Protect Our Chief-Chapter 679 - 82: 10 Years! Shouzhe Ascends to the Celestial Human Realm
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However, these words were only dared to be muttered in his heart. He was directly intimidated by this Fifth Granny. No matter how beautiful she was, she was still his great aunt, covered with poisonous insects. He was truly afraid of being tormented to death by those bugs once again if he wasn’t careful.
"Thank you, Fifth Granny." Wang Shihai muttered secretly, but he still sincerely expressed his gratitude. This Little Demon King of Chaos did have some virtues after all; at least when facing someone he couldn’t defeat, he was quick to admit his weakness.
He diverted the topic by saying, "By the way, what brings you to the Outer Domain?"
"I heard from Fourth Brother’s letter that dealing with some Blood Bats during the wilderness expedition in the Outer Domain was quite difficult," Wang Luojing said casually, "Some time ago, I was just on a mission in the Barbarian Border Wilderness and didn’t receive any messages. Once I got back and learned about it, I came to take a look."
"Those Blood Bats are indeed quite troublesome." Wang Shihai was somewhat apprehensive about those Blood Bats too. "Individually, they’re not tough; if it were outside, they wouldn’t be hard to deal with. But those caves are so complex that even Celestial Human Realm Cultivators find it hard to maneuver inside. Fourth Grandfather has tried various methods, like smoking, burning, and flooding the caves, but none have been very effective."
"In contrast, our several attempts at extermination have seemingly enraged the Blood Bat populations, often attacking our ’Shouzhe Road’ construction teams. Leading us to have no choice but to dispatch more Household Generals to rotate in protecting these teams."
"Especially in the last half month, because of the frequent Blood Bat attacks, the construction teams on a few subsequent sections have all halted."
When mentioning the Blood Bat groups, Wang Shihai was full of helplessness. Pioneering was like this; sometimes the most challenging foes weren’t those Tier Four or even Tier Five Fierce Beasts.
But some seemingly insignificant swarms of insects, plant groups, and even many swarms invisible to the naked eye.
"Lead the way." Wang Luojing said coldly.
"What?" Wang Shihai looked stunned, "Fifth Granny means... should we gather a few more extermination teams, and then ask Ancestor Longyan to oversee?"
"Lead the way... just the two of us."
"Alright, alright."
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More than an hour later.
It was a region with an exceedingly complex cave system in the mountains, with countless crisscrossing pathways of unknown depth, varying thickness, and densely spread like a spider web across the mountain range for dozens of miles.
In such a harsh environment, even Celestial Human Realm Cultivators often found themselves helpless.
One of the entrances to the cave was a wide, plaza-like opening, with the ceiling densely covered in Blood Bats. Although these were the lowest-tier Blood Bats, conditions permitting, even ordinary people could swat them dead with a single smack.
But you couldn’t withstand the sheer number; people with claustrophobia would probably faint on the spot. Even the young Celestial Pride, Wang Shihai, shivered and whispered, "Fifth Granny, perhaps we should call hundreds more people over?"
"Too many people will only cause trouble." Wang Luojing lightly shook her graceful wrist, producing a series of crisp and pleasant bell sounds.
The bell sounds fluctuated from low to high, back to low again, varying unpredictably, with even the highest frequency making Wang Shihai’s eardrums ache, yet the low frequency went unheard. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶
Suddenly!
The Blood Bat swarm became restless.
Wang Luojing seemed to have found a mysterious frequency, intensifying the Profound Qi. The bells on her wrist trembled crazily. But remarkably, Wang Shihai couldn’t hear a sound.
Meanwhile, the Blood Bat swarm was in trouble.
They grew increasingly agitated, flying chaotically around the vast cave.
"Smack! Smack!"
Blood Bats kept crashing into the cave walls, falling to the ground in a mangled heap. In the sky, it was as if there was a rain of "blood dumplings," patches and patches of Blood Bats knocked out and killed!
"This, this, this..." Wang Shihai was utterly amazed. There was such a magical way to deal with Blood Bats.
Within the spider-web-like cave tunnels, Blood Bats kept dashing out, mindlessly crashing to death like headless flies. Before long, the ground was covered with a layer of Blood Bat corpses.
Ten days!
In just ten days, Wang Luojing had cleared the Blood Bats from the underground caves spanning dozens of miles, including two Fierce Beast Level Blood Bats with Tier Three combat power.
As the Blood Bat swarms were entirely cleared out,
the progress of wilderness expedition in the Outer Domain made significant advances. The Wang Family freed up more manpower, sweeping through the development zones over and over, and "Shouzhe Road" was completed a month ahead of schedule.
Simultaneously, foreign cement factories, gravel pits, worker dormitories, and so on were established one after another.
On this land, named Xin’an Town, the grand pioneering plan was proceeding methodically step by step.
And time slipped away swiftly year after year too.
As if in the blink of an eye,
ten years went by again.
In the year 3178 of the Great Qianlong Chang — early May.
From the moment when Wang Shouzhe crossed over, thirty-three years had passed. He had transformed from a valiant and handsome youth of eighteen into someone over fifty.
Fifty-one years old.
If on Earth, bodily functions would inevitably start to decline, transitioning gradually from middle age to old age.
Yet at this time, Wang Shouzhe’s age seemed frozen in youthful vigour, his bodily functions were highly robust. This was the benefit of cultivating the Black Tortoise; the younger one starts training to the Spirit Platform Realm, the longer one retains youth.
In his current state, even if not advancing to the Celestial Human Realm, he wouldn’t begin entering middle age until reaching over a hundred, and only start aging and approaching death in the final decades of his life.
