At the same time, deep inside the vast sea of stars, in the capital city of the Xing Yao Federation in the Tian Yuan Realm …
Ever since the Blood Demon Sector's conditional surrender to the Tian Yuan Realm a hundred years ago, the three Sectors had been integrated and developed at a high speed. The population of the Tian Yuan Realm alone had increased by more than ten times. The size of the capital city had been expanded by dozens of times, too. Not only had it swallowed more than ten satellite cities nearby, it had also been moving to higher places. With the high-speed elevators and short-distance teleportation arrays made of new materials, a new space port had been established beyond the atmosphere, which was known as the 'second capital city'.
The super enormous starships from countless resource planets in the seven Sectors could dock in the space port area and appear on the ground of the capital city instantly through the short-distance teleportation arrays.
It was a vigorous, prosperous city. It was also a paradise that was changing every day. Almost a billion people lived in the sky, on the ground, and below the ground. Together, they provided the beating power for the heart of the Xing Yao Federation!
To the southeast of the capital city was the solemn administrative district. Across a small square where flowers were blooming and birds were chirping was the building of the 'Ministry of Equality and Development'.
In the square, there was a very famous statue named 'Rainbow's Smile'.
It was seven children in different clothes and even in different forms, showing the distinctive local features of the Heaven's Origin Sector, the Blood Demon Sector, the Flying Star Sector, the Nether World Sector, the Water Crystal Sector, the Uranian Ring Sector, and the Forest Ocean Sector. Three boys and four girls were jumping and playing games without any worries.
The little girls of the Blood Demon Sector who carried the bloodline of demons, the locals of the Forest Ocean Sector who had plants growing on their bodies because of special seeds implanted below their skin, and the young men from the Nether World Sector who died prematurely inside iron puppets, were all wearing the same brilliant smile.
The statue was a symbol of the great integration of the seven Sectors and the most popular image of the Federation in recent decades. Replicas of it could be seen everywhere on the streets and squares of the seven Sectors. Some of the features had even been refined into the emblem of the 'Ministry of Equality and Development' of the Federation.
However, if one walked up the iron stairs of the building of the Ministry of Development and entered the building, they would see another statue in a different style in the lobby. It was a statue that perhaps described the real functions of the Ministry of Development more clearly.
They were seven large hands that were holding seven swords of different shapes and the same rich local characteristics. They were in the shape of a cross.
The seven sabers and swords were all stained with blood. The zigzagging blood was even mixed together.
The statue's name was "Alliance of Seven Swords".
"Clack, clack, clack!"
The crisp sound of high heels tapping on the mirror-like star-speckled marble could be heard.
When Jin Xinyue walked past the statue of the Alliance of Seven Swords, she adjusted her dark purple-framed glasses to hide the subtle emotions reflected in the statue's eyes.
"Good morning, Minister!"
The civil servants who were passing by all greeted her, and she responded with the most perfect smile. Even the bottom-level workers who had just graduated from college and worked in the Ministry of Development for only a couple of years could sense the sincere warmth from her approachable smile.
A hundred years ago, in the battle to stop the outbreak of the spore virus in the Blood Demon Sector, Jin Xinyue, who had charged at the frontline without caring about anything, had always been holy, glorious, compassionate, and untainted by dust.
A hundred years didn't seem to have left too many marks on her jade-like skin, but it gave her deep, beautiful eyes and every movement of hers an even deeper and more intense charm. Especially those two perfect smile lines, which symbolized that she had completely evolved from a slightly immature girl into a woman at her most dazzling, most gorgeous, and most attractive age.
As one of the leadership of the Federation, she had been used to wearing simple clothes in black and white for many years. She was also wearing a pair of glasses that did not mean much for Cultivators in order to cover her soul-stirring beauty.
Today, she was still wearing the most formal black suit with few accessories on her body. Other than the "Smiling Rainbow" brooch that was modeled after the emblem of the Ministry of Development on her chest, there was only a necklace with the emblem of the Rising Dragon of the Nine Stars as a pendant on her neck.
It was exactly the same as her public statement to the media a long time ago: 'I am a woman married to the Xing Yao Federation'.
Her amiable and flawless smile remained on her face all the way to the No.1 lift reserved for the minister. Her smile did not fade at all.
It was not until the door slid open softly and she stepped into the corridor on the thirty-third floor of the building of the Ministry of Development that she finally took a breath in relief. From the gaps of her smile, the vague vibe of a Viper Witch was flowing out of her eyes.
"Ka da ka da ka da!"
Her back suddenly straightened, her chest stuck out even higher, and her pace suddenly quickened. She was like an incomparably sharp saber, pouncing towards her target.
"President!"
"Greetings, President!"
The muscular men in the corridor, whose faces were full of scars and who even had the distinctive features of demons, all changed their expressions. They closed their legs and bowed to her respectfully.
"Yes."
This time, she did not respond to them with a useless smile. She simply nodded at them and walked to her destination quickly.
The thirty-third floor of the building of the Ministry of Development was the 'Logistics and Cleaning Department'. Those ferocious muscular men were the 'cleaners' of the Ministry of Development.
Of course, they were also employees of the Dim Moon Fund.
Jin Xinyue was exactly the president of the Dim Moon Fund.
Not everyone had the right to call her "president". Only the old brothers who had gone through fire and water with her in the past few decades in the four new worlds had the right to do so.
Inside the Archives Management Room in the Cleaning Department …
Jin Xinyue closed the door from the inside.
Mechanical noises were echoing deep inside the thick alloy door. More than ten defense rune arrays were blinking one after another. It was enough to prove that the files piled up in the room were definitely not as simple as how much toilet paper the Ministry of Development had used last year.
Inside the archive management room, there was only a half-old artificial body that was being manipulated by a spectral Cultivator who seemed to be dying.
In the government departments, especially those that were involved in the field of battle, spectral Cultivators made up a large part of the employees.
Those people were often seasoned veterans who had made great contributions to the country when they were alive. After they were unfortunately sacrificed, they were lucky enough not to perish and still kept their consciousness relatively clear.
If they were unwilling to retire, they would often stay in the original department and continue their service in the way of the bottom-level clerical work.
The archivist, on the other hand, looked particularly old. He moved and even turned around very slowly. His lackluster crystal camera was caught in complete silence now and then, as if it would completely vanish in the next second.
"The Dim Moon Plan has begun."
Jin Xinyue sat down and looked at the archivist with complicated feelings. She seemed both expectant and uneasy. "I've been planning for this for thirty years in order to draw a perfect end to the Red Tide Plan. Don't you have anything you want to say?"
The archivist raised his rusty head from the files that had been sealed for a long time sluggishly. His cloudy crystal cameras struggled to emit intermittent brilliance, and he was silent for a long time.
"What a shame."
Jin Xinyue continued smiling, but there was indescribable bitterness and loneliness in her smile. She seemed to be talking to herself. "I've spent the most beautiful thirty years and a hundred years of my life. I've even gambled on my entire future. From the Red Tide Plan to the Dim Moon Plan, I've finally reached the most critical moment. However, the two 'Spectators' that I've been looking forward to the most are still lost in the sea of stars, and nobody knows where he is …"
Hissing noises echoed from the archivist's old-fashioned broadcast rune arrays. It took him a lot of effort to gather the noises into a warning. "Don't … turn yourself … into … a second Lu Zui."
"Lu Zui?"
Jin Xinyue took off her thin-rimmed purple glasses and played with them in her fair, smooth hands. She said casually, "Did you know? Over the past decades, I've been replaying the confrontation between the Blood Demon Sector and the Tian Yuan Realm as a mental game and a way to relax myself? Sometimes, I even put myself in the shoes of the Patriots Partnership and Lu Zui, thinking about how to resolve the situation and annihilate the demon race once and for all!
"It's difficult. I have to admit that the situation that Lu Zui was faced with was truly difficult. Almost none of the advantages were on his side.
"However, of all the ways to resolve the situation, he chose the most idiotic one. The assassination of the Speaker in the square of the Federation and the intentional massacre of the civilians nailed him to the pillar of shame in history, and he would never be able to rise again.
"I can't help but wonder what would have happened if Lu Zui had not done that at that time, had not done the things that completely crossed the bottom line, but had chosen a relatively legal approach to carry out his ideology?
"Perhaps, he would not have had a chance at that time and would have lost the battle temporarily, but he would have been able to preserve most of his strength and make a comeback in the next hundred years!
"You all said that Lu Zui was an Immortal Cultivator born and raised in the Federation. But even if he did worship the ideology of the Immortal Cultivators, as long as he did not do anything that violated the laws of the Federation and the people's bottom line, what could other people, including my master, have done to Lu Zui?
"Getting to the bottom of it, he was too hasty. But it could not be helped. At that time, Lu Zui was already a dying old man who did not have much time left. He could only try his best. What else could he have done?
"But I'm different. Rest assured. I'm different from Lu Zui.
"Lu Zui lost, and I will win.
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