Chapter 256: Moving Mountains and Filling Seas
After handing the designated items to their respective recipients, Bai Mo left the reception room. Such a trivial matter wouldn't have prompted him to exit his direct connection.
"What exactly did he give her that made his sister (her) so excited?" Luo Bo and Chen Xi were both curious about this question, but constrained by Bai Mo's imposing presence, they didn't dare ask.
No matter how Luo Bo pressed his sister, Luo Li, for answers, she uncharacteristically remained silent, and he instinctively sensed that something was amiss.
After leaving the heavily guarded testing ground, Luo Li reverted to her former silent state, though the occasional subtle smile playing on her lips betrayed the fact that her heart was far from calm.
"You're curious?" Bai Mo chatted with Chen Xi while making his final preparations at the testing ground.
"Of course! There's clearly something off with those two siblings." Her gossip-hungry soul began to burn.
"I gave her an opportunity."
"What might a sister with a severe brother complex do after watching her brother start a harem?" After receiving a call from Luo Bo a few days prior, she had thoroughly investigated his background.
Although the practice of having multiple wives and concubines was countless among the upper echelons of the Hua-Ya Federation, Chen Xi still instinctively felt a bit displeased upon seeing it.
"I'm heading to the Antarctic continent for a breakthrough. If you're interested in what happens next with those two, just check the C-03 monitor in the monitoring room in a few days. They should have their final results within five days."
"Just how many pawns have you deployed..."
"That's not for you to concern yourself with."
As Bai Mo spoke, Chen Xi recalled how she had almost stepped through that glowing portal at the testing ground over two years ago.
"What would have happened if I had really walked in there that day?"
"You would have become one of my avatars."
"In the blink of an eye, seven years have passed since we met." Chen Xi abruptly changed the subject.
"Indeed, seven years. And? You don't need to report to me if you want to get married; after all, you're in your early thirties."
"This old lady still has hundreds of years of youthful vigor left; what's a mere thirty! Those men, once they gain power and strength, they all become philanderers, scattering their affections everywhere like stallions."
"Even that stinking brat from just now, with such a pretty sister who dotes on him, still goes and finds four or five other women. And the way he looked at me earlier was a bit off too."
"If one is willing to hit and the other willing to take it, there's nothing more to say. Reproduction is simply an instinct engraved in our DNA." Bai Mo said, a look of indifference on his face.
"What about you then?"
"I don't need so-called bloodlines to inherit my will. An eternal being doesn't need another life to realize its ambitions."
"Not even the Sun is eternal..."
"I live only for myself. If I believe I am eternal, then I am eternal. Only what I perceive as living is the world!"
"An idealist madman... It's hard to imagine that a boss like me would be called a great explorer by others."
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Their conversation became increasingly erratic, until Chen Xi finally forced the topic back on track.
"There's nothing more to say, I suppose. I just suddenly realized how quickly seven years have passed. How much longer will it be until I can achieve my dream of recording this world with my paintbrush?"
"You can leave now too."
"Is that even possible? As a confidential secretary, I know too much. If I were to leave, perhaps I wouldn't even see the dawn of the next day." Chen Xi gazed at the radiant figure before her, her expression suggesting, 'You're the killer.'
"Memory erasure and memory modification are two things I can't achieve just yet. So, at most, I could only let you finish painting the dawn of the next day, and then you would disappear."
"How truly generous." She chuckled softly.
"I'll be back in three months." Bai Mo said, then, taking the items he had prepared beforehand, he left the testing ground and set off alone for the Antarctic continent.
He couldn't estimate the extent of the destruction he would cause when achieving his Dharma Body, so he chose the most desolate continent.
Furthermore, and more importantly, he believed that Antarctica's low-temperature environment would help calm his mind and spirit, aiding his control over his power.
Several years passed. The global warming spurred by Seres's detonation of the Arctic's combustible ice gradually began to manifest. The Arctic Circle's glaciers had almost completely vanished, causing the world's sea levels to rise by over five meters.
This directly led to the first defensive lines along the coasts of various countries being submerged, forcing them to retreat to their second lines. The Sea Race thus gained tens of thousands of square kilometers of land space without shedding a drop of blood.
The island nation of Yamato, struggling amidst the ever-rising sea levels and the invasion of the Sea Race, was naturally the most heavily impacted country. For the survival of their citizens, they initiated a project of nationwide mobilization.
They mobilized nearly one-third of the nation's labor force, complementing them with nearly four million ability users, to excavate the country's mountain ranges at all costs for extensive land reclamation projects, in exchange for living space for their existing population of nearly one hundred million.
All environmental concerns ceased to be concerns in the face of survival. Anyone who obstructed the mountain excavations was merely a mantis trying to stop a chariot.
Benefiting from its abundant volcanic resources, Yamato reaped significant advantages during the Spirit River Autumn, and its proportion of cultivators consistently ranked highest in the world.
The subsequent discovery and exploitation of numerous Spirit Stone veins further filled the entire nation with confidence that they could achieve their dream of becoming a strong nation in this new era.
However, the relentless attacks from the Sea Race forced this island nation, surrounded by seas on all four sides, to embark on a difficult path of resistance, facing the challenges from the ocean.
"One year from now, the plan begins." Ning Yan Huo, far away at the border, also received information from Bai Mo at the same time.
Over these two years, with abundant resource support and driven by his own overwhelming desire for revenge, which compelled him to cultivate day and night, Ning Yan Huo had already reached the advanced stage of the Unmelting Realm, just one step away from its completion.
After long deliberation, he had a rough idea of the other party's intention: it was likely that they wanted him to immolate himself during the Heaven-Human Tribulation of his Xuanhua Stage breakthrough, to unleash an unprecedented curse.
However, he had estimated that even if he burned himself to ashes, it would, at most, cause one hundred thousand deaths and injure five hundred thousand more within the One-Wheel Cult.
Moreover, the vast majority of these would only be ordinary believers; the truly powerful core members wouldn't suffer significant losses. For a sect with hundreds of millions of followers, it would be far from enough to destroy it, not even enough to cause substantial damage.
Therefore, Ning Yan Huo wasn't entirely clear on the other party's true intentions. Yet, even so, he felt that the force behind this mysterious individual was undoubtedly a colossal power.
One could tell just by the value of the resources he had provided on multiple occasions. Even for cultivating someone like himself, who was destined to die, they could consistently produce resources worth over a billion Huaxia coins, forcibly cultivating him to the advanced stage of the Unmelting Realm within two years.
His psyche twisted by revenge, he, who could abandon everything for vengeance, genuinely didn't care about his own life as long as he could truly achieve his objective. He could even calmly study how many people he could drag down with him if he were to die.
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