942 Collecting Pages
On Earth, in the Sacred White Crevice...
Fang Xingjian was holding a page of the Book of Wisdom and reading it with great interest.
The Immortality Saint was sitting at the side, holding a teacup. He was about to drink from it when he suddenly smiled. "Ultimately, it's still decided like that anyway. The seven of them have set off. However, it's unexpected that the person was already so far away from this star."
"Saturn?" Fang Xingjian raised his head and looked in the direction of the starry sky. "With their speed, it'll take them about a year or so for a two-way trip. It'll be enough for us to be even more prepared."
The set up that Fang Xingjian and the Immortality Saint had prepared, along with everything they had done so far, was all to deal with that Commander who had not been on Earth all this while.
This person was also an existence that their Sudden Inspiration senses had alerted them to with a great sense of threat. They understood that the trial for this tier of the Nine-Tiered Heavens was on that Commander.
Based on their investigations as well as the information that the Immortality Saint had obtained after going through numerous classified documents, the two strongest Commanders on Earth had actually not shown themselves all this while.
One of them came from the Silver Army while the other was from the Cyan Army. Even the warriors from these two armies had never appeared before. Based on what the other armies said, they were guarding over a certain barrier, fending off the enemies from beyond outer space.
Even the Immortality Saint had not managed to find out where they had gone. It was only when the seven Commanders secretly set off to Saturn that they realized the other two Commanders were in such a distant place. Clearly, this was a secret that only these few Commanders knew.
"The Cyan Army represents chaos. Their members like war and oppose order, society, and even mankind. They were initially the common enemy for most of the other armies," Fang Xingjian said. "Meanwhile, the Silver Army represents justice and is always ready to help the weak. They can slaughter a commander-level existence for the sake of a commoner. They often meddle in the affairs of the other armies, so most of the other Commanders don't really like them.
"As such, the Silver and Cyan Armies are arch enemies. However, by the looks of it, these two armies have been assuming command in Saturn. I wonder what the situation over there is like."
The Immortality Saint nodded. "It seems that the person we sensed would either be Cyan or Silver." He recalled the pair of eyes that seemed to be glancing in his direction from void space when he first noticed the other party's information and was starting to ponder over the other party's information in his mind.
With just a glance, 20% of his martial will had shattered.
From then onward, he knew that this person's cultivation was comparable to one who had reached tier six of the Divine level. This person was well versed about space and was integrated into it, capable of sensing it when other people mentioned him or thought about his name.
Therefore, Fang Xingjian and himself had only been using his color to address him.
The Immortality Saint continued, "But based on what the seven of them said, they seemed to have thought of a way to make sure the two of them stays on Saturn. However, we have no idea how they did that."
"They probably made use of the contradictions between the two of them, or maybe there might really be external enemies that they need to guard against?" Fang Xingjian said. "Anyway, the chess pieces are all in place. We'll just wait for them to fall into the trap. It's good that Saturn is far away and we can make more preparations."
As he spoke, pages from the Book of Wisdom started to float up. Right now, Fang Xingjian had already decrypted a large part of the Book of Wisdom's pages that the White Army owned. The microscopic knowledge and profoundness of space-time that were contained within the pages were a good supplement to what he had learned in the past.
However, the Immortality Saint's countenance was grim when he looked at the pages of the Book of Wisdom.
Although he was also a tier five Divine level expert with a great understanding of nature, the universe and the microscopic world, he had not come into contact with Earth's scientific systems. Neither had he used many mathematical tools. To him, rather than analyzing the contents from the Book of Wisdom's pages, he might as well use most primitive method of observing and concluding nature's patterns directly.
Therefore, the Immortality Saint smiled and said, "I'll forget about the Book of Wisdom. You can just transmit the information to me via information currents after you've analyzed them."
At the next moment, he disappeared with a flash.
Fang Xingjian shook his head and looked at the pages on his hands, revealing a pondering expression.
The three main goals he had in this attempt to clear the trial were to perfect the Instant Sword, his newly created Heart Sword Path, and his Divine Country. He had some ideas on how to do these after spending the past few days researching.
Firstly, the great amount of knowledge in the Book of Wisdom was extremely helpful for him to perfect the Instant Sword. Therefore, he wanted to continue collecting the other pages of the Book of Wisdom.
As for the perfecting of the Heart Sword Path, Fang Xingjian's method involved the 13 armies. He was going to use the temperaments and wills of these armies to stimulate the rings' energies. This gave Fang Xingjian great enlightenment during this period of time as well.
As for the last objective of constructing his Divine Country, Fang Xingjian had a daring plan.
'Anyway, I'll have to first get the others to gather the pages of the Book of Wisdom.' With a single thought, a stream of information current transmitted out from Fang Xingjian to Priest Longmai.
That night, all the armies fell. News that all the Commanders had gone missing spread through Earth. Priest Longmai took action personally, sweeping out the respective armies' headquarters in areas such as the Despair Mountain Range and the Sacred Light Temple with commander-level powers. The White Army took the entire planet by storm.
However, it was impossible to get everyone to really submit using just such violence alone. Many ambitious individuals started to stand out after the ten Commanders either died or went missing.
The division of the influences made them like densely-packed stars. Many people started an uprise, clearly wanting to take this opportunity to make themselves leaders.
Over 100 general-level characters from the various armies assumed independence, and the stances of several powerful countries were wavering and unclear. It seemed that they wanted to take this chance to break out from the rule of the armies. The entire planet seemed to have sunk into chaos.
Despite this, many people still claimed to be fighting against the White Army. However, no one actually attacked the White Army. Their claims were just talk. More people were just hiding behind the scenes, sending small fries to raise a hue and cry in an attempt to sound out the situation.
'Are they all trying to sound out our intentions?" Fang Xingjian said, supporting his chin with his hand.
"That's right," Priest Longmai said. "Sir, we better wipe out all defiers as quickly as possible. Small sparks can lead to a great fire."
However, Fang Xingjian shook his head. "It doesn't matter. I'm not interested in dominating Earth. You can just decide on the management. As for the people who want to become independent, there's no need to care about them as long as they hand over their pages of the Book of Wisdom."
Priest Longmai was stunned for a moment. However, out of his admiration for Fang Xingjian, he agreed without any objections at all.
Therefore, over the next few weeks, several influences handed over pages from the Book of Wisdom that either they or the armies they belonged to had gathered previously.
Of course, while there were people who were willing to submit, there were also those who resisted.