From Blood Mage to Styx Ancestor

Chapter 26 The more you kill, the more you save.

Long Yutian ultimately adopted Mo Di's suggestion and named the soon-to-be-established department "Eyes."

With power concentrated in his hands, Ling Group decided to address the unreasonable aspects of the original framework in order to better deal with the fog crisis and manage Green City.

Change is imminent.

After a thorough investigation, a large portion of the original high-ranking officials were removed.

Their property was confiscated, and no one in their family who had committed crimes was spared.

Dare to resist? Even better, we'll just physically eliminate them, saving us the trouble of going through any further procedures.

This is the approach advocated by Modi and Long Yutian: in chaotic times, harsh measures are necessary. If they dare to openly rebel today, they will become the guides for the Mist Monsters tomorrow.

Why keep such a person alive for the New Year?

In order to complete the instructions as quickly as possible, even the henchmen have had little chance to rest recently.

They're either raiding homes and killing people, or on their way to raiding homes and killing people.

The more homes they raided, the more evidence they gathered, and the darker Long Yutian's face became, almost as dark as Hai Hu's.

He thought that the evidence he had previously collected, if not all, was at least most of it, but the reality was quite the opposite.

These former high-ranking officials were even more cunning than he had imagined.

They tried everything from raising Sylvie to creating walruses, and to the worst part, they even held an underground auction with chillingly disturbing contents.

In addition, they also developed a plan for the construction of a service area, but fortunately, construction has not yet begun.

After seeing all this, Mo Di thought he had actually traveled to a world with a heavy taste in the grotesque.

The fog crisis has only lasted for less than a year, and this group has already fallen to this level. If these two hadn't stopped it in time, who knows how far it would have gone.

"The methods we use to deal with them aren't ruthless enough," Mordy said. "I know many ways to torture people, the most terrifying of which is called 'Ultimate Humiliation,' which can make them wish they were dead."

After receiving Long Yutian's approval, he taught his henchmen his unique skills overnight, so that they could deal with these people who didn't deserve to be called human.

Due to the numerous affairs of the group, Long Yutian occasionally felt tired of handling them.

At this time, he would either practice martial arts or take a stroll through Modi's laboratory.

"You feel lost?" Mordy was focused on analyzing the fragments of the God of Light, not even looking up. "Do you think you did something wrong?"

Long Yutian shook his head subconsciously, "How could I be wrong?"

"That's it then. Since you believe you're not wrong, why feel confused?"

Modi looked up from the instrument screen and stared into his eyes. "The more you kill, the more you save. There's no doubt you're on the right path."

Killing one bad person is equivalent to saving one person he persecuted; killing ten bad people is equivalent to saving ten people.

As the saying goes, saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda.

By that calculation, they must have saved countless lives and built countless pagodas.

If a merit list existed, they would eventually push Buddha down to third place.

"Indeed." The confusion in Long Yutian's eyes vanished. "My heart and actions are as clear as a mirror, and everything I do is righteous."

His martial arts mind became incredibly clear at this moment. He subconsciously gathered his true energy, broke through his upper dantian, and broke through the realm in one fell swoop.

The upper dantian, also known as the Niwan or Zifu, is the place where the spirit resides. When one opens the upper dantian, a new sense begins to emerge.

This is the sixth sense, beyond the five senses, and also a spiritual sense.

With the help of this sense, he observed many things that he could not observe before.

Vibration, magnetic field... and sexual phase.

Scales, frost, and blood—three distinct qualities converge in one person, and that person is his teacher.

"You broke through?" Mordy's eyes lit up with interest. "How did you break through? Can you tell me how you felt just now?"

He could sense the spirit emanating from Long Yutian, or rather, something that was a manifestation of spirit, albeit a dubious one.

Even he couldn't project his mind outwards.

Long Yutian did not hide anything and explained in detail his feelings before and after the breakthrough.

"He broke through after I used a few words of verbal persuasion. No wonder he's a man whose name differs from 'Dragon Aotian' by only one character. Or perhaps I actually possess the talent of a master of verbal persuasion?"

Long Yutian's breakthrough was beyond his expectations, but it also confirmed one of his guesses.

The path after the Innate Realm is related to spiritual consciousness, which aligns with his conjecture about "refining Qi into Spirit".

The problem is that Long Yutian's breakthrough method is too mystical and not suitable for him.

"Thank you for your guidance, teacher. I understand now. The reason I felt lost was simply because I hadn't killed enough people."

For every bad guy we kill less, one more person will suffer persecution. And in Green City and even on Blue Star, there are far more bad guys than just one.

On the other hand, if there are so many bad people in such a small place as Green City, wouldn't there be even more on the entire planet Earth?

Every time Long Yutian thought of this fact, he felt heartbroken.

In order to protect his Green City and his Blue Star, he decided to raise the butcher's knife and kill two if he could, but not one.

He may face opposition from many enemies, but the more they oppose him, the more it proves that he is doing the right thing.

After expressing his beliefs, Long Yutian went back to work, leaving Mo Di standing there with a strange look on his face.

"Isn't his martial arts will a bit too extreme? Oh well, it's fine this way. The more extreme a martial artist is, the more stubborn he is, and the harder it is for him to fall into depravity."

After all, he was the apprentice he trained, and to some extent, their philosophies were similar.

"Opening up the upper dantian and forming spiritual senses... let's tentatively name it [Spiritual Consciousness]. Is this considered the second realm of the Innate Stage or a realm above the Innate Stage?"

The martial arts lineage of Lanxing is largely incomplete, and none of the techniques he possesses lead to the second stage of the Innate Realm.

He has to figure out the way forward on his own.

He temporarily set aside his martial arts studies and turned his attention back to researching the fragments of the God of Light.

With the help of the Ling Group's equipment and drawing on his painful lesson from accidentally detonating the fragments of the God of Light in a game, he finally figured out a feasible way to guide the power of the fragments.

In terms of security, well, it's highly unlikely they'll wipe out Green City.

"According to the records of the Court of Eternal Day, fragments of the God of Light only react to light elements that are strong enough, but in reality, light of a certain frequency can also do so."

Fortunately, the Ling Group is very skilled in laser research. With all its resources, it is not impossible to create a machine that can guide the power of the Light God fragments.

"I don't have much time left in this world, probably about three months. I hope I can finish this before I leave."

Luckily, my teacher had collected information on dwarven "magical mechanical dynamics," otherwise I'd probably be completely clueless right now.

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"Has the source of the plague been determined?"

"The source has been identified: Nanfeng City. It is very likely a virus released by the Frostbite Giant Spider."

The newly established spy department had a spy reporting to Long Yutian.

"Frostbite Giant Spider? How is it related to it again?" Long Yutian cursed inwardly.

He hasn't had a single day without worrying about the Frostbite Giant Spider since it appeared.

Nobody knows when this thing will suddenly become restless and start wreaking havoc on the surrounding cities.

Looking across the entire planet, it could be considered one of the strongest monsters.

Alongside these are the "Sea Demon" that submerged Haiyan City and the giant plant "Plandella" that took root in Qingping City.

These three are collectively referred to as the Three Calamities.

"Has that damned spider made any moves lately?" Long Yutian asked again.

"Nothing for now... No, the testing department just sent a message that there are abnormalities in Nanfeng City."

The informant's words made Long Yutian's heart skip a beat, and he quickly asked, "What's going on?"

My spiritual senses sent me an ominous premonition, which was later confirmed.

"An individual named Frostbite Giant Spider is moving south, and it is not yet certain whether its target is our city or the neighboring city."

"I—" He took a deep breath, swallowing back the swear words that were about to spill out, "...contact the neighboring Purple Smoke City."

Purple Smoke City's detection capabilities are not as good as Green Field City's; it was only after he pointed it out that they discovered the clues.

City leaders held an emergency meeting, but very few people actually participated in the discussion; most were just observing and bickering.

After all, the Frostbite Giant Spider's target wasn't them; they could still observe from the sidelines and take the opportunity to figure out the giant spider's abilities and weaknesses.

"A bunch of short-sighted fools, still arguing even at this point."

Long Yutian, his face cold, was about to speak when his informant standing to one side suddenly brought him a message.

After silently processing the news, he didn't even want to continue the meeting and made up an excuse to log off.

Instead of arguing with these people, it's better to go and see what new gadgets his teacher has come up with.

That's supposedly a magical device that can blow up the entire Green City. He has to go check it out, just in case the teacher or someone else accidentally touches a button they shouldn't.

He had no desire to experience such a humiliating way to die.

Outside the city, a strange instrument has been set up on the altar of light and shadow.

A brass-colored frame surrounds the central fragment of the God of Light, and three enormous lenses, gleaming with magical light, are fixed in specific positions, aligned with the fragment of the God of Light.

Long Yutian examined the massive device, thick with an otherworldly aura, and asked curiously, "Teacher, is this the secret weapon you mentioned?"

"That's only part of it, responsible for locking onto the attack coordinates and guiding the light. The real core is actually this."

Modi pointed to another instrument placed on the altar.

Compared to its brass-colored structure, this instrument is silver-white overall, with a more modern style, and a logo on its surface that looks familiar to Long Yutian.

He then realized that it was actually his own company's experimental high-energy laser emitter.

One is an otherworldly magical device, and the other is a modern technological instrument; their art styles seem somewhat mismatched.

"As you can see, this is the Ling family's laser emitter, and it's the most important part of the entire device besides the Light God fragment," Modi said.

"I understand the logic, but isn't their combination too arbitrary?"

"You're sorely mistaken. Who says magic and technology can't be combined?"

Mordy is a pragmatist; he wouldn't refuse to use technological items just because he's a mage.

For him, as long as it's useful, that's all that matters; he doesn't care about sectarianism.