Shortly after Li Xingkong surfaced, the search team from Divine Land arrived. Previously, when he was underwater, the signal was cut off, and the search and rescue personnel had searched back and forth several times without success.
After Li Xingkong surfaced, those searching for him quickly received Li Xingkong signal.
By the time they arrived, Li Xingkong had recovered most of his strength. Although he still looked much thinner, his Magic Power had indeed returned. At this moment, he was hovering above the sea, flying towards the land.
Upon seeing Li Xingkong, the group immediately came forward. One of them handed over his hovercar to Li Xingkong to drive, and then led Li Xingkong back towards the space carrier.
Once aboard the suspended vehicle, Li Xingkong was finally able to concentrate and tend to his injuries.
The physical injuries were not serious, but the Mana Circuit Mana Circuit that operated the Sword Control Technique were all damaged to varying degrees. These damages were caused by overloading the Magic Power.
Fortunately, the damage was not serious. After concentrating his mind and using his Divine Sense to investigate, Li Xingkong began to repair the Mana Circuit.
On their way here, they were slow and wasted a lot of time searching for Li Xingkong. By the time they got in touch with the location of the space carrier and turned back, the entire space carrier was already hovering over Edo City in Cherry Blossom Country, and most of the troops on the space carrier had already been deployed.
After all, as the capital of Cherry Blossom Country, Edo City is much larger than the surrounding smaller cities, and was once the most populous city in the world.
The disaster caused severe damage to the megacity. The space carrier has been hovering over the city for half a day, and no official organization has been able to contact them, nor can the Self-Defense Forces be seen.
When Li Xingkong arrived at the space carrier in his car with the team, they happened to witness the last batch of troops being deployed to the city.
The methods of military airdrops are now very different from what Li Xingkong had seen before. Individual soldiers no longer need parachutes; they can simply use a "Wind Riding Spell" spell and jump down to land safely. For large armored equipment, there are also special formations to maintain the equipment's balance, allowing them to land stably on the ground.
Standing aboard the space carrier, one can see that on the ground, the army and traffic of Divine Land are like a tide, spreading out in all directions along the main road of Edo.
When encountering collapsed or damaged buildings along the way, the soldiers only need to locate the survivors, and then heavy armored vehicles will open a path to rescue them.
If the Divine Land People, after being rescued and treated by a cultivator, the losses can be assessed, and the victim can be moved to a safe area.
However, if they are from Cherry Blossom Country or other countries, they don't receive this treatment. At most, they'll be given a spell to keep them alive. As for further treatment, that can be dealt with later. For these people, a relatively empty area was marked out at a certain distance, and after they were rescued, they were placed there to await further arrangements.
The rescued people were initially a bit dazed. They had been rescued and treated for their injuries without even realizing it, which was fine in itself. However, the clothes worn by their rescuers were both familiar and unfamiliar to them. Familiar because they saw them on TV all the time, but unfamiliar because they had never seen them in person before.
Even though they had never met them before, the rescued people were completely bewildered when they first saw so many people wearing neat Divine Land military uniforms and hearing their unfamiliar language. They followed their instructions in a daze and went to the designated location.
If it weren't for the physical pain that made them clearly realize they weren't dreaming, they might have thought they had traveled through time.
How did the entire Cherry Blossom Country suddenly become filled with troops from Divine Land? Did Divine Land launch an attack?
However, for ordinary people, seppuku is naturally not an option. Changes in leadership make no difference to them; they still have to go to work the next day anyway.
Today, ordinary people in many countries around the world are becoming less and less interested in national politics. On the one hand, there are various political scandals and frauds, and on the other hand, power is concentrated in the hands of political parties and families. No matter who comes to power, it has little impact on their lives.
In any case, policies that benefit the country and its people only exist in pre-election rhetoric; once in power, they're just the same old thing. Who's going to genuinely implement them?
This also led to the exceptionally smooth search and rescue and takeover operations in Divine Land. They searched almost the entire Edo City, rescued a large number of people, and encountered very few large-scale resistance incidents.
Throughout the entire search and rescue operation, the few times that were carried out were to apprehend criminals who were taking advantage of the disaster to commit crimes.
After all, in Divine Land's eyes, the entire Cherry Blossom Country was already a piece of meat that they had already devoured, a part of their territory. Naturally, they had an obligation to arrest these lawbreakers.
The search and rescue operation on the ground is still ongoing, while on the space carrier, Li Xingkong has almost fully recovered.
Eighty or ninety percent of the wounds on my body have healed, and the remaining ones are just minor injuries that will heal on their own in no time.
After recovering from his injuries, Li Xingkong contacted the Earthly Capital to let them know he was safe.
Old Tang was also anxiously waiting for Li Xingkong 'Li Xingkong reply, and only breathed a sigh of relief after receiving it.
For no other reason than that the volcanic eruption itself had little to do with Li Xingkong. It was Old Tang who begged Li Xingkong to take action. Logically and morally, Old Tang could not sit idly by and watch Li Xingkong go missing. Moreover, Divine Land owed Li Xingkong a great favor for this operation, and they were trying to figure out how to repay it.
Previously, Li Xingkong and Divine Land had exchanges. Divine Land provided him with Body Tempering Grass, while Li Xingkong transmitted cultivation-related methods to Divine Land. It could be considered a mutually beneficial cooperation.
After Li Xingkong reached the Foundation Establishment, his need for Body Tempering Grass became negligible. This was not good news for Divine Land. Mutual benefit and cooperation are the keys to a stable relationship, while a one-sided demand will inevitably lead to a weakening of the relationship.
Li Xingkong's need for materials decreased, and with Old Tang asking Li Xingkong for help this time, he incurred an even greater debt of gratitude.
The relationship between Divine Land and Li Xingkong is now unequal. While waiting for news from Li Xingkong, Old Tang is also pondering what they can offer Li Xingkong.
There's no need to dwell on empty words and platitudes. For a cultivator, things like empty fame and honor are too trivial. Only tangible achievements can maintain the relationship between the two parties.