Chapter 653: Heaven Above

What Zhu Bajie obtained, besides Yang Jian's "basic file," was more information about the thousand-year-long struggle between humanity and the Celestial Point Star people.

Including some internal journals and such.

Tang Luo had wondered whether the Celestial Point Star people were related to the "Source."

"Source" is absolutely a good thing, and moreover, it is a high-level "existence."

Dizang explicitly stated that this thing has wonderful uses, even allowing Hell to swallow the entire human world.

That former god-demon wanderer, the vampire Cain, also relied on the Source to escape the god-demon game—unfortunately, he was later found by Tang Luo and his group.

The Summoning Heart is the object formed from the "Source," and currently, aside from the god-demon game, it is the only way to "wander wildly" across worlds without getting lost or disoriented.

If the Celestial Point Star people are truly related to the Source, obtaining it might allow one to go wherever they wish in the future.

In the internal journals and some materials.

Regarding the origin of the Celestial Point Star people, it remains unreliable and mysterious; their purpose, however, can be confirmed as pure slaughter and destruction.

But it is not a complete loss.

At least Tang Luo and his group now know how humanity fought against the Celestial Point Star people.

The black greatsword "dropped" by the Celestial Point Star people is the key.

Some people, when using the black greatsword (including cold weapons forged from it), will guide out a special power.

This power, through the black greatsword, can truly effectively injure the Celestial Point Star people.

And more crucially, after killing a Celestial Point Star person, power will surge into the bodies of those who participated in the battle and delivered the killing blow, strengthening them.

Letting them gradually grow stronger.

This is the same as when Zhu Bajie and Ao Yulie, wearing armor, killed Celestial Point Star people.

Growing stronger through slaughter?

Or is it the transfer and gathering of power?

In short, this special power, along with the Celestial Point Star people's indestructible black greatsword (called Black Iron), is the key to humanity's resistance against the Celestial Point Star people.

But this power can only be channeled through a person into the "Black Iron"; once detached from the human body, it rapidly dissipates.

Without the special power's enhancement, even a Black Iron weapon's lethality against the Celestial Point Star people will rapidly decline, dropping to nearly negligible levels.

Put it this way: under normal circumstances, a strike infused with special power, delivered ten times in the same spot, can break through the Celestial Point Star people's armor.

Without that power's enhancement, using Black Iron to strike a thousand times might leave at most a white mark.

As for non-Black Iron materials, the Celestial Point Star people's faces meeting missiles—thanks, but no thanks.

This is why, despite the technological and weapon development level of this mission world, humans still need to engage the Celestial Point Star people in close combat with cold weapons.

Not to mention ranged thermal weapons—even bows and crossbows are ineffective.

Even throwing weapons lose their killing effect beyond ten meters.

From these descriptions, the Celestial Point Star people indeed have a certain feel of the Source.

Only magic can counter magic.

Only the Source works against the Source (demons are special products made by Cain using the Source, alongside the Sacred Heart, both tied to the "Source").

Unless one acts unreasonably like Tang Luo—condensing ten thousand tons of cotton into a small lump and smashing it outward, capable of shattering walls.

Torrential floods can also destroy solid mountain peaks.

Even to the point of apocalypse!

For the Celestial Point Star people, this is actually not good news.

Because Elder Tang, Master Xuanzang, and the Victorious Fighting Buddha have already set their sights on them!

Returning to Yang Jian's issue.

Although this guy stayed at this base for three years, that was many years ago.

He turned eighteen and became of age, having already completed his training and become a formal frontline soldier, arriving at this base for garrison duty.

He left at twenty-one, and now fourteen years have passed; even if Xiaotiangou's nose is sensitive, it cannot possibly smell out Yang Jian's scent from fourteen years ago.

Unless that place had only Yang Jian staying there for three years, after which it was sealed shut, with no outsiders entering since.

At the same time, Yang Jian must still be his former self, not having deliberately restrained himself, leaving behind a trace of aura that Xiaotiangou could sense, for it to be possible.

Nowadays, let alone Yang Jian being "Mu Yang."

He lives in a collective dormitory! People come and go—let alone rooms, even beds have changed hands several times; where would Xiaotiangou even sniff?

As for finding Yang Jian's later residence, it's also unsuitable.

He is a frontline soldier; not saying he runs all over the world, but he's pretty much always on the move.

One could say, he basically has no fixed residence.

The single dormitory assigned to him—he might not even spend more than ten days there in a year, and for now, Tang Luo and his group don't even know where it is.

To find Yang Jian, one must still rely on the local hegemon, Homeland Watch.

Using influence, so to speak.

If Homeland Watch's efficiency is low, one can go give them a push every few days.

Now, one can rest a bit.

Ao Yulie lies on the living room sofa; his armor is hard on the outside, soft inside like clothing, with no uncomfortable tags, zippers, or buttons.

When it's time to sleep, he simply closes his eyes and naturally "turns off the light."

As for eating and those matters, Ao Yulie definitely has no issues; there's no need to worry.

If a normal god-demon wanderer wore this outfit, based on this period's wearing experience, they would also not need such things.

If one truly did, a god-demon wanderer would probably be driven to despair unto death.

The god-demon game has mercy and malice, but it's not that malicious.

On the first day arriving in the mission world, they just spent it so "peacefully."

For Tang Luo and the others, relying on the Home Guard was truly just a minor matter.

The next day.

The three of them split into two groups again: Zhu Bajie and the Heavenly Hound went deep into the Home Guard to observe their work efficiency, and incidentally checked on Yang Jian.

Ao Yulie and Tang Luo, on the other hand, planned to go find the Sky-Point Star People.

Ao Yulie was given an invisibility talisman to conceal his form, and the two set off, moving at extreme speed.

However... after spending most of the day, they still hadn't found any Sky-Point Star People.

Quite normal—Sky-Point Star People don't fall from the sky like dumplings being boiled.

Like the base Tang Luo and the others ravaged yesterday, the number of times the black-clad Home Guard warriors stationed there engage Sky-Point Star People in a year might not even exceed three.

If Sky-Point Star People really fell like rain, humanity would have been wiped out long ago.

Instead, they now firmly hold the front line, and whenever a batch of Sky-Point Star People drops down, they eliminate that batch.

Losses and casualties certainly exist, but the initiative remains firmly in their grasp.

The world as a whole is peaceful, ordinary people live normal lives, and many only have a partial understanding of this matter.

It is not a state of global war preparedness.

Even if one wanted global war preparedness, it would actually be of little use... the Black Iron relies on the Sky-Point Star People for supply.

Without guns or cannons, the enemy provides them for us—we can only wait for the Sky-Point Star People to deliver; how can we prepare?

The term "rebel army" given in the mission is actually not particularly accurate.

Because, given the current balance of power between the two sides, the Sky-Point Star People are actually more like the weak rebel faction.

By the way, after destroying a base yesterday, Tang Luo and the others' mission completion rate reached 1%.

As long as the difficulty doesn't increase, following this logic, destroying another hundred bases would complete the mission—very simple.

"Master, there are no Sky-Top Star People."

Ao Yulie is used to calling them Sky-Top Star People.

"Since there are none on the ground, let's go to the sky." Tang Luo looked up at the sky and slapped a flight talisman onto Ao Yulie.

"To the sky?" Ao Yulie slapped his thigh suddenly, "Exactly!"

Sky-Point Star People fall from the sky, and with the technology of this world's humans, sending something up there is still somewhat difficult.

But for Tang Luo and the others, going up to the sky is no trouble at all—it's as easy as daily meals.

Lotus blossoms bloomed beneath his feet, petals flying everywhere; Tang Luo stepped upward, covering several kilometers in an instant, arriving in the bitterly cold high altitudes.

With the flight talisman, Ao Yulie flew not particularly fast, barely keeping up.