In the end of the world, I become an immortal alone

#342 - Countdown to the Death of Civilization

Did Fu Jian really think that just because he was fully supporting the City of Psionics for the sake of the overall situation, that his Black Storm could disregard the previous assassination attempts by these psionicists?

These were completely two different matters.

Grandmaster Wang was too lazy to get involved with them. After confirming that the Blade Beasts had switched to defense, he returned to the sixth pillar to hide.

Firstly, he wanted to contemplate methods for breaking through in his cultivation and quietly wait for Mudan to search for the Golden Glow Fruit.

Secondly, he was worried that those Garinos would ask him about the location of this 'new individual', thereby triggering a new Blade Beast tide, so he decided to hide and avoid the limelight.

The Grandmaster hid for over a dozen hours, and three pieces of news were simultaneously delivered to him.

One bad news:

The Blade Beasts had retreated, but not entirely.

They had gathered in the original Americas region of Earth and were frantically devouring the strata, expanding their numbers. The Eye of the Sky, hovering above the Arctic Circle, was continuously gathering the psionic energy that had diffused from the planet.

The twenty-seven-day opening cycle of the Interstellar Gate had basically been verified.

It was foreseeable that:

If they couldn't find a way to prevent more Blade Beasts from arriving on Earth, then the spiritual cultivators would have to prepare to abandon the ancient treasures here and flee for their lives.

And Wang Jixuan would also completely lose his stable cultivation environment, and would most likely have to use stealth techniques to play hide-and-seek with the Blade Beasts.

Human civilization, represented by the D5 Comprehensive War Zone, would be like a small spark in the vast cosmic sea, instantly extinguished by the tide of Blade Beasts.

Twenty-seven days seemed to have become the countdown to the civilization's death.

The other two were good news.

One was about medicinal herbs.

Taking advantage of the Blade Beast tide attacking the Arctic region, Mudan sent unmanned reconnaissance aircraft into the Blade Beast controlled area and had already found dozens of medicinal herbs that Wang Jixuan could use to refine pills, including the Golden Glow Fruit.

Now, Mudan had dispatched an aerial assault harvesting mechanical squad, which could complete the collection within ten hours.

The main focus was on efficiency and stability.

The other good news came from Gao Huating.

"Little Huating said that her past life could help close the Interstellar Gate?"

"Commander, that's what Little Huating's past life said."

Mudan replied cautiously:

"She also mentioned that if the planetary barrier has human intervention, it can continue to open."

"Although she is very helpless and disappointed with the current situation of spiritual cultivators, she is willing to share the method of entering the ancient civilization for the purpose of protecting normal humans."

"However, she hopes that the people who enter the ancient civilization can pass her test."

"Test?" Wang Jixuan leaned back slightly.

Mudan spread her hands and shrugged: "That's what she said, a test."

Grandmaster Wang rubbed his brow and sighed softly: "I really can't figure out her way, and I can't say whether she's good or bad. She's like a wandering soul... But I always feel that every event is not accidental, but inevitable. Certain information that we don't know is missing, just like, I didn't know I couldn't get through that tribulation back then."

"Hmm?"

Mudan asked softly:

"Are there still problems that even you, Commander, can't solve?"

"Yes, many."

Wang Jixuan said:

"Report this matter to Old Fu and let him make the decision."

"I'll recommend four candidates, Wu Man, Shen Qionglin, Red Serpent, and Amina."

"Eh... Commander, is it possible that the other party means that they want you to participate in the trial?"

"Me? A trial?"

Wang Jixuan chuckled, got up and walked to the refrigerator in the corner, took a bottle of industrial tea drink for himself, and muttered:

"What level is her civilization? She wants me to participate in a trial."

"As long as I can cultivate inside the pillar Blade Beast for ten years, I can turn this place upside down."

Mudan blinked.

Here it comes again, the Commander's mysterious self-confidence.

It's quite charming.

...

Amina was very irritable now.

She stayed in the underground of the City of Psionics for half a day, and finally broke up with the Three Light Spiritual Cultivators unhappily.

Amina also kept a careful eye out and did not rashly come to find Wang Jixuan, but went straight back to the ruins of Fortress 76, stopped for a few hours, and then used the secret method taught by Wang Jixuan, transformed into a butterfly and went straight to the location of the sixth pillar.

Wang Jixuan didn't treat her as an outsider either, and directly asked Mudan to take her to the residential area opened up in the outer bone area of the sixth pillar.

There was a one-bedroom and three-living-room apartment here, fully decorated. The wooden boards blessed with restrictions blocked the squeezing force of the outer bones of the pillar Blade Beast. The lighting array and wind control array engraved on the ceiling could keep the place well-lit and the warm wind smooth.

"Your place is quite nice."

Amina looked around.

Wang Jixuan raised his hand to invite her in and smiled: "After all, I'm going to be staying here for a long time in seclusion, so naturally I have to tidy it up. How was the harvest from this battle?"

"There was no harvest, but I did find that these three old Light Wing guys also have disagreements."

Amina gathered her skirt and gracefully smoothed the edge of her skirt with a pair of soft hands, sitting in the sofa chair in Wang Jixuan's living room.

She whispered:

"Wanda's failure to join the oath is a hidden danger."

"I stopped there for half a day later, just to force Wanda to join this oath and fight the Blade Beasts to the end, but he seems to agree more with the contract with the Blade Beasts."

"His lifespan is almost up."

Wang Jixuan asked: "Didn't One and Three attack this Wanda?"

"Why attack?" Amina asked back.

"They obviously disagree."

"Disagreeing only means they don't work together, they are still close partners who support each other."

Amina's smile was mostly helpless.

She whispered: "It was my mistake this time, I accidentally confirmed that you are still alive, but fortunately, the Blade Beasts don't know about this yet. I have negotiated with them, and no one can publicly mention Black Storm."

Wang Jixuan looked at Amina;

Amina met his gaze for more than ten seconds, and then shyly looked away, with a hint of embarrassment on her face.

This scene made Wang Jixuan seem to see a certain junior sister of his back then.

The Grandmaster said seriously: "It was that Three, Nilda, who felt my little action before. What surprised me was that he didn't share the news with his two partners."

Amina thought seriously and responded: "Nilda has always felt very strange to me. He is obviously the strongest one, but he obeys Sabina."

"Are they lovers?"

"Spiritual cultivators don't have the concept of lovers. We think this kind of relationship is relatively low-level."

Amina said:

"The harmonious relationship pursued by spiritual cultivators is spiritual desire."

"Nilda doesn't have spiritual desire for Sabina."

Mudan, who was bringing tea over, muttered in a low voice: "Is there a possibility that Nilda has spiritual desire for Wanda?"

"Hahaha!" Wang Jixuan couldn't help laughing.

Amina's pretty face almost couldn't hold back.

"Okay, okay," Wang Jixuan waved his hand.

He recalled the battle scene when Nilda was deeply trapped in the Blade Beast tide.

This tough guy was really tough, and he had rich experience in fighting Blade Beasts. After only recovering six or seven percent of his 'power', he could almost kill through two pillar Blade Beast groups.

If it hadn't been for Nilda's containment at the time, the Blade Beasts would not have retreated so easily.

Therefore, Grandmaster Wang still reminded: "You still have to have a little respect for this kind of strong person, and try not to joke about him."

"Yes," Mudan responded gently.

Amina thought for a while, and still transformed into a small version of herself with a poof, and her long skirt became very loose.

It was easier for her to express her emotions in this form.

At this moment, she sighed dejectedly.

"What should we do, Wang Zheng? We seem to be in trouble."

"What trouble?"

"The Interstellar Gate! There are still twenty-six days left," Amina said depressedly, "The reason why the Blade Beasts suddenly withdrew their troops this time is because they don't want to fight a crushing game. This is actually extremely rational, but it makes us extremely uncomfortable."

Wang Jixuan asked: "Should we try to attack proactively?"

"We can't attack," Mudan replied from the side, "The Blade Beasts are now fully hiding underground, and our firepower is limited. Moreover, our development route has always been accustomed to defensive warfare."

Amina also said: "The human military doesn't have that many combat supplies to support a full-scale offensive battle."

Grandmaster Wang folded his arms and thought carefully for a while.

Looking at it now;

Now the only thing we can count on is Gao Huating's line.

"We have to find a way to close this Interstellar Gate," Wang Jixuan said, "According to the information I heard, it takes about one hundred and sixty days from locking the positioning here from the Interstellar Gate to opening the Interstellar Gate. If we close this Interstellar Gate first, we will have half a year."

The small version of Amina directly slumped there.

She said quietly: "If it really doesn't work, I'll open the spire and make a spaceship."

"Escape for your life?"

"Otherwise?"

"Where can we escape to?" Wang Jixuan shrugged, "The Blade Beasts are waiting for an opportunity to tear up the contract. We provoked them a little, and Nilda directly killed a Garino's body. Now it's all-out war, and we are just a corner of the battlefield here."

Amina said depressedly: "We caused the Blade Beast disaster after all, I'm sorry."

"You are not them, you don't have to feel guilty for other people's sins."

Wang Jixuan got up and paced with his hands behind his back.

Still the same;

As long as he thinks of going to that ancient civilization, his spiritual sense will vibrate slightly to warn him, as if that place is a dragon's pool and a tiger's den to him.

But, why?

What danger is hidden in that ancient civilization?

What the hell is that Sixth spiritual cultivator, called a witch by Amina, doing? Where did her core circuit go?

The Blade Beasts have already revealed their hand, intending to completely destroy us within a month, or at most, half a year.

His impromptu actions in the Arctic Circle were merely a fuse that ignited the Blade Beasts' aggression towards the Wings of Light; the Blade Beasts were already intent on forcing the Wings of Light to fulfill their contract and become their vassals. And then what?

The Blade Beasts would then herd all the civilizations in this star system, like harvesting韭菜 (jiao cai, chives), periodically destroying civilizations while leaving behind a spark of life, allowing these civilizations to continuously propagate new individuals, only to then destroy them with their bladed limbs, obtaining the spiritual energy within the crystal cores through slaughter, and endlessly reproduce.

They are like oversized viruses.

People say, 'Having an elder at home is like having a treasure.' Now, their oldest, Amina, is also seventeen thousand years old, yet she's looking at him expectantly, waiting for him to come up with an idea.

Wang Ji Xuan's thoughts were somewhat chaotic.

He sat back down and asked, "Tell me, after the battle, what did you discuss with Numbers One, Two, and Three?"

"Discuss?"

Several bubbles seemed to rise behind Amina's head, within which appeared a scene of intense argument.

…

The background of the scene was a golden, shimmering hall.

This should be the top of Sabina's subspace spire, after all, Sabina was seated in the main position, wearing a golden dress, her expression distorted with anger.

"Wanda!"

Sabina directly rebuked:

"We are the closest comrades-in-arms, are we not? Why did you choose to betray our position?"

"You did not respect my opinion," Wanda simply stated, "In my opinion, this war has already failed. We do not have enough resources and spiritual energy to eliminate the ever-increasing Blade Beast horde."

Nilda Tamon sat quietly to the side, his expression somewhat dismissive.

Sabina sighed, "But even so, we should have the most basic dignity. To be humiliated as slaves by our own creations, can that truly be considered living?"

"Our definitions of life and death differ somewhat."

Wanda shook his head, speaking with a smile.

This old man was constantly smiling:

"Although I am more inclined to negotiate peace with the Blade Beasts, even if we become their repairmen in the future, we can still enjoy the benefits of the Elysian Canopy."

"But this does not affect the friendship between us."

"If we can defeat the Blade Beasts, then I am willing to go all out."

"My surrender to the Blade Beasts only comes after you have all died in battle, or, when we are about to be killed. If you are embarrassed to speak, I am willing to admit defeat and beg them to spare our lives."

"The same goes for you, Amina."

Amina scoffed with a smile: "I can't stand your kind of favor."

Nilda Tamon, who hadn't spoken until now, wiped the blood and sweat from his body and said in a deep voice:

"We have already made an oath witnessed by the core circuit; from now on, we can only fight to the death against the Blade Beasts."

Wanda sighed: "The humans here resent you."

"The war with the Blade Beasts is not something that these low-level civilizations can control."

Sabina said indifferently:

"However, their mechanical civilization has already shown signs of progress. This mechanical civilization is a higher-level civilization similar to the Blade Beasts, not a basic primitive civilization."

"Perhaps this is also a path."

Wanda clicked his tongue: "Unwilling to be slaves to the Blade Beasts, but willing to be slaves to primitive humans? Don't forget the Elysian Canopy. When you reach my age, you will know how precious this thing is."

Amina said: "Speaking of which, aren't you just afraid of death?"

Wanda said: "Life is precious, especially our lives."

"Enough!" Sabina roared, "Find a way to close the interdimensional gate. We need to talk to the humans and get more resources from them!"

"Then you are simply daydreaming."

Amina simply commented before transforming into a butterfly and leaving directly.

This argument ultimately ended on an unhappy note.

…

"These are moths of the long river of time."

After listening to Amina's account, Wang Ji Xuan couldn't help but mutter such a sentence.

Amina asked: "Should we continue to discuss the method of closing the interdimensional gate with them? Or… should we go find that ancient civilization?"

"Let's prepare on both fronts."

Wang Ji Xuan said:

"I will temporarily not participate in these matters. You take charge and try to cooperate with them, using the methods of spiritual cultivators to try to close the interdimensional gate."

"If we cannot close it, we can only seek help from that ancient civilization."

"By the way, about Xiao Hua Ting's matter, you must not let it slip!"

Amina swore by the light of her indicator: "Absolutely not!"

Wang Ji Xuan gently exhaled.

"Mu Dan, find the medicinal herbs and go directly to our Treant Ancestor. Prepare to start the furnace and refine pills."

He most likely won't be able to continue watching this war as a spectator.

Then he should try his best to improve his strength and give full play to his advantages.

Wang Ji Xuan looked at the corpse of Gariah, lying in the corner.

He decided:

His second battle puppet will be made directly from this Gariah!