The Modern Martial Immortal

Chapter 120: The World

”Lost contact?” Yaoguang pondered for a moment. Several doubts that had previously puzzled him suddenly became clear.

What a bunch of phonies. They had been bluffing all along. Yaoguang thought. One had to listen to both sides to be well-informed; not every piece of information represented the truth. If anything, it was likely just their propaganda strategy.

”The reason you haven’t expanded your operations in this world isn’t because of some restriction preventing your entry. Instead, it’s because you don’t actually know the specific state of the war, and you were terrified that making too much noise here would provoke the Artifact Sect into taking action?”

”Yes,” Leng Tianfeng responded. Within his nearly transparent emotional fluctuations, there was a trace of embarrassment from having his tall tales exposed.

”Your movements have intensified slightly over the past year or two because you confirmed that the Artifact-Nurturing World lost contact with the world where the Artifact Sect is located? Is that when you finally grew bolder?”

”Yes.” Leng Tianfeng’s mental fluctuations weakened further.

Yaoguang organized the information. After a moment, he continued his questioning. ”Is the Horned Fiend your physical cultivation system?”

”We have occupied several worlds. Although the cultivation systems of each world are similar, the effects of utilizing them vary depending on the location. The Horned Fiend is a creature from one of the worlds we conquered. After years of research, the empire has mapped the biological structure of this creature and encoded its genes for all citizens to download. This creature has high compatibility with humans and possesses a powerful digestive and growth system. As long as it consumes flesh and blood, it can grow rapidly,” Leng Tianfeng explained.

”Then why the emphasis on consuming human heads?” Yaoguang asked flatly. He had never forgotten the images burned into his mind.

”The growth of a Horned Fiend is not just on a physical level, but also on a psychic soul level. For citizens of the empire, physical growth is secondary; we place more importance on the strengthening of psychic thought. The beneficial elements for strengthening psychic thought are concentrated in the human head. To avoid the day or two it takes to digest an entire human, we... simply eat less and choose the essence...” As Leng Tianfeng spoke, his mental fluctuations dropped even lower. He felt the coldness radiating from Yaoguang.

Sensing the danger, he quickly added, ”I am a Soul Manipulator, specifically responsible for ensuring the smooth descent of the Lunar Fiend Empire’s citizens. To this day, I have not even begun the evolutionary path of the Horned Fiend.”

Yaoguang remained silent. To the Lunar Fiends of the Lunar Fiend Empire, humans likely held no more significance than cats or dogs. Furthermore, the Horned Fiend could be viewed as a cultivation form for the Lunar Fiends. Their true combat form involved becoming the control systems for mechs and warships, treating those machines as their own bodies, much like a treasured artifact and its artifact spirit.

The only difference was that an artifact spirit did not have absolute control over an astra, whereas they could fully master and exert the total power of a warship.

”So, a portion of the Lunar Fiends are still in the Artifact Sect’s Cangwu World?” Yaoguang asked. ”What is the situation there?”

”The Artifact Sect... likely suffered great damage. It is even possible they were truly wiped out.” Leng Tianfeng thought for a while before saying, ”The refining techniques mastered by that sect posed the greatest threat to us. The Primordial Magnetic Divine Light Instrument they developed could paralyze one of our warships with a single strike. Later, they even observed supernova explosions, planning to forge high-end equipment with even greater power. Therefore, when the all-out war began, they were the primary target of our offensive.”

Yaoguang silently sensed Leng Tianfeng’s emotional fluctuations. He wasn’t lying. This also corresponded with the fact that both the Crimson Star and Snowdragon Empires had lost contact with the Artifact Sect.

Of course, there were bound to be discrepancies in the details. After all, Leng Tianfeng couldn’t know every piece of news from the battlefield. The situation remained undecided.

Yaoguang pondered. Who could’ve won? Hold on... no matter which side did, things will be difficult for me. If the Artifact Sect won, they will inevitably settle scores when they return to this world in the future. If the Lunar Fiend Empire won, it will be even worse. As Leng Tianfeng said, the entire world will become their hunting ground.

This is troublesome. Ultimately, I am still too weak. I originally thought that being able to withstand a nuclear blast would ensure my personal safety, but as it turns out, the power ceiling of this world is incredibly high!

He had used the logic of his previous life to calculate the safety threshold required to survive in this world.

I was too short-sighted. Yaoguang sighed inwardly. He looked at Leng Tianfeng again. ”You possess more advanced Star Gate technology, don’t you?”

”That...” Leng Tianfeng hesitated for a moment. Feeling his emotions and thoughts exposed nakedly before Yaoguang, he answered truthfully, ”It’s hard to say whose technology is more advanced; their applications are just different. However, if you wish to return to the Cangwu World, the fusion of our Star Gate technology with that of the Artifact Sect can indeed manage a transmission without destroying the gate. It’s just that... it will take six months to a year to activate and maintain it.”

”Give me the technology. I will verify it,” Yaoguang said.

”Very well. I need to establish mental communication with you.”

”Alright.” Yaoguang did not refuse.

Although Leng Tianfeng had cultivated a primordial psyche, he lacked a physical vessel. Without one, his primordial psyche was like rootless duckweed, unable to exert much influence.

Furthermore, within Yaoguang’s mental world sat the Great Solar Psyche-Suppressing Diagram. As long as there was no overwhelming disparity in power between the two sides, he had no reason to fear any tricks Leng Tianfeng might try to play.

Seeing that Yaoguang had agreed, Leng Tianfeng separated a strand of power from his primordial psyche and began the information transfer.

The volume of information was immense; if written on paper, a single crate likely wouldn’t have been enough to contain it. However, since obtaining the ancient tree, Yaoguang had become well accustomed to large-scale information infusions. Such a massive surge of data didn’t even cause a ripple in his mental world.

This display caused the flickering uncertainty in Leng Tianfeng’s eyes to settle instantly, and he obediently finished transmitting the Star Gate technology.

Several hours later, Yaoguang, who had been closing his eyes to nurture the psyche, opened them. He took out his phone. ”Have the Snowdragon Empire bring over their Star Gate technology as soon as possible. Also, tell Kong Fang to keep an eye out and bring the Crimson Star Empire’s Star Gate technology as well. We need to perform a cross-reference.”

”Understood,” Lei Yun quickly responded from the other end.

After digesting the Star Gate technology for a short while, Yaoguang continued, ”Tell me about the Cangwu World.”

”Our knowledge of the Cangwu World is only broad and strategic; we don’t know many specific details,” Leng Tianfeng replied.

”It doesn’t matter. I will fill in the gaps from the Snowdragon Empire,” Yaoguang said.

Leng Tianfeng nodded. This information was not something that needed to be kept secret. He said directly, ”The Cangwu World is known as the Great Cangwu World. It is a realm where the heaven is round, and the earth is square. There are a total of 108,000 stars revolving around it...”

”A round heaven and square earth?” Yaoguang was slightly taken aback. ”Such a place actually exists? Is that... logical?”

”It is very logical. When space is curved, a continent with a round heaven and a square earth naturally forms. Massive accumulations of dark energy warp space. In the Cangwu World, this is called spiritual power. Such worlds are essentially bred at the core of spiritual power nodes in the universe,” Leng Tianfeng replied.

He then continued, ”This kind of world is expanding at every moment. Additionally, occasional spatial warping causes geographical shifts, making its total area impossible to calculate. However, we have clearly investigated the powers within the Cangwu World. Including the Artifact Sect, the strongest factions are known as the Ten Great Immortal Sects. Beyond them, there are numerous nations and alien races entrenched across the continent, ruling as kings in their own right.”

The Soul Manipulator from the Lunar Fiend Empire continued his introduction. Although his descriptions were quite vague, they allowed Yaoguang to understand just how magnificent and vast the Cangwu World truly was. These descriptions perfectly matched his fantasies of a Xianxia world.

But at that moment, Leng Tianfeng, who had been describing the world for nearly two hours, shifted his tone. ”However, in recent years, the situation seems to have changed. The attacks from our Lunar Fiend Empire brought a tremendous shock to the Cangwu World. Over the last three hundred years, the Ten Great Immortal Sects all underwent a vigorous technical revolution. They moved from an all-rounder, small-workshop model toward a specialized, large-scale cooperative model. In the past, a single cultivator was a single combat unit. But now, every cultivator has a specific, detailed role.”

”Detailed roles?” Yaoguang asked.

”Yes. In a small-scale conflict, psyche cultivators first perform reconnaissance. Then, sword cultivators conduct precision strikes to destroy the enemy’s resistance. Spell cultivators then use spells to level fortifications and carry out heavy strikes on gathering points. Finally, body cultivators are sent in to occupy the area.”

Leng Tianfeng’s mental fluctuations were heavy with gravity. ”Every battle now is fought through multi-faceted cooperation, following a multi-dimensional and integrated approach. It has become increasingly difficult for our Lunar Fiend Empire to withstand them.”

He let out a sigh of admiration. ”The speed at which cultivators learn and progress... is simply too fast.”

Hearing this, Yaoguang felt half of his beautiful fantasies regarding the immortal cultivation world instantly shatter.

In the time that followed, Yaoguang continued to glean information regarding the Lunar Fiend Empire and the Cangwu World from Leng Tianfeng, even obtaining a Psyche Dao cultivation method from him.

Meanwhile, the Snowdragon Empire began its strikes against the upper echelons of the Crimson Star Empire, looking to destroy the chain of command.

Just as Xie Yushu had said, the Snowdragon Empire was significantly stronger than the Crimson Star Empire. Had they not feared the power behind the Jiang family, they could have wiped them out whenever they pleased. Now, the news they received from Leng Tianfeng suggested that even the Artifact Sect was finished.

Although the information was incomplete, it gave them the resolve to risk everything. Regardless of whether the Artifact Sect had truly been destroyed by the Lunar Fiend Empire, they had to return to the sect. They needed to return to their roots, the sanctuary in the hearts of countless people.

As for the power behind the Jiang family, they could no longer afford to care. Under these circumstances, the Snowdragon Empire unleashed the full combat strength of a rising hegemon, leaving the entire world in an uproar.

What everyone found even more unbelievable was that Dayu had actually joined the Snowdragon Empire. Forming an allied force, they started carving up the veteran hegemon that was the Crimson Star Empire.

Although the forces sent out by Dayu were weak enough to be negligible, as the Snowdragon Empire secured a crushing victory, everyone knew what kind of harvest Dayu would reap from this feast as the sole ally.

For a time, the world was shaken. The major aristocratic families within Dayu, who had been planning to go their separate ways, were thrown into complete chaos.