Ten o’clock that night.
Thirty meters beneath Purple-Gold City.
Inside a sealed room.
“You mean that when the ten-day countdown before you ends, you and the Transmigrators from other countries will be teleported to the Cultivation World?”
Elder Wang’s brow furrowed slightly. Even after weathering all kinds of storms, he found this news difficult to digest.
Half an hour earlier, while he was in a meeting with the other two elders responsible for civilian affairs and the military, they had received a call from the Minister of the Ministry of State Security, who said they had discovered a Reborn.
At first, they had been deeply skeptical, but then Lu Yang’s predictions came true one by one...
“More precisely, only nine days, thirteen hours, forty-eight minutes, and thirty-seven seconds remain. The countdown began at noon today. We don’t have much time!”
Lu Yang reported the figures with a grave expression.
There was no clock in the room, nor anything else that could keep time, yet he gave the time down to the exact second.
The Three Elders exchanged glances. The last trace of doubt in their eyes had now been replaced by solemnity.
“Young Friend Lu, could you tell us about the Cultivation World’s basic situation and what happened to you after you transmigrated there?”
Elder Long, dressed in military uniform, spoke up. His expression was utterly serious.
Lu Yang interlaced his fingers and replied earnestly:
“Of course. I’ll explain everything I know about the Cultivation World, as well as what happened after I transmigrated, as clearly as I can. You can record this, because the intelligence is extremely important...”
Over the next stretch of time,
Lu Yang gave a detailed account of his experiences in the Cultivation World, the information he had gathered, and the theories he had deduced from what was known.
After listening to Lu Yang’s account, Elder Wang pondered for a moment before saying gravely:
“So, people from every country have transmigrated to the Cultivation World, and you’re not the only Transmigrator from Great Xia?”
“That’s how it seems, in theory.”
Lu Yang nodded. “After all, if that ungrateful traitor named Wang Jingwei hadn’t secretly colluded with a Sakura transmigrator, I wouldn’t have just obtained the forging blueprint for the Sect Token only to have him show up with people and corner me.”
At that, Elder Wang narrowed his eyes and instructed the security guard standing outside the door:
“Look into this Wang Jingwei fellow and find out exactly who he is. Keep the investigation entirely covert. Make sure you don’t alert him!”
“Yes, sir!”
After the security guard hurried away,
Elder Wang turned to Lu Yang again, a hint of hope in his voice:
“Comrade Lu Yang, since in your previous life you managed to cultivate to Qi Refining, Third Layer in the Cultivation World, can the cultivation technique you know be practiced on Blue Star?”
Hearing Elder Wang’s question, Elder Long and Elder Fang beside him also looked quietly expectant.
This was the legendary cultivation technique—a treasure that could set people on the Immortal Path. In Great Xia, hardly anyone could resist the temptation of cultivation!
Besides, they were asking this question in pursuit of a grand goal.
If all 1.4 billion people in Great Xia could cultivate this technique, and those who started earlier could help those who started later, then given enough time, why would they still fear pressure from the United States and other countries?
“For now, that won’t work...”
Faced with the Three Elders’ expectant gazes, Lu Yang shook his head, looking somewhat helpless.
“Actually, I already tried before coming here. Maybe there’s no spiritual energy in Blue Star’s air. I tried for half a day but still couldn’t draw qi into my body.”
“However, since the Sakura transmigrator was able to contact Sakura Country from the Cultivation World, there should be a way to teleport objects from the Cultivation World back to the real world. I just didn’t know about it in my previous life.”
“Of course, that’s all for after we transmigrate. I’ll be going in less than ten days, and there’s something extremely important I urgently need the country’s help with!”
Hearing the urgency in Lu Yang’s voice,
the Three Elders sat up straight at once. Elder Wang, seated in the middle, looked at Lu Yang with particular seriousness:
“Comrade Lu Yang, whatever you need, as long as it’s something Great Xia can do, we’ll do everything in our power to meet your request!”
Seeing the resolve in Elder Wang’s eyes, Lu Yang gathered his thoughts and said solemnly:
“I have just one request: I want Great Xia to marshal the strength of the entire nation to forge a Sect Token for me!”
“According to my memories of my previous life, the Sixth Elder of the Clear Wind Sect mysteriously disappeared three years ago. Since his soul lamp has gone out, he most likely died somewhere out there.”
“The personal disciple he took in among the common folk—no one in the entire Clearwind Sect has ever seen his face. If I use the Sect Token to impersonate him, I’ll definitely be able to blend in!”
“Then I can use that identity to enter the Inner Court directly and receive a large amount of resources every month. I might even inherit the treasures and estate the Sixth Elder left behind, giving me the perfect start!”
“Meanwhile, foreign Transmigrators without identities, even if they find a cultivation sect, can only start out as servant disciples. If they go to the wrong place, they’ll even be caught and sent to mine. That’ll put us far ahead!”
After hearing Lu Yang’s explanation,
before Elder Wang could say a word, Elder Long, seated beside him, slapped his thigh excitedly and said:
“Good. We’ll do as you say!
“Is one Sect Token enough? If not, we can forge a few from other sects too. Once their Elders die, you can go claim their legacies...”
Lu Yang froze at that, realizing Elder Long had probably misunderstood. He hurriedly explained:
“Elder Long, the process of making a Sect Token may not be as simple as you think. Even with nine days left, the time frame for forging one is extremely tight.”
“As far as I know, making this Sect Token requires nanoscale microsculpting, Fusion Forging of different metal Materials, and possibly even an Ion Collider to synthesize some of the new elements...”
“It involves more than a dozen complex processes, each requiring a large team of specialists to operate. To forge a Sect Token in the next nine days, we’ll have to mobilize the entire nation and race against the clock!”
Hearing this,
Elder Wang didn’t hesitate.
He made a phone call, and before long, eight academicians from the fields of physics, engineering, and chemistry were brought in under military escort.
After receiving a brief overview of the situation,
the academicians were naturally shocked by Lu Yang’s identity as a Reborn, but when they saw the Three Elders’ grave expressions, they immediately got down to work.
Over the next stretch of time,
the eight academicians worked through the specific steps for forging the Sect Token with Lu Yang, along with the various processes that might be involved. Then they carried out a series of complex calculations on draft paper...
By the time the sky began to lighten,
after a whole night of analysis and calculations, the eight academicians finally reached a conclusion:
“According to our conservative estimates, forging this Sect Token, which weighs one hundred grams in total, will require at least three thousand tons of iron, five thousand tons of copper, thirty tons of sodium, nine hundred kilograms of gold, one kilogram of uranium, eighteen grams of polonium...”
“The whole process will consume a great deal of electricity and manpower, and that’s just the bare minimum.”
“Synthesizing some of these new elements will require experimental-grade ultra-high-temperature furnaces and a national-scale large Ion Collider. Some elements may even require lunar soil and extraterrestrial meteorites to synthesize.”
Looking at the densely packed figures on the paper, one of the academicians couldn’t help drawing in a sharp breath:
“Even if it took half a year to forge a token like this, I’d consider that fast.”
“Nine days? That should be impossible, shouldn’t it?”
He wasn’t the only one who thought so. The others shared his concern.
However, at those words,
Elder Wang slammed his hand on the table and rose to his feet. His gaze swept across the room as he declared with ringing conviction:
“Impossible? In our great land of China, with five thousand years of civilization, a hundred years ago everyone thought we couldn’t defeat Sakura. But we rose to our feet under Sakura’s artillery fire all the same!”
“No one thought we could complete a twenty-five-thousand-li journey, but our soldiers covered it on their own two feet!”
“We have the world’s strongest industrial system, the world’s most united people, and the world’s most tenacious fighting spirit!”
“Nothing is impossible in Great Xia!”
“This time, I’m giving you the highest authority. You can call on all the country’s researchers, and every laboratory and steel mill in the nation will follow your orders. We’ll devote every resource to forging the Sect Token!”
“If necessary, we’ll pay any price. Even if we have to plunge an entire province into a blackout, we’ll get that Sect Token made. Can you do it?”
“We guarantee we’ll complete the mission!!!”
The eight academicians present felt their blood surge through their veins. They shouted their determination at the top of their lungs.
That was right. After coming all this way through the mud, how many impossibilities had they overcome?
Back in that era of backward technology, they had done the calculations by hand on abacuses and completed the hydrogen bomb’s first test detonation in just two years and eight months!
Now, with such a complete industrial system, all they had to do was forge a Sect Token in nine days...
In Great Xia, nothing is impossible!