The studio Tai-shu put together was unusually lively today.
First, the initial beneficiaries of the Crane Origin Pill gathered here, awaiting Wang Daochang's awakening.
Then, a satellite communication was routed to the equipment here. Tai-shu rushed back, bringing several staff members to debug the equipment.
Before Wang Ji Xuan arrived, Commander-in-Chief Fu Jian's holographic projection had already appeared, sitting in a corner and quietly watching.
Evidently, Fu Jian was also somewhat interested in the sudden communication between the Beast Speaker and the Beast God Sect.
On the first floor of the studio, beside the anti-magic dagger production line that was constantly running, Wang Ji Xuan was selecting his 'battle robe'.
Zhou Zhengde and Zheng Shiduo were acting as advisors.
Zhou Zhengde muttered, "I think there's no need to disguise yourself now... because no matter which fake identity you use, you're on their hit list."
Wang Daochang was momentarily at a loss for words.
"It's not the same, Team Zhou."
Zheng Shiduo leaned against the CNC machine, saying with a smile:
"Wang-ge's Black Storm identity clearly has a higher hate value, while the Zhou Tiantian identity has a lower hate value.
"If you ask me, Wang-ge, you should just use this classic skin to make your appearance."
Wang Ji Xuan shrugged: "Why do I have to show up? Can't you find someone to impersonate me?"
"Uh," Zheng Shiduo blinked, "This kind of top-tier honor..."
Zhou Zhengde said sternly: "It's totally possible. Should we make a dummy?"
"Just kidding. I'll meet the Beast Speaker. I'm quite curious about his current state."
Wang Ji Xuan put on the black helmet and glanced down at the shirt, shorts, sandals, and big pants he was wearing, too lazy to bother with the X-Armor and combat suit that had been prepared nearby.
Zheng Shiduo immediately jumped to the stairwell and shouted upwards:
"Black Storm has arrived at the venue!"
Wang Daochang's expression was a bit indescribable.
This was way too high-profile.
Half a minute later.
Wang Ji Xuan sat on the sofa, Fu Jian's holographic image sitting upright in the opposite corner, with the other semi-mechanical armors either beside Fu Jian or in another corner.
They created the illusion that only Wang Ji Xuan was here.
Mu Dan pressed a few buttons, the communication was connected, and a projection screen appeared in front of Wang Ji Xuan. The light and shadow flickered a few times, freezing on the scene inside an underground shuttle cabin.
No one?
A voice came from outside the screen: "Boss! It's connected! It's Black Storm! Uh, or maybe not. It's just, the helmet looks the same as the one in the wanted poster!"
"Okay, I know."
A hoarse voice sounded.
The shuttle cabin door opened, and a tall, thin man slipped into the seat, staring at the small screen and camera in front of him.
The S-rank esper who betrayed humanity, Beast Speaker Zhuge Zheng.
The Beast Speaker looked to be in bad shape.
His face was pale, he trembled from time to time, and his eyes, which should have been deep, were mostly bloodshot. He was slumped back in the driver's seat, giving off a 'sickly' feeling.
If you observed him for a slightly longer period of time, you would find that he was prone to being distracted at certain moments, much like an elderly politician suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
"Black Storm... it's you, it really is you..."
The Beast Speaker used an extremely clichéd opening line, followed by weak gasps for breath:
"Good, you really are a spirit practitioner, damn it... you almost killed me, but you failed. I didn't die, hahaha, ugh!"
The Beast Speaker turned his head and dry heaved, convulsing even more violently.
It was as if several cockroaches were crawling under his skin, and his eyes were almost 'pupil scattered', but were fixed by the tadpole-like symbols flickering in his eyes.
Fu Jian shook his head slightly, and the old semi-mechanical armors revealed expressions of disgust.
Wang Ji Xuan frowned upon seeing this.
This was too disgusting.
The Beast Speaker seemed like he could collapse at any moment, probably into a pile of bones and dust.
The Beast Speaker kept panting heavily, his face becoming more and more ferocious, his eyes full of hatred as he looked at Wang Ji Xuan.
"Even so, you can't stop me. I'm still alive! I'm alive! Cough, cough!"
The Beast Speaker seemed to be roaring:
"I still gained new power. I'm only half a step away from SS-rank now!
"Black Storm, you can no longer resist me. Now, as long as my injuries recover, I will have no weaknesses.
"You killed Jin Gu Gang, right?
"Hahaha, hahahaha! That trash! He thought he was strong enough after obtaining the king-level crystal core and spiritual energy pathway, but he couldn't even use his own power properly.
"As long as my injuries recover, I will immediately inherit the power of a top-tier king-level crystal core. I will personally find you, lead an endless army of blade beasts, tear your body apart, eat your heart, and dig out your internal organs to throw to the lowest-level blade beasts!
"This is what you asked for! You asked for it!"
Wang Ji Xuan raised his hand and took off his helmet, revealing... Zhou Tiantian's face.
He didn't like to curse people. Arguing with trash was beneath the dignity of a righteous Daoist cultivator.
Wang Daochang raised his hand and touched his nose, smiling a little awkwardly.
Just as the Beast Speaker thought that Wang Ji Xuan's smile would be followed by an apology, begging for mercy, Wang Ji Xuan rubbed his nose, his middle finger rising and pointing at the Beast Speaker.
The Beast Speaker roared: "You motherfucker!"
"Sorry," Wang Ji Xuan put down his middle finger and apologized sincerely, "Actually, I didn't intentionally target you."
"It's too late to say that now! Not intentionally targeting me? You motherfucker call this not intentionally targeting me?
"Destroying my advancement ceremony, using your damned, dirty spiritual practitioner techniques to destroy my soul!"
The Beast Speaker spat out saliva:
"The priest has already said it!
"There is only one possibility, and that is that the ceremony we imitated was discovered by you!"
"This..."
Wang Ji Xuan pondered for a few moments and said seriously:
"Although it's useless to explain this to you, I think it's still necessary to say it.
"You have a clone, a young man who was raised as a resource by Spiritual Energy City, but escaped because of his own defects.
"He is my friend and student. He had a portion of his soul sucked away by you. In order to save him, I used some methods.
"You think too highly of yourself, friend... on the path.
"Saving a portion of his soul and letting him live is the only reason I took action.
"Unintentionally disrupting your advancement ceremony and turning you into this unholy, ghostly state was indeed my unintentional mistake, something I did casually, without thinking.
"But you don't need to be so angry. Have you done fewer bad things?
"This is probably a bit of your, karmic retribution?"
"I!"
The Beast Speaker's face flushed red, and he turned his head and vomited a mouthful of blood.
Wang Ji Xuan clicked his tongue: "I guarantee with Commander-in-Chief Fu Jian's definitely-not-in-debt character that I absolutely did not exaggerate any facts."
The Beast Speaker gasped violently.
Wang Ji Xuan didn't say much more, just calmly crossed his legs and stared at the Beast Speaker.
The Beast Speaker suddenly laughed miserably a few times.
He murmured: "Good, you almost made me lose my mind, but unfortunately, you didn't do it... Black Storm, ask yourself, do humans, these losers, and spiritual practitioners, these losers, really have a chance of winning when they get together?"
Wang Ji Xuan was silent.
The Beast Speaker seemed to have regained his confidence, with a bit of infatuation in his eyes, constantly murmuring:
"Not talking anymore?
"Heh heh heh, because you also know, you also agree with this conclusion, humans are destined to be defeated.
"The blade beasts are too powerful.
"After I awakened the ability to speak with beasts, to communicate with blade beasts, to gradually understand blade beasts, I realized how weak we really are.
"They control the gate to the stars. To be precise, they come from the stars.
"It's not that they want to destroy the humans here, but you! You despicable, selfish spiritual practitioners!
"You spiritual practitioners are the culprits, the spiritual practitioner civilization is the source of all evil!"
"Oh?"
Wang Ji Xuan sneered, a flash of inspiration in his heart, and said indifferently:
"Do you think I would easily fall for your trick? That teacher clearly said that they came to stop the blade beasts from harming humans."
The Beast Speaker was stunned.
Teacher?
"Are you an Earthling? A student of a spiritual practitioner? How is that possible! The three spiritual practitioners locked underground by the Six Elders never accepted students!
"The Six Elders haven't been able to awaken their spiritual energy until now because the spiritual practitioners are wary of them, afraid to give them the power to slay gods!
"How could you possibly be a student of a spiritual practitioner."
Good, obtained important information [The Six Elders have not yet awakened their spiritual energy].
Wang Ji Xuan smiled coldly: "Your information is too outdated. The wall leading to the spire is not only for the Six Elders."
"So, Fu Jian stole the fourth wall..."
The Beast Speaker looked dazed, then murmured:
"So that's how it is. If that's the case, then everything is explained.
"I've seen your information. You rose very suddenly, and D5 doesn't have any other spiritual practitioners injected by the military. I had previously suspected this direction."
He changed his tone, staring at Wang Ji Xuan with mockery:
"Then I really have to pity you.
"Those six spiritual practitioners are six defeated dogs! They desperately escaped the encirclement of the blade beasts, arrived on this planet, and tried to use this place to restore their power.
"And you, Black Storm, you have become a failed student of a failed civilization, you are destined to fail.
"And I, the Beast Speaker, will reach a reconciliation with the blade beasts, understand each other, sympathize with each other, and achieve a new balance on this planet, allowing humans and blade beasts to live in harmony! This is my great ideal!"
Wang Ji Xuan asked, "Then what about the over ten billion humans who have died on this planet over the years?"
"Dust of history."
The Beast Speaker seemed more stable, and he replied calmly:
"Our human civilization was originally the affected party.
"The responsibility still lies with the Spirit Cultivators.
"They used technology that should have been forbidden to create life out of thin air. Suffering the backlash of losing control is only natural. The Blade Beasts under the leadership of the Beast God have developed into the most powerful civilization, crushing the Spirit Cultivator civilization. They could have conquered everything, but they only target the Spirit Cultivator civilization.
"It was the Spirit Cultivator civilization that came to our planet, trying to spread their gospel here and collect the spiritual power of primitive humans, that brought this disaster!
"Black Storm, do you want to kidnap all of humanity on the war chariot of Spirit Cultivation, and let humanity exhaust its last few hundred million people, completely dissolving the flame of civilization?"
Wang Ji Xuan raised his hand and touched his chin.
He pretended to be posturing just to attract the Beast Speaker to continue speaking.
Unfortunately, the Beast Speaker's confidence had recovered and was rapidly expanding. Instead of revealing the exclusive information he knew, he began to say:
"Now I will indeed bear the blame, but that doesn't matter.
"When I complete my promotion and obtain the same power as the Six Elders, I will fuse the crystal core of the Blade Beasts and become an existence surpassing the Six Elders and other SS-level Spirit Energy users, a truly, near-divine existence.
"At that time, the Blade Beasts will rush over like a tsunami.
"Those who submit will prosper, those who resist will perish!
"This is the general trend!
"On this planet alone, the Blade Beasts led by the Twelve Beast Gods have a strength hundreds of times greater than the remaining strength of humanity!
"Humanity only needs to preserve the spark. I will completely bury this century of history, leaving no written information behind.
"Only a few hundred years, no, one or two hundred years will be enough, and humanity will once again multiply and thrive on this planet! And by that time, I!"
The Beast Speaker opened his arms and raised his head slightly:
"I will remove my name from human history, like a guardian, standing in the long river of time, watching this civilization forget its pain and move towards a new life!
"Humanity shouldn't have been involved in the war between the Blade Beasts and the Spirit Cultivators!
"I am the savior!"
Clap, clap, clap clap.
Wang Ji Xuan applauded gently: "Very good, your ideal is very good, I am even moved."
"Hmph!"
The Beast Speaker sneered:
"You don't need to mock me, strength is strength, strength surpasses all words!
"This communication is to inform you in advance that I will launch a full-scale offensive with the Blade Beasts. This is my revenge!
"Unless you come before me, otherwise, I will destroy one fortress after another!"
"Then how about we discuss a condition?"
Wang Ji Xuan asked:
"For example, you give me half a month, I still have a lot of things to explain on my side, and I will personally come to see you.
"My condition is, don't affect ordinary humans."
The Beast Speaker was about to sneer.
Wang Ji Xuan, with a clear conscience, decisively used his great deception technique:
"Before hearing your thoughts, I thought you might just be a coward succumbing to the Blade Beasts, or a puppet controlled by the Brain-Devouring Worms, but you are not… You are human, a purer human than the Six Elders."
The Beast Speaker was silent.
Wang Ji Xuan sighed. He saw Zhou Zhengde, who had quietly walked behind Fu Jian's holographic projection, and said quickly:
"Of course, there will be a battle between us, I don't approve of you, but I think, you and I are both… idealists.
"I want to save humanity by gaining power.
"I can actually understand you slightly. We just chose different paths. When you said the word 'gaze,' I knew we were the same kind of person.
"Let's settle it a month later, how about it? You also need to let your soul recover its stability."
The Beast Speaker narrowed his eyes slightly.
Wang Ji Xuan looked at him calmly, with a faint smile on his lips. Naturally, he deliberately changed it from half a month to a month.
"Okay," the Beast Speaker nodded, "A month later, I will lead tens of millions of Blade Beasts on the southwestern front of the D5 Comprehensive War Zone. If you don't come, I will drive straight in!"
"A gentleman's word."
"Huh?"
"Ah, that is, idealists keep their word, I believe you."
Wang Ji Xuan pressed the button, hung up the communication, and breathed a sigh of relief.
He looked at Fu Jian's holographic projection.
Fu Jian said in a deep voice: "Should we continue to try to contact him later? Although it's disgusting to temporarily negotiate a truce, but if it can…"
"Negotiate a truce? Why negotiate a truce?"
The corners of Wang Ji Xuan's mouth twitched a few times:
"I'm哄ing him, all is fair in war, this guy's brain is not very bright anymore.
"Lao Fu, you quickly prepare, it's best to launch an attack and get rid of him, along with that King-level evangelist called 'Sacrifice,' within ten days to half a month.
"Give me a Beta, three days, and six tons of nutrient solution, and I'll refine fifty Crane Yuan Pills for you first."
Fu Jian leaned back slightly, and the mechanical face twitched a few times violently.
He almost believed it!
The elderly cyborgs led by Zhang Huanying showed smiles at the same time, ready to step forward immediately.
Wang Ji Xuan took out the blood bag he had prepared in advance, raised his hand to cover his mouth, and coughed up a mouthful of blood.
He coughed twice and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay, it's just that I suffered a little minor injury from the previous long-distance fight, in order to severely damage the great enemy of mankind, the Beast Speaker. I can still continue to interact with you…"
"Go back and rest quickly," Zhang Huanying said with concern, "We just want to express our gratitude to you, and then we have to rush to our work posts."
"Thank you for your hard work, you are heroes."
Wang Ji Xuan waved his hand, and was helped up by Mudan. He walked tremblingly to the stairwell.
He jumped out of the window in one stride, and disappeared in a few leaps, leaving a group of old people looking at each other.
At the same time.
The Beast Speaker sat in the shuttle, thinking slightly, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.
A month?
He can directly attack in half a month!
It's just that now he needs time to mobilize more Blade Beast groups to come over here.
"Black Storm, I will kill you!"
