Terra's Magnetic Field

Master Jiao disagreed. He curled his lips coldly. As a veteran who had participated in many conferences, he laughed in his heart at the ignorant newcomer beside him.

So what if he yawned? How many people in this meeting were not as absent-minded as him? Who would really listen to Xia Lin's seemingly high-sounding but actually nonsense talk? What's more...

Master Jiao glanced at an empty seat in the row in front of him. In front of him was a transparent triangular sign with a layer of red paper sandwiched between it. It read "Master of the Fierce Knife"

That famous fierce knife master!

"Even that fierce knife master didn't come, but he's Lin's grandson... It shows that the Lin family themselves don't care about this formality, so why should we outsiders care? Anyway, Simuitai is not ours, so we should do as much as we can for the money we pay. It's a great honor for him to come to the meeting."

The above is a true reflection of what is currently in the minds of most of the Heavenly Masters at Simuitai.

In terms of numbers, financial resources, and influence in various regions, the Si Sui Tai is stronger than the royal family, but its cohesion and other aspects are far inferior.

Behind the podium where Lin was speaking stood a huge portrait of Wan Bai, his eyes fixed on every move below. If he were still alive, I wonder what he would think...

The sun goes down.

As the sun sets, Lin walks out of the meeting hall after a day of meetings, watching the sun gradually sink into the horizon. The brilliant, gentle light of the object shines into her golden pupils, dyeing the half of her face facing the sun into a rosy glow, giving this beautiful woman a more gentle temperament.

"Huh..." Lin sighed. Several Taoist priests who came out of the meeting hall greeted her. She waved her hand to disperse them. She didn't want to talk about officialdom anymore today.

The Simuitai Council Hall is built in the Lin clan city. It only takes more than ten minutes to walk from here to Lin’s residence. No wonder some people jokingly call this the "Lin royal family". In a sense, Lin is the second emperor of Yan State.

When she returned to the mansion, the family members came over to greet her when they saw her. Lin walked past them with a cold face. She could not see any sincerity in them. She just thought they were the same as the bureaucrats.

Apart from the servants, only a few of her close confidants live here. Gui Adao and Lin Qingyan also live here, but Gui Adao often goes out on missions and is rarely seen. Therefore, the one who spends the most time with Lin is Qingyan, her beloved junior.

Lin saw in Qingyan some of the qualities that he had in the past but had almost lost now, such as the spirit and innocence of a young girl...

Lin did not intend to let Qingyan get involved in the affairs of Simuitai in the future. She planned to let Gui Adao handle those messy and annoying things. She trained Gui Adao as her political successor and delegated some of her power to him.

From now on, Qing Yan will manage the family affairs on her behalf and succeed her as the clan leader.

That's what she planned.

She didn't want Qingyan to be infected with the bad habits of worldly bureaucrats, and only wanted this girl to remain pure for the rest of her life.

"Lin" walked to the courtyard and saw Qingyan still practicing hard. The last time this girl rested was three days ago. Since Gui Adao was awarded the title of [Tianshi], she has worked harder than before and vowed to catch up with her uncle!

Unfortunately, some things cannot be achieved by hard work alone, but also require talent. His uncle has a talent that most people cannot even dream of. Any complex moves seem to be very clever after he has them, and he can control them freely, as if those things originally belonged to him.

Even Qing Yan, who has excellent talent, still seems mediocre in front of Gui Adao.

It seems... Gui Adao has the capital to be proud of others, but he does not have the flamboyant personality like Chen Huijie, so when people in Simuitai talk about the most qualified young man, they still think of Qingyan.

Qing Yan was the only one who understood Gui Adao's terror, which made her even more anxious.

Even though her grandmother hadn't forced her, and Gui Adao had never laughed at her because of the power gap, she just couldn't swallow this!

She still couldn't forget the martial arts competition five or six years ago. She was supposed to represent Simuitai in that competition, but her grandmother heard that Wanchou had lent "Tianxia" to Chen Huijie and assigned it to Adao instead.

This was hard for her to accept, because it meant that in her grandmother's heart, she was no match for Gui Adao, nor for Chen Huijie and her "World".

She is now better than most of her peers, but still a step below the top ones.

So even if Gui Adao didn't do anything to hurt her, Qingyan's strong self-esteem made her unconsciously hate her uncle.

Now, as she was practicing in the courtyard, the opponent's cold face would appear in her mind every time she made a move. She used this hatred and jealousy to push herself. The thunder method that should have been golden was disturbed by her negative emotions and showed a terrifying purple-black color, which was more aggressive than before!

The stone pillars hit by her fists and feet turned into hot dust and fell to the ground, igniting sparks. Lin stood on the walkway outside the courtyard and watched Qingyan's performance silently with a solemn expression. She could read Qingyan's thoughts and felt her murderous intent.

If Qing Yan was using the [Sword of Scarlet Sky] at this time, the killing intention would be able to push her power to a higher level. But she was using the [Thunder Method], and although the killing intention could intensify the lethality of thunder, it could not exert its true power.

On the surface, Qingyan seemed to have taken a shortcut, but in fact he was taking a long detour.

Not only her, now many newcomers in Simuitai have the tendency to practice thunder magic as if it were the sword of the red sky, and believe that the magic skill must be [dominant] and [absolute]

After all, how many people in this world can truly understand the magic skills created by Wan Bai and his original intention? Most people nowadays do not think about the determination and mentality with which he created it when they practiced thunder magic.

"Stop," Lin stopped Qing Yan's movements with just one sentence. The girl put away her fists and feet, looked back, then bowed her head respectfully and called out:

"Hello, great grandma. I greet you..."

“…………………………”, Lin had a blank expression on her face. Her demeanor at this moment was very similar to Gui Adao’s.

Following Lin, he first looked at the stone pillars that were broken into pieces by Qing Yan's fists and feet, then reached out to touch the broken cross-sections and praised, "Not bad killing power. These stone pillars have been strengthened by the power of the thirty heavens. Qing Yan, you can actually smash them? I'm afraid that Chen Huijie is not as good as you."

Hearing the great grandmother's praise, Qing Yan smiled rarely, and then responded modestly, "Grandma, you are still a good teacher. You are better than the current emperor in educating the younger generation."

She's a nice girl, and she knows how to please grandma.

"Humph!" Lin was also proud after hearing this, but she lowered her face and said solemnly:

"But I haven't taught you this kind of thunder technique. You are not using it.

The method I gave you has some of the style of the Wan family..."

"Grandma...what do you mean? Did Qingyan do something wrong?" Qingyan asked carefully, keeping his head down the whole time.

"Raise your head, child. Grandma is not blaming you. She just saw that you have gone astray and wanted to give you some advice," Lin said in a gentle tone. She restrained her usual extroverted aura and behaved like an ordinary elder educating her granddaughter.

Qing Yan looked up nervously and saw a faint golden light coming from the palm of Lin's hand as he touched the stone pillar. Her intuition told her that this was thunder magic, but it did not have any murderous aura. It was just like a candlelight, silently lighting up the surroundings. She felt the warm [vitality] from that light.

Just like the sun

"Do you believe that a dead tree struck by lightning can regenerate new buds?" Lin asked.

Qing Yan nodded first and then shook his head, and replied, "I don't know. If Grandma wants to enlighten me, why don't you say it more clearly?"

"Is this clear enough?" After she finished speaking, under the shining golden light of Lin's palm, a cluster of green buds grew from the cross section. Infected by her vigorous vitality, these things grew wildly and produced a bunch of flowers in the blink of an eye.

Lin Bie picked up a most unique little flower and protected it with power, so that it would not wither as long as it was not hit by external forces. Then she inserted the flower next to the shiny left corner of Qingyan and smiled at her. This smile was as contagious as the sun.

"Just like this flower, it is formed by the combination of my life force and the ability to reorganize matter. Theoretically, it requires more than forty-five levels of strength to achieve this, but I only used less than twenty-five levels just now."

"This is the subtlety of thunder magic. We can use it to complete some precise operations that are difficult to accomplish with existing power."

(The essence of thunder magic is to improve the control of strength and vitality. It is to practice flow and complete realm, to do certain things that can only be done with high horsepower with low horsepower, just like the first man can suppress atoms with 500,000 horsepower)

"And this requires a calm mindset and you must not be impatient."

"Thunder magic is not a method of killing like the Scarlet Sky Sword. Instead, it cultivates the body and mind together to help practitioners reach the realm of immortals. This is the [right way] of thunder magic..."

"Just practice according to this, and remember not to be impatient."

Lin said this and turned away. Qing Yan looked at her tall back and felt warm. He didn't expect that the grandmother was so humane...

Lin returned to her daily residence, which was separated from other people's residences. She didn't like being disturbed, so she pushed open door after door with a cold face. The sounds coming from inside became clearer and clearer, like the sound of a TV mixed with a woman's laughter?

It seems that there is another person hiding in her solitary place? Who could it be?

Lin opened the door and said to the woman inside:

"Lin, the meeting is over."

On the sofa in the inner room lay a tall woman over two meters tall. She was lying on her side in a leisurely posture, grinning foolishly at the TV. The TV was playing the recently popular family ethics drama that was very popular among older women.

That woman looks exactly like Lin. Considering how Lin, who was standing at the door, addressed her just now, it seems that she is the real one!

What is that Lin standing at the door?

Several electric currents flashed, and hot air flowed in from the doorway. Lin, who was originally standing there in his finery, regained his true form, becoming a big man with black eyes and red pupils wearing a black vest. He was actually...

Return of the Dao? !

Yes, [Gui Adao]...

It turned out that he was the one who held meetings on behalf of Lin and gave guidance to Qing Yan.

Using magnetic field power to mimic Lin's appearance, DNA, physiological structure, and even replicate Lin's feelings towards people, this kind of thing is easy for Gui Adao, who often participates in espionage operations. Although other strong people have to go to the seventy-fifth heaven to do this, he can do it below the fiftyth heaven with [Thunder Method].

"Oh..." Lin turned her back to Gui Adao and did not talk to him about today's meeting. Even she was not interested in this.

After Jian Dan and Lin had a few words, Gui A Dao left. When Tathagata came, he pushed open doors one after another, and when he left, he closed doors one after another.

He occasionally serves as Lin's [Shadow Warrior]. This term comes from the East Country. It refers to a substitute for the main person, someone who handles certain complicated matters for the main person and can also share risks with the main person.

As Lin became more and more lazy after becoming addicted to the 8 o'clock show, he had more and more work to do. About half of the Lin that the Simuitai people saw on weekdays was disguised by him. Except for meeting with the royal family and other particularly important matters, Lin was now too lazy to go in person. Most of the matters would be handed over to this trustworthy grandson, under the beautiful name of "training"

Lin is more of a symbol in Simuitai. People just need her to show up and don't care much about what she does or says. As long as her image is there, that's enough. People don't want to know what she really is like. Her real value is just her identity as "Wanbai Disciple".

(Maybe Xiaodao could replace it with a Lin gold coin one day and no one would notice, but he wouldn't do that.)

That’s all for today.

Volume 411: Chapter Chapter Hero of the Earth, the stars shine for you tonight

One day in the year 1093 of Terra, an artificial satellite in the orbit of the planet Terra welcomed its long-awaited visitor.

This satellite was once Ursus

However, as Ursus withdrew from the space arms race with Colombia, the satellite became an abandoned object.

Although the external solar panels still provide electricity to keep the satellite's internal electronic components running, no matter how the satellite calls out to its home planet and homeland, the home planet and homeland will not respond to it. Its only fate is that the last electronic component will be damaged and it will completely become space junk.

There are several similar satellites around this artificial satellite. They are the products of Colombia and have also been abandoned by the country that produced them. Like this Ursus satellite, they are all abandoned children of the old era, symbolizing the loneliness of an era.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the first manned satellite launched by Columbia landed on the Moon 2. It was the first time that humans went to an unknown area with their own creations.

This incident also marked the beginning of an arms race around space development among countries. For a time, space became a more strategic area than the deep sea, the desert, and the polar regions.

At that time, every country wanted to take the initiative first. A large number of rockets were launched one after another at one time, and human beings showed unprecedented enthusiasm for the sky.

But that enthusiasm lasted less than a decade. In the mid-1990s, due to financial problems and the lack of concrete results from space development, Columbia, as the leader of the space program, was the first to withdraw from the arms race, followed by Ursus, then Victoria, and finally Yan Country...

(Bella: Your space program is burning money too fast and has no real return. I'm going to cut it off.

Christen: Woohoo! Woohoo! Woohoo! My little plane!

In the year 1087 of Terra, with the launch of a rocket [Xi] launched by Yan Nation, the era of the space arms race came to an end. Since then, humans have never sent their creations into space again, but have lived on the surface of the earth. They no longer look up at the stars to seek treasures in the sky, and even their souls are bound by the gravity of the earth.

(Because Xibao was actually the first person from Terra to land on the moon. You can watch the extra Mid-Autumn Festival special for this part. He was blown away by Niansai's lunar module thousands of years ago. Later, Xibao developed a civilization on the moon composed of Ayao, and he created Chang'e and Yuetu)

So when the unknown visitor arrived, the satellite was excited. Although it knew that humans had no ability to read the minds of objects, it still tried its best to express its gratitude and respect to the man who broke through gravity with his own power.

The thoughts of the Ursus satellite spread to nearby satellites, and these relics of the old times awakened one after another, expressing their respect for the mysterious visitor in their own way.

This enthusiasm continued to spread in all directions, and soon, more than 1,200 satellites orbiting Terra were celebrating this event.

In the eyes of the satellites, getting here requires perseverance, determination and courage.

They know that there are extraordinary people among humans. Those people may be omnipotent, but only a few of them are willing to come to this desolate, dark and cold place.

Rather than breaking through their limits to come here, those guys would rather engage in endless battles on the surface, taking pleasure in killing, and not even glancing up at the sky until they die in battle.

The visitor who landed on the Ursus satellite was a tall and strong man, nearly two meters tall, with black hair extending all the way to the back of his neck. The whites of his eyes were black, but his pupils were red, which was a very strange look.

And he seems very unhappy?

The black-eyed man sat on the solar panel on the left side of the satellite, looking down at Terra below him, his face solemn, as if he was thinking about something.

In the year 1093 of Terra, one night, a Heavenly Master disappeared after finishing his work. No one in Simuitai noticed his departure, and no one cared about it, because the Heavenly Master had no sense of existence.

The Taoist priest had a secret. Whenever he felt lost or upset, he would fly up to the sky as if to vent his anger. He had no destination, but just rushed up to the sky based on his feeling. His instinct drove him to try to break through his own limits and do things that a normal person would never do.

Several previous attempts had all ended in failure. He had tried to use his mad valley power, but still could not break through the gravity. The farthest he had ever flown was no more than the ionosphere, which was 60 kilometers above the earth's surface. He did not fly there for long before he ran out of power and fell back to the earth's surface, nearly dying.

But this time he succeeded.

After reaching the ionosphere again, he continued to increase his strength by compressing his heart, which enabled him to temporarily break through the 50th level of anti-gravity! He was finally able to break through the atmosphere, get rid of gravity, and reach a place that was once out of reach. This was a realm that only a few strong people and [Gods] could enter.

But there was nothing. Darkness, coldness, and silence seemed to be everything in this space. Although the Heavenly Master had the power to protect his body, he was still terrified. The strange buzzing sound kept coming from his ears, which made him feel fear instinctively.

With his current strength, he can only move around here for a few hours, but this is enough. He needs an absolutely quiet place to meditate.

Silence, darkness, and cold... so what? So what?

"This... is Terra, the mother of all things and all life..."

Gui Adao looked down and saw a huge blue planet. More than half of the planet's surface was made up of ocean.

Less than half of the area below is land where the main intelligent species survive.

"How beautiful..." Gui Adao subconsciously stretched out his hand to grasp the entire planet, but the star in front of him was too big to be fully grasped with just one hand.

Perhaps, this planet is not something that can be monopolized by one hand or one person, but belongs to all living things that live on it.

For some reason, Gui Adao thought so.

A small part of the land is dark red, which is the result of erosion by a substance called "Originium". Normal people cannot survive on land eroded by Originium, and it is a hotbed of natural disasters.

There is a small area of ​​light on the land, which is more obvious on the shady side facing away from the sun. Those are cities, places where civilization is born, and where wise people live.

Although Gui Adao had seen the panoramic view of Terra taken by satellite in magazines before, it was still not as shocking as what he saw with his own eyes.

In front of this entire planet, every individual seems insignificant.

I wonder if other strong men have seen such a shocking scene. Has Lin seen it? Has she been to this heaven? What about Wanchou?