strictlysupreme #396 - Return to the surface
#396 - Return to the surface
The Taoist priest knew it!
That old rebel of the ancient Ina civilization would definitely not let them leave easily.
However, Wang Jixuan now also has a legitimate reason;
Although he doesn't know the specific details of what's happening outside, he has heard some rumors, roughly that the Blade Beasts and the newly arrived forces have begun to take action.
He's going to support the surface civilization and protect the 'weak' surface humans, isn't that justified and perfectly righteous!
Besides... it's not like he's not coming back.
The cultivation speed here is even faster than inside the Pillar Blade Beast, the Taoist priest would have to be crazy to give up this blessed land.
Before the Taoist priest could speak, Amina snorted coldly.
Amina stared at He Ruli, her powerful psychic energy erupting, enveloping a local area of Cloud City in a sea of stars.
She said coldly, "Guardian, we must now go to the surface to provide support. I know you may be eager to revive the civilization, but your previous actions have made us feel deeply disappointed."
Wang Jixuan's eyes showed a hint of surprise.
Amina, with her injuries recovered by thirty or forty percent—
Timid, afraid to speak loudly, always trying to compromise when she saw He Ruli.
Amina, with her injuries recovered by eighty or ninety percent, and having gained Wang Jixuan's help, her strength greatly enhanced—
'Your previous actions have made us feel deeply disappointed.'
He Ruli frowned and stared at Amina with a cold expression.
Amina didn't back down at all, her aura even faintly overshadowing He Ruli.
At this moment, Amina was like a god standing tall in the heavens and earth.
"Ahem," Taoist Wang cleared his throat and said with his hands behind his back, "Everyone, let's talk things out nicely, don't make things too ugly."
Amina immediately understood and snorted, "I've been tolerating this ancient guardian for a long time. She keeps talking about the revival of the Ina civilization, but now, when there is clearly an opportunity to help the Ina civilization revive, she hesitates and acts duplicitously, trying to play both sides. Even when the enemy has already come to our door, she still shrinks back and doesn't dare to launch a proper attack!"
"Enough," He Ruli said calmly.
But Amina didn't stop at all: "And you keep scheming against us, don't you think we can sense it? From the very beginning, you've been using Xiaohua Ting as a cover, but in reality, you just want to use this place to imprison Wang Zheng again, so that this great pioneer can once again become a help to the Ina civilization. You've always wanted him to leave offspring, isn't that really what you mean? You keep saying that Gao Huating is the leader, but have you ever respected this leader?"
"Enough!"
He Ruli suddenly roared, her expression full of anger:
"You don't have the right to bark here! You are just our creation! Know your place!"
Amina snorted: "The core circuit is your creation, and I am just a user of the core circuit. You are the one who doesn't have the right to shout at me, rebel."
He Ruli's expression became uncertain.
Wang Jixuan: ...
Wait, how did I become the one trying to mediate?
However, currently, the cultivation environment here is good. Since Amina has automatically taken on the role of the black face, then he naturally has to play the white face.
"Alas!"
Taoist Wang sighed deeply, the red light between his eyebrows flickered slightly, and he said slowly:
"Amina, don't be so impulsive.
"He Ruli, Amina is just venting her pent-up pressure. We all know what you've done.
"We can roughly understand your desire to atone for your civilization, but our positions are not entirely the same. Only by compromising with each other can we continue to cooperate.
"The surface human civilization is now in imminent danger. I hope you can let us leave temporarily. I will definitely come back here. The cultivation environment here is the most ideal on Earth, and there are also safe defensive forces here.
"Trust is mutual and needs to be cultivated gradually, don't you think?"
Mudan, who was watching the show, gently exclaimed.
She really thought that the commander with a red mole on his forehead only had killing in his mind.
The commander really has extraordinary wisdom!
He Ruli closed her eyes and sighed softly: "Okay, I won't stop you from leaving, but I need to be sure you can come back. Please let Xiaohua Ting continue to cultivate here."
Wang Jixuan pondered for a few moments: "Xiaohua Ting is now my disciple, and her talent is very valuable and can play a unique role."
Gao Huating nodded quickly.
He Ruli said: "This is also for her protection. The enemies you are facing this time are not so easy to deal with... I can give you a promise, if you cannot defeat them, you can lead the enemies here. I swear by the honor and history of the Ina civilization that I will help you eliminate them."
Wang Jixuan and Amina exchanged a glance, the latter nodded lightly, and then turned to leave.
Gao Huating immediately jumped out and gave Wang Jixuan a military salute: "Commander, don't worry about me, I will wait for you to come back here."
"Go," Wang Jixuan corrected, "Call me Master from now on."
"Oh... Master?"
Gao Huating's voice was timid.
Wang Jixuan comfortably narrowed his eyes.
The Taoist priest also has a personal disciple now.
If Wu Man wasn't limited by his own psychic origin, and Chi She's current foundation wasn't a Blade Beast demon cultivator, then Wang Jixuan naturally wouldn't favor one over the other.
Unfortunately, the upper limits of the two of them are not too high, Gao Huating's upper limit should be in the Ascension Realm.
Wang Jixuan looked around and wondered: "Where did Nierda go?"
"Went back first," Mudan said quickly, "Some of the psychic forces are not following orders, he rushed back to mobilize the troops."
"Alright, I still completely dislike that woman Sabina."
The Taoist priest curled his lips.
Amina had already opened her stone tablet.
The group quickly entered, Gao Huating also looked back three times as she went to the shining hall not far away. Finally, only Wang Jixuan and Amina were left standing side by side.
"Aren't you going in?" she asked.
"I'll walk around outside and study the universe here."
Taoist Wang replied like this, his figure rising into the air.
Recently, his cultivation has been advancing by leaps and bounds, all thanks to the spiritual power contained within the Stone of the Past;
That spiritual power was the Great Vehicle stage mana he left behind when he tried to refine this stone in his second life. It has the same origin as him, so it has an effect similar to the past self passing on his power to the current self.
It's also thanks to this power transfer.
The Black Obsidian's forces are coming fiercely. If he only had the Heaven-Earth Bridge Realm, Wang Jixuan would only be able to rack his brains and run around.
Now that he has entered the middle stage of the Nascent Soul Realm, his mana is as vast as the sea, and the Dragon-Python Alien Soul has transformed into a Black Dragon. Even when facing that mysterious Black Obsidian, Wang Jixuan is confident that he can fight him head-on.
The two of them left the Cloud City's protective formation unhindered.
Wang Jixuan's eyes suddenly widened, and his spiritual sense surged out like a tsunami, instantly enveloping an area of hundreds of miles! The Nascent Soul seemed to stretch out countless invisible tentacles in the heavens and earth, and the whole person became refreshed!
Finally, the suppression is over!
Taoist Wang really wanted to laugh out loud, but considering his current identity as a Nascent Soul cultivator, he still restrained this impulse.
—Previously, although Wang Jixuan could use the formation in the hall to display a part of his spiritual sense, it always felt like observing the outside through thick glass.
The Taoist priest asked telepathically: "Why were you... so tough just now?"
"Hmph," Amina muttered, "I've been annoyed with her for a long time. I couldn't help it before when my strength hadn't recovered, but I can't stand it today."
Wang Jixuan muttered: "Aren't spiritual cultivators suppressed by that red light?"
Amina was stunned: "Oh, I forgot just now."
"Nice."
The Taoist priest gave a thumbs up: "I was originally going to scold her a few times to vent my anger, but you took the lead. Just listen to my command later."
"I'm listening to your command now too."
Amina's voice became a little softer.
The two of them had already escaped this gray space, found the teleportation gate they came through, and decisively entered it, beginning a series of teleportation shifts.
When they arrived on the surface, Amina was about to go straight to the war zone, but Wang Jixuan signaled her to be calm.
"There's something we need to clarify first."
"About Black Obsidian?"
"Yeah," Wang Jixuan asked, "What's your relationship with him?"
"Gene inheritor, that's the relationship."
Amina seemed to hesitate, and then resolutely transformed into a small version of herself with a 'poof'.
This was conducive to her expressing her emotions.
Little Amina pouted her little mouth and muttered: "You don't think I would have any emotional basis with him, do you? If there were emotions, it would probably be resentment."
"Resentment?"
"Yeah, he didn't give me any instructions. From a young age, I lived in the spire of the previous Star Night Spiritual Cultivator, becoming one of the many candidates."
Amina clicked her tongue lightly:
"I wanted him to arrange a mission for me, so at least I could have a sense of belonging.
"I didn't know he was still alive until I came to this Cloud City, and even that he was the mastermind behind the Blade Beast disaster.
"So you don't have to worry about that... I'm on your side."
Wang Jixuan smiled calmly: "I actually wanted to say, if this time, next time, or sometime in the future, we can't beat the other side, and you have a chance to live, you might as well defect to him and live on."
Amina asked: "Are you so pessimistic?"
"It's not pessimism," Wang Jixuan looked at the sky.
It was nighttime now, the starlight faint.
This war will break out at dawn.
Wang Ji Xuandao: "If we were only facing a group of powerful enemies with conflicting positions and interests, I wouldn't be too worried. But the guys we're facing, who have only just revealed a bit of their tail, and Ye Zi is just one of them, I already find quite troublesome."
Little Amy Na shrugged: "I have a temper too. Joining him would be worse than killing me."
"It's best to adapt to circumstances. As long as the green hills remain, there's no need to worry about firewood."
Wang Ji Xuan heard a rumbling explosion.
A violent flash appeared in the distant night sky, followed by a mushroom cloud rising.
Wang Ji Xuandao: "Let's formulate a tactic."
"Tactic?"
"Yes, later you and Nierda will join forces to kill those three old spirit cultivators as much as possible. I will hide first and look for Ye Zi's whereabouts."
Wang Ji Xuandao:
"I want to catch her and ask her where my second life went."
"Her outer Golden Core Great Dao should be what I gave her in my second life... I'm bad enough to pass on a cultivation method, and even passed on a mediocre outer Golden Core."
"But this can prove that they must have interacted."
"This tactic is also very simple, it is to attack the east and strike the west. You attract their attention, and I will go and cut off their retreat."
"Okay," Amy Na's figure rotated with a little starlight, restoring to her large form.
She asked: "Do we have to separate now?"
"Yes, I won't show up next. You go straight back, preferably to meet with Old Fu."
"I'll release Peony..."
"No need. If the human camp needs it, Peony can transform into the commander of an autonomous mechanical body at any time and let her listen to Old Fu's command."
"Okay, is there anything else to tell me?"
Wang Ji Xuan carefully sensed it.
His spiritual sense did not jump.
Spiritual sense is only a cultivator's intuitive reaction to his own situation, which can be regarded as an early warning of the Great Dao that the cultivator is cultivating; at this moment, the spiritual sense is not moving, which can only indicate that in Wang Ji Xuan's next plan, he himself should not have any sharp danger.
Spiritual sense cannot warn of all dangers.
If there is a spiritual sense reminder, then there must be danger; if there is no spiritual sense reminder, it does not mean that there is no danger.
"Take care of yourself."
"Yeah," Amy Na looked at Wang Ji Xuan's profile.
She suddenly moved forward, wanting to give Wang Ji Xuan a quick kiss on the cheek.
Daoist Wang reflexively dodged sideways and back, and with a wave of his hand, a blast of wind and thunder suddenly illuminated half the sky, and the spiritual energy within a hundred miles was directly stirred by him.
Fortunately, Amy Na's strength is now close to her peak, and she used starlight to protect herself in time.
When Daoist Wang realized that she might just want to sneak a kiss, Amy Na had already been blasted away by the lightning, and her starlight was flickering.
"Uh, this..."
Daoist Wang raised his hand and rubbed his nose.
Amy Na herself was not injured, but her expression was unusually awkward. Even in her large state, which was not good at expressing emotions, her pretty face was slightly red, and finally she turned around and escaped directly.
Daoist Wang clicked his tongue.
He proved his loyalty to love with practical actions.
Well, iron-blooded loyalty.
The Taoist turned around and directly used遁法 to start approaching to observe the activity range of this Blade Beast, took out a dedicated communicator, and asked Ling Tong a few words with some guilt.
This Blade Beast disaster was more serious than Wang Ji Xuan expected.
Daoist Wang thought carefully, and still felt that he could not let the enemy be so unscrupulous. He secretly released the Dragon Python Different Soul and suddenly remembered something.
When he broke through the Nascent Soul, the Dragon Python Different Soul returned to himself on its own. His second battle puppet, that Kali Ruo, was still recuperating in the Blade Beast's lair, and he didn't know the specific situation.
It would be appropriate to take a trip there while the fight hasn't officially started, and that's also Ye Zi's base camp.
Ding ding.
Wang Ji Xuan found a stone crevice to reveal his whereabouts and took out the communicator to take a look.
[Ling Tong (speech expert): I may have to drive a super-large mecha later, I'm a little nervous.]
[Wang Zheng (undercover of the Demonic Path): Don't be afraid, I will protect you in the dark, remember to send me a location.]
[Ling Tong: It's just a backup, don't worry about me here.]
[Wang Zheng: Of course I won't worry, my chief is invincible!]
[Ling Tong: It's okay to be second to one person, invincible is too much.]
[Wang Zheng: Eh, is that the kind of double meaning I think it is?]
[Ling Tong:?]
[Wang Zheng: Ah, I saw a king-level Blade Beast, I'll go and put a Gu on it by the way, slipped away.]
In the transportation vehicle with soft lights, Ling Tong, wearing a silver-white slim-fitting pressure-resistant suit, showed a gentle smile as she looked at the words on the square screen in her hand.
...
[Time until the D8 Comprehensive War Zone is destroyed: 6 hours.]