Chapter 2608 - 2600: Master of the Ancient Artifact

Chapter 2608: Chapter 2600: Master of the Ancient Artifact

Feng Jun felt embarrassed, but the Guardian had guessed his thoughts and gave a cold hum, "You are willing to temper yourself, that is correct, but always be prepared for the worst. Cultivation is indeed about pursuing brave and diligent progress, yet one must also tread carefully."

Upon hearing this, Feng Jun nodded and picked up the Talisman Treasure, "I appreciate the guidance. As for Mars... I indeed lack understanding."

"There’s no need to rush the mining of Spirit Stones," the Guardian remarked lightly, "The Magical Treasure you used in the Australian Seabed will suffice, and if you can initially use the Spirit Stones from the Kunhao Realm, that would be best."

Feng Jun nodded, speaking with a smile, "I also think so. Australia’s has started to be mined, let’s finish it first. It’s best to preserve the foundation of this world and not act recklessly."

After saying a few more words, Feng Jun’s body flashed, moving to Mars’ Antarctica to prepare to extract the Arrowhead.

However, directly boring through the ice to retrieve the Arrowhead was very troublesome. Instead, he backed off a considerable distance, found a rocky area, and planned to use the Technique of Fossilizing Stone to Mud, taking an indirect approach to get closer.

Executing the Fossilizing Stone to Mud Technique was indeed simpler, though the entire process did consume Spiritual Energy, even though Feng Jun had reached the Fifth Layer Golden Core. Creating a more than one hundred kilometers "U" shaped tunnel was quite strenuous.

A day later, when he was about 500 meters away from the Arrowhead, Feng Jun felt his Spiritual Energy was running low. To ensure he had enough Spiritual Energy to retrieve the Arrowhead, Feng Jun decided to be cautious and restore some Spiritual Energy first.

Restoring Spiritual Energy, of course, required going to the Spirit Gathering Array, but upon approaching it, he was instantly taken aback, "This is..."

Outside the Spirit Gathering Array, it was covered by a thin layer of sand, but upon sensing it, Feng Jun was astonished to discover it wasn’t sand at all, but some... never seen before microorganism!

The microorganisms seemed very interested in Spiritual Energy, clearly attempting to enter the Spirit Gathering Array, but Feng Jun had activated the defensive formation before leaving, keeping them outside.

Feng Jun’s face darkened; this was really fearing what would come. After pondering a moment, he glanced upwards and saw no warship overhead. Thus, he directly cast a series of Fireball Techniques—high temperatures are usually a good method to kill microorganisms.

However, disastrously, perhaps because he used Spiritual Energy, after the fireball hit the "sand," eighty percent of the microorganisms fell, but the remaining twenty percent actually produced some Spiritual Energy!

Then, it could be seen that the microorganisms surprisingly withdrew from the defensive outer layer, rushing towards Feng Jun’s direction—at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Feng Jun was immediately shocked; such tiny creatures could have such swift speed?

Indeed, if one were to talk about how fast they actually were, it wasn’t that remarkable—about four to five millimeters per second—but relative to their size, it was terrifying. Even if the microorganism’s length was four to five micrometers, their movement speed per second was a thousand times their body length.

On Earth, the fastest animal, the cheetah, has a top speed of a little over thirty meters per second, which is thirty times its body length.

When compared this way, the speed of these microorganisms is truly astonishing.

Upon further thought, Feng Jun felt relieved. The cheetah’s running speed is fast, the flight speed of a fly is faster, and on Mars, with its thin atmosphere, such occurrences can’t be considered too outlandish.

The question now was... how to deal with microorganisms that couldn’t be entirely burned to death?

In the next moment, Feng Jun took out the Plasma Cannon—if the Spiritual Energy-driven fireball doesn’t work, how about the energy stone-driven plasma?

As expected, after one shot, the microorganisms were annihilated upon contact, dying instantly, as fragile as snowflakes under the blazing sun.

Feeling a sudden interest, he tested for half a day, finally confirming these microorganisms don’t withstand heat well—after all, Mars’s temperature is much lower than Earth’s, with a heat resistance limit of around ninety degrees.

But Spiritual Energy could bestow them with sufficient heat resistance, and also stimulate their growth.

This discovery gave Feng Jun some chills, but fortunately, conventional heat could kill them.

Feng Jun imagined if these things appeared on Tianqin, would it cause chaos in the world? After thinking it over, he felt the likelihood wasn’t high. The cultivators of Tianqin have battled many planes, hadn’t they encountered fewer terrifying things?

Thinking like this, Feng Jun cleaned up the microorganisms while checking inside the Spirit Gathering Array, as expected, the gathered Spiritual Energy was almost nonexistent.

In terms of gathering Spiritual Energy speed alone, Earth is at least seventy to eighty times that of Mars, making Earth relatively "spiritually abundant."

In other words, although the Spirit Gathering Array could attract a large number of microorganisms, it was completely insufficient for Feng Jun to restore his Spiritual Energy.

Thus, he had to retrieve a Spirit Restoration Array Disk, place a Spirit Stone, and simultaneously activate the defensive formation again.

After spending half a day, his body’s Spiritual Energy was restored to about eighty percent; he felt this was stable enough, then he finished working and got up, and sure enough, a thin layer of veil appeared outside the defensive shield again.

Feng Jun took out a flamethrower, killed all the microorganisms, then packed up everything, leaving a Spirit Stone twenty kilometers away from the burning spot, then vanished.

Meanwhile, what he didn’t know was, although Mars had a thin atmosphere, the liquid sprayed by the flamethrower contained its own combustion aid, burning for quite a while, but it was noticed by an observer on a warship, "Report, we’ve detected flames on Mars!"

Today’s fleet exercise involves a series of key projects. Although the fleet is severely understrength, everyone is seriously observing and learning, and there are few people responsible for miscellaneous affairs.

The relevant researchers analyzed briefly, then determined, "That region is already scanned, previously no anomalies were found, this change can be reported."

The news was reported to the commander, who looked at it and called over Beauty Lin, "How much can that person carry?"

Beauty Lin thought for a moment and answered, "For example... this fleet?"

The commander showed her the message, "Is it possible that he was the one who ignited on Mars?"

"The possibility is very high," Beauty Lin answered without hesitation, "Strictly speaking, I don’t know who else would have the courage besides him."

Upon hearing this, the commander instructed the communicator beside him, "Just say it was accomplished by the brave explorer of Mars, just keep an eye on it."

The communicator asked proactively, "What if he requests to dispatch a warship over there?"

"I recommend focusing first on the exercise," Beauty Lin spoke, "He also has a quantum handset with him, since there’s no call, don’t disturb him... the exercise is what’s important."

The commander glanced at her, smiled and nodded, "You really are... sensitive enough!"

What he actually meant was ironic: when you’re rational, you can calmly view the life of your cohabiting boyfriend.

However, does Beauty Lin really not care about Feng Jun’s life and death? Of course not, she understands better than anyone, how many secrets that guy hides on him, and since the secrets are something even she can’t grasp, why let others inquire? 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ

So she didn’t want anyone to disturb Feng Jun, even with kindly concern—actually, that guy really doesn’t need it.

Feng Jun didn’t know that Beauty Lin helped say a few words, otherwise, the Spirit Stone he left behind really had a certain probability of being discovered—the bright red hue of the Spirit Stone is quite conspicuous on Mars.

He entered the tunnel, continued to transform fossils into mud, until he was nearly a hundred meters from that arrowhead, when he really couldn’t withstand the sinister energy, so he took out the processed Storage Talisman, hoping to resist it.

If he really had to endure, he felt he could persist for another ten or twenty meters, but it wasn’t necessary, because if the arrowhead suddenly erupted, without holding the Storage Talisman, he might simply be unable to respond.

Sure enough, as soon as he took out the Storage Talisman, he felt the pressure from the sinister energy suddenly lessen, seemingly flowing continuously into the Storage Talisman.

Almost simultaneously, he vaguely felt an extremely subtle fluctuation coming from the air, he pondered for a moment, then took out the symbol made of Jade, placed it in a small mesh bag, and hung it on his chest.

"Huh?" A thought came into his mind, giving off a creepy feeling, "You can actually perceive me?"

"Just a bit of heart palpitations," Feng Jun answered calmly, "I always seek stability in what I do."

The other party didn’t express using language, but directly used telepathy, "Do you think that Jade Talisman can protect you?"

Probably possible! Feng Jun knew very well: if this symbol treasure was useless, would you stick your head out?

However, he knew that his thoughts couldn’t be uncontrolled, the other party likely had the ability to see through his intentions, so he diligently suppressed these thoughts, using telepathy to answer, "I’m just a Small Golden Core, obtaining a Fusion Stage symbol treasure is very difficult."

"Fusion Stage... this probably isn’t a Fusion Stage method, right?" that presence continued darkly, "Symbol treasure and Storage Talisman come from the same source... after the Great Catastrophe, there’s still such existence now?"

"There is," Feng Jun expressed firmly, "Senior, if you’ve been observing me all along, you should know, I just left for a while earlier, precisely to request the production of a Storage Talisman and a protective talisman from that senior."

That thought remained silent for a while before stating, "Hmm, indeed it was just produced... what’s that guy’s name?"

"Senior, please behave," Feng Jun answered seriously, "You know, that senior isn’t just at the Fusion Stage cultivation level, it cares for me greatly, I cannot tolerate you calling it such."

"What’s a Fusion Stage worth!" the presence expressed indifferently, "I’m not belittling anyone, the senior you mentioned, he definitely can’t defeat a Fusion Stage now, at most just barely scraping by."

Feng Jun remained silent, without responding.

The presence waited for a long time, seeing he didn’t speak, also felt it was meaningless, "You’re now planning to take my arrowhead, taking without permission is called theft, and you still blame my attitude for being poor?"

"Is this arrowhead senior’s?" Feng Jun was stunned, "I thought it was ownerless, then I’ll go back and inform that senior, maybe you both are acquaintances... they said holding such ancient artifacts, there are only so many people."

(Updated, summon monthly ticket.)