Psionic Energy

What was psionic energy?

All things in creation were born with spirit, and everything in this world emitted psionic energy every moment of every day.

From the perspective of modern people, psionic energy was similar to radiation. After all, no matter what kind of object it was, it had a radiation background. Even the most extreme celestial body—a black hole—still emitted radiation.

But as a top-tier psionic cultivator reborn into this world,

Lan Yi could say with absolute certainty:

The essence of psionic energy was not radiation.

It was an uncertain existence that lay between matter and energy. It could also be said that it was both energy and matter, both something and nothing at all. That was why psionic cultivators could draw it into their psionic furnaces, alter the world through cognition, or use it as fuel for Innate Qi to twist reality in defiance of all reason.

Wind, electricity, light, magnetism, waterfalls, ionized matter, magma, and high-energy minerals—all of them were psionic energy, merely psionic energy with different properties and different utilization rates.

The psionic energy in the atmosphere of Artificial Divine Realm 1909 that was available for human use was terribly inefficient.

So much so that in this world, cultivators existed only in myths and legends. No matter how hard practitioners trained, they could not transcend mortality and enter sainthood, nor master methods such as refining qi and refining the spirit.

But that did not mean this world had no way to convert psionic energy on a large scale.

Thank heavens.

At the very least, this era already had power plants.

Otherwise, Lan Yi would truly have had to start from scratch, staking out land to search for hot springs, volcanoes, or waterfalls and build so-called mage towers. For him at this point, that would have been the most torturous task of all.

Power plants.

Their existence signified that humanity's understanding and utilization of energy had escaped its primitive ignorance. Any psionic cultivator with comprehensive knowledge of Daoist arts could use what he had learned to convert the electrical energy continuously released by a power plant into psionic energy usable by cultivators and martial artists through an especially crude device!

In Lan Yi's preliminary plans,

taking control of the power plants was an extremely important task. If the power plants were smashed, repairing them to working order would be far too troublesome.

At that moment, the sunlight had taken on a yellowish hue. Puhai Power Plant.

There was a guard stationed every five paces and a sentry every ten—this was no exaggeration.

Of the two hundred martial artists currently in all of Puhai, forty of them took turns patrolling and guarding this place. Among the Four Heavenly Generals under Immortal Master Lan Yi, Martial Heavenly General Huo Yuanjia and Ghost Heavenly General Geng Liangchen also ensured that one of them was stationed here at all times, preventing certain foreigners at the power plant from refusing to cooperate and causing trouble.

Lan Yi and Huo Yuanjia paced between the steadily humming generator units.

The scene of the working medium driving the steam turbines at high speed possessed a unique beauty in Lan Yi's eyes. It was the beauty of energy constantly transforming.

"You've done very well. This place has been preserved perfectly."

"It was only what this subordinate ought to do," Huo Yuanjia replied humbly.

"The future of this world is beside us now." Lan Yi rarely allowed himself a moment of emotion. Loneliness and backwardness had always clung to him.

With Prison Suppression, what came next should not cost anyone their life.

"Immortal Master, there may be a group of people whose disposition requires your review." Huo Yuanjia presented a list.

"Oh?" Lan Yi turned his head.

There were several foreigners on the list, along with several Xinghan people.

Lan Yi soon understood what this was about.

The foreigners were engineers, while the Xinghan people were members of the management who had been especially enthusiastic about fawning over foreigners. At the end of the day, this land currently lacked the ability to establish power plants independently. The large machinery and technical management of the power plants had either been imported or learned abroad. Those who had licked foreign boots thought they had become something special.

When it came to power plant affairs, they had the final say.

Because Lan Yi demanded complete control over these power plants,

when the martial artists arrived, they were extremely civilized and polite, their movements refined and agreeable. Since the plant was under semi-closed control and neither side was willing to communicate, the arrogant foreign technicians and their lackeys directly declared that Puhai Power Plant was an asset invested in by foreigners and refused to serve unidentified persons. If any damage occurred, they would pursue the matter to the bitter end.

Fortunately, they were merely arrogant, not stupid.

Every one of the martial artists was armed, and each possessed extraordinary skill.

They were only acting stubborn under the protection of the foreigner talisman.

The foreigners' stubbornness could be understood, but what did the lackeys have to be so cocky about? Geng Liangchen was already prepared. He was merely waiting for Immortal Master to give the word, so he could use death and fear to show these people just how laughable their protective talisman was.

"For such trivial matters, you don't need to report to me in the future. As long as the power plant can continue operating, drive out anyone without ability who should be driven out. If they usually commit all manner of evil as well, then kill them outright."

"If someone has ability and still commits evil, make him spit out all his knowledge as quickly as possible. Once you've learned it all, send him on his way."

"Go and deliver the orders."

"Tell Geng Liangchen to keep all the necessary areas in order. No matter what happens next, the power plant's operation must never stop."

Huo Yuanjia was already about to withdraw.

Thinking about Lan Yi's last words, he inexplicably asked,

"What will happen if it stops?"

"I will definitely survive. As for you and this city..."

Lan Yi paused before speaking in a demonic tone.

"You will be reduced to primordial atoms. The buildings in this city should all collapse, too."

Huo Yuanjia felt a chill rise all over him. If Lan Yi had not been the one doing this, he would definitely have stopped him. But this was Immortal Master Lan Yi's will. Huo Yuanjia could sense its importance and its absolute inviolability, so he could only brace himself and leave.

Not long afterward,

several ghostly, shrill screams rang out between the factory buildings. The screams soon stopped abruptly.

"Fortunately, this world is backward enough. Otherwise, what I'm doing next would practically be planting a target and mocking the world, inviting every psionic cultivator on the planet to come seize and plunder it."

"I only did this once in Artificial Divine Realm: Biohazard."

"The lowest technical requirements, the greatest universality across worlds, and the simplest conversion process—the most primitive universal Type One psionic energy release and conversion device will be enough for martial artists below the Void Refinement realm."

Lan Yi arrived at the power output terminal of the power plant.

Rows of enormous transformer substations stood in orderly formation like soldiers. Nearly all of Puhai's electricity was dispatched from here, an astonishing quantity for this era.

Lan Yi raised his hand and flung out six flying swords.

The six flying swords linked together steadily above the transformer substations, forming a hexagonal circuit.

Immediately afterward, Geng Jin Qi extracted from various ironware and mineral veins—tiny particles of metals such as iron, manganese, titanium, tungsten, and zirconium—wound around the hexagon. They began forming the pattern of a three-dimensional blooming lotus. Within this pattern, the energy siphon recognized by psionic cultivators, the energy loading unit, the induced-field stabilizer, and the psionic energy conversion terminal rapidly took shape.

A trace of psionic energy was injected, and a magnetic field linking the Earth's magnetism with the power plant's powerful magnetic field instantly formed!

Bzzt!!

Suddenly, a phantom blue light shot into the sky!

It instantly soared several thousand meters into the air. Then, like fireworks blooming, it began releasing specks of blue light throughout Puhai—droplets of rain visible only through Psionic Vision.