Placing the little fox spirit in charge of the Wishing Pool required an appointment ceremony: granting it permissions within the Heaven Hub.
If not for the little fox spirit’s reminder, none of them would have known that the Heart of Wishes they had acquired was actually the Heaven Hub itself, possessing supreme administrative authority.
No matter who infused sorcery power into the Heaven Hub, they could open the Thousand Wishes Kingdom of Heaven’s management system:
[Thousand Wishes Kingdom of Heaven]
[Spatial Domain: 6.6] / [Temporal Domain: 1.2] / [Void Domain: 1.1]
[Archon: None]
[Secret Realm List: Wishing Pool]
[Wishing Pool (Dream Awakening God): Produces 4.1 Hearts of Wishes/month, 26.5 sorcery spirits/month, 0.003 gods/month. Effect after Dream Awakening God settles in: Produces 5 Hearts of Wishes/month, 31.8 sorcery spirits/month, 0.003 gods/month, with the possibility of generating new materials/sorcery spirits.]
[Curse List: Corpse Sea Blood Flies / Doomsday Particles / Dead Lake]
[Kingdom-wide Miracle List: Enduring Thousand Wishes]
[Enduring Thousand Wishes: Wish miracle. Marks a temporal anchor on everything within its range of influence. Whenever any malignant effect occurs, Enduring Thousand Wishes suppresses and expels the malignant effect and restores the area to the state marked by the temporal anchor. Whenever any benign effect occurs, Enduring Thousand Wishes records and observes it, compiling a log every 15 days to remind the archon whether to update the temporal anchor (the reminder interval can be modified). Currently, maintaining Enduring Thousand Wishes consumes 4 Hearts of Wishes and 25 sorcery spirits per month.]
[Please appoint an archon as soon as possible. Demigods/gods may serve as archon.]
[You are currently in Proxy status and cannot obtain administrative authority over Enduring Thousand Wishes.]
[You are currently in Proxy status and cannot obtain administrative authority over the curses.]
[You are currently…]
At a glance, this Heaven Hub seemed quite comprehensive, but in reality, this was all the information it provided. Many terms lacked further detailed explanations. This thing had likely been coded by the Thousand Wishes Illusion Lord Himself; He could naturally understand it, but Yaxiu and the others had to piece it together through guesswork.
First was “[Spatial Domain: 6.6]”. Yaxiu and the others guessed that this described the heaven’s spatial dimensions, but they didn’t know whether it referred to spatial volume or surface area, nor what the base unit was. They only knew that the space of the Thousand Wishes Kingdom of Heaven was 6.6 units.
“[Temporal Domain: 1.2]” and “[Void Domain: 1.1]” were far simpler. The little fox spirit was exceptionally sensitive to the laws; it could sense that time here flowed at 1.2 times the rate of the outside world, while its resonance rate with the Void Realm was 1.1 times. In other words, when twelve days passed here, only ten passed outside, and the recovery rate of sorcery power here was 1.2 times that of the Void Realm, meaning the power of sorcery spirits would be amplified accordingly.
Meanwhile, the archon was undoubtedly the most important position in heaven. Unfortunately, none of them could assume it—only demigod sorcerers or gods could wield an archon’s authority!
As for why they were restricted proxies, it was most likely because they had activated the Heaven Hub using mortal sorcery power rather than demigod sorcery power. When even an archon required a demigod sorcerer, how could mere mortals become the true masters of a heaven?
This might also reflect the Thousand Wishes Illusion Lord’s intentions. After all, sorcerers who had not even reached demigod status lacked the vision and the strength; if they were bored, they could go bite a lighter to pull a cheap stunt, rather than meddling with heaven’s arrangements.
Still, as long as they controlled the Heart of Wishes hub, inheriting the complete Thousand Wishes Kingdom of Heaven was only a matter of time, so there was no rush.
Aside from that, the only asset in the Thousand Wishes Kingdom of Heaven was the Wishing Pool, alongside the three cursed liabilities of the Corpse Sea Blood Flies, Doomsday Particles, and Dead Lake. Yet almost all the resources produced by the Wishing Pool had to be funneled into maintaining the miracle Enduring Thousand Wishes just to barely contain the three curses.
To call this place dirt-poor would be putting it too politely. If truth be told, it was like selling one’s house to speculate on mutual funds, only to get trapped at the bottom.
What surprised Yaxiu and the others most, however, was that there was not a single god in heaven.
Even the Nightmare Angel had nearly managed to create a god. How could the Thousand Wishes Illusion Lord, possessing an entire heaven, have the gall to be poorer than the Nightmare Angel?
Once they granted the archon’s permissions to the little fox spirit, it let out an “ah” and tumbled backward into the Wishing Pool, frightening Yaxiu’s group of four into thinking the Thousand Wishes Illusion Lord had come back to life.
Yet the little fox spirit only clutched its head nervously, saying its little head hurt and that eating a piece of a Heart of Wishes was the only way to make it better. As it spoke, it peeked sneakily at Yaxiu and the others. Yaxiu was caught between tears and laughter, but allowed it to eat a Heart of Wishes from the Wishing Pool.
The little fox spirit was not merely being gluttonous, however. After consuming the Heart of Wishes, it looked far more spirited and explained that it had received the log records of the Thousand Wishes Kingdom of Heaven. Unable to view the logs directly, Yaxiu and the others could only learn what had happened to the heaven through the little fox spirit’s narration.
Originally, after the Thousand Wishes Illusion Lord fell, the Thousand Wishes Kingdom of Heaven was co-managed by four gods, sustained by two Secret Realms of the World, with precious resources scattered across the land. But the curses shrouding the Thousand Wishes Kingdom of Heaven also numbered nine.
Once all the source crystals stockpiled in heaven were exhausted, the gods could no longer suppress the spread of the curses. First, all the precious resources suffered. Those resources served as sustenance for the gods as well; deprived of food, the gods’ strength deteriorated drastically, making it even harder to resist the curses.
Upholding the Thousand Wishes Illusion Lord’s will, the gods remained devoted to defending heaven, falling one after another in the war against the curses. Yet their deaths were not entirely in vain; the demise of each god completely annihilated at least one curse.
Later, the other Secret Realm of the World could no longer hold out either, falling completely to destruction and corrosion by the curses. However, the demise of a Secret Realm of the World also greatly weakened the curses’ power—because those curses were originally aimed at the Secret Realms of the World in the first place.
When the dust finally settled, it reached the stable state Yaxiu and the others found upon taking over the Thousand Wishes Kingdom of Heaven: the miracle Enduring Thousand Wishes, maintained with great difficulty by the Wishing Pool, was just enough to contain the three remaining curses from spreading further. But the land had been shattered in the previous wars, all the gods were dead, and of the source crystals left behind by the Thousand Wishes Illusion Lord, not a single one remained.
“And that’s what happened.”
Having become the archon, the little fox spirit seemed able to feel the suffering heaven had endured over all these years. It looked out toward the distant, barren land, its fox ears twitching, and asked with deep emotion, “Can my masters hear the earth wailing? Can my masters feel the earth’s agony?”
It hurts, it hurts so much… Just thinking that they could have received four gods and an extra Secret Realm of the World made the hearts of all four ache with phantom pain.
With that, they turned their gazes toward the Wishing Pool to see if there were any sorcery spirits they could use.
Although the vast majority of sorcery spirits were used to maintain Enduring Thousand Wishes, over years of accumulation, quite a few were still saved up in the Wishing Pool. Most were One-Wing and Two-Wing, with relatively few Three-Wing and Four-Wing spirits. Their types mainly belonged to the mind faction, such as “Willing,” “Inclined,” “Resigned,” and “Voluntary.”
The “Willing” sorcery spirit could generate willingness, making it suitable for assisting contemplation on things one yearned for—such as imagining how to spend a jackpot, how many children to have with a lover, or how to show off while playing games tonight. Willingness made one’s concepts more concrete and detailed; simply put, it made daydreams all the sweeter.
If an opponent was hesitating during negotiations, the “Resigned” sorcery spirit could accelerate their submission. If one wished to implant a specific thought into another person, the “Voluntary” sorcery spirit could disguise a false idea as their own.
Truth be told, while these sorcery spirits were useful, they were not exceptionally powerful. For instance, Yaxiu knew Igola possessed many sorcery spirits capable of achieving similar effects.
Yet what made them special was that they also involved the laws of destiny!
A miracle like Enduring Thousand Wishes had constructed a destiny miracle using these very sorcery spirits, allowing it to forcefully resist the destiny of the curses. Evidently, just as the Nightmare Angel had hidden her dream faction, the Thousand Wishes Illusion Lord had kept His wish faction tucked away, never letting it spread on a wide scale. Even if other sorcerers obtained wish sorcery spirits from the Void Realm, they would only treat them as mind sorcery spirits.
Though all four of Yaxiu’s group were proficient in the mind faction, none took it as their primary path. Therefore, these sorcery spirits held little significance for them—except for Yaxiu.
He tentatively converted a Four-Wing sorcery spirit inside into points, only to discover to his pleasant surprise that the exchange rate reached a staggering 1:50!
Reasonably speaking, since he was now a Four-Winged Sorcerer, the exchange rate for Four-Wing sorcery spirits ought to be 1:1. Perhaps because Yaxiu had not yet condensed even a single drop of Four-Wing sorcery power, *Aurora’s Sorcerer Handbook* still deemed him a lowly Three-Wing piece of trash and thus continued to grant him the Three-Wing Sorcerer top-up discount.
Yes, a discount.
Only after experiencing the series of adventures in the Kingdom of Heaven in Dreams did Yaxiu realize he had misunderstood this mobile game system. Source crystals were undoubtedly an advanced resource coveted even by demigods, yet he could endlessly purchase them simply by selling a few sorcery spirits to top up. What was that if not a discount?
And so, Yaxiu dumped all the Four-Wing sorcery spirits in the Wishing Pool into points, finally pushing his accumulated points past 600!
At that moment, Sonia suddenly realized something and summoned a Four-Wing sorcery spirit.
“Huh?” Yaxiu froze. “Isn’t that…”
“A Four-Wing Heart Sword sorcery spirit,” Sonia said. “When collecting sorcery spirits with Dream Come True, I went out of my way to steal one. Since this is no longer the Void Realm…”
With a gentle tap, she severed her soul link with the Heart Sword spirit.
The Heart Sword spirit seemed a bit dazed. It let out a yawn and drifted down to sleep on the ground.
“Just as I thought!” Sonia’s ruby eyes shone with light. “Even if we unbind a sorcery spirit, it won’t vanish! We can trade sorcery spirits here!”
Sonia had long wanted to exchange sorcery spirits with the Spectator and the others. Her original plan had been to gather enough Unremembered Wood and commission an alchemist to craft a container capable of exchanging goods in the Void Realm. Unfortunately, no one on the market sold Unremembered Wood, and what she had gathered was far from enough, so the plan had remained shelved.
Felix actually possessed a container made from Unremembered Wood, and Sonia had first learned that one could store supplies in the Void Realm through him. But Sonia knew she couldn't offer a price that would entice Felix, so she hadn't bothered to ask; later, when Felix harbored ulterior motives, she was even less willing to hand over leverage against herself.
Who would have thought this need would be solved so effortlessly in the Thousand Wishes Kingdom of Heaven!
Diya also brought out a Four-Wing Sword Mark sorcery spirit. Her eyes wide, she handed it to Yaxiu with an expression that practically shouted, *Hurry up and praise me.*
Yaxiu opened his mouth, but felt that expressing thanks would sound too distant. He silently accepted the Sword Mark spirit, but then shook his head at Sonia. “Sword Princess, you should take it back. Your swordsmanship faction realm is higher than mine, so the Heart Sword spirit is of greater help to you. Don’t you want a Heart Sword spirit?”
“Among the Five Matchless Secret Sword Spirits, which sword sorcerer wouldn’t want one?” the Country Girl retorted. “Of course I want a Heart Sword spirit—so why haven’t you unbound your Heart Sword spirit yet?”
“Ah?” Yaxiu blinked. “But my Heart Sword spirit is only Two-Wing…”
Looking at the Sword Princess’s curving eyes and smiling brow, Yaxiu’s voice grew quieter and quieter. In the end, he helplessly severed his link with the Heart Sword spirit that had accompanied him for months and signaled it to fly toward her.
Sonia caught the Two-Wing Heart Sword, the corners of her mouth curving upward slightly, and drew it into her soul.
Yaxiu carefully cradled the Four-Wing Heart Sword. Once the soul link was established, the Four-Wing Heart Sword immediately burrowed into his soul to strut its stuff—aside from the Four-Wing Sword Mark sorcery spirit, all the other sorcery spirits were at least a tier below it. Even the Sword Mark spirit restrained its aura, obediently acknowledging the Heart Sword spirit’s absolute supremacy.
Chapter 686