150: Chapter 150: Jiang Ning's One Shot Shocks the World, But He Ends Up in the Hospital.

The crisis in Donghai City was resolved.

That world-shattering shot had not only leveled all the spatial rifts but also thoroughly intimidated the entire world.

No one dared to question Xia Country's power anymore, nor did anyone dare to raise any objections to that "Cooperation Framework Agreement."

Countless encrypted communication lines flickered frantically across the globe, all eventually pointing to the same number.

In Director Zhao Lixin's office, the telephone rang incessantly, nearly lifting the roof off. On the screen behind him, avatars representing heads of state lit up one after another, queuing for a call.

Many countries even took the initiative to contact him, expressing their willingness to provide more resources and technology on top of the original agreement, all for the sake of obtaining deeper "security protection" from Xia Country.

After this battle, Xia Country's global status reached an unprecedented peak.

The name Jiang Ning had also completely become a legend.

However, as the legend herself, Jiang Ning's current situation was not optimistic.

Kunlun Academy, the medical center in the deepest part of the underground.

Cold metal walls isolated all the noise from the outside world; the air held only the faint hum of operating instruments.

Jiang Ning lay quietly inside a specially-made medical pod. Her cheeks were as pale as paper, devoid of any color, and her breath was extremely weak, nearly non-existent.

On the transparent pod cover, rows of red data streams scrolled silently. The most critical item, "Internal Psionic Activity," had dropped to a dangerous value representing the fading of life.

Professor Chen, Director Zhao Lixin, Lin Yuan, and Sun Siyuan—all the core figures of Xia Country's psionic project—were gathered outside the medical pod. Each of their faces was filled with gravity and worry, and the oppressive atmosphere made the air feel thick.

"How is the situation?" Zhao Lixin asked Professor Chen, who was checking the data.

Professor Chen pushed up his glasses, shook his head, and said in a dry voice, "Very bad. The Golden Core inside Chief Engineer Jiang's body is covered in cracks, nearly on the verge of shattering. She forcibly channeled power beyond her limits and suffered an extremely severe backlash. Right now, she's barely hanging on by a thread, relying on the medical pod's life support system and the psionic oral fluids produced by our factory."

His finger slid across the heart rate monitor on the screen, which was nearly a flat line, as a sense of helplessness deeply gripped him. As one of Xia Country's top scientists, he realized for the first time that the knowledge he took pride in was so pale in the face of true immortal cultivation power.

"Is there no other way?" Sun Siyuan followed up urgently.

Although he had been forced to join, over this period, he had long since been won over by Jiang Ning's unpredictable methods and imaginative ideas. He couldn't accept that the woman who always created miracles would lie here so silently.

"We've tried all the conventional methods," Professor Chen rubbed his temples tiredly. "Her current state is like a balloon stretched to its limit; it can no longer withstand any external injection of spiritual energy. All we can do is wait."

He sighed.

"Wait for her to slowly recover through her own will."

"How long will we have to wait?" Lin Yuan asked.

"I don't know," Professor Chen's voice lowered. "It could be a month, it could be a year, or it could be... she'll never wake up again."

Those last words were like a heavy boulder, crashing down on everyone's hearts.

The hearts of everyone present sank to the bottom.

Jiang Ning was the core and the brain of the entire Xia Country Psionic Plan. If she fell, the new era that had just begun might stagnate or even regress because of it.

"No, she will definitely wake up."

Lin Yuan, who had been silent, suddenly spoke. His fists tightened quietly at his sides, his knuckles turning slightly white from the force.

He looked at the quiet figure in the medical pod and said firmly, "I've worked with her. In this world, there is no difficulty that can defeat her. She was born to create miracles."

His words lightened the heavy atmosphere slightly.

That's right, that was Jiang Ning.

The woman who created an island out of thin air, made it fly, and leveled a spatial rift with one shot.

How could she possibly fall so easily?

"Now is not the time for discouragement." Zhao Lixin quickly adjusted his emotions. He looked around at everyone and said, "Before she fell, Chief Engineer Jiang gave us a direction. What we must do now is inherit her will and continue the work she hasn't finished!"

His words were powerful and resonant, dispelling the gloom in everyone's hearts.

"This invasion incident has sounded an alarm for us. The enemy could reappear at any time. We can no longer wait passively."

"We must take the initiative to attack!"

He walked to the command console, his fingers tapping quickly on the interface, bringing up a massive holographic projection.

Displayed on it was an engineering blueprint with an incredibly complex and profoundly mysterious structure. Countless runes and arrays were layered upon each other, forming a three-dimensional structure that an ordinary person could not comprehend; just looking at it made one feel dizzy.

It was exactly what Jiang Ning had exchanged from the system: the "Cross-boundary Teleportation Array (Immortal-Mortal Realm Targeted Version)."

"This is the latest and highest priority project that Chief Engineer Jiang transmitted to the 'Tianshu' mainframe before the battle."

Zhao Lixin pointed at the blueprint and read out its name word by word.

"'Cross-boundary Teleportation Array.'"

"Our goal is to build it for me, no matter the cost!"

He turned around and began issuing orders.

"Professor Chen, I'm leaving the material analysis and basic theoretical research to you."

"Lin Yuan, Sun Siyuan, the two of you—one will be responsible for the construction and simulation of the formation model, and the other for the design and refinement of the energy core."

"As for me..." Zhao Lixin paused, "I will be responsible for mobilizing the nation's power to provide all the necessary resources for this project!"

He looked at his three solemn companions and raised his voice.

"Everyone, do you have confidence?"

"Yes!"

Professor Chen, Lin Yuan, and Sun Siyuan answered in unison.

Fighting spirit was reignited in their eyes.

Although Jiang Ning had fallen, the fire she had lit, named "Industrialized Cultivation," had already become a prairie fire across this land.

An unprecedented super-project concerning the fate of the entire civilization thus began its prelude.

And none of them knew that inside that special medical pod...

Jiang Ning, who had fallen into a deep coma, had not seen her divine sense dissipate.

Instead, it had entered a strange, pure white space.

There was no up, down, left, or right here, and no passage of time—only endless white and ultimate silence.

In the center of the space, the system panel she was so familiar with, emitting a faint glow, floated there quietly.

On the panel, a new line of golden text was slowly emerging.

[Detected that the host's vital signs are extremely weak and the Golden Core is on the verge of shattering.]

[Triggered hidden crisis response protocol—"Merit Body Protection".]

[Consume all merit points (92,350 points) to repair the Golden Core and reshape the Dao foundation?]

[Yes/No]