In this great battle, regardless of whether it was the Sharp Swords troop's armor or electromagnetic rifles, Wang's and Zhao Yinglan's Universe Knight Systems, all of them had been in the limelight, attracting Xiao Shen's attention.
'We must capture these great killing weapons and bring them back to study their secrets. If the imperial court is able to mass-produce these weapons, the consequences will be dire. These weapons must also be in our hands.'
At the thought of this, Xiao Shen's countenance turned extremely grim, and his desire toward the imperial court's weapons increased tremendously.
However, ever since he witnessed the battle where Fang Xingjian fought against Blood Sea single-handedly in the Serene Mountain, Xiao Shen had already treated Fang Xuan as his greatest opponent in this lifetime.
Although he was confident that he had the ability to shatter void space and had also integrated the complete Great Dao's Testimony that the Three Mountains Four Peaks had passed down for several centuries, making it so that no one in the world could kill him, he still chose to be cautious when dealing with Fang Xuan.
It was just like how although Xiao Shen had been observing the battle in secret, he had not taken the initiative to make a move. He had only snatched away the imperial court's newest weapon after confirming their defeat, using the entire feudal vassal states' army as cannon fodder to test the imperial court.
This was also because in Xiao Shen's eyes, only heaven-blessed cultivators and Great Dao Realm experts like them would be the main force in defeating Fang Xuan in the future. Everything else could be sacrificed.
The reason why he did not bring Wang and Zhao Yinglan back to the Three Mountains Four Peaks right from the start was to prevent the imperial court from having any means to track these two weapons.
However, what he did not know was that when he trapped Wang and Zhao Yinglan in the middle of the mountain, one of Fang Xingjian's clones had already arrived. He stood in the middle of the mountain, next to Wang and Zhao Yinglan.
Right now, with Fang Xingjian's cultivation, ordinary illusory arts were even easier for him than eating and drinking. He stood there, but no one could see him, hear him, or touch him.
Fang Xingjian's gaze swept past the two of them, and he thought, 'They're really cautious.'
Since he was only sending out a clone, he did not mind this little bit of time. He hid next to the two of them and waited for Xiao Shen's next move.
Therefore, for the next few days, both Wang and Wang Tian were trapped in the underground cave where they could not see the light of day. Every once in a while, Xiao Shen would send over food and water using the means of shattering void space, ensuring that the two of them would not die.
Most of the time, he used the Void Shattering technique to observe the two of them from afar.
Three days later, Wang and his armor ran out of energy. They had no choice but to take off their armor to survive in the cave.
For the next five days, Xiao Shen kept on checking the armors that the two of them had taken off. After ascertaining that there were no threats, he finally brought the two of them and their armors to another location.
This time around, he brought Eunuch Wang and Wang Tian into a dungeon and locked them up. Only the armor was brought back by him.
It was a pity that Xiao Shen did not know that regardless of whether Fang Xingjian's Sudden Inspiration sensed people or objects, there was no intrinsic difference.
Sensing the direction of the two armors, Fang Xingjian instantly turned into a stream of invisible waves and passed through void space at light speed. In the blink of an eye, he arrived in the sky above Ding Region's Flying Immortal Mountain.
This Flying Immortal Mountain was a massive mountain range that spanned across several regions in the south. There were many myths and legends about immortals and demons among the people. By the looks of it, one of the Three Mountains Four Peaks' important bases was also in this mountain range.
Sensing the direction of the target, Fang Xingjian's body moved slightly and he landed on the top of a mountain. His martial will swept out in all directions, and he immediately sensed that there were about 100 people in the stone chambers, cliffs, and platforms of various sizes on the mountain.
Most of them were elite disciples and Elders, but Fang Xingjian did not think much of them. Only five of them really caught his interest.
Three of them gave him a feeling that was very similar to Xiao Shen's. They were gathered on a platform and seemed to be cultivating martial arts.
There were also two people whose cultivations seemed to be on par with Xiao Shen's. They were cultivating in seclusion in a stone chamber. Looking at their appearances, Fang Xingjian's gaze suddenly narrowed. They were clearly integrating the Great Dao's Testimony and attaining a breakthrough to the Great Dao Realm.
With this, Fang Xingjian understood that he had found the right place. However, he did not alarm them. Instead, with a sway of his body, he appeared before the two of them.
As for the two sets of armors that Xiao Shen had grabbed, Fang Xingjian was not worried at all. It was because he had done something to them when they were in the belly of the mountain. Even if Iron Man were to come, he would not be able to come up with any results, let alone Xiao Shen.
In the stone chamber were the Three Mountains Four Peaks' top expert, Qian Huang, and the Longevity Mountain's Sect Master, Ru Zi.
The two of them sat cross-legged with their eyes closed. Layers of Nine Heavens Gang Qis and Underground Baneful Qis kept on colliding with each other, eventually turning into waves of extremely pure Gang Qis that kept on integrating into their bodies.
However, under this appearance, Fang Xingjian could sense that the light waves, gravity, and even space around the two of them were undergoing minute changes. These changes were very natural, and even Fang Xingjian was unable to sense any external interference.
They were clearly having a deep connection with the world's consciousness, slowly stepping into the Great Dao Realm.
However, through Fang Xingjian's observation, the two of them were clearly not heaven-blessed cultivators. This piqued his curiosity even more.
After observing for one day and one night, Fang Xingjian gained some understanding of the situation.
"The two of them are sacrificing themselves!"
From Fang Xingjian's observation, the method the two experts were using to integrate the Great Dao's Testimony was very simple and also very tragic. They were using the world's consciousness to slowly replace their own consciousness.
In the past, when Fang Xingjian was researching this world's martial arts, he had already discovered that from the Disha Realm onward, cultivators' consciousness would be mixed in with some group consciousness from the Underground Baneful Qis. After reaching the Tiangang Realm, they would be mixed in with some group power left behind by countless experts over the generations.
The stronger their cultivation was, the more they would be affected by this world.
It was also because of this that ever since Fang Xingjian attained the first acupuncture point at the Disha Realm, he had not really cultivated this world's martial arts.
Right now, the two of them were doing something even more extreme. They kept on severing their emotions and nature to wipe out their own consciousness. They then absorbed and cultivated Gang Qis to channel them into the world's consciousness. Through this method, they became the world's consciousness's carrier and integrated with the Great Dao's Testimony.
However, once this cultivation method was started, there was no turning back. The world's consciousness had an astonishing inertia. Once it started to be channeled into a human's body, they would be unable to stop their bodies from being gradually replaced by the world's consciousness.
It was like a submarine leaking water. No matter how hard they tried to stop it, the speed at which seawater gushed in would get increasingly faster.
No matter how hard they tried to resist, Fang Xingjian felt that they would only be able to hold on for ten years at most. After that, their own consciousness would be completely wiped out. Fang Xingjian could not be sure what kind of monster would be left behind in the future.
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