strictlysupreme #307 - Ancient Treasures
#307 - Ancient Treasures
Facing each other from afar, they were both speechless.
Wang Jixuan looked at Carino in the image, and Carino's facial features, formed by the thin membrane of his mouthparts, were naturally also watching him.
It's amazing that the cloaked Carino and this Carino have roughly the same 'appearance';
But at first glance, Wang Jixuan recognized the difference between the two.
"Your threat is too great."
Carino said in a sharp voice, with a hint of undisguised weariness.
"This is the only time in the past eighty stellar years that we have felt powerless.
"The Beast God didn't listen to our advice, wanting to exhaust your resources by entering your trap, but the Beast God didn't foresee… …
"You actually possess such incredible power."
Wang Jixuan raised an eyebrow.
Is the Blade Beast trying to save face?
Interesting.
"What are you going to do next?" Wang Jixuan asked directly.
Fu Jian, who was watching from the side, couldn't help but laugh.
Isn't he still trying to ask what kind of revenge the Blade Beast side will take?
'Heavenly Dao' Carino pondered carefully, not directly answering Daoist Wang's question, probably also thinking about how to negotiate with Wang Jixuan next.
Taking advantage of this gap, Daoist Wang carefully examined the environment Carino was in.
It should be in a Blade Beast nest somewhere;
Behind Carino were glowing stone slabs, and below these glowing stone slabs, many 'cocoons' as tall as a person could be seen.
A Blade Beast nursery?
Suddenly, Carino said very simply: "We will open the Gate of Time and Space and request support."
The smiles of Wang Jixuan and Fu Jian froze slightly.
Carino looked at Wang Jixuan and said slowly: "The situation has changed, the death of a Beast God requires us to give a clear explanation to the clan."
"You don't want to abide by the agreement with the Council of the Wings of Light anymore?"
"Did you steal the memory of the Beast God? This should be a blasphemy."
"Misunderstanding," Daoist Wang curled his lips, "Your Beast God is too arrogant, telling me all this directly. My partner is indignant about it."
Carino was silent again.
It probably didn't expect that its own Beast God would actually… … not even have a lock on its mouth.
Perhaps, the Beast God had its own considerations.
"Actually, our two civilizations have no direct conflict."
Carino said:
"You can completely stop participating in this war. The death of the Beast God can be attributed to the cooperation between human civilization and Spiritual Cultivation civilization.
"I don't want you to die in the subsequent war, because then, no one will be able to answer me what Heavenly Dao is.
"We also risk angering the higher civilization behind you."
Wang Jixuan smiled and said: "Then how about you withdraw your troops now?"
"The fact that a Beast God was defeated by you due to its own carelessness is not enough for us to change our strategy."
"I won't hide it from you either."
Wang Jixuan's expression was serious and his eyes were sincere:
"I believe you have intelligence sources and should know that we have already negotiated with the three Spiritual Cultivators of the Wings of Light and reached a preliminary intention to cooperate.
"If you don't believe it, you can observe the City of Spiritual Energy. They will soon send a large number of Spiritual Energy users to my side.
"These Spiritual Energy users will strengthen our frontline combat capabilities, including S-level Spiritual Energy users."
Carino's expression was a bit serious.
Daoist Wang smiled sheepishly: "Your agreement with the Wings of Light, in my opinion, is actually a bit ridiculous. How could they let you manipulate them."
"Whether the agreement is executed depends on the discussion of the Beast Gods."
"Your Blade Beast civilization is new, but the rules are really outdated."
"Authoritarianism will only lead to the decline of civilization."
Carino was obviously unwilling to continue talking:
"If you only sent a mechanical body to send this device to mock me, then we don't need to continue talking for the time being.
"The Gate of Stars is in an area you cannot touch. You cannot stop the arrival of a new Beast God on this planet.
"At that time, I hope you can still be as happy as you are now."
Wang Jixuan asked: "Is there any way to prevent your new Beast God from coming over for the time being?"
Carino was stunned by the question.
Probably, it had never encountered this situation before, the enemy asking it how to deal with themselves.
However, Carino still answered:
"Humans surrender to us and submit.
"You have killed the Beast God, proving that you have the potential to become our vassal, no longer just a simple primitive civilization."
Wang Jixuan smiled sheepishly: "Then forget it, looking forward to the next meeting… I suggest you collect this device. If you want to communicate with me later, you don't need to send Spiritual Energy users from the Beast God faction to disgust me."
"Okay," Carino put down its blade limbs.
Daoist Wang snapped his fingers, and the device in front of him interrupted the communication.
Fu Jian shrugged: "No effective information, the other party's mouth is very tight."
"We at least know the next move of the Blade Beast… A new Pillar Blade Beast may arrive at any time."
Wang Jixuan felt a headache, leaned loosely on the chair, and began to dream:
"If we controlled all twelve Pillar Blade Beasts now, how great would that be.
"As long as I sacrifice the core circuit in my hand, we will have twelve super battleships."
Fu Jian laughed and scolded: "There must be a limit to dreaming."
"I'm leaving," Wang Jixuan waved his hand, "I asked Mudan to pick me up… Are you going to attend the farewell party?"
"Farewell?"
"Those souls."
"I'm not going," Fu Jian lowered his head and sighed, "This matter will be a bit sad. Many of them were my former comrades. Now that I still haven't led humanity to defeat the Blade Beasts, I don't dare to face them."
"You've been great, Xiao Fu."
Fu Jian turned dark and ignored the old-timer Wang Jixuan, turning around and walking back to his workbench.
Daoist Wang raised his eyebrows slightly, took the communicator and began to reply to the backlog of messages.
Most of the messages were sent by Ling Tong.
She was unable to participate in this war, so she would inevitably have some complaints. Daoist Wang could only carefully appease her.
There's no way, the source of this overprotection of Ling Tong is Wang Jixuan.
… …
Near the City of Spiritual Energy, inside a building embedded in a cliff.
Meng Jin sat in a chair, looking at the endless snow falling outside, staring blankly at the vast snowfield.
He seemed to have aged ten years during this time, his face was pale, his body was covered with sensors, and his eyes had become a little dull.
Meng Jin tried to lift his right hand, and his right arm kept shaking.
He was crippled.
In all aspects.
Although the spiritual energy was still there, most of it had been lost, and the muscle fibers throughout his body seemed to have been destroyed.
The once glorious leader of the Spiritual Control Council's Tribunal had now become a cripple.
Meng Jin had thought about suicide;
Unfortunately, he was surrounded by surveillance, and he couldn't even end his own life.
The elevator of the large flat suite opened, and an old man in a purple Tang suit entered with his hands behind his back, followed by three charming young nurses.
The old man raised his hand and made a gesture, and the three female nurses went to the next room to arrange their luggage.
They came with a mission;
As long as they could cheer up the injured young man here, they would be able to obtain a wealthy and stable life.
Meng Jin turned his head and looked over, and said in a low voice: "Old Feng, let them go, I'm not interested."
"It wasn't easy to pick them according to your preferences, they are all clean."
SS-level Spiritual Energy user Old Feng, walked to the window with a smile, holding the armrest of the wheelchair with both hands.
Old Feng said slowly: "Don't worry, you are now equivalent to an A-level Spiritual Energy user. We will definitely be able to find a way to help you return to your peak."
"I have resigned myself to fate."
Meng Jin smiled bitterly:
"Having lost to the Black Storm, I have to accept this result.
"The choice at the time was made by myself, I can't blame others, I can only say that my skills are inferior to others."
Old Feng patted Meng Jin on the shoulder and found a topic with a smile: "When the three adults appeared, I suddenly felt that they were not gods, not omniscient and omnipotent, but just much stronger than us."
Meng Jin nodded slowly.
He showed a thoughtful expression and said in a deep voice: "The Black Storm's trick is actually extremely clever."
"How do you say that?"
"After the three adults appeared, our awe of the adults would naturally weaken. The unknown is the most terrifying."
Meng Jin narrated calmly:
"Isn't the core cohesion of our ruling faction that we can approach the source of spiritual energy?
"The Black Storm is disintegrating our cohesion, making our City of Spiritual Energy fall from the top of all mankind to a position equal to or even slightly lower than the Nine Great War Zones.
"After this live broadcast, it will become very difficult for the City of Spiritual Energy to collect materials from the major war zones.
"Hard times are coming soon… However, according to our reserves, there shouldn't be too much trouble in three to five years.
"Provided they don't mess around."
Old Feng pondered for a few seconds: "There is something I don't know if I should tell you."
"You can just say it, I'm bored here."
"Fu Jian requested the abolition of the Spiritual Control Council, and the three adults agreed, so the era of the Spiritual Control Council has passed."
Old Feng briefly introduced:
"Old Tai has made a lot of preparations in advance, and now he has directly come up with a mature parliamentary system.
“The name is tentatively set as the Resource Management Committee of Lingneng Capital. The committee adopts a preliminary review system, with more than a dozen departments under it, including several violent departments, which are directly transplanted from the Tribunal, the Investigation Bureau, and the Destruction Squad.”
“Although it's just a change of soup and not the ingredients, the ruling faction must give twenty seats to the Natural Faction out of the total of sixty-two seats on this committee.”
Meng Jin frowned and asked, "Twenty seats? What does that mean? Does Elder Tai want the Natural Faction to participate in the management of Lingneng Capital?"
Elder Feng sighed, "I don't understand politics. This seems to be to ease the relationship with Fu Jian. You know, the Natural Faction has always been flirting with Fu Jian."
Meng Jin suddenly felt amused.
He looked at the snowfield and said softly:
“It is foreseeable that Lingneng Capital will fall into division in less than three to five years, or even just three to five months.
“This is the Arctic Circle, and the cold wind can freeze people to death.
“They clearly didn't attack Lingneng Capital, but the effect is better than attacking it…”
Elder Feng asked, "Do you want this seat? I can get you one."
“You don't need to bother. I don't have the mood to do this for the time being.”
Meng Jin said simply:
“Next, that place will inevitably be a quagmire. Stay away from them.
“We are no longer the divine messengers that humans need to rely on, but just a group of Espers who have turned themselves into monsters.”
Elder Feng hesitated to speak.
He sighed softly and continued to think of ways to cheer Meng Jin up.
Meng Jin looked at the heavy snow, pressed the button on his hand, and the wheelchair turned him around, heading towards the large bed not far away.
“Elder Feng, I'm tired.”
… …
When Wang Jixuan's private plane landed at the planned sleeping location of the Sixth Pillar, the Sixth Pillar was still on its way.
There was an open space nearby, where a simple stage was being set up, and a military band of dozens of people was rehearsing intensively.
Wang Jixuan had previously ordered Zheng Shiduo and the others to arrange a party to bid farewell to the hundreds of millions of human heroic souls in the Pillar Blade Beast;
Zheng Shiduo and the others naturally did not dare to neglect and passed the order on to the highest level of the D2 Comprehensive War Zone.
Daoist Wang really underestimated his current influence.
With just one sentence from him, the D2 Comprehensive War Zone mobilized a large amount of manpower and material resources, and the entire party venue was decorated with lanterns and colors, filled with a festive atmosphere.
Wang Jixuan came here directly, naturally not to watch the program rehearsal.
He wasn't that idle.
He went straight to the back of the stage and found Gao Huating, who was putting on makeup in the supply vehicle.
Tonight, this will become Gao Huating's home ground;
Her dream of holding a concert on the surface has actually been realized in this way.
It's just that…
The audience is a bit unusual.
Wang Jixuan crossed his arms and leaned against the door of the supply vehicle, waiting for Gao Huating to finish drawing her eyebrows and put down her eyebrow pencil before speaking to disturb her:
“The stage makeup looks good, very beautiful.”
Gao Huating looked out the door through the mirror, and her face turned visibly red.
This is not a red temperature warning;
This is a woman's blush.
Gao Huating stood up, holding the fluffy skirt of her performance costume, and said quickly, "Commander, please sit here. There seems to be only one chair here…"
“Yes,” Wang Jixuan looked her up and down.
Radiant and dazzling;
She must be very dazzling under the stage spotlight.
Wang Jixuan sat opposite her, motioned her to relax, and then went straight to the point:
“I'm here to find your past life. Can she hear me?”
“Yes, she can!”
“Okay,” Wang Jixuan said quite seriously, “I want to know, what is the treasure that the Spirit Cultivators are looking for? If this treasure requires you to open it, can you open it as soon as possible? I need power, very urgently.”
Gao Huating listened attentively and said quickly:
“She said, oh no, I said… have you felt the power of the Blade Beast and the depravity of the Spirit Cultivators? This is not the confident look you had before.”
“Actually, I miscalculated,” Wang Jixuan smiled bitterly, “I really didn't expect that the Beast God of the Blade Beast, which is the self-awareness born from the Pillar Blade Beast, would be so strong on the outside but weak on the inside, and could be directly defeated by the human heroic spirit army.”
Gao Huating asked, "I said… you must have a way to control souls, why don't you use it?"
Wang Jixuan retorted, "Then what's the difference between me and those scum who use souls as consumables and created the Sea of Grievances?"
“Isn't it a good choice to use the dead to protect the living?”
“In my opinion, this is not a very good choice. It will affect my path of cultivation. Cultivating immortality is like this. My Dao heart cannot be flawed.”
Gao Huating was silent for a while, blinking constantly.
Soon, her expression changed, her temperament also changed, and she said softly:
“The legacy I guard is to wait for the opportunity for our civilization to recover, that is, for the Spirit Cultivators to truly gain our recognition and transform into one of us.
“It's just a pity that the Spirit Cultivators have collapsed themselves before they have even experienced the power outside the core circuit.
“They have deeply disappointed me.
“It doesn't matter if I give this legacy to you, Immortal Cultivator, but I need you to do two things.
“And I must remind you that if I open that place, it will inevitably attract the prying eyes of the Spirit Cultivators and the Blade Beasts. Can you withstand this pressure?”
‘Gao Huating’ regretted it a little after saying these words.
No other reason;
Daoist Wang's eyes were very bright.