Chapter 229: Restrictions
"Three super-high-explosive missiles with a yield of twenty tons have been detonated!"
"Circuit load approaching eighty-five percent!"
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"Operation normal! Load is slowly decreasing."
Behind the Spirit Energy Network system's ability to defend against the intense explosions of three missiles lay the efforts of countless logistics personnel. Together with the central control system, they constructed the actual scheduling system.
"Fortunately, it can only defend against ordinary non-nuclear missiles. It's still a long way from truly being able to defend against nuclear weapons." Several invited American observers breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this result.
"It's by no means easy for the Huaxia Federation to maintain such a shield. At least one large nuclear power plant is needed to support the astronomical energy consumption behind it, and that is its greatest weakness."
"Next up is the Ability User attack test. All units, please adjust defensive mode."
To build momentum for Wen Jian, the prospective member of the next Seven-Person Council, he would be arranged to launch an attack on the protective shield, simultaneously publicizing this rising powerhouse of the Huaxia Federation to all nations.
"Mm." He nodded.
Wen Jian soon appeared above the protective shield, completely unleashing his aura. Behind him, a sword-shaped Xuanhua nearly twenty meters tall shimmered in and out of view. Even those seated far away in the stands could still feel the keen, cutting killing intent.
"A Sword Cultivator, then?" Bai Mo propped his head with his right hand, curiously watching Wen Jian, who was indiscriminately releasing killing intent towards everyone.
Gazing at the shield before him, Wen Jian remained expressionless, silently making preparations.
The Xuanhua enveloping his entire body began continuously gathering above him, gradually coalescing into a small sword radiating golden light. The dazzling brilliance even made it impossible for most people to look directly at it.
Without a word, once a third of the Xuanhua on his body had gathered into this sword, the golden sword, imbued with terrifying power, slashed diagonally down towards the shield.
The moment the two met, the collision of gold and white erupted with immense energy. The brightness of the light was ten times greater than before; the sky seemed to gain another sun.
After absorbing a vast amount of kinetic energy, the surrounding air began to surge wildly, stirring up a violent gale.
Having undergone multiple improvements prior, the shield could transfer a portion of the sustained pressure to the ground. After taking this strike from Wen Jian, the ground at the edge of the shield began to subtly tremble, and the continuous cracking sound of earth crumbling was incessant.
"Does this move have a name?" Bai Mo, who was sitting and enjoying the show, asked Wen Jian.
Given his effortless demeanor, this was clearly far from his full strength.
"Aurora Sword."
"A single sword's gleam chills nineteen provinces?" Hearing the name, Bai Mo suddenly remembered a phrase he had once read.
"Output power load has reached ninety-seven point three percent. Minister Wen really cut it close... just a little more and it would have been big trouble."
"I never imagined a Xuanhua Stage expert could be so terrifying. The output from a single sword strike already surpassed that of the three twenty-ton yield missiles just now." A group of staff members at the Tianzhong City control center couldn't help but exclaim as they watched the terrifying impact shown on the live broadcast screen.
"Minister Wen's actual output still has a significant gap compared to the missiles. It's just that he precisely controlled it, directing the vast majority of the force truly onto the shield, which is why it appeared to be under immense pressure."
"Whereas a missile's explosion's impact exerted pressure in all directions." Naturally, there were also experts on the control panel who could truly discern the situation.
"But for one sword strike to equal one missile is still too terrifying. It seems that under the suppression of these monsters, we ordinary people will never have a chance to rise."
"Watch your words. The perceptions of those great figures are beyond our imagination."
"A Spirit Hub that condenses all things into a sword, perfectly condensing the Xuanhua into an indestructible sword, and used it to perfection." Chen Bo commented, watching Wen Jian above the shield.
"A spirit energy shield supported by a network the size of a single city alone is not enough to block me, a Xuanhua Stage cultivator. But according to the blueprints submitted by Bai Mo, a complete network of cities can resonate with each other, continuously strengthening defenses. Once the nationwide network is built, the entire Huaxia Federation will become an impregnable fortress."
Wen Jian, having completed the test, slowly descended, recollecting all his sword intent. As a military man by background, he was also a practitioner of Dao Wu Shuangxiu; whether it was his Xuanhua or his Dharma Body, both were swords of unmatched keenness.
"Many thanks to Minister Wen for the demonstration he provided us. Next will be a defensive demonstration against intensive bombing." The host tugged at his clothes, soaked with cold sweat, and continued the broadcast with a smile on his face.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
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"Bang bang bang!"
Twenty large bombers flew over the designated location on the outskirts of the city, dropping over six hundred high-explosive bombs near the target area, which covered nearly one square kilometer. The intense explosions once again made the spirit energy shield tremble uncontrollably.
"No problem, this wave is the easiest to deal with. The shield was originally designed to defend against large-scale, relatively low-density attacks." The Chief Commander at the Tianzhong City control center remained composed and at ease.
"Output power load sixty-nine percent, within the safe zone." The real-time data reported by the monitoring personnel also confirmed the commander's statement.
"It's just that the energy consumption is truly terrifying. The three actual defense periods just now, totaling less than a minute, have already consumed a third of the energy in the underground energy reserve pool."
"Even with a nuclear power plant as backup, to fully recharge this super-large energy storage pool would still take two days."
The commander was continuously muttering to himself, and the surrounding staff had also grown accustomed to it.
Of course, he didn't know that a quarter of this energy consumption was actually "consumed" by Primal Matter as it passed through the network.
The remaining three-quarters was partly used to activate the shield generators located at each node, while the rest was used to activate the astonishing number of resonance superposition and amplification runes within the network, allowing the independent shields on each node to merge into a gigantic shield.
Bai Mo adopted this design for two reasons: firstly, for the implementation of his Earth Immortal plan, using the network to transform the entire Huaxia Federation into his own domain.
Secondly, after extensive experimentation, he discovered that Primal Matter could actually grow by absorbing energy at a gentle rate. However, the rate of growth was even more despair-inducing.
According to his estimates and calculations, it should be the ratio of mass-energy conversion, except now it had to be reversed: using energy to accumulate matter.
Originally, this wouldn't have been a problem; consuming more hydrogen bombs would always solve it. If that didn't work, drilling into the Earth's core to absorb thermal energy would also be good.
However, while Primal Matter was not as fragile as ghosts, unable to even withstand direct sunlight, extreme environments like temperatures exceeding two thousand degrees Celsius, high-intensity nuclear radiation, and negative one hundred fifty degrees Celsius could equally have destructive effects on it. This determined that the power input could not be too high.
To test these conclusions, Bai Mo also paid a price, but finding his limits held significant importance for his future plans.
For the sake of long-term sustainability, he decided to let Primal Matter intercept a portion of the energy supplied to the network. The reason announced to the outside world was the network's own losses.
After all, even electrical wires have considerable resistance, so it was perfectly normal for others to perceive a "spirit resistance" in a network transmitting spirit energy..
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