novelTele Chapter 383 The Zhang family has arrived; they need to tidy up their territory.
Chapter 383 The Zhang family has arrived; they need to tidy up their territory.
In the central square of Dengxian Island.
Dao Yi, shirtless, squatted next to a pile of star alloy parts salvaged from the Cleaner Alliance. He held a wrench in his hand and was sweating profusely as he directed several junior cultivators to replace parts in the core of the defensive formation.
"You all better watch yourselves! This is a treasure our master risked his life to retrieve. If you damage even a tiny bit, I'll chop you all up and feed you to the sea monsters!"
Dao Yi was cursing enthusiastically when he suddenly felt the light above his head dim for a moment.
He looked up.
A large rift appeared in mid-air, and a dilapidated ship, resembling a scrapped garbage can, emerged from it.
Dao Yi froze for a second, then sprang up from the ground like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. The wrench in his hand slammed into the instep with a "bang," but he didn't care about the pain.
"The Lord is back! Everyone, stop what you're doing! Assemble! Get the hell together right now!"
Dao Yi roared in his hoarse voice.
The square instantly erupted in chaos. The cultivators who were moving things or practicing their skills were so frightened that they dropped what they were doing and scrambled over, hurriedly forming several square formations.
Luo Tianfei also emerged from the underground monitoring center, her blue data stream flashing rapidly in her mechanical eyes as she looked up at the warship.
The warship slowly descended above the plaza and hovered half a meter off the ground.
The hatch opened with a "whoosh".
Lu Sheng came out from inside.
He didn't put on any fancy entrance ceremony, nor did he deliberately exert any pressure. He simply walked down step by step, casually stepping on the air.
But everyone in the square held their breath the moment they saw Lu Sheng.
The air smells different.
In the past, when Lu Sheng appeared, everyone felt like a ferocious beast was staring at them; it was a sense of oppression from pure physical strength and killing intent.
But now, as Lu Sheng stood there, even the surrounding space and the light seemed to bend slightly towards him. He was like an iron nail driven into the rules of the universe. He didn't get angry, he didn't glare, but just by standing there, you felt that your life and death were not in your own hands at all.
Dao Yi's calves began to tremble violently.
With the resources provided by Lu Sheng over the past few months, he had finally managed to climb to the Spirit Emperor Realm, and his perception was much stronger than before. Precisely because his perception was stronger, he could better sense just how terrifying the faint aura emanating from Lu Sheng truly was.
It was a power that could erase him from this world with a flick of the wrist, leaving not even a trace.
"My...My Lord..." Dao Yi forced himself to approach, his voice trembling like a leaf, "Did you eat something good again this time you went out? Has your cultivation level...broken through again?"
Lu Sheng's feet landed on the stone slabs of the square.
There wasn't a sound. Not even a crack appeared in the stone slab.
His control over power has now reached an abnormal level; the rules of the Spirit Saint Realm allow him to precisely control every trace of leaked energy.
"Yes, I've broken through." Lu Sheng's tone was very calm, as if he were talking about having a steamed bun for breakfast.
"May I ask, my lord... what realm have you broken through to?" Dao Yi swallowed hard and asked cautiously.
Lu Sheng glanced at him.
"Spiritual Saint Realm".
The square fell into a deathly silence.
Even the sound of the sea breeze blowing through the metal plates could be heard clearly.
A full three seconds passed.
"The Spirit Saint Realm?!"
Dao Yi's voice cracked, becoming shrill like a eunuch's. His legs went weak, and he almost knelt down before Lu Sheng on the spot.
Li Xiaoyao and the group of cultivators behind them were so frightened that their eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
Spiritual Saint Realm!
Although they had never left Earth, they knew the weight of those three words from the Cleaner Alliance's records. That was the level of the Cleaner Alliance's most elite living fossil, a realm only the Heavenly Saint Ancestor had reached! In the entire known universe, that was an existence that could roam freely!
Our master went out for less than two months and soared from the peak of the Spirit Venerable Realm to the Spirit Saint Realm.
Is this even human? It's a monster that devours the universe!
"What are you yelling about?" Lu Sheng frowned and waved his hand, interrupting Dao Yi's shock. "During the two months I was away, did anything go wrong on Earth?"
Dao Yi quickly pinched his thigh to force himself to stand up straight, his mind racing as he prepared to report on his work.
"My Lord, all has been well at home during your absence!"
"Lady Luo Tianfei led us to upgrade Earth's defensive formation twice more. Now all those star alloys are in use, and Earth's defensive shell is hard enough to withstand a full-force attack from a Spirit Venerable Realm expert."
"The cultivators' assessments have never stopped. Last month, the top ten were all awarded high-dimensional origin crystals according to your rules. Now, we have twelve cultivators at the early stage of the Spirit Emperor realm globally! And there are even more at the Spirit King realm, more than thirty!"
"Also, our resource monitoring network has discovered several mutated sea monster lairs in the deep sea. My subordinates arranged for cultivators to take turns farming monsters to practice, and they brought back quite a few good materials, which are all piled up in the warehouse."
After listening, Lu Sheng nodded in satisfaction.
"You did a decent job. You didn't embarrass me."
He turned to look at Luo Tianfei, who had remained silent.
"Luo Tianfei, is there any situation on your end?"
Luo Tianfei's blue eyes flickered, but her voice remained the same monotone, mechanical tone.
Something's up.
"explain."
"On the fifteenth day after you left Earth, our outer space monitoring system detected an extremely faint space probe wave."
Luo Tianfei paused for a moment, seemingly retrieving data.
"The source of this probe wave comes from another direction in the known universe. It is extremely far away from us. After comparing it with my database, the technical characteristics of this probe wave are completely different from those of the Scavenger Alliance. They are using a higher-dimensional space radar technology."
Lu Sheng raised an eyebrow.
"Not remnants of the Cleaner Alliance?"
"Absolutely not. The Cleaners Alliance doesn't have that kind of technology," Luo Tianfei said with certainty.
Lu Sheng stroked his chin.
The ancestor did mention it briefly in his memories: this universe is vast, and while the Cleaners Alliance is powerful, it only occupies a portion of a star sector. Further afield, there are undoubtedly higher-dimensional civilizations of equal or even greater power.
"So, there are other forces probing Earth's secrets?" Lu Sheng sneered.
Dao Yi, who was listening nearby, broke out in a cold sweat.
"My lord, this is no small matter! What if the enemy is even more terrifying than the Cleaners Alliance? Our current defenses on Earth are simply not enough!"
Dao Yi was so anxious he kept wringing his hands. He had finally had a few days of peace, and now he was being targeted by an unknown beast.
"What are you panicking for?"
Lu Sheng kicked Dao Yi in the butt, making him stumble.
"The stronger the opponent, the better. I'm already tired of those old bones from the Cleaner Alliance, and the corpse in the Old God Abyss is too big to finish right now. I'm worried about where to get some high-grade ingredients to consolidate my Spirit Saint Realm."
Lu Sheng looked up at the dark night sky, his eyes filled with undisguised greed and hunger, without a trace of fear.
"Before, I was the one who actively went to restaurants to find food. Now, food delivery services are even proactively coming to my door to scout out the options. Where else can you find such a good thing?"
Dao Yi rubbed his buttocks, his mouth twitching wildly.
He finally understood. In his master's eyes, there were no "powerful enemies" or "threats" in this universe.
Anything that involves breathing, anything that's high in energy, is a name on the recipe.
"Luo Tianfei, keep a close eye on the frequency and direction of that probe wave." Lu Sheng withdrew his gaze, his eyes becoming extremely sharp.
"If they dare to peek out again, immediately lock onto their hideout. Once I've reinforced Earth's defenses, we'll launch a preemptive strike and confront these delivery guys."
"Understood." Consort Luo nodded.
Lu Sheng stretched out a big yawn, his joints cracking all over.
"Alright, everyone, go home. Go do what you were doing. I'm going back to get some sleep, and we'll start work tomorrow."
He strode towards the underground chamber.
Dao Yi and Li Xiaoyao stood there, watching Lu Sheng's figure disappear into the passage.
"Senior Dao Yi..." Li Xiaoyao swallowed hard. "Is the master's appetite growing ever larger?"
Dao Yi sighed and looked up at the sky.
"With our Lord's appetite, one day he'll devour this entire universe. Let's get to work quickly, lest we don't even get to drink the leftovers."