Starting Cultivation in Wasteland

Chapter 930 - 798: The Subtle Uses of Spiritual Qi

The Star Domain Government was furious, but the officials actually handling the matter... were indifferent!Never underestimate the information-gathering capabilities of the City Guard. In the security business, ignoring information collection usually leads to a quick demise.

Moreover, the Divine Text Association has already moved armed merchant ships into the City Guard base. Even if you wanted to keep this secret, could you?

As for the military’s information capabilities, there’s no need to even mention them.

So it’s really not that the people below aren’t working hard. The news spreads like wildfire, and everyone knows where the root of the problem lies.

The fact is the Divine Text Association has provoked someone they shouldn’t have, and now they want to implicate us?

As for whether the upper echelons of the Star Domain are aware of the intricacies, everyone prefers not to consider it; it’s not important anyway!

To be more cynical, no one would believe that those above are so easily deceived.

In other words, our lives are just a "small gesture" by some people to curry favor with the Divine Text Association.

This speculation may be biased, but it’s definitely not conjured out of thin air.

So how could the people below just throw their lives away? Some merits aren’t worth being greedy for!

Anyway, someone like Panda wouldn’t intentionally make things difficult for small figures like them. Just a cursory inspection would suffice.

Qu Jianlei and his group went through an inspection, and the entire process clearly had an air of leniency.

Even Xiang Xue, who isn’t very worldly, noticed, "These people are just going through the motions."

"Isn’t this quite normal?" Flower Scorpion answered casually; she had seen countless similar situations on Garbage Star.

On Garbage Star, might makes right, and some powerful forces have a habit of forcing others to do this and that.

Unable to afford confrontation, people could only put on a facade of compliance.

Flower Scorpion didn’t care about these things. She was more concerned about, "Should we take down that guy from the Cyan Blade Commerce Association again?"

"Take him down before we leave," Paranoid was filled with killing intent and had ample reason, "Let them all know we are not to be messed with."

Of course, killing the chicken to scare the monkey is great, but Granny Jia objected, "It’s unnecessary; at this time, don’t give them a reason to unite."

This argument wasn’t wrong either, but Paranoid snorted coldly at her words, "Are you just eager to cultivate?"

No one is a fool. Different arguments are simply due to differing needs.

Granny Jia rolled her eyes at him, too lazy to argue, because ultimately the decision rested in Panda’s hands, and everyone was just expressing their opinions.

"Let’s go," Qu Jianlei made the call, "We’ve been out for quite a while; it’s time to cultivate for a bit."

The group boarded the starship and left, first choosing to return to Star No. 4—their personal vehicle and Claire were still there.

After gathering the two, they didn’t wander around any further and directly boarded the merchant starship they had seized, returning to Star No. 2.

It seemed that news from the Star of Hope had arrived, and the inspections on Star No. 2 were relaxed a lot.

Being from another planet and possessing their own starship, Star No. 2’s guards did a cursory check and let them pass.

After landing, they didn’t go anywhere else but headed straight for the estate Granny Jia had purchased.

Everyone worked hard for two days, digging out a giant stone chamber under the estate, covering over eight hundred square meters.

The stone chamber was mainly divided into four large rooms, equipped with two Qi Gathering Arrays and one Spirit Gathering Array.

An additional Spirit Gathering Array was set to be assembled with materials they had just procured, and Qu Jianlei began assembling it.

The various defense arrays within the estate didn’t even need to be mentioned, as they were all entrusted to him.

Once these things were prepared, three more days passed, and everyone else had already entered their cultivation state.

The only exception was Granny Jia, who remained composed. Even upon seeing the activation of the Spirit Gathering Array, she was only slightly surprised.

After all, Qu Jianlei had given some psychological expectations, and over such a long time, she had more or less digested it.

What was more genuine was her curiosity about Qu Jianlei’s array formation abilities, watching from start to finish and occasionally asking questions.

In the end, she couldn’t help but sigh lightly, "You’ve only advanced to Supreme, why does it feel like hundreds of years have passed?"

Such subtle flattery easily makes one forget themselves, and Qu Jianlei thoroughly enjoyed it.

He laughed nonchalantly, "Why don’t you find a spot with Paranoid first? The second Spirit Gathering Array... will be ready soon."

Granny Jia finally collected her thoughts and went to a basement room measuring two hundred square meters.

This was the only location in the entire estate housing a Spirit Gathering Array—it was likely the only one in the entire Star Realm, perhaps even the entire Imperial domain.

Paranoid was meditating in one corner of the room, cultivating.

Though his words were often displeasing, and his arrogance infuriating, he actually handled matters with poise.

At the very least, he didn’t occupy the center of the room, leaving appropriate space for Granny Jia.

The implication was clear—everyone should cultivate independently, without disturbing each other.

For the Supreme, such a distance was meaningless, but such actions represented sufficient goodwill and respect.

Granny Jia felt a bit relieved, confirming that this senior, much like the legends, was at least reasonable when not in a manic state.

She found a position, slowly sat down, and experienced her life’s first cultivation within a "Spirit Gathering Array."

However, she could not calm herself down, especially when she felt the strands of spiritual energy repairing her withered body.

She didn’t know how long it had been before she fully realized that this spiritual energy was not just repairing her body.

Strictly speaking, the nourishment of spiritual energy for her body was not as effective as imagined.

More accurately, spiritual energy was rejecting certain unhealthy, negative energy and influences within her body.

It even vaguely rejected some rules.

But the old lady was not too surprised, as she was well aware that this was the origin of the term "alien" in alien energy.

Alien energy can affect the cultivation of the awakened, but more and more research shows that this influence is not necessarily negative.

This is more like a collision between two different systems.

Some high tier awakened even believe that alien energy is the true path of cultivation.

Many extraordinary talents also hold this view, and there are even very extreme sayings, which will not be detailed here.

Unfortunately, the alien energy that everyone has come into contact with is too scarce, insufficient to support a large number of experiments.

In some places, alien energy is not lacking—like the Celestial Hook Enigma Mansion and similar places.

But those places are firmly controlled by the military, truly imperial preserves, even the Divine Text Association lacks the qualification for in-depth contact.

After all, the Divine Text Research Association is backed by the military, collecting idle social resources for research.

Those resources that can be researched collectively are not for them to covet—they at most participate in the research.

However, Jia Shuqing has a certain degree of expertise in researching spiritual energy.

Therefore, she was not angry but pleased with the rule rejection caused by spiritual energy entering her body, "Could this be what he meant by rebirth through death?"

The rejected rules vaguely affected her bond with the water element, supposedly a sign that her cultivation level is about to regress.

But she had long surpassed the age of being startled easily. Not to mention, the crazy guy beside her dared to destroy elemental convergence himself.

What’s more, the result of his action once reached supreme heights. That path might not be wrong.

Not to mention, she could vaguely feel the repair effect of alien energy on her body cells.

This feeling was subtle, fortunately, she was at the peak of water attribute.

After all, the ability of water attribute to perceive vitality is second only to wood attribute, and in some aspects, it even exceeds it.

Of course, the most crucial is the expulsion of those negative energies and interferences—these factors are the true culprits of her decline.

Unconsciously, she immersed herself in it, and when she woke up again, she couldn’t help but be surprised.

What was the reason that made me abandon vigilance during cultivation?

She lived long enough to have seen too many tricks to secretly calculate against people.

But upon careful analysis, she still confirmed: her ability to relax was due to trust in Panda’s character.

Strangely, in her long life, the time spent in contact with Panda couldn’t be considered long, and was even rather brief.

Yet such a fleeting passerby could make her relax and fully immerse herself in cultivation.

Some things in the world are just that irrational.

The next moment, she felt her body becoming light, not just physically, but her entire soul was very relaxed.

It was like the feeling of staying up for several days and then sleeping beautifully in her youth.

She was still in the state of transformation and was too lazy to release it, but she believed that her complexion had definitely improved significantly.

At this moment, the paranoid beside her also finished his cultivation and stood up.

He turned his head and glanced at her, and for some reason, that glance seemed to see through her soul.

Then the paranoid nodded, "Spiritual energy is indeed beneficial for you, but...you affected me."

Granny Jia automatically ignored the latter part of the sentence and raised her sparse eyebrows, "You can tell, senior?"

"What’s so rare?" the paranoid replied indifferently, "Without this ability, could I have caught...that kid?"

Without the ability to perceive spiritual energy, they would have missed the chance at the Transfer Star and Rhodiola rosea.

However, the old lady’s main concern was not here.

This guy can actually see the effect of spiritual energy on me, what kind of amazing ability is this?

For a moment, she felt that she had been somewhat disrespectful to this senior earlier.

She sincerely said, "The more you know, the more you feel ignorant...Thank you for your comments, senior."

The paranoid instantaneously understood her meaning and nodded smilingly, "It’s good to know ignorance; don’t argue so casually in the future."

"But you do affect me a bit. Come on, let’s go see if that little...boss’s spirit gathering array is built yet."

The two walked out of the basement to the ground and saw that Xiang Xue was adjusting the equipment with Qu Jianlei.

Granny Jia instinctively released her perception and found Bentley on guard outside, finally feeling at ease.

The paranoid was curious and asked, "Computational unit... How long do you plan to stay here?"