Chapter 1 He Feels He Has Made Two Mistakes

Hao Ren felt that he had made two mistakes. The first was when Raven 12345 mentioned holding a "ritual," he actually believed that this so-called conversion of divine status was a serious and proper ceremony. The second mistake was that when he saw the angel, he developed unnecessary expectations for this strange goddess who could joke around with Raven 12345 – damn it, even using gallstones to think, he should have understood that a guy who seemed so familiar with Goddess Shun Zi could not possibly be a normal person!

The angel operator finally quieted down, looking disheveled. One of her wings was folded behind her back, while the other half drooped unnaturally and trembled slightly, but she still insisted on sitting behind her desk and began to perform the divine status conversion operation for Leah.

Raven 12345 hissed, looking at her, "I said, are you okay? ... Or should you go back and heal first, and I'll wait for another operator to come?"

"I'm fine, just a cramp, I can get through it with faith – His Majesty the Emperor is watching us," the angel said, pretending to be calm while shaking her wings. "This opportunity is too rare – Mother Ibertis's daughter! I handled the procedure for her to join the Xi Ling God System. How many years do you think this kind of thing happens once? There's no way I'm giving it to someone else!"

Raven 12345 curled her lips: "Then you don't have to be so excited that you cramp up."

"Could you do any better?"

While they were talking, the procedure was almost complete. As Leah's identification information was entered, the beam of light that separated Leah from the outside space gradually thinned, and the figure of the Creation Goddess became clearer within it. Hao Ren looked at this scene curiously, feeling a bit unreal: "That's... it?"

"How complicated did you think it would be?" Raven 12345 glanced at him. "The more mature and high-end the technology, the simpler and more casual it seems. An advanced spaceship only needs a pilot and a neural interface device to control it, but its early models required hundreds of crew members and a dozen consoles to barely leave the port. A divine spell that takes effect with a signature is truly powerful. In our opinion, the kind of ritual you imagine that requires preparing half a ton of materials, four Dharma protectors, drawing magic circles all over the ground, specially choosing a favorable time, place, and people, casting for two hours, and finally sacrificing an unlucky guy to succeed is just so low-level it's an explosion of low-levelness."

The goddess sister spoke so reasonably that Hao Ren, who was full of things to say, only managed to utter one sentence: "I didn't even say anything... And this is really the first time I've seen someone as unrefined as you questioning someone else's low-levelness..."

"Enough nonsense," Raven 12345 glared at him, then tapped the table, pointing to a form on the table, "Come here, the guarantor and introducer sign, write your name here and it takes effect. From now on, you are Leah's divine status witness."

Hao Ren went over obediently to sign as instructed, casually asking, "Divine status witness? Sounds so high-end, are there any benefits?"

"You already said it, the benefit is that the title sounds high-end, you can use it to brag on the forums..."

Hao Ren: "..."

Although a little speechless, he still wrote his name at the end of the form. As the last stroke landed on the paper, the form, which was floating with a faint halo, suddenly filled with blue light, and then the entire paper disintegrated into countless floating blue particles and quickly dissipated into the air.

"The divine status conversion has been completed. Leah has now officially transferred to the Xi Ling God System, and the related void imprints and information entanglement will be completely switched in twenty-four hours," the angel said in a measured tone (it would have been better if her wings hadn't continued to twitch behind her back). "Ah – considering that she established the connection through a quality projection, this change process may be slightly delayed, but it will not exceed three days at most."

"Within three days, that world-destroying goddess can't build an engine," Hao Ren muttered, then turned to look at Leah, who was walking out of the halo, "How is it? Do you feel anything?"

"That's it?" Leah said the exact same thing as Hao Ren, "I thought there would be a very complicated ritual, requiring a lot of spellcasting preparations or something..."

Hao Ren immediately winked at Raven 12345, meaning, "See, it's not just me who has this question, right?"

The response from this Goddess Shun Zi was a roll of her eyes, meaning, "She's an unschooled wild goddess, are you comparing yourself to her?"

The angel looked at Raven 12345 and then at Hao Ren, completely not understanding what kind of exchange these two had achieved…

Raven 12345 completed the eye contact with Hao Ren and returned to the circular platform before (now it was a circular piece of ground in the hall), waving to the angel: "Then we'll leave first – we'll come back to chat with you when we have time."

The angel also waved her hand: "It's best if you don't. If you have the time to chat with people, I sincerely suggest that you come back and fix your brain~~"

A burst of light and shadow changed before their eyes, the hexagonal hall shattered and dissipated silently like a bubble, and the platform under their feet quickly moved away from this strange space supported by Raven God's divine power in a chaotic blur. In just a few seconds, Hao Ren and his group of three returned to Raven 12345's magnificent office.

After briefly checking her condition, Leah still lacked a sense of reality about what had happened: "I've already converted my divine status? In this way, I can be immune to the damage from the Creation Engine?"

"Of course, the Creation Engine you made is very powerful, but technically it's too primitive, just like a powerful trebuchet, there are too many ways to avoid it," Raven 12345 said bluntly. "Converting your divine status won't give you any special feelings. The only practical change is that you can directly access our Xi Ling God System's mind network, but due to the special nature of the Dream Plane, this connection is also blocked, so there is even less change. But you have now definitely become a member of the Xi Ling God System, this is beyond doubt."

Leah thought for a while, and suddenly became a little worried: "Ah, I just abandoned the identity of the gods of the star field like this, and changed to the divine status of the Xi Ling God System... Isn't it bad to do this? Will my mother be angry?"

Raven 12345 was shocked, thinking that this unschooled child was not stupid, and could actually react, but she didn't show it on her face, and instead became even more serious and proper than before: "There are priorities. If it is to protect the world, the gods can even give up their lives, what does a mere change of divine status matter?"

Leah thought about it and didn't have any more questions.

"But I still have to remind you," Raven 12345 saw that this topic was over and quickly changed to a new one, "Although the fatal threat of the Creation Engine has been avoided by us, you still can't take it lightly – I checked its information, even if it loses its ability to kill gods, the Creation Engine itself is still a powerful weapon. Once the core filled with divine energy is directionally guided and released, its power is no less than my full blow, and you definitely can't withstand this full blow head-on."

Leah naturally knew this and nodded seriously: "Don't worry, I won't be careless. And I have already given all the information about the Creation Engine to Hao Ren, including the completed parts of the Creation Engine, in his hands. With these things, I think we can create weapons that are enough to counter that world-destroying goddess..."

Hao Ren nodded, indicating that the situation was indeed as Leah said, but he had more to say: "Although the information and semi-finished products are all with me, the most critical disk arrays of the engine are not complete. I only have three disks, and the other nine were all stolen. With only three disks... even if you include their redundant complementary functions, there is no way to start the engine core."

"...This is troublesome," Raven 12345 frowned, "The support that can be sent into the Dream Plane from the outside world is very limited. Things like quality projection generators and a few textbooks of the God Realm are okay, but the civilian facilities of the level of the crystal nucleus research station almost broke the bearing limit of the wall of reality last time, and the Creation Engine... even if it is placed in the major legions of the Xi Ling God System, it is a full military level, and the level is not low. This level of things can only be tossed out by you in the Dream Plane, and I can't help you outside."

"The other parts of the engine are easy to say, including the part supervised by Ramentusa on the Sulun Gate side, it is basically completed, but those disks... even with blueprints, it is difficult," Hao Ren looked at the Creation Goddess with difficulty, "How long will it take you to recreate a batch?"

"Don't even think about it, it definitely won't make it in time," Leah shook her head, "The computing core is the most time-consuming part, ninety percent of the engine's working hours are on that. Even if you prepare the materials and production line for me now, it won't be completed in a few years."

Hao Ren immediately let out a long sigh.

But then Leah changed the subject: "But... that was the former me."

Hao Ren's eyes lit up: "What do you mean?"

Leah made a book-flipping gesture: "When I was talking to you, my main body was working on Creation Science exercises in the World Tree Temple. I have a feeling that when I finish these sets of big questions, I will know how to do it..."

Hao Ren: "..."

Raven 12345 leisurely said next to him: "See, a scholarly genius can really do whatever they want..."

Hao Ren was sincerely convinced.

At this moment, the business was over, Raven 12345 glanced at the time and said again: "Oh, this time the efficiency is quite fast - Leah, your quality projection can still be maintained for about an hour, do you want to see where your daughter lives now?"

The "daughter" she was talking about was obviously Vivian.

Leah had obviously been thinking about this matter, and a smile immediately appeared on her face: "Of course I'm interested, but... is it convenient?"

"Whether it's convenient to see him," Raven 12345 pointed at Hao Ren, "Your daughter lives with him now."

Leah looked at Hao Ren with a rich inner meaning: "Oh~~~ I didn't know these details before..."

Hao Ren's cold sweat immediately came out, but he couldn't refute a word, he could only look at the Shun Zi who was waiting for a good show next to him with a toothache, and explained to his "mother-in-law": "We do live together now, but we are sincerely together..."

Leah thought about it very seriously and asked, "If I object to you two being together, will you make me write an 8,000-word learning心得 (xīn dé, personal understanding/reflection)?"

Hao Ren: "...Huh?"

Leah finally couldn't hold it back: "Haha, I'm just kidding with you!!"