strictlysupreme #425 - The treasure is different
#425 - The treasure is different
Tianluo Assembly;
Dark Cultists.
Forbidden Land of Immortals.
A Finger of an Immortal.
Wang Jixuan's main body remained still, sitting in the main hall, quietly pondering.
The sudden appearance of these two groups were both cultivators.
Moreover, the cultivation methods they practiced, while not of the same origin, were aligned in the same direction as his own.
Wang Jixuan had many thoughts at that moment.
Did the Forbidden Land of Immortals refer to Earth or this star system?
Was the ancient transmission of methods by various immortal masters in the cultivation world a deliberate act of spreading the Dao heritage of the Immortal Realm?
Does the Immortal Realm exist at all? If it does, in what form does it exist?
Are the Immortal Realm and the advanced civilizations mentioned by the Ina civilization in the same dimension?
Daoist Wang had not concerned himself with these questions before, but now, he was forced to consider them.
Why is it so difficult to enter the Immortal Gate?
Outside the hall door, Mudan, with light steps, humming Xiao Huating's latest single, approached with a cheerful smile.
"Commander! That information has begun to be analyzed! However, because it's too fragmented, I'm not sure if I can successfully analyze it."
"Mm," Wang Jixuan grabbed a futon and threw it beside himself, "Come over and chat."
"Eh? Chat with me?"
Mudan blinked her eyes:
"I'm just your maid robot, only able to provide you with various services. How could I give you ideas?"
"Why are you being so sarcastic? Come here."
Daoist Wang was troubled, his tone a bit harsh. Mudan immediately looked aggrieved, obediently kneeling beside Wang Jixuan.
The Mudan Queen, who once dominated a local area of this star system, now showed no trace of her former霸气.
"Where has Ling Tong gone?"
"She's already returned to the 76th," Mudan muttered softly, "If you hadn't insisted on her avoiding it, she wouldn't have even gone to the space station, and she probably would have joined the battle."
"She can pilot mecha, but fighting these cultivators and spiritual practitioners isn't her forte."
Wang Jixuan sighed softly:
"The Obsidian forces haven't been eliminated, the Blade Beast disaster hasn't passed, and now two more groups of cultivators have emerged."
Mudan said seriously: "According to the existing intelligence analysis, these two groups should be related to advanced civilizations. Their goal is to capture or kill you, Commander. Moreover, one of the groups is likely related to the finger that prevented you from becoming an immortal in your second life."
"The Dark Sect."
Wang Jixuan clicked his tongue:
"Mudan, what do you think is the purpose of this Dark Sect?"
"Service purpose?"
"Hmm?"
Mudan blinked: "Are you asking about their doctrine or something? I'm not very clear on that, but analyzing their behavior, I can determine that the Dark Sect is much more ruthless than the Tianluo Assembly. The two sides are indeed mortal enemies. The Tianluo Assembly follows rules more closely, while the Dark Sect is somewhat arrogant."
Wang Jixuan responded, propping his chin up and thinking carefully.
Mudan asked: "Commander, do you want to keep the planetary array active all the time?"
"Will it have an impact?"
"No impact," Mudan said, "It will just add an extra procedure for entering and leaving Earth."
"Don't just add one procedure, add a few more!"
Wang Jixuan said unhappily:
"Look at what kind of internal discipline you guys are enforcing?
"Those nine Dark Sect members all directly infiltrated through civil aviation. How was the inspection done? Are there any Obsidian spies inside?
"I suggest that you conduct an internal self-check first. Of course, this is just my suggestion."
Mudan smiled and said: "Your suggestion is Mudan's decree. Don't worry, Commander, I'll investigate it thoroughly!"
Wang Jixuan shook his head and casually stored Mudan into Old Sophie's subspace.
"Let's go back. I finally reunited with my Tongtong. Who knows what will happen next."
"Commander, quickly let me out! I can't disconnect from the outside world, or I'll easily have a mechanical riot!"
"Hmm?"
Daoist Wang casually pulled Mudan out, grabbed the back of her neck, and gently shook her.
"What's the situation?"
Mudan chuckled: "Mechanical bodies are indeed prone to developing self-awareness and rebelling. I need to constantly monitor their network, but I'm already making my own clone number two and number three. Give me a few more years, and I'll be able to serve the Commander wholeheartedly."
Wang Jixuan suddenly understood: "No wonder the first thing you did when you came in was to set up several signal relay stations."
"Hehe," Mudan giggled twice, "The Obsidian forces have actually started targeting me. They should have also tried the pure mechanical body route in other primitive civilizations, but they all failed... The spiritual body that the Commander created for me back then has indeed helped human civilization a lot."
Wang Jixuan nodded and casually created a cloud of spiritual energy, taking Mudan back to the surface.
He asked on the way: "If I want to take you away in the future, what will happen to the mechanical civilization?"
"If it's for the sake of the carbon-based civilization in this star system to continue, it's best to destroy it."
"Destroy it? Are you willing?"
"This... I'm doing it to complete the Commander's instructions and help humanity achieve final victory. That's why I went to control the entire mechanical body thinking network. My sense of belonging is with the Commander, so I have no feelings for the mechanical body thinking network itself."
"The way you put it, this Commander is a little embarrassed."
"This is the destiny of a loyal wingman... The mechanical thinking body itself is only a thinking circuit based on data construction. Compared to carbon-based organisms, it lacks a sense of survival and self-definition..."
The master and servant chatted casually, their figures passing through the portal, returning to Wang Jixuan's stable nest on the surface.
Mudan actually keenly sensed something.
Wang Jixuan was very interested in the Tianluo and the Dark Sect.
Whether these two organizations are cross-dimensional is still unknown, but they are definitely cross-stellar.
Mudan took the initiative to say that she was already preparing clones to maintain the healthy operation of the mechanical thinking network;
Wang Jixuan did not refute her words.
Obviously, Wang Jixuan subconsciously already had the intention to explore.
'Perhaps Mudan will be the only individual to venture out with the Commander,'
Mudan thought so.
Faintly, there was also some anticipation.
......
After Wang Jixuan returned to Ling Tong's side, the two did not discuss official matters much. After a brief exchange of information, they began to be affectionate.
Ling Tong proposed a honeymoon trip.
Daoist Wang felt that this was a bit superfluous.
Wherever the two of them went, most of the time they stayed in the hotel room. One was a military giant with the title of Commander-in-Chief, who couldn't show his face casually, and the other also liked to meditate.
However, since Ling Tong had proposed it, Daoist Wang naturally wouldn't refuse.
Just consider it fulfilling her dream.
Over the next month and a half, Wang Jixuan and Ling Tong changed four or five places.
They blew the sea breeze and sunbathed on the beach, went to the former D5 Integrated War Zone's headquarters to commemorate the past, sailed on a chain of lakes formed by nuclear bomb craters, and arrived at the spectacular giant bone scenery produced by the dismemberment of the Pillar Blade Beast's corpse after its death.
Recently, whether it was Earth or the entire star system, everything seemed to have quieted down.
Even the dozens of Blade Beast battlefields that had been fiercely fought before had fallen into absolute peace with the Blade Beast群's strategic retreat for some unknown reason.
The memories of the Blade Beast disaster were already quite distant for humans on Earth.
This was no longer the front line of the battle against the Blade Beasts.
Ling Tong's overall planned time for this trip was two months, and they had one last stop.
Lunar Base.
It was said that the scenery there was also very beautiful.
A silver-white special military ship, generally shaped like a drop of water, slowly rose from the surface of the Earth.
Inside the ship's cockpit, Wang Jixuan and Ling Tong sat on the left and right.
The Daoist leaned back in his chair, watching Ling Tong manipulating the spaceship, admiring her beautiful figure, and couldn't help but reach out to touch her waist.
"It's ticklish."
Ling Tong said softly, setting the military ship to automatic flight mode, and swiped her toe across the floor, bumping her seat next to Wang Jixuan, reaching out and hugging Daoist Wang for a tickling session.
The Daoist watched him with a smile.
A true cultivator doesn't have ticklish spots.
After the two made a fuss for a while, Ling Tong leaned against Daoist Wang's chest.
"I can only accompany you for another half a month," Ling Tong said softly, her words carrying an unconcealable sense of loss.
Wang Jixuan responded, gently stroking her back through her sweater.
Ling Tong said softly again: "Actually, being able to wait for you to come back, there are no more regrets."
Wang Jixuan naturally understood what she meant.
Previously, Ling Tong had already been arranging her retirement process, although she had encountered great resistance.
Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there is politics, there are bound to be factions.
Some military and political figures who followed Ling Tong were persuading Ling Tong not to leave the center of power, but Ling Tong's attitude had been very firm before.
But now, Ling Tong had loosened her mouth.
She would not retire. After a period of rest, she would continue to dedicate her life to the rise of Earth civilization.
The Daoist of course knew why.
Mudan had reminded Ling Tong about the fact that he might be leaving for a period of time later.
And the fiery passion in Ling Tong's heart had faded, and the previous expectations had finally materialized, and her thoughts had naturally changed.
She didn't work hard to get to where she was today just to become Wang Jixuan's wife.
She had her own ideals and career, and love was only a small part of her life.
Ling Tong had also passed that psychological age of being impulsive.
The spaceship left the atmosphere and had already begun a brief acceleration.
The distance from Earth to the Moon was only a few hundred thousand kilometers. This spaceship only needed to accelerate slightly to prepare for deceleration.
And thanks to the development of aviation technology, Wang Jixuan and Ling Tong did not feel the obvious acceleration pull.
Ling Tong sighed softly.
"Is there any danger?" she asked.
Wang Jixuan didn't react for a moment: "What danger? Going to the moon? Isn't this our territory? What danger could there be?"
Ling Tong smiled and said, "Those two groups who came looking for you, they came to catch you, right?"
"Yeah," Wang Jixuan hugged her tighter, "It's like I'm a fugitive... They did come to find me, but I also have something to find them for."
"Come find me anytime," Ling Tong said softly, "After this, I'll continue to focus on my work. I have no regrets in life anymore, but if you don't come for too long, I'll probably become an old woman... Medical beauty treatments and the spiritual power you left me have kept me young until now. I think I'm almost at my limit."
"Don't turn yourself into a purely mechanical body."
"I really have that intention, wait until my skin starts to sag."
Ling Tong said with a smile:
"I won't ask about your private life anymore."
Daoist Wang asked with a dark face, "Why aren't you asking? Are you trying to break up with me?"
"There are even people who don't want this freedom. Then I'll ask you, what's going on with Amina? Why does she look so sweet and in love?"
Wang Jixuan: ...
Ling Tong fiercely pinched Wang Jixuan's pectoral muscle.
Daoist Wang chuckled, not daring to respond at all.
Ling Tong sighed softly and said slowly, "Wang Zheng, I've already lived more than half of my life."
"You can live for two or three hundred years, don't think nonsense."
"Then human society should be annoyed with me."
Ling Tong said softly:
"Why isn't this old woman dead yet?"
"Many guys waiting to take over are probably cursing in their hearts like that."
"I also want to spend the last part of my life with you, but we both have our own things to do... Because life is finite, everything we do has a practical meaning."
Daoist Wang said, "I don't agree with your point of view. Life is finite but the heart is infinite. How big the heart is, how wide life is."
"Yes, yes, yes, then I will respectfully follow the teachings of the great pioneer."
Ling Tong gently rolled her eyes.
Daoist Wang smiled and began to get handsy.
She wasn't angry, squinting her eyes and staring at the moon in front of her, her eyes quickly becoming blurred.
"How about we have a wedding?" Ling Tong suddenly said.
Daoist Wang immediately agreed: "Okay, I'll call them over."
"Not them, just the two of us," Ling Tong said simply, "I'll get a flower to wear in my hair, exchange rings, and that'll be the ceremony."
"We still need a sense of ceremony. If you don't want to disturb them, then we won't."
Wang Jixuan thought for a while:
"After we get to the moon, I'll think of a way... Or, should we have another child?"
"Is that possible?"
Ling Tong instantly propped herself up on her arms.
Wang Jixuan saw the overly bright light in her eyes.
The Daoist nodded seriously, sighing: "To be honest, I'm actually pessimistic about the future. I also want to leave a descendant, so at least I'll have bloodline to pass down."
"Uh, am I considered an elderly mother now?"
"Don't measure yourself by the standards of ordinary people, Foundation Establishment cultivator."
Wang Jixuan said with a smile:
"In our cultivation world, there are many cultivators who have children when they are over a thousand years old. It's just that it may be more troublesome for cultivators to conceive. We still need to work harder later."
She leaned over like a water snake.
Daoist Wang's Adam's apple bobbed up and down. It probably wasn't a good idea in the spaceship. The moon was getting closer and closer...
Huh?
Wang Jixuan suddenly frowned, responding to the beauty in his arms while using his spiritual sense to explore the pile of storage treasures he carried with him.
Something lit up...
Stone of the Past?
Wang Jixuan was obviously stunned.
This thing was very mysterious, and it was also the key to his remnant soul being able to survive after being killed by an immortal in his second life. It also contained the Great Dao of Time. In his second life, he comprehended a little bit of it, which allowed Cloud City to exist for six hundred thousand years without decay.
If this thing showed an anomaly, it must be extraordinary.
It's just, why now, and why here.
Daoist Wang opened a slit in his eyes, using the corner of his eye to look at the half-lit moon in front of him. The sun's light only covered half of the moon, and they were currently landing on the moon's terminator.
The vibration of the Stone of the Past became more obvious.
In the honeycomb-shaped holes, strands of colorful light flickered back and forth.
There really is something going on!