Resurrection of all mankind

Chapter 269: Tracing the Origin: The Agent's Emotional Tower
Dunbin was complaining.

Suddenly, Xie Shen patted the storage bag on his waist and took out several blank jade slips from it.

He placed the jade slips on his forehead one by one and distributed them to everyone, saying, "This is the skill called 'Tongxin Minglu' that I obtained from the bronze statue inside the Perfect City."

"Those who practice this technique can transform the black mist from the indescribable creatures into the power of laws for their own practice."

"Sent to you."

Xie Shen explained the reason.

"The reason why I want to share this technique is because I consider that the great catastrophe of ten thousand years is approaching, and there are agents outside my Aldebaran star system eyeing us covetously."

"In the face of internal and external troubles, we should unite together."

"Is that the truth?"

'Tong Xin Ming Lu' is a technique for the fusion stage, and techniques for the fusion stage are extremely rare.

Seeing that Xie Shen was willing to share his skills with everyone, Geng Yi, the chairman of the Supervisory Committee, quickly put his hand on the storage bag at his waist and took out a small mirror from it. He handed it to Xie Shen and said, "Since Brother Xie is so generous, I will return the favor and give you this item."

he introduced.

"This treasure is called the Mountain and Sea Mirror, and its function is to copy almost all objects in the world."

"Of course."

"This kind of replication also comes at a price."

Geng Yi added: "To sum it up in one sentence: the higher the value of the item being copied, the more power of the law it needs to consume."

"It can be considered a different kind of equal exchange!"

Mountain and sea mirror?

Xie Shen took the mirror and played with it for a while, then asked curiously, "Can this mirror replicate the 'incredible things' that come from indescribable creatures and have various magical abilities?"

"Of course we can." Geng Yi replied truthfully, "But to copy the 'incredible thing', the power of the law required is enormous."

"Once the replication begins, it cannot be stopped unless the object can be successfully replicated."

"So if it's not necessary, it's better not to copy things randomly."

"Think before you use it."

Nice treasure.

Faced with Geng Yi's gift, Xie Shen did not refuse.

He directly put it into his storage bag and nodded to the other party: "In that case, thank you very much, fellow Taoist."

"Ah"

Geng Yi was eager to comprehend the new skills, so he just smiled at Xie Shen and said nothing more.

Then, he sat cross-legged on the ground and concentrated on practicing the "Tongxin Minglu" technique.
Next is Suxing.

After learning the cultivation method, he also took out a magic weapon from the storage bag on his waist.

This magic weapon is a fat white jade slip with three mythical beasts, the dragon, phoenix and unicorn, engraved on its surface.

Su Xing handed the jade slip to Xie Shen and said, "This is a treasure I got on a planet called Suzaku Star a few years ago."

"This treasure is called the Book of Mountains and Seas."

"Whoever holds this object can communicate with and control the flowers, trees, birds and animals on an entire planet."

"And when facing a wild beast with a certain level of intelligence, the person holding this treasure can communicate with it directly without any obstacles."

"take it."

talking.

Su Xing added, "In addition to giving you this treasure, I also want to make you a promise about the Aldebaran star system."

He said solemnly: "If Betelgeuse is in trouble in the future, I, Su Xing, will do my best to help without endangering my own life."

"Fellow Daoist Su is so righteous!" Faced with Su Xing's gift, Xie Shen also accepted it generously.

Same as Geng Yi.

After learning the method of cultivation, Su Xing sat cross-legged on the ground and silently practiced the "Tong Xin Ming Lu" technique.

Next came the Jindan stage cultivators Deng Bin, Gongsun Ji, Lian Yu, Qian Xiaqing and others.

Since they are in the same force as Xie Shenshen, they are considered to be his family, and they are also juniors in the Spirit Transformation Stage.

Therefore, they did not express anything after obtaining the skills.

They just quietly comprehended the technique.
...

time flies.

When a cultivator reaches the stage of transformation or integration, the time spent on cultivation often needs to be counted in months or years.

Therefore, it took Su Xing, Deng Bin and others seven whole days just to comprehend the "Tong Xin Ming Lu" technique.

Seven days later.

Deng Bin, who had always found it difficult to comprehend the 'Tong Xin Ming Lu' technique, was the first to wake up from his meditation state.

He stood up and said to Xie Shen, "No."

"It may be because I am only at the Spiritual Transformation stage, I cannot learn this technique no matter what I do."

"Ugh"

Deng Bin said helplessly: "It seems that I can only try to practice this technique after I break through to the fusion stage."

“No way?” Xie Shen asked doubtfully after hearing this: “When I was in the bronze statue world, I easily learned this technique with only my foundation-building stage cultivation.”

"And it's not just me."

"My fellow disciples in the sect I belong to have all practiced this technique since the foundation-building stage."

"The threshold for this technique is not high."

In the laboratory.

After hearing the conversation between Deng Bin and Xie Shen, Su Xing also stood up and said, "In fact, it's not just Deng Bin. I also failed to learn this technique."

"Me too." Hearing what Su Xing said, Geng Yi, the chairman of the Supervisory Committee, also quickly echoed.

Followed by.

Lian Yu, Qian Xiaqing and others also said that they could never comprehend the 'Tong Xin Ming Lu' technique.

this.
Seeing this, Xie Shen guessed, "Could it be that this 'Tong Xin Ming Lu' technique can only be practiced after certain specific conditions are met?"

"For example," Xie Shen thought for a moment and said, "For example, the practitioner must be inside the bronze statue?"

"Probably!"

Lian Yu, who had been inside the bronze statue, nodded and said, "The inside of the bronze statue is a sea formed by the power of laws."

“Perhaps, only the cultivators who are in the sea of ​​laws can practice the Tongxin Minglu technique.”

“But the problem is.”

Lian Yu continued.

"From what I know, the Sea of ​​Laws formed by the power of laws is extremely dangerous."

“Once you sink into it, even a cultivator in the fusion stage will find it difficult to escape.”

As he spoke, Lian Yu suddenly turned his head and glanced at Xie Shen, saying, "Fellow Daoist Xie Shen should know exactly how dangerous the Sea of ​​Laws is."

"That's right." Xie Shen nodded and said, "I just escaped from the Sea of ​​Laws not long ago."

"That time, if Li Xiu hadn't risked his life to save me, I might still be trapped in the Sea of ​​Laws."

It is a well-known fact that Xie Shen has reached the stage of fusion.

Since the Sea of ​​Laws could even trap Xie Shen, then Su Xing and Geng Yi, who were at the same level, naturally could not go there. So Geng Yi smiled helplessly and said, "In this case, I'm afraid that only Xie Shen can practice the Tongxin Minglu technique."

"That's enough, actually." Su Xing analyzed aloud, "After all, quality is more important than quantity."

“If Xie Shen can rely on that technique to successfully break through to the Return to Void Stage.”

"Then even if none of us take action, his strength alone is enough to prevent the great catastrophe that will last for ten thousand years."

"There are also agents."

"In front of the Return to Void Stage cultivators, they are equally vulnerable."

"And Li Xiu." Deng Bin hurriedly followed up after hearing this: "If Xie Shen really breaks through to the Return to Void Stage, then Perfect City will be like his own backyard, where he can come in and out as he pleases. By then, Li Xiu can be rescued in a matter of minutes!"

Seeing everyone talking at the same time, Xie Shen couldn't help but speak.

"Everyone, stop flattering me."

"Although I have mastered the 'Tongxin Minglu' technique, I can easily transform the black mist into the power of the law."

“But even so, it will still take me a long time to break through from the Fusion Stage to the Return to Void Stage.”

Xie Shen spread his hands and said.

"Not to mention much else, the amount of power required to break through the Return to Void Stage is already an astronomical figure."

"It's no exaggeration to say that even if I tortured nearly 2000 billion mortals in the Aldebaran star system with cruel means at the same time, and then tortured them for hundreds of years at a time, the black mist produced by the torture of so many people would still not allow me to break through."

"Uh..." Hearing this, Deng Bin said with a strange expression: "Is the practice of the Fusion Stage really so difficult and exaggerated?"

“Isn’t this obvious?” Xie Shen said as a matter of course: “Looking at the entire Milky Way, there is currently no cultivator who can break through to the Return to Void Stage.”

“From this, we can see how difficult it is.”

"That's the end," said Dunbin in despair, "All the people in the entire Aldebaran star system have been tortured for more than a hundred years."

"The huge amount of black mist generated by so many people still can't help you break through. What's the point of our cultivation?"

"Instead of practicing meaninglessly, it is better to think of other ways to avoid the Agent and the Ten Thousand Years Disaster."

"For example," Dunbin suggested, "we could build a super awesome starship and fly directly to the outside of the Milky Way."

In the laboratory.

Hearing what Deng Bin said, Zhuge Fu, who had been busy in the laboratory, suddenly came forward.

He interrupted.

"Escaping the galaxy is not as easy as you think."

"Although our Milky Way is right next to the Andromeda Galaxy, and there are many dwarf galaxies attached to these two galaxies."

"But the 'close' I just mentioned is only relative to the entire universe."

Zhuge Fu explained.

"From our human perspective, the distances between the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy, as well as many other dwarf galaxies, are really huge."

"There is almost nothing in this area, so we humans call this area the local void, or the local void."

"There is nothing in the Local Void. It is truly a void." Zhuge Fu emphasized, "Not to mention visible matter, even cold dark matter, supernatural powers, and neutrinos do not exist."

“Even unspeakable creatures find it difficult to survive in it.”

"The starship is traveling in this void, and it is impossible for it to replenish any energy during this time."

"so."

Zhuge Fu concluded with one sentence: "Unless we can invent a perpetual motion machine in the true sense of the word, a perpetual motion machine that can generate energy without the help of any material, it will be difficult for us to directly pass through the void outside the Milky Way and escape from the Milky Way."

"Okay." Deng Bin said helplessly after hearing this: "Although I didn't quite understand what you just said."

"But you are a scientist, so what you say must make sense."

“So I don’t argue.”

he continued.

“Then the problem arises.”

"Since we can neither defeat them nor escape, do we really have to learn from the Agents and surrender to the indescribable creatures?"

"Do you have any other way to break the impasse?"

this.
Deng Bin's words caused everyone at the scene, who were at a loss for what to do, to fall into silence for a moment.

After a long while, Geng Yi finally spoke slowly: "I just thought of a way to break the impasse, but this method may be a little dangerous for the executor."

"You say." Xie Shen encouraged after hearing this.

Geng Yi said: "I don't know if you have heard of it."

"In order to serve the unspeakable creatures, the agents often use various inhuman methods to torture or play with the humans on various planets."

"for example."

He gave an example: "It's like the tower prison that can torture people non-stop, also known as the Tower of Pain."

"This tower is used to extract the painful emotions from humans."

"Another example is the 'Lord God Space' that can create dangerous illusions."

"This space is designed to extract the fear and despair from humans."

"I won't go into details about this and other things."

Geng Yi continued, "In short, after the agents extract various emotions from humans, they will transfer these emotions to a building called the 'Emotion Tower' for easy storage."

"The emotional power in the Emotion Tower, or the black mist, is really huge."

"Compared to this, the 2000 billion people in the Aldebaran system are nothing more than little brothers."

Geng Yi emphasized.

"If Xie Shen can sneak into the Emotion Tower, and then practice the 'Heart-to-Heart Record' technique to absorb the emotional power inside, that is, the black mist."

"Then these black mists collected from countless planets will be able to provide Xie Shen with unimaginable amounts of law power."

"With so much power of laws, perhaps Xie Shen can directly advance to the Return to Void Stage in one go."

A tower of emotions?
Hearing Geng Yi's suggestion, Xie Shen's eyes lit up and said, "So do you know where the Emotion Tower is located?"

"I'm not sure." Geng Yi shook his head first.

Then he changed the subject and said, "But I have my own way to help you find the tower."

"What method?" Xie Shen asked.

Geng Yi said: "The method I want to talk about is actually very simple - that is to trace the source, by observing where the black fog on each planet has been teleported to, so as to find the exact location of the emotional tower."

"Although it is very difficult to trace the origin, at least I can't do it."

"But I think, since you have so many high-tech talents in Aldebaran, your achievements in technology are not much lower than those of the agents. Then you can completely develop a tracker on your own and track the black fog on various planets."

"In this way, can we follow the clues to find the emotional tower?"

A tracker, right?
As the current leader of the Aldebaran star system, Zhuge Fu is a person who is only good at internal affairs.

When it comes to scientific research, he only has a little knowledge, but is not very proficient in it.

So in order to confirm the technological level of the Earth forces and whether they could develop the so-called "tracker", he shouted to the corner of the laboratory: "Li Xiu, you should have heard what we just said, right? Can you make the tracker?"

In the corner of the laboratory.

After hearing what Zhuge Fu said, a hideous-looking mechanical skeleton spoke in a human voice with no emotion at all.

"Yes, just give me a month."

(Resurrection of All Mankind, Volume 4, End)

(End of this chapter)