Transplanting the Destiny Cluster

Lan Yi had completed seventy percent of the first-stage objective in Artificial Divine Realm 1909.

Although this world's River Civilization region had no decent technical personnel or industrial foundation, martial arts were fortunately something that defied reason. Even after being bullied into this sorry state, as long as the methods and spiritual energy were correct, Spirit Cultivation Practitioners could still be rapidly screened out.

Four Spirit Cultivation Practitioners.

With more than a hundred Qi Cultivation Practitioners, who could continue to be produced afterward, Lan Yi had effectively taken control of the port city of Puhai, with its population of over a million. He had fully mobilized the forces of all three religions and nine schools within it for his own use, greatly benefiting the smooth advancement of the first-stage objective.

Lan Yi's first-stage objective was very simple, and was expected to take three months.

By controlling the power of martial artists, he would effectively rule several southern prefectures and provinces. Individual extraordinary martial artists would carry out a powerful new round of integration of the local communities and land. Anyone who stood in the way would be crushed before extraordinary might!

Even the foreigners had been dealt with.

Could he really not deal with you bunch of spineless local money-grubbers?

Lan Yi could let other things slide, but once any resistance obstructing his progress appeared, even if it meant killing until the river ran red with blood, the martial artists' group would carry it out without hesitation. After all, the Innate Qi of every martial artist was now firmly held in Lan Yi's hands.

After taking control of all the southern coastal port cities, the massive quantities of goods, manpower, capital, and technology flowing through those regions would continuously pour into the construction plan he had laid out.

Electricity!

Lan Yi needed a tremendous amount of electricity.

Stable, enduring electric power and products from a sound industrial base could not only support Lan Yi in rapidly completing this stage of Refining Destiny Clusters, but also solve a series of problems plaguing this decaying, dying nation. They could even become an important source of spiritual energy for the martial artists' future cultivation.

After all, no matter how mysterious and unfathomable Lan Yi the Immortal Master was now...

Handling the combat expenditure of several hundred martial artists was fine, but if it were several thousand, or even several hundred thousand, then forget fighting—even their daily cultivation alone would leave Lan Yi with nothing else to do. He might as well build a golden throne and sit on it as a human charging station until he died.

As for the consequences of doing this over the next several decades—

That was not something Lan Yi considered.

As long as the River Civilization did not perish and things were getting better, that was enough.

A serious illness required fierce medicine; correcting a crooked thing required overcorrection.

Spiritual energy cultivators were not great saints. Lan Yi already had some scruples. Even if he were to destroy the world, those temporal locusts that swarmed everywhere, releasing biological viruses and memetic contamination, were the ones truly committing acts that left no descendants.

Control the ironclad ships, control the armories, control the army, control water and electricity, control communications, control key officials, kill a chicken to frighten the monkeys, blockade the concessions, and display the extraordinary power of martial artists.

In the course of this single day,

the work Lan Yi assigned was carried out in perfect order.

This was the frightening aspect of martial artists.

They could pluck people from every walk of life at any time and turn them into martial artists, take charge of production, stabilize and regenerate themselves, and swiftly pacify chaos. The martial artists held unparalleled reverence and loyalty toward Lan Yi the Immortal Master, who had created all this.

Among them were also party members such as Nong Jinsun and Chen Qimei, who were actively assisting Lan Yi.

Unprecedented power, unprecedented loyalty, and unprecedented smoothness brought unprecedented efficiency.

Every command from Lan Yi the Immortal Master—

In Puhai, the people and materials he had planned for were guaranteed to arrive on time.

Extortion and embezzlement? Profiting from the middle?

There were plenty of martial artists eagerly waiting for some blind local snake to crawl out, so they could display their loyalty before Lan Yi the Immortal Master, win the Immortal Master's favor, and swiftly become Spirit Cultivation Practitioners like the Four Heavenly Generals!

The Four Heavenly Generals was the honorific title for the four Spirit Cultivation Practitioners under Lan Yi.

Shadow Heavenly General, Zhao Sikong. The Dongyang concession fell silent because of him alone within a single day. It was said that when he left the Dongyang concession, the stench of blood soared into the heavens and refused to disperse. From then on, none of the surviving men inside dared to pick up a gun. They would even tremble and lose control of their bladders at the mere sight of one.

Fierce Heavenly General, Zhao Jian. Relying on the strength of a bear and tiger, he charged into the old Imperial Court army's barracks, withstood cannon fire before a thousand people, seized the armory, and tore apart several staunch old soldiers who had shown disrespect toward the Immortal Master.

Ghost Heavenly General, Geng Liangchen. He commanded hungry ghosts and clung to warships, forcing the New Army to obey his orders and begin carrying out the blockade and inspection of foreign vessels in the harbor.

Martial Heavenly General, Huo Yuanjia. He was friends with the Immortal Master. That was all there was to it.

All this had happened within forty-eight hours.

Outside Puhai, no one had yet responded to the upheaval that had occurred there. Some were even still questioning whether it was real.

Even the Dongyang headquarters, most sensitive to the slightest stirrings in the Stars, was confused about what Lan Yi actually was. Quite a few scholars had even interpreted the words Lan Yi as the codename for some secret plot of the Qing Imperial Court.

Lan Yi had also gained a rare stretch of leisure.

He could finally find the time to transplant Prison Suppression into himself.

Identify the Destiny Cluster, harvest the Destiny Cluster, and transplant the Destiny Cluster.

These were compulsory lessons for every spiritual energy cultivator.

After all, it was impossible for anyone to be born with every Destiny Cluster they wanted. The Destiny Clusters required to cultivate a destiny map could only be transplanted onto one's own body from elsewhere.

In this matter, the War Zone, a system with little sense of presence, had provided spiritual energy cultivators with tremendous convenience during its early stages.

Once spiritual energy cultivators had completely controlled a target,

they could apply to the War Zone to appraise their spoils of war.

If a Destiny Cluster existed among the spoils, the spiritual energy cultivator could obtain the relevant information and choose whether to transplant it into their own body or store it. Because of the storage's beyond-the-era convenience and reliability, spiritual energy cultivators jokingly called this function preservation.

Of course, transplanting a Destiny Cluster was certainly not that simple.

It involved a series of difficult problems, including rejection reactions, compatibility, Destiny Cluster Psychosis, and interactions between Destiny Clusters.

The War Zone was only responsible for the transplantation.

The remaining problems still had to be judged by the spiritual energy cultivator themselves.

Because there were no direct prompts, combined with their lack of understanding of destiny maps, quite a few early spiritual energy cultivators would transplant a Destiny Cluster into themselves whenever they saw one, directly causing a pile of cases of Destiny Cluster Psychosis. Later, when they began removing Destiny Clusters in order to cultivate their destiny maps, the excruciating experience was simply indescribable.

The Prison Suppression Destiny Cluster Lan Yi currently had in preservation was an original Destiny Cluster.

It had not been activated by spiritual energy or undergone cultivation, and its owner had still been an ordinary person when the Destiny Cluster was extracted.

The interference it might cause after transplantation was negligible.

As for compatibility and interactions between Destiny Clusters—

Lan Yi the Immortal Master declared that they were minor issues. All of them could be endured through with sheer willpower.

"Puhai is completely under control. The spiritual energy conversion device and detector have to be put on the agenda. More martial artists will be coming here next, and afterward I'll have to deal with that lucky fellow in Dongyang."

Lan Yi gazed expressionlessly at the Stars filling the sky. The next moment, a flash of blue light flickered at the back of his neck, and Prison Suppression had already been transplanted. Immediately afterward, Cang Hua seemed to have received a summons and activated automatically. Countless writhing, luminous white threads beneath his skin rapidly spread toward his neck, visible to the naked eye!