Heavenly Unbound: The System Maker!
Chapter 188 – Day 4,035. The March!

Hengsheng's hand touched the metal frame of the teleporter. A cold, metallic sensation ran through his fingertips as he did.

He stepped away from the circular metallic frame and walked toward the control panel positioned in front of it.

Placing his hand on the glass screen, a soft blue light lit up beneath his palm. Moments later, an option screen appeared, displaying a list of destinations where other teleporters were located.

He had to choose one out of these numerous options in order to initiate the teleportation. He swiped across it like one would with a smartphone screen, scrolling through the destination's options.

There were more than ten thousand destinations to choose from. Hengsheng cursed at the vastness of this world. If this were Earth, his business would be considered global in scale—he owned that many operational sites.

But here, in the grand scheme of things, he was still a nobody. Since he didn’t know which one to choose, he selected a random destination—just a basic test for the teleporter.

The circular metallic frame began to rotate and enlarge, blue lights running across its rune circuit. The center flickered and then transformed, revealing the vision of another place on the other side of the gate.

Through the gate, Hengsheng could see one of his managers looking back at him from the other side, his expression dumbfounded, as if he had never seen anything like this before.

"I was wrong… this can’t be called a teleporter. It’s more like a portal gate," Hengsheng murmured.

And it was indeed closer to a portal. A true teleporter would disassemble a person entirely and reassemble them elsewhere—this one simply opened space and connected two distant places in real time.

Hengsheng deactivated the teleporter, severing the spatial connection between the two places. The poor random manager was startled as the machine suddenly moved on its own again—then, just like that, the vision was cut off.

Hengsheng chuckled at the random manager’s reaction.

"Blue, what did those challengers call this teleporter?" Hengsheng asked.

"They called it the Spacegate, Master," Blue replied.

"That's simple enough. Let's call it that here too. Inform the others as well for consistency," Hengsheng said.

"Understood," Blue replied.

After Hengsheng finished installing the new tool for his faction, he went back inside the mansion to continue his cultivation.

…

A month later.

Ding!

[Congratulations]

Daily Sign-In Complete

Day 4,035

Reward: Healing Pill (Heaven, Rank 6) (x1)

[Accept Reward] / [Convert to System Points]

“Good stuff,” Hengsheng murmured as he accepted the daily reward. He stored it in his Item Storage, then stood up and began his routine exercises, stretching his muscles after staying in the same position for the week-long cultivation session.

When he was done with the morning routine, he stepped out of his chamber, and in the corridor, Yunsu was already waiting.

“Meow.” Yunsu let out a soft meow, greeting her human as he finally came out of the cultivation session. She walked up to him and rubbed herself affectionately against his legs.

“Hello, kitten.” Hengsheng bent down, scooped her up, and gently stroked her soft, fluffy fur. Being pampered by her human, Yunsu felt completely at ease and let out a soft meow.

'What a good life,' Hengsheng thought with a grin.

"Let's go to the kitchen. I will cook us a meal," Hengsheng said.

"Meow!" Yunsu replied excitedly. She loved her human's cooking, but sadly for her, he would only do it once in a while.

Hengsheng held Yunsu in his arms as he walked to the kitchen, intending to cook something. To get through the boring time as a long-lifespan being, when he wasn’t cultivating, he had developed several skills—cooking was one of them.

He placed Yunsu on the table and began preparing food for both of us. The kitchen in this Maker Mansion was a perfect replica of a modern Earth kitchen—complete with a refrigerator and other kitchen stuff.

They were mostly just for decoration, since he didn’t use them often.

For preserving fresh meat, a spatial ring or an item storage was far more effective.

As for heating a pan? His Fire Qi offered far more precise control over temperature.

Hengsheng thought that the cultivation for becoming an omnipotent, immortal being might not be such a good idea after all—if everything became too easy, life would become extremely boring.

He thought absentmindedly as he set the knife down on the cow demon beast meat he had acquired during his operation in the Long Mountain region.

Due to the extreme cold of that region, the meat was rich with marbling—easily worthy of an A5 grade or even higher, had it been judged on Earth.

Hengsheng placed the meat in the pan, hearing it sizzle. Then, he added the butter. Beside the pan, he set up a pot and started adding ingredients to make the sauce.

The aroma that rose from both the pan and pot was phenomenal—so rich and intense that an ordinary mortal could not take it; the scent would make their stomach rumble uncontrollably and kill them in the process.

Shortly after, the food was ready: the steak with treasure mushroom sauce served on two gigantic plates—one for him, and one for Yunsu.

Yunsu stared at the steak, saliva dripping from her mouth. Hengsheng grinned at her reaction—his understanding of the Cooking Dao was far from shallow. If the system judged it the same way it judged Laws, he was already at 50% mastery!

“Let’s eat together,” Hengsheng said as a knife and fork appeared in his hands.

"Meow!" Yunsu replied as she extended her claw.

However, before he even had a chance to eat the meal he cooked, the notification sound rang out from Dim, the AI of the Dimensional Traveler System.

DING!!!

DING!!!

DING!!!

"What the?" Hengsheng put the knife and fork down before he opened the system panel to see what kind of urgent matter had caused Dim to alert him like this.

[Host, there is unusual movement in the Great North Plain Region.] Dim messaged.

Hengsheng was confused; he did not wait and immediately opened the dimensional map to see what that meant.

The Great North Plain Region was the center and largest region in the north of this continent. It was where the mortal population of this part of the continent gathered, since it was the only livable place, not too cold or with unstable weather like the other four regions of the north.

It was also the Xia Clan's ancestral land, or the site of the former Xia Dynasty, which had once ruled over the Great Northern Empire before the Blood Fiend Palace arrived and turned it into history.

Once the dimensional map was activated, Hengsheng zoomed in on the view from the sky to the ground. He immediately spotted the unusual scene that Dim had mentioned.

What he saw were millions of Blood Fiend Palace's demonic cultivators hovering in the sky, herding countless hordes of mortal humans on the ground, in a certain direction.

The massive movement of people shocked Hengsheng. He couldn’t count how many mortals there were, but he could roughly guess it was more than a million by a large margin—perhaps a billion.

"What are they doing?" Hengsheng murmured, his brow furrowed because he had a very bad feeling about it.

"Meow?" Yunsu meowed, asking her human what was wrong and why he wasn’t eating.

"Something came up. You go ahead and eat yours," Hengsheng replied to the cat before returning his attention to the dimensional map.

Yunsu sensed her human’s mood change. She took a big bite of the steak, then put the rest into her item storage—she wanted to save it for later.

Then she leapt onto her human’s head. She could see him looking into the invisible screen that only the two of them could see. Curious, she looked into it as well, wanting to see what had disturbed her human.

…

"Papa, I can't breathe…" a little girl who was not even ten yet clung to her father's leg, said while marching along with the crowd.

Father, who had a grim expression, did not dare to stop his feet; with difficulty, he brought his child forward so that she could breathe more easily.

"This is better?" Father said.

"Yes, but I am tired now. How long until we arrive at heaven?" the little girl asked innocently.

Father, hearing his daughter's words, felt tears begin to form within his eyes. Only fools and immature children would believe the words of the evil immortals.

Unfortunately, he was not a fool, which made him realize the terrible future that awaited him and his daughter.

"Soon. When we get there, Mama is waiting for us…" Even Father knew there was no heaven awaiting them, but he could not bring himself to shatter his daughter's hope with the cruel truth.

"I miss Mama! She hasn't come to visit us since she went with the Immortal Lord! How dare she!" the little girl said playfully, smiling with hope.

Father could not hold his tears anymore and began to cry uncontrollably. He lifted his daughter and embraced her.

"Papa?" the little girl said, puzzled by her father's action.

At the same time, a similar scene was happening in many places during the march of a billion mortals.

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