Chapter 67: The anticipated exploration of the secret realm

Chapter 67: The anticipated exploration of the secret realm

Chapter 67: The anticipated exploration of the secret realm

After driving away Junior Sister Luan, Wen Rui felt exhausted both physically and mentally. Dealing with these annoying little goblins was much more troublesome than doing scientific research.

Wen Rui is not a tech geek who thinks "women only make my thinking slower". The main reason he feels uncomfortable is that he can see the things but cannot try them out.

Even if my junior sister has a thousand good qualities, I can only watch her from afar.

Occasionally, he would quietly open the project library and take a look at the progress of the physical strengthening potion research and development project. It was a pity that this project had invested tens of millions of spirit stones but hadn't made any profit. He really couldn't waste any more money on it.

After all, his money didn't come from the wind. Recently, the Tianshang Renjian and Fanxu Deconstruction projects were launched one after another, and now the spiritual stone warehouse has run out of money.

Not to mention spending money, if he doesn't make more money, he will soon be unable to provide the poverty alleviation funds to his fellow apprentice sister Lishan.

The goal of reviving Jiejiao is too huge and complicated, and there are already a lot of things to deal with at the beginning.

Sometimes Wen Rui also envied some of the system-based time travelers. Either their goals were simple: I just want to be awesome, pretend to be awesome, and sleep awesome; or the system was like a biological mother, giving them small tasks and guiding them step by step for everything from eating, dressing, and shitting; or they simply had no goals or pressure and just lay down and survive until they died.

This broken system of his was a soul-based hardcore one. Not only did it have no task guidance at all, but it also used the Hell Experience Card as a whip to constantly spur him on, forcing him to rack his brains to compile his own strategies all the time, and to work frantically without slacking off.

It's a pity that even with such hard work and being busy all day long, after completing a task, the progress bar on the system panel would only jump by 0.00001% each time.

To revive the Jiejiao cause is not simply to concentrate all the power in one person and become the strongest to crush everything.

The strength of Tongtian Patriarch himself is not weak. With the power of one saint, he can fight against three saints without being killed. Yet, he has brought Jiejiao to the brink of destruction.

The key to reviving Jiejiao is to spread its teachings and ideas, gain widespread recognition from all sentient beings, and use Jiejiao’s ideas to guide all sentient beings towards positive development.

Wen Rui is planning to go out. He has been stuck in Lishan for so long that he is eager to move. He has also initially mastered the core technology to crack all the magical powers of the Return to Void Realm cultivators. His safety has been greatly improved. It is time for him to go out for a walk and try his luck.

He planned to rush to Guangling County in the territory of Chu State, a vassal state granted by the Western Zhou Dynasty. The Chamber of Commerce sent a message that a secret realm had been discovered in Guangling County, and many immortal cultivation sects had sent teams to explore the secret realm.

That secret place is the legacy of a fallen immortal in ancient times. It is a small space of heaven and earth that was sealed before his death. It has a very high archaeological value.

Wen Rui has always been present at such secret exploration activities.

The ancient primordial spiritual energy samples and ancient relics, secret manuals, elixirs, and spiritual plants buried in the secret realm can greatly enrich the knowledge reserve and be of great help in further analyzing and studying the laws of heaven. If you are lucky enough to obtain the top ancient secret treasure, it will lay the foundation for enlightenment...

However, this has nothing to do with Wen Rui. He has no intention of taking a single step into the secret realm. He just wants to open a store in the camp outside the entrance to the secret realm, sell some smuggled goods to make some money, and cheat the monks who go deep into the secret realm to explore the spirit stones in their pockets.

All the merchants in the world indeed follow his lead, but they can only cheat worthless shells and copper coins from mortals. If they want to cheat spiritual stones from monks, they have to ask the boss to do it personally.

Lishan Immortal Sect is located in the territory of Qin State, nearly ten thousand miles away from Guangling in Chu State. Wen Rui traveled a thousand miles in a capsule tube and then changed to a drill vehicle to continue his journey.

The appearance of the underground vehicle is based on the drilling vehicle of Shredder's forces in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Wen Rui has also upgraded it based on the prototype. A laser mining launcher that appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy is installed at the front end of the drill bit. The outer wall is engraved with earth escape techniques and fossils to mud spells, and it is propelled by a jet engine.

Despite a series of enhancements, the underground speed of the ground vehicle barely reached 100 kilometers per hour, which is much slower than the flying speed of a cultivator with a sword.

The only advantage is that it is highly secretive and the maximum drilling depth can reach 8000 meters, which is a deep stratum that cannot be detected even with the full spiritual awareness of a Golden Immortal.

After four days and three nights of hard travel, the map showed that they had entered Guangling County. Wen Rui controlled the ground vehicle to drill a hole underground and summoned the Ultron robots to reinforce the hole and build a temporary parking lot and a vertical shaft elevator leading to the ground.

The exit of the vertical elevator is not on the ground, but thirty meters away from the surface. Wen Rui has to use the earth escape technique to sneak through these thirty meters.

Wen Rui crawled out of the ground, patted the dirt on his head, and tried to connect to the network. The signal was extremely weak at first, but soon gradually strengthened. Many dormant signal relay stations began to operate, continuously strengthening the signal.

These relay stations were built in various chambers of commerce warehouses in the main cities of the Western Zhou vassal states throughout the Central Plains. They were usually disguised as flagpoles or water towers. Once Wen Rui needed to connect to the network over a long distance, they would be powered on and activated.

In fact, launching satellites is the most convenient way to provide comprehensive coverage of network signals, and Wenrui already has the corresponding technological reserves and industrial foundation.

Is the prehistoric continent flat or a planet?

Wen Rui was more inclined to believe that the Earth was round, but he had not yet obtained definitive evidence. After all, the rising and setting of the sun, the ebb and flow of the tides, and the changing of the seasons were natural phenomena that could not be explained by the theory of the "flat Earth" that the sun was a flashlight. Even a group of gods and Buddhas could not change this basic law of physics.

If they want to know the truth, they just need to launch a detection satellite into orbit for reconnaissance. However, Wen Rui is afraid that after the satellite enters orbit, its target will be too obvious in the vast space and will be noticed by the clairvoyant priests in heaven, thus exposing his identity.

He is not afraid of being hunted down after his identity is exposed, but he is afraid that the Heavenly Court will give him an official position.

Even though he was the most active one among the villains in the Battle of the Gods, you should know that his father was even more active than him and was even granted the title of Heavenly Lord.

Considering the merits he had done in helping the people during the Shang Dynasty, it was more than enough for him to be named a Heavenly Lord. If his merit in sending Lao Rui out of the country with courtesy was included, I'm afraid the Jade Emperor would have to give him the title of a Bianji Emperor.

The problem is that his mission goal is not to get promoted or make money. Even if he becomes the Jade Emperor's younger brother, he still has to endure the pain of hell once every seven days. There is no fun in being a god.

So they could only try hard to hide their identities as long as they could, laying optical cables underground and building base stations on the surface, using the same clumsy work as ants moving house, to increase network coverage bit by bit.

As soon as the network was restored, a small map navigation of the Guangling County area immediately appeared on his retinal projection. Judging from the small map, the distance to the secret realm was less than two hundred miles.

Wen Rui took out a set of Iron Man nano armor from his bag and put it on. He then took off into the air and flew in the direction indicated by the navigation.

The flying speed of Iron Man's armor is similar to that of an F22 fighter jet, with a cruising speed of Mach 2, or more than 700 meters per second. It only takes a few minutes to fly more than miles, which is much faster than the average monk flying with a sword.

It is not easy for a monk to break the sound barrier by flying with a sword. Even if his feet can be welded to the sword so as not to fall off, his head will hit the invisible air barrier of the sound barrier. His body is not strong enough and his neck will be easily broken.

A monk flying with a sword would stand on the sword when flying slowly. After all, this posture is more handsome and less tiring.

When flying at high speeds, one must hold the hilt of the flying sword tightly with one hand, and let the body be dragged by the sword. In this posture, the sword tip breaks through the strong wind like the curved windshield of a motorcycle, which conforms to the principles of aerodynamics and prevents one from slipping and dropping the sword or injuring the cervical vertebra.

Of course, this is only for cultivators below the Return to Void Stage. Cultivators above the Return to Void Stage can distort reality between the real and the unreal, ignoring the strong winds, and increasing the speed of flying swords by several times or even dozens of times.

Wen Rui did not move forward at full speed, but maintained the flying speed within Mach 1, which was similar to the flying speed of ordinary Jindan cultivators flying with swords, so as not to be too conspicuous.

This place is close to the entrance to the secret realm. Shortly after taking off, two cultivators flying on swords discovered this strange metal armor, and they rode their flying swords over and flew with Wen Rui.

The two monks were one male and one female. The male had sharp eyebrows, bright eyes, and a face as white as jade. He looked very young and youthful.

The woman has a round face, is cute and lovely, and exudes youthfulness.

The strong wind made it difficult to talk during the flight, so the other party used a voice transmission technique and asked, "We are cultivators from the Qing Palace on Mount Qingcheng. I am Li Yu, and the other one is my junior sister Cheng Ziwei. May I ask if you are heading to the Guangling Secret Realm?"

Wen Rui turned his head and started the facial scan, entering the two people's appearance information into the database for retrieval. He did not find any relevant information from the small black book of villains, so he turned on the directional sound transmission system of the helmet and replied:

"It is inconvenient to greet each other during the flight, please bear with me. I am Wen Rui, a disciple of the Jinling Sect. If you two Taoist friends want to ask for directions, just follow me. I am also heading to the Guangling Secret Realm, and I will arrive in just an incense stick of time."

The male monk smiled awkwardly, nodded and thanked him, "Thank you, fellow Daoist. The hand-drawn map that Master gave me is quite different from the actual terrain. The two of us have circled in the air several times, but we haven't seen the landmarks marked on the map."

After the conversation, the male monk seemed to be not good at talking and remained silent.

The female monk opened her eyes wide and looked at Wen Rui, who was wearing a suit of steel armor, with great curiosity. She also quietly released her spiritual sense to investigate carefully, as if she was wondering why he could fly as fast as flying with a sword while wearing such heavy armor.

This behavior of spying on the background of other people's magic weapons is actually very impolite. If it were a cultivator with a more irritable temper, he would probably start scolding on the spot. It is also common for verbal disputes to escalate into fights.

Wen Rui didn't care. The surface of Iron Man's armor had the same spiritual reflective coating as Jian Erling's. If the spiritual consciousness wanted to penetrate the inside, it would probably take a lot of effort even at the celestial realm.

These two cultivators were only at the Jindan stage, so no matter how much they spied on them, they couldn't figure out what was going on.

This rash action revealed that these two people were green rookies with too little experience in the world.

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