In the world of martial arts, there is a vast fantasy world.

Chapter 68 A Rare Opportunity

Yes, in Shen Xing's mind, Qingshui City was a "newbie village".

This is also true; looking at the world, it is perhaps only slightly better than those small villages and mountain hamlets.

However, the other world is not a game after all. There are no level restrictions in each area, and even in the starting village, there may be a passing big boss. Without prior research, Shen Xing would not rashly go to other completely unfamiliar areas.

Therefore, he needs to investigate intelligence while maximizing the benefits of the beginner village.

Right now, the only interests in Qingshui City that can still tempt him are the martial arts concepts within the other forces.

Regardless of the quality, this all costs money!

In addition, resources for spiritual practice are also useful; having a certain number of people can also help with information gathering and resource collection.

"There are still a few hours left." Shen Xing glanced at the time.

His weapons will arrive in a few hours.

He returned to the training room, thought for a moment, drew his resonant alloy longsword, and began practicing Flash Blade.

Perhaps it was the slight sense of impending doom in his heart that made this martial arts conception, which was only of the first-level high quality but was very simple, so he cultivated it with exceptional ease.

Even the combination with "space" is the same.

The slash was not only incredibly fast, but also strangely unpredictable!

Even though the blade was still far away, it had already struck first. Coupled with the terrifying lethality of the Resonance Blade, let alone the Marrow Refining stage, Shen Xing was confident that he could kill even a Dirty Refining stage cultivator if caught off guard!

He practiced like this, slashing once in a row.

Until, the time came.

In the blink of an eye, he arrived at his dormitory.

Sure enough, the military weapons were delivered on time, escorted by a special armed robot, and delivered directly to the door, requiring the recipient's signature.

Shen Xing suppressed her excitement and anticipation and cooperated to complete all the procedures.

He couldn't wait to open the package until the robot left.

Besides the protective suit that covers vital areas and provides field protection, the most important thing is naturally the "sphere" in front of you, which is nearly one meter in diameter!

It is entirely white, and its surface is not smooth, but rather completely covered by palm-sized hexagonal white armor.

During combat, parts of the armor will automatically open, extending the gun barrel.

In addition, these white armors also have a certain optical stealth function. Their design purpose is mainly to deal with the ferocious beasts in some parts of the other world that lack detection methods, but they cannot prevent high-precision reconnaissance equipment.

But for Shen Xing, that was enough.

"Register for the highest level of access." Following the instructions, he directly obtained the highest level of access and "connected to the backup personal terminal to record the highest level of identity information."

"Highest level of access has been registered." A emotionless, mechanical voice came from the personal terminal. "Voice, brainwaves, pupils, microbial aura, and other identity information have all been scanned and recorded. Welcome to the POD-A124 fully automatic unmanned armed support device."

This fully automated armed device has very strict requirements regarding authorization.

The user has the highest level of privileges.

Otherwise, no martial artist would want to see the device they fight alongside suddenly lose control under certain circumstances.

Even if the Federation of Humanities is the one in control, it won't work!

It also lacks internet connectivity.

This is also to prevent remote electronic attacks.

To make electronic intrusions, the intruder or the device being intruded upon must be nearby!

This gives the martial artist some time to process the situation.

Either eliminate the nearby enemies, or take out the fully automated support equipment first.

Of course, Shen Xing doesn't need to worry about this much.

Just like the previous learning device, he only planned to take this thing to another world, and he would never bring it back.

Anyway, as long as the device isn't found elsewhere, no one can question him.

In the era of AI governance, only concrete evidence will take precedence over privacy.

"Self-check hardware, reset smart program." Shen Xing followed the procedure and performed a self-check and reset of the program and equipment. This was to prevent someone from leaving traces beforehand. Of course, this was just a security procedure, and the probability of this happening was extremely low.

Once all procedures are completed, immediately order hibernation.

Afterwards, I put on the newly bought protective suit, reached out and pressed my hand on it, and in an instant, I was in another world.

"Activate, enter optical cloaking mode, fly to high altitude, and begin ground reconnaissance."

"Command received." A faint light emanated from POD's outer armor, which quickly became transparent. Then, it silently left through the room door and arrived in the sky in the blink of an eye, unnoticed by anyone.

It and another drone electromagnetic machine gun flew on either side.

It has to be said that genuine military-grade equipment is truly different.

The same monitoring system, the previous drone, although it also had infrared detection, could only see a general area, and the coverage area was also very low.

This POD, even in the dead of night, can not only clearly see the appearance of everyone and the outline of everything, but also analyze the strength and equipment of each person, as well as simulate and lock on attacks. Moreover, as the altitude increases, the monitoring range almost covers the entire Clearwater City!

They could even see the core strongholds of the other forces clearly.

Even outside the city.

"Huh?" Shen Xing was taken aback.

Through the POD's surveillance footage, he could clearly see that a considerable number of monsters were hidden in the forest outside the city, and their numbers were still increasing.

More importantly, there were clearly some people mixed in with them!

But why didn't these monsters attack these people?

"Was it through communication that an agreement was reached, or do some of them have the means to control the monsters?" Shen Xing suddenly became interested.

In fact, Shen Xing didn't care much when he learned that there were bandits causing trouble nearby.

Unless it's innate, it's all just a collapse for him.

Even if there are highly skilled practitioners in the Dirty Training stage among them, it's the same.

But what he was seeing made him realize that he still knew very little about this world, or rather, about martial arts.

If it involves communicating with monsters and joining forces to besiege the city, it means that the monsters possess considerable intelligence and may even be capable of establishing civilizations.

It would be even more interesting if it involved controlling or commanding demonic beasts.

Shen Xing observed for a while longer. There were a total of 170 or 180 people gathered together. Each of them was quite strong, with the weakest seemingly above the Body Refining stage, and as many as 70 or 80 at the Bone Refining stage.

Two of them were even specially marked.

His strength has reached the level of a filthy cultivator!

This result is obtained by analyzing various bio-information data such as heart rate and blood flow rate, and its accuracy is very high.

"So these are the so-called Pang brothers." Shen Xing smiled slightly. No wonder they caused panic throughout the city. In terms of the number of strong members, this level of bandit group has surpassed the entire Qingshui City.

However, now that they are exposed to POD's line of sight, Shen Xing is confident that he can handle the situation remotely if it comes to a fight.

However, since we suspect the other party has the ability to control beasts, it's not appropriate to be so rude.

Shen Xing was extremely interested in this ability.

Even though he had been in this world for some time, he still felt that this world contained endless treasures. At this moment, he had only dug out a little bit of scraps from the iceberg, and he could not imagine how huge the iceberg was in the deep sea!

"Let's wait and see what happens first, then observe carefully before making a decision," Shen Xing said with anticipation.

After ordering POD to keep an eye on him, he turned back to continue practicing his swordsmanship.

This time, the chilling intent in his sword strikes was even stronger.

Shen Xing already had a premonition that this new knife might have a chance to draw blood!

He was completely immersed in his spiritual practice.

However, even as the sun rose and daylight appeared, the bandits and the monsters remained completely still.

But when Shen Xing walked out of the cultivation room and made his usual public appearance, he saw Pang Zhan running towards him.

"Young Master." His expression showed obvious tension. "Young Master, the Zhang family has sent a master of marrow cultivation to invite you to the Red Fragrance Pavilion to discuss how to deal with the Pang brothers and their gang of scoundrels."

"You invited me to something like this?" Shen Xing looked at the entrance of the Hungry Wolf Gang and sure enough, there was an old man with a natural expression standing there.

He was one of the most senior members of the Zhang family, a cultivator at the Marrow Refining stage.

"Young Master, not only you were invited, but also several Marrow Refining stage experts from the He family, the Gong family, and the Blood Beast Gang received invitations early this morning and are now heading to the Red Fragrance Pavilion together," Pang Zhan explained.

This is almost the strongest group of people in the entire Qingshui City right now.

Pang Zhan's tension stemmed from this.

He felt an indescribable sense of dread.

It seemed as if a storm was brewing.

But apart from their own mysterious young master, the Pang brothers are worthy of this lineup.

Those were two top-tier fighters in their training phase!

"Is everyone here?" Shen Xing looked at the old man at the door.

In fact, once you reach the marrow-refining stage, you can already accurately control your expression, including some micro-expressions. Software like "Detective Conan" may not be able to play a role in this.

However, this is contingent on being able to pay attention.

Clearly, the concept of "micro-expressions" is completely foreign to this place, let alone any awareness of them.

Therefore, Shen Xing easily discerned some things.

The old man's expression carried a hint of hostility, but even more so, schadenfreude.

"Then I'll go take a look too." He couldn't help but laugh. "This is a rare opportunity."

"Yes, sir, I'll go and prepare right away." Pang Zhan didn't know what his young master meant by "opportunity," but he was relieved to hear that Shen Xing was willing to go.

Then they cheered up.

In his view, as long as his young master was willing to take action, with his young master's abilities, blocking or even driving away the Pang brothers and their gang would be no problem.

And what he meant by "preparation" was, of course, the pomp and circumstance.

At the very least, we need to gather together the newly joined bone-training stage members and all the flesh-training stage members!

However, Shen Xing simply strode over.

(End of this chapter)