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

Chapter 168: Insidious vs. Cunning
"Are blade beasts created by spiritual practitioners?"

"Sorry, I can't answer."

"Are psychics intentionally created by the spiritualist civilization using humans?"

"Sorry, I can't answer."

"You're kidding us, aren't you?"

"Sorry, I…uh."

When the shadowy old man saw the black air surrounding Wang Jixuan's sword finger, he quickly changed his words:

"I'm not kidding you, please calm down, mysterious practitioner!
“I must say that I am just a gatekeeper protecting the inheritance. The information I have is limited, and some of the information cannot be disclosed without the permission of the spiritual practitioner civilization because I am just a gatekeeper.

"This is a kind of...civilized encryption."

Wang Jixuan said leisurely: "Are you a gatekeeper or a spiritual practitioner? We need to verify it ourselves, not just rely on your empty words."

"How could a powerful spiritual practitioner like me be coerced by you using such dirty spiritual energy?"

The shadow's face became clearer, and the old man forced a bitter smile and continued:
"You can't understand me, just as I can't understand you.

“I am a false thinking entity born from the universal psychic formula, a bit like the mechanical entities created by those human civilizations over there.

"My job is to guard this stone slab... You can actually enter the stone slab and take a look. When your hand touches the stone slab, I can lead your soul into it, and then you will understand everything I say."

"I won't go," Wang Jixuan refused decisively, "I can let teammates I trust go in."

Zheng Shiduo stood up decisively.

He has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time!
As long as he can get in, he will be what Teacher Wang calls a 'trusted teammate'!

Well, it seems that this is not really important...but now, it's his turn to step up!
"I'm sorry, he can't."

The old man refused directly:

"He has become a spiritual slave of other inheritance slates, and has been marked with the imprint of other spiritual practitioners' inheritance. This breaks the rules and will also destroy the tacit understanding between spiritual practitioners.

"A spiritual slave is a spiritual slave. He can only serve, devote himself to, and dedicate himself to spiritual practitioners, but cannot accept the spiritual practitioner's inheritance.

"That's why I immediately closed the door after I found him."

"Spirit slave? Who?"

Zheng Shiduo pointed at his nose in astonishment: "Me?"

The old man smiled sarcastically and said:
"It seems that your human civilization has not shared this information. This is normal. This is human nature. The spiritual civilization is also an advanced civilization similar to human civilization. These are all things I have the authority to reveal."

Wang Jixuan snorted: "Don't keep us in suspense, and try not to use rhetoric."

The old man smiled bitterly: "It is really difficult to communicate with you. Why do you reject this inheritance?"

Wang Jixuan's face gradually turned cold: "Hmm?"

The old man changed the subject and continued:
"The following is all the information I can reveal.

“The six stone tablets correspond to the inheritance of six spiritual masters. These six inheritances are extremely important to you. After completing the entire inheritance ceremony, the six masters will be able to wake up and save your planet. Inheritance is an extremely complicated matter.

“So far, you are the only one who has activated the inheritance slate that I am guarding.

“There are six stone slabs, each with 120 small stone slabs. When all the small stone slabs are pieced together, the door to inheritance will be triggered by the right person.

“Before this, three inheritance slates had already been triggered, and I’m the fourth.

"Moreover, the inheritors of the three stone slabs have sensed my awakening at this moment, which may cause you some trouble."

Fu Jian suddenly said: "There was a riot in the Psychic City. They sent all the emergency forces and are rushing over here, but don't worry."

"That's what I meant."

The shadowy old man looked at Wang Jixuan with a smile:
“So, you must accept this inheritance now. You must even obtain the inheritance mark in the shortest possible time and embark on the path of becoming a spiritual practitioner. Only in this way can you offset the pressure brought by the first three owners of the inheritance mark.

"Don't hesitate. This is your chance to move towards a higher level of civilization. Don't you want to gain more powerful strength, mysterious practitioner?"

"Of course I want to gain power, but..."

Wang Jixuan shook his head:

“I don’t have to rely on charity from others.

"And in just this brief exchange, you told several lies."

"Lie?" The old man in the shadow was a little puzzled. "Since I can refuse to answer you, why should I lie?"

"Do you think I would waste my time trying to figure out what you're thinking?"

Taoist Wang's eyes became sharper as he stared at the shadowy old man:

"First, you are not some quasi-mechanical thinking entity based on the universal formula.

"You are life, a soul, a broken soul, the aura contained in you.

“Second, as long as the hand touches the stone slab, it should be more than just the soul that enters it.

“I sensed the fluctuating force of space.

“Obviously, getting your soul into the spire is one way, and another way would be to get your whole body into the spire.

“Third, what you just said about [completion of inheritance] and [awakening] are contradictory. Inheritance is to impart one’s own knowledge or abilities, but you mentioned awakening. There is a high probability that the six spiritual practitioners have fallen into some troublesome situations, right?
"You need some sacrifices? Or, a new body?"

The shadowy old man remained silent, his face expressionless.

Wang Jixuan snapped his fingers and said calmly: "I no longer expect you to tell the truth. You just want to trick me in and use the things inside against me. Now, I give you two choices..."

"No need."

The shadowy old man said indifferently:

"You're more difficult than I thought.

"However, of the three points you mentioned, I did not lie to you about one.

"You just wanted to get information from me, but you didn't think about making a contribution to me. I responded to you with lies as a punishment for your insincerity.

"I didn't do anything wrong."

The old man suddenly gained a sense of majesty.

Wang Jixuan nodded: "That means there is nothing to discuss?"

"I will put the inheritance slate into a silent period to prevent it from being polluted by your dirty, evil, and ominous psychic energy!"

The shadowy old man stared at Wang Jixuan:
“I’m very curious about you, which is why I took the initiative to communicate with you.

"In fact, you have missed a huge treasure, a treasure that can make you the master of the planet! You will become a sinner of this civilization and this planet!

"Since you have rejected my call, this planet can only wait for death. You are unable to fight against the blade beasts. You do not even know the true power of the blade beasts."

The shadowy old man sneered, and seemed to want to continue attacking, but his facial expression suddenly froze.

He turned his head sharply and looked at the spire projected on the stone wall behind him.

In the spire, a wisp of black air was flying up and down. It seemed to be... a dragon...

"What did you do! Damn it!"

He roared, and his body turned into a beam of light and crashed into the spire, and all the light on the stone slabs quickly faded.

Before Wang Jixuan could react, the stone wall suddenly disintegrated into rectangular blocks, falling freely to the ground.

Is this what is called a silent period?

There was no response to the injection of spiritual energy.

A black gas floated in the air, condensed into a half-meter-long dragon, and returned to Wang Jixuan's shoulder.

Taoist Wang sighed with some regret: "What a pity, I only saw a little bit."

Director Chen asked hurriedly: "What did you see?"

"It's very complicated," Wang Jixuan looked at Fu Jian, who immediately understood.

Fu Jian said, "We'll discuss this later. Immediately shuffle the order of these stone tablets and store them separately. The emergency forces from the City of Psychic Power will arrive at the D5 border in an hour and a half. We'll deal with them first."

A messenger's voice came from outside the warehouse: "Commander-in-Chief! The Six Elders of the Psychic City have sent a communication request!"

Director Chen wisely suppressed his curiosity.

"Let those six old bastards wait! Wang Zheng, follow me," Fu Jian instructed, "Loyal wingmen are responsible for collecting these things. Ordinary people with souls should not touch them." "Yes!"

……

In the SUV heading to the Archon's meeting room.

"What did you find?" Fu Jian asked.

"A lot of things."

Wang Jixuan leaned back in the passenger seat and rubbed his brows with his hand:

“That old thing should be the residual soul of a spiritual practitioner. There is a large space inside the spire. Each floor is very large. There are eleven to thirteen floors in total. I only browsed half of it.

“The core of the spire is on the top floor, where there is a sarcophagus lying across a lake. The lake is a strange formation.

“Inside the sarcophagus should be a spiritual practitioner, or the place where the residual soul is.

“I have seen similar sarcophagi in the Fire Melting Memory Fragments, but the patterns on the two are different.

"On the second floor from the top, there are two sets of walls that can be embedded with crystal cores, and there are some other upper walls. I have seen such walls in Ji Xiao's memory... the core objects of the psychic infusion ceremony.

"As for what's on the third and fourth floors, you may not be able to imagine it, Old Fu."

Fu Jian sneered: "You underestimate my psychological endurance."

"Crystal cores, densely packed with crystal cores! Each one is as big as a general-level blade beast crystal core. They are spread out layer by layer, more than ten layers up and down."

"That's it?"

"Isn't that shocking enough? What a huge treasure this is!"

Wang Jixuan rubbed his nose:

“When I saw this scene, I couldn’t help but be moved.

"But I am sure that he wanted to trick me into going to the spire and then kill me.

"Just below the two crystal core layers, I saw a group of skinny figures. They looked like mummies, and some of them had begun to wake up. This should be the residual soul of this spiritual practitioner preparing to kill us.

"Fortunately, I was careful and went to investigate secretly... Otherwise, when these mummies fully awaken, there might be a group of powerful psychics."

Fu Jian was silent, he was constantly thinking.

The off-road vehicle arrived at the lift and began to rise at a constant speed.

They were heading to the Archon's office on the first floor.

Wang Jixuan simply summarized in his heart:

[The scientific name of psychics is spirit slaves, which are slaves developed by spiritual practitioners using the infusion of psychic energy.

The spiritual practitioner's inheritance slate should have six sides. The D5 war zone has currently obtained one side. It is conservatively estimated that the City of Psychic Power has at least three sides. The biggest secret of the Six Elders is this thing. The City of Psychic Power is built on the inheritance of spiritual practitioners.

There may be three 'successors' chosen by spiritual practitioners, but these three inheritors have never appeared, and the six elders are just powerful spiritual slaves who were pushed out.

Awakened psychics like Huo Rong are themselves high-level spirit slaves.

After awakening, psychics possess powerful combat capabilities and can utilize 100% or even 120% of the psychic energy in their bodies.

Spiritual practitioners are a completely different kind of cultivation civilization from immortal practitioners. 】

but……

Wang Jixuan compared them carefully again.

Assuming that the 'mummies' in those spires all have the strength of Huo Rong, then a heritage slate will indeed have the capital to fight against a single pillar-level blade beast.

But from Wang Jixuan's perception, the psychic energy of these "mummies" varied, and not all of them were S-level psychics. Most of them were A-level, and they were no match for the pillar-level blade beasts...

Ah, so that’s why spiritualists built the psychic city?

It’s hard to say.

The Saber Beasts and the Spiritualists are mortal enemies;

After the blade beast discovered the suspected spiritual practitioner, it was determined to fight to the death.

Next, if D5 can withstand the attack of eight king-level blade beasts, the blade beasts may continue to increase the attack until he, the "suspected spiritual practitioner", is eliminated.

Things are starting to become clear.

The answer to where the blade beasts came from has gradually begun to emerge.

Wang Jixuan began to think about how he could escape the current pursuit of the Blade Beast...

For him, the best scenario is to let the blade beasts aim at the Psychic City and attack hard...

Fu Jian took the initiative to break the silence in the car: "This information cannot be disclosed to the public, otherwise it will cause panic. Spiritual practitioners and psychics cannot become saviors."

“I understand,” Wang Jixuan simply said the summary he had made in his mind.

Fu Jian nodded calmly and smiled bitterly, "They are even so arrogant that they never want to discuss these things with the frontline fighters who are actually fighting against the blade beasts."

"The spiritual practitioners just want to cultivate spiritual slaves. They may still be a slave society."

Wang Jixuan closed his eyes and rested:
“I’m not too sure about other spiritual practitioners, but this old man gives me the impression that he is just talking nonsense and has no credibility at all.

"Old Fu, we have to take the initiative to counterattack next."

Fu Jian asked with interest: "How to fight back?"

"Blade beasts and spiritualists are mortal enemies, and we should take advantage of this. Can the D5 war zone start a war on both sides?"

"Yes, but there will be a certain amount of pressure, especially on the Blade Beast side. There may be more King-level Blade Beast tribes joining the attack on us later."

"I'll try to help you."

Wang Jixuan said quickly:

"How about we take the initiative to sneak attack the S-class Psychic and King-class Blade Beast? I'm not very comfortable with passive defense all the time."

"A sneak attack? You mean, using your sword formation?"

"The sword formation is just a means."

Wang Jixuan smiled and said:
"The spiritual practitioner reminded me. Next, I will try to transform the Buddhist temple team and improve their strength. I will let them besiege the S-level psychic and directly attack the Six Elders' forces. Then I will kill Xing Dian and command the battle against the psychic.

“Leave the King-level Blade Beasts to Lingtong Shenhai and the others, and you take charge here.

"The blade beast part requires a large-scale battle, which I am not very good at, but I should be able to deal with the psychic part."

Fu Jian smiled and said, "Why do I suddenly feel a fighting spirit in you that I have never felt before?"

"Because I am a mysterious practitioner, representing a certain spiritual civilization!"

Wang Jixuan's eyes were full of brilliance:
“Maybe it’s because of the atmosphere of the fortress, I now have a strong sense of collective honor.

"The spiritualist civilization is indeed unique in some aspects, such as the inheritance slate they made, which is a portal that connects to a secret realm, or the subspace.

“If I beat them, maybe I can learn something from them and make up for my own shortcomings.

"This will most likely increase my chances of success against that powerful enemy in the future!"

Fu Jian frowned and asked, "Do you also have a powerful enemy? Like the spiritual practitioner and the blade beast?"

"Ah, no, this powerful enemy of mine has nothing to do with you."

Wang Jixuan pointed upwards:

"It calls for heaven, and it also calls for mortal life. I want to fight it again."

Fu Jian sneered: "You should fight with the Six Elders first... Don't speak later, put on your helmet and stand behind me. Your task is to observe the Six Elders. If my consciousness collapses in the future, you will be in charge of them."

Wang Jixuan: ...

You still want to collapse?
If I were to abandon the principles of a righteous cultivator and use extreme means to refine your soul into a blood-devil puppet and your mechanical body into a magic weapon, I can guarantee that you can live longer than the combined lifespan of the six elders!

squeak--

The SUV stopped and the office was in front.

Wang Jixuan took the black helmet held by the autonomous mechanical guard beside him, followed Fu Jian, and faced the six elders.

(End of this chapter)