ccnovels #418 - First Hearing of a Strong Enemy
#418 - First Hearing of a Strong Enemy
Early morning near the No. 76 Museum, Lakeside Villa.
This small lake was converted from a nuclear bomb crater, with lush green plants planted along the shore, and several manor-style detached villas dotted among them.
Wang Jixuan arrived at this villa yesterday and it has been over a dozen hours now.
He lay on his side on the bed, his left hand supporting his temple, his right hand slowly sliding over the perfect and mature jade body in front of him, strands of spiritual energy moistening her jade body, nourishing every cell in her body.
After a long separation, the two were not estranged at all. As soon as they met, they were like two burning flames, which was quite a passionate encounter.
The moment Wang Daoren saw Ling Tong again, he suddenly understood what a love tribulation was.
There is a kind of transformation from carnal love to true love.
In the past dozen hours, he had been thinking that if he could be buried with her, it would be another life without regrets.
It's just that now the passion has subsided, and obsession still takes over.
Ling Tong had already fallen into a deep sleep.
Wang Jixuan looked at the scattered military uniform by the bed and the 'following-style floating ball' facing the wall in the corner, slightly lost in thought.
For the next three months, as long as there are no large-scale battles on the front line, Ling Tong will be with him.
Ling Tong also promised that she would hand over military affairs to her successor as soon as possible, retire from the front line, and the two would stay together.
In the days when Wang Jixuan was away, she was desperately persevering.
Persisting in making contributions to mankind;
Persisting in medical beauty and meditation, constantly accepting spiritual energy, so as to ensure that her youth would not easily fade away;
Persisting in not responding to other outstanding men who expressed their love for her.
She was waiting;
In her heart, Wang Jixuan's contribution to mankind was also worth her waiting a lifetime for.
Ling Tong was also worried that the spiritual energy in her body would dissipate and her youth would fade away...
However, she didn't have time to think about these things most of the time.
Battles, wars, expeditions.
Her footprints had already reached a small area of this star field. She had experienced countless battles, and her mechanical arm had been upgraded and replaced countless times.
"Hmm..."
Ling Tong seemed to wake up from a dream, subconsciously reached back and grabbed Wang Jixuan's arm, and then breathed a sigh of relief.
"What's wrong?"
Wang Jixuan called softly.
"I'm afraid it's a dream," she said in a hoarse voice, and then a few tears fell from the corners of her eyes.
Wang Jixuan leaned forward and hugged her from behind.
Without saying much, they only needed to enjoy this moment of tenderness.
"I'll take you with me wherever I go later."
"That's not necessary," Ling Tong turned around, looked at Wang Jixuan blankly, and asked softly, "How long can I live?"
"You have now been nourished by my spiritual energy to the point of being half-foundation building, and you can still live and jump around for a hundred years."
Wang Daoren stared into her eyes:
"By the way, I will refine a few more pills for you to keep you young forever and maintain this youthful and mature state."
"Of course, if you want to enjoy the baptism of time and grow old gracefully, I have no objection."
Ling Tong chuckled: "Would you like an old woman with a face full of wrinkles?"
Wang Daoren answered honestly: "Well, psychologically I would, but physiologically it might not be certain."
"I don't want to be just your spiritual partner," Ling Tong yawned, "I'll take a rest first... Don't worry about the front line war, we are now in a balanced situation."
Daoren agreed with a smile and continued his previous work.
Helping her skin become more delicate and firm, so as to make up for a little guilt in his heart.
Wang Jixuan began to plan every step of the follow-up matters in his heart.
The best cultivation environment is the City in the Clouds.
After he solves the enemy, Ling Tong naturally doesn't have to run around.
He still has to meet Lao Fu later;
Wang Jixuan could feel that although Lao Fu only had a brain left and went to a certain fleet as a command auxiliary system, Ling Tong and the others would still follow Lao Fu's opinion when they encountered major and difficult matters.
Speaking of which, Lao Fu's consciousness is strong enough.
He himself is not a cultivator, nor a spiritual practitioner, but he has stubbornly resisted to this day with the foundation of ordinary people.
Perhaps the tragic route is more suitable for Lao Fu.
Ding ding.
The communicator that Wang Jixuan put on the pillow suddenly lit up.
He picked it up and took a look, carefully looked at Ling Tong who was already fast asleep, quietly got up, went to the closet to find a pair of long pants and a short shirt, simply tied up his Taoist hairpin and long hair, and slipped out of the master bedroom.
Several familiar figures were already waiting for him at the end of the corridor.
Peony who looks more like a human;
The Red Serpent who has refined the crystal core into a demon pill and has good strength;
Wu Man, who has grown into a young man and is now a peak spiritual practitioner;
And, um...
"Big sister, who are you?" Wang Jixuan frowned and asked.
That guy with spiky hair, smoky makeup, and rivets all over his body who is rolling his eyes resentfully at the moment...
"Lao, Zheng?"
"Brother Wang—"
"I'll go!"
Wang Jixuan couldn't help but kick him out. Zheng Shiduo screamed, his body smashed a large piece of glass and flew out, making a miserable howl.
"You monster! Go back and put on a suit!"
Wang Daoren cursed a few words, then regained his composure and nodded to everyone with a smile.
"Let's go, let's find a place to have a good chat. Wu Man has grown into an adult, and Red Serpent seems to be more beautiful."
Red Serpent blinked: "Teacher, my husband is dead."
"When did it happen?"
"He died in battle," Red Serpent sobbed, "Now I'm empty and lonely every day. Please catch a few spiritual practitioner strong men for me to have fun with later!"
Wang Daoren's forehead was covered with black lines.
Peony had already walked to his side with a smile, wearing an elegant long dress, mainly to show a generous demeanor.
Wang Daoren chuckled softly: "Okay, you finally stopped wearing a maid outfit."
"Of course," Peony raised her hand and tidied her hair, "I'm a queen now anyway, so of course I have to pay attention to my own temperament. If you want to see it."
Peony suddenly yanked the hem of her long skirt, and the long skirt shattered immediately, revealing the black tube top maid outfit inside.
She put her hands together between her neck and head, and said with a smile:
"Peony is your loyal little maid, oh."
Wang Jixuan:…
Forget he praised her!
Wu Man was still the most serious one. Seeing that they had almost finished reminiscing, he said in a deep voice:
"Teacher, there are a few situations I want to report to you."
"Let's talk in the conference room. Peony, go get some wine and food."
"Yes, ma'am," Peony agreed and turned to instruct the mechanical guards waiting in the corner.
She also has something to report, so she can't do the work of a real maid.
…
Zheng Shiduo changed into a decent suit, smoothed his hair on his head, and the whole person exuded a serious temperament.
Wang Jixuan sat in the main seat, looking at the huge star map in front of him, and was secretly amazed.
He had always heard of the concept of a star field before;
He just didn't expect that the area covered by the star field would be so vast.
However, this vast star field is just a corner of the Milky Way.
Wang Jixuan suddenly felt that he needed to get to know the universe in front of him.
Their world of cultivation is obviously different from here.
The world of cultivation is round and square, not this kind of planet. There, a continent floats in the sea on all sides. At the end of the world, you can see the pillars supporting the sky. Outside the pillars of the sky, there is a land outside the territory.
According to the records of the sect's classics, outside the land outside the territory is a barren land.
Although the area of the world of cultivation is indeed much larger than the land area of the Earth's surface, it is only dozens of times larger. Compared with the star field in front of you, there is still a big gap.
Wu Man is giving a quick introduction:
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"Teacher, what you see in this star map are just the planets that we have marked that can be transmitted through the Star Gate."
"They will be very sparse in the true scale of the universe, and the astronomical distance is so far that we can't fly over it in tens of thousands of years."
"But with the Star Gate transmission, you can easily reach it."
Peony calmly added from the side: "This star field was deliberately divided by advanced civilizations. According to the information we currently have, if we send autonomous mechanical voyages outward for thousands of years to project the transmission anchor points of the space gate, they will be directly destroyed by mysterious forces at a certain distance."
Wang Jixuan's interest was aroused instantly: "Mysterious power?"
"Yes, sir."
"Is there a specific form? Is it like a finger or something?"
"Finger?"
Peony showed a pensive look and quickly consulted all the information that human civilization has mastered.
The current Earth humans have already conducted several rounds of information exchange and technology sharing with other civilizations.
But she quickly showed a regretful expression.
"Sir, no one has recorded this aspect."
"I know this."
A crisp voice suddenly sounded, a faint flash appeared in a corner, Amina, who had left on her own initiative, returned and calmly walked to Wang Jixuan's side to sit down.
Amina gave a brief introduction:
"The collective depravity of spiritual civilization also has a certain weak external cause."
"That is, we once held a vast star field development plan that lasted for tens of thousands of years."
"The Ina civilization was initially prevented from expanding outward by advanced civilizations. The spiritual civilization had two goals at the time, one was to open up new transmission targets, and the other was to contact advanced civilizations."
"What was the result?" Wang Jixuan asked.
He doesn't like too many pre-descriptions.
Amina said, "The first goal was actually achieved, but the second goal was not. We found some habitable planets, but strangely, we couldn't use the interstellar gates for teleportation, nor could we contact any advanced civilizations."
Red Serpent asked, "Could it be that we're heading in the wrong direction?"
"I'm not too sure about that. I only saw it in the ancient texts."
Amina said:
"After the Blade Beast disaster broke out, a small number of spiritual practitioners fled towards the outer star regions, which was actually to the batch of planets we found back then. Relying on their own spires, it would take them about seven or eight hundred years to reach there."
"However, seven or eight hundred years isn't much for spiritual practitioners with long lifespans."
"The entire process didn't encounter any clear obstruction from advanced civilizations."
Wang Jixuan nodded, sitting there constantly pondering.
How was the Ina civilization blocked back then?
"Where's Xiao Huating?"
"She's still on her way back," Peony said with a smile. "She's currently holding a concert tour on our allies' planets, serving as our Earth's cultural exchange ambassador. Her soul song has many magical effects."
Wang Jixuan nodded.
Later, he'll have Xiao Huating go to the City Above the Clouds to see if she can find information about the Ina civilization.
His second life had his Dao Heart crushed by that finger from the immortal. He had previously been in a slump and fell into slumber, not launching an investigation.
If the power that prevents civilizations in this star region from expanding outward, and the power that prevents him from ascending to immortality, belong to the same category…
Then the problem becomes interesting.
Wang Jixuan came back to his senses and said, "Wu Man, continue. Talk about this star region, the overall situation of the Blade Beasts, and the major events you want to share. Just go through them one by one."
Wu Man nodded and began to speak eloquently.
This star region can be divided into five regions according to the coordinates of the interstellar gates.
The central region, with more than 1,200 planets with teleportation coordinates, is the original spiritual cultivation civilization's controlled area. There are habitable planets here, as well as planets containing various minerals.
That is, the 'Central Plains' of the star region.
In the four directions, front, back, left, and right, there are also four power zones.
Earth is in the northwest corner of the Central Plains (according to the map).
Since the full-scale outbreak of the Blade Beast disaster, the spiritual cultivation civilization's ruling area has rapidly fallen. Large areas in the north have fallen, small areas in the west and east have fallen, and the south has not yet been attacked by the Blade Beasts.
This is because the Blade Beasts have focused on solving their former owner for the past few hundred years.
The alliance joined by the Earth human civilization is collectively called the Northern Star Region United Resistance Army.
Interestingly, although the human civilization has only emerged in the world for a short few decades, due to the explosive development of mechanical civilization and dozens of spiritual practitioners joining this camp, the human civilization has now become the spokesperson of the Northern Territory United Army.
— Dozens of spiritual practitioners, including the dozen or so Earth spiritual cultivators cultivated by Wang Jixuan with core circuits, and the 'experts' summoned by Nilda, Damon, and Amina.
The Earth human civilization now possesses three habitable planets and six mineral planets.
Wang Jixuan had already learned about it before. The three habitable planets are Earth, the purely mechanical body's arsenal planet, and the semi-human, semi-mechanical 'outpost' planet.
The Earth civilization has risen in a relatively short time.
As long as this momentum continues and the Blade Beasts are defeated bit by bit, then the Earth civilization will inevitably become a hegemonic existence in the Northern Territory.
"There are actually some odds and ends problems here."
Wu Man sighed:
"After the other civilizations in the Northern Territory received our assistance and recovered, they became wary of us instead."
"We can also understand that they are afraid that after we rise, we will oppress and exploit them."
"But it's true that the Blade Beasts are retreating steadily, and it's also true that the lost main force can be continuously replenished. If the protracted war continues, no one can guarantee that their civilization won't have problems in a few hundred or thousands of years."
"But these are not the biggest troubles."
"In the past twenty years, we have fought six super-large-scale battles with the Blade Beasts, winning four and losing two."
"And in the two that we lost, we all discovered traces of the Obsidian forces."
Speaking to the key point, Zheng Shiduo secretly added, "Those people may not be members of the Obsidian forces, but they must have a relationship with Obsidian."
Wu Man said, "They only dispatched seven or eight people, but more than a dozen of our spiritual practitioners were no match for them, and more importantly… they also used methods similar to spiritual energy, but without core circuits."
Wang Jixuan leaned back.
Peony added softly from the side, "According to the information we currently have, they should be looking for you, Chief."
"Looking for me?"
"Yes."
Peony said:
"The first time they appeared, they captured a batch of our mechanical bodies for questioning."
"They didn't seem to fully understand how the mechanical bodies operate."
"The only thing they asked at the time was… where is the remnant soul of that cultivator hidden."
Daoist Wang blinked.
Sent by the owner of that finger?
But the second life's tribulation was already hundreds of thousands of years ago. Sixty thousand years, why are these people only popping up recently?