Living in the Doomsday and Becoming an Immortal Alone
Chapter 320 - 162: The Spirit Cultivator’s Stone Plate [Seeking Monthly Pass]

Chapter 320: Chapter 162: The Spirit Cultivator’s Stone Plate [Seeking Monthly Pass]

What is the awakening level of the Pillar?

Zhou Zhengde was baffled and couldn’t digest the news for a moment.

Wang Jixuan, however, nodded calmly, a bit puzzled as he asked, "How do you determine the awakening level of the Pillars?"

"Three indicators."

"One indicator is the degree of Spiritual Energy gathering inside the body. In a sleeping state, the Pillar Level Blade Beast’s Spiritual Energy is dispersed in every corner of its body, with three to five massive cores. When they begin to awaken, the Spiritual Energy will converge towards these cores."

Fu Jian explained simply:

"Another indicator is similar to brainwave detection methods, but the Blade Beast’s brainwaves are different, and you’d have to ask the technicians for details.

"Then there’s the information exchange between the Pillar Level Blade Beast and nearby Blade Beasts, which is the most crucial indicator.

"We divide the awakening levels of Blade Beasts into three stages: 24% is a tendency to awaken, where Spiritual Energy begins to converge; 52% is entering the awakening cycle, starting to exchange information with nearby Blade Beasts; 80% is about to awaken.

"Over the past twenty years, the highest level we’ve detected is 52%, the second stage."

Master Wang lowered his head, pondering, and bit into a squid, feeling... that it tasted slightly better than Blade Beast meat.

[After Blade Beasts overwhelmed human civilization and occupied most of the surface, twelve Pillar Level Blade Beasts fell asleep in different areas.]

The Daoist then asked, "Have humans ever directly confronted Pillar Level Blade Beasts?"

"Yes, the twelve Pillar Level Blade Beasts each have different forms. Historically they have shown themselves only once, and each time we were disastrously defeated."

Fu Jian said solemnly:

"The huge urban areas created during the human Golden Age were directly destroyed by different regional Pillar Level Blade Beasts.

"After destroying the main body of human civilization, they took their main Blade Beast Group underground to sleep.

"To this day, we haven’t won a single war involving a Pillar Level Blade Beast.

"At this stage, all the efforts of human civilization in the Fortress Era are about producing military hardware. With limited resources in our confined occupied areas, we are desperately manufacturing nuclear weapons but dare not counterattack... This is the deterrent power of the Pillar Level Blade Beasts.

"Currently, the strategic nuclear weapons in all major war zones are rationed. They can’t be used indiscriminately and are limited to small yield tactical nuclear weapons.

"Most of the strategic nuclear weapons are concentrated in the Space Fortress, specifically to deal with a potential major disaster caused by Pillar Level Blade Beasts."

Wang Jixuan frowned and asked, "Have you not tried to bomb them while they are asleep?"

"It’s deep underground, and it’s covered with high-level Blade Beasts from top to bottom."

Fu Jian shrugged his shoulders expertly as he continued to stir-fry noodles, saying calmly:

"Many high-level Blade Beast individuals have the combat strength of a sub-general. You can’t imagine what it’s like when a hundred thousand high-level Blade Beasts charge."

"The King-level Blade Beast Groups currently active on the edges of our war zone are just their peripheral forces, usually consisting only of basic and middle-level Blade Beasts."

"So, there’s basically no match."

Wang Jixuan picked up a tissue to wipe his mouth, observing the movements of three squads in the holographic sand table, contemplating slightly.

What he had disclosed so far seemed far from sufficient.

In the future, Wang Jixuan would continue to search his own cultivation civilization’s technology tree for things compatible with modern technology and capable of deterring top-tier Blade Beast forces, to share with Zone D5.

This was mainly to give human civilization a chance to participate in counterattacking the Blade Beasts.

Wang Jixuan urged, "Let’s go take a look at those stone tablets. Once they return, I have another class to teach."

Fu Jian clicked his tongue, "Why do I not feel any pressure from you?"

"The only things that have ever pressured me," Wang Jixuan confidently smiled, "are whether I am strong enough and can become stronger."

"Can you?"

"It’s a secret."

Fu Jian placed the stir-fried noodles onto the plates in front of Wang Jixuan and Zhou Zhengde, then crossed his fist and popped out a middle finger.

Wang Jixuan looked disgusted.

Zhou Zhengde silently lowered his head and slurped his noodles.

Zhou Zhengde had already realized...

Perhaps, one day he would no longer be Wang Zheng’s most important male friend, and the guy who might take that crown could be his life idol and direct blood relative!

...

Before observing the stone tablets, Wang Jixuan was asked to don his signature black helmet.

Fu Jian took him and Zhou Zhengde to a nearby warehouse, which was fully secured. A dozen elderly people dressed in white lab coats were already waiting and started clapping as they arrived.

"They’ve studied these stone tablets before and are authorities in their respective fields," Fu Jian briefly introduced.

"This is the Black Storm, an envoy from an alien civilization, a suspected savior of human civilization.

"Well, don’t worry, these dozen old men and women are essentially imprisoned scientific research prisoners. Their brains are valuable assets of human civilization, with very low risk of leaking secrets."

The dozen elderly people each smiled.

They didn’t mind this level of teasing.

The elders immediately crowded around, enthusiastically shaking hands with Wang Jixuan, continuously saying:

"I’ve heard your story! Black Storm!"

"Don’t think we’re locked in a lab; actually, all those interesting pieces of intelligence are brought to us for analysis."

"I made your power growth trajectory prediction chart, and I judged then that you were a special Spirit Cultivator who could grow more advanced than others!"

"I’ve long found those Spirit Cultivators disgusting, well done!"

"I sincerely thank you for providing us with a new track to swindle funding!"

"Hello, Black Storm. Can you share some of that special paper of yours? We’ve only figured out that you altered the internal structure of the paper with Blade Beast Blood to add both surface and internal Spiritual Ability Paths, but the symbols we replicated from the photos had no effect at all. Why is that?"