Venus.
At this time, all combat activities on the surface of Venus had ceased, and a large number of alien prisoners were temporarily settled here according to their race.
Although the surface of Venus was utterly destroyed, even the various structures that Li Xingkong had created were completely wiped out by the Disintegration Bomb and Li Xingkong's final move.
But at least with the support of the grand formation, this Venus site is still perfectly adequate as a temporary prisoner-of-war camp.
Because Li Xingkong used Venus as a weapon, he flung away its atmosphere. Now, Venus's atmosphere is much thinner than before, and many areas are still in a near-vacuum state.
These atmospheric fault lines also indirectly limited the prisoners' range of movement; unlike the monks, they couldn't move freely in a vacuum.
The Divine Land did not support these prisoners for nothing; they needed to work to earn food.
Although there is no work in Divine Land that requires so many people right now, labor is just a process. The main purpose is to cultivate these prisoners of war into the habit of exchanging labor for supplies, rather than lying there waiting for rescue.
If there's no work to do, then create some. Venus is currently in a terrible state, so let them carry out building repairs and road construction in their temporary area...
In just a few days, the restoration project on the surface of Venus was launched in full swing with the help of many people.
While these aliens began their labor reform, a group of monks arrived on Venus through a portal.
This group of cultivators consisted of five people, each with a cultivation level around the Late Qi Refining Stage, making them among the elite of the Divine Land.
After arriving on Venus, they simply greeted the cultivators on the ground who were in charge of registration, and then flew into the sky, soon turning into five small black dots.
Their trip to Venus was naturally for an important mission. After conducting a series of experiments on the Soul-Guiding Banner that Li Xingkong had taken out, the Divine Land Continent dispatched this team of cultivators to carry the Soul-Guiding Banner to the space near Venus to carry out a soul-summoning mission.
To be honest, after obtaining the Soul-Guiding Banner, the first thing Divine Land thought of wasn't going to Venus to summon the soul. After all, this thing involves the soul and the resurrection of the dead, and the value of such a magical artifact is obviously much more precious.
It's not just the cultivators who died on the battlefield who need it; many powerful and influential people in the Divine Land are also extremely envious of this thing.
After all, the possibility of resurrection on Venus is due to geographical reasons, and the Divine Land would not allow these people to reside on Venus permanently. But this Soul-Guiding Banner is different; even if someone dies, with this magical artifact, they can still have a chance to be resurrected.
Once this thing came into the hands of people in Divine Land, many people learned of it, and the matter of guiding the soul to Venus was delayed again and again by these people for various reasons.
This lab is for research today, so I'm borrowing it for the day. Tomorrow, some important people want to meet with us, so we'll need to borrow it too...
After two or three days of delay, the Soul-Guiding Banner finally fell into the hands of the small team tasked with carrying out the mission, only after the Divine Land military took a firm stance and demanded that the mission be executed immediately.
The military's tough stance, coupled with Li Xingkong's attention to this mission, finally calmed these people down.
On the surface, they seem to have calmed down, but underneath, undercurrents are still surging.
Although Li Xingkong was strong, this was a chance to be resurrected from the dead, and few people wouldn't be tempted by it.
As long as I keep this treasure in my hand, what if Li Xingkong doesn't notice?
Many people have started taking risks for this treasure.
However, no matter how much they wanted this thing, none of them dared to make a move now. After all, if they wanted Li Xingkong to take his attention away from this thing, then the mission it was created for had to be completed first.
The cultivators carrying the Soul-Guiding Banner flew out of Venus's atmosphere. At this moment, the battlefield debris from the great battle was no longer visible near Venus.
Li Xingkong's Ten Thousand Swords Art blasted all the debris away, leaving the area around Venus looking as if it had been shaved bald, eerily clean.
" Old Eagle, open the battle log and set the guidance route."
The monk leading the group gathered the five people together and gave them instructions.
The cultivator known as Old Eagle spread his arms, and a spherical ball of Magic Power appeared in front of him. Within the Magic Power ball, images of the previous battle surfaced.
The image was fast-forwarding, playing back and forth several times, while a white light flashed rapidly in the Old Eagle's eyes, clearly seeing the image that had been sped up many times over.
They needed to use these images to determine the location of the main battlefield of the space battle at that time, so as to narrow down the search area for the Soul-Guiding Banner.
After all, the universe is not like the ground. In the vast vacuum, without the reference of a coordinate system, it is quite difficult to determine one's location.
If you try everything like a headless fly, this soul-summoning work could take forever.
The soul is not something that is immune to decay; the longer time goes on, the slimmer the chance of finding it becomes.
"Found it, over here."
After analyzing battle footage and calculating various factors such as Venus's rotation and movement over the past few days, the Old Eagle's eyes flashed white for more than ten minutes before it finally figured out the location of the battlefield.
He raised his hand and cast a mark, which landed on the heads of five people.
This marker didn't exist in reality; rather, it appeared in their field of vision, like a hint arrow in a game indicating the location of a quest item. As long as they faced the correct direction, the arrow would appear on their retina, pointing them in the right direction.
Of course, the so-called correct direction here is derived after calculation, and its accuracy and correctness depend on the skill level of the monk performing the calculation.
Guided by the mark, the five cultivators flew towards a patch of space not far away, following the arrow.
After flying for some distance, the area pointed to by the arrow was getting closer and closer. When they were about a hundred kilometers away, the cultivator leading the group unfurled the Soul-Guiding Banner he was carrying on his back, poured his Magic Power into his hands, and the golden banner shone with a circle of golden light under the blessing of the Magic Power.
Like a giant firefly, the golden light enveloped them all.
Then the golden light began a carpet search, centered on the location indicated by the arrow and extending over a radius of more than a hundred kilometers.
Locating the battlefield is already quite difficult; space battles cover a vast area, and finding the souls of a few people in such a large space requires a thorough, exhaustive search.
Along the battlefield, from the outside in, five cultivators took turns carrying flags and circling the battlefield.