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

Jarnard was furious and turned to look at Shen Bai, only to find that Shen Bai also had an arrogant look on his face.

"Okay, okay, very good. Then there's no need to investigate further. I've basically identified the killer."

Seeing Jarnard about to storm out in a huff, Shen Bai suddenly laughed and said, "Don't rush off, take a look at what this is!"

Janard paused for a moment, then turned to look at Shen Bai.

Shen Bai was holding three severed heads in his hand.

One had white hair, one had blonde hair, and one had black hair.

The three Golden Core cultivators glared angrily ahead.

It's obvious he died with his eyes wide open in disbelief.

"What do you mean by that?"

Jarnard had a vague idea in his mind, but he still asked it out loud.

"When I was sent by Philip to explore the spiritual veins, I encountered three Golden Core cultivators who tried to kill me. I have a bad temper, so I killed them without hesitation!"

Shen Bai scoffed, "Lord Jarnard seems to be the base's deputy consul general. Shouldn't we also investigate who hired someone to kill me?"

Janard's face immediately darkened.

If he still doesn't understand that Shen Bai is humiliating him at this point, then he's lived for nothing.

"Good, very good, I will definitely help you find the mastermind behind this!"

Jarnard reached out and took the three heads, about to turn and leave, when Vanka suddenly spoke up: "I hope you will investigate this matter with the same intensity as you investigated the Fip case. My country, Rota, will never let any perpetrator go unpunished!"

Janard's body stiffened, and then he strode out of Vanka's office without looking back.

……

"You were able to kill a Golden Core cultivator while only at the Foundation Establishment stage; that truly impresses me!"

Vanka's gaze toward Shen Bai was filled with admiration.

She knew before that Li Bai's swordsmanship was superb, but she didn't know that he could easily kill three Golden Core cultivators who were above his level. With this combat power alone, he could definitely make a name for himself in the Luota Kingdom.

"Were you injured? Why didn't you tell me then?"

After praising him, Vanka felt a little scared. He had been worried that Philip would use such underhanded tactics, but he didn't expect him to actually do it.

"It's nothing, just three spineless cowards who follow Fip. It'll only take a little effort."

Shen Bai lowered his chin and looked at Vanka: "Is the Kuna family forcing you into a marriage alliance again?"

Revealing a little bit of your hand will only make Vanka more protective of himself.

He knew very well that in order to win over Vanka, he had to constantly increase his importance in her heart.

Vanka shook his head and said, "So what if they force me? I currently command hundreds of thousands of cultivators, and I am the most powerful cultivator here. What can they do even if they are anxious? I will not return to Blue Star until the ultra-large-scale, ultra-long-distance teleportation array is completed."

Here, I am the queen!

Seeing the sudden surge of domineering power within Vanka's captivating aura, Shen Bai revealed a look of infatuation: "Your Majesty, I wish to attempt to break through to the Golden Core stage today!"

Vanka chuckled and waved to deactivate the formation.

"Then let me lend you a hand."

……

After Shen Bai and Wan Ka had been fooling around for three days, the array masters of the Xuan Yuan Empire arrived, and the teleportation array for the sixth-order spiritual vein was quickly established.

Bart had already led the fifth-tier array masters to establish a powerful defensive array there, so the moment the teleportation array was opened, ten thousand Golden Core sword cultivators immediately transferred to the sixth-tier spiritual vein to begin city-building work.

Numerous companies from the Rota Kingdom flocked to the site and began relocating their branches to the fourth-tier spiritual vein.

A month later, after the fourth-order spiritual vein had been almost completely destructively excavated, Vanka gave an order, and hundreds of thousands of sword cultivators were transferred to the newly built Luota City on the sixth-order spiritual vein through the teleportation array, while the temporary stronghold on the fourth-order spiritual vein was completely abandoned.

During this period, not only did good news keep coming from Rota, but good news also came from other countries.

The urban development of Maojing Kingdom, Dongdao, and Xisai Kingdom has entered a stable period. As more and more resources are being discovered, they are being transported back to Blue Star through teleportation arrays. Blue Star is also attracted by these rich rewards, and more and more ordinary people are following the country's lead, stepping into the teleportation arrays, and heading to Qiyuan Star to dig for wealth.

When all the countries entered Qiyuan Star in the fifth month, the population of Qiyuan Star exploded, reaching nearly ten million.

The Xuan Yuan Empire is making a fortune.

The revenue from tolls alone has exceeded one trillion, and with taxes added, other countries are so envious that they can't help but form an alliance to attack the Xuan Yuan Empire.

Countries are doing everything they can to find their own Golden Core stage array masters, hoping to help them quickly advance to the Nascent Soul stage after entering Qiyuan Star, and then break through to the sixth-order array master.

Just when everyone thought that Qiyuan Star was at everyone's mercy, a dramatic change brought all the nations to a standstill.

……

On this day, after Shen Bai and Wan Ka finished their routine discussion, they happily returned to their new residence, only to feel the spiritual energy in the air suddenly become turbulent.

He immediately recalled the information that the Sixth Princess had privately revealed to him, and without saying a word, he took out his Desert Eagle and Namo Gatling Bodhisattva, which he hadn't used for a long time.

He tucked two Desert Eagles under his arms and put the Namo Gatling Bodhisattva into a backpack, which he carried on his back.

Realizing something was amiss, he kicked the ground open, burying the Desert Eagle and Namo Gatling Bodhisattva underground. Then he took out the Triple Cannon that Vanka had given him, put it in his backpack, and carried it on his back.

At first, the turbulent spiritual energy only made people restless and irritable, but soon everyone in the entire camp felt their bodies become hot.

Shen Bai rushed out of his room, as fast as a wild horse, and ran towards Vanka's office. Vanka had just stepped out of her office and looked up at the sky.

The once clear sky had now turned a hazy gray.

The spiritual energy in the air twisted into vortexes, constantly absorbing the surrounding violent spiritual energy.

"What's going on?"

Vanka felt as if something was throbbing wildly within his veins.

"ah--"

A piercing scream rang out, and Vanka's gaze sharpened as he looked down.

In the distance, a Qi Refining stage cultivator was frantically tearing at his clothes.

Beneath the torn clothes, patches of skin were exposed.

What should have been smooth skin was now undergoing a dramatic transformation, and the sight made Vanka's eyes narrow sharply.

"Don't use your spiritual power!"

Shen Bai's voice abruptly interrupted her thoughts. Then, she was lifted up by Shen Bai's strong arms, and the two of them rolled into the room together.

"Quickly, tell everyone not to use their spiritual power!"

Shen Bai shouted loudly, and Wanka immediately realized that there was something strange about Qiyuan Star. She looked up to the sky and roared, "No one is allowed to use their spiritual power! Everyone must return to their own caves or rooms and not go out!"

The city of Luota was in chaos, but fortunately, everyone was a cultivator and reacted very quickly, returning to their caves or rooms in the shortest possible time.

Vanka turned his head to look at the monk outside who was constantly roaring. He saw that the monk's clothes had been torn to shreds, and strands of hair were rapidly gushing out of his body.

Most terrifying of all was his face, which was transforming into the appearance of an orc.

"Is this the secret of Qiyuan Star?"

Vanka's mind raced, and he immediately guessed something.

"I don't know. When I used my spiritual power just now, I noticed something was wrong, so I stopped immediately. Now it seems that this spiritual tide might be triggering something in a cultivator's bloodline."

In less than a hundred breaths, the cultivator had completely transformed into a beastman.

He looked down at his hands as if in disbelief, then his eyes turned bloodshot, reason vanished from his eyes and turned into savagery.

"roar--"

With a roar, the orc transformed from the cultivator began a frenzied attack on the surrounding buildings. Shen Bai opened his backpack, took out the Three Elements Cannon, and fired it at the enemy.

Vanka realized that if he couldn't use his spiritual power, he would just have to use the Tri-Element Cannon to attack.

She immediately raised her voice and ordered, "No one should use their storage rings. If anyone has a Triple Cannon at hand, and someone has become an orc and is unable to maintain their sanity, they are allowed to attack directly."

Ideals are lofty, but reality is cruel.

After bombarding the opponent with the Tri-Element Cannon for a long time, Shen Bai found that he could only inflict superficial injuries on the newly transformed orc at most.

The beastmen transformed from Golden Core cultivators possess extremely strong physical strength.

At this moment, hundreds more cultivators transformed into beastmen.

These cultivators watched in utter terror as their bodies gradually transformed into beasts. Even though they were all Golden Core cultivators, once powerful figures who could command respect in their regions, their Dao hearts crumbled at this moment.

"roar--"

One after another, ferocious roars echoed across the entire city of Luota. The violent attacks caused some of the attacked cultivators to unconsciously use their spiritual power.

Then, like a plague, more and more monks turned into orcs.

The entire city of Rota was thrown into complete chaos.

"Do not use spiritual power, use the Tri-Element Cannon and physical strength!"

Vanka continued to shout loudly, and Bat and others also spread the message everywhere.

Soon, everyone calmed down and realized that if they used their spiritual power at this moment, they would immediately turn into beastmen.

Everyone hid inside the cave, letting the newly transformed beastmen attack and destroy everything they saw.

"Roar roar roar—"

The violent spiritual energy caused these new orcs to completely lose their reason, and some even started attacking each other.

Shen Bai and Vanka stood side by side and watched as an orc transformed into a gigantic beast tens of feet tall, wreaking havoc on all the buildings in Rota City.

"Why is this Qiyuan Star so strange? Could this be where these beastmen came from?"

"Damn it, I want to go back to Earth! This planet is too dangerous! I thought only orcs were troublesome, but I never expected to accidentally turn into one myself!"

"Should we abandon the city? The protective array is currently unguarded. If we allow these orcs to destroy it, we'll be forced to fight them in the raging spiritual energy outside!"

……

The cultivators hid in their caves or rooms, watching the orcs wreaking havoc on their houses and the cultivators forced to fight them, all feeling lingering fear.

"We can't wait any longer!"

Vanka knew that the greater the destruction, the more cultivators would be affected, and in the end, even more cultivators would be impacted.