Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 289 Luo Qing Saves Me (3k)

Luo Ji's performance stunned Shi Qiang, the officers, and all the soldiers who were on high alert around them.

They watched as the Wallfacer, who had just been completely drunk and practically carried up by Shi Qiang, now wielded a piece of iron and clumsily swung it, mimicking the actions of another Wallfacer.

Everyone has witnessed Luo Qing's abilities, so they naturally know what kind of methods Luo Ji used just now.

Sword energy manifests, a technique of immortal cultivation!
Luo Ji was clearly not yet used to being a cultivator, and he couldn't even control his 'aura'. The spiritual pressure of the Foundation Establishment cultivator washed over the surrounding area like a tide, making all the Innate level soldiers feel a heavy pressure.

He knew absolutely nothing about magic, his swordsmanship was practically nonexistent, he didn't know how to circulate spiritual energy, and he possessed no magical artifacts or supernatural powers. Luo Ji could only imitate Luo Qing's sword-wielding style, channeling his own spiritual energy through the iron plate in his hand.

At this moment, Luo Ji had no idea that he would become the most accomplished Foundation Establishment cultivator in history.

"No, Brother Luo, you son of a bitch..." Shi Qiang's eyes widened.

"So the Wallfacer status only works if it's given to someone surnamed Luo?" the officer muttered.

"My great-grandmother was a young Luo, can I also change my surname to Luo?" A modern soldier stared wide-eyed.

"A second cultivator has appeared. Dr. Luo Ji, how strong are you?"

A true Foundation Establishment stage cultivator can destroy mountains (limited to small hills) and fill seas (Erhai Lake is also a sea), but how did Luo Ji know that?
Therefore, Luo Ji's answer can only be...

"I do not know."

Luo Ji felt the spiritual energy flowing within his body and was very puzzled: "My power only comes from the pendant that Luo Qing gave me. It seems that I absorbed all of it during my hibernation... If we follow the realm classification in Luo Qing's movie, the energy of that small fragment should at most support me to enter the first stage of Qi Refining, and my strength should be equivalent to the Innate Realm at most... But I slept for two hundred years, how did I reach the Foundation Establishment stage?"

Although he didn't understand the distinction between Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment, Luo Ji's intuition told him that he was indeed in the true Foundation Establishment stage.

Moreover, he possesses at least the strength of the mid-Foundation Establishment stage!

Luo Ji wanted to touch the pendant made of the fragment of the top-grade spirit stone, but it had already turned to ashes and completely disappeared.

Seeing this, the officer opened his mouth, but ultimately said nothing.

At this moment, the ordinary piece of iron in Luo Ji's hand hummed slightly, as if it had been given life. A faint blue light, visible to the naked eye, flowed around the edge of the iron piece, which seemed somewhat different from Luo Ji's cyan spiritual power. (Note: The raw material of the iron piece was scrap steel from a construction site.)
The cultivation culture is very popular in the world today. Although people have never seen cultivators other than Luo Qing, a complete concept of cultivation has already been developed. Concepts such as spiritual roots, supernatural powers, spells, formations, talismans, pills, weapon cultivation, spiritual cultivation, and evil cultivation have long existed.

Aside from not being able to play out a true cultivation story, people on Earth have long since been able to cosplay the real cultivation world. Young people's favorite fantasy is hoping for a "spiritual energy revival" that is impossible to happen, and similar movies about spiritual energy revival are everywhere. Of course, influenced by Luo Qing, most of these cultivation culture enthusiasts are also fans of sword cultivation, and Luo Ji is no exception.

Luo Ji's understanding of cultivation principles told him that he likely possessed a 'water' attribute spiritual root. In physical terms, he was the legendary... hydroxyl-root cultivator!

"Stop gloating. Can you even take down all this furniture?" Shi Qiang pointed to the horizon, where a vast expanse of darkness stretched out. All sorts of furniture, appliances, and flying vehicles were already hurtling towards them. The nearby garrison had begun deploying anti-missile devices and close-in weapon systems to intercept them, but it was clear that more than ten lines of firepower were not enough to stop the "dark cloud."

Luo Ji's gaze followed the direction Shi Qiang pointed and fell upon the surging torrent of steel in the distance.

Are civilian intelligent machines trying to challenge Foundation Establishment stage cultivators?

interesting.

In the sky and on the ground, the intelligent units controlled by the [KILLER virus] swarmed like a disturbed horde of wasps, densely packed and blotting out the sun. Civilian flying cars, cargo drones, giant advertising airships, robot mannequins in shopping malls, and even construction machinery swarming in from nearby construction sites... anything with legs, wheels, or rotors—as long as it could move, they all had only one target: Luo Ji.

If the portable toilet catches Luo Ji, it will stuff him into the toilet and drown him.

If the drone catches Luo Ji, it will strangle him with its rotor blades.

If a civilian truck grabs Luo Ji, it will run him over hard and kill him.

Fortunately, surface cities are far less powered than underground cities, and only a few devices can fly at high altitudes. Most of the threats come from the ground and low altitudes. In other words, as long as Luo Ji can fly to an altitude of more than 1000 meters, he can avoid the vast majority of threats.

“Great History,” Luo Ji said in a deep voice, “I’m not sure how strong I am, but I shouldn’t be stronger than Luo Qing demonstrated in that military exercise two hundred years ago. I might accidentally injure you. Protect yourselves and lead them to a safe distance. This is the Wallfacer’s order.”

Shi Qiang wanted to refuse, but sensing Luo Ji's uncontrollable Foundation Establishment stage spiritual pressure, he knew that Brother Luo might not be as adept at using his cultivation abilities as Luo Qing, and could easily injure his own people.

He stomped his foot and roared at the still-stunned troops, "What the hell are you looking at! Execute orders! All units, retreat five kilometers! Now!"

In principle, Wallfacers cannot directly command the military; this requires approval from the local government.

The piercing alarm sounded again, and the officers kept repeating the order to retreat. Armored vehicles, electromagnetic gun positions, magnetic storm coil defense towers, convergent prism defense towers, close-in weapon systems, and the reinforcements that had just arrived retreated swiftly and orderly, like a receding tide.

Shi Qiang didn't want to leave, but two soldiers dragged him backward. He stared at Luo Ji's isolated figure and shouted, "Watch your step! Don't kill yourself!"

Luo Ji gave an OK sign.

What exactly is the strength of someone in the Foundation Establishment stage? Luo Ji didn't know. Looking at the various high-speed flying cars that were already close at hand, Luo Ji imitated Luo Qing and tried his best to spread his mind, letting the range called spiritual consciousness spread. It quickly spread to a radius of fifty kilometers before reaching its limit.

50 kilometers—is that the limit of spiritual expansion for a Foundation Establishment cultivator?
Within that spiritual perception, the world consisted only of the ever-approaching crimson wave, composed of the friction of millions of metals, the roar of engines, and the electronic signals of intelligent units. A military drone flew over, and the projection of MOSS fell from the drone, forming the figure of the girl.

"Small moss?" Luo Ji asked.

The little moss said to Luo Ji:
[Dr. Luo Ji, the Digital Republic and the Earth United Government are expected to quell the virus unrest in four hours. Military forces from various countries are being mobilized. Currently, the source of the activated virus has been arrested; he was a member of the Trisolaran organization from 200 years ago, and his aim was to kill you.]

[The Chinese Aerospace Force's "Wide-Range Silence" space carrier has arrived here. You can board the ship and leave, escorted by the military, to the suborbital elevator in Shijiazhuang, or you can choose to stay here and hold out until the suppression is complete.]
Luo Ji's reply to Little Moss was: "This is the suburbs of the capital. These out-of-control devices are all coming for me. My change of location will inevitably cause a riot among the intelligent devices along the route. I'll stay here and wait for you and the other digital life forms to regain control. That way, the losses will be minimal."

[You're a Wallfacer, so we'll listen to you. No problem.]
As MOSS's projection disappeared, she began to focus on mobilizing global computing power to carry out an algorithmic attack on the virus. As for Luo Ji's safety, she was not worried.

Luo Qing's Wallfacer compound is only 120 kilometers away from here. If Luo Ji really messes things up, that invincible positive infinite entity will definitely take action.

After MOSS left, Luo Ji flicked his wrist, and the ordinary piece of iron flew out of his hand. He felt that he should shout a slogan like "Sword, come!" but in the end, he kept his mouth shut because of shame.

The iron plate hovered less than a meter in front of Luo Ji, emitting a faint sword sound. The pale blue light surged continuously, enveloping and reshaping it. In the blink of an eye, an iron sword about three feet long, made entirely of iron molecules wrapped in spiritual power, with blue light flowing across its blade, took shape!

Level: Low-tier magic sword.

Sword Name: High Chromium Iron Alloy Sword Produced by Beijing Jinrui Construction Co., Ltd.

This sword points straight to the sky, its blue light soaring upwards!
Is this the legendary "grab it in one go and refine it instantly"?
Luo Ji naturally didn't know the so-called "refining" method, but his spiritual power automatically followed his subconscious, like an invisible hand refining the iron sheet into the shape he wanted most. He held the sword hilt barehanded, feeling comfortable and at the right moment.

"Spiritual power is so useful? I can do whatever I want?" Luo Ji asked in surprise and doubt.

"I want to fly." The clever Luo Ji quickly figured out the most efficient way to use spiritual power.

An invisible shockwave exploded outwards from him, cracking the ground inch by inch. Debris and dust were violently swept outwards. Luo Ji shot into the sky at Mach 10, like a hypersonic missile, and charged into the enemy lines.

Luo Ji gripped the blue spirit sword and swung it fiercely.

A sharp blue sword aura, comparable to a full-force attack from a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, tore through the air, cleaved the light, and traversed the sky!

The first to be hit was the giant advertising airship. Its massive body was as fragile as butter under a hot knife in front of the blue sword energy, and it made a piercing tearing sound.

The airship was split in two, the cut as smooth as a mirror. The hydrogen inside was instantly ignited by the sword energy, turning into two huge fireballs that crashed down. The shockwave from the explosion overturned dozens of engineering equipment that had just rushed towards it below.

The blue sword energy continued its relentless advance, like a blue wave, fiercely plunging into the boundless torrent of machinery!

boom!
Wherever the sword energy passes, everything is slain!

These reckless civilian devices deserve a heavy blow!
cut! cut! cut!
One after another, speeding cars crashed into each other, struck by an invisible giant hammer, instantly disintegrating and exploding into a rain of burning parts.

cut! cut! cut!
The dark cloud of drones was cleared away by the sword energy, leaving a vacuum channel where countless debris fell, trailing black smoke.

cut! cut! cut!
Those engineering mechs wielding enormous mechanical arms had their hard alloy shells as flimsy as paper, and their internal circuitry was shredded along with them.

cut! cut! cut!
Even the crane of a smart building in the distance, which was controlled by the virus and was trying to collapse and crash down on Luo Ji, was precisely cut off by the extended aftershock of the sword energy, crashing to the ground with a bang and stirring up a cloud of dust.

“They’ll have a good time cutting down civilian equipment.” Shi Qiang, standing on the ground, spat, his face full of disdain.

The soldiers glanced at the Wallfacer displaying his skills in the sky and curled their lips in disapproval.

Luo Ji unleashed ten consecutive sword strikes, and the ten streams of spiritual energy, following his will, transformed into ten waves of sword energy, cleaving a massive gaping hole filled with flames and thick smoke from the massive mechanical tidal wave that had just blotted out the sky.

Tens of thousands of intelligent units were reduced to scrap metal by this sword! The red tide dimmed in large swathes under the onslaught of the blue waves.

"There are many smart devices that pose no threat to him, such as those robot vacuums that roam around on the floor, as well as portable refrigerators and self-spinning washing machines... He just had his fun cutting things down, and now the United Government is sending this Wallfacer a bill for his losses. He better have a lot of pocket change."

The senior military officer next to Shi Qiang also said sourly.

"By the way, how did Luo Ji perform? How much of Luo Qing's skill did he possess?" a soldier asked, watching the spectacle.

"It looks like... it's almost as big as that naval exercise from two hundred years ago. We'll have to let MOSS analyze it to find out the specifics."

"Why do I feel like Dr. Luo Ji seems to be running out of steam?" The soldier's words immediately drew everyone's attention.

Shi Qiang slapped his thigh: "Damn it, Luo Ji has no idea how to fight, he's probably exhausted his spiritual energy!"

After exhausting his spiritual power during the Foundation Establishment stage, Luo Ji panicked and shouted as he faced the various civilian equipment that surrounded him.

"Luo Qing, save me!"

(End of this chapter)