54: Chapter 54 Harvest, Heading to the Special Zone

He discovered that the higher the intelligence level of these creatures, the less they were affected by the aberrations.

This might also be related to the strength of their three-dimensional attributes; the higher the strength, the greater the resistance.

After approaching the central depression, the Incarnation looked at the six people unconscious in the center; their skin was covered in black-red veins, and their entire bodies exuded an eerie sense of strength.

Their hair was growing wildly, something seemed to be protruding from their foreheads, and on a few of them, there were even rudimentary red snake scales.

The Incarnation gasped inwardly; perhaps this was the method these cult organizations used to enhance physical fitness.

By using this eerie ritual to gather a large amount of Heaven and Earth Qi, they could synthesize a type of Heaven and Earth Qi with extreme properties that radiated the body to make it stronger.

Thereby triggering physical aberrations, greatly enhancing their three-dimensional attributes, and finally meeting the requirements to successfully perform a job-change.

Thinking of this, the Incarnation had to admire their madness; they actually dared to use this method to improve their physical fitness.

Having been subjected to the radiation of such extreme Heaven and Earth Qi, not to mention how strong their bodies might have become.

The life essence and innate vital energy consumed as a result would mean their lifespans would be greatly compromised.

It was just like those enhanced warriors selected through gene editing—trading a huge price in a very short time for a massive improvement.

Looking around again, those dozen or so cultist corpses had basically turned into a puddle of bloody mud; even their bones had gone limp like mud, unable to support the skeleton of the entire body, just a flat puddle.

He speculated that these six people, having been affected by the intense Heaven and Earth Qi, although they had improved their physical fitness to a certain extent, their mental state, life essence, and lifespan had also been greatly compromised.

For the few most affected, looking at the scales on their bodies, their genes might have even mutated.

After checking their physical condition, they were not currently in mortal danger.

The Incarnation did not bother with them; given the current state of the world, unless there was a huge benefit involved, he usually wouldn't meddle in other people's business.

In the current state of society, even these long-disappeared cult organizations had begun to re-enter China and were active everywhere; who knows what kind of monsters and demons one might provoke by meddling.

Although Wang An possessed the Incarnation talent, if the other party pushed him too far, he could just blow them up directly.

As long as they were still mortal flesh and blood, there was no one who wouldn't fear this move.

And he could also constantly resurrect; no faction could withstand being targeted every day by such a "terrorist."

So just like now, this group of cultists must have mobilized a great amount of power to find this feng shui node and a large number of job-change stones to set up this sacrificial ritual.

Therefore, for the Incarnation, the entire sacrificial ritual, the placement of each job-change stone, their arrangement method, and these twenty or thirty job-change stones...

…were of immense benefit to him, worth taking action for, even if it meant potentially getting into trouble with this cult.

After finding all 18 surrounding job-change stones, in addition to the 12 at the center, the Incarnation collected all the ritual arrangement materials carried by this group of cultists.

He recorded the various data of this feng shui energy field node, in preparation for setting up a high-density feng shui energy chamber suitable for himself in the future.

The Incarnation neatly wiped away the traces of his actions and did not bother with the six people who were still unconscious; once they woke up, they would return on their own.

He quickly packed up his loot and headed towards the mountain range to the front left to catch up with the Exploration Team.

The Incarnation sent all the loot over to Wang An's main body.

In the evening, after returning home, he began to process the loot.

30 job-change stones; items used by the cultists to set up the sacrificial ritual, such as crosses, cult symbols, etc.; detection data for local magnetic field nodes; and instrument data used for terrain detection.

Also, the research journal of that blue-robed priest regarding the setup of the sacrificial ritual:

1. My God says: Sacrifice requires a place where Heaven and Earth energy intersects and gathers to be the venue for the ritual.

2. My God says: It requires a place of spiritual resonance that gathers all things in the world to condense essence and sacrifice to my Lord.

3. My God says: It requires intense emotions and a physical body as an anchor to bear the descent of its power.

… [Priest] profession

Function: Can strengthen the understanding of performing ritual sacrifices to a certain worshipped deity.

Skill: Divine Revelation, capable of finding solutions in a mysterious way based on one's own strong thoughts.

When Wang An saw the abilities of the Priest profession recorded in the blue-robed priest's research journal, he felt somewhat tempted by the [Divine Revelation] skill.

However, the job-change requirement here—worshipping a certain deity and completing a sacrifice to them—had too low a return on investment for him, and the cost-effectiveness was not high, so he abandoned this idea.

Subsequently, he continued to study the merits of their sacrificial ritual, taking what was useful and discarding what was not, laying the foundation for the future arrangement of a high-density azure yang qi energy chamber.

The next day, when the Incarnation's Exploration Team returned to the Huang Family Village camp.

In this operation, the meteorites collected, excluding the 30 obtained by the Incarnation from the cult organization, totaled 9 job-change stones and 9 meteorites.

What the members of the Exploration Team knew was 6 job-change stones and 7 meteorites.

Originally, the Incarnation had been considering whether or not to turn in so many job-change stones.

However, after obtaining the 30 job-change stones from the cult organization, he decided to exchange these job-change stones for funds to strengthen the entire [Changnan Interstellar] company's Exploration Team, in order to cope with the increasingly harsh exploration environment later on.

Eventually, under the shocked gaze of the Recycling and Administration Department staff, the Incarnation took out a total of 6 job-change stones and 7 meteorites, receiving a total of 6.7 million in funds.

This counted as the company's largest income in over a month.

However, after more than ten days of scavenging, the job-change stones and meteorites in Huaiyu Mountain had been mostly collected.

Several other Exploration Teams were also preparing to leave one after another.

Therefore, when the Incarnation and his team returned, they saw the Exploration Team hired by the Longhu Mountain Tianshi Mansion and several Taoist priests withdrawing.

The people from the Chen Martial Arts Hall Exploration Team had returned after exploring for only a few days, and they had already withdrawn by now.

This time, the Exploration Team prepared to rest for a few days at the Huang Family Village camp before returning to Changnan to prepare for the even more severe challenges ahead.

As for Wang An's main body, he had already joined the representatives sent by various sects and the personnel participating in the special area operation at the Changnan military airport, boarding a helicopter to head to a certain location in the Luoxiao Mountains.

There were no ripples on the way; because they were basically flying in a straight line, everyone was traveling quite fast.

After five or six hours of flight, they were finally about to arrive at a special camp that was currently under construction.