Pretending To Be A Boss
Chapter 937 - 76: Qi Yuan's Backup Plan

Qi Yuan furrowed her brows; in this icy, mechanical kingdom, she was the sole entrance and exit.

To be pulled into another divine kingdom while inside a divine kingdom?

She certainly didn't believe Eden's master could accomplish it. After learning Eden's master's arrogant plan, Qi Yuan thought this battle should end.

So, she raised her hand lightly.

Countless red beams shot out from the tower.

"It's over. Your millennia-long scheming, your ambitions toward the beast gods and this world—all end today."

The red light illuminated the entire mechanical kingdom.

Eden's master's figure was swallowed in a sea of red.

This destructive energy devoured everything in the space, yet Qi Yuan's will compressed it into a remarkably small area.

Just as Qi Yuan believed Eden's master would perish, Eden's master's voice suddenly echoed from all directions.

"You are not like the Arbiter; you're not a maligned tool. You're a database. Do you know why I let you live until now? Why I lifted the restrictions on the Myriad Beasts Realm? It was to lure you here."

An eerie scene unfolded—as though her own divine kingdom wasn't her own, Qi Yuan found the space beginning to distort irregularly.

Among the red light, Eden's master's figure gradually reappeared.

It was still Tang Xian's face, but the smile on his face grew inscrutable.

"I've never acted without certainty. For centuries you've thought I was targeting you and humanity? Wrong. My true target has always been myself. To become an eternal existence, one must abandon the form of life and transform into the rules of the world."

Eden's master slowly approached Qi Yuan.

Qi Yuan instinctively retreated, but no matter how she stepped back, the distance between them couldn't be shortened.

"The rules I've transformed into are named Virtual Domain. Within this domain, reality and illusion can intertwine—illusion can devour reality and also become reality. Do you know where Tang Xian has gone? By his nature, he would likely join Zhong Yao in seeking a way out of the Virtual Domain. But in a realm where illusion equals reality, what can consciousness like his possibly achieve?"

Eden's master finally reached Qi Yuan, his figure towering and immense. In comparison, Qi Yuan appeared far more diminutive.

"Once I acquire all beast god legacies, once I transform all high-ranking members of the Myriad Beasts Sect into 'humans,' this world will no longer need them. Existences like you and Tang Xian will naturally become unnecessary. You will live in this realm of indistinct realities and illusions according to the way I define."

"Tang Xian will soon experience this. His soul is gradually dissipating. You too possess a human soul—soon you'll understand my meaning clearly."

The divine kingdom began to fracture.

Qi Yuan's expression showed sheer terror.

Eden's master had evolved to a level beyond her comprehension.

The wall separating reality and illusion had already been shattered. If imagined constructs in consciousness could become reality, then how could such an existence be defeated?

Only now did Qi Yuan realize she had been deceived.

The divine kingdom wasn't a real realm but a space of fabricated consciousness, and Eden's master wielded the ability to manipulate both reality and illusion.

This wasn't a beast—it was a creator!

It had merely kept its true nature hidden all along.

Feigning being drawn into her divine kingdom, it had actually intended to enter this realm all along.

The tower, the streets, the kingdom—all began to twist into a whirlpool, then were absorbed by Eden's master.

Had this battle occurred outside the divine kingdom, relying on tangible offense and defense, her odds of victory would have been significantly higher.

But here in the fabricated divine kingdom, such advantages were negated.

Qi Yuan was horrified to discover that she wasn't preventing Eden's master from escaping; instead, it was Eden's master who had trapped her here.

Eden's master's hand lightly touched Qi Yuan's forehead. He said:

"Your purpose has been fulfilled. On my path to mastering the consciousness of both realms, your contributions have been monumental. Now, go and rest in the true divine kingdom."

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The Sacred Mountain.

After a prolonged confrontation between Eden's master and the leader of the Order, the silent battle abruptly came to an end.

The faint light that once shimmered in Qi Yuan's pupils had now completely dimmed.

The so-called divine kingdom was merely the core domain where the consciousnesses controlled by the Order and Eden's master intertwined.

Turning existing reality into nothingness, or alternatively, shaping imagined voids into tangible reality.

This capability, in actual combat, was ineffective against beast-god-level opponents—at least for now.

But within the divine kingdom, it was entirely different.

And so Qi Yuan was defeated.

This monarch of eternal night, who hailed from another world, was now dead. Her consciousness sealed by Eden's master in the true divine kingdom—Eden's Sanctuary.

Everything within Qi Yuan's divine kingdom was transferred to Eden's Sanctuary as well.

Thus, Eden's master hadn't lied—Qi Yuan had always been its pawn. A vessel for studying human consciousness, a storage database for it.

The data had been transferred. Eden's master surveyed the surroundings—those few enemies it had feared in this world were now all powerless.

The Arbiter was gravely injured and had fled to an unknown domain, but sooner or later, it would be found.

All the other beast gods had returned to dust.

Tang Xian was trapped inside the divine kingdom. The Order's leader was trapped there too.

No one in this world remained to obstruct it.

Only the heavens and earth.

Only this world that birthed all existence.

As it had told Qi Yuan, what it had always sought to confront was never a particular race, but the unconscious world itself.