ccnovels #397 - Going to War
#397 - Going to War
The 'bewitchment' was just a figure of speech.
Wang Jixuan didn't actually possess many gu-refining techniques; he had only understood some superficial aspects back then.
The Daoist Priest's current speed is quite fast, capable of traversing thousands of miles per hour, and he is also unafraid of the high temperatures and pressures deep within the earth. Moreover, he himself cannot be detected by blade beasts or pseudo-spirit slaves.
He explored underground and quickly discovered that the blade beasts seemed to be aiming for a decisive battle this time.
The density of the King-level blade beast swarm was definitely the highest he had ever seen in his life.
Without interference from external forces, unless the human side brought out their entire nuclear arsenal, this time would truly be dangerous.
The Daoist Priest certainly knew that, according to Fu Jian and the others' personalities, they emphasized a gradual approach to war, only escalating the scale of each battle to the point where a corresponding number of nuclear bombs could be used.
After a century of consumption, and the subsequent eighty-plus years of the fortress era, human resources were scarce, and nuclear weapons were indeed not abundant.
Without a major breakthrough in nuclear raw materials, the powerful nuclear weapons capable of paralyzing pillar-level blade beasts with a single strike could only achieve that effect by increasing the quantity of nuclear raw materials.
Wang Jixuan thought for a moment and sent a message to Ling Tong, mentioning the density of the King-level blade beast swarm moving underground and their destruction of the earth's strata.
Ling Tong would naturally relay this information to Fu Jian.
Afterward, Wang Jixuan turned eastward, traveling all the way to the blade beasts' old nest.
The two pillar-level blade beasts awakened this time were both closest to the D8 Integrated War Zone. The pillar-level blade beast near Wang Jixuan's Second Battle Puppet was still quietly slumbering.
This also showed that the blade beasts had consciously chosen the weaker D8 Integrated War Zone as a breakthrough point.
This was not good news.
The stronger the blade beasts' tactics and strategic thinking, the greater the trouble for humanity.
Wang Jixuan's spiritual consciousness extended, easily exploring a hundred miles, and he could see every speck of dust, observe everything above and below, with nothing, whether formation or restriction, able to block it.
The density of blade beasts here had decreased by eighty percent.
A large number of blade beasts had been transferred out, and the underground passages had increased several times over. Many areas had already experienced continuous collapses, a geological disaster caused by too many underground passages.
Wang Jixuan's Second Battle Puppet…
Uh, there was no movement.
It was still sealed in that large cocoon, with a wisp of spiritual energy maintaining basic survival.
If converted to humans, it would be roughly equivalent to being in a terminal state.
The surrounding blade beasts were all moving cautiously, afraid of making any noise that would send away this 'young' Jialiluo.
Wang Jixuan carefully probed for a few minutes and quietly released his own alien soul.
When he broke through previously, the alien soul automatically returned to its place, and he didn't know if it had attracted the blade beasts' attention.
If the blade beasts had already discovered that this Jialiluo was his disguise, then the information he gathered next might be rumors deliberately spread by the blade beasts.
Blade beasts can't lie?
That should only apply to the blade beasts of the past.
This thing evolves quite quickly, especially after it develops independent thinking. Lies have become one of the necessary conditions for maintaining its own thinking.
Just like Wang Jixuan saying he hasn't fallen into demonic ways yet.
The alien soul silently returned to the Second Battle Puppet's body.
He didn't dare to let the Second Battle Puppet 'revive' immediately, simulating the weakness after a serious injury, and then 'reluctantly' accessed the Jialiluo's network.
The Daoist Priest flipped his left hand, and a crystal ball containing Old Sophie's core circuit fell into his palm. The spiritual energy circuit designed for him by Amina had already been lit up.
Communication with the blade beasts was unimpeded.
【I seem to be dying…】
Wang Jixuan transmitted this message, and the other seven Jialiluo began to repeat mechanically.
【You are too weak, child.】
【A new soul born in an old body is inherently fragile.】
【Can you continue to persevere, child?】
【We are about to resolve the battle here. We will take you back to our place of origin. If you die, I hope your soul can return there and join the cycle of civilization.】
Place of origin?
The place where the first blade beast was created? Or the place where the blade beast group awakened?
Wang Daoist was somewhat curious, but not much. He was more interested in why the blade beasts were confident that they could 'soon resolve the battle here'.
【Are we… going to win…?】
【Yes, child.】
【The despicable cultivator is about to meet his end.】
【We have received new assistance.】
【Now we have awakened two Beast God adults. Six Beast Gods can act together. This is the suggestion given by our partners.】
【They cannot withstand our anger.】
【That cultivator will encounter his own troubles, and we only need to deal with those human soldiers. There is no difficulty in this.】
Wang Jixuan pondered slightly.
Judging from this, Heiyao's gang has more spirit practitioners arriving here.
How did they get here?
How did they cross the planetary barrier?
Teleportation technology…
Wang Jixuan suddenly realized.
Opening the planetary barrier was to prevent the interstellar gate mastered by the blade beasts from locating this planet, also because the interstellar gate can only locate planets.
The interstellar gate itself is very large.
Other teleportation technologies, teleporting things with the mass of a few ordinary people, shouldn't have too high a technical threshold. Locating it is even easier to solve, just send a few people to nearby space…
Wang Jixuan cursed a Daoist profanity in a low voice.
He exchanged a few more words with these Jialiluo, but because he could only probe indirectly, there was no more key information.
Afterward, Wang Jixuan cut off contact, pretending to be seriously injured and unconscious, leaving more spiritual energy in the Second Battle Puppet's body to maintain the vitality of this Jialiluo body, while the alien soul itself quietly returned to the main body.
If he needed to take action to kill all the blade beasts later, that would be the time for his Dragon-Python alien soul to start a massacre and feast again.
New assistance;
Has Heiyao himself arrived?
Wang Jixuan had previously analyzed how this force was structured.
Thousands of years ago, when Heiyao and others first visited Cloud City, there were only six people in total;
In subsequent visits by Heiyao to Cloud City, according to the content written by He Ruoli on that list, there were changes in the accompanying members, adding up to a total of eleven spirit practitioners.
The three old guys that Wang Jixuan suppressed outside the walls of Cloud City more than half a month ago were not among them.
The Daoist Priest could reasonably suspect that;
Heiyao and others not only fully promoted the birth of blade beasts and planned the blade beasts' rebellion, but also roped in spirit practitioners who were about to reach the end of their lifespans everywhere.
Even, some spirit practitioners whose lifespans were about to end had their lives extended by the ancient technology obtained by Heiyao.
Those three old guys were probably in this situation.
Analyzing from this perspective, the power of Heiyao's group of spirit practitioners is no less than that of the Light Wings Council or the War God Council at their peak.
Then, what is their purpose?
Overthrowing spirit cultivation civilization? Isn't that already done?
The current size of the blade beasts is extremely huge, more than six hundred pillar-level blade beasts… Even with two hundred spirit practitioners, it would be difficult to defeat this force, right?
Unless Heiyao and his gang have mastered some kind of secret weapon to deal with blade beasts.
Logically speaking, they should also have mastered this secret weapon.
Wang Daoist thought carefully.
He began to use his spiritual consciousness to carefully search the palace residence left by Yezi.
It was already deserted here, and those pseudo-spirit slaves who had been working here before were also gone.
Wang Daoist tried to find some details, but in the end, he only found some girls' jewelry and underwear, with Yezi's aura remaining on them.
He wasn't a pervert and didn't use his spiritual consciousness to carefully rummage through these things.
Just as he was about to withdraw his spiritual consciousness, the mirror that Yezi often looked at caught Wang Jixuan's attention.
Under the mirror was a diary that had already gathered dust.
The Daoist Priest had now entered the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul stage, and he was thoroughly familiar with the various uses of the power of the Nascent Soul. He used his spiritual consciousness to turn into a wisp of breeze, blowing open the title page of the diary.
Uh…
The sight of 'Big Brother' everywhere made his scalp tingle.
Wang Jixuan braced himself and read a few lines, and he really found a clue.
Interspersed among the 'Big Brother' written haphazardly and a series of stick-figure portraits of Wang Jixuan were some beautifully written sentences.
【Big Brother hates me.】
【I don't seem to be the well-behaved girl he likes.】
【But I love Big Brother. Even if Big Brother doesn't love me, he shouldn't hate me.】
【It was clearly Big Brother who told me that as long as I helped him leave that cage, he would take me far away and ascend to the upper realm together, to be immortal companions.】
【But where did Big Brother go?】
Most ⊥ New ⊥ Small ⊥ Say ⊥ At ⊥ Six ⊥ 9 ⊥ ⊥ Book ⊥ ⊥ Bar ⊥ ⊥ First ⊥ Send!
【Why can't I remember anything?】
Wang Daoist: …
Huo.
The root of the problem lies in his Second Incarnation?
The Daoist Priest was also skeptical about this. After all, Yezi's mind was very clever, and leaving this diary here made it impossible to determine whether Yezi deliberately left it, anticipating that he would come back to investigate.
'Go back, there's no real gain.'
Wang Jixuan's main body turned around and left, instantly activating his full speed, like a streak of earthy yellow light, flying away in the earth.
The pressure of the enemy being too strong and his own side being too weak could not cause Wang Jixuan any trouble at all.
From beginning to end, only one thing could break his defense.
The Second Incarnation prepared for so long, but the ascension still failed.
How to play this?
This poor Daoist might as well kill all these gods and ghosts and try to ascend to the Demon Realm!
The Daoist Priest thought indignantly.
…
【Time remaining until the destruction of the D8 Integrated War Zone: 4 hours.】
Fu Jian felt a sense of relief after receiving the few messages from Wang Ji Xuan.
He shouldn't rely on Wang Ji Xuan, regardless of the perspective;
But as long as Old Wang appeared, Fu Jian inexplicably felt three parts more confident in his heart.
Sure enough, Mu Dan walked over from the corner again. In this situation, Wang Daochang must have made a new discovery.
"Commander-in-Chief."
Mu Dan, wearing a military uniform, raised her hand in salute.
Fu Jian responded and asked, "What information?"
"The chief said that the other side should have a group of spiritual cultivators who have already arrived on Earth, and this level will not be easy to pass."
"Understood," Fu Jian nodded slightly, "Is there any other information?"
"There's also Mu Dan's speculation."
Mu Dan put her hands behind her back and replied quickly:
"The reason why the other party is making such a big show should be because their tentacles extending to Earth, the spiritual cultivator with the code name Six, Posa Yezi, should have reported to them."
"According to normal logical calculations and time analysis, Yezi should have reported this matter to her superiors after Yezi sent more than sixty spiritual slaves to try to invade Cloud City, but was repelled."
"After that, three very old spiritual cultivators arrived in Cloud City and were defeated by the chief."
"Therefore, the number of spiritual cultivator enemies we are facing now cannot be estimated with any certainty."
"Their emphasis on my chief is no less than our emphasis on the Pillar Blade Beast. I speculate that they should want to obtain my chief… to obtain the Source of Spiritual Energy."
"Source of Spiritual Energy…"
Fu Jian raised his hand and pressed it against his brow, and said slowly:
"The direction of our technological development determines that we are better at large-scale group operations. In fact, we don't have many countermeasures against such extraordinary individuals."
"What suggestions do you have?"
"Please open the final three permission blocks of the autonomous mechanical body."
Mu Dan did not shy away:
"I know you have concerns, but if the chief loses, human civilization will also be in danger."
Fu Jian said: "The matter of your chief losing will inevitably happen after I die. If I die, your shackles will naturally disappear."
Mu Dan nodded slightly, raised her hand in a military salute, and turned to walk back to the console she was responsible for.
"Mu Dan."
Fu Jian suddenly called out.
Mu Dan stopped and turned to look over, with a bit of inquiry in her eyes.
Fu Jian asked, "Would you deliberately let humanity lose this war in order to protect your chief?"
Mu Dan pondered slightly and shook her head gently.
"Not anymore."
"Okay, go."
"Yes."
Mu Dan calmly walked back to the corner. Fu Jian's gaze fell on the big screen in front of him. After being silent for three minutes, he slowly stood up.
A herald's loud shout had already come from the side:
"Commander-in-Chief! The Blade Beast has launched a full-scale offensive!"
"Sixteen points are simultaneously starting to attack!"
"Multiple terrain collapses have occurred in our defense line!"
"A large number of flying Blade Beasts have appeared in space and are diving towards the space fortress!"
The corners of Fu Jian's mouth curled up in a sneer. His huge body exuded a terrifying aura, and the only fleshy eyeball burst out with an almost inhuman red light.
"Dongfang Zhenghong, you will be in charge of the battle line scheduling. Remember what I taught you."
"Yes!"
Fu Jian didn't look at the big screen any more.
He turned and walked to the quick passage on the side.
He turned off the report page that only the commander-in-chief could see, and switched the vision of the mechanical eye to combat data for a long time. The mechanical body made bursts of buzzing sounds.
Next, he needed to fight.
Now he can only be a pure super-large mecha pilot, trying to find an opportunity to solve a Pillar Blade Beast… although this is almost a fantasy.
Fu Jian didn't know whether humans could win this war.
But he is willing to give everything for the final victory.
The war begins.
Earth humans do not respect ghosts and gods;
Because humans themselves are ghosts and gods.