Chapter 304: Chapter 206: Invincible With Me! Capturing a Sixth-Order Mutant Beast, Advancing into the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, Developing Relics!_2
The powerful aura at that moment fell flat, all its previous ferocity upon bursting from the passage completely gone.
It tried to struggle to its feet, but right then, the Heavenly Gang Dragon Capturing Hand pressed down once again!
Bam!
The giant bear tried to stand up over and over, only to be slapped down again and again, until it was buried deep in the ground, with no more strength to struggle.
The earth-shattering cheers suddenly erupted from the soldiers like a tidal wave. Every one of them was a witness—*so, Martial Arts really could subdue a Sixth Rank Mutant Beast head-on!*
They knew that, even though Xuanxing was now the safest it’s ever been, that safety was built entirely on the foundation of hot weapons.
Out at sea, plenty of Mutant Beasts were still biding their time, restless and ready to strike.
Human hot weapons could only serve as defense, keeping the Mutant Beasts from flooding out of the deep ocean. But now, Jiang Tian had shown them—the possibility of humanity attacking into the ocean!
The world was changing rapidly, Martial Arts were advancing, and eventually—there would be more and more powerhouses like Jiang Tian. When that day came, even the Mutant Beasts in the oceans would become nothing but resources!
The general and Wang Yan stared blankly at the scene before them, swallowing hard as they processed their shock.
*They had actually succeeded!*
"It’s finished."
The Heavenly Gang Dragon Capturing Hand directly snatched up the giant bear, Jiang Shu carrying a weight like a mountain without effort, step by step across the earth. He walked up to the general and spoke.
During this time, aside from secluded cultivation, he made sure to traverse the Two Realms every day, checking on the timing of the Selection Tournament’s opening.
Finally, just yesterday, he received definite news.
A month from now, all the geniuses from the royal city would have to enter the Da Jing Dynasty’s imperial palace for the last round of internal selection.
This was because the location of the Tournament was extremely mysterious. One had to use the Dynasty’s teleportation array to enter, and every activation of the teleportation array required extremely important resources.
The internal selection served to weed out those with only cultivation but insufficient combat power.
And the geniuses who successfully advanced would enter the imperial treasury and pick three treasures to further boost their power for better results in the Tournament.
The time left for him was running short.
By now, Jiang Shu could vaguely guess—the Sect must be an entirely new world, and once he got there, he probably wouldn’t be able to traverse the Two Realms as freely as he did in the Da Jing Dynasty, at least for a while.
After all, when first joining the Sect, who knew how many eyes would be watching him—only once he reached a certain status, at minimum the Furnace Fire Realm as an Outer Disciple, would he gain any true freedom.
After the general finally recovered from his daze, Jiang Shu, holding the giant bear, brought it into the massive research institute and successfully locked it up.
Every researcher from the Shengjing Research Institute rushed over, promptly beginning to study every cell of the Sixth Rank Mutant Beast using all sorts of equipment.
"Jiang Tian, not sure if you’ll be available in the coming days, the passage will soon be stabilized, and then Cosmic Relics are bound to appear..."
Even the general now spoke to Jiang Shu with a hint of respect.
Jiang Shu’s strength had shattered the limits of his understanding all over again—in his eyes, Jiang Shu was basically a walking missile, strong enough to suppress a small nation on his own. Even facing an incoming missile strike, he could sense and evade at once.
Such force was just too terrifying.
"No need to be so formal, General, I’m just another part of Xia Country,"
Jiang Shu replied with a laugh.
The Selection Tournament would begin soon, and he’d be gone from Xuanxing for a while. He had to do as much as possible while he was here, to boost Xia Country’s strength at rocket speed.
After all, only if Xia Country grew ever stronger would his family become ever safer.
After a brief rest of half a day to readjust, Jiang Shu and Wang Yan plunged directly into the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm.
Mutant Beast corpses were hurled out of the passage by the two of them one after another.
Jiang Shu and Wang Yan had no idea how long they’d been fighting inside—every Mutant Beast of the Fourth and Fifth Rank was long since dealt with, and of the two remaining Sixth Rank Mutant Beasts, one was slain together, while the other fled in terror, soaring into the sky.
"Breaking through the Void, attaining ’immortal’ flesh—it still has its drawbacks. No matter how powerful Martial Arts become, a human is still human, unable to truly fly like the Mutant Beasts,"
Watching the black dot flee across the sky, Wang Yan couldn’t help but shake his head. With his current Realm, he could naturally use Gang Qi to stand in midair. But that was just for show—in the end, standing in the air was still not real flight.
At the speed of a Sixth Rank Mutant Beast, even obsolete fighter jets couldn’t keep up—let alone them as Martial Artists.
*It seemed only a true mastery of the Fetal Breathing Realm’s Spiritual Cultivation method—beginning true cultivation in the Fetal Breathing Realm—could allow for a complete kill.*
The advantage of flight was simply too great.
Good thing humanity had missiles.
Beside Wang Yan, Jiang Shu adjusted his own state. If it hadn’t been for Wang Yan being right there, he might have chased down that Mutant Beast and killed it directly with his Thunder Peng Netherworld Wings.
*Some things could be shown, but others must be hidden. That much, he understood.*
"Hope this time there’s really something worthwhile inside the Cosmic Relics. The Fetal Breathing Realm definitely has, just like the Meditation stage, several smaller breakthroughs."
Wang Yan said. He hadn’t fully stepped into the Fetal Breathing Realm yet, but as he grew more familiar with the ’Crystal Meditation Method’ Jiang Shu had taught him, he’d found it was only a step above the Meditation level.
It was like moving from stage three of deep sleep to the Small Meditation Realm.
It was a qualitative change, sure, but still not enough to grow any stronger.
"Soon."
Feeling the changing Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi around him, Jiang Shu used his Primordial Power to sweep all the bloodlust from his body away.
As far as he was concerned, the full stabilization of the Secret Realm meant that the Primordial Qi inside and that of Xuanxing would reach equilibrium. When the concentration of Qi stopped fluctuating and leaking out, the Secret Realm would fuse with Xuanxing, triggering another kind of transformation—and the Cosmic Relics would finally emerge.
"Yeah, only one left. With you and me here, it can’t really stir up any trouble."
Wang Yan let out a relieved laugh. As long as they kept the passage entrance heavily guarded, that Mutant Beast would be easy enough to deal with eventually. The real priority was to wait for the Cosmic Relics to appear and start developing them!
The two of them picked all the Heaven and Earth Treasure Medicine in the Secret Realm, bringing it back out. Finally, three days later—
The Heaven and Earth Secret Realm fully stabilized, and the entire landscape trembled.
It was as if the might of space-time was shifting inside—*worlds were made and undone.* For the first time, Jiang Shu experienced the transformation firsthand, watching mountains hundreds of meters high reduced to ruins by the earthquake, slowly swallowed by the sea.
And in that sea, islands rose and gathered, merging into mountain ranges.
He watched as the river once flowing toward him suddenly began to flow backward, the entire region’s topography changing before his eyes.
An enormous universe battleship floated up from the sea amidst this upheaval of Heaven and Earth.
It was unlike the battleships Jiang Shu had seen before at the Shengjing Research Institute.
The Research Institute’s universe battleships were more like civilian planes, fitted with weapons but not especially strong—the only upgrade Xia Country had made was boosting the laser cannon’s power.
But this battleship was fierce as any beast, its immense gun barrels like some predator descending upon the world, a terrifying aura still lingering around it.
"It’s a universe battleship!"
Wang Yan’s voice was brimming with uncontainable excitement. He’d explored the most Secret Realms, and knew which kind of Cosmic Relic was most worth developing.
Cosmic Relics proved there were even higher civilizations out there in the universe.
No one knew when these civilizations would invade again.
*Better ready and strong, than forced to wait.*
With the last universe battleship, Xia Country gained cultivation methods and higher-order hot weapon manufacturing.
But this ship was clearly an even higher class of universe battleship.
Once developed for real—
The entire world might usher in a brand-new era yet again.
Like advancing from the Stone Age to bronze,
And from bronze to iron!