The instant annihilation of the demon horde immediately made the remaining demons behave, no longer daring to show the slightest contempt.
Although the demons had always acted tyrannically in the Cyber Dimension, they knew very well that the Dimension Lord was not unable to destroy them, but merely too lazy to bother with them.
As for why the Dimension Lord didn't intervene, it certainly wasn't out of fear of them, but because demons were inherently like unkillable pests, constantly born from the desires of Cyber Cultivators, making them impossible to completely eradicate.
However, the term "unkillable" referred to the entire demon race; for individual demons, once they died, they were truly and completely gone, with no possibility of self-resurrection.
After this simple probing, the demons also put away their other thoughts and obediently followed all the rules here.
After all, the City of Freedom possessed a charm that the Cyber Dimension could not compare to.
They had always yearned to enter the Digital Monster World, but the barrier set up by the Dimension Lord completely blocked them, with only the most powerful demons being qualified to enter.
What was even more detestable was that the hateful Lucemon even dispatched angels to regularly conduct search-and-destroy operations throughout the Cyber Dimension, expanding the Digital World by eliminating demons!
Now that the City of Freedom could accept them, this was already a gift from heaven; they could not ask for more!
What a joke!
If demons could easily abandon their desires once satisfied, then they would no longer be demons.
As the purest constructs of desire, releasing desire was their instinct; following desire made them feel good and made them stronger.
Their very existence was to release desire; they represented the concretization of the Seven Deadly Sins.
Satisfied? How could they be satisfied? They could never be satisfied in this life.
Since they could not use force in the City of Freedom, the demons began to engage in "business."
They exchanged various items with Cyber Cultivators for local specialties.
For example, they exchanged advanced technology for the cultivators' emotions, desires, and even benignly spread some knowledge and worldviews unique to the demon race.
Demons composed of eighty percent Slaanesh emotions even started trading in star puppets, directly causing those unsophisticated unregistered residents to completely fall.
Human desire is like a stone rolling down a mountain; once it starts, it cannot stop.
Once humans accept these temptations, they will take the first step toward the abyss, ultimately becoming complete puppets and slaves of the demons.
Yet, Lana chose to turn a blind eye to these small actions of the demons.
As long as the demons did not violate the rules she set, whatever they wanted to do was not a problem.
What is not prohibited by law is permissible; what is not authorized by law is prohibited.
This has always been the core tenet of the Mechanicus; as long as it does not violate the law, lower-level personnel can do whatever they want—this is their freedom.
Those who willingly degenerate cannot be saved.
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"Lady Lana, some Great Sages are looking for you!"
A server notified Lana, who was in a meeting at Militech, via the network.
Lana paused slightly, using two minds at once to have her Nascent Soul descend to the City of Freedom, where she saw the visitors in the audience hall.
These individuals were all Golden Core Realm powerhouses among the Cyber Cultivators; each of them possessed strength comparable to a Mechanical Sage.
Especially the three people standing at the forefront, they had even mastered the technique of Soul Circuit Modification, which was clearly not something an ordinary Golden Core Realm cultivator could achieve.
Instead, they were beings who had had deep contact with the God of All Machines; otherwise, they would never have been able to master this power.
"Lady Lana!!!"
Seeing Lana's Nascent Soul descend, all the Golden Core Ancestors bowed in salute, filled with reverence for Lana.
"What do you want from me?"
Lana sat on the throne, asking in a cold tone, her eyes revealing an aura of majesty and inviolability.
"We wish to purchase the knowledge to advance to the Great Sage Realm!"
The leader was Kane from the Fifth World; he was one of the strongest among the Golden Core Realm cultivators but had been stuck at this realm, unable to break through for a long time.
He had once tried to further develop the Soul Dantian Method. After all, he possessed the complete data of the Soul Dantian Method.
However, even though he had reached the Golden Core Realm, he still could not understand the theoretical basis of this cultivation method, let alone study it.
The foundation determines the superstructure, and the Soul Dantian Method itself is a product of the combination of science and magic.
To comprehend such a profound path of cultivation, without sufficient scientific and magical foundations, it is normal not to understand it.
At first, he hadn't thought of Hassan; his realm was clearly much higher than other cultivators, but Hassan's obvious Golden Core also indicated that his realm had not broken through.
Moreover, according to the standards of the Cyber Dimension, Kane had already reached the peak of the Golden Core Realm, but compared to Hassan, he was far behind. Clearly, they were not cultivating the same path.
Therefore, Kane needed to seek external support, purchasing higher-level cultivation methods through the Cyber Dimension. And Lana, the lord of the City of Freedom, possessed strength beyond the Golden Core Realm, naturally becoming Kane's target.
So, he gathered a group of cultivators also trapped at the peak of the Golden Core Realm in the City of Freedom and went together to meet Lady Lana.
"Oh!"
Lana responded softly, indicating for Kane to continue.
This was her way of telling him to state the price he could offer, to see if it could move her.
"I possess a Please God Technique that can temporarily borrow the power of the Limitless Cyber Celestial, plus one hundred thousand gold spirit coins."
Kane held a golden scroll in both hands, carefully presenting it for Lana to examine.
"Please God Technique… interesting!"
Lana's interest was piqued when she heard that the Fifth World also had believers.
She looked at Kane and the others with interest; the contempt in her eyes instantly vanished without a trace, replaced by a gentle expression.
After all, as a devout believer, seeing people from other worlds also believing in the deity she worshipped, the sense of familiarity was self-evident.
Limitless Cyber Celestial—this name was clearly the God of All Machines' alias in this world.
Just like the Black Sun God worshipped by the barbarians from the Third World in the Black Sun Arena, these were all just different appellations for the God of All Machines in different worlds.
However, no matter how the name changed, its essence remained the same: that supreme, unrivaled existence—the God of All Machines.
Thinking of this, Lana couldn't help but show a slight smile and became even more interested in the Please God Technique in Kane's hand. If it could truly summon a god, then an exchange might be possible.
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