Alien Hotel.

Chapter 433 From the Great Road to the Simple
When the people of the city suddenly awaken from a long hallucination and realize that the city they thought was “normal” had actually been contaminated and occupied by strange “planetary parasites” long ago, and that the entire planet had even turned into a nightmarish and eerie place, the chaos that would follow is unimaginable.

Honestly, simply "awakening" millions of people like this isn't the best approach—if the "Star Entity" had given everyone a little more time, Yu Sheng would have considered having Eileen and Mo Ran work together to wake up Mo Cheng from his collective cognitive impairment in batches and stages, making personnel arrangements and coordinating post-incident reassurance in advance.

However, the "Star-Evolving Body," which already possesses intelligence, will not stand idly by and watch such a thing happen—the only way to tear open the passage is to instantly break through Mo Cheng's cognitive barrier before its "Ascension Body" matures. As for the subsequent chaos... that's something Mo Ran can figure out.

Now, the curtain has been lifted, and the "reality" is overwhelming, waking the city's residents from their previous "daily life."

In the weapon-refining workshop on the outskirts of the city, countless craftsmen were astonished to see that the surface of the old furnace was covered with a thick layer of strange crystals, with crystal clusters emerging from the gaps in the pipes and growing wildly on the roof.

As residents waited at home for the approaching storm, they suddenly looked up to see the outside of their windows covered with thick clusters of spider webs. The brief nightmare of being covered in spider webs just a moment ago still lingered in their minds, forcibly keeping them "awake" in a way that was anything but gentle.
Inside the mall, customers seeking shelter from the wind and rain descended into chaos amidst screams and shouts. They suddenly saw a giant crystal tree piercing through the entire building. However, those astonishingly large crystal branches had actually pierced through the walls and roof a hundred years ago, even becoming part of the building itself.

A beautifully decorated, mechanical flower boat, laden with passengers, daringly navigates through the crystal thorns between skyscrapers. Terrified screams echo through the air. Although the flower boat has traveled this path hundreds and thousands of times, only this time do its passengers realize that each time they have almost brushed past those sword-like crystals. The tourists standing on the ship's railing have their faces just inches away from those pale blades...

Chaos began to spread throughout the city. In their panic, most ordinary people with shallow cultivation were at a loss for what to do. Even among the most resolute cultivators, countless people's Dao hearts wavered and they were unable to control themselves in this instant.

Mo Ran immediately stabilized the situation in the city lord's mansion, and then began to contact the heads of various departments in the city. Time was of the essence, and there was no time to explain the cause and effect of the whole matter. She could only order all cultivators under the control of Mo City to immediately calm their minds and maintain order in the city. At the same time, she ordered the closure of all external transportation of Mo City. From this moment on, no one could enter or leave the city.

Her order drew many questions, but no one questioned the decree of the leader of the Mohist school at this moment.

Mo Ran's final order was to sever all communication between Mo City and all other cities on Shuji, blocking all external communication channels, including those used for transmitting messages across vast distances and divine communication.

She wasn't sure how useful this would be, since no one knew how many ways the cognitive pollution of celestial bodies could spread. But one thing she was clear about was that the moment Mo Cheng "woke up," the city had become the biggest "anomaly" on the planet Shuji. Until the incident was resolved, all "voices" and "gazes" directed at Mo Cheng on this planet were harmful.

Even if those were just "compatriots" who were worried about the situation in Mexico City.

As for Yu Sheng, after that illusory "roar," he felt that "gaze" from the depths of the planet.

A gaze carrying astonishing pressure swept across Mo City, but the source of the gaze was the planet beneath everyone's feet. Ordinary people seemed unaware of its existence, but Yu Sheng clearly felt it—his blood had once soaked into the "empty shell" left by the star body in Guard-3, and now, this connection based on blood once again made him feel the "heartbeat" deep within the Guard-3.

The celestial body detected a crack in the cognitive barrier and realized that a city had awakened.

The silver-white nine-tailed fox soared across the sky, leaving a dazzling trail of fire in the wind and rain.

Ahead of Hu Li, the ancient refining tower, entwined with countless crystalline substances, shimmered with a hazy glow in the rain. The city-protecting array, which rose from these towers as nodes, was closing in. Many Mo family cultivators, looking anxious, guarded the talisman nodes on the refining towers, and then looked up in astonishment at the fire fox flying across the sky.

They received orders from the city lord's mansion that "the person riding the nine-tailed silver fox" is an ally of Mo City, and all passages must be opened and closed.

But in reality, it didn't matter whether they let it pass or not, because before the city's protective formation closed, the extremely fast Fire Fox had already passed through the barrier above Mo City.

Eileen clutched a tuft of fox fur beneath her, turned her head to look at the energy shield that had closed above Mo City, and couldn't help but sigh, "It's amazing that their city-protecting formation is still working... even though the entire city was eroded by the crystal like that."

“During the ascension process, the Star Derivative Body will try to hide itself as much as possible. If it causes too many inexplicable ‘anomalies’ in the real world, it will greatly increase the risk of the cognitive barrier being breached. Therefore, before becoming an Ascended Body, it will not destroy the basic functions of the city,” Yu Sheng said casually. “But on the other hand… things like the city-protecting array don’t actually have any effect on the Star Derivative Body itself, so it’s normal for it to ignore it.”

Eileen blinked: "Useless? Then what was the point of Mo Ran raising this array?"

"...It's about protecting against people."

"To protect against people?"

Yu Sheng's expression was solemn: "Beware of people from nearby cities, beware of those still affected by the celestial bodies who want to come and 'help' Mo City—they will bring back cognitive pollution."

Eileen's eyes widened slightly.

Meanwhile, Zheng Zhi, sitting next to Yu Sheng, kept his eyes wide open, observing the situation on the boundless wilderness outside the city.

The wilderness was covered with crystalline structures like a jungle—countless times larger than the crystalline jungle on Garrison-3, and the entire jungle was undulating and writhing like living things.

"Ahead!" Zheng Zhi suddenly raised his hand and pointed in a certain direction deep in the jungle. "There seems to be a crevice there!"

Yu Sheng then pressed down on the fox's head and headed in the direction Zheng Zhi had pointed. But just as they were halfway there, an astonishing fireball suddenly rose from the crystal.

The fireball was as brilliant as the sun, scorching and terrifying. Its shockwave swept across the jungle, instantly crushing countless giant crystalline trees into dust. Only then did Yu Sheng hear the belated roar—a deafening roar that rolled across the sky, even stopping the wind and rain. The rain curtain above the jungle was reversed and scattered, the dark clouds were shattered, and even the sunlight briefly shone on this land.

Amidst the roaring noise, Yu Sheng faintly heard a sound—

"Take this Heaven-Turning Seal!"

The next second, he saw another fireball rise from that direction, this time even bigger than the previous one—though not as big as Hu Li's previous orbital headbutt, it was still a perfectly round mushroom cloud rising into the sky.

Along with the mushroom cloud came a second shout:

"Eat my Hunyuan Demon-Subduing Battle!"

"boom!"

"Eat my Haotian Demon-Suppressing Ruler!"

"boom!"

"Eat my Eight Directions Pure Realm Chapter!"

"boom--"

A series of explosions rose in the crystal forest, and dazzling fireballs and shockwaves crushed the earth like savage beasts, stopping the wind and rain and shattering the clouds. The voice shouting in the explosions sounded particularly familiar.

Yu Sheng was stunned by the earth-shaking commotion in the distance. Without hesitation, he slapped the fox's head, and the nine-tailed silver fox transformed into a streak of fire, rushing straight towards the construction site where bricks were flying everywhere.

From a great distance, Yu Sheng saw Yuan Hao Zhenren standing in mid-air.

The old general, his white hair billowing in the wind, his long robe fluttering, stood with his hands behind his back, floating in mid-air. Layers of mysterious and profound immortal talismans surrounded him, and behind him, scattered sparks of electricity formed a massive array as large as a city. Within the array, wind, rain, thunder, lightning, metal, stone, fire, and earth elements changed and transformed, as if they were evolving the laws of heaven and earth, forming a self-contained cycle, endlessly regenerating.

Floating within that array were hundreds, even thousands, of magical treasures—

Long, short, thick, flat, with air holes in the middle, with grooves on the edges...

Hundreds of magical treasures surrounded Yuanhao Zhenren, forming another constantly changing and reorganizing grand formation.

Yu Sheng even suspected that the formation was named Tu Mu.

Even Hu Li, Yu Sheng, and everyone else on Hu Li's back were stunned by this scene. Eileen stared wide-eyed for a long time before finally blurting out, "Holy crap, it's AAA Building Materials Wholesale Master Hao—"

However, the group most shocked at the scene was not Yu Sheng and his party, but another group of people on the ground below.

In the devastated Crystal Forest, Yu Sheng saw countless deep craters, as if left by a meteorite impact. Each crater was filled with scorching heat, and many black-clad cultivators had perished within them. Yet, even so, some powerful figures had managed to hold on. Several protective arrays, emitting a faint spiritual light, were scattered across the ground. Beneath the crumbling shields were several severely wounded black-clad evil cultivators. Even through their strange masks, Yu Sheng could almost see the fear in their eyes, a fear that had driven them to madness.

Just as Yuanhao Zhenren was slightly distracted by Yu Sheng's arrival, a black-clad cultivator who appeared to be in the best condition suddenly raised his hand.

A flying sword, gleaming with a sinister purple light, silently slipped from his sleeve.

That was clearly a natal magic weapon that wouldn't be used lightly unless absolutely necessary. Countless hours of painstaking refinement had been put into it, and countless unpredictable and bizarre powers had been condensed within it. The black-clad cultivator was quite confident in this attack. He knew that this sword was not only extremely fast and powerful, but also possessed the miraculous effects of concealing killing intent and breaking spells. Furthermore, it contained secret techniques that could sever the soul and interfere with the mind, and could leave behind bone-scraping and marrow-corroding marks after each attack…

Master Yuanhao did not turn around, but casually pointed downwards and smashed a brick down.

The Haotian Demon-Suppressing Ruler has no special effects and an attack power of 1 trillion.

(End of this chapter)