Chapter 69: Sounding the clarion call for counterattack
Because he crossed two small realms in one go, his strength surged too quickly.
In order to stabilize his cultivation, Xie Shen began a several-year retreat in a secret room.
During the retreat, Yang Si came to the secret room from time to time to accompany Xie Shen.
In addition, Xie Shen will also, as agreed, go out to teach the Dharma every three months.
As time goes by, the practice of spiritual practice in the space station becomes even more popular.
In order to break through to a higher realm as soon as possible, some people even spend their points to buy white mist for practice from Li Xiu.
In this way, time came to the end of 6146 in a blink of an eye.
This day.
As usual, the man in a suit came to the secret room of Xie Shen's retreat and told him the latest news about the space station.
"Not long ago, the space station sent another group of people to try to go to the tower prison."
"And it was also a combination of monks and reformers."
"But it may be because you are not here The whole army was wiped out in that operation, and no benefits were gained."
"Then there is the white mist." The man in the suit continued: "Li Xiu has applied the white mist to armaments. ”
“Like a D-type combat spaceship, and various weapons”
"Nearly half of these armaments have been replaced with white mist for energy supply."
"In this way, whether it is power, instantaneous explosive power or endurance, there has been a great improvement. "
The suit continued: "In addition, Li Xiu has also optimized the prosthetic limbs of the modified person."
The prosthetic limbs have also been upgraded?
Xie Shen heard this and asked curiously: "What aspects have been optimized specifically?"
The man in the suit thought for a while and said: "The black chip you brought back before should have left a deep impression on you, right?"
"The technology in that chip can make humans feel no pain."< br>
“Li Xiu has thoroughly understood the technique.”
“Well”, the man in the suit suddenly changed his words and said: “I should say he has understood half of it.”
“ Then he used the technology in the chip to upgrade the prosthetic limbs that transformed humans."
"Now all the modified people who are equipped with prosthetics will no longer have phantom pain."
"This optimization is a qualitative leap for the modified people." The man in the suit continued: "The original transformation If a person is exhausted, he can only replace one arm and one leg with a prosthetic limb, otherwise the pain will be unbearable due to phantom pain.”
“But it’s different now.”
"Almost all modified people can replace their hands and feet, which greatly enhances their combat effectiveness."
Good guy.
It has to be said that in terms of scientific research, Li Xiu is indeed unique compared to others.
Thinking of this, Xie Shen couldn't help but sigh: "Li Xiu alone is already worthy of thousands of troops."
"It's really strong!"< br>
"Isn't it the same for you?" The man in the suit hurriedly flattered: "In terms of spiritual practice, you are the well-deserved number one person in the entire space station."
"Ha."
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Regarding what the man in the suit said, Xie Shen only chuckled and did not say anything.
After that, the two continued to chat about some recent events in the space station.
Finally, the man in the suit took the initiative to say goodbye and leave
…
There is no time to cultivate.
Xie Shen practiced hard in seclusion in a secret room, and soon another year passed.
In this year, with the efforts of Li Xiu and his team, almost all the weapons and equipment in the space station have been updated.
Plus the prosthetic limbs used to transform people have been upgraded.
As well as the improvement of the practitioners by the white mist, He Xie Shen preached and preached the Dharma from time to time.
All of the above have made the overall combat power of the space station improve almost by leaps and bounds.
Nowadays, there are soldiers and horses.
On the human side, it is time to launch a counterattack on the Tower Prison.
So at the end of 6147 AD, the Tiangong Space Station began to try to establish a base on the surface as a springboard to counterattack the Tower Prison.
At the same time.
Xie Shenze is still practicing hard in seclusion in a secret room to consolidate his cultivation in the later stages of foundation building.
…
Time passes, and in the blink of an eye it is spring again.
In March of 1948, the man in the suit approached Xie Shen again.
This time he brought bad news: "The space station's base on the surface has been completely lost."
"Has it been lost?"
In the secret room.
Xie Shen said thoughtfully: "Is it because of the thalamic sentinels?"
"Yes." The man in the suit responded: "The appearance of the thalamic sentinels has one characteristic."
< br>"That is, the more people there are, the more they will be."
"And no matter how you kill them, you can't kill them all. As long as the thalamus core is there, those sentinels can reproduce almost infinitely. ”
"So the human bases built on the surface have to resist the attacks of thalamic sentinels almost every night."
"The space station calls this attack the 'Sentinel Tide'."
"The Sentinel Tide is real It’s so powerful.”
“The base on the surface only lasted about 4 months before it was breached by the Thalamus Sentinels.”
Speaking of this, Li Xiu’s voice suddenly came from the secret room. There was a sound outside.
He continued what the man in the suit said: "This time, I really can't think of a way, so I came to you."
"Didn't you say before that you could set up the spirit gathering formation in the medicine garden? ?”
“Since you can set up the spirit gathering formation,” Li Xiuchong asked Xie Shen, “Can you do that defensive formation?”
“I can really do that!” In his previous life, Xie Shen was, after all, the ancestor of the Qingyang Sect in the Nascent Soul stage.
It’s just a big formation to protect the sect, but he is clear in his heart.
Immediately responded: "It is not difficult to set up a defensive formation."
"As long as there are monks in the foundation building stage present, and monks in the Qi refining stage to help."
"Then at most not In more than a day, I can create the formation for you."
"But the problem is."
At this point, Xie Shen said the key: "No matter what type of formation. Dharma requires spiritual power to be maintained.”
"If the scale of the formation is small, it can absorb the spiritual power of heaven and earth directly from the environment, and then become self-sufficient."
"But what you want is a defensive formation that can defend the entire base."< br>
“Do you understand the big formation?”
Xie Shen continued: “When the scale is too large, it is impossible to be self-sufficient.”
“You have to There are spiritual stones, or the formation can be directly built into the spiritual veins.”
"But it's a pity."
"Whether it is spiritual stones or spiritual veins, I have never found them when I went to the surface."
Li Xiu seems to have long been concerned about the problem of spiritual stones and spiritual veins. There are considerations.
He immediately said without thinking: "Can the spiritual stones and spiritual veins you mentioned be replaced by white mist?"
"This" Xie Shen was really stunned by the question.
He was unsure: "Although white mist can be absorbed by monks, there is still a difference between white mist and spiritual energy after all."
"So it's hard to say whether it can be replaced."
< br>"Let's do this"
Xie Shen said and simply walked out of the secret room.
He took out a jade slip from his arms, threw it to Li Xiuhou and said, "I just printed the layout methods of the two basic formations into the jade slip." "A while. It's called 'Gathering Spirits', which can gather the spiritual power of heaven and earth within a certain range to assist practice."
"The other array is called 'Aura', which can be used for trapping and defense."
"You can take the jade slips back to study, and you can try it out to see if you can use white mist. To replace spiritual power."
Jade slips?
This is the first time Li Xiu has come into contact with the treasure ‘Jade Slips’.
He stared at the jade slip with a flash of fanaticism in his eyes: "How to use this thing?"
"Simple." Xie Shen explained: "Just put the jade slip on your forehead. That’s it.”
Driven by a strong desire for knowledge, Li Xiu put the jade slip in his hand to his forehead without thinking.
Next second.
He only felt a huge flow of information as vast as a sea of smoke, which was about to submerge his entire consciousness.
Not long after.
After thoroughly understanding all the information in the jade slip, Li Xiu's eyes shone and said: "The value of this jade slip is too high, it can be said to be no less than the white mist."
“Using jade slips to pass on knowledge is countless times faster than using books.”
“If this thing can be mass-produced, the technological development speed of the space station can be increased by at least ten times or even a hundred times. Not only that!”
As he said this, Li Xiu complained to Xie Shen: “Why didn’t you take out such an important thing earlier?”
"Do you still want to mass-produce it?" Xie Shen said speechlessly: "Jade slips are difficult to refine, so only monks who are in the middle or late stage of foundation building can make them."
" Moreover, there is a limit to the number of times the jade slips can be used. "
"Generally, after using them about 4-5 times, they will return to blank jade slips."
"So mass production. You don’t have to think about it.”
Xie Shen added: “And it’s not just jade slips. All items produced by cultivation-side civilization basically have the characteristic of being ‘unable to be mass-produced’. So for us cultivators, In other words, foreign objects are just foreign objects after all, and improving strength is the foundation.”
"Is this so?" Li Xiu, who had obtained the 'Jade Slips' and 'Formation', could not wait to return to the laboratory to study.
So after saying ‘thank you’ to Xie Shen, he turned around and left in a hurry without looking back.
The man in a suit as a follower followed closely behind.
This is Li Xiu.
Looking at Li Xiu’s leaving figure, Xie Shen also turned around and returned to the secret room.
…
Spring passes and autumn comes.
After receiving the two formations of 'Aura' and 'Gathering Spirit' as gifts from Xie Shen, Li Xiu devoted almost all his energy to the research of formations.
Hard work pays off.
Finally, after spending more than half a year, Li Xiu improved the 'Aura of Spiritual Light'.
——As long as the white mist is continuously injected into the improved spiritual light array, it is enough for the array to operate.
With this formation, the space station re-established its base on the surface.
About three months passed like this.
Xie Shen, who had been practicing hard for three years, finally ended his retreat and walked out of the secret room.
Invited by Li Xiu, Xie Shen took a spaceship to the surface base after leaving customs.
…
In the air.
The spaceship Xie Shen was on had not yet landed. From a distance, he saw a giant translucent light mask high in the sky.
This photomask is semicircular in shape and emits a faint golden light from time to time.
——As expected, this is the ‘Aura of Spiritual Light’ after modification by Li Modification.
Within the formation, you can also see countless temporarily built houses, with human soldiers occasionally walking among them.
This is the whole picture of the temporary base on the surface.
Shao Qian.
As Xie Shen's spacecraft got closer and closer to the surface, the spiritual light formation suddenly appeared on its own.
The spacecraft then slowly landed along this opening.
"Okay."
Xie Shen saw it and said to Li Xiu, who was also in the spaceship: "This formation can actually open a gap automatically."
"It's only been half a year. Come on, you have studied the spiritual light formation so thoroughly.”
“You can even draw inferences from one instance.”
Li Xiu does not have the trait of 'emotion'.
He did not react at all to Xie Shen's praise, but said expressionlessly: "It's just a summary of various phenomena. As long as things exist in the material world, they can pass Find out the principle through similar methods."
While talking, the two of them got off the spacecraft.
Xie Shen, who got out of the spaceship, looked around and sighed: "To maintain such a large-scale formation, a lot of white mist should be consumed every day, right?"
"Yes." Li Xiu nodded and said: "The consumption is indeed very large. But there is no way, those thalamic sentinels are too difficult to deal with, so we can only use the spiritual light array to block them."
Xie Shen asked curiously: "Actually, I really want to know where the white mist used to maintain the formation comes from."
"Can you take me to see it?"
"No, you don't want to know." While walking, Li Xiu suddenly turned around and glanced at Xie Shen meaningfully.
He pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose and said: "They say a gentleman stays far away from the kitchen."
"If I really take you to see where the white mist comes from"
"Then with your character, you will definitely have a knot in your heart."
"This will make your mind unstable and your thoughts unclear."
"So."
Li Xiu said in a calm tone: "There are some things that it's best you don't know."
Xie Shen heard the implication of Li Xiu's words.
He guessed: "You mean: the white mist used to maintain the spiritual light array is squeezed out of living people?"
Li Xiu turned his head aside and repeated again: "I have said it all. , there are some things that you’d better not know.”
“Otherwise it will affect your Taoist mind.”
Li Xiu obviously doesn’t want to talk to Xie Shen on this topic. Continue to struggle.
He deliberately changed the subject and said: "This time I came to the surface, I mainly want to show you the latest discoveries in our laboratory."
"The latest discovery?" Xie Shen asked with confusion on his face.
“Yes.”
Li Xiudao: “Although our base is protected by the spiritual light formation, it can block the invasion of Thalamus Sentinels.”
“But we have always been attacked by Thalamus Sentinels like this. It's definitely not a long-term solution for them to stay in the base."
"We can't be passively defensive all the time."
"After all, we came to the surface to launch a counterattack against the tower prison."
"So, we have to find a way to fundamentally and completely eliminate the thalamic sentinels."
During conversation.
Xie Shen followed Li Xiu to a laboratory in the base.
Li Xiu introduced to Xie Shen: "Did you see the mirror in the laboratory? That's what we thought of."
——Following Li Xiu's gaze, Xie Shen went deep into the laboratory and saw a huge mirror.
The mirror is as tall as two people.
Looking inside, you can see a scene that is completely different from the real world.
Obviously.
This is no ordinary mirror.
(End of this chapter)