Chapter 3707: Gentle
Chapter 3707: Gentle
2333 said, “He won't covet your space. At most, he just wants your reincarnation world to connect to billions of planes to lighten the load on the already existing reincarnation worlds."
Ning Shu asked in return, "Aren't there a lot of reincarnation worlds?"
There were roughly as many reincarnation worlds as there were planes.
2333 explained, "When the creatures of the sea, land, and sky from the planes of living beings die, they are all crammed together. Although each reincarnation world corresponds to a world of living beings, souls of all races are packed together. Can you imagine how crowded it is?
"It's a good thing souls have to reincarnate back to the planes of living beings; otherwise, the reincarnation worlds would truly burst from overcrowding."
Ning Shu let out an ‘oh’ and finally breathed a sigh of relief. She had been afraid of unwarranted politeness, especially given the unequal status between the two parties.
The lord sent another message. "May I ask where we should meet?"
Ning Shu: …
It seemed she had to meet him. Otherwise, this person might go on endlessly.
Ning Shu: [Let's meet at the City of Water.]
The lord: [Alright.]
She had just returned from the City of Water, and now she had to go back again. Truly…
Ning Shu felt she was genuinely destined for a life of toil.
Why was it so hard just to sit down and rest for a moment?
With a flash, Ning Shu appeared in the City of Water, only to be informed the meeting was at the silver-haired man's consultation room.
Ning Shu: …
Damn it, I don't want to go.
Ning Shu dawdled her way to the consultation room. Upon stepping inside, she saw that besides the silver-haired man with his waist-length silver hair, there was another man wearing a suit and a bow tie. The dark, striped suit was crisp on him, and he wore a pair of shiny leather shoes.
This man's complexion was exceedingly pale. His pale hands were clasped together as he was speaking to the silver-haired man. Seeing Ning Shu arrive, he turned to look at her.
A pair of pitch-black eyes scrutinized Ning Shu. He smiled faintly at her, stood up, and picked up a pair of black flowers, offering them to Ning Shu. "A gift for you."
These flowers looked like black roses, purely black, exuding a wonderful fragrance. Just smelling it made a feeling of happiness well up from within, making one feel that the world was full of beauty and hope.
Although she didn't know what kind of flowers these were, anything capable of inducing positive emotions was definitely a good thing. Ning Shu didn't want to accept them.
The silver-haired man said, "A gift from an elder cannot be declined. Accept it."
The lord nodded. "Accept it."
Ning Shu reached out her hand, and as it drew near the lord's, a stark contrast in skin tone emerged. Ning Shu had been sickly in life, so her complexion was very pale—she was pale all over—but the lord's hand was even paler.
Ning Shu took the black roses and asked, "What are these flowers called?"
"They have no name. You can call them whatever you wish," the lord said gently.
She hadn't expected the person controlling the reincarnation worlds to be like this: gentlemanly and gentle.
Ning Shu smelled the flowers. "Then I'd better leave them nameless. No name would be worthy."
The other party gifting a flower out of such politeness actually left Ning Shu at a loss for words.
"You also seem to be the embodiment of an ordinance. Very impressive," the lord said.
Ning Shu smiled and said, "I just have good luck."
"Could I ask to visit your reincarnation world to take a look?" the Lord asked.
Ning Shu nodded, and a black hole appeared before them. The lord and Ning Shu walked into the black hole together. The black hole retracted, and the two vanished from the consultation room as if they had never been there.
Ning Shu and the lord appeared in the pitch-black reincarnation world. The lord looked around. "This world is a bit larger than I imagined."
"How was this reincarnation world formed?" the lord asked Ning Shu.
Seeing the lord's gentle demeanor, Ning Shu told him about the fusion of the two pearls she’d got.
The lord closed his eyes slightly as he listened to Ning Shu's words. Finally, he said, "The opportunities in life truly are so miraculous."
The lord and Ning Shu stepped on the black sand and gravel, moving through the seemingly endless black desert.
"It indeed has not fully evolved yet," the lord said while looking at the towering Mount Jiugong. "This is also a good item. Make good use of it."
Seeing the lord look at Mount Jiugong as if it were perfectly ordinary, Ning Shu felt she had judged a gentleman with the heart of a scoundrel. Perhaps the things she considered extraordinary were merely average in the eyes of others.
Ning Shu gave an affirmative hum, and the Lord said, "There is no rush. I’ll let the world evolve slowly."
The lord took a step, directly phasing through Ning Shu's reincarnation world, and vanished.
Ning Shu also exited the reincarnation world. She stepped out of the black hole almost simultaneously with the lord.
The silver-haired man was flipping through a book. Seeing the two return, he closed the thick book.
The lord said, "It is indeed a reincarnation world, but it is still an immature world."
The silver-haired man raised his eyebrows but said nothing. The lord said to Ning Shu, "Let the world evolve slowly. Do not pull the shoots to help them grow.1A Chinese idiom meaning to spoil things through excessive enthusiasm or impatience.
"Do not release the souls within that mountain. It will cause great harm to the reincarnation world," the lord added. A black door covered in intricate patterns appeared before him. The lord stepped through the doorway, and then both he and the door vanished.
Then, only Ning Shu and the silver-haired man were left. Ning Shu just wanted to roll her eyes.
The silver-haired man said faintly, "Since you have constructed a reincarnation world, have your system submit a report to the higher-ups to have it registered. If anything happens, you can also use this as a shield."
Ning Shu: "Yeah, thanks. I'm leaving."
"Five merit points," the silver-haired man said.
Ning Shu was already accustomed to the silver-haired man's stinginess and black-heartedness. She said directly, "Did I ask you anything? And you're asking me for money."
Being shady was one thing, but he was also fucking unreasonable.
Getting a hundred merit points had taken every ounce of strength she had. Now, after who knows what was said, he wanted five merit points. He might as well fucking ascend.
"You are charged from the moment you step in here. Do you not understand this rule?" the silver-haired man said. "Telling you to have your world notarized and registered so that even if someone snatches it, the world is still yours—it's like applying for a patent. Do you understand? Is this not worth five merit points?"
Ning Shu gave the silver-haired man a thumbs up. "You're awesome."
"Thank you for the compliment. Pay up," the silver-haired man said. "Knowledge is priceless. I only charged a little bit as a form of charity."
Ning Shu took out her identity card, transferred five merit points to the silver-haired man, and then hastily ran away. If she stayed here any longer, who knew how much more money she'd be charged. In the silver-haired man's shop, even the air cost money.
Doing charity? How could the silver-haired man even have the nerve to say that out loud?
As for the lord she had just met for the first time, he seemed gentle, elegant, and well-mannered, but Ning Shu completely didn't believe he was as simple as he appeared.
He was managing so many reincarnation worlds. Could it be there were no heinous and wicked souls in those worlds? How did he suppress those souls?
She guessed obliterating souls was probably as easy as cutting chives for him.
He must also have a group of subordinates managing those reincarnation worlds.