Everything Went Smoothly

It went more smoothly than expected; these agents are quite efficient.

To be honest, with just this one combat eunuch and Thunder Kylin, the two vehicles could barely fight the Divine Cult. As for them to restrain Xiantong, it would probably be a matter of one tearing and the other tearing, and they wouldn't last more than three moves.

I wonder if the company has any new tricks up its sleeve. This time, instead of allocating local resources or sending the lobby manager, the company has specially dispatched a task force. I'm afraid it's because after so many incidents, the company has become suspicious of the security of the 49327 local subnet.

The company's technology and the legion are not on the same level. The mood system doesn't dare to openly hack into the company, lest it backfire and be traced back. Now, Li Fan can only rely on improvisation.

Following the eunuch behind the special agent, Li Fan guessed that the company's people should also be hiding nearby. However, the battlefield was too chaotic at the moment, with turbulent Divine Sense, howling ghosts, and electromagnetic interference off the charts. It was difficult to distinguish which one was the company's Bio-Human.

This special agent eunuch had a clear goal, running frantically, but not towards the coordinates, but towards a certain peak on Yuntai Peak. Li Fan quickly realized his purpose: he was there to meet up.

At the summit of that mountain stands a Wind and Thunder Tower, topped with a massive thunder and fire pearl. Thunder still crackles across the night sky, striking the heavens.

Outside the tower is a circular plaza-like metal altar. In the center of the altar is a statue of a wolf-hoofed, domed, multicolored, blue-scaled, white-horned, snow-maned, and golden-eyed alloy Thunder Kylin, over 24 feet tall, with flashing lightning and surrounded by thunder and fire.

Li Fan recognized it from the architectural style; it was the Thunder God Altar of the Ancient Immortal Palace, where the Thunder Department used to guard the place. Now it was abandoned, and probably only the Xuanmen would come to practice thunder magic occasionally, or take turns doing weather forecasts.

Good heavens, he thought it was a live Qilin, but it really is a prosthetic body used for landscaping! This is just a divine statue or magical Magic Treasure; no wonder it has been hidden for so many years without being discovered, and even the Xuanmen (Daoist sects) couldn't figure it out.

Without further ado, the Qilin shot out a golden thunder pearl from its eye socket as soon as the special agent eunuch materialized from the void.

"The local biological brainwave interference is too strong. This place can periodically output signals to the ionosphere. As long as you stand on the metal structure, you can directly link with my prosthetic body. Go to the site to scout and use pulse signals to communicate. I will maintain a relay station here to report to the public network."

The eunuch didn't say much, just nodded, gathered his power in the Thunder Pearl, and lightning flashed. At the same time, the Qilin's horn also glowed white as a candle. After a flash to coordinate the frequency code, he immediately swallowed the Qilin's eye into his mouth, held it there, turned around and jumped off the cliff, falling towards the bottom of Yuntai Peak.

Li Fan did not immediately follow him. Instead, he circled the Qilin three times, studying the surrounding shrines and calculating circuits while mentally deducing the cause and effect of the object based on the Dao Tower talismans and inscriptions.

This Qilin was clearly not intended for display or combat, nor was it initially a surveillance device for the company on Yuntai Peak. Based on the inscriptions, circuit connections, and the various types of equipment within the prosthetic body, Li Fan deduced a rough cause and effect.

After the extermination of the Demon Race, Yuntai Peak fell into the hands of the Immortal Palace and became the imperial throne. The company also began researching and modifying extraterrestrial technology, installing many electronic equipment for factories and laboratories inside Yuntai Peak. And the equipment needed to be under warranty.

Therefore, the company specially made this metal Qilin and connected it to a large number of local area subnets installed inside Yuntai Peak. Normally, it serves as the mount and auspicious beast of Yuntai Peak, while also being responsible for the status maintenance, precise operation, and charging and maintenance of various electronic devices. In case of any power failure, it can also be repaired in an emergency.

To put it simply, it's a Qilin-shaped emergency generator and an engineering maintenance robot...

This Qilin has high system privileges and special equipment, and it is directly linked to the physical structure. In the environment of Yuntai Peak with strong interference, the wireless signal is severely interfered with, but the wired network can still be used. Moreover, the Qilin is equipped with an ultra-high voltage generator, which can provide emergency power to the equipment in a short time when necessary. It can also use some moves such as ten trillion volts or quadrillion volts to cooperate with the formation to resist the enemy.

The fact that agents from the Third Division managed to hack into the Thunder Kylin body is quite a blow to the company. After all, this is the only engineering machine left that can operate independently on Yuntai Peak.

Li Fan was still in the Qilin Motors backstage area when he found an ancient maintenance log. An engineer from a certain company complained that these brain-dead natives had inexplicably killed all the dragon-shaped landscape creatures and even toppled and leveled the dragon-shaped statues used for engineering maintenance because of some inexplicable reason like internal strife. They were absolutely insane, so angry they were about to vomit blood...

In short, the three departments were specifically targeting Qilin Motor. Just now, they directly overloaded the circuit, causing all the equipment the company had deployed at Yuntai Peak to trip and go offline. The servers on all lines crashed, and the sudden lights out startled Xuanmen.

Now that it's pitch black, the old Xuanmen on the mountain don't know how to fix motors or change fuses. They're all calculating with their fingers to see what's going on. Even when they figure out there's no danger, they refuse to believe it. They're all holed up in the various Xuanmen temples and monasteries at the summit, on high alert, refusing to fall for the diversionary tactic. This makes it easier for the company and the special agents to carry out their plans.

This is a bit troublesome. These two agents from the Third Division are clearly not fools being used as pawns. To avoid being killed like the others, they used different subnets. The eunuch agent is still on the Security Bureau's channel, but the Qilin agent has already proactively connected to Yuntai Peak's internal network, into the company's LAN.

They are now using internal codenames and borrowing the Thunder Kylin as a signal relay, with one person responsible for communication and the other for reconnaissance. The agent was able to hack into the Kirin just now, so they can contact the Public Security System of the virtual network at any time. They are also openly exposing their whereabouts, so the company probably won't dare to directly take action against the agents of the three departments.

If they manage to investigate and find out that it wasn't the so-called legion causing trouble, and even manage to rescue their teammates and Qiongqi, then the Security Bureau's fleet will have a perfect opportunity to use the jump gate to suppress the situation...

Furthermore, Li Fan noticed that the Qilin Horn was also flashing to maintain the signal, indicating that anyone who discovered the Thunder Pearl's password was incorrect could immediately disconnect and return to Earth 0. Since they were not in the same subnet, it would be necessary to target both of them together for the attack to be effective.

Li Fan considered it for a moment. Although he didn't have system-level hacking skills and couldn't hack into the firewalls of the Security Bureau or companies, Earthlings' primordial spirits were weak. He figured he could probably handle it using primordial spirit techniques.

He'd only ever used head-patting and similar primordial spirit techniques on human brains; he wasn't confident they could work on robots, but based on theoretical judgment... Since Qiongqi's Soul Binding technique could pull an agent's consciousness from the other end of the virtual network to the Taiji Realm, and Xiantong's Lotus could seal two agents together, Lu Ya's Divine Cult's primordial spirit techniques were even more powerful, capable of pulling Li Fan's primordial spirit into deep dreams, theoretically they could also be used on Earthlings, right?

However, the agents' strategies are cautious and rational, and can be calculated. Xiantong Tong, on the other hand, is an irrational psychopath. Perhaps the first moment of contact will result in one of the agents being killed instantly, causing the operation to fail.

Therefore, we must set up operations on both sides and start simultaneously.

Hmm... then let's attack both sides simultaneously.

Although this was the first time Li Fan had encountered such a situation, it wasn't a big deal.

If there's a problem, ask for a solution; if there's no solution, find a way. If there's no solution, just create a new primordial spirit method to meet the needs.

To be honest, Li Fan really felt that cultivating immortality and deriving new Cultivation Method were not fundamentally different from writing scripts in programming or solving equations in arithmetic. No wonder even someone as impatient as Xuan Tian, who would kill anyone he saw, always talked about the importance of arithmetic. Aren't all those secret manuals, formations, and ingenious methods of the Xuanmen sect solutions developed by generations of Xuanmen disciples for different situations and goals?

The special agents have now devised a solution to the wireless communication interference at Yuntai Peak: relying on the internal local area network to transmit electromagnetic pulse frequency communication. Li Fan can also utilize this to achieve mutual communication and coordination between the two primordial spirits.

Moreover, to put it bluntly, if the true body is the Tai Sha Star Core, which is a black hole, then Li Fan's primordial spirit is a closed string. A string can fluctuate at different frequencies in different dimensions. He can leap on the membrane, and naturally he can also resonate and vibrate on the membrane.

Moreover, Qingxu Second Yuanshen is similar, utilizing the same segment of the soul and expressing it in different times, places, and bodies. As long as it shares memories and knowledge, it can operate just like the original body. Furthermore, if unique emotions are inputted, it can even develop a new personality. It's like having a split personality—two, three, thousands, as many as you want.

Getting a new personality to use the Primordial Spirit Technique is even simpler. There's experience with the Guiche Heavenly Book Magic Puppet and the Blood Raven Puppet, and plenty of ready-made puppet scripts to copy. It's actually quite simple.

When you've learned enough methods and done enough problems, even with new problems, there are plenty of existing resources and formulas you can use as a reference. That's the importance of practicing problems!

New, the Primordial Spirit Technique, Thousand-Faced Magic Puppet!

Then, a figure stood up behind the Qilin's shadow, and then that figure split into two, separating Li Fan's primordial spirit as well, like cutting paper.

Leave it to me.

Leave it to me.

The two figures nodded in agreement. One Li Fan stayed behind the Qilin, while the other Li Fan leaped into the abyss, following the eunuch agent at a leisurely pace.

It has to be said that even the most unlucky person has a chance to turn their luck around. No matter how bad your luck is, there's always a chance to have a stroke of good fortune. Almost every mission has failed inexplicably, but today, Plan A is progressing much more smoothly than Li Fan expected.

When the eunuch agents arrived at the coordinates, at the abandoned Daoist palace, Xiantong was still there, and the other two female agents, the soda can, and Zhi Jingzi's hand were also still there.

Xiantong, this madman, clearly didn't care about the Xuan Sect God Sect fighting outside, nor did he care about the power outage or lights being turned off. He somehow got a bowl of glutinous rice, mashed it into a paste with his fingers, and was kneeling in front of the Profound Maiden shrine with his buttocks sticking out, trying to glue the portrait that Li Fan had just cut in two back together, but he was afraid of tearing the silk paper and dared not do it.

When eunuch agents encountered this situation, they became suspicious and dared not approach.

Xiantong suddenly turned and glanced at him, then jumped in front of the eunuch, pulled him to the painting, and asked, "Hey, take a look, can it be repaired?"

Seeing that the other party had seen through his disguise at a glance, and that he was completely powerless to resist while being held by the hand, this agent knew how formidable Xiantong was. However, these frontline infiltrators and investigators were truly skilled individuals. They remained calm and composed, assessed the situation, and with a quick glance, gleaned useful intelligence from the memories of those managing the inner palace within the Dachangqiu of Kun Country.

Then, tilting his head back, he swallowed the Qilin Eye and spoke.

"Paper lasts a thousand years, silk eight hundred, that's acceptable."

"Really!"

Xiantong was overjoyed and shoved the bowl of glutinous rice into the hands of the eunuch, saying, "Come, come, come, come, come!"

The eunuch agent picked up the bowl, smelled it, and shook his head. "People call him a paperhanger, but restoring ancient relics isn't just about pasting. To put it simply, there are five steps: washing, peeling, patching, mounting, and finishing."

Take the paste-making process alone, for example. Wheat flour must be degluten removed, sieved, washed, and allowed to settle for three days to remove turbidity. It must be repeatedly sieved, washed, boiled, and decocted. Careful comparison is necessary to restore the paper's color; otherwise, rushing the process will only ruin this rare and authentic work."

Xiantong nodded repeatedly, "Ah, yes, yes, yes! You're absolutely right! What do we do?"

The eunuch agent didn't even glance at his two petrified teammates, focusing solely on examining the portrait. "First, I need to unveil it, then add the missing parts, select and match, inlay, seal, color it, and attach the brush... I also need a set of handy tools before I can begin. Moreover, this matter demands meticulous attention to detail and cannot be rushed."

Xiantong was so eager to kneel down before him, "Alright, alright! Let's go! I'll take you to the Yuntai Treasure Vault to choose!"

So Xiantong, accompanied by the eunuch, flew away on a cloud in Xiantong.

"..."

Before Li Fan could even react, he was left alone in the Dao Palace...

Holy crap?! Is it really that smooth???

Li Fan was a little stunned, but this was a golden opportunity! Let's go! Invade the Primordial Spirit!

Li Fan arrived at the Primordial Spirit Realm once again, before the black lotus that sealed the special agent, which was as fat as an onion!

Alright! This time, Li Fan has plenty of time to 'solve the problem'. If he can't save Qiongqi, then it really is because he's not good at math and hasn't done enough practice problems. Don't blame others for the mistake!

Fortunately, Li Fan had previously clashed with the Lotus True Qi of Penglai, and had also come into contact with the classic Cultivation Method of the Luo Sect and the Black Lotus Sect. His mastery of the Black Lotus technique was Xiantong a result of drawing upon his own accumulated knowledge and skills. Cultivation methods are like programming; you can't inexplicably derive a language that never existed. Everything has logic, reason, and cause and effect...

While circling the lotus and calculating, Li Fan's back began to split into countless Thousand-Faced Magic Puppet, each evolving and calculating independently at the divergence of its counting rods!

Yes, it was unexpected that they came up with a Yuan Shen algorithm that could increase computing power!

With such frantic calculations, plus today's inexplicable good luck, Li Fan actually succeeded!

He not only deduced the essence of the Black Lotus Secret Technique that Xiantong comprehended while imprisoned.

He even deduced the essence of the true energy of the Penglai Lotus!

Li Fan had also studied the core techniques of the Penglai Nine True Palace!

Indeed, the core of this method originates from the Xuan Girl Heavenly Book! <The Supreme Xuan Girl of the Nine Heavens's Secret Manual for Slaying Evil>!

In principle, the "Secret Manual for Slaying Evil" records methods for harmonizing Yin and Yang, eliminating weaknesses in the body caused by evil spirits, and removing hidden dangers.

The ultimate goal of the Xuanmen Qi Refining Method is to create a microcosm within the body.

The Penglai Nine Truth Sect modified its Qi cultivation method with the <Evil-Slaying Secret Manual> as its core guiding principle. This is equivalent to using one's own true Qi to create an aura before the formation of a microcosm within the body. Within this lotus-like aura, an independently operating Taiji microcosm is simulated.

Each layer of the Lotus True Qi is a perfect Tai Chi world model with the nine energies of Tai Chi operating perfectly, forming its own cycle. This makes it not only difficult to break from the outside, but also greatly increases the cultivation speed of the cultivator's core Dao body. Finally, the layers of worlds are superimposed, transforming the Dao body into the perfect Profound Maiden Dao body.

Xiantong went a step further by introducing the theory of evil energy, changing the Taiji lotus of Penglai into a new Tai Su lotus!

This is equivalent to Xiantong creating his own Tai Su Devil Domain within the Tai Su Lotus!

The Primordial Lotus Demon Realm!

Xiantong figured it out!

Although this is a completely different model from Li Fan's Tai Sha Star Realm, judging from the current situation, it is also a stable structure. Moreover, compared to the unchanging and stable Tai Chi Lotus, the Tai Su Lotus, under the stimulation of Sha Qi, can react violently to external stimuli, constantly regenerating and growing stronger! It continuously devours and absorbs external domains to enrich itself!

Of course, it is also Xiantong that the Dao of Manifestation is not yet complete. For example, the lotus is still 'empty' inside. Although the world has been formed, it has not yet completed the core Dao body it is constructing.

But given time, it is not impossible for this Primordial Black Lotus to eventually evolve into a Primordial Innate Great Dao!

Damn, he really is a mentally ill person with a wide-ranging mind; you really can't keep up with his train of thought unless you deliberately try to split yourself...

However, it seems that the more violent the means, the harder it is to break through this Tai Su Lotus Demon Realm.

Fortunately, once the principle is understood, it's not difficult. Li Fan can analyze the properties of the 'Tai Su Lotus Petals' and modify and invade the puppet accordingly.

Just like a virus invading a host, an 'invisible membrane' is given to the puppet, connecting it to the outer wall, deceiving the defense mechanism of the Tai Su Lotus, causing the puppet to be sucked in as a 'petal'. Then, the agent's consciousness trapped inside is located, its memories are analyzed, and the secret is found...

Oh, found it...

Well, it's quite simple. After all, the souls of Earthlings are very weak. They dissipate upon death and cannot maintain self-awareness within the Tai Su Lotus. The moment they are trapped, they fall into a deep sleep. How can they resist?

Li Fan's puppet easily found the password and also discovered that the two female agents had used a trick: one recorded the password while the other logged biometrics. The death of either of them could render the key invalid. Moreover, activating the key only established a link; specialized equipment, such as spaceships or shuttles, was needed for follow-up support to retrieve Qiongqi from the space prison.

So far everything has gone smoothly, so let's give it a try anyway.

So Li Fan possessed the cybernetic body of a special agent, used the puppet to manipulate the cybernetic body to emit brainwaves, input the password, and turn the key...

The can cracked open, revealing a pinhole-sized black hole inside. It looked even smaller than the opening Weaving Bureau, and it closed almost instantly!

But Li Fan didn't need to react at all; a gentle breeze suddenly arose! Just as the black hole disappeared, a white figure leaped out from the crack! The agent's shadow immediately rose from the ground and caught the white figure in his hand!

A white 'cat' with tiger-striped golden eyes and two small wings on its back fell into the palm of Huixing's clone!

Plan A, completed!

Qiongqi Dao Body Reclaimed!

Li Fan looked at the 'cat' he was carrying in his hand with disbelief.

But it was indeed a clone of Qiongqi! It took a huge hit head-on, destroying ten years of cultivation in an instant; literally, it went from a giant tiger to a kitten! But it really did come back to life!

The mission was completed before Xiantong and the eunuch even returned! Can you believe it?!

Smooth! So smooth! It's fucking smooth! It's as smooth as wiping your butt with silk!