novel520 #494 - The first base!
#494 - The first base!
What is the most important thing in establishing a force?
If you had asked Wang Jixuan this question in the past, his answer would definitely have been having enough manpower.
Only with a thriving population can talented individuals be continuously born; only with a large enough area in the mortal kingdom can suitable disciples for cultivating immortality be found every ten years.
Only in this way can the sect become bigger and stronger.
— The six loose immortals next door are doing just that.
But now, Wang Jixuan's answer has begun to be a bit unconventional.
Or rather, it can't be called unconventional.
After all, the peach wood sword is a magical artifact, and the blue flame Gatling is also a magical artifact. All three thousand great Daos lead to profound mysteries.
The path Wang Jixuan is taking now is the [Pure Mechanical Body Cultivation Civilization].
Therefore, for Wang Jixuan at this stage, the most important condition for establishing a force is to find a piece of land to ensure privacy and prevent being spied on.
To this end, Wang Jixuan also racked his brains, wandering around the southern border of this world with Amina for several days, and finally determined the place to settle down.
The southernmost coastal area of the southern border.
Wang Jixuan found a cliff, hollowed out the inside, found a spherical space, and then began to let Mudan set up formations.
The construction of the outer formations alone took a full ten days.
In fact, it was to cover people's eyes. Each formation base was personally refined by Wang Jixuan and stuffed into the mountain, without using Mudan's production line.
When the formation was activated, the entire cliff shook gently, and the light of treasures shone for a moment, then returned to calm.
The six loose immortals were too far away and did not notice the abnormality here.
This also made them lose the only chance to explore the details here.
The next subspace nesting is both difficult and simple.
The difficulty lies in the sheer volume of the project;
And the simplicity lies in…
Wang Jixuan no longer needs to do it himself. A large number of mechanical bodies and Amina's advanced spiritual slaves can serve as free and high-quality labor.
In just seven days, a sphere with a diameter of 300 meters was hollowed out inside the mountain. In the center was a stone pillar with a diameter of 20 meters. Dozens of 'arms' protruded outward around the stone pillar. Various houses were built along each arm, and many formation bases were placed inside the houses.
In the following half month, the task was to refine these formations, stabilize the mountain structure, and add more concealing formations and mountain-protecting formations.
Wang Jixuan explored underground, found the earth veins here, and extracted earth energy for purification, which can greatly reduce the consumption of crystal cores and spirit stones.
After forty days of construction, the basic construction of this place was finally completed. A ten-meter-wide and six-meter-high gate was embedded in the end of the central pillar in the cave.
The gate was covered with a light film. Looking inward through the light film, you could see a huge subspace under construction and transformation.
The amount of work to be done next is still not small.
Internally, they need to strengthen and expand this subspace to make it their first base.
Externally, they need to find more ores and precious materials.
Obtaining more resources is now their primary goal.
"Meeting."
Daoist Wang returned covered in dust, sat in the main seat of the conference table at the top of the spire, and closed his eyes to rest.
Several streams of light arrived one after another.
Mudan, wearing a classic maid outfit, stood inside a floating ball, holding several documents, and walked around the conference table twice, distributing the meeting documents to everyone.
After everyone was seated, Daoist Wang cleared his throat and briefly summarized:
"The preliminary work has been done. Thank you all for your hard work."
Old Zheng honestly replied: "I've been slacking off all the time, just doing some manual labor."
Gao Huating nodded weakly beside him.
Her cooking skills have been progressing very quickly recently, and she has also created two new songs for the mechanical bodies.
Mudan opened the projection screen and said crisply:
"Currently, we are facing two problems.
"First, how to plunder resources from the outside world.
"If this statement sounds unpleasant, then let's put it more gently, that is, how to collect the immortal cultivation resources in this Minor World that have not yet been collected.
"Our spiritual energy-related material reserves are now purely consumed, with no replenishment.
"In addition, we also need more metal ore to create our mechanical legion."
Everyone was silent for a while.
Amina said: "I can let the spirit slaves come out to work."
"No," Zheng Shiduo immediately shook his head, "We must maintain secrecy now. This is the top priority. We can no longer be targeted by the Heavenly Dao. If the spirit energy users are allowed to go out and are discovered by the six loose immortals, how can we explain it?"
Amina nodded silently and continued to think.
Zheng Shiduo asked: "What about directly sending out mechanical bodies? Put a layer of wooden structure skin on the mechanical bodies and disguise them as the mechanical puppets Wang Ge made?"
Mudan raised her hand to support her forehead: "Do you think these six loose immortals are fools? Or are you saying that you don't think they will open it and take a look? Once the integrated circuits and various chips inside are exposed, they will immediately recognize that these are things that have nothing to do with the cultivation system."
Wang Jixuan also said: "I will soon go to meet them and show that I want to rely on them to reduce their suspicion of me. They are actually very wary of me now."
Gao Huating raised her hand weakly: "Then, is it possible for us to do some tricks?"
"Oh?" Wang Jixuan smiled, "Tell me about it."
"It's just, I just came up with a relatively bold idea."
Gao Huating said quickly, counting her fingers:
"What we want to do now is to plunder resources and mine.
"But in fact, no matter what cover we do, a large mine will be easily depleted in a short period of time, leaving loopholes.
"This pit is difficult to fill."
"And then?" Mudan's eyes lit up. She had already predicted what Gao Huating was going to say.
Sure enough, what Gao Huating said was exactly the same as what Mudan thought.
"We can create an enemy out of thin air."
Gao Huating said with a beaming face:
"For example, we can make a show of force and create some kind of beetle that can devour precious ores.
"In fact, we directly use mechanical bodies to mine.
"Or, we can simply design a mechanical species similar to beetles or little demons, and use them to mine and secretly move them back. If they are discovered, they will be eliminated as demons, or they will simply self-destruct."
Wang Jixuan hesitated.
"Are you looking for... Da da da da!"
Mudan had already projected a photo on the big screen that everyone was very familiar with.
Blade Beast.
Gao Huating blinked: "Oh, yes, Blade Beast. One of the purposes of Blade Beast's design is to mine and plunder resources, and then spread fear to consolidate the spirit practitioners' rule over that star field... which is similar to our goal."
Wang Jixuan shook his head: "Directly using Blade Beasts may attract the attention of the Heavenly Dao."
"We can do other things, such as gold-eating beetles."
Mudan smiled:
"Mechanical body, artificial intelligence as the soul, spiritual energy circuit is responsible for power supply, and then add some demonic energy around it. We can indeed create a mining monster beast group.
"We can try to make it as secret as possible."
"Then, let's try it."
Wang Jixuan nodded in agreement.
The rest only needs to be handled by Mudan.
"Let's put the first problem aside first," Daoist Wang tapped his fingers on the table, "The second problem is these six loose immortals."
Zheng Shiduo chuckled twice: "Why don't we use a beauty trap on them? I'll be the beauty!"
"Save it!" Red Snake kicked him.
Zheng Shiduo flew out dozens of meters with his chair, carried the chair and ran back dejectedly, still smiling.
Amina said: "In fact, having a good relationship with them is also conducive to our future development."
"We can't let them know that we are plundering the resources of this world."
Wang Jixuan tapped the table with his left hand fingers in turn:
"They will be in this world for a hundred years.
"And they came from the Immortal World, taking the Immortal Spirit Path controlled by Tianluo.
"It's really not easy to deceive them.
"We can only try to approach them."
Amina asked: "Can your puppets still be used?"
"I saved some," Wang Jixuan sighed, "The main thing is that there is not much soul power that can be directly replenished to the different souls. The different souls can only recover slowly. I can't do things that kill innocent people indiscriminately."
Amina said seriously: "I can be your black glove. If it is for development and revenge on those immortals, I don't mind doing some dirty work."
"No need."
Wang Jixuan said sternly:
"We are developing, but the premise is not to harm the innocent.
"This has nothing to do with indecision or timidity, but it is the bottom line that we must adhere to.
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"I will not offend others unless they offend me; if anyone offends me, I will retaliate. This principle cannot be shaken."
Everyone smiled.
Wang Jixuan sighed softly, closed his eyes and concentrated, looking at the position in his arms where the Stone of the Past should have been.
The Stone of the Past cannot reach this time and space.
He also has no way to actively contact Senior White Bone now.
Wang Jixuan actually has another worry.
Does mining too much or changing the terrain of this Minor World too much count as having too much impact on the current time and space?
Wang Jixuan knew that the Heavenly Dao previously focused on the degree of 'changing the terrain' and 'affecting the environment' when coordinating the impact on the world, and the proportion of 'living beings' was not too large.
'Never mind, if you want to develop, you must mine. Where does the basic material come from if you don't mine?'
Wang Jixuan slapped the table and stood up.
"Meeting adjourned. We will discuss it here today. If you have any ideas, tell me in time. I will go to find that fat immortal tomorrow, mainly to find out the truth. If we can befriend the other party, that would be great."
Everyone nodded at the same time.
Amina asked, "Do you need my help? I'm your junior sister."
"No need, I'll just say you're healing in the secret lands of Southern Border," Wang Jixuan said. "Peony, help me prepare a script, the kind that moves people."
"Understood!"
......
It was night, and Daoist Wang strolled around the base with his hands behind his back.
The passageways were empty, and occasionally one could see patrolling mechanical squads marching with large strides, carrying laser guns, meticulously fulfilling their assigned tasks.
Wang Jixuan felt inexplicably depressed.
This was due to the great pressure.
Hiding within the passage of time was his last resort, and he had nowhere else to retreat.
Peony had said that their kind of time-traveling could easily create a butterfly effect, causing indescribable influences on the 'present world' they came from.
And once this influence affected the entire space-time system, it could potentially trap them in the shearing forces of time and karma.
Without being a transcendent individual, one could not escape from it.
'Alas, the Immortal Realm.'
Before Wang Jixuan's eyes were the incomplete scenes of those great powers fighting fiercely.
He also wanted to become such an existence.
He also wanted to stand on the high mountain peak with his back to all living beings.
He also wanted to...
Forget it, empty thoughts are useless, he still had to walk forward step by step.
In the past few days, Wang Jixuan had even been thinking, whether he was now considered a pawn held by Senior White Bone, used to take revenge on the Immortal Realm's enemies... and so on.
But after thinking it over, Senior White Bone had indeed never actively interfered with anything he did.
It was he who took the initiative to ask about the road ahead;
It was he who took the initiative to invite that leaf in order to deal with Fairy Linglong's attack.
It was also he who spent a great deal of effort to open the Stone of the Past, going in to disturb the other party's quiet cultivation; the other party had never given any hints.
'Alas, strength.'
Daoist Wang looked inward at himself.
As long as he stepped into the Grand Ascension Realm, reaching the perfection of the Grand Ascension Realm would only be a matter of time.
What he could do next was nothing more than to make his mana more profound, his Dao Body more complete, and the degree of his integration with the Great Dao higher.
He was 98% sure of surviving the Heavenly Tribulation.
— Saying 90% instead of 100% was to avoid making absolute statements.
But he absolutely could not undergo the tribulation in this current timeline; being targeted by the Heavenly Dao would likely expose him.
By the way, Wang Jixuan was now starting to think about what exactly the Dark Church's Heavenly Dao and the Tianluo Heavenly Dao were...
Wang Jixuan always felt that these two consciousness entities were somewhat different from the true Heavenly Dao.
"What are you worrying about?"
A crisp and gentle voice like that of an oriole came from the side.
Wang Jixuan looked up and happened to see a graceful figure in the passage above.
Amina, who had just taken a bath, was wearing a simple tube top dress, wiping her wet long hair, and came out of her room, standing by the passage railing, looking down at him.
Wang Jixuan shrugged: "It's just those things, the Heavenly Dao, time and space, development, these things are making my head spin."
"Wait for me."
Amina turned around and went back into the room. In just a few minutes, she dried her dark blue hair, simply tied it up, changed into a plain white fishtail dress, and, wearing a pair of thick-soled sandals, landed beside Wang Jixuan.
"I'll accompany you."
"Thank you, Junior Sister Qingyue."
Wang Jixuan smiled, narrowing his eyes, and led her out of the base.
The cliff overlooked the sea, and there was a viewing platform here where one could see the blue sea and blue sky, so the environment was quite good.
The two of them had become more and more familiar, and now they could chat casually about anything, such as the subsequent modifications to the core circuit and whether she could embark on another path of cultivation.
The figures of the two gradually walked away.
Inside the base's control room, Peony tilted her head, staring at the image on the projection screen, slightly lost in thought.
Gao Huating, who was drawing and researching the 'Demon Mining Vehicle' next to her, looked up and muttered softly, "Teacher's relationship progress with Second Mistress is quite smooth."
"Alas," Peony said faintly, "Even if I put on the best simulation skin, the boss won't treat me like a real woman."
"A bed-warming maid should have the awareness of a bed-warming maid."
Gao Huating said with a grin:
"Look at me, don't I have any related troubles?"
Peony rolled her eyes playfully: "Draw your pictures, you little girl who doesn't even dare to face her own heart!"
As soon as her voice fell, the screen next to her suddenly flickered with light.
The two looked over at the same time, highly nervous, and the projection screen showed that a white crane had crossed the sentry posts set up on the Southern Border, spreading its wings and flying with specks of immortal light.
"Wow, it looks like their date won't happen."
Peony said happily.