82: Leifu Network

In the central Formation eye of Underground Mo City.

Mo Yuan sat cross-legged, his aura faintly resonating with the entire city and the Thunder Talisman Network spreading across the territory.

Before him, the holographic map of the three Qingyang counties, composed of points of light, grew increasingly solid. Countless tiny, newly born points of light were lighting up and spreading across the map at an astonishing speed, connecting with each other to form an increasingly dense and complex giant web of thunder.

Controlling one hundred thousand individuals with Pseudo-Spiritual Roots across the three counties solely through the patrol of the swarm and the suppression of the Vajra Battalion was inefficient and slow to react, much like a giant possessing a massive body but only sluggish nerves.

This was something Mo Yuan could absolutely not tolerate.

Absolute power must be built upon absolute control.

And control requires "eyes" that can penetrate anywhere and "limbs" that can arrive in an instant.

"Thunder Talisman... as eyes... as anchors..."

"Thunder God Arm... as the brush... as the source..."

"Network... to serve as..."

His cold will, like a supreme directive, drove his power.

He slowly raised that deep purple Thunder God Arm.

On his arm, the newly born, more complex thunder runes and Dao marks of space lit up one after another, emitting a heart-palpitating fluctuation.

At his fingertips, he no longer condensed destructive thunder spheres or thunder spears; instead, he fixed them in the Void Realm, like the most precise engraving tool.

Sizzle—

A wisp of dark gray electric arc, condensed to the extreme and exhibiting the Origin of Chaos, mixed with a trace of the essence of spatial runes derived from the Nine Heavens Thunder Hell Formation, slowly extended from his fingertips, like an animated spirit.

This arc was not meant for destruction; its internal structure was forcibly constrained and woven by Mo Yuan using his powerful Divine Thought, forming tiny, yet dizzyingly complex, three-dimensional Thunder Talismans.

Each three-dimensional Thunder Talisman was only the size of a speck of dust, yet it contained multiple functions: energy sensing, information reception and transmission, spatial coordinate anchoring, and the most critical one—a remote energy reception and conversion interface.

They were miniature miracles created with Mo Yuan's thunder Origin as the foundation, the magic bottle's Chaos Qi as the adhesive, and his understanding of spatial Formations as the core.

Engraving these Thunder Talismans took a terrifying toll on his mind.

Every single one required total concentration, without the slightest error.

Mo Yuan's complexion turned pale at a speed visible to the naked eye, and beads of sweat seeped from his forehead, but his eyes remained as cold as ten-thousand-year-old cold iron, stable without the slightest tremor.

"Imprint..."

The first batch of tens of thousands of miniature Thunder Talismans was finished, suspended in the air like gray stardust.

With a thought from Mo Yuan, a squad of Thunderstorm Worker Bees already waiting outside flew in. Their special tail-bearing glands lit up with a faint glow as they carefully "loaded" these Thunder Talismans into their bodies.

"Targets: Within the three counties, all settlement centers, resource point cores, transportation hubs, strategic passes... Implant!"

Hum!

The swarm of Worker Bees turned into streams of light, traveling along the intricate underground passages or charging directly out to the surface, rushing in all directions.

Like the most loyal messengers, they carried each Thunder Talisman "seed" to its designated location.

At the top of the giant thunder-patterned flagpole in the Qingyang City square, deep within the largest black iron ore vein in Black Stone County, at the base of the tower at the only canyon pass leading to the outside world, and on the main beams of the ancestral halls in every village and town with a population of over a thousand...

The Worker Bees extended tiny stingers from their tails, precisely implanting the miniature Thunder Talismans, perfectly integrating them with metal, rock, or spirit wood.

The moment the Thunder Talismans merged, they acted like sleeping seeds, automatically absorbing the thin, free-floating energy in the environment and generating a faint resonance with the remnants of the Thunder Crystal Mine that were nearly exhausted yet still existed deep within the Spiritual Veins, maintaining a minimal state of dormancy.

This process lasted for several days.

When the last Worker Bee returned to report, tens of thousands of tiny light points had already lit up on the holographic map before Mo Yuan!

They were unevenly distributed, yet they evenly covered every corner of the three counties, forming a vast, invisible skeletal network!

"Network foundation... complete."

"Energy resonance... activate!"

Mo Yuan took a deep breath, and his Thunder God Arm slammed onto the core of the Formation eye!

Forcibly connecting with the entire Nine Heavens Thunder Hell Formation and the final Origin of that exhausted mine vein underground!

Boom!!!

A powerful, special thunder fluctuation, centered on Mo Yuan, passed through the Formation eye and followed the trajectory of the remaining thunder energy in the Spiritual Veins, like a precise pulse, instantly sweeping across the entire three-county territory!

Wherever the pulse passed, the tens of thousands of dormant light points on the map suddenly lit up, like stars ignited simultaneously!

In the Qingyang City square, the Thunder Talisman at the top of the flagpole silently lit up with a faint glow, and the giant lightning pattern on the flag seemed to come alive, the flowing thunder light suddenly intensifying twofold!

Deep within the Black Stone County mine vein, the Thunder Talisman embedded in the rock wall lit up, illuminating the dark mine tunnel with a cold blue-white light.

At the border pass, the Thunder Talisman at the base of the tower flickered, and invisible fluctuations spread outward.

In every village and town, the faint light on the main beam of the ancestral hall drew the brief gaze of the numb residents below and instilled an even deeper fear.

All Thunder Talismans were activated simultaneously, generating a strong energy resonance with each other!

They were no longer isolated but connected into a whole through the Spiritual Veins, through the air, and through that invisible thunder pulse!

A giant thunder sensing web covering a territory of 37,000 square li was completely formed!

Mo Yuan closed his eyes; his consciousness seemed to be infinitely elevated and infinitely divided, perceiving everything within the coverage of this giant web!

It was no longer a vague sense of direction, but an extremely clear insight!

He could "see" deep inside a Black Stone County mine pit, a foreman whipping an exhausted miner, the suppressed hatred in the miner's eyes clearly visible.

He could "hear" at the border pass, two Vajra Battalion soldiers on duty whispering complaints that their ration of Spirit Dew had been diluted again.

He could "feel" in a remote mountain village, a child had accidentally awakened a trace of a weak Earth Spiritual Root, and their parents were terrifiedly trying to hide it.

He could even detect the subtle flow of Spiritual Veins deep underground and the changes in the thinness of the Spiritual Qi in the air!

Within a radius of tens of thousands of li, every energy fluctuation, sound, and even strong emotion, as long as it was within this web, was like it was directly projected into his mind, with every detail under his control!

This was merely the function of the "eyes."

Mo Yuan's consciousness locked onto the Thunder Talisman at the top of the flag in the Qingyang City square.

"Descend."

With a slight movement of his mind, the Dao marks of space on his Thunder God Arm erupted with blinding light, resonating strongly with the core Thunder Talisman serving as a spatial beacon!

The next moment, the figure above the Formation eye suddenly blurred, dissipating like a reflection in water!

Almost at the same instant, above the Qingyang City square, at the top of the thunder-patterned flag, lightning flashed violently, and Mo Yuan's figure appeared out of thin air like a ghost, hovering ten zhang above the ground!

His deep purple Thunder God Arm hung naturally, and his cold gaze swept over the crowd below, who were instantly terrified and silent!

Teleportation! It was not relying on his own magic power to tear through the Void Realm, but utilizing the beacon positioning of the Thunder Talisman Network, with the Thunder God Arm and the Nine Heavens Thunder Hell Formation as the power source, to perform an ultra-long-distance, precise spatial jump!

From Underground Mo City to the Qingyang City square, a distance of several hundred li, arrived in an instant!

The entire square was deathly silent for a moment, then erupted with earth-shattering shouts filled with fear and awe, and everyone knelt on the ground like a tide, shivering!

Mo Yuan's figure blurred again, and with a flash of lightning, he had returned to the underground Formation eye, as if he had never left.

"Energy consumption... 0.7 percent." He coldly calculated the cost of one round trip.

The consumption was not small, but at critical moments, this was undoubtedly a strategic-level mobility capability!

From now on, for him, there was no such thing as distance in these three counties.

If any trouble arose in any location, whether it was an internal rebellion, an external invasion, or even the discovery of precious resources, his will and power could descend in an instant!

Absolute control was achieved here.

He looked down at the holographic map again, watching the tens of thousands of light points flickering like neural nodes upon it.

The Thunder Talisman Network was complete.

The Pseudo-Immortals Dynasty now possessed its own neural network and thunderous pulse.

Mo Yuan's fingertips gently traced across the map, his gaze already cast beyond the network, toward that more distant, unknown, and inevitably challenging territory.

This web would eventually cover even more.