Resurrection of all mankind

Chapter 69 Sounds the clarion call for counterattack
Because he crossed two small realms in one breath, his strength increased too quickly.

In order to consolidate his own cultivation, Xie Shen began a secluded retreat in a secret room that lasted for several years.

During the retreat, Yang Si would come to the secret room from time to time to accompany Xie Shen.

In addition, Xie Shen would come out of seclusion and give lectures every three months as agreed.

As time went by, the trend of spiritual practice became more popular in the space station.

In order to break through to a higher level as quickly as possible, some people even spent their points to buy the white mist used for practice from Li Xiu.

Just like that, time passed quickly and it was the end of the year 6146.

this day.

As usual, the man in the suit came to the secret room where Xie Shen was in seclusion and told him the latest news about the space station.

"Not long ago, the space station sent another group of people to try to reach the Tower Prison."

"And it's also a combination of monks and cyborgs."

"But it may be because you were not there. The operation was completely destroyed and no benefits were gained."

"Then there's the white mist." The man in the suit continued, "Li Xiu has already applied the white mist to military equipment."

"Like a D-type combat spacecraft, and various weapons."

"Nearly half of these armaments have been replaced with ones powered by white mist."

"In this way, the power, instantaneous explosive force, and endurance have been greatly improved."

The man in the suit continued, "In addition, Li Xiu also optimized the prosthetic limbs of the cyborgs."

The prosthetic limbs have also been upgraded?

Xie Shen was curious when he heard this: "Which aspects have been optimized specifically?"

The man in the suit thought for a moment and said, "As for the black chip you brought back earlier, you must have a deep impression of it, right?"

"The technology in that chip can make humans feel no pain."

"Li Xiu has already mastered the technology thoroughly."

"Uh," the man in the suit said, and suddenly changed his words: "I should say I've eaten half of it."

"Then he used the technology in the chip to upgrade the artificial limbs of the cyborg."

"Now all the cyborgs who have been fitted with prosthetic limbs will no longer experience phantom pain."

"This optimization is a qualitative leap for cyborgs," the man in the suit continued, "Originally, cyborgs could only replace one arm and one leg with prosthetic limbs. If they had more, they would be unbearable due to phantom pain."

“But it’s different now.”

"Almost all cyborgs can have their hands and feet replaced, 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 enough to defeat thousands of troops."

“It’s really strong!”

"You are the same, aren't you?" The man in the suit quickly flattered, "In terms of cultivation, you are the undisputed number one in the entire space station."

"Ah."

In response to what the man in the suit said, Xie Shen just chuckled and didn't say anything.

Afterwards, 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
...

Cultivation has no time.

Xie Shen practiced hard in seclusion in the secret room, and soon another year passed.

During this year, thanks to the efforts of Li Xiu and his team, almost all weapons and equipment in the space station have been updated.

In addition, the prosthetic limbs used to transform people have been upgraded.

As well as the improvement that the white mist brought to the practitioners, and Xie Shen’s preaching and teaching from time to time.

All of the above has resulted in a near-leap-forward improvement in the overall combat capability of the space station.

Now we are preparing for battle.

Humans, it's time to launch a counterattack on the Tower Prison.

So at the end of 6147 AD, the Tiangong Space Station began to try to build a base on the surface as a springboard for counterattacking the Tower Prison.

At the same time.

Xie Shen was still practicing in seclusion in the secret room to consolidate his late foundation-building cultivation.
...

Time passes, and another spring comes in a blink of an eye.

In March of 48, the man in the suit approached Xie Shen again.

This time he brought bad news: "The base of the space station built on the surface has been completely lost."

"Did it fall?"

In the secret room.

Xie Shen thought thoughtfully: "Is it because of the thalamic sentinel?"

"Yes." The man in the suit responded, "The appearance of the thalamic sentinels has a characteristic."

"That is, where there are more people, there are more of them."

"And no matter how hard you try, you can never 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 defend against attacks from the thalamus sentinels almost every night."

"The station calls this attack a 'Sentinel Tide'."

"The Sentinel Tide is really powerful"

"The surface base only lasted about four months before it was breached by the Thalamus Sentinels."

Having said this, Li Xiu's voice suddenly rang out from outside the secret room.

He continued what the man in the suit said: "This time, I really can't think of a solution, so I came to you."

"Didn't you say before that you could set up a spirit gathering formation in the medicine garden?"

"Since you can set up a spirit gathering formation," Li Xiu asked Xie Shen, "then do you know how to use a defensive formation?"

“I really know how to do this!” In his previous life, Xie Shen was an ancestor of the Qingyang Sect in the Nascent Soul stage.

He was well aware of the sect protection formation.

He immediately responded: "It is not difficult to set up a defensive formation."

"As long as there are Foundation Establishment cultivators present, and Qi Refining cultivators to help."

"Then I will be able to build the formation for you in no more than one day."

“But the problem is.”

At this point, Xie Shen pointed out the key point: "No matter what type of formation, it requires spiritual power to maintain."

"If the formation is smaller in scale, it can directly draw spiritual energy from the environment and become self-sufficient."

"But what you want is a defensive formation that can protect the entire base."

"Do you understand the formation?"

Xie Shen continued: "Once the scale is large, it will be impossible to be self-sufficient."

"You need spiritual stones, or you can build the formation directly on the spiritual vein."

“But it’s a pity.”

"Whether it's spiritual stones or spiritual veins, I've never found any when I went to the surface."

Li Xiu seemed to have considered the issue of spirit stones and spirit veins long ago.

He immediately said without thinking: "Can the spirit stones and spirit veins you mentioned be replaced by white mist?"

"This..." Xie Shen was really stumped by the question.

He said uncertainly: "Although white mist can be absorbed by cultivators, there is still a difference between white mist and spiritual energy."

“So it’s hard to say whether it can be replaced.”

"How about this"

Xie Shen said this and simply walked out of the secret room.

He took out a jade slip from his arms, threw it to Li Xiu and said, "I have just copied the arrangement methods of two basic formations into the jade slip." "One formation is called 'Gathering Spirits', which can gather the spiritual power of heaven and earth within a certain range to assist in cultivation."

"The other one is called 'Spiritual Light', which can be used to trap and defend."

"Take the jade slip back and study it. You can try to see if you can use white mist to replace spiritual power."

Jade slip?
It was the first time that Li Xiu came into contact with the treasure called "Jade Slip".

He stared at the jade slip, with a flash of fanaticism in his eyes: "How do I use this thing?"

"It's simple." Xie Shen explained: "Just stick the jade slip on your forehead."

Driven by a strong desire for knowledge, Li Xiu placed the jade slip in his hand on his forehead without thinking.

next second.

He only felt a huge flow of information as vast as the 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 lit up and he said, "This jade slip is extremely valuable. It can be said to be no less valuable 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!"

As he spoke, Li Xiu complained to Xie Shen, "Why didn't you take out such an important thing earlier?"

"You still want to mass-produce it?" Xie Shen said speechlessly: "Jade slips are very difficult to refine. Only cultivators in the middle or late stages of foundation building can make them."

"Also, there is a limit on the number of times the jade slip can be used."

"Usually, after using it about 4-5 times, it will turn back into a blank jade slip."

“So don’t even think about mass production.”

Xie Shen added: "And it's not just the jade slips. All items produced by the cultivation civilization basically have the characteristic of 'cannot be mass-produced'. So for us cultivators, external objects are just external objects after all, and improving strength is the fundamental thing."

"Is that so?" Li Xiu, who had obtained the 'jade slip' and 'formation', couldn't wait to go back to the laboratory to study them.

So after saying "thank you" to Xie Shen, he turned around and left in a hurry without looking back.

The man in a suit, who was his follower, followed closely behind.

This is Li Xiu.

Looking at Li Xiu's departing back, Xie Shen also turned back to the secret room.
...

Spring passes and autumn comes.

Since receiving the two major formations of 'Lingguang' and 'Jiling' from Xie Shen, Li Xiu has devoted almost all his energy to the research of the formations.

Hard work pays off.

Finally, after spending nearly half a year, Li Xiu improved the 'Spiritual Light Array'.

——Just keep injecting white mist into the improved spiritual light formation, and it will be enough to make the formation operate.

With this formation, the space station re-established a base on the surface.

About three months passed like this.

After three years of hard training, Xie Shen finally ended his retreat and walked out of the secret room.

At the invitation of Li Xiu, Xie Shen, after coming out of seclusion, took a spaceship to the surface base.

...

air.

The spaceship that Xie Shen was on had not yet landed, but from a distance, he saw a giant translucent light shield high in the sky.

This light shield is semicircular in shape and emits a faint golden light from time to time.

——As expected, this is the 'Spiritual Light Array' after Li's modification.

In the formation, you can see countless temporary houses, and occasionally human soldiers walking around in them.

This is the overall picture of the temporary base on the surface.

Lean less.

As the spaceship Xie Shen was on got closer and closer to the ground, the spiritual light formation suddenly opened up on its own.

Then the spacecraft slowly landed on the ground along this opening.

"sure."

Seeing this, Xie Shen said to Li Xiu who was also in the spaceship: "This formation can actually open a gap automatically."

"It's been less than half a year, and you've already studied the Spiritual Light Array so thoroughly."

“You can even draw inferences about other situations.”

"Great!"

Li Xiu does not have the trait of "emotion".

He did not react to Xie Shen's praise, but said expressionlessly: "It's just a summary of various phenomena. As long as something exists in the material world, we can understand its principles through similar methods."

While talking, both of them got off the spaceship.

After exiting the spaceship, Xie Shen looked around and sighed, "To maintain such a large-scale formation, a lot of white mist must be consumed every day, right?"

"Yeah." Li Xiu nodded and said, "The consumption is indeed huge. But there is no other way. Those thalamus 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 looked at Xie Shen meaningfully.

He pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose and said, "It is said that a gentleman should stay away from the kitchen."

"If I really took you to see it, where did the white mist come from?"

"Then with your personality, you will definitely have a knot in your heart."

"This will make your mind unstable and your thoughts unclear."

"so."

Li Xiu said calmly: "There are some things that you'd better not know."

Xie Shen understood the hidden meaning of Li Xiu's words.

He guessed, "You mean: the white mist used to maintain the spiritual light formation is squeezed out of living people?"

Li Xiu turned his head aside and repeated, "I've already told you that there are some things you'd better not know."

"Otherwise it will affect your Taoism."

Li Xiu was obviously unwilling to continue arguing with Xie Shen on this topic.

He deliberately changed the subject and said, "This time I came to the surface, I mainly wanted to show you the latest discoveries in our laboratory."

"The latest discovery?" Xie Shen asked with a puzzled look on his face.

"Ah."

Li Xiu said: "Although our base is protected by the spiritual light array, it can block the invasion of the thalamus sentinels."

"But being trapped in the base by the Thalamus Sentinels like this is definitely not a long-term solution."

"We can't just keep playing defense."

"After all, we came to the surface to launch a counterattack on the Tower Prison."

"So, we have to find a way to completely eliminate the thalamic sentinels from the root."

Conversation room.

Xie Shen followed Li Xiu and came to a laboratory in the base.

Li Xiu introduced to Xie Shen: "Did you see the mirror in the laboratory? That's the solution we came up with."

——Following Li Xiu’s gaze, Xie Shen saw an extremely huge mirror in the laboratory.

The mirror was more than two people tall.

Looking inside, one can see a scene that is completely different from the real world.

Obviously.

This is no ordinary mirror.

(End of this chapter)