387: Chapter 387 Global Cultivator Grand Training: Preparations Before the Storm

Time passed quickly.

In the blink of an eye, another half-month had gone by.

Dengxian Island had changed.

No, it should be said that the entire Earth had changed.

Looking down at Earth from space, a layer of dark gray metal shell had been added to the outside of this blue planet. It was made of armor from ancient warships cut into plates and welded on piece by piece.

The coverage rate had already reached sixty-five percent.

The remaining thirty-five percent consisted mainly of Antarctica and several less important areas deep in the Pacific Ocean; Luo Tianfei was arranging for personnel to continue construction.

The twelve anti-rule batteries on the periphery of Earth had also been completely upgraded. The barrels were no longer filled with the Scavenger Alliance's ordinary energy shells, but with armor-piercing rounds reforged from ancient metal, supplemented with high-concentration spirit source filler personally prepared by Luo Tianfei.

Luo Tianfei's assessment was that these batteries could now cause effective damage to targets at the Early Stage of the Spirit Saint Realm. While they couldn't kill such a target, they could at least make it hurt.

But what Lu Sheng cared about most was not this hardware.

What he cared about most were the people.

There were now a total of over three hundred Cultivators on Earth who had awakened Sequence Transcendences. Among them, fifteen were in the Spirit Emperor Realm, forty-two were in the Spirit King Realm, and there were over a hundred in the Spirit Ancestor and Spirit Master Realms combined. The rest were all in the Spirit Apprentice Realm or lower Ranks.

This distribution of strength looked decent on Earth. But placed in the Universe, it was simply a heap of loose sand.

If the Myriad Manifestations Divine Court sent any random vanguard unit over, these people would all be finished.

"They need training."

Lu Sheng made a decision—Global Cultivator Drills.

He personally formulated the training plan.

For the elites at the Spirit Emperor Realm and above, he personally set aside two hours every day to guide their Law cultivation. It wasn't the kind of patient, hand-holding guidance, but rather using the rule pressure of the Spirit Saint Realm to directly force them to Cultivate.

The method was very crude.

Lu Sheng expanded his gray Small World to cover the training ground, and then set a temporary rule within the Small World: "All Cultivators below the Spirit Venerable Realm shall bear double gravity within the Domain."

Then he sat to the side, munching on High-Dimensional Origin Crystals while watching the spectacle.

On the training ground, the fifteen Spirit Emperor Realm Cultivators were pressed to the ground by double gravity, howling in pain.

"Everyone, stand up!" Lu Sheng shouted while munching on a crystal. "If you can't even handle this much gravity, when you encounter a Spirit Saint Realm enemy in the future and they expand their Small World, you won't even have a chance to run for your lives!"

Dao Yi was pressed so hard his face was against the ground, spitting out mud.

"Lord... can you... go a bit easier..."

"Go easier? Will the enemy go easier on you during a war?"

Lu Sheng kicked Dao Yi in the buttocks. Dao Yi was sent flying two meters away before being slammed back into the ground by the double gravity.

"Get up and keep going!"

This kind of training lasted for an entire week.

The results were significant.

Although those fifteen Spirit Emperor Realm Cultivators were tortured half to death, their strength had indeed improved significantly. Their Physical Bodies were repeatedly tempered in the high-pressure environment, and the speed of their spirit source circulation had also increased considerably. Two of the most talented ones even faintly touched the threshold of the Spirit Venerable Realm.

As for the Spirit King Realm and Spirit Ancestor Realm Cultivators, Lu Sheng didn't manage them personally, instead handing them over to Dao Yi and Li Xiaoyao.

He gave Dao Yi a set of basic Law Cultivation Techniques he had extracted from the Old Ancestor's memories and told Dao Yi to teach accordingly.

"This set of Cultivation Techniques is the standard textbook used by the Scavenger Alliance to train Spirit King Realm warriors. Although it's not very high-end, it's more than enough for your current level."

Dao Yi flipped through the technique and almost burst into tears.

"Lord, what language is this? I can't understand it!"

"The common script of the Scavenger Alliance. Luo Tianfei can translate it; go find her."

"Oh, oh, okay, okay."

Dao Yi ran off clutching the manual.

Besides the training, Lu Sheng did one other thing.

He took out a portion of the High-Dimensional Origin Crystals he had stockpiled in his storage space and distributed them to the Cultivators.

It wasn't for free; there were conditions.

"There will be an assessment at the end of every month. The top three will be given five crystals. The top ten will get three. As for the bottom ten, not only will they get no crystals, but they'll also have to train for two extra hours. Anyone who Ranks last for three consecutive months—get out."

As soon as the competitive mechanism was introduced, the entire Cultivator Camp immediately exploded with activity.

Everyone Cultivated like mad. No one slacked off, and no one complained. Because everyone knew that these crystals represented an increase in strength, and strength represented the qualification to survive in the Apocalypse.

Furthermore, the three newcomers who had previously complained about Lu Sheng's arbitrariness had already been publicly rebuked by him. After that incident spread through the Cultivator Camp, no one dared to wag their tongues anymore.

In half a month, the overall strength of the Cultivators on Earth had increased by about twenty percent.

Although it was still insignificant in the grand context of the Universe, it was at least much better than their previous half-dead state.

That night.

Lu Sheng finished his training guidance and returned to his secret chamber to meditate.

Closing his eyes, he sensed the operational state of the Small World within him.

The five Law powers were circulating stably, and the boundaries of the Small World were slowly expanding. His cultivation at the Early Stage of the Spirit Saint Realm had stabilized, but there was still a significant gap until the Middle Stage of the Spirit Saint Realm.

"Cultivating just by staying on Earth is too slow."

Lu Sheng opened his eyes and murmured to himself.

The highest quality resources he could obtain on Earth were the ancient warship wreckage he had brought back from the Old God Abyss. However, the quality of the Law fragments remaining in these wrecks was uneven, and their effect on his current improvement was already quite limited.

There were only two things that could truly allow him to make a rapid Breakthrough.

One was the star-sized remains in the deepest part of the Old God Abyss.

The other was living high-level lifeforms.

The stronger the enemy, the more massive the Origin within them, and the greater the improvement after consuming them.

"I still have to go out and find food."

Lu Sheng stood up and walked out of the secret chamber.

He found Luo Tianfei, who was on duty in the monitoring room.

"Any new developments with the detection waves over the past half-month?"

Luo Tianfei pulled up the latest monitoring data.

"In the past fifteen days, a total of four detection wave pulses have been captured. The frequency has increased compared to before, and the scanning precision is also improving. The most recent pulse scan was already able to accurately lock onto the Earth itself."

Lu Sheng's eyes darkened slightly.

"Locked onto Earth itself?"

"Yes. And according to the encoding analysis of the detection waves, an encrypted return channel has been added to the last two pulses. This indicates that the outpost has already begun transmitting Earth's data back to the core area of the Myriad Manifestations Divine Court."

"They've discovered Earth," Lu Sheng concluded directly.

"Yes. Moreover, they have likely noticed the metal armor on Earth's surface. A planet that should originally belong to a low-dimensional civilization suddenly having a layer of high-dimensional metal shell—this kind of anomaly wouldn't be ignored by any even slightly experienced detection analyst."

Lu Sheng was silent for a moment.

"Will they send people over?"

Luo Tianfei gave an extremely rational analysis.

"The probability is over eighty percent. According to the Scavenger Alliance's intelligence files, the Myriad Manifestations Divine Court's style of operation is different from the Scavenger Alliance's. The Scavenger Alliance directly sends legions to attack. The Myriad Manifestations Divine Court is more cautious; they will first send a reconnaissance team to investigate the situation and confirm the target's threat level before deciding on the next move."

"Reconnaissance team? What level?"

"According to the Myriad Manifestations Divine Court's organizational conventions, a standard reconnaissance team is led by a captain at the Peak Spirit Venerable Realm, equipped with five to eight members ranging from the Spirit Emperor Realm to the Spirit Venerable Realm. They are well-equipped and excel in stealth and high-speed evacuation."

The corners of Lu Sheng's mouth curled up slightly.

"A captain at the Peak Spirit Venerable Realm?"

He was now in the Spirit Saint Realm.

A Spirit Saint handling a team of Spirit Venerables was just like an adult beating up children.

"If this reconnaissance team comes, they'll be perfect for me to practice on. Consider them a snack delivered to my door."

He turned to look at Luo Tianfei.

"Keep watching. When they arrive, notify me in advance. I want to 'receive' them personally."

"Understood."

Lu Sheng walked out of the monitoring room and stood in the corridor.

He looked up at the lights on the ceiling, calculating something in his mind.

After the reconnaissance team arrived, there were two ways to handle them.

The first was to wipe them out directly. Clean and efficient, leaving no survivors.

The advantage was that the Myriad Manifestations Divine Court wouldn't obtain any intelligence in the short term.

The disadvantage was that after the reconnaissance team went missing, the Myriad Manifestations Divine Court would definitely become highly alert. What came next might not be a reconnaissance team, but a massive army pressing down.

The second was to leave one or two survivors. Let them go back and report that there was a Spirit Saint Realm powerhouse guarding Earth.

The advantage was that if the Myriad Manifestations Divine Court was cautious enough, they might temporarily shelve their invasion plans, buying him more time for preparation.

The disadvantage was exposing his own existence.

Lu Sheng thought for a while and decided to see how things went when the time came.

Regardless of the handling method, one thing was certain.

Whoever came, he would take a bite out of them first.