196: Section 196

Crack!

The spirit seed was slashed open, and in an instant, a massive amount of life source essence flowed out.

With a thought, Jing Yuan directly absorbed the life source essence.

The vast life source essence continuously flowed into Jing Yuan, and the converted source essence began to strengthen his Mental Force.

Suddenly, a line of subtitles appeared before Jing Yuan's eyes.

【Mental Force promoted to Level 5!】

【Reward: Matching physical fitness promoted to Level 5!】

Jing Yuan was very surprised; he hadn't expected that absorbing the life source essence of this flying Phage Beast would actually lead to an advancement!

But on second thought, it was normal. After Jing Yuan advanced to Level 4, he had been besieged by a large number of Phage Beasts and had killed many of them in a short period.

Then he had absorbed the life source essence of clotho and this flying Phage Beast, both of which accounted for a significant portion.

Jing Yuan stood in the air, feeling the improvement in his physical fitness.

He was still wondering why there wasn't a second reward this time.

Suddenly, Jing Yuan saw the Lighthouse flash past his eyes, falling straight toward The Surface.

Jing Yuan quickly chased after it.

In an instant, he unleashed twelve strands of Mental Force, all acting upon the Lighthouse.

Facing such a massive Lighthouse, Jing Yuan was also uncertain.

Although his Mental Force would significantly increase with each advancement, he hadn't tested it yet.

Jing Yuan chased after it at extreme speed.

To his surprise, the twelve strands of Mental Force were actually able to completely cover the Lighthouse.

The people on the Lighthouse suddenly felt weightless, and then they began to plummet rapidly along with the Lighthouse.

The Lighthouse had just increased its altitude, and now it was falling back down through the clouds.

"Argh!"

Jing Yuan let out a roar, exerting all his strength to hold up the falling Lighthouse.

But the Lighthouse was simply too massive.

Even with Jing Yuan supporting it, it descended nearly a thousand meters before coming to a stop.

Jing Yuan looked down, surprised that he had actually managed to hold up the Lighthouse by his own strength alone.

However, to hold up such a behemoth, Jing Yuan needed to consume a massive amount of Mental Force in a short time.

Jing Yuan quickly contacted Jing Nan, "Jing Nan, what happened? Why did the Lighthouse suddenly fall?"

Jing Nan and the others had also just stabilized themselves, and she immediately ordered an investigation.

The results came out quickly: because the electromagnetic cannon had been used, the Lighthouse's energy supply suffered a temporary shortage, causing the anti-gravity system to fail.

Jing Nan immediately ordered the system to be restarted.

Jing Yuan had originally worried that there was another problem with the Lighthouse's control.

After all, they had only just reclaimed the highest authority from clotho's hands.

Fortunately, it was just an energy issue.

Jing Yuan used his Mental Force to lift the Lighthouse, and then he slowly landed on the Outer Ring platform.

The people on the platform had experienced the Phage Beast assault, the recoil from the electromagnetic cannon fire, and finally an extreme bungee jump; everyone suffered from varying degrees of physical discomfort and lay sprawled on the ground.

Mark's physical fitness was a bit better. Seeing Jing Yuan's pained expression, he hurriedly walked over and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Jing Yuan forced a smile and said, "I'm using Mental Force to hold up the Lighthouse, waiting for the anti-gravity system to restart!"

Jing Yuan's words didn't just startle Mark; everyone who heard them was shocked. Was this even humanly possible?

One must know that the Lighthouse was a home that tens of thousands of people relied on for survival, and he was lifting it alone?

At this moment, the only person who did not doubt Jing Yuan was Jing Nan, who was commanding in the Navigation Control Room, because only she knew most clearly that the Lighthouse's anti-gravity system had not yet successfully restarted.

Jing Yuan's Mental Force enveloped the Lighthouse. Not only was he using it to lift the entire structure, but everything happening on the Lighthouse was also within his control.

Suddenly, he felt a surge of energy generated in the core area of the Lighthouse. This energy spread out, warping the space where the Lighthouse was located.

Jing Yuan was very surprised; the Lighthouse's anti-gravity system was actually achieved by warping space.

He instantly had a different sensation.

Jing Yuan released his Mental Force, and the Lighthouse suddenly dropped by about a meter, startling everyone.

Jing Yuan, however, remained fixed in space. As the Lighthouse descended, he did not.

Compared to the others, it seemed as if he had risen instead.

Jing Yuan carefully sensed the changes in the surrounding space.

Because he had always lived on the Lighthouse before, he hadn't had a direct perception of the effects of space warping.

Having just felt the anti-gravity system warp space, he suddenly gained a flash of insight.

So, he also tried to warp space through source energy.

When the surrounding space was warped, Jing Yuan seemed to become independent; the gravity in the original space appeared unable to affect him, so he achieved an anti-gravity levitation effect with ease.

In other words, he had learned how to fly on his own.

Jing Yuan immediately flew into the air, controlling his body to fly rapidly downward.

However, he felt that his flight speed and reaction time were far inferior to flying by controlling objects.

After a while, Jing Yuan flew back up.

Under the astonished gazes of the crowd, Jing Yuan dropped the skeleton of that Phage Beast from earlier onto the platform.

After a Phage Beast is killed, its flesh turns into Mana, leaving only the skeleton.

Jing Yuan looked at the group from Dragon Bone Village and found Belyankov among the crowd. He landed in front of Belyankov and said, "Senior Belyankov, this Phage Beast should be a Monarch-level Phage Beast, right?"

Belyankov did not answer immediately but first went forward to inspect it before saying, "Yes. It is a Monarch-level bone!"

Jing Yuan smiled and said, "Then the three things I promised you back then are all completed! With these extra materials, could I trouble you to help me forge weapons again? Likewise, you name the conditions!"

Belyankov shook his head and said, "You saved the village this time. I will forge weapons for you without any other conditions!"

Jing Yuan wasn't formal either, "Then thank you! We'll talk about the specifics later."

With that, Jing Yuan flew upward again.

At this time, Master Lai flew over and said to Jing Yuan, "You absorbed the life source essence of a Phage Beast again..."

Before Master Lai could finish, Jing Yuan interrupted him, "It's fine! We're leaving this place right now!"

Jing Yuan flew straight toward the Navigation Control Room and said directly to Jing Nan using Mental Force: "Hurry and take the Lighthouse away from here!"

Jing Nan didn't know how Jing Yuan was speaking inside her mind, but she was already used to his miraculous methods.

Jing Nan nodded to Jing Yuan and then began to command the Lighthouse to sail away!

Jing Yuan landed back down, looked at Master Lai, and said, "Master Lai, the ecology should be locating me through the locations where I absorb life source essence, right?"

"Correct!" Master Lai nodded, and then he added, "But you still cannot continue to absorb life source essence! As long as you absorb it, the ecology can immediately locate you. That Monarch-level Phage Beast just now was sent by the ecology to kill you."

Jing Yuan nodded, "I know. Just now was out of necessity; if I didn't absorb its life source essence, it would have resurrected!"

Jing Yuan did not discuss it further with Master Lai.

Thinking back now, it was lucky he hadn't devoured life source essence in large quantities when he was weak.

Now that he could slay Monarch-levels, even if the ecology found out and wanted to deal with him, wouldn't it just send more Monarch-levels?

So Jing Yuan wasn't worried at all.

Jing Yuan looked at the crowd below; there was still one more matter that needed to be resolved.

Chapter 199: All Capital Offenses

On the Lighthouse's Outer Ring platform.

A group of Upper Citizens were tied up, kneeling on the ground!

Jing Yuan walked over and asked one by one, "What is your name?"

"I... my name is Walter!"

Walter's eyes were filled with terror as he looked at Jing Yuan!

"Are you the mastermind?"

Walter hurriedly shook his head and said, "No no no! I am not!"

"Then who is the mastermind?"

"It's Charles!"

Jing Yuan patted Walter's head and smiled, "Good idea, pushing the responsibility onto a dead man so there's no witness to testify against you!"