Meanwhile, the authorities urgently dispatched several more large helicopters. Alongside medical staff, they carried members of the Official Elite Forces and researchers who took control of the site and evacuated everyone in an orderly fashion. Their attitude was firm.
The outsiders at the scene could do nothing about it. They had already seen what they came to see, and with the authorities taking matters seriously, they could only leave. Fortunately, no one demanded that they delete the footage on their phones, probably because there were too many witnesses and the videos had already spread across the internet.
Earlier, Basiba's Demonized Remains had torn through the Official Elite Special Operations Forces, inflicting heavy losses. More than half had been put out of action, and many were injured. Even so, the gains from the Wu Ming Ruins were considerable.
There were the Blood Qi Puppet materials that defied common sense and held immense research value, the wondrous Rare Medicine and Precious Grass, and cultivation methods involving supernatural power. Most exciting of all were Great Yuan Imperial Advisor Basiba's Demonized Remains, whose value was beyond imagining.
Soon, under the researchers' direction, members of the Official Elite Forces rappelled into the crater left by Basiba's Demonized Remains when they exploded. Wearing protective gloves, they carefully picked up the half-corpse at the bottom. Even as a desiccated corpse, it was unexpectedly heavy.
It took three or four people to lift it out of the crater bit by bit with ropes. They then quickly sealed it inside a medical specimen bag.
The flesh and bones from the other half of the shattered Legionary Commander-level Blood Qi Puppet were collected as well. They were precious experimental materials.
Elsewhere, Gu Chen stood with Liu Qing'er, Fang Xiu, Li Xingming, Wang Xiaoai, Ye Zhen, and the four Transforming Strength Great Boxers. Officials came to speak with them too.
The earlier videos had made an impression. Cultivating the Five Organs Chapter of the Human Immortal Martial Dao had greatly increased the Transforming Strength Great Boxers' combat strength, so the officials treated them courteously and hoped to win them over. The footage of their fierce clash with Basiba's Demonized Remains made their value clear.
Most importantly, the Wu Ming Ruins had sealed away only part of Great Yuan Imperial Advisor Basiba's Demonized Remains: his hands and part of his torso. His lower torso and head were still out there, and no one knew where they had been sealed.
The crushing defeat of the Official Elite Special Operations Forces had shown how dangerous Great Yuan Imperial Advisor Basiba's Demonized Remains were. The other sealed pieces of his dismembered body would surely be no less formidable. If the ruins containing them appeared, a confrontation would come sooner or later, and the authorities would have to rely on these high-level practitioners of the Human Immortal Martial Dao.
More importantly, the Human Immortal Martial Dao recorded in the Wu Ming Ruins contained only part of the Five Organs Chapter. According to the stone tablet, there also appeared to be a Marrow Cleansing Chapter and a Blood Changing Chapter. Researchers suspected those later cultivation methods might be in the ruins sealing the rest of Great Yuan Imperial Advisor Basiba's Demonized Remains.
These were cultivation methods involving supernatural power. The Wu Ming Ruins also described a Martial Dao Human Immortal as living for three hundred years, possessing blood and qi like a dragon, and being able to shatter a mountain with one punch. Such a person would be a walking artillery battery, capable of wreaking havoc in any city in the world if he wished. Ordinary guns and artillery shells would pose no threat to him. Only area-effect weapons such as missiles might stand a chance, and only if used without regard for the cost.
Apart from Fang Hansong, who was already an instructor hired by the authorities, the other three Transforming Strength Great Boxers responded differently to the approach, though none showed much interest in the invitation. That fit the personalities Gu Chen had established for them through Refine Falsehood Into Truth: one was disguised as a beggar, one was a Taoist from a small, secluded mountain temple who kept out of worldly affairs, and one was a woman devoted to pursuing the martial path.
Still, they did not reject the officials outright. They merely said there might be opportunities to work together in the future.
As their disciples, Liu Qing'er, Fang Xiu, Li Xingming, Wang Xiaoai, and Ye Zhen also received considerable attention. Their records had surely come to the authorities' notice already. Perhaps the officials were even discussing how to build ties with the Transforming Strength Great Boxers through them.
After the conversation, everyone returned to Da She Village, got into their vehicles, and left.
For the group, this expedition into the Wu Ming Ruins had been a resounding success. They had obtained plenty of Rare Medicine and Precious Grass, as well as part of the Human Immortal Martial Dao cultivation method hidden deep within the ruins. They did not yet meet the requirements to cultivate it, but at least they had something to look forward to and a goal to work toward.
Once they returned to Jiangnan, Liu Qing'er naturally hosted everyone.
Lying on the soft mattress in his luxurious guest room, Gu Chen took stock of what he had gained from the emergence of the Wu Ming Ruins.
The result was a delightful surprise. Beyond the 150,000 Origin Points he had received at the start, the Five Organs Chapter of the Human Immortal Martial Dao, Great Yuan Imperial Advisor Basiba's Demonized Remains, and the other discoveries had drawn enormous attention. With so many onlookers at the scene and videos and posts spreading online, the story had flooded nearly the entire internet. Altogether, it had brought him another 500,000 Origin Points, and the total was still slowly rising as its influence grew.
He now had 700,000 Origin Points at his disposal, easing the pressure at once. He no longer had to worry about using Refine Falsehood Into Truth for the subsequent Wu Ming Ruins and Human Immortal Martial Dao developments.
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