A Scroll of Infinite Glory

Chapter 292 Three Hundred Years of Decadence, Things Have Changed

Current World Context:

In the year 2000, True Spirit Electricity technology began to be widely used among the people. Humans, who originated from this blue planet, relied on a civilization that had not experienced a major break in its development for thousands of years and ushered in an era of extreme prosperity.

Over the next two hundred years, they ventured beyond the planet, establishing ports on the moon, discovering large mineral deposits of immense practical value on Mars, and new cities rose up around the development zone.

All living beings on Earth, and the two major artificial ecosystems outside their home planet, are thriving, and the length and breadth of human life are extending in an orderly manner.

then……

Disaster struck.

In 2250 AD, the moon fell to the ground. In the same year, the Yellowstone volcano erupted, and disasters occurred frequently in various parts of the earth. Humanity did its best to fight against the disasters and survived for fifty-three years, avoiding the fate of the earth becoming a complete wasteland and struggling to survive to this day.

On this land, both new and desolate, some plot to restore glory, while others hesitate to seize power. Overlords, sages, and madmen with differing ambitions coexist here, though hostile.

Mission requirements:

First, explore and examine the history before the catastrophe to find the reason for the moon's shattering.

Second, after the catastrophe, settlements with a population of over ten million are considered large cities. Reincarnators are required to visit more than half of these large cities to search for traces of the spiritual disaster and influence its rise or fall.

Third, among the major powers existing in human civilization, choose a camp so that a dominant power can re-emerge among the regions such as Tiandu, the United Government, the Promised Land, and the Eight Leaves.

Mission duration: One year (calculated according to the mission world timeline).

Note that once it is detected that a reincarnated individual has condensed their own spiritual light, there will be no strict standards for ordinary tasks other than team battles, and there will be no penalty for failure.

Task rewards will be distributed based on the task completion level.

Note that the reincarnated individuals have previously been active in this world, and their basic identity information, local language and script have been transmitted to their consciousness.

Dear reincarnator, may you pass through joyful strife!

Mission begins!

………………

The white light dissipated.

Guan Luoyang appeared in the mission world, in the jungle. He let the mission information flow through his mind, but first he looked at the black bead that had almost hit his face.

"This ball, it's magnetohydrodynamic, isn't it..."

He glanced back at the hundreds of people behind him, then turned to the burly man in front of him and said, "What capital crime did this group of unarmed people, dragging the elderly and children along, commit to provoke such a strong urge to slaughter you?"

Arhat was trying to activate the captured magnetic fluid rosary, but the once ever-changing and all-pervasive magnetic fluid now seemed to have become a rigid iron bead, held in someone's hand without any reaction.

He was quite decisive, uttering a deep incantation. The remaining forty-seven magnetic fluid prayer beads simultaneously received the command, detached from his body, and suddenly accelerated in mid-air.

As the rosary beads accelerated, they stretched and transformed into forty-seven thin black lines, each over three meters long.

When they approached Guan Luoyang from the front and came within ten meters, the forty-seven thin lines suddenly changed direction and curved out.

The air was cut into messy white streaks, and the elongated magnetic fluid either lay flat on the ground or rose upwards, piercing Guan Luoyang from all directions at various tricky angles.

After True Spirit Energy technology became extremely widespread, due to the public's communication habits, the four characters "True Spirit Energy" have been shortened to the short term "Spirit Energy".

This power, originating from the mind and spirit, is regarded as a panacea, capable of both offense and defense, accelerating power, and is exceptionally comprehensive.

However, in reality, psionic energy has extremely obvious advantages and disadvantages in the eyes of truly skilled users.

The advantages are too numerous to list, but the disadvantage is that psionic energy is too easily influenced by external magnetic fields.

In the eyes of this Arhat with a large nose, wide mouth, and thick earlobes, Guan Luoyang was currently shrouded in a spiritual energy shield that was difficult for ordinary people to detect.

The magnetic fields of all things around him also clearly appeared in the Arhat's vision.

Trees and rocks have their own magnetic fields, and Zhang Yamin and Ban Yang also have their own magnetic fields. All these magnetic fields, large and small, will overlap with Guan Luoyang to varying degrees.

All forty-seven magnetohydrodynamic lines pierced through those obvious intersection points.

As long as these points are hit, Guan Luoyang's spiritual energy will create unusual waves. Guided by the fine magnetic fluid lines, his spiritual energy will rapidly flow outwards along the intersection of these magnetic fields.

At that moment, the stalemated magnetic fluid wires would suddenly burst into the psionic protective field, instantly piercing Guan Luoyang like a sieve.

This is one of the Hachiyoin's combat secrets: the Observation of the Magnetic Interaction Arhat Wisdom Sword Technique!

As soon as the black lines that shot straight at him dispersed, Guan Luoyang predicted where they would land, further realizing the ingenuity of this piercing method. He admired it slightly, but simply raised his hand casually.

He raised his right palm, palm down, and the rosary he had previously grasped was now suspended beneath his right palm, gently rotating. In an instant, the surrounding magnetic fields twisted in unison.

All forty-seven magnetic fluid threads broke free of their original tracks, like ribbons swept away by a giant vortex, spiraling together and converging beneath Guan Luoyang's right palm, wrapping around the original rosary bead.

Forty-eight magnetic fluids merged into one, transforming into a dense black sphere the size of a soccer ball, which hummed and spun incessantly.

Guan Luoyang flicked his hand forward, and the sphere shot out with a bang.

The burly Arhat's eyes changed drastically. He stomped his foot, and his entire body was propelled into the air by the power of spiritual energy, instantly breaking through the sound barrier and flying into the sky.

But the black sphere, which appeared to be parallel to the ground and shooting straight towards them, actually drew an incredibly smooth arc, changing direction and chasing after the figure of the Arhat.

"Om!"

With a flick of his golden staff, the Arhat sent out hollow metal tubes that nested inside each other, stretching the golden staff to over six meters in length.

At the end of the staff, along with the command of the mantra just now, a spiral alloy cone has been inserted into the pipe.

Inside the hollow staff, thousands of intricate spiral lines from beginning to end were activated by spiritual energy, illuminating with blue light, while the alloy cone at the end transformed into a blazing red light that shot out.

With a hiss!

The pursuing magnetic fluid black sphere was pierced by this flash of red light, shattering into pieces and scattering.

The red light pierced the ground, creating a small hole of unknown depth.

The Arhat was high in the sky, his six-meter-long Zen staff slightly tilted, pointing towards Guan Luoyang.

His pupils contracted due to tension, and the artificial glands installed in his nasal cavity immediately secreted hormones that stimulated the brain, allowing him to temporarily ignore the effects of panic and fear, achieve extraordinary focus, and even temporarily tap into more of the brain's spiritual potential.

"Hum!"

The six mantra commands correspond to six different types of warheads.

The "吽" shaped warhead contains compressed, solid explosive gas.

Once it hits its target or strikes the ground, the high-temperature cloud, exceeding 5,000 degrees Celsius, will cover an area of ​​over 100 square meters and continue burning for ten seconds.

Even members of the Five Hundred Arhats Force would only carry three of these types of warheads when on field missions. This is arguably the strongest attack capability that this Arhat can unleash without the support of signals within the territory.

But just as he poured all his spiritual energy into the staff, the internal coils still glowing with residual heat, and the projectile was about to be propelled out of the tube...

Guan Luoyang looked up and flicked a finger into the air!

A finger imbued with the power of the vacuum transformed into an invisible shockwave, far more imperceptible than ordinary spiritual energy, and suddenly arrived beside the Arhat.

He saw his golden Zen staff, made of aerospace alloy, cracking into eight pieces from the top, like a flower blooming, bursting open section by section.

When the shockwave reached the end of the staff, it easily cracked the Arhat's hand, destroyed the outer shell of the staff, and exposed several bullets inside.

Especially the "Hum" syllable bullet that was already activated.

A blue fireball of 5,000 degrees Celsius exploded high in the sky.

While the fireball was still burning in the air, a mangled body fell from the sky.

Several parts of his body were still burning, but as soon as he landed, he immediately turned and fled towards the primeval jungle.

The U-shaped device embedded in the soles of his feet creates a levitation effect. Once activated by spiritual energy, it immediately emits a water-like radiance, allowing him to propel himself forward even while standing on air, striding forward with incredible speed.

The flames swirling around the Arhat were extinguished by the oncoming airflow due to his rapid mid-air run, leaving only a few wisps of smoke trailing behind him.

Guan Luoyang raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised. Only then did he realize that the other party was not made of flesh and blood at all.

The bionic skin on the surface of the Arhat's body had been mostly destroyed by the explosion, and a blue gelatinous substance that was different from the texture of normal flesh could be vaguely seen inside.

The silvery-white bones, along with the golden wires that were densely packed on the surface of the bones and weaving through the blue mimicry muscles, revealed a dazzling psionic light from beneath the wounds on his skin when he made large movements to escape.

Although it appears to have nothing to do with human flesh and blood, its body temperature, the hydraulic pump that acts as a heart, and the presence of a brain magnetic field all resemble those of a human undergoing normal cultivation and enhancement.

With bionic technology reaching this level, even Guan Luoyang's spiritual perception was initially concealed.

It wasn't until this moment that Zhang Yamin and the others realized what was happening.

In the blink of an eye, the arrogant and seemingly invincible war lords who were about to annihilate them were now fleeing in disarray, their armor and weapons discarded.

Zhang Yamin couldn't recall what the battle entailed.

He only saw that after the Arhat escaped, the person who saved them suddenly leaped forward, as if hitting thin air and disappearing.

Immediately afterwards, the air above the Arhat's head in the distance suddenly lurched downwards, and a figure pounced down, grabbing the Arhat by the back of the neck.

Guan Luoyang captured the Arhat and poured a surge of vital energy into him, which permeated his entire body, sealing and suppressing him inside and out.

This physical suppression ensures that whether it is flesh and blood or machinery, as long as the force cannot exceed Guan Luoyang's vital energy, they cannot break free and will not even be able to move their eyelids.

However, after sensing it up close, Guan Luoyang also realized that there was one part of this Arhat's body that had not been modified: his brain.

He brought the Arhat back to the forest road, and Zhang Yamin and the others came over to thank him, half nervously and half gratefully.

Guan Luoyang exchanged a few words with them and learned that these people were originally residents of the five cities of Myanmar.

Not long ago, the five remaining cities in the Burmese mountains successively announced their surrender to the "Eight Leaves". These people could not accept the series of harsh policies promulgated by the "Eight Leaves" and wanted to cross the mountains to escape to the jurisdiction of the northern coalition government.

This Arhat belongs to the "Eight Leaves" Arhat unit, but it seems that he just happened to meet Zhang Yamin and others, and was not originally there to hunt them down.

"There must have been a battle over there before."

Zhang Yamin pointed out the direction from which they first saw the fireball.

Guan Luoyang crossed a small hill and observed the dilapidated forest.

In that charred battlefield, the trees were billowing smoke and would soon burst into flames. When Guan Luoyang arrived, he simply waved his sleeve, drawing away the heat and extinguishing the fire hazard.

There are several vehicle wrecks here, with sleek body shapes and a high-tech design, resembling the front of a maglev train, and the chassis doesn't even have wheels.

However, now these vehicles are all wrecked, and nearly fifty corpses are scattered around them.

Only two of the bodies were those of Arhats, draped in gold-embroidered red robes, their mutilated wounds revealing the structure of bionic machinery. The other corpses wore different blue uniforms, seemingly with minimal modifications, and were oozing bright red blood.

Guan Luoyang looked around and noticed a faint spiritual energy in one place. He quickly walked over, dropped the Arhat he had captured, and lifted the wreckage of a flying car to see the people buried underneath.

This was a gaunt middle-aged man with a large hole in his chest. His internal organs and other parts were practically dead, but his brain still had some vitality, and his consciousness had not completely dissipated.

A few strands of life-force fibers from Guan Luoyang's sleeves dangled, seeping into his body and weaving into new organs to fill wounds and revitalize his body. Then, a gentle surge of vital energy was transmitted to his brain for slow healing.

When Guan Luoyang pulled him up, half of his tattered work ID slipped out from inside the man's clothes.

The part of his work ID card that should have had his portrait printed on it, tied with a blue ribbon, had been burned off, but his job position and the unit he belonged to were still clearly written.

Guan Luoyang stared at the work ID for a while, his eyes darkening.

Xuan Jing, head of the Myanmar branch.

Work unit: Shenzhou Jieyi Society.

(End of this chapter)