romans and Sasanians experienced a disaster campaign and returned home with only a few thousand men. Out of a hundred 8-wing cultivators, only a handful of them managed to scrap their skin and went home alive.

  Pu Jing suggested to Tong that they should destroy the western world and dominate the world, which many strategists agreed.

  Seeing that everyone supported Pu Jing’s suggestion, Tong sent Pu Jing with Wei Han Legion to destroy the Roman Empire. Many 8-wing elites, such as Zhang He, Xu Huang, and Zhang Liao, also accompanied them.

  The campaign lasted 300 years as Severus proved himself to be worthy opponents. It was recorded in history books as the 300-Year East-West War. As for the result of this historical event, no one could claim that they won.

  Tong and Pu Jing failed to control the annexed countries as revolts kept occurring. Meanwhile, western countries lost most natural resources to the Han Dynasty.

  In the end, Pu Jing withdrew his forces back to China. Roman, Sasanian, and Kushan ceased to exist afterward, but several new countries emerged on top of the fallen ones.

  For the sake of not having another East-West War, Tong placed a restriction in the admin system that no commoner could cultivate more than 2 wings without his authorization. As for the cultivators, who had already attained a higher cultivation base, they could retain their strength.

  War never occurred again under Tong’s watch, until the multi-dimensional gate opened and an outsider informed Tong about the Heavenly Dragon Gathering Festival invitation.

  As for Pu Jing, Tong executed him after he had learned about what Pu Jing had done to the native Romans during the war.