Compared with Astral Gate, an influential organization with branches in many planes, the Radiant Tower Gu Nan once stayed in was just a small fry.
There were many different opinions about Astral Gate's backer. There was no single theory everyone agreed upon, but at least one thing was certain—it was very powerful.
As an organization open to the public, Astral Gate had outer members like Gu Nan, and at the same time, it naturally also had core members—cultivators who truly belonged to Astral Gate.
While enjoying more benefits from the organization, they must also accept the organization's dispatch.
Standing in front of Gu Nan right now were four core members of Astral Gate. They wore special uniforms, and there was a strange celestial array in front of their chest that shimmered faintly.
The other three core members quickly stepped forward as soon as their leader's voice fell, while the leader himself brought up the rear, probably afraid that Gu Nan would break through their encirclement and escape.
"Wait a minute!" Gu Nan hadn't even responded yet when Roman interrupted from the side, "Since when did Astral Gate become so rude and unreasonable? Why do you guys want to arrest him?"
Roman's words weren't really wrong. Large organizations could be tyrannical, but they couldn't write that tyranny right on their faces. Sometimes it was still very important to have a justifiable cause behind their actions, no matter how flimsy.
But this time, the four didn't care about this at all. The bearded man who spoke earlier said, "Don't meddle in things that aren't your business."
"You…" Roman was angered speechless and didn't know what to say for a while.
If not for the fact that Astral Gate's uniform had its own distinctiveness where the starlight couldn't be faked, he would've thought these people were pretending to be members of Astral Gate.
He turned his head and whispered, "Gu Nan, they are indeed people from Astral Gate. You must not resist. After you leave, remember to blow things out of proportion so that even if someone wants to harm you, they still—Gu Nan!"
Gu Nan's figure had already rushed out before Roman could finish giving advice, instantly appearing in front of a person and reaching a hand out to press down on his head.
Crack!
The clear and crisp sound of fractured bones rang out inside the room, giving everyone chills. That person's head was directly pressed down into his own body by Gu Nan.
The whole scene seemed to freeze for an instant. Immediately afterwards, Gu Nan reached out a hand and snapped the neck of the person on his left with a crack.
The next second, Gu Nan grabbed the remaining person's hair with his right hand and forced the opponent's head down while simultaneously kneeing him in the face.
A terrifying strength traveled over, causing the enemy's head to explode, and his corpse slowly crumpled, leaving only a piece of scalp with some hair still attached to it that Gu Nan gripped in his hand.
Blood and brain fluids flowed everywhere, and the scene suddenly became deathly still. Only the sound of blood dripped down.
In just one encounter, three not-very-weak Void Cutter experts were instantly killed by Gu Nan, and he even did it using pure physical strength, without any law fluctuations.
In the face of absolute speed, extraordinary laws and the ability to tear open the void were all useless!
As for Roman and that bearded man, they were simply stunned speechless.
Gu Nan's attacks left a much deeper impact on them—there was no law fluctuation, which meant it wouldn't attract the attention of cultivators inside the city, which meant Gu Nan could kill people at will inside the city and walk away as if nothing had happened.
Gu Nan stepped out, appearing in front of the bearded man. He gripped the other party's neck and asked, "Why do you want to arrest me?"
Roman had asked almost the same question just now, but the result was completely different.
"It was Representative Duan Wenqi from our organization who personally ordered us to take you there…" The man was almost crying. "We really don't know anything else!"
In fact, the man had already recognized Gu Nan's identity by now. To kill Void Cutters like killing chickens with physical strength alone—didn't this match the description of the Nine Abyss Heavenly Demon from the news recently?!
Representative Duan's order was so urgent that they didn't have time to investigate the target in detail.
They only knew that the target's name was Gu Nan, and they also knew that there was a Heavenly Demon with the same name recently… But these two seemed completely unrelated; who had the free time to connect the dots and guess that they were the same person!?
The man's back was already soaked with cold sweat, and he didn't even dare to escape by opening a passage through space—he could imagine that he might be directly torn apart before he could even enter the passage.
"Representative?" Gu Nan rubbed his chin.
Astral Gate was a parliamentary system with only 17 representatives in total. This Representative Duan Wenqi was already an absolute higher up. Why did he want to arrest Gu Nan?
Gu Nan's instincts told him that this matter was most likely related to the frontline planes. The only one who could contact him like this was probably Lou Wanying.
Gu Nan let go of the man and patted his shoulder. "Go back and tell that representative that I will pay him a personal visit in a couple of days."
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Inside the Divine Kingdom.
Gu Nan immediately returned to the Divine Kingdom after sending away the people from Astral Gate.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for 10,000 more points to be accumulated. As long as Gu Nan could construct his sixth Level 0 structure, he would be able to complete the First Round and step into Tier 6 in one fell swoop!
Looking back, of the five Tiers before the First Round, Gu Nan actually spent the shortest amount of time in Tier 5.
This was because he'd already prepared a Divine Kingdom for himself before Tier 5. This was the most time-consuming part about advancing to Tier 6.
On the contrary, the construction time after getting their Divine Kingdoms was almost the same for everyone.
Gu Nan opened the list of structures, did some simple allocation of resources, and immediately selected a structure—Saint Corridor.
Saint Corridor—this wasn't the structure Gu Nan originally had in mind. He originally wanted to build a "Training Camp," but because of the Time Arena incident, Gu Nan changed his plan at the last minute.
Under normal circumstances, the Saint Corridor wouldn't be built in the Divine Kingdom's early stages. Players would only consider building it when their Divine Kingdoms were at least Level 3.
Of course this wasn't to say that this structure was useless. On the contrary, its function was so important that no player could give up.
The Saint Corridor could provide the player with a saint clone that would inherit part of the player's abilities and could be controlled by the player himself.
Simply put, this was an officially-recognized alt account.
But for players who'd completed the First Round, the existence of this alt account was extremely necessary.
On one hand, it was easier to go places with this alt account because the player wouldn't be instantly discovered as soon as they descended upon a plane; on the other hand, it was also easier to hide players' identity as an Evil God.
The saint clone had absolutely no connection to Evil Gods!
If he wanted to head to the frontlines, it was very possible for him to run into Valen, the God of Time, so Gu Nan couldn't afford to be careless.
Let alone a mere Tier 11 major god, Gu Nan even slaughtered the Tier 15 God of Light and Justice many times in his past life, but the current him had just reached Tier 6.
Nothing special happened during the construction of the Saint Corridor. A circular corridor with a silver humanoid sculpture in the center appeared inside the Evil God Temple.
Gu Nan wasn't in a hurry to summon the "alt account." What he had to do next was the main event.
Now that six basic structures had been built, the Evil God Temple could be upgraded!