Longzang

Chapter 802 War preparations
Cui Yu, who was standing next to him, asked, "What's wrong with you? You suddenly started to think."

Wei Yuan's divine sense shifted, and he realized that he had been chatting with Immortal Lord Yan Shi for quite some time, while only a single breath had passed on this side. He was immediately alarmed; the methods of immortals were indeed unpredictable. No matter how much he had accomplished in Qingming, no matter how strong his military power, if he couldn't ascend to immortality, it would all ultimately be a dream.

Wei Yuan then said, "The Palace Master just gave me some instructions, and I need to make some preparations. We'll discuss the military matters later. Oh, by the way, don't let military affairs interfere with your cultivation. If you need any pills, go find Uncle Xu to refine them yourself. Uncle Chuhe has the medicinal herbs; they'll all be on my tab."

Cui Yu casually agreed, but his mind was elsewhere. He saw Wei Yuan out of the main hall and then turned around to gather the generals to continue their busy military affairs.

Now, besides 500,000 heavily armored elite troops, Qingming also has 300,000 regular infantrymen in breastplates, totaling 800,000. There are also 2 million reserves guaranteed a certain amount of training time each year, resulting in a mountain of daily tasks. Cui Yu, being the kind of person who can't let things go, can only do his best to handle as much as possible himself.

Wei Yuan returned to the Immortal City, sat down in the quiet room, and carefully examined the Daoist techniques bestowed by Immortal Lord Yan Shi.

This method is called the Xuanhuang Bell. It can gather the power of a world and transform it into the Xuanhuang Ancient Bell. It can vibrate the life-bound spiritual fire of all sentient beings. In the hands of an immortal, a single bell ring can cause all sentient beings in the world to faint.

The Xuanhuang Bell is said to be a Taoist technique, but in reality, it is a combination of array formations and Taoist arts. The original version of the immortal arts required setting up 361 arrays in the small world, each with a different function. When they were combined, a qualitative change would occur, and the power would increase dramatically, completely shaking the entire world of the golden small world.

As the saying goes, when an immortal snaps his fingers, the world returns to silence.

During this time, Wei Yuan crammed on knowledge about immortals and finally understood why immortal small worlds were marked with colors such as gold, silver, blue, and green. Originally, thousands of years ago, the classification of immortal small worlds was quite varied, each with its own standards, and the names were all incredibly exaggerated. Chaos was everywhere and primordial chaos filled the sky. Just by listening to the names, it was impossible to distinguish which was high-level and which was low-level.

Later, the founder of Taichu Palace appeared out of nowhere. During his first battle with an immortal, he chose the most powerful and longest-named minor worlds and slew them one after another. However, he found that each one was weaker than the last, all being low-level minor worlds. At that time, the founder's cultivation was not high, and he could not endure a prolonged battle. He used up his killing moves in the low-level minor worlds, which allowed the immortal to escape by cutting off his tail.

After suffering such a great loss, the patriarch of Taichu Palace created the Twin Eyes of Illusion, which allowed him to directly observe the essential level of a small world and mark it with different colors, making it clear at a glance, simple and straightforward.

After that, the Eyes of Truth-Breaking were incorporated into the basic techniques of the Tai Chu Palace, and basically everyone who cultivated the Imperial Realm would have the Eyes of Truth-Breaking by default.

Because the Eyes of Truth-Discerning Power were so useful and easy to learn, other races secretly learned them, and they quickly became widespread. As a result, in the eyes of immortals, all small worlds now have their own colors, so what they are named doesn't matter anymore; even if they were, no one would look at them. Some immortals who disliked the hassle simply used numbers as codes: one, two, three, four, five, and so on.

The golden world is a small world in which the heavens and earth can support a cultivator at the peak of the Imperial Realm, and there is likely more than one cultivator at the peak of the Imperial Realm.

The level of a celestial minor world usually ends here. If one can advance further, it will become the Seven-Colored Celestial Realm, where the celestial being resides. At that time, this world will break free from the celestial's control and become its own realm.

In the eyes of the immortals, this was treason and establishing one's own sect, and it had to be eradicated no matter the cost.

After being modified by time, the Xuanhuang Bell was greatly simplified and now consists of nine small formations, each corresponding to the Five Elements and Four Symbols. Each formation draws different world power, which converges and merges at Wei Yuan's location, transforming into a Xuanhuang Ancient Bell.

This technique draws power from the mental world, and only the ruler of a realm can use it, making it a true late-stage Imperial Realm Dao technique. The power of the Xuanhuang Bell depends entirely on how well it develops within the mental world; casting the spell itself is not difficult. Wei Yuan understood the entire formation in just one day and replicated it amidst the everyday life of mortals.

Casting the Xuanhuang Bell requires simultaneously controlling nine types of Dao power, and also requires the assistance of nine additional divine senses, for a total of eighteen divine senses operating at the same time, which is equivalent to handling eighteen tasks simultaneously.

This was far from Wei Yuan's true strength, so Wei Yuan handed over both the Xuanhuang Bell Imperial View version and the original version to the girl Yin Yang for optimization, striving to unleash its maximum potential.

After assigning the tasks, Wei Yuan was still a little worried and specifically instructed that there shouldn't be too many formations, a maximum of 256. Wei Yuan was currently managing 512 tasks simultaneously, which was still somewhat strenuous.

One strike of the Xuanhuang Bell is far from enough.

Resisting the attack of a full-fledged Yu Jing cultivator plus a group of Yu Jing cultivators, even for just the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, is no easy task. A Yu Jing cultivator's attack is devastating, often deciding life and death in an instant. Being able to withstand the attack for even the time it takes for an incense stick to burn is essentially enough to hold out for a day, or even several days.

Wei Yuan didn't dare to be careless. Losing the battle himself was a small matter, but if he implicated True Lord Yan Shi, and something happened to this most powerful figure, the world would collapse.

Wei Yuan descended upon the central city, this time landing in the western part. The west is associated with the element of metal, representing war and conflict, so many research institutes related to warfare and military affairs have gradually moved here, reportedly finding inspiration flowing freely during their research. More than a year has passed since Wei Yuan returned after absorbing the fragments of the world. Much of the knowledge he gained from the outer world has been gradually absorbed and transformed, resulting in a dramatic change in the appearance of the central city. While still predominantly in the style of a celestial mountain, many tall buildings blending the styles of both worlds have also appeared.

Wei Yuan was heading to the Creation of Heaven and Earth Research Institute, the oldest and largest comprehensive research institute in the mortal world. Several other research institutes from the same period had declined in the competition, leaving only the War Research Institute for the Equality of All Beings thriving.

While most of the old research institutes have declined, new ones are constantly emerging.

Wei Yuan looked to the side and saw a magnificent building standing there, its entire surface covered in glass, reflecting the sunlight. A curved surface spiraled upwards along the building, converging at the top. Inside was a grand steel structure, self-contained, with an extremely avant-garde design, even somewhat unorthodox by the standards of this world.

That's the Skynet Research Institute, which has only been established in the last two years.

When Wei Yuan first entered the fragments of the outer world, he captured several black birds. The girl Yin Yang analyzed the data architecture from these birds, discovering one that was more advanced than anything in their own world. A group of people became interested in this and began to study it in depth; this was the prototype of the SkyNet Research Institute.

After that, these people continuously absorbed the various knowledge that Wei Yuan had put into the human world, mainly the various works of Tinghai and Yanshi Immortal Lord. In addition, Wei Yuan continued to capture black birds and collected knowledge from all over the world. Gradually, they integrated the knowledge of the two worlds, established a complete system, and began to rush on the road of autonomy.

The underlying architecture of all the systems recently launched by Wei Yuan is the work of the SkyNet Research Institute.

However, the architectural style of the Skynet Research Institute was completely out of place with the surrounding human world, and Wei Yuan found it somewhat jarring, sensing a strange and inexplicable killing intent emanating from it. But after repeatedly examining the inside and outside of the research institute, Wei Yuan found that every living person there was perfectly normal.

Wei Yuan paused only briefly before entering the Creation of Heaven and Earth Research Institute. The institute was now a vast complex, with buildings connected end to end in a tight ring. Wei Yuan went directly to the Genetic Engineering Research Branch. Upon entering, he saw a group of people making a ruckus.

“Our office space is too small; we need to add another building.”

"Allocate rooms! Allocate rooms!"

"Why do we only have three elders in the Academic Council, while there are seven in the Agricultural Sciences Council?!"

"Exactly! What era are we living in? Without our genetic engineering, what future does agronomy have?"

"Clinging to outdated ideas! Being stuck in the past! Being inflexible and unproductive! Holding a position without doing any work..."

In the center of the crowd stood an elderly man in a formal suit, sweat beading on his forehead. He was raising his hands, trying his best to explain and quell the objections, but the group of young people around him refused to listen and continued to argue.

The group stopped making noise when Wei Yuan arrived. Wei Yuan then went into the Gene Research Institute to review recent achievements, especially the virus research project he had assigned.

Over the past year, most of the genetic knowledge that Wei Yuan had memorized had been absorbed and transformed, but there had been no progress in deciphering that mysterious genetic fragment.

Based on Wei Yuan's work experience at Umbrella Corporation, the research institute has developed several biological microparticle gene weapons using the local virus as a carrier. However, no matter how much research is conducted, these weapons are still somewhat lacking, and none are as powerful as a single puff of poisonous smoke from Sun Yu's Dharma Image.

The researchers racked their brains and finally found a reason: human genes are too weak, and weapons lack a powerful basic genetic structure. Meanwhile, the celestial plants are of too high a status; analyzing their genes is far beyond the current capabilities of mortals, and attempting to decipher them would invite divine retribution.

After listening to their requests, Wei Yuan, who also had a background in genetic engineering, pondered for a moment, and in a flash, he was already at sea.

He gave a summons, and the Shadow Dragon immediately flew out of the clouds, landed in front of Wei Yuan, wagged its tail, and respectfully asked, "What are your orders, Realm Lord?"

Wei Yuan looked it up and down and asked, "Can you lay an egg?"

(End of this chapter)