Chapter 144: Initiating Internal Purification!

Wang Jixuan secretly slipped back to Fortress No. 76.

He wasn’t afraid of psionicists causing trouble or the beast tide returning; it was mainly…

I’m afraid of being killed by the deep sea.

‘The deep sea must also experience the joy of something lost and then regained.’

Master Wang pretended to be happy as he thought.

He returned to Fortress 76 in secret, without alerting anyone except Dongfang Zhenghong. After returning, he hid in a private room in the studio, focusing on his cultivation and consolidating his own realm.

With the danger temporarily averted, Wang Jixuan calmed down and began to ponder the method of returning to one’s true nature and forging bones.

A cultivator’s practice is like filling a bottle with sand and pebbles. Advancing in one’s Dao realm is like increasing the volume and material of the bottle, while the quality of one’s Dao foundation determines whether the bottle is filled with fine sand or pebbles.

Wang Jixuan had been using the Dragon Python Devouring Heaven Technique continuously in his cultivation, which caused his 【bottle】 to be filled with bubbles and become slightly unstable.

There is only one way to solidify one’s foundation in Taoism—ascetic practice.

It goes on day and night, in an endless cycle.

A broad and open mind allows one to strengthen their bones and concentrate their spirit.

For three or four consecutive days, Wang Jixuan only met with Mudan once during meals to discuss the surrounding battles.

Peony brought several pieces of good news in succession:

The various Blade Beast groups have returned to their assembly point. Having suffered heavy losses, they need time to replenish their strength, and the Space Fortress has increased its bombardment efforts against them.

Taking advantage of this victory, the D5 Comprehensive Theater publicly denounced the ruling faction of the Psionic City, which garnered support from other comprehensive theaters.

The Red Serpent has integrated well with her new body and is now active outside. A research and development team of 300 people has begun to conduct various experiments on her, gradually developing her combat abilities.

What’s touching is…

Deep Sea made a choice that was truly manly.

He announced that the marriage would continue!

Furthermore, even when Deep Sea is seriously injured, he still takes time every day to take a walk with Red Serpent in his 16-meter-class exclusive mecha.

A mech and a monster stroll hand in hand in the sunset…

When Wang Jixuan thought of this scene, he couldn’t help but give a thumbs up to the deep sea far away at Fortress No. 82, and the air seemed to become sweeter.

He owes Shenhai a favor this time, and he’ll find a way to repay it later.

The Crimson Serpent’s soul power is rapidly increasing. After fusing with this sub-king-level blade beast, she began to receive nourishment from spiritual energy.

Regarding the Blade Beast, Wang Jixuan discovered many unusual things this time.

But he only had doubts and didn’t have time to study it in depth for the time being.

‘While I have some knowledge of demonic arts and evil techniques, I know nothing about the cultivation methods of demonic creatures.’

Wang Jixuan sighed with emotion and secretly made up his mind:

“Generally speaking, if the Blade Beast wants to cultivate, it will absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Once my Dao realm has recovered to about 70-80%, I will devise a special cultivation method for the Crimson Serpent.”

‘It has to be able to transform, right? Otherwise, we’ll really have to send Deep Sea Bro…’

‘All of this will have to wait until I am absolutely certain I can control the out-of-control red serpent.’

The red snake carries a risk of getting out of control.

She is now a Blade Beast, but before she was a revered half-human mech. The psychological gap is already hard to bear, not to mention that no one knows if she will be corrupted by psionic energy.

—The unwavering support from the deep sea is actually the greatest encouragement for her.

Fu Jian had previously consulted Wang Jixuan for his opinion.

Fu Jian wanted to make an appearance of this ‘newly developed bio-mechanical machine’ after the Red Serpent’s condition stabilized, so as to bring a new shock to the world.

Fu Jian had already come up with the relevant promotional slogans.

【A first in history! The development of a bio-mecha based on research findings from Blade Beast cells!】

【Shocking! The first bio-mech possessing both sub-king-level psionic abilities and king-level combined combat power!】

Wang Jixuan offered a relatively conservative opinion on this matter.

“Showing your face is fine, but don’t make the fighting too intense.”

“The Red Serpent thinks in a human way, so we don’t know how things will develop. We shouldn’t be too rash.”

“Deep Sea is someone who can be nurtured. After his battle with the King-level Blade Beast, he actually grew quite a bit.”

Fu Jian accepted his opinions.

Aside from these good news items, there have been several bad news items in the past few days.

They were delivered by different people.

Zhou Zhengde told him that the City of Spiritual Energy was demanding that the D5 War Zone abide by the laws of human civilization, hand over the Blade Beast resources seized in this battle, and stop the illegal act of privately hoarding Blade Beast cores.

The message from Aunt Dragonfly said that the trashy S-class psychic Xing Tian had discovered Ji Yale and Ding Jiajia’s defection and would soon retaliate.

Then there’s the paper letter from the General Headquarters that Zheng Shiduo just delivered to Wang Jixuan.

Wang Jixuan opened it and glanced at it, his expression becoming somewhat solemn.

The letters were printed out; the reason they were sent in paper form was probably to ensure top-secret status, and the envelopes even had self-destruct mechanisms.

The letter was very short:

I suspect that one or two of the twelve senior officers at the top of D5 have become traitors.

The news that the black storm was related to spiritual practitioners has been delivered to the City of Spiritual Energy.

According to our informants within the Psionic City, the Six Elders convened a secret meeting for over an hour—the first such meeting in ten years—for all ruling faction members of rank A and above.

They will take action soon.

Based on the reaction of the Psionic City, we can basically conclude that the spiritual cultivator civilization mentioned by the Blade Beast Civilization is related to the psionic infusion ritual that they monopolize.

The diagram that Ji Xiao drew last time has been confirmed to have similar replicas in the infusion rituals of various psionic houses. The replicas have very limited power and can only create psionic beings of C rank or below.

Human civil war may still break out in the future, so we must plan a campaign to eliminate the King-level Blade Beasts in the near future to alleviate external pressure and then focus on dealing with their attacks.

If necessary, I need you to come to headquarters to conduct a memory search of the twelve senior commanders.

Fu Jian.

this……

This letter left Wang Jixuan speechless.

A wisp of real fire leaped from his fingertips, instantly burning the letter to ashes.

Peony took a deep breath, drawing the ashes into her nostrils for secondary destruction.

Zheng Shiduo blinked: “Don’t we need to reply?”

“No need, replying would easily expose us.”

Master Wang stretched:

“It’s nothing serious, don’t worry about it. How’s Wu Man doing lately?”

“He has made rapid progress in the past few days and can now walk normally.”

Zheng Shiduo said with a smile:

“He is still drawing talismans according to the method you taught him, and has prepared more than a thousand for you to use.”

“Let him not need to stockpile so much,” Wang Jixuan laughed. “This thing can only lock in spiritual energy for a period of time. After a while, its power will be greatly reduced.”

“Okay, I’ll make him study more when I get back. His academic performance is worse than mine!”

Zheng Shiduo rubbed his hands together, glanced guiltily at Mudan, then lowered his voice and muttered:

“Um, I have something to ask you.”

“I have a few acquaintances over there in 82, they are all frontline psionicists, they are all former soldiers. Don’t get me wrong, we are all big fans of the Commander-in-Chief.”

“They say that the half-human mech Deep Sea seems to have recently been overwhelmed by the pain of losing its lover, and has actually… fallen in love with a sub-king-level blade beast.”

“They also heard that the reason we were able to turn this sub-King-level Blade Beast against us was because… Deep Sea’s personal charm, his overwhelming masculine sexuality completely conquered this Blade Beast… Is that true or not?”

Wang Jixuan leaned back in his chair, raised his hand to cover his mouth, and pondered for a few moments, “In a sense, that’s one way to understand it, but…”

“Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap! This…this! Even blade beasts can do this! Ah, and those big monsters at that! Wow, this!”

Zheng Shiduo temporarily lost his ability to speak.

Zheng Shiduo didn’t take Wang Jixuan’s explanation after the word “but” to heart at all!

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However, Zheng Shiduo was quite reliable and didn’t tell anyone about it. He just decided that the next time he saw Shenhai, he would dress up a little.

Yeah, maybe cosplay a cute little beast or something.

…

After a week of steady cultivation, Wang Jixuan finally felt more grounded in his Daoist practice.

Most of the ‘bubbles’ in Daoji were squeezed out.

After much deliberation, he decided to improve his combat power as soon as possible and refine some magical artifacts that could be used against large bladed beasts at crucial moments.

The long spears, greatswords, and other cold weapons that were used before were just a transitional measure.

Now that his spiritual energy has reached its peak, his primordial soul has been condensed, and he has entered the realm of returning to truth, he already possesses a fairly good level of spiritual awareness.

Furthermore, when that king-level blade beast was killed this time, it released a large amount of spiritual power after its death.

Wang Jixuan didn’t think anything of it at first, but after returning to cultivate for a week, he discovered that his primordial soul had gained a trace of divine light, and his spiritual power had increased by 30% within a week.

Killing such a powerful bladed beast can directly increase your strength!

Taking down ten king-level monsters might trigger a qualitative change!

However, Wang Jixuan knew clearly that he was not the one who killed the King-level being this time.

This was achieved through the enormous sacrifices of the human faction, the resource support of the integrated war zone, and the decisive mutual destruction of precious high-end combat forces.

Even if he exhausts his magical power, given that he hasn’t even completed his Foundation Establishment stage yet, he still won’t be able to kill many Blade Beasts. He might not even be able to touch the feet of a King-level Blade Beast…

At this stage, there is no room for improvement in talismans. He has already collected several warehouses of King-level Blade Beast blood, but that has exceeded the upper limit he can currently control.

Formations also have many limitations.

The power of formations that do not draw upon the power of the earth’s veins is limited;

Large formations that require drawing upon the power of the earth’s veins have limited mobility.

You really can’t have your cake and eat it too.

In terms of demonic arts, Wang Jixuan had long since mastered them to perfection, which was even smoother than when he first began cultivating immortal arts. After all, he had once stood at the Mahayana stage and his knowledge was already extraordinary.

In short…

A righteous giant is definitely not a demonic genius!

The only way to quickly increase combat power right now is through magical artifacts.

‘Now that I’ve entered the Returning to Truth Realm, I’m not far from the Returning to Void Realm, and practically finished with Foundation Establishment. So let’s prepare early and get a flying sword ahead of time.’

‘To take the enemy’s head within the range of one’s spiritual sense—how exhilarating!’

“Relying solely on flying swords isn’t enough; we also need to make some flying needles. I remember my senior sister had a move called 【Thousands of Pear Blossoms Bloom】, which involved throwing out hundreds of flying needles in an instant, combined with the Exploding Spirit Technique—its power was astonishing.”

And so, a low-level flying sword and a self-destructing flying needle for consumption were put on the refining schedule while Wang Jixuan was fully engaged in cultivation.

Ling Tong had not returned to Fort 76 before.

Firstly, she was worried about Red Serpent and Deep Sea, and wanted to stay there to take care of them;

Secondly, Ling Tong has been identified as the contact person for Black Storm. She keeps appearing near Fortress 82, so the focus of investigations from all sides will be on Fortress 82.

Fortress 82 has achieved an accomplishment—120 Mimic Blade Beasts were discovered within 24 hours during non-combat conditions!

Fortress 76, on the contrary, was calm and peaceful.

Time flies, and another seven or eight days have passed.

Master Wang never expected that he would be able to take advantage of the opportunity of the beast tide being repelled to cultivate in peace for more than half a month!

With an unlimited supply of crystal cores, having just experienced the baptism of a great battle, and having received many benefits from the King-level Blade Beast… with this series of favorable factors, he directly stepped into the mid-stage of the Returning to Truth Realm!

This rapid pace of progress made him start to worry that he might be sleepwalking and using demonic arts to cultivate.

Although he didn’t fall asleep at all, it’s unlikely he was sleepwalking.

Wang Jixuan has basically completed the design of the low-level flying sword and flying needle, and has also sent all the necessary materials to Ling Tong.

Because Fu Jian suspected there was a mole at the highest level of D5, Ling Tong had to help him find minerals in secret, which slowed down the process.

Just as Wang Jixuan was dreaming that he could concentrate on his cultivation for a month or two and directly break through to the Void Returning Realm, a message arrived, announcing the premature end of his cultivation during this period.

The message was sent by Fu Jian and only passed through Mudan’s hands.

【Four hours later, Ling Tong’s transport plane will arrive at your location. Come to headquarters; a soul search is required. Prepare as many disguises as possible; if necessary, get plastic surgery.】

Finally, we’re going to catch the traitor!

During the time he was engrossed in his training, things were actually quite turbulent both inside and outside the D5 Comprehensive Theater.

The ruling faction in the Psionic City continued to launch attacks, and Fu Jian continued to fight back.

The tension between the two sides was already palpable.

Furthermore, the D5 Comprehensive Theater directly withheld more than 400,000 crystal cores that should have been transferred to the Psionic Capital, and publicly declared that they demanded revisions to the current crystal core allocation laws.

This is just an internal conflict within the human camp.

The Blade Beast horde is constantly reinforcing this area, and the peripheral groups of the main Blade Beast horde closest to the D5 Comprehensive War Zone are showing signs of awakening; that is the greatest threat.

Despite such immense external pressure, there are still spies within the upper echelons of the organization…

It’s time to clean it up.

‘Whether the spies and agents come from psionicists or blade beasts, if we want the D5 Comprehensive War Zone to stand firm and continue to protect me in my peaceful cultivation, we must eliminate these spies.’

‘Traitorous people should be executed, and treacherous spirits should be destroyed!’

‘Unfortunately, the practice of executing nine generations of one’s entire family is no longer common in this civilization.’

Wang Jixuan felt quite regretful about this.

He quickly completed his preparations without even saying hello to Dongfang Zhenghong. He and Mudan disguised themselves, changed into the exclusive maintenance uniforms of the Lingtong maintenance team, and secretly went to wait outside Fortress 76.

Ling Tong’s personal transport aircraft arrived on time, its several huge rotors switching to vertical mode and lowering the folding platform.

Wang Jixuan and Mudan were immediately lifted up.

Ling Tong was naturally happy to see him after half a month apart, but besides Ling Tong, Sister Wan, and Ji Xiao who was to be sent to the headquarters, there was also a long-suffering friend who had been waiting for Wang Jixuan for a long time…

“Hehehehehe.”

Shen Hai forced a fake smile and approached Wang Jixuan, who had just entered the cabin.

Master Wang pondered for a moment and said, “Brother Shenhai, let me explain.”

The deep sea lunged forward, gritting its teeth!