Amina nodded lightly, "The Blade Beasts are enormous, and they wouldn't just let a small group of Spirit Cultivators manipulate them; the Galinos also possess a relatively high level of intelligence."

Wang Jixuan asked, "How is He Ruli's current state?"

"You're concerned about her?"

"Concerned? I'm just asking if the planetary barrier has been activated."

"It's just been opened," Amina replied, "I can sense that this planet is enveloped by a peculiar energy. However, the planetary barrier is not a large planetary array; it can only interfere with the positioning of the interstellar gate, delaying some time. As long as the Blade Beasts open the interstellar gate near Mars, crossing space wouldn't be an issue for them."

"Isn't it precisely for this period that we came here?"

Wang Jixuan smiled:

"Now that our goal is achieved, everything else will be easier to handle.

"He Ruli schemed against me, I must reclaim this situation, make her pay the price, and obtain appropriate compensation..."

"Sir!"

Wu Man's shout was heard.

Nierdamon descended from the sky with Wu Man and Ji Xiao.

In their hands, four Soul Capturing Charms had already been illuminated.

Ji Xiao quickly explained, "The golden cannons on the city walls were too overpowering, we couldn't find any complete souls, even the residual souls with a bit of spirituality couldn't be captured, we only found four barely breathing, after killing them, we collected their souls in here!"

Wang Jixuan:...

No, why not just bring the captives back directly!

Killing them and then capturing their souls is redundant!

But close enough.

Master Wang guided with a sword finger, and all four talismans unfolded simultaneously, revealing four phantom figures imprisoned within.

Nierdamon watched with keen interest, eyes filled with curiosity and a thirst for knowledge.

Snap.

Wang Jixuan snapped his fingers, and four red lotuses bloomed at the feet of these four souls, a flame appeared at the center, causing them to scream incessantly.

Then, Master Wang conjured miniature black swords and conducted a heart-piercing ritual on the four souls several times.

After several rounds, these souls were already on the verge of destruction.

The torment here was a hundred times more intense than physical torture.

Zheng Shiduo swallowed hard, "Bro, shouldn't we question them first?"

"Hmm?"

Wang Jixuan smiled and said:

"Look at their determined eyes, filled with the flawed beauty of being brainwashed, if we directly question them, they would surely lie, followed by us interrogating them with torture.

"So why not skip this useless stage of interrogation altogether."

Everyone found this reasoning quite logical.

As expected, when Wang Jixuan questioned them again, the four residual souls rushed to answer, begging for an end.

Unfortunately, the residual souls provided very limited information.

This group of people were all humans from Earth, receiving Spiritual Energy infusion and awakening in the last twenty years.

They had no idea what Spirit Slaves or Spirit Cultivators were.

According to them, they grew up in a land of ice and snow, told that the human world had been destroyed by the Blade Beast disaster, escaping to Antarctica at the last minute.

They didn't pledge allegiance to Spirit Cultivators, but to a Core Circuit embedded in the wall, which had many powerful Spirit Slaves guarding it.

They called this Core Circuit the 'divine seal,' and they were the envoys of God.

God had never appeared directly, but issued a Divine Oracle.

This time, they followed the guidance of the divine seal to reach here.

There are a few key pieces of information here.

Antarctica;

divine seal and Divine Oracle.

Wang Jixuan scratched his forehead, "Can we communicate with the ground, ask Lao Fu to investigate Antarctica over there."

Amina immediately said, "I'll go talk to He Ruli."

She turned and hurried away.

Wang Jixuan waved his hand, "Ji Xiao, continue interrogating them, if you don't find anything useful, dig into the details, don't waste the value of these captives."

"Yes," Ji Xiao solemnly took away the four talismans.

Wang Jixuan reflected in thought with his hands behind his back.

Gao Huating, who had been silent, asked, "What can we do now?"

"There's not much we can do, the enemy is hidden, while we're out in the open."

Wang Jixuan said:

"This group of Spirit Cultivators led by Hei Yao haven't been injured. They maintain a good relationship with the Blade Beast, their power is likely stronger than ordinary Spirit Cultivators at their peak."

"The best scenario now is that there's only one Ye Zi on Earth."

"Based on what I currently understand, she might have taken out her Core Circuit to embark on the Cultivation Path."

"This is the divine seal those souls were talking about earlier."

"Then she followed a lesser Outer Elixir Dao, probably got deceived by someone."

The person who tricked Ye Zi could possibly be the Three Realms Wanderer himself.

Wang Jixuan continued analyzing: "If there's only one Ye Zi on Earth, the planetary barrier is already activated, and others can't teleport over, then we might have some advantage."

Nierdamon reminded: "They've taken away a lot of black technology from the Yina Civilization."

"Wu Man, chase after Amina, see if you can get a list from He Ruli, roughly enumerate the technology those guys took."

"Alright."

Wu Man turned and ran away.

Wang Jixuan looked at Gao Huating, blinking lightly.

Gao Huating hesitated for a few seconds, then reacted, nodding slightly at Wang Jixuan and turned to leave.

Taking advantage of the current chaotic situation, everyone's attention wasn't on Gao Huating, she smoothly placed the Jade Talisman given by Wang Jixuan in the designated location.

This was just a precaution.

To prevent being overly passive during any real confrontation with He Ruli.

"Wang," Lao Zheng asked, "will they make any more moves next?"

"I suspect they're calling for reinforcements. Ye Zi might have already messed up the situation, possibly leading to new Spirit Cultivators coming to Earth."

"Messed up?"

"Yes, recently Ye Zi arrived here alone. She took away the two most important souls here and thoroughly offended He Ruli, stopping their collaboration from proceeding further."

Wang Jixuan walked to a corner to pick up a bottle of clear water, leisurely drank a few sips, and headed to his resting area.

"Wait for the news."

"Whether it's good or bad fortune, it can't be avoided."

"The defensive power here is strong enough; even if the world is destroyed, we can still live here."

"I'm going to continue my resear... ahem, Cultivation."

...

In the following days, Cloud City maintained its usual tranquility, with a touch of deathly silence.

With the help of He Ruli, Amina successfully sent information to Fu Jian.

Fu Jian started dispatching people to focus on investigating the situation in Antarctica.

According to Fu Jian's feedback, Antarctica originally attempted to build a Fortress, but due to difficulty in transporting resources and the four major oceans gradually being blocked by Blade Beasts, the development plan there had to be abandoned halfway.

Based on satellite real-time monitoring, no traces of buildings are visible there, but it doesn't rule out the possibility of large-scale simulation camouflage technology being used.

Now that Blade Beasts have strategically retreated, exploring Antarctica won't be too troublesome, results should be available soon.

Ji Xiao interrogated those four Residual Souls for a day and night, and finally ended the relatively decent life of these Residual Souls using the Buddhist Law.

Indeed, they weren't considered evil.

Although their positions were opposed, these Residual Souls grew up living in the underground base in Antarctica.

They complied with civility, loved life, risked near death to become Spiritual Ability Users (they called themselves Divine Believers), and respectfully acted according to the Divine Oracle, this was their first mission.

The escaped Advanced Spiritual Slaves likely hold more information.

Additionally, through this temporary communication channel feedback, Fu Jian reported that the planetary barrier has been activated and detected a thin Spiritual Ability Wave area on the outskirts of the planet.

Many space detection instruments approaching this area would experience instrument failure.

Currently, the Blade Beasts have no movements, Hei Yao's led Spirit Cultivator crime group have yet to fully emerge, so Wang Jixuan is leisurely enjoying himself, utterly lost in the "inner world" of Bronze Puppets.

His Artifact Refining skills and concepts cannot be said to advance by leaps and bounds; rather, they improve every day!

The Yina Civilization has completely opened a new world for him!

This is the accumulation of time and a close-to-advanced civilization, the crystallization of wisdom through generations.

For him, this is the greatest treasure here.

However, just as Wang Jixuan thought about entering long-term seclusion here with the idea to talk to He Ruli about house rental prices, He Ruli proactively visited him.

This time, it's her Residual Spirit main body.

The condition proposed by Wang Jixuan, she already came up with a solution.

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