Fairy, please step aside, I've taken a liking to your man.

"Have you heard? A huge spirit stone mine has been discovered in the Kingdom of Xisai."

"It is said that a medicinal mountain has been discovered on the East Island, and even the lowest-grade spiritual herbs on it are third-grade spiritual herbs."

"Mao Jingguo is really in luck this time. It's said that there's a spirit mine deep within that fifth-order spirit vein that produces all sorts of third-order refining materials."

……

Shen Bai peered down from the private room upstairs and saw several men in gray Taoist robes drinking and making merry. Their presence immediately drew the attention of many people, and some people in the nearby private rooms also peeked out.

Seeing many people staring at them, the square-faced cultivator at the head chuckled: "These are nothing special. I heard that someone found a ruin a thousand miles outside Qiyuan City."

It is said that the ruins were likely left behind by cultivators from Qiyuan Star. Various countries are currently sending people to investigate, and it is estimated that they will soon be able to confirm whether or not humans exist on Qiyuan Star.

This message immediately piqued everyone's interest.

"I'll treat them to that table."

An arrogant voice came from the private room on the second floor. Shen Bai turned his head and saw a thin, Golden Core cultivator at the Great Perfection stage. He had a woman on each arm and addressed the cultivators downstairs, "Is there any more information about the ruins?"

The square-faced cultivator cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, sir! I am He Yuanhong, a demon beast hunter. I don't know much about the specifics of this ruin. I only know that there are many traces of human chiseling inside, but I don't know the specifics."

The Xuan Yuan Empire has already dispatched a Nascent Soul True Monarch to lead an expedition, and various countries have also sent teams led by Golden Core Great Perfection cultivators.

The gaunt monk nodded in satisfaction, then put his arm around the young lady and led her back to the private room.

Shen Bai stared at the other person for a few moments, and only after the other person stopped talking about the matter did he pick up his communication talisman and quickly send a message to the Sixth Princess.

"Aren't you staying here tonight, sir?"

When Teacher Aso saw Shen Bai get up to leave, she reached out to stop him, but Shen Bai casually tossed her a spirit stone bag: "I have some things to do today. I'll come back and experience Teacher Aso's private tutoring when I'm done."

Teacher Aso nodded with pleasure, stood up to straighten Shen Bai's clothes, then knelt down and respectfully saw Shen Bai off.

As Shen Bai walked downstairs, he immediately noticed that there were at least half as many customers in the well as before.

It seems that news of the ruins has spread rapidly.

Shen Bai first arrived at the Rota Kingdom office. When Rebecca saw him, she quickly said, "Miss Vanka will soon be leading 30,000 sword cultivators to be teleported here."

Shen Bai was overjoyed: "I'll go greet her right away."

……

Vanka brought few sword cultivators this time, but they were all at the Golden Core stage. The Kingdom of Rota has truly pulled out all the stops.

Of the 85000 sword cultivators in total, nearly 4000 died, but more than 81000 still remained. It can be said that among all the countries, the power was second only to the Xuan Yuan Empire.

Such a large number of sword cultivators are an extremely important human resource for the Luota Kingdom. If something were to happen to these 8-plus sword cultivators on Qiyuan Star, the blow to the Luota Kingdom would be considerable.

In fact, Dongdao's exploration of Qiyuan Star was already a failure, with nearly half of its resources lost, which was a very heavy blow to them.

Fortunately, they just discovered a medicinal mountain, which, from an economic perspective, made up for a great deal of the loss. However, the shortage of talent cannot be made up for in a short time.

Shen Bai had already learned from the Sixth Princess that the protests from various countries were very intense, with many demanding that the Xuan Yuan Empire grant permission for Nascent Soul stage cultivators to enter the country.

However, the Xuan Yuan Empire would never open up at this point in time, so their response was simply: "Anyone below the Nascent Soul stage can enter freely, use whatever abilities you have. Anyone above the Nascent Soul stage, don't even think about it."

Finally, having exhausted all other options, the various countries summoned all the Golden Core Grandmasters from within their respective kingdoms.

They were instructed to do only one thing after entering Qiyuan Star: to sprint with all their might and enter the Nascent Soul stage.

Therefore, at this time, everyone is working hard to establish strongholds while racing against time to reach the Nascent Soul stage, hoping to gain the upper hand in the shortest possible time.

Vanka arrived so late not only because he was waiting for more sword cultivators from the Rota Kingdom to come, but also partly because he was preparing resources for his sprint to the Nascent Soul stage.

She has already reached the Great Perfection of the Golden Core stage and is prepared not to return to Blue Star for a while after entering the Nascent Soul stage.

When Shen Bai saw Vanka's figure appear on the teleportation array, his eyes lit up with surprise. Ignoring the stares of others, he held up a bouquet of roses and presented it to Vanka.

"you……"

Just as Vanka was about to say something, Shen Bai pulled her into his arms and gave her a passionate, wet kiss.

"I thought I'd never see you again!"

Shen Bai looked at Vanka with lingering fear on his face, while Vanka's eyes sparkled with the joy of reunion: "Don't be afraid, I'm here."

Shen Bai put his arm around Vanka and walked towards the square outside.

"The current situation is very serious. Our stronghold is under attack from two giant apes every day. If we don't eliminate them, it will be very difficult for us to develop."

"I just received information that Master Bart has sent a team of 100 people to investigate the ruins discovered by the monster hunters."

……

Shen Bai quickly relayed the latest information to Wanka, who also activated the Spirit Network and quickly browsed various messages on the forum.

Once all 3 sword cultivators had arrived, Vanka gave an order, and all the sword cultivators were given a heavy magical artifact.

Shen Bai took a closer look and immediately realized that this heavy magical artifact was actually an enhanced version of the Namo Gatling Bodhisattva.

The number of barrels was reduced to three, but the barrels were much thicker.

It is clear that the Rota Empire has also developed its own magical weapon version of firearms.

Since Shen Bai's Desert Eagle, Namo Gatling Bodhisattva, and hand grenades made great contributions on the battlefield and during the exploration of Qiyuan Star, countries have been actively imitating and developing similar products.

These low-level magical artifacts, which do not require spiritual energy, are portable yet extremely powerful, and have been widely sought after by various countries.

Shen Bai was very clear that this thing was not technically difficult. Once the result was known, it was not difficult to reverse engineer the product.

Previously, I only had the advantage of being the first to move.

He never dared to doubt the creative abilities of those powerful fifth- and sixth-tier weapon refiners.

This triple-barreled cannon is much simpler than the Namo Gatling Bodhisattva. It abandons precision strikes and adopts a large-caliber design. The bullets are also made of much better materials than those of the Namo Gatling Bodhisattva. It is clearly designed specifically to deal with orcs.

"This is called the Tri-Element Cannon. It's a new magical artifact that was just developed by a domestic research institute. With these artifacts, low-level orcs should be no match for us."

Shen Bai fiddled with the three-element cannon in his hand, listening to Wan Ka's introduction, and was already thinking that the Xuan Yuan Empire also needed to be upgraded.

Otherwise, they'll be surpassed by the younger generation.

Wouldn't that make Lockheed Martin's military factory lose face?

The new magical artifact has already been completed, and it is even more powerful than the Three-Element Cannon, but it has just not been brought out yet.

Thirty thousand sword cultivators, each armed with a Tri-Element Cannon, flew towards the stronghold of the Kingdom of Rota. Along the way, the orcs originally intended to launch a sneak attack as they had done the previous two times, but they were quickly blasted into dust by the Tri-Element Cannons.

Before they even reached the location, they saw the stronghold being attacked by two giant apes. Master Bat was desperately trying to unleash the full power of his battle formation, constantly fighting the giant apes head-on.

"Switch everything to Berserk Mode, refill with high-grade spirit stones!"

At Vanka's command, 30,000 triple-element cannons were simultaneously aimed at the two giant apes that were wreaking havoc on the stronghold.

"shoot!"

The spiritual energy attack, gathered from 30,000 high-grade spirit stones, struck the two Nascent Soul giant apes almost simultaneously.

The two giant apes simultaneously roared in pain. With so many attacks, even though they were thick-skinned and had high magic resistance, they were still beaten until their skin was torn and bleeding.

"One more time!"

Knowing that this was not the time to conserve spirit stones, Vanka waved his hand and unleashed another 30,000 spiritual energy attacks. However, this time, the beastmen knew how to dodge, and very few of the 30,000 attacks hit the two giant apes.

"Battle formation!"

Seeing that the Three Elements Cannon was ineffective, Wanka quickly commanded 30,000 sword cultivators to form a battle formation, which, together with the magic formation formed by 50,000 sword cultivators in the stronghold, attacked the enemy from both sides.

The sword cultivators brought by Vanka were all extremely powerful, with the lowest being at the Golden Core stage. Therefore, they were not afraid of the two Nascent Soul beastmen at all.

"boom--"

The colossal sword formed by the battle formation clashed violently with the giant ape beastman's iron fist, producing a deafening roar. However, this time, the two giant apes were no longer so fortunate.

The powerful battle formation sliced ​​off half of the giant ape's hand.

Thirty thousand Golden Core sword cultivators, extremely fierce.

"roar--"

The giant ape, in pain, dared not be reckless again. It grabbed the smaller giant ape beside it and sped away into the distance, disappearing without a trace in just a few breaths.

"Great! Sister, you're finally here!"

Bart let out a long breath; he felt like he was on the verge of collapse.

These two giant apes have been harassing him day and night, driving him crazy.

"Quickly establish a new defensive array."

At Vanka's command, fifth-tier array masters quickly stepped forward and began constructing a larger and more comprehensive defensive array. Vanka then followed True Person Bart to the temporary command post: "How's the spirit stone mining going?"

Upon hearing this, Master Bate said with a mournful face, "We could have produced 100,000 low-grade spirit stones a day, but we've been harassed these past few days, and the mining of spirit stones has been completely cut off."

Vanka nodded and said, "I have already contacted the country and requested that a group of miners at the Qi Refining stage be organized. They will be sent here soon. In addition, I will apply to the Xuan Yuan Empire to open the teleportation array between Qi Yuan City and here. With the teleportation array, we will no longer have to worry about being attacked by orcs when traveling to and from Qi Yuan City."

With Vanka's arrival, everything quickly got back on track.

Shen Bai stood aside and listened. Vanka and Bart made no attempt to hide anything from him, which convinced Shen Bai that he had gained Vanka's trust.

"How's the exploration of the ruins going?"

After Vanka finished setting up the defenses of the outpost, he began asking about the hottest topics of the day.