Deep Sea entered and saw a long sword constantly vibrating in Wang Jixuan's palm.
This sword was about one meter forty-five in length, with the widest part of the blade connected to the hilt being about fifteen centimeters, while the tip was only eight or nine centimeters wide. The blade's spine was made from the exoskeleton of a high-level Blade Beast, with the left and right edges as thin as cicada wings.
It had just had a crystal core embedded, and the patterns engraved on the hilt and blade spine were automatically activated, brewing a faint cyan light.
This was already the best weapon Wang Jixuan could currently forge, capable of cutting through the outer shells of high-level basic Blade Beasts like chopping vegetables.
Red Serpent glanced at the rows of ordinary crystal core greatswords hanging on the wall, then carefully looked at the greatsword in Wang Jixuan's hand, and said with a smile:
"With this level of crystal core weapon, you wouldn't be so biased as to only give it to Lingtong, right? I also risked my life... Hey!"
Wang Jixuan brushed his sword fingers across the blade, imprinting shallow marks on it, writing the two characters 'Ling Sword'.
Lingtong calmly took the long sword, slightly raising her eyebrows at Red Serpent.
"Thank you."
Wang Daochang carefully instructed: "Make a scabbard later, and try to carry it with you when piloting the mecha."
"Okay, then what will you use?"
"A spear. The last spear was quite good, so I'll just make another one with improved materials."
Wang Jixuan smiled and said:
"I don't really like this kind of hacking greatsword. I prefer a more elegant sword. This sword has some restrictions embedded in it to resist mental shocks, which can be used for emergency defense."
"No!"
Red Serpent put her hands on her hips and stomped her feet, furious:
"Can you two please respect me a little! We're all battle girls, why the preferential treatment!"
Deep Sea had been smiling since entering the door.
Red Serpent turned her head and glared over, and Deep Sea immediately put on a profound look.
Deep Sea said in a deep voice: "Indeed, there should be no preferential treatment... Battle husbands also need this kind of tool to escape after being trapped in a mecha."
Red Serpent angrily said: "If you're going to give it, give it to me first!"
"Wife, you can just provide rear support and sniping. Of course, I'll take care of charging into battle."
"Bah! You're still trying to snatch good things from me! Is that how much you love me!"
"Love is love, combat power is combat power."
Wang Daochang smiled dumbfounded.
Everyone present had a share. He wouldn't be stingy about things that could improve his side's combat power. He was just deliberately teasing them just now.
It was quite interesting.
The projection screen in the corner of the workshop suddenly flickered a few times, and the countdown on it jumped from [58:02:21] to [49:22:10], and then continued to count down.
Red Serpent frowned and said: "The predicted attack time has been brought forward again?"
"Let's hurry up and get to work."
Wang Jixuan urged with a smile:
"We need to rush out more things to support the front line as much as possible. The front line will face six King-level Blade Beasts from different directions, and the pressure will be immense."
Deep Sea took off his coat, revealing his strong chest muscles, and consciously walked towards the forging table.
Lingtong suddenly listened attentively, raised her head and said:
"The command center for the seventh King-level Blade Beast has been built. The commander is Dongfang Zhenghong, who has deployed about one hundred and twenty D-level and C-level spirit energy users, three heavy-duty composite brigades, and can uniformly deploy the resources and garrisons of the six fortresses near the Sari Desert."
She paused and asked: "Do you want to join their command channel?"
"No, just notify me of any news. My apparent identity is just a member of your logistics team, Commander."
"Okay, then hurry up and get to work, Quartermaster."
"Yes, Commander!"
Red Serpent pouted aside and said: "Husband, look at them! I want this kind of flirting mode too!"
Deep Sea said helplessly: "You want everything. I don't have a romantic mood, okay? Come over and prepare to carve patterns!"
"Let me correct you, this is not carving patterns, this is... the spirit energy conduction restriction in spirit cultivation civilization."
Wang Jixuan said nonsense in a serious manner:
"Let's forge six Ling Swords first, and then work together to help me make two spears. Later, remember to send our Commander-in-Chief the best sword."
Lingtong asked somewhat puzzled: "Why give it to the Commander-in-Chief? Does the Commander-in-Chief's combat power need this?"
"This,"
Wang Daochang pondered for a few seconds, "This is a bit of interpersonal relationship we must pay attention to in individual growth."
Lingtong pinched her chin and thought carefully.
Although she didn't agree, she said she could understand.
The countdown on the corner projection screen was constantly jumping, and the workshop rang with dinging sounds again.
Outside the workshop, dozens of autonomous maintenance robots were working enthusiastically to process various ores.
In the tea room next to it, Wu Man's desk was already piled high with thick stacks of talismans, but the boy was still engrossed in making talismans, unwilling to stop.
— Wang Jixuan could only teach him how to draw talismans, but he couldn't teach him how to use his spiritual sense to activate them.
In order to maximize the value of this 'child laborer,' Wang Jixuan also specially taught Wu Man how to slowly absorb the spirit energy in the crystal core.
Outside Fortress 76, long lines of military vehicles came and went, transporting various large equipment to distant places.
At the same time, vehicles kept driving out of Fortress 82, carrying men, women, and children, gradually moving away from their homes where they had lived since childhood against the backdrop of the vast yellow sand.
The faces of the people were filled with confusion and helplessness.
Occasionally, vultures flew across the sky;
The sun also became increasingly scorching.
The countdown to the expected outbreak of battle in the war zone gradually entered the final twenty-four hours.
Wang Jixuan took off the drone that had been rotating and following above his head, revealing the vertical pupil.
A sense of urgency came over him.
Under the gaze of this vertical pupil, Wang Jixuan boarded Lingtong's transport plane, taking Peony, Sister Wan, and a certain emergency mount, leaving Fortress 76 and rushing to the vicinity of Fortress 82, the seventh main battlefield that Dongfang Zhenghong had already set up.
Approaching the predetermined battlefield, when looking down through the porthole of the transport plane, Wang Jixuan praised softly.
"This is the power of the collective."
Clusters of armor appeared one after another in the Sari Desert.
Missile positions, artillery positions, drone swarms, secondary Terror Mecha temporary maintenance bases, and Wang Jixuan even saw that 'big guy' floating in the sky — an aerospace mothership hovering in the high altitude, hundreds of meters long.
Of the four aerospace motherships in the human camp, one appeared here.
"That's the troops from Space Fortress No. 3."
Lingtong said softly:
"The King-level Blade Beast, which we marked as 'Assassin Seven' this time, poses too great a threat to human civilization. If we can lure it here and eliminate it, we can alleviate the pressure it brings on a wider front, so the Space Fortress has also taken it seriously."
Wang Jixuan pointed to the vertical pupil above his head: "This thing might be able to hear our conversation."
Lingtong asked: "Haven't we already determined that it's just a mark and doesn't have the ability to transmit information?"
"That's not certain. Science can't perfectly explain Blade Beast civilization."
Wang Jixuan leaned back in the comfortable massage chair, tilted his head and watched the scene outside the porthole, and muttered:
"I wonder if we can successfully take down the opponent in this battle."
"It will be successful."
Lingtong looked down at Wang Jixuan's left hand resting on the armrest of the chair.
A picture appeared in her mind — a picture of her holding his left hand with her right hand, and then interlacing their fingers.
This was in line with pre-war etiquette.
But when she raised her right hand, the fine cracks on the mechanical arm made her gently pursed her lips and quietly put her hand aside.
Wang Jixuan clearly captured this scene with his spiritual sense, thought slightly, and decided to take the initiative.
"By the way, Commander, I can read palms, would you like me to read yours?"
"Huh?"
Lingtong didn't react for a moment.
Peony, who was assembling new weapons, turned her head and almost laughed.
'The commander's flirting skills are so retro.'
'Peony thought so.'
...
It took Wang Jixuan more than a dozen hours to complete the adaptation of more than three hundred array bases and drone swarms.
He prepared two arrays, not only using up the 'hair' he had taken from the Treant Beta, but also using many rare minerals.
The seventy-two array base Thunder Lord Demon Subduing Array was the main attack array;
The one hundred and eight array base Dragon Binding Array was the trapping array;
The remaining drones and array bases were used as supplementary resources, focusing on a saturated array layout.
This King-level Blade Beast was completely different from that S-level spirit energy user named Mo Feng. Wang Jixuan didn't know how much effect the killing array could exert. The main focus today was actually the Dragon Binding Array.
The Dragon Binding Array was not a simple trapping array. Its array bases could communicate with the power of the earth's veins and use the turbid spirit energy of the earth to fill the power of the large array.
Wang Jixuan would not be the main attacker later either.
He was just bait.
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Two thirty-six meter class Secondary Terror Mecha were ready, namely the 'Flood Dragon' adapted by Deep Sea and the 'Black Swan' adapted by Red Serpent.
— Because of the small number of Secondary Terror Mecha, they were generally equipped with three pilots. Now, in addition to Deep Sea and Red Serpent, there were also two slightly inferior half-human mecha pilots waiting as substitutes, in case Deep Sea and Red Serpent had any temporary situations.
Lingtong's exclusive mecha, the sixteen meter class 'Lingtong', had also been transported to this battlefield.
She was mainly responsible for protecting Wang Jixuan, and could simultaneously face up to three General-level Blade Beasts.
As for Wang Jixuan, the bait, the military did not give any clear combat missions. Dongfang Zhenghong told him to use his own discretion and not to take risks easily.
There were still eight hours before the predicted time of the start of the war.
Wang Jixuan put on the X-Battle Armor, brought various equipment, brought the vertical pupil on his head, and took the already awake Ji Xiao, and had Peony drive the special supply vehicle to the sand dunes in the center of the predetermined battlefield.
The supply vehicle was parked at the tip of the sand dune, surrounded by arc-shaped fire positions, and the two thirty-six meter class Secondary Terror Mecha were clearly visible.
Peony asked, "Sir, is there anything you need me to do?"
"Connect the command channel to the vehicle. I want to hear what they're talking about."
"Yes, sir."
Ji Xiao sniffled. He wore self-destruct collars on his neck, wrists, and ankles, and his philtrum was bulging due to a smaller self-destruct collar.
Wang Jixuan's words, Deep Sea had indeed carried out well.
Ji Xiao sighed softly, a look of sorrow on his face, his eyes full of gentleness.
"Sir, is there anything you need me to do?"
"Go guard outside the vehicle."
"Very well. If I can do something for humanity to atone for my sins over the years, I will be... extremely..."
Ji Xiao choked up, lowered his head, opened the door of the supply vehicle, jumped onto the sand dune, and looked around in all directions.
Wang Jixuan raised his hand and rubbed his brow.
He didn't like being around people like Bristle Bear, Ji Yale, and Ji Xiao, these 'Buddhist disciples.'
They truly lacked a self, their personalities altered, their goodness bordering on the unsettling.
Meditation, napping, talisman crafting.
Wang Jixuan glanced at the increasingly cluttered space inside the vehicle, feeling somewhat helpless. It would be better once he entered the Golden Core realm, when he should be able to use ordinary materials to refine storage artifacts.
If he had better precious materials, he could even try making storage pouches in the Core Formation realm.
Such is the path of cultivation.
The principles behind the restrictions on those magical artifacts are probably not understood by many cultivators. They only know that the initial cultivation methods, artifact refining, pill concoction, and formations were all passed down from the Immortal Realm.
But as long as cultivators can obtain the methods for creating these restrictions, they can continuously refine magical artifacts through experimentation.
Wang Jixuan glanced at the few blood-colored pills hidden in his bosom, feeling a little guilty.
These blood-colored pills were refined from the essence extracted from the flesh and blood of Blade Beasts. There's nothing seriously wrong with eating them; they can heal injuries and restore vitality.
What made Wang Jixuan feel uneasy was...
These were 'Blood Soul Pills' made using demonic techniques.
Was he really going to gradually turn into a demonic cultivator? Although demonic cultivation allows for rapid increases in strength, its upper limit is far lower than that of immortal cultivation, and it's very easy to collapse one's self.
'Alas, time waits for no one. I'll adapt to the situation.'
He stretched lazily, counted the talismans he had, and found that the number of talismans had exceeded the limit he could effectively carry, so he simply sat down to rest.
Peony suddenly said, "Sir, the vertical pupil on your forehead seemed to vibrate just now."
"Huh?"
The supply vehicle's communication radio suddenly transmitted Dongfang Zhenghong's voice:
"Attention all units! Immediately make all pre-battle preparations! A nuclear explosion phenomenon has been detected underground, 650 kilometers southwest! The Blade Beast swarm has begun to move!"
This was Dongfang Zhenghong's order to the commanders of each unit.
The countdown timer on the projection screen next to him was adjusted to eight hours, with the countdown ending at seven o'clock tomorrow morning.
'Should I sleep for a while?'
Wang Jixuan thought to himself.
Although meditation can relieve fatigue, sleep is still the best means of rest.
He fell asleep headfirst, yawning: "Peony, keep an eye on things here for me. I'm going to sleep for a few hours."
Peony patted her chest, which was constricted by the armor and couldn't shake:
"You startled Peony! Sir, you've finally remembered that mechanical bodies also need sleep to allow their brains to rest!"
Wang Jixuan smiled without saying a word.
This guy is getting bolder and bolder.
"Watch the news."
"Understood."
Wang Jixuan yawned several times in a row, and then fell into a deep sleep.
Peony secretly took out a camera and took a high-definition photo of Wang Jixuan's sleeping face, and transmitted it to her core memory chip.
The Daoist Master had a hazy dream.
In the dream, he walked on clouds and saw a portal opening in the deep universe. Within the portal, there seemed to be a sky full of flowers, with fairies dancing and cranes flying. But as he approached, a surge of black gas suddenly attacked, completely filling the portal. A huge vertical pupil appeared in the churning black gas...
"Evil creature, submit!"
Wang Jixuan sat up, and Peony, who was sitting quietly beside him, immediately opened her eyes and tilted her head to look at Wang Jixuan.
"Did you have a dream, sir? It's only five o'clock in the morning. The underground Blade Beast swarm is still more than two hundred kilometers away from here."
As she spoke, Peony unmuted the communication radio, and the command center occasionally transmitted a word or two.
A great battle was about to break out.
Peony asked, "Are there any further adjustments to be made?"
"Not for now."
Wang Jixuan put on the helmet of the X armor, walked out of the supply vehicle, saw Ji Xiao curled up beside the tire asleep, turned around and jumped to the top of the supply vehicle.
He looked out at the desert still shrouded in darkness. The multi-layered defense line in the distance was already making final preparations. Two giant mechs had been detached from the scaffolding, and Ling Tong's mech was lurking two kilometers away, with its sniper cannon set up.
He could also see a large number of drones passing through the darkness, spreading automatically burrowing landmines in a wider area.
About a dozen kilometers away, the huge vertical pupil above Fortress 82 was gazing at the vertical pupil on Wang Jixuan's head from afar, as if they were echoing each other.
The urgent report of a messenger to Dongfang Zhenghong came from under his feet:
"Commander! The underground Blade Beast swarm has suddenly begun to accelerate! They have bypassed the minefield we laid out in a deeper stratum and are expected to reach the outer positions of Fortress 82 in fifty minutes!"
Here they come.
Dawn and the Beast King, it is not known which will arrive first.
