Chapter 563 - 351: Sending Sorrow to the Sea of Stars (Part 2)
Chapter 563: Chapter 351: Sending Sorrow to the Sea of Stars (Part 2)
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5ch User: "The strategy’s name is too lame! It should be called *’That Time I Was Reincarnated as an Underground City Rat-Person but Still Wanted to Slay a God.’* And for the tactical guide, please have Chiba Yuki record it while wearing a Witch’s outfit."
Chiba Yuki had saved people during the great flood and, while running her hot spring inn, had repeatedly performed miracles to teach some clueless vagrants a lesson. She had long since become a legendary figure in Japan. And now that the Twin Gouyu had grown up, they had become a wildly popular beautiful twin duo in Japan.
This trio of mother and daughters possessed stunning looks and formidable power. Living in a sacred place like Mount Fuji, they were the dream girls of countless Japanese men. Many also wanted to get into Chiba Yuki’s Shelter, but unfortunately for them, she didn’t accept men.
@Akihabara_NEET: "I petition to rename the ’Godslayer Special Forces’ to ’Godslayer Academy,’ and to add a ’Cross-dressing Breakout’ section to the entrance exam. #TwoDimensionalSpaceSavesTheWorld."
The Twin Gouyu: "Mother, we want to sign up! We want to go train with our godfather!"
French intellectual and philosopher @Luc: "This is a new form of the Panopticon! I suggest holding a weekly ’Salon of Despair’—to elegantly greet our demise with red wine and discussions on existentialism."
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Regardless, the various Underground Cities initiated closed-off management, severing almost all contact with the outside world, save for the internet.
The trend of universal Cultivation had begun.
The fiber optic cables for the internet were buried deep underground, personally laid by Li Xiang, so they generally wouldn’t be cut off. If there was ever a disruption, he could go and repair it at any time.
Li Xiang was busy with the construction of Extraordinary Particle Enrichment Chambers, but only those with outstanding performance were allowed to enter and cultivate.
To the Twin Gouyu’s disappointment, because there were too few Extraordinary Beings at Tier Fifteen or above, the Saint Tier special training team had not yet been formed. However, Li Xiang assured them that when it was, they would be the first to be notified.
「Several months passed in a flash.」
During this time, large-scale battles between Exotic Beasts and humans had broken out a few sporadic times, while small skirmishes and conflicts were constant. But by holding fast within the Underground Cities and not actively provoking the enemy, humanity had managed to preserve its effective strength.
In particular, after verification, many Underground Cities kept their ventilation shafts closed for long periods.
Erin had not only developed the "Heart Image Judgment," but also some other particularly useful little gadgets, like the Extraordinary Particle Concentration Monitor. After Li Xiang promoted it, it was sold en masse to all the Underground Cities. As for monitoring oxygen concentration, the existing technology and equipment were already quite mature.
If an Underground City was truly running low on oxygen or Extraordinary Particles, they could just secretly open the vents to replenish the fresh air.
Additionally, Erin had also invented a "Black Fog Separation Membrane." After being improved by Jiang Cai’Er’s team, they developed a large-scale Black Fog Separator that could strip away the Black Fog.
The Black Fog was not made of Extraordinary Particles, but was a strange substance. It was also possible that it was a type of Extraordinary Particle that humans couldn’t utilize. In any case, when the Black Fog flooded into the Underground Cities, it greatly affected people’s daily lives.
Now, with the Black Fog Separator, the Underground Cities were once again clear.
With global logistics now cut off, selling goods online was naturally impossible. Thus, Eternal Night Media had also transformed, switching from e-commerce to small online classes.
They mainly explained the common knowledge and experiences of Cultivation, and sometimes answered questions from netizens in online Q&A sessions.
This service was, of course, extremely popular, especially since Li Xiang himself would sometimes lecture. Whenever Li Xiang taught a class, the servers would crash multiple times, with an online audience in the billions.
Later, Jiang Cai’Er had to upgrade to more advanced servers to ensure that billions of people could be online simultaneously without lag or network congestion.
It was worth mentioning that with the world now in a dark age, time zones no longer existed. Everyone’s day and night were now synchronized. The entire globe had a single, unified time zone, standardized to China’s.
What could anyone do? China was, after all, the nation that had produced Li Sheng.
Although Chiba Yuki and Erin were also Saint Tier, they were both very low-key and had not revealed their true strength. On Earth today, there were only two publicly known Saint Tiers: Li Xiang and Jiang Cai’Er.
And since Jiang Cai’Er was more research-oriented and was also Li Xiang’s wife, she naturally deferred to him.
Jiang Cai’Er, Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, Lei Xiaohui, and the others would also occasionally go online to teach a few classes, but they were too busy and didn’t have much time. Therefore, Eternal Night Media specially promoted a few hosts, such as Lei Jiaming, Han Qifeng, Li Xiang’s cousin Shen Zimo, and his other cousin Shen Wenqian.
Among these people, Shen Wenqian was the most popular, as she was also a bigwig in a department of authority, in charge of reviewing all Advanced Breathing Techniques for Extraordinary Beings worldwide.
Because of her job, Shen Wenqian knew many Extraordinary Beings, so Eternal Night Media would also invite some senior figures from China and abroad to give lectures. For example, there was that old National Martial Arts Grandmaster. After the Apocalypse arrived and Extraordinary Particles emerged, his years of accumulated practice paid off, and he soared to Tier Six in just one month, becoming one of the top new Extraordinary Beings in the country.
This old gentleman loved to teach, and the compensation from Li Xiang’s side was excellent. Lecturing not only came with a generous amount of "Heat Coins" but also a "Spirit Medicine Allowance." As a result, the old master scheduled the most classes and taught more frequently than anyone else.
Originally, the old master’s hair had been streaked with gray, but now it had turned completely black. He was, in a sense, living a second life.
However, it was actually quite rare worldwide for someone of advanced age to be able to step into the Extraordinary realm. Moreover, most of those who did were people who had already mastered traditional martial arts or life-nourishing cultivation practices during the era of peace.