ccnovels #385 - Bare fangs
#385 - Bare fangs
Looking at those unfamiliar but extremely dangerous black energies, Wang Daochang really wanted to complain to this ancient remnant spirit.
Could anyone really be this stupid?
A teacher who doesn't hold back from teaching their disciples is a great teacher;
But to teach your disciples your weaknesses and the moves to exploit them, that's just brain-dead.
However, before Wang Jixuan could curse, the situation outside changed again.
The bronze puppet retreated smoothly to the inside of the formation's light barrier;
The surrounding gray energy had already been breached by that grainy black energy;
Just as these black energies were about to corrode the formation's light barrier, a row of hundreds of slender golden cannons suddenly rose from the city walls.
In just three seconds, these cannons fired simultaneously.
Streaks of red 'laser' shot out, and the black energies were instantly pierced and evaporated by the powerful spiritual energy, and along with them, the dozens of spirit slaves who had just tried to rush up were instantly submerged and pierced by the red light.
Screams rose and fell, and half of the bodies of the dozens of people were melted away.
The remaining half, seeing that something was wrong, turned and fled.
The hundreds of golden cannons on the city wall directly entered rapid-fire mode, as if gunners were venting their anger, and the gray, low sky outside the city was illuminated red by the tragic red light.
In the end, only the eight strongest of these spirit slaves escaped...
That was because they had enough spiritual energy in their bodies to withstand this red light that melted everything.
Inside the Cloud City's defense command hall.
He Ruli, the ancient remnant spirit, who was tense all over, slowly collapsed, as if she had lost all her strength, constantly panting, her body trembling slightly.
This was because of anger;
She seemed to be beyond furious.
Wang Jixuan was a little puzzled, turning his head to look at this 'old hag'. He, who had wanted to complain just now, couldn't help but feel a little curious.
"What's the situation?"
"I'm sorry, Great Pioneer," He Ruli responded coldly, "I need to calm down my emotions. Please go and rest first. There's nothing serious here... I will activate the planetary barrier immediately."
Wang Jixuan nodded in agreement, not asking any more questions.
He greeted everyone and led them away.
Amina hesitated, giving Wang Jixuan a look; she took the initiative to stay behind, expressing her concern for this ancient remnant spirit.
Wang Jixuan and the others returned to the nearest great hall where they were staying and briefly discussed the incident.
The sudden appearance of this group of spirit slaves;
The dark force led by the spirit cultivator named Obsidian;
The strange grainy black energy;
He Ruli's anger, and the true display of force by Cloud City;
And so on.
After they arrived at Cloud City, although there were conflicts and twists, there were no direct contradictions in general.
It was just that He Ruli had plotted against Wang Jixuan, and Wang Jixuan wanted to make trouble for her, and He Ruli held the protective weapon that the surface civilization of this planet desperately needed—the planetary barrier.
So Wang Jixuan could only keep testing her, and there was no way to directly break up with her.
The two sides maintained this tacit understanding and pulled each other around.
This was actually a negotiation.
Wang Jixuan's strength and He Ruli's weakness were, in the final analysis, all negotiating tactics.
But now, with the appearance of the third force, a bloody incident occurred outside the city, and the atmosphere inside Cloud City suddenly became a bit tense.
"He Ruli seemed very angry just now," Nielda Tamon said in a low voice.
"I just realized that."
Zheng Shiduo scratched his head and muttered:
"Good heavens, were they not being serious with us all along?
"Did you see it just now?
"When those cannons hidden on the city wall lit up, a bird's-eye view of the city appeared on a large screen, with at least several thousand gray dots on it!
"Only the hundred or so dots corresponding to that section of the city wall turned green.
"So many weapon systems are installed in this city?"
Wang Jixuan folded his arms and said: "She was the one who needed something from us in the first place, and she even plotted against us... Ji Xiaowu Man?"
"Teacher Wang!"
"Mr. Wang!"
Wang Jixuan casually threw out a stack of high-level Soul Summoning Charms, and gave them two balls of demonic energy for protection.
"Go and come back quickly, go over the city wall to collect the remaining souls outside, collect as many as you can, and let's see their memories."
"Yes!"
The two turned and ran. Ji Xiao pulled Wu Man, wanting to use teleportation, but was gently rejected by the layer of light film on the ground.
They could only run wildly using Divine Speed Charms.
Nielda Tamon said: "I can fly, I'll take them."
"Alright, then I'll have to trouble you, great one."
Wang Jixuan casually said politely, looking slightly lost in thought at Nielda Tamon's back.
Zheng Shiduo asked: "Brother Wang, how much power do you think Obsidian's group of spirit cultivators has now?"
"Hard to say," Wang Jixuan shook his head, "Let's wait for Amina to come back, she will definitely be able to get some information out. There is too much intelligence we need to know now."
...
Amina and Wu Man and others arrived in front of Wang Jixuan one after another.
Wang Jixuan expected correctly, Amina asked some useful information.
"The reason why He Ruli was shocked just now was because that black energy, like a group of bugs, came from the hostile civilization of the Ina civilization.
"That was the foreign enemy that their opposition faction contacted back then.
"That civilization should have perished as well. The war not only severely damaged the Ina civilization, but also that civilization.
"However, judging from this, Obsidian's group not only swindled away a large amount of spiritual energy technology left by the Ina civilization."
Wang Jixuan asked: "Does that hostile civilization have a name?"
"Hassami Anu Ryu Ye... just some transliterated syllables."
"Alright," Wang Jixuan rubbed his forehead, "They should just be testing us. The pseudo-spirit slaves are related to them, but the good news is that they now have disagreements with the Blade Beasts."
Amina nodded gently: "The Blade Beasts are huge, and they are unlikely to be manipulated by a small group of spirit cultivators. The Gari Nuo also have a high level of intelligence."
Wang Jixuan asked: "How is He Ruli's state now?"
"Are you worried about her?"
"Worried? I just want to ask, has the planetary barrier been activated?"
"It just opened," Amina said, "I can feel that this planet is wrapped in a strange energy. However, the planetary barrier is not a planetary array, it can only hinder the positioning of the interstellar gate and delay some time. As long as the Blade Beasts open the interstellar gate near Mars, crossing the space will not be a problem."
"Aren't we here for this little bit of time?"
Wang Jixuan smiled:
"Now that the goal is achieved, other things will be easier to handle.
"He Ruli plotted against me, I must get back at her, make her pay the price, and get the corresponding compensation..."
"Mr.!"
Wu Man's shout came.
Nielda Tamon descended from the sky with Wu Man and Ji Xiao.
Four of the Soul Summoning Charms in their hands had been lit.
Ji Xiao quickly explained: "The golden cannons on the city wall are too domineering, we can't find any complete souls at all, and we can't even summon the remnant souls with a little spirituality. We only found four who still had half a breath left, killed them, and put their souls in here!"
Wang Jixuan: ...
No, why didn't you just bring back the prisoners!
Isn't it redundant to kill them and then summon their souls!
But it's about the same.
Wang Daochang pointed with his sword, and the four talismans unfolded at the same time, and the four phantoms detained inside were revealed at the same time.
Nielda Tamon watched with relish, his eyes full of curiosity and thirst for knowledge.
Pa.
Wang Jixuan snapped his fingers, and four red lotuses bloomed under the feet of these four souls. A cluster of flames appeared in the center of the lotus, and these four souls immediately screamed.
Afterwards, Wang Daochang used black energy to condense miniature swords, and performed several ten thousand swords piercing the heart ceremony on the four souls.
After several tosses, these four souls were on the verge of destruction.
The pain here is a hundred times more intense than physical torture.
Zheng Shiduo swallowed: "Brother, shouldn't we ask them first?"
"Huh?"
Wang Jixuan smiled and said:
"Look at their firm eyes, full of the incomplete beauty after being brainwashed. If we ask directly, they will definitely be stubborn, and then we will interrogate them with torture.
"Then it's better to skip this useless interrogation part."
Everyone actually thought this made sense.
Sure enough, when Wang Jixuan interrogated them again at this time, these four remnant souls began to rush to answer, begging them to give them a quick death.
Unfortunately, the information given by the remnant souls was very limited.
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These people are all Earth humans who have received spiritual energy infusion and awakening in the last twenty years.
They don't know what spirit slaves and spirit cultivators are.
According to them, they have lived in the ice and snow since they were young, and were told that the human world has been destroyed by the Blade Beast disaster, and they were lucky enough to escape by hiding in Antarctica.
They are not loyal to the spirit cultivators, but to a core circuit embedded in the wall, and many powerful spirit slaves guard the core circuit.
They call this core circuit 'God's Seal', and they are messengers of God.
God has never appeared directly, but will give oracles.
This time they received the oracle and arrived here along the guidance of God's Seal.
There are several key pieces of information here.
Antarctica;
God's Seal and God's Oracle.
Wang Jixuan scratched his forehead: "Can we communicate with the ground? Let Lao Fu and the others investigate the Antarctic continent."
Amina immediately said: "I'll go talk to He Ruli."
She turned and left in a hurry.
Wang Jixuan waved his hand: "Ji Xiao, you continue to interrogate them. If you can't find any useful information, dig for details. Don't waste the value of these prisoners."
"Yes," Ji Xiao said with a serious expression, and took away the four talismans.
Wang Ji Xuan lowered his head and pondered for a while, hands behind his back.
Gao Huating, who had been silent, asked, "What can we do now?"
"We can't do anything. The enemy is in the dark, and we are in the light."
Wang Ji Xuan said:
"The group of spiritual cultivators led by Obsidian are not injured. They maintain a good relationship with the Blade Beasts, and their strength is likely stronger than ordinary spiritual cultivators in their peak state.
"The best-case scenario is that there is only one Ye Zi on Earth.
"According to my current understanding, she should have taken out her core circuit in order to pursue the path of immortal cultivation.
"That's the Divine Seal that those souls were talking about just now.
"Then she took a third-rate external alchemy path, probably also tricked by someone."
The person who tricked Ye Zi is likely that Tri-Realm Playboy.
Wang Ji Xuan continued to analyze, "If there is only one Ye Zi on Earth, and the planetary barrier is already activated, preventing others from teleporting over, then we might still have some advantages."
Nielda Tamon reminded him, "But they took a lot of black technology from the Ina civilization."
"Wu Man, go chase after Amina and see if she can get a list from He Ruli, roughly listing the technologies those guys took away."
"Yes."
Wu Man turned and ran off.
Wang Ji Xuan looked at Gao Huating and gently blinked.
Gao Huating was stunned for a few seconds, then reacted, nodded slightly to Wang Ji Xuan, and turned to leave.
Taking advantage of the current chaotic situation, with everyone's attention not on Gao Huating, she successfully placed the jade talisman Wang Ji Xuan gave her in the designated location.
This was just leaving a backup plan.
To prevent the situation from becoming too passive on their side when they truly fall out with He Ruli.
"Brother Wang," Lao Zheng asked, "Will they have any further actions next?"
"I estimate they're going to call for reinforcements. Ye Zi has actually screwed this up. There might be new spiritual cultivators coming to Earth."
"Screwed up?"
"Yes, the last time Ye Zi arrived here, she came alone. She took away the two most important souls here, and completely offended He Ruli, making it impossible for their cooperation to continue."
Wang Ji Xuan walked to the corner, took a bottle of water, leisurely took a few sips, and walked towards his resting room.
"Let's wait for news.
"If it is a blessing, it is not a curse. If it is a curse, you cannot avoid it.
"The defense here is strong enough. Even if the world is destroyed, we can continue to live here.
"I'm going to continue my research... cough, cultivation."
......
In the following days, Cloud City maintained its usual tranquility, a tranquility tinged with a bit of lifelessness.
With He Ruli's help, Amina successfully sent a message to Fu Jian.
Fu Jian had already begun to send people to focus on investigating the situation in Antarctica.
According to Fu Jian's feedback, Antarctica had originally attempted to establish a fortress, but because transporting supplies was too difficult, and the four oceans were gradually blockaded by Blade Beasts, the development plan there had to be abandoned halfway.
According to real-time satellite monitoring, there were no traces of buildings there, but it could not be ruled out that someone had used large-scale simulation camouflage technology.
Now that the Blade Beasts are comprehensively strategically contracting, exploring Antarctica will not be too troublesome, and results will be available soon.
Ji Xiao interrogated the four remnant souls for a day and a night, and finally used Buddhist teachings to end the not-so-sinful lives of these remnant souls.
They really weren't bad people.
Although their positions were opposed, these remnant souls had lived in the Antarctic underground base since they were young.
They obeyed the law, loved life, risked their lives to become spiritual energy users (they called themselves God Believers), and respectfully did things according to God's will. This was their first time on a mission.
The escaped senior spirit slaves should have more information.
In addition, Fu Jian also fed back through this temporary communication channel that the planetary barrier had been activated, and they had detected a thin spiritual energy fluctuation zone around the planet.
Many space exploration instruments would also malfunction when approaching this area.
Now that the Blade Beasts have not moved, and the spiritual cultivator criminal gang led by Obsidian has not fully appeared, Wang Ji Xuan is happy to be leisurely, immersed in the 'inner world' of the bronze puppet.
His weapon refining techniques and ideas cannot be said to be advancing by leaps and bounds, but only that they are changing with each passing day!
The Ina civilization has completely opened the door to a new world for him!
This is the accumulation of time, and also the crystallization of wisdom from generations of a near-high-level civilization.
For him, this is the greatest treasure here.
However, just as Wang Ji Xuan had the idea of simply secluding himself here for a long time, and wanted to talk to He Ruli about the house rental price, He Ruli took the initiative to come to his door.
This time, it was her remnant spirit body that came.
She had already thought of a solution to the condition Wang Ji Xuan had proposed.