e-booksonline #479 - She said cherish
#479 - She said cherish
A dark cloud lingered in the vast cosmic space of the Immortal Forbidden Land, unwilling to dissipate for a long time.
Wang Jixuan, with his main body and alien soul puppet sitting back-to-back beneath the dark cloud, was completely controlled, his eyes filled with numbness.
He was numb.
Indeed, he was numb.
After more than a dozen consecutive Heavenly Punishment Divine Thunders and more than a dozen consecutive circle protections, each Divine Thunder transformed into a unique Dao rhythm carrying the power of the Heavenly Dao, mainly nourishing his alien soul puppet, and incidentally allowing his main body to drink some soup.
As a result, his main body's Dao realm couldn't be suppressed anymore.
He was entering the damned Mahayana stage!
A Mahayana stage without any new insights was just walking the old path of the second life, benefiting from the blessings of the first and second lives, wasn't it?
The ungrateful Wang was heartlessly thinking, unable to help but grin.
The distant battle was coming to an end, with the Dark Cultists retreating completely and the enemy spirit practitioners being completely besieged.
Wu Man and Zheng Shiduo, having exhausted their own spiritual energy, anxiously approached.
The two brothers wanted to help, but they had no idea how to intervene.
Wang Jixuan seemed to be speaking through sound transmission;
But they couldn't hear any sound.
Wang Jixuan was surrounded by a layer of light film with a diameter of a hundred zhang, completely isolating him from them.
Anyone could see that the dark cloud above and the circle around Wang Jixuan were confronting each other.
Shao Lao and Hall Master Yin Lin arrived together.
The other Tianluo members had gone to hunt down the scattered and fleeing Dark Cultists.
Naturally, the Tianluo won this battle.
But this great battle seemed to have nothing to do with them.
Yin Lin looked up at the surroundings, and he was also a little shocked.
Millions of mechanical bodies only left wreckage floating in the vast starry sky, and more than a dozen recovery ships were collecting their remains.
The rules of the mechanical bodies were like this—it wasn't a loss if there was a complete corpse.
And further away, because their spiritual power (spiritual energy) had been drained, and they couldn't resist the extreme cold and pressure loss of the space environment, large swaths of Blade Beasts had swollen into ice-blue ice balls, their souls still inside, burrowing into the crystal cores, waiting for the moment of extinction like a candle in the wind.
And these, in Hall Master Yin Lin's eyes, were naturally a 'huge loss'.
Not to mention the adjacent battlefield, where the fleet fighting against the spirit practitioners and psionicists also had a lot of battle damage.
"Wang Zheng sacrificed so much."
Yin Lin muttered through sound transmission:
"Teacher, how should we compensate him?"
Shao Lao's avatar put his hands in his sleeves and said with a smile: "I don't care about the operation of your branch hall, anyway, I have already given him a top-grade sword… Alas, this disciple is really good, but unfortunately, I am only in the Heavenly Immortal realm and cannot be his teacher on his cultivation path."
Yin Lin asked: "Then Shao Lao, what is the Heavenly Dao doing?"
"Fighting."
Shao Lao's eyes were filled with worry:
"Two Heavenly Dao wills are colliding, just like when we go to negotiate with the Dark Cult, their way of thinking is different from ours, but now they are indeed looking for a new balance point.
"Before, they said that the Heavenly Dao had a big problem, and I didn't believe it.
"Now it seems… the problem is bigger than they said.
"The Heavenly Dao is actually directly competing in a battle, what is this all about!"
The two sighed and huddled together to transmit sound.
The distant battle was already one-sided.
Shao Lao's avatar had just ambushed and killed more than a dozen people, dug out more than a dozen cores, and then released several real skillful puppets whose strength was in the Tribulation Transcendence realm.
Under Mu Dan's dispatch, the group of Obsidian spirit practitioners who appeared today had no chance of escape.
However, Obsidian's whereabouts have not yet been found.
This guy is indeed cunning, even if the most core team is sent out, he is still unwilling to enter the front line to fight.
Wang Jixuan made several gestures in the circle.
Still towards Yin Lin's side.
Yin Lin tilted his head and asked: "What does that mean? I don't understand sign language."
Shao Lao said: "He seems to be asking you to help solve those remaining enemies."
"I'm also injured," Yin Lin showed Wang Jixuan the penetrating wound on his chest.
The wound was flowing with colorful light.
There was no flesh and blood inside, but rather materials like natural minerals.
Wang Jixuan immediately stopped gesturing, clasped his fists at Yin Lin, and then sat down in the posture of the Thinker under everyone's gaze.
The Thinker wearing clothes.
When will the Heavenly Dao's game end?
He now always feels like he has a knife hanging over his neck, and he has become a little white rabbit.
If the result of the negotiation between the two sides is to treat him as a pawn, then he will be too uncomfortable.
Wang Jixuan thought about it.
He actually has a way out.
If the Heavenly Dao really wants to obliterate him, then he will put a wisp of his primordial spirit into the Stone of the Past in advance, and as long as that Senior White Bone is willing to take action, he will probably be able to live out his fourth life.
However, if this is really the direction, then he would be too useless, and he would definitely have to roar 'Bitch' and give the Heavenly Dao the middle finger before being obliterated by the Heavenly Dao.
Now it's not necessary.
The two Heavenly Dao's victory or defeat is undecided, and his life and death are also uncertain, so he should try to be a 'born in accordance with the Heavenly Dao'.
So, half a day later.
…
As Mu Dan issued the order to each ship [Victory in battle, clean up the battlefield and recover resources], cheers erupted from each ship.
The Obsidian forces have always been a major concern for Earth civilization and a strong enemy that the Anti-Blade Beast Allied Forces cannot ignore.
In today's battle, under Wang Jixuan's intentional targeting—asking Shao Lao to kill the opponent's strongest dozen or so spirit practitioners—the Obsidian spirit practitioners were almost powerless to resist.
There are only a few relatively positive factions of spirit practitioners remaining in this star field, and among these factions, Nielda Tamon's lineage has the greatest influence.
Nielda Tamon is now naturally biased towards Earth civilization.
In other words, Earth civilization does not have to worry about spirit practitioners causing trouble for a period of time to come.
And with the great loss of the Obsidian forces this time, the Blade Beast civilization will also lose its external strong support.
Therefore, this battle has begun to be crowned with the title of 'Great Victory' and reported to all civilizations in the star field.
The influence of Earth civilization is still rising.
The scenes of Wang Jixuan killing the Dark Cult True Immortal were also 'deliberately' cut out by Mu Dan, made into a blockbuster texture, and sent out with the notification file.
Mu Dan just wanted to let others know how powerful her chief was.
What bad intentions could Mu Dan have?
The place where Wang Jixuan was located was soon surrounded by three supply ships, and many figures stood on the decks of the supply ships.
The spirit practitioners paid attention;
Those high-level psionicists were all kowtowing to Wang Jixuan, seemingly praying for Wang Jixuan.
Amina stood alone above the stern cabin of a supply ship, where she was closer to Wang Jixuan and could avoid the sight of others.
She was thinking about how to help Wang Jixuan get out of it.
Even though the previous fierce battle left her with little psionic energy available for the time being.
Suddenly.
A mechanical body wearing a flight pack floated in front of Amina and bowed respectfully from afar.
The mechanical body pointed to the pocket watch-sized communicator in its hand.
Amina understood, and a small projection screen popped up, and Ling Tong, wearing a simple dark green pajamas while maintaining her mechanical arm, appeared in front of Amina.
"Hmm?"
Amina's face suddenly became radiant, and the corners of her mouth outlined an elegant smile:
"Is there anything urgent to find me?"
"Not an urgent matter," Ling Tong said, "I just faintly feel that he may be leaving this star field for a long time, so long that I can no longer meet him, so I want to solve some problems that perhaps I shouldn't be involved in."
Amina tilted her head gently: "Why did you come to this judgment?"
"It's very simple."
Ling Tong's eyes carried a bit of worry:
"When I stand in the position of Earth's human civilization to look at these problems, I can see more clearly.
"In this battle, the Obsidian spirit practitioners were only here to assist, and that group of cultivators was much stronger than the spirit practitioners, and we lost the equivalent of the total force of three fleets… Many were still high-level mechanical bodies, which were our Earth civilization's reserve combat power.
"Of course, I absolutely have no complaints about us losing too many resources.
"If it weren't for him, Earth civilization would not have been able to get to where it is today… I'm just stating the fact.
"The enemies he encounters are getting stronger and stronger, and the battles he participates in have exceeded the upper limit of our entire civilization's capabilities, and I understand his character, he says he doesn't care, but in fact, he is a very upright person at heart, he likes the satisfaction after self-sacrifice, and that kind of aloofness after the matter is over.
"So he will find a way to erase his traces here, take the initiative to attract the attention of the enemy, and avoid this place from being affected again.
"According to the analysis report that Mu Dan just gave me, the True Immortal who was beheaded by him possessed the powerful energy to destroy the ecology of a planet's surface world.
"If it weren't for the energy collection of several major pillar Blade Beast groups, stubbornly exhausting the mana of this True Immortal, then no one could restrain him.
"And the old man who is following Wang Zheng is just an avatar of a strong man, and the fighting power of this strong man's main body is dozens or hundreds of times that of this True Immortal, who can directly cause a solar storm with one punch, and easily destroy several planets inside the solar system."
Ling Tong paused:
"So, he should be leaving."
Amina said: "The Cloud City cannot be moved away, so he will not be away for too long."
"I hope so."
Ling Tong stared into Amina's eyes.
Amina suddenly said, "You wouldn't be thinking of telling me to take good care of him, and then generously offering him to his beloved... that kind of hypocritical talk, would you?"
"Of course not. Although I'm already the age of an old grandmother, I don't have any motherly instincts."
Ling Tong shrugged:
"I just want to share with you the dual cultivation method he taught me back then, in advance."
"Although I've only cultivated the first level, and I really don't have the talent for cultivation, I've benefited greatly... I have the complete technique, and I had Mudan perform deduction and analysis, with both forward and reverse usage methods."
"The forward usage method allows you to communicate your power with each other during dual cultivation, so that you can both improve simultaneously, with the party with lower strength benefiting more obviously."
"The reverse usage method is when the woman makes a sacrifice, suitable for situations where he is seriously injured, and can help him heal, but the price is that she will fall into a period of weakness."
"Mudan's deduction is still very complete."
"I want to give this technique to you as a supply for the expedition, officially handing it over to you... Amina, perhaps you are not the one who can accompany him to the end, but your long lifespan will surely allow you to do more."
Amina nodded seriously, and said calmly, "I'll try to use it as soon as possible."
"That depends on your ability," Ling Tong chuckled. "I spent a lot of effort to win him over back then. He's quite traditional and conservative."
"Send the file."
Amina hung up the communication with a cold face.
On the other side, Ling Tong turned her head to look at the middle-aged engineer beside her, who was Wan Xiaoqi's daughter, and also Ling Tong's 'personal' maintenance engineer.
"Send file number 034 over."
"Okay," the female engineer completed the operation casually, and asked with a smile, "Commander, didn't you say that you wanted to match Amina with Mr. Black Storm? Their lifespans are compatible with each other, and Amina is also an excellent woman, but now they can't be together because of your existence."
Ling Tong leaned back in her chair and sighed softly.
The strand of white hair on her forehead was a little conspicuous.
Although there were no wrinkles on her face, the traces that time had worn into her heart were not something others could understand.
"If only I could live for ten thousand years."
"Doesn't Mr. Black Storm have a solution?"
"He has a solution, but I refused... He said before that he would let me wait for him to become an immortal, and later he came to me and said that he could now get an immortal pill from the immortal realm, which could allow me to live for at least a thousand years."
"Then why not?" the female engineer asked in confusion.
Ling Tong smiled easily: "Do you want me to become a dictator? Or do you think my mental health can remain unchanged for a hundred years after this kind of experience?"
The female engineer blinked and smiled: "Indeed, the human brain and body are still too complicated."
"And..."
Ling Tong looked at the picture hanging on the wall.
It was a group photo of generals after a meeting, and most of the portraits had turned gray.
"My predecessors, my teachers, my comrades-in-arms have all died in battle. What qualifications do I have to enjoy a life that doesn't belong to me, instead of contributing everything I have to the cause of civilization?"
She said softly.
The female engineer shrugged slightly beside her, continuing to debug and maintain Ling Tong's 'old-fashioned' mechanical arm.
Ding ding!
A text message popped up on the communicator beside Ling Tong's hand.
[Wang Zheng (Slayer of Immortals and Destroyer of Buddhas): Finally came out! Won the battle, don't worry!]
Ling Tong thought for a while, took off the battery behind the communicator, leaned it against the position of her heart, and gently buried it in her clothes.
'Ling Tong (Only Loves One): Be careful on the road.'
She began to close her eyes for a nap.