Chapter 64 A First Try!

Supply station, inside a room.

The dantian contains the sea of ​​qi, and the purple palace gives birth to spiritual consciousness.

Wang Jixuan was surrounded by wisps of blue light. As he opened his eyes, he could clearly see the finely raised paint on the iron wall.

He slowly pressed down with his hands together, forming a sword-like finger. The Qi rotation speed of his dantian, which could barely be called a’sea of ​​Qi,’ gradually decreased, and he gradually absorbed the surrounding spiritual energy.

In the array plate in front of him, the three crystal cores still had about one-tenth of their spiritual power left. Wang Jixuan pulled them out and sealed them with a demon-sealing talisman.

Gathering Spirit Realm, the second stage of cultivation.

Breakthrough achieved!

The process of Wang Jixuan condensing his spiritual consciousness was simpler than he had previously thought.

The whole process took less than three hours.

Wang Jixuan didn’t feel particularly excited, but he did feel that his thoughts had become much clearer.

This is probably because this is only the second stage of cultivation, and Wang Jixuan had already experienced it once in his previous life.

His remnant soul, like a seed, has taken root in this body and is now completely integrated with it.

From then on, there was neither Mu Liang nor Wang Zheng.

‘My strength should have improved considerably since yesterday.’

‘Sigh, it’s mainly because it was too low before.’

A serene smile appeared on Wang Jixuan’s lips. He closed his eyes and concentrated, raising his sword finger in front of his nose, his spiritual sense spreading out like flowing water.

This is a minor spell.

In an instant, a bird’s-eye view from about 30 meters away appeared in his mind, the image very clear.

Uncle Tai and Sister Wan were asleep on the second floor; middle-aged and elderly people don’t have many entertainment options anymore.

Wan Xiaoqi, who was on duty today, was sitting in front of the control panel wearing dirty overalls and a shirt, playing an arcade game on an old-fashioned game console.

Ling Tong was still outside his room.

She fell asleep in the chair, and the pair of mechanical arms automatically activated sentry mode, preventing anyone from getting within half a meter of her.

Wang Jixuan silently apologized.

He couldn’t explain his breakthrough in seclusion too directly, which led to some misunderstanding on her part.

I’ll try to make it up to her later, maybe by giving her a magical artifact or something.

‘Scout out the camp.’

Then, Wang Jixuan flicked his sword finger and touched the center of his brow.

The bird’s-eye view that had surfaced in his mind turned into a normal eye-level view, and he could freely explore the area with a radius of more than two hundred meters around him.

Without any formations or barriers, his spiritual sense could penetrate anywhere.

It’s beyond just being awesome!

But… well… at night there are so many human-shaped frogs hugging each other… and you can hear a chorus of “ah” sounds…

Master Wang smiled and shook his head. Then he inserted his spiritual sense into the ground to find out why the concentration of spiritual energy underground was slightly higher than that above ground.

Even at the limit of his current spiritual awareness, Wang Jixuan still did not discover anything additional.

He saw the corners of the mine, the miners working night shifts, and the soldiers patrolling the area, occasionally accompanied by small robotic dogs and self-defense robots.

Wang Jixuan was slightly lost in thought.

Everyone has their own things to do, and everyone is trying to live under the threat of the Blade Beasts. It’s a pretty good feeling.

He vaguely saw with his spiritual sense that at a corner of a mine shaft, a male miner wiped the sweat from his face and put down his power tools. A female miner next to him immediately handed him a thermos. The two were a couple and were talking quietly.

“Honey, we’ll both have ten years of service in two months, and then we can send the kids to Midtown.”

Will they really let them deliver it?

“The gangs won’t, but the strongholds will. We’re here to mine because it’s an opportunity to escape the gangs’ territory. Although it’s tiring every day, we live with much more dignity than before.”

“Yeah, the fortress is pretty good.”

“If the fortress were truly good, how could it allow gangs to continue committing crimes in the lower city? This is the order that the fortress was designed to maintain.”

“Honey, please say less. It would be terrible if you didn’t pass the aptitude test later.”

“Don’t worry, your husband is fine. Come on, have a kiss.”

“Oh dear, your lips are covered in dust! Let me wipe them off first.”

Wang Jixuan didn’t listen any further. He slowly withdrew his spiritual sense, and a few insights arose in his heart.

Living beings in this world are inherently filled with suffering.

Slaying demons and eliminating evil should not just be a slogan shouted casually by righteous cultivators. There are indeed many people in the world who are threatened by demons and evil.

There are also wicked people who act recklessly, and righteous cultivators should help the weak and punish the strong… well, help the weak and punish the strong on the premise of ensuring their own survival.

Master Wang was about to get up.

suddenly.

Guh—

Wang Jixuan’s hair stood on end!

He turned his head to look in the direction of the fortress, and his spiritual sense, which he was about to withdraw, immediately spread out in a net-like pattern towards the fortress.

He may have a lower cultivation level and insufficient spiritual awareness, but his Dao realm and techniques are still intact, as are his skills in controlling spiritual awareness.

Soon, Wang Jixuan caught the continuous “coo coo” sounds.

The source is…the main body of the fortress?

Master Wang was genuinely puzzled.

His spiritual sense couldn’t detect that far yet, so he could only sense it carefully. The gurgling sound lasted for more than ten seconds before disappearing.

There are two anomalies here.

Firstly, the cry that appeared this time was similar to the cry he had heard before his fierce battle with the mutated blade beast, but it was completely different.

Secondly, the person who made this cry was very weak, lacked energy, and seemed to be on the verge of death.

‘That direction, sloping downwards, seems to be the third level of the fortress… Are those psionicists up to something?’

Wang Jixuan had the idea of ​​going to the fortress to investigate, but he quickly dismissed the thought.

I can’t go.

Don’t get cocky just because you’ve just broken through to a higher cultivation level!

He was just a minor cultivator at the Gathering Spirit Realm, not a Golden Core cultivator of average standing in the cultivation world!

How can I remind Xiaolingtong about this?

You can’t say it directly, otherwise he’ll have to explain what spiritual consciousness is, what the Purple Mansion is, what Qi cultivation and spirit gathering are, and what fasting and foundation building are.

Yes.

Wang Jixuan raised an eyebrow slightly and opened his own door.

A red flash appeared on the robotic arm.

Wang Jixuan quickly spoke up: “Ling Tong! Commander!”

“Um?”

Ling Tong opened her eyes, and the robotic arm automatically exited the sentry mode.

She stood up instinctively: “What’s wrong?”

“Something came up.”

Wang Jixuan grabbed her mechanical arm and pulled her into the house. Before Ling Tong could break free, he immediately said, “I saw it again!”

“What did you see?”

“Vertical pupils!” Wang Jixuan shouted in a low voice, his face tense. “They’re in the direction of the fortress! But they’re a little different from the previous ones!”

Ling Tong’s expression showed a hint of confusion: “You mean, there are young queen worms appearing in the direction of the fortress?”

“I don’t know if it is, but I heard a cooing sound.”

“It sounds like a pigeon cooing?”

“Yes.”

Which specific direction?

“The fortress above the city should be no more than 100 meters above the ground.”

Ling Tong turned and ran back to her room, carefully taking off her ordinary fabric dress and stockings.

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—These decorative materials are relatively hard to find.

Wang Jixuan quickly withdrew his spiritual sense, silently telling himself not to look at what was improper, and called out from outside, “Do you want me to accompany you?”

“No need, I will mobilize the cleanup troops first. Xiao Qi, call the fortress garrison.”

“yes!”

Wan Xiaoqi was stunned for a few seconds, then quickly sat down at the control panel and started pressing buttons rapidly.

Ling Tong quickly rushed out of the supply station, and Uncle Tai and Sister Wan quickly got to work, preparing Ling Tong’s equipment. A few minutes later, the two large mechanical dogs swiftly launched an attack, automatically searching for Ling Tong’s whereabouts.

After watching for a while behind the control panel, Wang Jixuan confirmed that Ling Tong had gone to the garrison to ‘mobilize troops’ rather than directly causing trouble for those psychics, and finally felt relieved.

What if I look for the wrong one?

There’s no problem.

It’s always good to check on those psychics more thoroughly.

Master Wang didn’t pay much attention to the situation here. Instead, he went to a corner, squatted down in front of the several large boxes of’supplies’, and began to rummage through them.

Dozens, even hundreds, of different ores were packed into two boxes.

Master Wang raised an eyebrow slightly, picked up the box, and went to the outer workshop to begin his selection process.

Once spiritual consciousness is formed, the refining of weapons will be twice as effective. He can directly detect the affinity between materials and spiritual energy, as well as whether the materials themselves are transparent or not.

This is also a very complex subject.

…

On the other side of the fortress, Ling Tong led the cleanup force into the home of the psionicists.

After working for about an hour at the supply station, Wang Jixuan looked at the table full of’samples’, crossed his arms, and fell into deep thought.

There was a lot of material he was familiar with;

Unfortunately, these materials have no spiritual power and can only be used as ordinary iron, which requires them to be imbued with spiritual energy.

Generally speaking, the best materials used for refining weapons are born in places rich in spiritual energy, and many top-grade materials are born alongside spiritual veins.

Spiritual veins are one of the two major sources of spiritual energy in the cultivation world; the other source is the pure energy of heaven.

Master Wang summarized simply that many of the materials in front of him could actually be used. With just simple forging and engraving of restrictions, some decent magical artifacts could be created.

‘Strange, is there no spiritual vein in this world? Or have all the spiritual veins been occupied by the Blade Beasts?’

“What’s wrong, Xiao Wang? I saw you making a fuss here just now.”

Uncle Tai strolled over, yawning, lit a cigarette, and looked at the table full of ores.

What are you doing?

Wang Jixuan calmly said, “Get a knife that can cut through the exoskeleton of an ordinary bladed beast.”

“Huh?” Uncle Tai was taken aback. “What do we do? Use a metal knife to break the Blade Beast’s exoskeleton?”

“almost.”

Wang Jixuan pointed to the small sample of the blade beast’s limb in the corner:

“Uncle Tai, look, this thing is just normally hard, but after being empowered by the Blade Beast’s spiritual energy, doesn’t it become incredibly sharp?”

Uncle Tai suddenly realized: “You mean psionic weapons! Right now, everyone at the forefront is researching light blades, nobody’s researching psionic weapons anymore.”

“Huh? Have you researched this?”

“We’ve been researching this for decades, but there’s been little progress.”

Uncle Tai smiled wryly:

“The military launched more than a hundred projects of this type, but they all failed in the end. Not to mention the extraction of psionic energy from the crystal core, the release of psionic energy is accompanied by a lot of unstable factors.”

“The most reliable method before was to use laser to irradiate the crystal core to generate diffuse psionic energy, but the energy consumed by that was not as good as using a high-power laser cannon to burn the blade beast.”

“I’ve participated in a few projects, but in the end, alas, they all failed.”

Wang Jixuan pondered carefully.

He wasn’t thinking about any technical difficulties. —Behind him was the cultivation civilization of the cultivation world, so technology wasn’t an issue.

He was considering the issue of degree.

He feared that if he revealed too much at once, it would attract too much attention and cause unnecessary turmoil, which would in turn affect his spiritual practice.

“Uncle Tai, do you have any alloys for making military daggers?”

“I’ll find it for you.”

Uncle Tai quickly stubbed out his cigarette, placed the remaining half on the table, and ran back into the house.

Before long, Uncle Tai and Wang Jixuan squatted under the table, holding several alloy hard plates and muttering to themselves.

Wang Jixuan already had a rough idea of ​​what a magical artifact should be.

These alloys are unusable. After the raw materials are made into alloys, their’spiritual energy permeability’ is almost completely lost. However, the strength of these alloys has truly opened Wang Jixuan’s eyes.

Unfortunately, harder materials are not necessarily more suitable for making tools.

Wang Jixuan is going to forge two kinds of swords today.

One type can be inlaid with crystal cores, which I will use myself; the other type reuses the spiritual energy in the air, which I will give to the military.

In front of Uncle Tai, he naturally chose the second option.

Do you have a stove?

“Yes, we have small smelting furnaces and electrolytic furnaces. I’ll go and move them over!”

“Get me a hammer and an anvil!”

“Huh? Anvil? You’re not going to try forging iron like the blacksmiths of hundreds of years ago, are you?”

Uncle Tai said it jokingly.

However……

Half an hour later…

Amidst the rhythmic clanging of metal.

Uncle Tai looked at Wang Jixuan, who had taken off his shirt to reveal his muscular physique and started swinging his iron hammer, and his forehead was covered in black lines.

No, there’s definitely something wrong with how this screen opens!

Tai Tianle, a five-star citizen senior mechanic with 36 years of service, and the recipient of the “Annual Best Logistics Support Team Leader” award, stays up late at night instead of watching the monitors to see if his superiors need support. He’s here assisting a young man… in blacksmithing?

Uncle Tai felt that one of the two people in this workshop must have gone mad!

If this thing can be used to create a melee weapon that can break through the shell of a Blade Beast, then Tai Tianle will eat that iron lump that Xiao Wang brought from who knows where tonight!