Preparation and Attempt

After Lin Chenxing expressed his willingness to accept the civilians from the Qimen City settlement, Zhang Tiemin, captain of the Sky Blade Squad, immediately sent a message via a small communication device.

The situation was critical; the longer they delayed in Qimen City, the more dangerous it became. They also hoped that Xingyan Base could dispatch personnel as soon as possible, especially Lin Chenxing, to return with them and support the evacuation of the entire settlement.

However, to ensure absolute safety, Lin Chenxing consulted with Gao Zheng and others and decided to delay for half a month. They would wait for the base to secure its surroundings before pulling out the vast majority of their manpower to head to Qimen City for support.

Zhang Tiemin pondered for a moment and ultimately agreed; after all, this was the most prudent course of action.

However, Zhang Tiemin decided to leave only one person behind to serve as a guide, while he would lead his team back to the Qimen City settlement first to help them better withstand the subsequent Beast Tide attacks.

The occurrence of this event made the entire base tense. The influx of ninety thousand people was a massive undertaking; the base had to be expanded, otherwise, having no place for them to stay once they arrived would hardly be a good thing.

The construction teams in the base went into action once again, beginning to expand the base's perimeter walls under the protection of Martial Artists, enclosing more open land within the base's boundaries.

The bamboo forest that had originally grown in the area outside the perimeter wall withered collectively in an instant, while outside the perimeter of the walls under construction, bamboo shoots emerged from the ground, growing into stalks of bamboo at a rapid pace.

The expansion of the base naturally attracted the attention of monsters wandering nearby, but under the dual protection of the bamboo forest and the Martial Artists, it did not stir up any significant trouble.

Within half a month, the outer perimeter walls of the base were completed, and the internal foundations had been laid. Naturally, this area was also built with the concept of four stories above ground and two underground, focusing primarily on residential areas to create a space capable of accommodating eighty thousand people.

At this point, the base had grown from its initial five hundred mu to a behemoth covering over a thousand mu, with concentrated residential areas reaching nearly five hundred mu. Calculated at fifty square meters per household and three people per household, it could barely house nearly 110,000 people.

However, although the vast majority of people in the base were mobilized for construction, it was expected to take nearly two months to complete, and that was only for the simplest of basic housing. This was even taking into account that people's physiques were now far superior to what they once were.

But in this world today, having a place to live was already quite good; any subsequent needs could be renovated by the residents themselves.

Once everything was prepared, Lin Chenxing and He Qishun led the team out.

In this team, excluding Lin Chenxing, who was a Primary War God, there were 10 Advanced Battle Generals including He Qishun and Peng Tianwen, 20 Intermediate Battle Generals, 60 Primary Battle Generals, and 100 Advanced Warriors. Primary and Intermediate Warriors were not required for the team and remained in the base.

Among them, He Qishun and Peng Tianwen were both at the peak of Advanced Battle General, individuals who could break through to the War God level at any time. Especially Peng Tianwen, whose spiritual power was extremely refined; he could control 12 bamboo leaves simultaneously to exert maximum power, and he could also manage 16 threads at once for needle-threading. The only thing limiting his breakthrough now was the sheer quantity of his spiritual power, as his physical body had already reached the level of an Intermediate Battle General.

During the journey, because they followed the path previously taken by the Sky Blade Squad, they did not encounter any monsters powerful enough to require Lin Chenxing, He Qishun, or Peng Tianwen to intervene, and they arrived at the small town where the Sky Blade Squad had been ambushed quite smoothly.

To avoid alerting the enemy and to ensure a lethal strike when the time came, Lin Chenxing led the team around the town and returned to the planned route.

Along the way, everyone was very cautious and did not rush at full speed. During this time, although Lin Chenxing did not need to fight, he continued to constantly deduce the fragments of the Guidance Technique he had obtained. While these fragments had indeed accelerated the growth of strength for everyone in the base, it was only a slight increase. As someone with memories of his past life, Lin Chenxing was naturally not satisfied with this.

What he wanted was to create a secret technique and its accompanying Guidance Technique that could rival Hong's World Destroyer and Thunder God's Nine-Fold Thunder Blade.

For him, the most familiar thing now was the attack method of the bamboo forest, especially the bamboo roots, which actually had significant similarities to the use of a spear. His current conceptualization was leaning in this direction; after all, the strength of the bamboo forest was his own strength. As long as he continued to improve in this aspect, both of his bodies could achieve a massive increase in combat power.

Resilience was the first chapter Lin Chenxing realized from the bamboo. By utilizing the inherent resilience of the bamboo itself, any attack from any direction could be rendered null through his own resilience, while simultaneously using the momentum of that neutralization to launch a counterattack. Admittedly, this also borrowed from the principles of Tai Chi.

However, this chapter did not provide a significant boost to Lin Chenxing's strength; it was merely borrowing force to strike back, and it could not help him improve his cultivation speed. Its effect was not even as good as that fragment.

For this reason, Lin Chenxing continued to try to integrate other concepts into this chapter, and at this moment, the bamboo joint caught his eye.

According to the knowledge Lin Chenxing had acquired, bamboo joints could make the bamboo stem sturdier and less prone to falling, which meant that the bamboo's resilience was improved in a certain aspect. Then what about force? Could it also be compared to a hollow, unsupported bamboo, where by forming individual "bamboo joints," one could better conduct force or even create an auxiliary boost, further increasing the power?

Thinking of this, Lin Chenxing began to experiment. His behavior started to become strange; from time to time, he would smash his fist against the trees and rocks by the roadside.

At first, because he couldn't control his strength well, the stones would shatter upon impact and the trees would snap, but later on, as his power gradually converged, he only left a mark.

At this point, Lin Chenxing began to experiment with a two-stage force-exertion method, which was the attempt to imagine forming the first bamboo joint.

The first bamboo joint he formed was placed at his wrist, attempting to briefly intercept the force as it traveled to the wrist, and then release it simultaneously when the second wave of force arrived. However, this first attempt did not increase the power; instead, it caused the intercepted force to dissipate directly. There was a faint pain in his wrist, and the transmission of the second wave of force was directly obstructed and weakened, which left Lin Chenxing exceptionally annoyed. But there was no help for it; he had to solve the mess he created himself.

After his wrist felt a bit more comfortable, Lin Chenxing began his second attempt. This time, he did not forcibly obstruct the transmission of the first wave of force, but instead controlled the muscles in his wrist as much as possible to delay the transmission of the force until the second wave arrived, at which point he released them together. This time, the mark left on the tree was finally slightly deeper than before. According to Lin Chenxing's estimation, it had reached about 1.2 times the previous force.

Success was success, but the loss of power was too severe, and the time required for a single punch to exert force had increased by 0.1 seconds, Lin Chenxing couldn't help but complain to himself.