Clouds gathered and rain fell, turning decay into wonder and laying out formations with exquisite skill.
This was a Daoist art used by psionic cultivators to adapt to local conditions and alter the cultivation environment of a region. It had no definite name; strictly speaking, it was merely a means by which psionic cultivators applied their knowledge to the world between Heaven and Earth.
Shenxiao Peak possessed a Daoist art founded on this method of stealing Heaven and changing the sun, manipulating the Earthly Baleful Intent and Heavenly Astral forces, reversing yin and yang, and wiping the surface of a modern fortress city off the face of the earth in an instant.
Of course.
That Daoist art was far too difficult for Lan Yi to perform at present. However, the basic principles were right there: electromagnetism, gravity, the weak force, and the strong force had all been understood. The mysteries of every Daoist art were hidden within them. Even if he could not reproduce and perform them, he still had ways to counter and dismantle them.
With Prison Suppression, he could activate it at any time.
Entering a state of absolute rationality and composure, he could coordinate the psionic energy of the outside world with effortless ease.
Once Lan Yi decided to make his move.
Then he had a hundred percent certainty of success. Even if unexpected disturbances such as natural disruptions arose midway, he was still confident he could keep the situation under control.
Still, it was ultimately a gamble.
Some risks had to be taken. He could not possibly remain in the Artificial Divine Realm forever. Without speeding things up, his progress in this backward and barren Artificial Divine Realm would remain too slow.
One had to consider the conditions for reincarnation.
It could be said that ninety-nine percent of reincarnators were enemies of Lan Yi. Having likewise returned through reincarnation, they would certainly do everything in their power to desperately increase their strength during the first Artificial Divine Realm trial, then observe and study Lan Yi. Once they discovered they had a chance, they would absolutely leap out and angrily chop off Old Demon Lan's head to sacrifice to Heaven and save the world!
To put it in a more fashionable way, Lan Yi was now single-handedly igniting a psionic energy revival in Artificial Divine Realm 1909.
The Type-I Conversion Device gradually stabilized.
The pillar of light shooting into the sky slowly dissipated.
In its place came specks of blue light like droplets of rain. They spilled from the enormous lotus circuit, streaked across the retina, and vanished without a trace.
Although they were invisible to the naked eye, through Psionic Vision, one could clearly see the light particles representing psionic energy flashing and igniting from time to time, creating the so-called psionic clouds and mist. Leaping rapidly in units of ten thousand meters, they began filling the entire area of Puhai with psionic energy.
Only then did Huo Yuanjia and Geng Liangchen dare to approach. Their fear and admiration for Lan Yi overflowed from their faces.
"Congratulations, Immortal Master, on completing the art!"
They could not see psionic energy either, but Innate Qi could sense it.
As Spirit Cultivation Practitioners, their senses were the sharpest.
It was like birds being borne into the sky by powerful winds, or fish leaping into water and receiving nourishment. The Innate Qi that had originally required heavy supplementation after being depleted, or had to be replenished by Lan Yi, had already begun absorbing the free psionic energy on its own in this short while, allowing it to independently replenish battle-level expenditure.
Lan Yi was estimating the area of influence based on the psionic energy feedback in the air.
"You can have people open vegetable gardens and breeding farms throughout Puhai. The seafood near the Yangtze estuary can also be placed under control."
"Once psionic energy becomes abundant, if your luck is good, you may harvest psionic-energy food. It is of no use to me, but it can still accelerate your cultivation."
"Besides that, among the physical laborers in the city, a group should soon appear who sense Innate Qi or unconsciously awaken their Life Clusters. They are the seeds who will one day wage war across the four seas."
Lan Yi did not need to say anything more.
Even if Huo Yuanjia and Geng Liangchen failed to understand, the party members already deeply bound to them could understand what would need to be done to govern the city and continue expanding outward.
"We obey the Immortal Master's Order!"
The two Spirit Cultivation powerhouses bowed once more.
At that moment, Lan Yi's brows creased slightly.
As expected, there were still troublesome matters. The Type-I Conversion Device had already touched the underlying logic governing the entire Artificial Divine Realm. Even if this world had no other psionic cultivators interfering or coveting it, things such as the consciousness of the Heavenly Position, the River of Life, the Heavenly Dao, or a higher-dimensional computer would begin conducting their assessments.
As the ultimate causal creator behind the psionic energy revival and the reversal of the world's great trend, Lan Yi's luck had begun to fluctuate.
If his luck became catastrophically bad.
It was not impossible for Mythical Species such as phoenixes and flood dragons to appear.
However, those were not the most troublesome things.
The real trouble was the side effect of the Type-I Conversion Device.
Its side effect did not manifest in the psionic energy. Instead, it acted directly on the Artificial Divine Realm!
If the Artificial Divine Realm was a wall used by the War Zone to protect the main world, then once the Type-I Conversion Device was activated, it was equivalent to suddenly beginning a broadcast atop that wall, announcing that this Artificial Divine Realm had undergone abnormal changes.
How powerful was this broadcasting effect?
It was like suddenly raising a torch on a pitch-black, lightless wilderness; like an artificial sun appearing on a polar snowfield; like a loudspeaker suddenly beginning to howl like a ghost in the dead of night when all was silent; like a timid field mouse that had hidden with utmost care suddenly entering the vision of an apex predator.
Things as bizarre as space-time locusts, cross-boundary Immortal sects, super empires, ultimate lifeforms, doomsday embers, and psionic cultivators of the future could all be drawn here.
Huh? Why is this Artificial Divine Realm broadcasting nonstop?
Let's go take a look!
Of course, that also depended on luck.
Perhaps, if luck was good, no existence would notice the abnormality of this Artificial Divine Realm for hundreds or even thousands of years. Or perhaps, in the next second, the firmament would be torn apart by a star-destroying fleet crossing over from another realm.
In the past, the ones who did this had primarily been psionic cultivators from the main world.
And the War Zone was there to cover for them!
Lan Yi was also outrageously bold. He had directly cranked up the intensity on the War Zone!
After connecting to the Type-I Conversion Device, Lan Yi could vaguely sense that, as psionic energy began to be mass-produced and crudely spread outward, several anomalous places had been activated.
One of them was even in Puhai...
Lan Yi turned his head toward Huo Yuanjia.
This particular anomaly had a deep causal connection with Huo Yuanjia.
"Master Huo, go help me find someone. You are the only one who can find him smoothly," Lan Yi instructed.
"Immortal Master, whom do you want to find?"
"His name now should be Jin Buhuan."
"Huh?" Huo Yuanjia was puzzled. He did not know anyone named Jin Buhuan. Had the Immortal Master given him only a name and expected him to search through the more than one million people in Puhai?
"Go take a walk outside now. You should be able to find him."
No one dared disobey Lan Yi, no matter how absurd his words were.
Huo Yuanjia immediately went outside the power plant, preparing to run around and take a look. If he did not encounter the man, he could only ask Nong Jinsun to search the household registers.
As a result, just as Huo Yuanjia stepped through the gate,
a figure suddenly darted in front of him. It moved so quickly that he failed to react and did not sense the person's presence at all. He was genuinely startled!
"Hey! Huo Yuanjia! Huo Yuanjia! Hehe, when did you become the number one in Jinmen?"
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