Southern Heavenly Gate Project Begins

"Miss, this is the footage obtained from Blue House…"

Translator Miss Kim kept her head lowered as much as possible, unwilling to let her gaze meet that of the conglomerate heiress. She knew perfectly well that if their eyes met now, she would most likely anger the other woman.

She frowned, unable to understand what had happened to Miss Li. Why was she allowing this man to behave so arrogantly and wantonly?

At that moment, she had come to the luxurious penthouse suite and uploaded the top-secret footage the conglomerate had obtained from Blue House. But she had accidentally caught sight of the man holding Miss Li Qingzi in his arms, his hands roaming beneath Miss Li’s robe.

That debauched display reminded her of how chaebol heirs usually toyed with Korean actresses.

Yet this woman was one of Korea’s foremost chaebol heirs herself. How could she allow someone to humiliate her like this?

Miss Kim could not understand it, nor did she dare ask. She could only upload the footage to the device connected to the display, then lower her head and leave.

Li Qingzi frowned. Angered by Bai Cangshu’s actions, she had suffered the punishment of the Spatial Contract. Her nerves burned with pain, and the neural agony was almost unbearable.

"Tell me, do you think she assumed you had some perverse desire and were deliberately letting me have my way with you?"

Feeling the synchronization rate of the Sin of Lust slowly rise, Bai Cangshu continued sparing no effort in provoking the woman’s nerves.

His current state could not be described as purely lustful. It was mixed with a superior’s abuse of an inferior and a predator’s teasing of its prey.

He found pleasure in tormenting her nerves and sensing the changes in Li Qingzi, a Reincarnator who had once been powerful.

That pleasure was precisely the source of the Sin of Lust’s increase.

Perhaps Bai Cangshu’s sexual preferences really were somewhat problematic. He was aware of it himself, but had no intention of changing.

Li Qingzi used the Remote Control to turn on the playback device. She could only focus her senses on the intelligence, just as she had tried to use intelligence to draw Bai Cangshu’s attention last night. At this moment, she could only use this method to make herself feel less humiliated.

The footage was a recording of an internal Blue House meeting. Its contents actually included a conversation between the Korean president and the president of the Free Federation.

The sight made Bai Cangshu curl his lips, his mockery for this neighboring country controlled by chaebols growing ever stronger.

This was probably some kind of joint operations agreement, calling for Korea and Japan to cooperate with the Free Federation in striking Supernatural Ability User forces in the surrounding seas.

At the same time, they would clear out related base facilities and provide supplies for the Free Federation’s carrier fleet.

This was likely the strongest response made by the nation that currently possessed the most powerful military force on Blue Star to the increasingly terrifying incidents involving Supernatural Ability Users.

The discussion also mentioned matters related to nuclear strikes.

"Nuclear strike…"

Whether it was Li Qingzi or Bai Cangshu, the term dampened their desire.

Just as ordinary people dreamed of immortality and flight, Reincarnators like them, who had begun evolving toward Supernatural Beings, also possessed even greater ambitions.

A creature’s survival instinct did not weaken as a Reincarnator’s ability to survive increased. On the contrary, the stronger and longer-lived a species was, the less willing it was to accept extinction.

For Reincarnators like Bai Cangshu, who could now stand still and endure small-caliber gunfire without suffering any harm, a direct hit from heavy weaponry was still an unbearable level of force.

Although Bai Cangshu possessed Intermediate Immortality, allowing him to avoid truly dying even if he were directly struck by a missile.

If such an attack could kill him once, it could kill him many times.

Before the powerful nations of the real world, once Supernatural Ability Users like Bai Cangshu were proven vulnerable to bombardment and capable of being targeted, corresponding countermeasures would inevitably be developed.

Rebirth from a drop of blood and rapid regeneration meant nothing under sufficient, powerful firepower. Completely killing Bai Cangshu and evaporating every drop of his blood would not be difficult.

Of course, that was only a hypothetical scenario in which Bai Cangshu stood still and allowed missiles to bombard him. In actual combat, with the traits of Wind Demon and Moment, as well as abilities like Moonwalk, he would be difficult to hit directly if prepared.

Still, for beings like him who had already begun walking the path toward the supernatural, nuclear explosions—long regarded as the most destructive weapon in the human world—remained a hurdle they wished to overcome.

Withstanding a nuclear explosion head-on would probably symbolize their transition from Supernatural Beings to entities that had truly surpassed all order and become genuinely inhuman.

And at this moment, both of them knew that this "achievement" might soon be attained by the Great Sun of Finality.

Neither believed that an intercontinental missile carrying a nuclear warhead could threaten a Supreme Expert. Even if a nuclear weapon truly detonated on the territory of the Finality Empire, it would most likely fail to kill those top-tier Reincarnators.

They merely wanted to see how the other side would deal with it.

Unfortunately, the footage only showed the perspective transmitted back by fighter jets from far away. A huge mushroom cloud erupted from the sea and rose into the air. The upsurging currents instantly formed terrifying clouds of smoke that blotted out the sky and connected with the heavens.

But after the explosion faded, nothing appeared on the sea.

It was as if that intercontinental missile had merely struck the ocean.

In fact, the battle report sent back by the Free Federation also concluded that the strike had deviated from its intended coordinates and landed harmlessly at sea.

The coordinates obtained by their reconnaissance aircraft differed from the missile’s final impact point by several dozen kilometers.

Such an error could essentially be considered a failed missile launch. Many missile experts in the Free Federation were now investigating the problem, suspecting that this missile model might have a design flaw.

However, Bai Cangshu stared at the shape of the mushroom cloud after the explosion, then revealed a trace of disappointment.

"Damn, so it didn’t withstand a nuclear blast with its body after all."

At the instant of the explosion, when the flames erupted, he had seen irregular obstruction behind it. It was probably some powerful barrier or defensive magic that had blocked the impact of the nuclear blast.

That was far from the spectacle of physically enduring a nuclear explosion that he had wanted to see.

Li Qingzi noticed it as well.

"His Excellency the Great Sun of Finality is ultimately a Supreme Expert of the mental attribute. Enduring a nuclear explosion with one’s physical body is probably a choice only a physique-type Supreme Expert would make."

As they spoke, the recording shifted to another sea region. The sight of a gigantic humanoid Mecha standing in the ocean and charging toward a carrier fleet was truly spectacular.

"That is probably Char, a Title-level Reincarnator of the Technology Faction. I didn’t expect him to acquire the Eureka Striker. Something like that will likely pose an enormous deterrent to every nation."

As he spoke, Bai Cangshu’s phone rang. When he answered, Lin Qinfu’s voice came through, carrying both excitement and fear.

"Boss Bai, someone from East Xia contacted me. They want me to cooperate with them on an operation!"

"They said the operation details are classified for now, but its codename is the Southern Heavenly Gate Project!"