Chapter 108: 108. Burned Out (In Celebration of Yu Sheng Jiang Xiang Luan, Alliance Master)

108. Chapter 108: Burned Out (In Celebration of Yu Sheng Jiang Xiang Luan, Alliance Master)

“The rebels love attacking cultivation bases, stealing cultivation pods and infants, raising them from childhood…”

“Moreover, they may secretly be building a clone army…”

“No wonder the Federation guards the cultivation pods so tightly—it means I won’t get one through official channels…”

Several days later.

Fang Xing sat cross-legged, calming his mind and settling his spirit, recalling all the information he had gathered.

“The matter of the cultivation pods still requires careful planning… and in the meantime, I should raise the proficiency of the ‘Heavenly Mother Virtuous Golden Lotus Twin Guardian Scripture’… after all, true possession of a duplicate body hinges entirely on this.”

Over these past days, he had continuously pondered this method, and now he had fully comprehended it and could begin cultivation.

Fang Xing’s expression turned solemn; within his crown palace’s consciousness sea, he silently visualized a terrifying, ox-headed, eight-armed figure—the Great Golden Ox-Headed Vidyaraja!

This Vidyaraja had an ox’s head and a human body, each arm gripping a magical artifact, his base a cloud of white bones and skulls.

“Visualize the Great Golden Ox-Headed Vidyaraja as your main form, then visualize a ‘Heavenly Mother Consort’… this is a reflection of your own consciousness, like a mirror image—there’s a subtle brilliance in borrowing the false to cultivate the true!”

Fang Xing struggled to consolidate a Consort, but found he couldn't even enter the practice.

After several attempts, all failed!

He thought again, and within his consciousness sea, the Great Golden Ox-Headed Vidyaraja began reciting the ‘Great Sun Tathagata Mantra’!

A great sun emerged from his consciousness, hovering above the ox-headed Vidyaraja’s head.

Through the reflection of this solar disc, a soft, maternal feminine figure gradually formed within the Vidyaraja’s embrace.

—The Heavenly Mother Consort!

“This method… is truly exquisite.”

“Master Wanfa can perform the technique of external embodiment, but he must split his own soul essence—this carries hidden dangers, and the split soul cannot continuously share awareness with the original, making rebellion likely…”

“The ‘Great Golden Twin Guardian’ created by the Heavenly Mother Consort is different—it is a reflection of my own mind, perfectly attuned to me. Even if the duplicate eventually succeeds in possession, it will remain in constant spiritual resonance with the original, sharing thoughts… thus eliminating the risk of rebellion.”

“Yet, although the ‘Heavenly Mother Virtuous Golden Lotus Twin Guardian Scripture’ is useful, it has a hidden requirement… it must be grounded in the Great Sun Tathagata Mantra, and its proficiency level cannot exceed that of the Great Sun Tathagata Mantra?”

Fang Xing glanced at his attribute panel:

【Heavenly Mother Virtuous Golden Lotus Twin Guardian Scripture: 3/100 (Beginner)】

…

Brilliant Jiangfu.

Gu family villa.

“I’ve already revealed all the essentials of the Ghost God Blade, especially the core of Fighting Ghost God…”

Fang Xing looked at the opposite side, at Gu Yun, the emotionless girl with a pumpkin haircut and training robes who still looked adorably innocent: “If you fully master it, with your current realm, you’ll easily pass into a second-tier university, and even have a shot at the top-tier…”

Gu Yun had always been a university prospect; now with her second realm perfected, she could ascend to the third realm of martial cultivation at any moment.

Once her combat skills improve, her university admission is assured.

“I understand… thank you.”

Gu Yun murmured her thanks; she was not someone who failed to recognize value.

If Fang Xing were to offer private tutoring now, his fees might not be far behind Xia Long’s.

But alas… he was focused on entering university.

He had already stopped attending school classes entirely, yet still took time out to tutor her.

This was a debt of gratitude!

Gu Yun did not know that Fang Xing was merely repaying a past favor.

After practicing the Ghost God Blade, he sat with Gu Yun at a wooden wicker table, sipping tea.

“Last time you mentioned that the black market had found some interesting alien energy blocks—what happened?”

After chatting for a while, Fang Xing seemed to casually bring up the topic.

After all, those few low-grade spirit stones had been deliberately placed by him.

“Shouldn’t you know best?”

Gu Yun looked at Fang Xing strangely: “After that incident, the Titan Group took over everything…”

Back then, Fang Xing had been picked up and dropped off by a private car, causing a huge stir.

Classmates spread rumors—he was being kept by a wealthy woman, his biological parents had found him, a distant relative had died and left him a fortune, and so on—anything imaginable.

Eventually, the school couldn’t take it anymore and had teachers issue a clarification; only then did they learn Fang Xing was signing a contract with the Titan Group.

And given Lan Fei’s continued presence, it was clear the contract had been finalized.

The Titan Group, a major energy conglomerate, was deeply interested in these alien energy blocks.

“Oh, I’m not interested in that.”

Fang Xing lifted his teacup, sensing there was something within the low-grade spirit stones.

But to truly analyze them would require a long journey—after all, they were objects from another world.

‘Yet, are they truly two different worlds?… Perhaps the cultivation realm is merely a peculiar planet, still undiscovered within the greater universe?’

But Fang Xing still leaned toward the belief that the cultivation realm and the Blue Star Federation’s universe were two separate worlds!

The universe was vast, nearly endless.

The surface area of the cultivation realm was also terrifyingly large—experiments confirming planetary structure had failed repeatedly, and the widespread legends of ascension confirmed to Fang Xing that the cultivation realm was immense, possibly rivaling the main universe.

“Little Fang, thank you for visiting my Xiao Yun—have some sweets…”

At that moment, a woman in casual home attire, gentle-faced and appearing only in her twenties or thirties, approached carrying a tray of crystal-like pastries.

“This is my mom…”

Gu Yun said flatly.

“Madam Gu, nice to meet you.”

Fang Xing immediately rose, recalling the several times he had glimpsed her back—now it matched perfectly.

‘Gu Yun is lucky to have such a kind and beautiful mother…’

He couldn’t help but sigh inwardly.

…

Half an hour later.

Fang Xing swallowed the crystal pastry whole, walking slowly out of Brilliant Jiangfu. Gu Yun’s mother was actually quite pleasant, though a bit nagging and talkative—she even drifted into talking about boyfriends.

In the Federation, one becomes an adult at eighteen and may marry.

Yet as civilization advanced, the marriage rate kept declining.

Many men and women now responded to Federation appeals, donating their genes and then living wildly.

As for offspring?

That was left to fate and the Federation’s random matching.

Of course, some still rejected this, clinging to traditional natural family values.

The Gu family was just such a case.

“If I stayed any longer, it might turn into a marriage discussion… Gu Yun isn’t even an adult yet—this is ridiculous.”

He swallowed the crystal pastry whole and vanished into the darkness.

When he reappeared, he had transformed into an ordinary-looking middle-aged man, heading toward the black market.

…

In a ruined shack.

A woman with messy, nest-like hair, sunken eyes, and heavy dark circles looked up at Fang Xing: “What do you want?”

“Contact person!”

Fang Xing tossed a bag of gold onto the table: “I heard you have contact info for anyone—even cultists of dark gods and rebels?”

“Hehe… sir, you’re joking.”

The smoky-dressed woman carefully checked the gold’s purity, then said: “Our ‘Everything Shop’ just makes a living by connecting people—it’s hard work…”

“Cut the chatter. I need you to leave a contact message at a specific time, in a specific place…”

Fang Xing stated his requirements.

Neither he nor Liu Wei were the type to fully expose their secrets to outsiders.

Thus, communication was complicated.

Perhaps only after a call was made would Liu Wei realize it was him.

“Standard third-party method. For this much gold? Done.”

The woman smiled, revealing blackened teeth.

After Fang Xing left, she immediately pulled out a scanner and checked the area: “No hidden devices…”

She waited a moment, then dialed a communication.

“Wuya, what is it?”

A one-eyed middle-aged man appeared on screen.

He radiated a brutal aura; one eye was gone, replaced by a black eyepatch.

In the interstellar age, this was strange.

Not to mention bio-synthetic eyes—even a mechanical prosthetic would be standard.

“Someone contacted our rebel group…”

Wuya recounted everything about Fang Xing.

On the surface, she was merely a minor intelligence merchant; in truth, she was a rebel undercover agent.

Any information concerning the rebels must be reported immediately.

“Could it… be related to the grand plan we’re preparing in Yuanyu City?”

The one-eyed middle-aged man’s expression turned sharply dangerous: “Follow his instructions—probe both sides.”

“Yes…”

Wu Ya bowed deeply and resumed reporting on other matters.

While these two spoke, they did not notice that a ‘Heavenly Mother Mingfei’ stood nearby, silently listening.

Far away, amid ruins and wreckage.

Fang Xing sat cross-legged; Wu Ya’s every action unfolded before him in clear detail.

“Though I have not yet perfected the Great Golden Vajra Twin Guardian, the Heavenly Mother Mingfei has already been visualized—she can serve as a guardian deity, sent out to gather intelligence…”

Due to the nature of the cultivation technique, whatever the Heavenly Mother Mingfei sees, he sees.

Even if it were damaged or destroyed, it would merely be the loss of a reflection of the original will—another could be reconstituted easily.

Of course, the most crucial advantage… is that it operates entirely free of technological devices, relying purely on spiritual intent to scout—thus evading countless surveillance and detection instruments.

Moreover, it can pass through walls, allowing covert observation of private spaces.

In other words, Fang Xing was effectively projecting his soul, using his yin spirit to gather intelligence.

In the interstellar age, this very ability would become a blind spot for many.

“Are the rebels planning a major move in Yuanyu City?”

As he silently organized the intelligence he had overheard, Fang Xing’s expression grew thoughtful: “It seems this final semester will have to be spent in Yuanyu City…”

Fortunately, he had already applied for a leave of absence—so long as he showed up for the college entrance exam, that was all that mattered.

With the newly forged guardian deity, Fang Xing was confident he could map every corner of Yuanyu City inside and out.

Acquiring a cultivation pod amid the chaos would then be no great challenge.