Planting a gu was just an excuse.
Wang Jixuan really did not have many methods for refining gu. Back then, he had only learned a little of the basics.
Daoist Wang's escape speed was now quite impressive. Traveling several thousand li per hour was no problem, and he was unafraid of the extreme heat and pressure deep underground. Blade Beasts and Pseudo Spirit Slaves were even less capable of detecting him.
He investigated underground and soon discovered that the Blade Beasts seemed determined to stake everything on this one battle.
The density of the King-Class Blade Beast Swarm was absolutely unprecedented in his experience.
Without outside interference, the human side would be in real danger this time unless they dragged out their entire nuclear arsenal.
Of course, Daoist Wang knew that given Fu Jian and the others' temperaments, even war had to be managed sustainably. Every escalation in a campaign determined how many nuclear bombs could be deployed.
After a century of depletion, followed by more than eighty years of the Fortress Era, humanity's resources were scarce, and there truly were not many nuclear weapons left.
Without a greater breakthrough in Nuclear Material, even those powerful nuclear weapons capable of crippling a Pillar-Class Blade Beast in a single blast could only achieve that effect by increasing the amount of Nuclear Material used.
After considering it, Wang Jixuan sent Ling Tong a message mentioning the density of the underground King-Class Blade Beast Swarm and the damage it was doing to the earth's strata.
Ling Tong would naturally pass that information on to Fu Jian.
Wang Jixuan then turned east and hurried all the way to the Blade Beasts' old nest.
The two Pillar-Class Blade Beasts awakened this time were both the ones closest to the D8 Comprehensive War Zone. The Pillar-Class