The D5 Comprehensive War Zone mobilized all its reconnaissance resources and searched for a long time, but still couldn't find where Spirit Cultivator Number Four had fled.
Technological exploration methods are actually still blank in this regard.
The overall situation in Lingneng City is normal.
It is still impossible to determine whether Spirit Cultivator Number Four has defected to the first three Spirit Cultivators. According to Wang Jixuan's estimation, this kind of escape would inevitably come at a price for Spirit Cultivator Number Four.
Otherwise, Spirit Cultivator Number Four would probably have escaped long ago and wouldn't have waited for their return.
The ambush by Meng Jin and his powerful enemies that they encountered in the snow-capped mountains can probably also be determined to have been masterminded by Spirit Cultivator Number Four behind the scenes.
Now, D5's spies are fully mobilized, but the first, second, and third Spirit Cultivators are all closely guarded by the Six Elders, and they lack the means to investigate.
Overall, they can only stare blankly.
However, this subspace left behind by Spirit Cultivator Number Four may contain some things.
Late at night.
Wang Jixuan had already finished the summary meeting, preliminarily refined the 'Xingdian' battle puppet, and returned to Warehouse Number Three with Mudan and Shen Qionglin.
Director Chen and the others had already left.
They each have projects to be responsible for. Previously, the research on the Spirit Cultivator Stone Slab had not been officially established as a project; they were only allowed to study it in their spare time.
Wang Jixuan changed into casual clothes, loose jeans paired with a white short-sleeved shirt, a refreshing buzz cut, and a handsome face. As long as he smiled, he would give off the feeling of a sunny and cheerful big boy.
Unfortunately, the Daoist valued his status and wouldn't smile unless necessary, trying his best to show his composure.
Mudan brought two folding chairs and had Wang Jixuan and Shen Qionglin sit in front of the assembled Wall Number Four. Wang Jixuan placed his left hand against the wall, feeling the wall's rhythm.
He was looking for a way to enter this subspace.
Shen Qionglin asked, "How reliable is Spirit Cultivator Number Five?"
"Intuitively, it's okay, but how it is specifically is not very certain either."
Wang Jixuan said slowly:
"Let's observe more later.
"I've asked Team Zheng and Wu Man to be responsible for guarding Stone Slab Number Five. Overall, the feeling she gives me is much stronger than old Sophie. Her goal is clear, and her soul's rhythm is relatively simple."
Shen Qionglin nodded: "Today, I unexpectedly learned that Spirit Cultivator Number Six has released the core circuit."
"Not bad," Daoist Wang said softly, "I previously suspected it was Xiao Huating."
"Xiao Huating?"
"Ah, it's Gao Huating, haven't you met her? She sings exceptionally well, with a special spiritual charm that can calm people's minds."
Wang Jixuan explained simply:
"Gao Huating can restrain the demonic energy I injected into the blood pool before."
Shen Qionglin nodded and said: "I'm surprised by your address. Why is she called Xiao Huating? Her age should be older than us."
"Who called her that first? It should have been Xiao Qi," Wang Jixuan smiled casually, "I just called her that too… In my opinion, you're all juniors. I'm actually really old."
"Tsk," Shen Qionglin slightly pouted.
Mudan asked, "Chief, do you need me to carry Stone Slab Number Five over?"
"Don't rush. We need to leave her out in the cold for a few days, and wait for her to come to me. Only then can I take the initiative,"
Wang Jixuan said simply:
"Rest assured, she will definitely not be able to help but come over.
"I'm actually a little afraid of her… I saw the me of that time in her, biased, obsessed with power and infinitely eager to reach the pinnacle of power, determined to go to a bigger world to see.
"To the point that I was almost inhuman at that time, and also lost the most basic happiness of being human."
Shen Qionglin nodded as if she understood: "I always feel that you are more like Number Six."
"Me?" Wang Jixuan chuckled.
A blue light bloomed in his eyes, and his right hand formed a sword finger, drawing a complex talisman in the air.
The talisman shone with colorful light, and the white stone wall was activated again, blooming with a milky white halo, revealing the phenomenon of a beach and waves.
This time, Wang Jixuan stepped forward decisively, stepping into a layer of slightly rippling water.
His voice was still ringing in Shen Qionglin's ears:
"Their kind of psionic technology is too narrow."
Shen Qionglin's palm-sized pretty face showed a hint of doubt, and she lowered her head and followed Wang Jixuan into it.
Without Wang Jixuan's instructions, Mudan immediately entered a state of alert, guarding in front of the door.
… …
I have to say, this subspace is pretty good.
Although the scenery is a bit monotonous, it's easy to breathe and the spiritual energy is abundant. The disadvantage is that the gravity effect is poor, and walking is light and floaty. A little force can make you jump very far.
It's far inferior to the sect's secret realm opened up with formations in their cultivation world.
Wang Jixuan wandered around inside for a while.
The scene seen from the outside is the real scene inside, but looking closely, the sky and the pair of moons are more like a kind of texture.
The exit of the subspace is also a stone wall on the inside.
There is a vortex in the center of the stone wall. Shen Qionglin tested it and found that approaching the vortex would suck you out.
Without the control of Spirit Cultivator Number Four, this subspace is equivalent to having no access control. As long as you can activate the portal, you can enter and exit at will.
The main body of this place is a small island, about three or four kilometers in diameter. The island is lush and green but there are no living things. These trees are also fake.
Wang Jixuan reached out and touched the tree trunk, feeling a texture similar to stone.
They are all sculptures.
Spiritual consciousness extended outward, and it would touch the air wall in the area about two kilometers outside the island.
Shen Qionglin took a portable recorder and filmed everything she saw.
Wang Jixuan smiled and said: "I'll teach you how to enter later, don't be so busy… What did you think of?"
"What did I think of?" Shen Qionglin was a little puzzled.
"Here, what did you think of in terms of usage?"
"Let's look around again, maybe we can discover some little secrets of the spiritual cultivation civilization… Are there any other uses?"
"Troop transport."
Wang Jixuan said simply:
"Although mechs can't enter, mechanical bodies and spirit wielders can come in. We can completely use the stone wall as a teleportation door. Wherever support is needed, we can throw the stone wall over."
"Eh?" Although Shen Qionglin was not interested, she still tried to show a little surprise, "That's a good method!"
Wang Jixuan couldn't help but complain: "You're being too perfunctory."
"I'm not very interested in these things. Fighting and killing are not suitable for me either."
Shen Qionglin shrugged her shoulders, and honestly put away her recorder, and took the initiative to suggest:
"The scenery here is not bad, would you like to take a walk together?
"Teacher Wang, you schedule your time too tightly, and don't give yourself a chance to rest."
Wang Jixuan said unhappily: "Professors who only sleep two or three hours a day have no right to say such things… Let's go for a walk, I just happened to be looking around."
So the two walked side by side along the edge of the island.
Some intermittent railings and stone roads have been built here. Occasionally, some stone houses that have been abandoned for an unknown amount of time can be seen on the island. The rushing waves are accompanied by a little breeze, which can indeed make people feel refreshed.
Shen Qionglin was trying hard to find some topics, and she also had something to ask for today.
Wang Jixuan didn't look at her carefully, but she had actually carefully dressed up - she changed into a fitted suit of clothes inside her white coat, and also applied some sunscreen on her face - this was the limit for her.
Because of the nourishment of spiritual energy, her skin was fair and translucent without any flaws, and her bright eyes seemed to speak, clear, lovely, and without any charm or vulgarity. The troubles of the world have not yet been able to pollute these gems.
The two walked side by side like this.
Wang Jixuan had already discovered many empty crystal cores, densely arranged everywhere on the seabed. There was no spiritual energy or residual souls in the crystal cores.
He also discovered that the base of the spire was inlaid in the stratum of the island. Spirit Cultivator Number Four left in a hurry, and the entire base was left behind, with dense tadpole characters engraved on it, with traces of being artificially destroyed.
Under the base…
So many crystal cores!
The area under the ground was covered with crystal cores!
Although most of the spiritual energy in the crystal cores was not full, the quantity was huge, and the total amount of spiritual energy contained in them was very considerable!
Wang Jixuan suddenly understood.
That base should be some kind of escape device that allows the spire to be directly spatially transferred away.
Subspaces are attached to the main space;
The connecting passage between the subspace and the main space is each of these portals.
Based on Wang Jixuan's understanding of Qiankun, he can completely determine that Spirit Cultivator Number Four is unlikely to directly move from this subspace to another subspace. Spirit Cultivator Number Four must have gone to a certain place in the main space.
Then where would he go?
He definitely wouldn't dare to go to the Blade Beast's territory. The Blade Beasts couldn't wait to chew Spirit Cultivators' bones to pieces.
Finally, Shen Qionglin finally said: "Um, there's something I want you to help me with. If it's not possible, then forget it, I just happened to have this idea."
Wang Jixuan couldn't help but smile: "I saw you had something on your mind long ago, tell me, I will try my best to help you if I can, after all, you are following me now."
"That is,", Shen Qionglin looked to the side, "I want to ask… have you had an intimate relationship with Lieutenant Colonel Ling Tong?"
"Huh?"
Wang Jixuan was a little dazed.
Shen Qionglin hurriedly explained: "Don't misunderstand, I'm not a pervert, and I don't have any fantasies about you. This is just the premise for me asking this question."
"Why are you suddenly asking this,", Wang Jixuan muttered, "I guess I have."
They've already kissed;
That must be considered intimate!
Shen Qionglin then asked, "But I've noticed that you two hardly ever meet. You're stationed here in the fortress, while she flies around the front lines and various fortresses. How do you maintain your relationship?"
"This... cough."
Wang Jixuan felt that he couldn't show weakness in front of Little Shen.
He said, "Although everyone is usually very busy, we still send messages to check in on each other. And, maybe it's because we don't see each other often that when we do meet, it's... more passionate."
"So, are you planning to start a family with Lieutenant Colonel Ling Tong like this? After you start a family, have you thought about how you'll raise children?"
Shen Qionglin asked softly.
Wang Jixuan raised his hand and touched his nose.
Shen Qionglin immediately said, "Please try to speak your mind. This is very important."
"Why are you asking all this? Do you want to start a family too?"
"Yes," Shen Qionglin nodded earnestly. "In my plans, I want to be in love by around twenty-five, get married and have one or two children before twenty-seven, and pass on my genes... try to live like a normal person."
A hint of helplessness appeared in her eyes, and she said in a low voice:
"I'm an anomaly, and so are you, so I want to see how you're walking this path.
"I can sense that you don't really care about family either, but for some reason, you're trying to build one. This is very similar to my plans.
"Actually... I can't express emotions normally, and I don't understand what 'like' is. The confusion of adolescence is foreign to me. This may be the price of overdeveloping my brain.
"I can't secrete specific hormones for a particular individual, so I can't generate the emotion of 'like,' whether it's for the same sex or the opposite sex. I've tried to imitate this emotion, but without the support of the endocrine system, the brain easily forgets that feeling."
"Using rational methods to analyze emotional problems will definitely not yield the correct results."
Wang Jixuan said gently:
"There's one thing you're right about. I really haven't thought about starting a family. I'm even taking a laissez-faire attitude towards this relationship."
"Laissez-faire?"
"Yes, simply put, it's about following the impulses of my heart."
Wang Jixuan put his hands behind his back and walked with Shen Qionglin towards the base of the spire, saying slowly:
"My situation is quite special. Before meeting Ling Tong, I had met several very good women, and we had even looked at each other and felt a slight ripple in our hearts, but at that time, I restrained myself.
"Extreme restraint.
"In order to pursue power, I wanted to focus all my attention and energy on the path, but later it proved that this purity I thought I had was actually a kind of incompleteness.
"Heaven's way is ruthless, but I am not Heaven's way.
"The Supreme forgets emotions because those in the Supreme position must look upon all living beings equally.
"So now I no longer restrain myself. From the first time I saw that strange woman with a pair of mechanical arms, I was slightly attracted to her. Later, I had this impulse to spend more time with her, to talk to her. The image of our future together would appear in my heart: living a peaceful life in the countryside, relying on each other.
"That's probably it.
"Yes, it's important to have some vision for the future of two people."
Shen Qionglin nodded, seemingly understanding.
"Then next time, Teacher Wang, when you go on a date, can you bring a hidden camera? I want to learn up close."
"No."
"Oh, how stingy."
"Don't you think that kind of behavior is perverted! Did Zheng Shiduo corrupt you!"
Wang Jixuan muttered, then took two quick steps to the base of the spire:
"Come over here and do research! You made me miss my girlfriend. I'll go find her later."
Shen Qionglin responded, and blue symbols bloomed behind her as she lowered her head and floated over.
Have some vision for the future of two people?
That standard is pretty good.
...
At the same time.
Capital of Spiritual Energy, Sphere of Silence.
Meng Jin changed into a gray suit, his straight figure standing in the elevator, surrounded by several middle-aged men and women, all of whom were powerful figures in the Spiritual Management Committee.
The elevator doors opened, and several people stepped out at the same time.
Meng Jin frowned slightly, and two people next to him subconsciously stopped and stepped aside.
"Yes," Meng Jin stepped out.
In the conference room ahead, Tai Shenggang, one of the 'Six Elders,' sat in the center, eyes closed in rest. Most of the sixteen chairs were already occupied, leaving only a few for them.
The female assistant, who had been waiting on the side, quickly stepped forward and whispered, "Just received feedback that the people we sent have cleared a path through the collapsed area of the secret base in the Snow Mountain, but... they didn't dig out that S-level material."
"Didn't dig it out?" Meng Jin frowned tightly.
"Yes, Regiment Commander. There are still many strange poisonous gases inside. Several A-levels have been infected and are now in very bad condition, constantly going crazy."
Tai Shenggang opened his eyes and said in a deep voice:
"Sit down.
"The situation is very serious, or else we wouldn't have summoned you to a meeting next to a nuclear bomb.
"The Black Storm has become our main challenge. He has obtained two Spiritual Cultivator Tablets. This trouble must be resolved as soon as possible."
