After being fobbed off by Xi He and Chang Xi, Xiao Kuang really did settle down for two days. Mainly because he discovered that the Bitter Bamboo stalks he had swiped from the west were quite sturdy and especially good for scratching his back.
But once the novelty wore off, his troublemaking heart began to stir again. In particular, the thought of "contacting Wangshu" kept tickling at his heart like a feather.
"Interstellar phone... interstellar communication..." He sprawled in his massage chair, staring at the chaotic ceiling as scraps of knowledge from modern society began combining at random in his mind. "Everything in the Primordial Chaos is great, except communication basically relies on shouting and messages basically rely on traveling! It's too backward! It seriously affects slacking efficiency and development!"
He abruptly sat up, his massage chair springing up with him, and his eyes lit up. "That's right! As the Dao Ancestor, I have a responsibility to advance the Primordial Chaos's technology! If I make something like a 'Primordial Chaos Internet' or 'Heavenly Dao Mobile Communications,' wouldn't that be boundless merit?"
He acted as soon as he thought of it! He immediately mobilized that omnipotent Heavenly Dao Authority, which was frequently misused.
"First, I need a base station... no, I need a signal tower!" His divine sense swept across the Primordial Chaos, and at once he set his sights on Buzhou Mountain, the towering peak formed from Pangu's spine!
"This height! This toughness! This location! It was born to be a signal tower!" Without any consideration for the Wu Clan's or Gong Gong's feelings, he directly used his authority to silently imprint countless complex, twisted runes upon Buzhou Mountain's summit, mixing Heavenly Dao laws with his own notion of "boosting the signal."
Buzhou Mountain trembled faintly, and a stream of light flashed across its surface before vanishing. It seemed as though nothing had happened, yet amid the mountain's vast, ancient aura, there was now an exceptionally faint ripple resembling a WiFi signal.
"The main tower is done! Next comes the terminal!" Xiao Kuang turned his attention to the seven strands of Primordial Violet Qi.
"Since this stuff is the foundation of the Heavenly Dao, it has plenty of energy and great conductivity. It's perfect for use as a core processor and signal transmitter!" He eagerly went to find Xi He and Chang Xi, who were carefully nurturing the violet qi beside a potted osmanthus tree.
"Ladies, can we discuss something? Could I borrow those 'purple light tubes' of yours? Just for a little while! It's for a research project!" He grinned as he reached out to take them.
Xi He and Chang Xi were scared out of their wits and desperately shielded the violet qi. "No! Dao Ancestor! This item absolutely must not be disturbed!" They were nearly in tears. Why was this bastard always eyeing these life-threatening strands of violet qi?!
Xiao Kuang curled his lip. "Stingy! I'm only borrowing them for a moment; I won't break them! Fine, fine, I'll figure something out myself!"
He settled for the next best thing and rummaged through that mountain of "tribute." In the end, he found Laozi's tribute, the Taiji Talisman Seal (an imitation?), Primordial Lord of Heaven's Glazed Lamp, Sect Master Tongtian's broken sword (possibly scraps from the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation), the broken Meditation Cushions offered by Jieyin and Zhunti... along with a series of spiritual treasures and materials that contained different law auras but were all of extremely high quality.
"Hmm... these should work as parts too, more or less!" He had no knowledge of artifact refinement whatsoever and simply forced his way through with intuition and authority.
"Heavenly Dao Authority! Forced fusion! Circuit connection! Signal conversion! Synthesize it for me—Primordial Chaos Edition Cross-Realm Communicator!"
Bzz!
Amid a burst of teeth-grating light distortion and colliding laws, those spiritual treasures and materials that had nothing to do with one another were forcibly kneaded together, becoming a square slab that flashed with irregular multicolored lights and was covered in bizarre runes and protruding buttons... a brick?
This "communicator" looked ugly as sin, and its energy fluctuations were wildly unstable. At times it emitted Immortal Slaying Sword intent, at times it overflowed with glazed Buddhist light, and at times it turned into a spinning Taiji pattern. It looked just like a garbage heap of laws.
[Heavenly Dao: Warning! Illegal artifact refinement detected! Severe waste of resources! Extremely high risk of law contamination! Immediate destruction recommended!]
Xiao Kuang did not care. He weighed the "brick" in his hand with satisfaction and found that it felt pretty good.
"Done! Now let's test it!" He began operating it with great enthusiasm. Following the "instructions" he had made up, he poured his divine sense into it, tried hard to recall Wangshu's aura, mainly by referencing Xi He and Chang Xi's Taiyin Origin, then fiercely pressed the largest button, crookedly labeled "Call"!
"Hello, hello? Is Miss Wangshu there? Please answer if you can hear me! Over!"
Bzzzz—!!!
The "brick" communicator suddenly erupted with blinding light. The chaotic laws within it clashed violently, and an extremely unstable, bizarre ripple mixed with sword intent, Buddhist light, and Taiji force, along with Xiao Kuang's utterly unreliable divine thought, was amplified by Buzhou Mountain's "signal tower" and brutally slammed toward the Taiyin Star!
At that moment, every mighty expert in the Primordial Chaos with profound cultivation vaguely sensed an inexplicable disturbance in the laws of heaven and earth, as though something strange had interfered with them.
Di Jun on the Sun Star staggered. The Three Pure Ones on Kunlun Mountain frowned. Minghe of the Blood Sea raised his head. The pair from the Western Teachings clung tightly to each other in fright.
And in the deepest reaches of the Taiyin Star, within its eternally lonely stellar core that froze all things.
A phantomlike, peerlessly cool figure, seemingly condensed from the purest moonlight, was immersed in a deep sleep without sorrow or joy, repairing the damage from the creation of heaven and earth and maintaining the operation of the Great Dao of Taiyin.
Suddenly! An exceptionally abrupt, chaotic, noisy "signal," carrying all sorts of messy law interference, forcibly pierced through the layers of restrictions around the Taiyin Star's core like the deafening clang of a broken gong, exploding directly within her tranquil sea of consciousness!
"Hello, hello? Is Miss Wangshu there? Please answer if you can hear me! Over!"
That voice was flippant, lazy, and filled with an indescribably punchable quality!
Wangshu's eternally unchanging state of serenity was instantly shattered!
The moonlight-condensed figure shuddered violently, and even the cool radiance around her fluctuated fiercely, as though a massive rock had been hurled into a placid lake!
Who was it?! How dare they be so rude?! To directly peer into the Taiyin Star's core? And use such... such an unbearable method to transmit their voice?!
Emotional fluctuations she had not experienced for countless eras—astonishment, anger, and a trace of irritation from being forcibly disturbed—rose within her heart.
She tried to trace the source of the transmission, only to discover that the signal was utter chaos. Its source was wrapped in various strange laws and impossible to lock onto. She could only vaguely sense that it was related to the Heavenly Dao and carried a trace of... her two disciples' auras?
Just as she attempted to investigate further, the "communicator" went pfft from energy overload and conflicting laws, spewing a puff of green smoke before breaking into several pieces and becoming completely useless.
Inside the Purple Sky Palace, Xiao Kuang looked at the smoking "brick" in his hand and sighed in disappointment. "Tch, such poor quality! It broke after only one sentence! The materials for the meditation cushion that Jieyin and Zhunti gave me must have been no good! Next time, I need better ones!"
Deep within the Taiyin Star's core, that sudden harassing signal had already vanished, as though it had never appeared.
But Wangshu's state of mind could no longer return to its former absolute stillness.
She floated quietly amid the moonlight, a trace of confusion and contemplation flashing through her cool eyes.
That voice just now... though rude, seemed to bear no malice? And it could directly penetrate the Taiyin Star's core... its strength—or rather, its method—was unfathomable. It was also connected to Xi He and Chang Xi? What exactly had they encountered outside...?
An indescribable curiosity, dormant for countless eras, was quietly stirred by that utterly unreliable "harassing call."
The waters of the Primordial Chaos seemed deeper than she had thought.
From afar, Xi He and Chang Xi watched the smoking communicator and the dissatisfied Xiao Kuang, and the ominous feeling in their hearts grew stronger.
Master... seemed to have really been alarmed by this bastard?!
Heavenly Dao (completely numb): ...(Record: Acting Agent successfully carried out illegal cross-starfield harassment... Technical route: garbage artifact refinement + brute-forced authority... Victim: Wangshu... Impact: unknown... Recommendation: increase garbage collection efforts targeting the Acting Agent...)...
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