My bathroom leads to the celestial realm.

97. Sudden Enlightenment

One day in the real world, seven days later in the other world, Xu Yan received the third batch of replenishment supplies.

It includes a lightsaber, two bionic drones, a bionic robot dog, and two reconnaissance balloons.

The drone is alright; although there are some flaws in the details, it generally resembles a bird.

The robot dog was no good, so they simply found a toy dog, took off the cloth cover and sewed it onto the robot dog. The stitches were uglier than a centipede crawling. It's hard to imagine if the natives of another world suddenly saw such a thing, would they shout "monster!"

Back in the outer cave, Xu Yan didn't dare release the drone. Instead, he let the robot dog out for a spin, only to find that the thing was ridiculously slow.

Using this for reconnaissance would probably result in it running out of power before it even reaches the target location.

He simply used a robotic dog to carry the reconnaissance balloon and launched it from a distance.

Just in case, they didn't plan to retrieve the robot dog.

I've been so careful, there's no way I could have revealed my location, right?

As the balloon rises, the scenery in the camera lens changes accordingly, with the vegetation on the ground gradually transforming into an endless sea of ​​forest seen from above.

Moments later, Jinbo Lake came into view.

After a while, the Fairy Pavilion also appeared at the edge of the screen.

In just seven days, the Immortal Workshop was still in ruins, but a group of people were moving back and forth in the ruins, carrying the corpses from the workshop to an open space and piling them up haphazardly.

Although Xianfang wasn't a particularly hot place, the average temperature wasn't low either. After seven whole days, the corpses were long beyond recognition, and even the most timid people would be terrified.

But these people didn't care at all, busy with their own affairs.

Xu Yan couldn't figure out what their purpose was, and instinctively felt that they weren't good people.

As the balloon continued to rise, the view became wider and wider. First, the lakeside near Xianfang came into view, and then it gradually extended to the left and right, revealing a beautiful scene of lakes and mountains.

Suddenly, a large, crashed airship appears in the jungle at the edge of the scene. Half of the ship has disappeared, and scattered debris is flying everywhere.

Xu Yan's brow twitched. He could already imagine the scene of a Nascent Soul expert striking, piercing through the protective array with a single palm strike, and shattering half of the flying boat.

Upon closer inspection, the Deng family's flying boat was not heading in this direction, but apart from the Deng family, which other force in the Immortal Market possessed such a thing?

Jubaozhai, is that right?

Xu Yan felt uneasy and stared at it for a while, but still couldn't figure out which faction the flying boat belonged to.

Hopefully, everyone on board is safe.

Not long after, another half-submerged flying boat was discovered in the water near the lake shore.

Xu Yan immediately realized that these two airships were very likely from Qianlu Island!

The camera pans to the center of the lake, where the outlines of Qiandao and Ludao can already be seen, but the balloon is too low to see any details.

As the altitude increases, the image gradually becomes clearer.

One island was completely reduced to ashes, and the other was also a scene of utter devastation.

At least a hundred cultivators were kneeling on an open ground, and the Blood Demon Cult members around them were dragging them out one by one and taking them aside to cut their wrists and bleed them.

No one struggled, and no one resisted. It was unclear whether their cultivation had been sealed or they had simply resigned themselves to their fate.

To be honest, there haven't been any major tremors these past few days, and Xu Yan thought it was over long ago, but he didn't expect there to be a follow-up!

But he soon discovered that the Blood Demon Cult did not drain the prisoners' blood completely. Instead, they stopped the bleeding and bandaged them up, and even fed them a pill. It seemed that they intended to raise them as blood slaves and keep them for a long time.

Does the Blood Demon Cult even understand the concept of sustainable development?

This is ridiculous!

At this moment, a figure dressed in white caught Xu Yan's attention; it was clearly the Nascent Soul cultivator surnamed Yan!

Yan Qiao seemed to sense something and looked back in confusion, but the distance was too far. Even with the eyesight of a Nascent Soul cultivator, he couldn't see the small balloon dozens of miles away.

Xu Yan's gaze sharpened, and a thought suddenly popped into his head: Yan hasn't left yet, could we think of a way to give him a hard time?

His equipment is definitely useless; even scratching an itch wouldn't be enough.

But this thought not only didn't disappear, it grew wildly like weeds.

Xu Yan immediately wrote a note and sent it back to the real world, briefly explaining the current situation and asking how the electromagnetic gun experiment was going and whether it could be sent over for a practical test.

Yeah, fire one shot and immediately put it in your Qiankun Ring and run away... Even if it doesn't kill him, it'll disgust him to death!

The reply came quickly in the real world.

He firmly rejected Xu Yan's request.

Electromagnetic guns are out of the question; they're not even in the works, and they're simply not realistic.

Judging from Xu Yan's description, the cultivation level of a Nascent Soul cultivator has reached an incredible level. Conventional weapons are completely useless, while unconventional ones might be effective. However, things like hypersonic missiles can only be transported using special trucks.

Even if it weren't a scaled-down version of the Qiankun Ring, it still wouldn't be able to hold something that big.

The same goes for laser cannons. Those things aren't exactly small either, and their range is only a dozen kilometers. If you get close enough to fire... you'd be asking for trouble, wouldn't you?

Therefore, the Special Security Bureau specifically consulted Master Cheng.

However, the Taoist priest only had the Foundation Establishment cultivation level and had no idea how powerful the old immortal at the Nascent Soul stage really was.

However, Master Cheng had already broken the restrictions on the Qiankun Ring. Inside, besides the various evil items commonly used by the Blood Demon Sect, there was also some extraterrestrial star sand!

This is a valuable item. If it could be made into a warhead, its power would be enough to intimidate even those at the Golden Core stage.

It's certainly not enough to deal with Nascent Soul cultivators, but it still poses a certain threat.

However, it will take quite a while.

Master Cheng frankly admitted that he was better at making talismans than crafting weapons, and that he had the will but not the skill.

Upon receiving this news, Xu Yan became even more eager to learn weapon crafting.

He Tiannan did leave behind some insights into weapon crafting, but Xu Yan's cultivation level was too low. Even if he crafted something, it would pose no threat to a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Xu Yan couldn't help but think, "If only Master He were still here."

Finally, everyone unanimously advised: Xu Yan, if you want to hide, then hide properly and stop thinking about all that nonsense all the time!

Wouldn't it be better to use that time to cultivate oneself properly?

No matter how unwilling Xu Yan was, he had no choice but to give up his unrealistic idea.

In that instant, a strange realization quietly emerged, and the demon core in his abdomen suddenly began to spin rapidly, spewing out countless bolts of lightning essence that raced wildly through Xu Yan's meridians.

Xu Yan was completely unaware of all this, and just sat there blankly until his meridians could no longer bear it, at which point he slowly emerged from that strange state.

Looking at his cultivation level, he had unknowingly entered the ninth level of Qi Refining!

Xu Yan... Could it be that by giving up his obsession, he would have a chance to achieve enlightenment?

If we do this a few more times, wouldn't we be able to establish our foundation directly?

But when he tried to figure out how to deal a severe blow to the Nascent Soul, nothing happened.

It's not surprising. If enlightenment were so easy to come by, wouldn't it be commonplace by now?

He was immersed in the joy of his breakthrough, but he didn't know that a breakthrough under normal circumstances would inevitably absorb the surrounding spiritual energy and generate spiritual fluctuations that shouldn't exist. If he wasn't careful, he would be discovered by Old Demon Yan.

However, the power that enabled his breakthrough came from the demon core. Since he did not absorb the surrounding spiritual energy, it naturally did not cause any fluctuations, and he unintentionally escaped a calamity.

Looking at the balloon again, it was still floating in the air.

It was already dark, and the night vision camera had limited viewing distance, so the view in the center of the lake was not clear.

But the cultivators of unknown origin in the Immortal Pavilion were quite active.

They piled thousands of corpses into a small mountain, drew abstract patterns on the ground, and planted many eerie banners to surround the mountain of corpses.

Xu Yan couldn't help but wonder: What exactly do they want to do?