Pretending To Be A Boss

This place is the hell that the Lord of Eden has meticulously prepared for Tang Xian.

On the mountain path, Tang Xian can still see many unknown ancient beasts.

Along with those unnamed landmarks.

This is the place closest to the sanctuary of Eden, and the control over this world is far stronger than the previous worlds.

But it is different from the past.

Previously, Tang Xian and Qi Yuan entered here purely in terms of consciousness, but now Tang Xian enters here in a substantive form.

This is what makes the Lord of Eden the most unique in the world.

Its divine kingdom is neither absolute reality nor absolute illusion. As long as it wishes, the two can be freely transformed or present a symbiotic state.

His ideological self here can only be manipulated by the Lord of Eden to follow its rules, but now he can cause destruction in this world.

Realizing this, those landmarks should have had names for people to see the path behind.

But now Tang Xian can see directly, even see the panorama of this world.

His steps did not stop, as he traversed countless miles in one step, continuously approaching the sanctuary.

Tang Xian could even feel the breath of the Lord of Eden!

At this time, a change occurred in this massive labyrinth.

The sky suddenly darkened, shadows enveloped the earth, Tang Xian looked up to see a huge block-like world appearing in the high sky.

The distance is too far, even though it's vast, Tang Xian can see its entirety.

But as the number of worlds increased, more and more block worlds began to fill the sky.

These block worlds descended slowly, until reaching a certain height, some blocks stopped — turning into floating worlds.

Many other block worlds still continued to sink.

At about six hundred meters above these stopped blocks.

Although these worlds also have mountain-centric landscapes, they lack high peaks.

From tens of thousands of meters in the sky, there's a stack of dozens of layers of block worlds.

This scene, in Tang Xian's view, is like a pyramid formed by mining area worlds.

The pyramid has a six hundred-meter interval between each layer.

A ethereal voice came from the sky.

"The pyramid system is actually a very healthy and reasonable system. Although they currently lack consciousness and memory, they will be redistributed and reassigned in the future. People are born into different statuses; placing common species in the same region ensures the world's order."

The Lord of Eden is evidently satisfied with its future plans.

A pyramid composed of block worlds, unwittingly or intentionally, turns into another enforcer or another judge.

Tang Xian really wants to mock, as in ancient internet novels, this multi-layered setup is what others have already played out.

"Order? You seem to emphasize order too much." Tang Xian's tone carried mockery.

The voice of the Lord of Eden was still as calm:

"Order itself should be above everything."

"That's just your excuse for fearing the chaos of the human heart. Don't disgust me, if your world is truly so good, there wouldn't be anyone opposing it."

"It's just that you are too foolish, and do not have enough strength to realize such a world."

Tang Xian gave up trying to persuade the Lord of Eden, he doesn't believe he has the speech abilities of a manga protagonist. This world ultimately should be judged by virtue.

But the Lord of Eden seemed a bit relentless:

"You ought to admit that the oldest era in the human world is the era when rulers enslaved the lower beings."

Dividing people into several classes, lower people living in lower spaces, upper ones dwelling in upper spaces, lower people doing the heaviest work, supplying vast resources to those in upper spaces.

Has such a thing ever existed in human history?

Indeed it has. And in the river of history, it occupied a significant part.

But what was the purpose of humanity constantly improving production tools and enhancing efficiency?

Over thousands of years, wise and virtuous people have spoken for the common folk for what?

The justice Song Que pursued, the cries of Li Xiaoyu from the lower strata, are they simply for show?

The awakening of human rights awareness, the increasing freedom of people, growing influence over the upper class, is this a regression of civilization?

This world indeed has many inequalities, Tang Xian never thought about changing anything.

The world of the Lord of Eden appears beautiful.

Even those enslaved and exploited may feel happy.

But how fake is this happiness?

People are like machines whose parameters are modified. Considering pain as happiness, seeing everything as joy, such happiness, how false is it?

Even in endless daily labor, living a life worse than death, people would forcefully feel fulfilled, believing this is the life they should have.

What is the meaning of such a world?

When at the lower levels, Tang Xian never thought of helping anyone change their fate.

Because as humans, as living beings, there has always been one most crucial and absolutely indispensable thing—

The freedom of thought.

The actions derived from thinking might lead to becoming an outlaw, or accepting societal background to adapt as much as possible.

Perhaps choosing passivity or shouting independence from fate.

These are the sources of all human freedom.

But the world of the Lord of Eden robs precisely this thing.

What one likes, encounters, experiences, what thoughts occur daily, how the world changes, everything is set like stagnant water.

Such a world, although full of order, this order is dictated as dictatorship!

A normal mind knows this world cannot exist, so if someone desires such a world to exist and acts upon it—

Tang Xian thinks such a person needs immense virtue to forge and reform them.

He raised his head, looking at those overlapping worlds, saying, "Is this the battlefield for our final clash?"

"Yes. Do you have anything else to say?"

"No, having reached this point, let's not talk about pre-battle speeches anymore. I will utterly destroy you, and you wish to grind me to dust, then let's begin."

"So be it, after all, everything is just my overestimation of you."

At a hundred meters away from Tang Xian, space suddenly fluctuated, and the ground revealed a crystal formation like snowflakes, with a golden gate appearing out of nowhere, slowly opening.

The silhouette of the Lord of Eden emerged from it.

Wearing divine robes, holding a staff remodeled from the Sea God's trident.

Still that same physical form, giving Tang Xian a sense of hitting himself.

But he didn't care about that, he slowly approached the Lord of Eden, and by now, his steps were slow, no longer spanning countless spaces in one step.

"I once thought, after encountering one beast god after another, after experiencing me and the enforcers, your thoughts might keep up with me, but now it appears all this was just my delusion, you are merely a foolish person."

Tang Xian fiddled with his ears, an action he learned from the deceased Lin Jue, then impatiently urged:

"Are we fighting or not? If you find getting beaten too painful, you can end yourself. I am very open-minded."

The Lord of Eden shook its head, thoroughly disappointed in Tang Xian.

Expecting a brilliant debate, but Tang Xian evidently had no such interest.

When the Lord of Eden raised its divine staff, Tang Xian also rolled up his sleeves, speaking emotionlessly:

"Trash-talking is reserved for those not deserving of death, as for you and me, only this battle, until death!"

(The story is expected to conclude in about two chapters, reaching exactly one hundred chapters. The word count cannot be predicted, and afterward, there will be some additional chapters, some stories of various characters in the Myriad Beasts Realm and Baichuan following the disappearance of the mastermind behind the scenes will be considered as extras. A new book will be released next week, with irregular updates for the extras.)