Fantasy World: I Can Travel To Cultivation World-Chapter 217: City Fallen
"The Hartmann family?"
Sun Mang was a little confused. He had never heard of the Hartmann family from Guang’an Prefecture in his life.
"You’re lying to me."
"I didn’t, I didn’t lie to you! Really, the Hartmann family is a newly rising big family in Guang’an Prefecture. Oh, and they also gave birth to a young genius named Luis Hartmann!"
Once the middle-aged monk’s psychological defenses crumbled, he blurted out everything.
"Is this the person?"
Sun Fu, standing at the side, produced a bronze round mirror. In its reflection appeared a young monk in a white Taoist robe.
"Yes, that’s him," the middle-aged monk confirmed through his pain, "Brother, it’s him."
When Sun Mang learned that the Hartmann family was actually the family of Luis—the one who had tricked him last time—old and new hatreds surged through him. Unable to control his fury, he exploded, "It was that little bastard from last time!"
With that, he swung his palm at the middle-aged monk. Before the monk could even beg for mercy, he was beaten into a bloody, mangled mess. Extending his scarlet tongue and licking the blood from his palm, Sun Mang said slowly, "Brother, what should we do now?"
Sun Fu’s dark golden eyes narrowed as he replied grimly, "Zhou Mubai has surrounded us now, but he left a gap specifically so that we could fight the Ye family. In that case, I will fulfill his wish."
"Brother, this—" Sun Fu then produced an amber jade bottle containing half a bottle of golden blood and murmured, "We don’t have much blood left."
At this, Sun Mang fell silent. After a long pause, he raised his head and said firmly, "Brother, I will do whatever you say!"
"Good, brother!" Sun Fu patted Sun Mang on the shoulder.
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Thanks to the efforts of many researchers and Luis, the Hartmann Island Industrial Zone now has a new look.
The most significant change is the spiritual line network that covers the two large factories. If you look closely, you’ll see that the other end of the spiritual line network extends all the way to the spiritual lake of Hartmann Island’s spiritual vein.
Inside Spirit Lake, an ultra-large spiritual pressure device is operating slowly, supplying spiritual energy to various industrial equipment throughout the entire Hartmann Island Industrial Zone.
Standing in the air, Luis looked down at the spiritual network beneath his feet, his heart filled with excitement.
Thanks to his efforts and those of the Hartmann family, Hartmann Island was gradually transforming—the industrial bloom of the world of immortal cultivation was beginning to flourish on this small island.
Energy is the foundation of industry, and the energy source Luis chose for this world’s industry was the seemingly inexhaustible spiritual energy.
Once the energy and power issues were solved, the next step was to innovate technology, continuously improve productivity, and expand production capacity. This included inventing machines for the industrial production of high-level magical instruments and high-level elixirs.
This task required the Institute of Dharma Instruments to innovate and create new devices based on existing ones.
Unlike low-level magical weapons and elixirs, high-level magical tools and elixirs are much more difficult to refine, and it is no longer as simple as relying on a semi-manual, semi-mechanized industrial approach.
Luis was well aware of this. After all, he had already planted the seeds of industry. He had even integrated his previous life’s industrial ideas with his current knowledge of refining equipment into a book specifically designed to teach Hartmann researchers.
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He also ordered Blogs to set up the Magical Instrument Research Institute.
"Boss, this is magnificent!" someone exclaimed.
"Yes!" Luis replied with a smile and a nod, and he was about to say something more when he suddenly raised his head and looked toward Redwood Island.
"What’s wrong?" Blogs asked, his tone doubtful.
"Nothing. I’m just going out for a while. You guys continue with your work," Luis replied.
"Good," came the response.
After saying his goodbyes, Luis flew directly out of Hartmann Island. As activity in the island’s industrial zone grew louder, Luis took measures to protect its secrets.
The entire Hartmann Island had long been shrouded in a third-order mountain protection formation and a third-order maze. From the outside, everything on the island was obscured by a vast expanse of white fog—so much so that without entering, one couldn’t tell what was real or fake.Once he emerged from the formation, Luis saw Lei Zhen standing before him, clad in spiritual armor and cupping his hands. Frowning, Luis asked, "General Lei, what happened?"
"Boss," Lei Zhen bowed before continuing, "The Guang’an Prefecture Allied Forces Headquarters sent a message, asking you to attend a War meeting."
"A war meeting?" Luis frowned.
"Is there any new change on the front line of the East Defense Zone?" he wondered.
He recalled that the last time he was invited to a combat meeting, Zhou Mubai had faced difficulties on the front line.
Elixirs were being consumed at an alarming rate, and logistics couldn’t keep up—forcing Zhou Mubai to call for help from the rear.
But over the past month, the East Defense Zone coalition forces had been successfully suppressing the zombie horde on Lotus Island, so there was no longer a need for additional support.
Moreover, the Hartmann family’s medicine production capacity had been steadily rising, and the supply of medicine on the front line had even reached saturation.
The family had even diverted part of its production to produce Qi Gathering Pills, a first-level elixir that assists in cultivation.
In recent years, many monks had delayed their own cultivation to support the front line, which led to a huge demand for elixirs to aid cultivation in the rear.
The Hartmann family’s elixirs became extremely popular. In the Guang’an Prefecture medicine market alone, the Hartmann family had completely surpassed the Zhou family, establishing themselves as the number one medicine supplier.
Currently, the family’s elixir production is close to one million pills, covering more than 90% of the first-level elixir market in the three immortal cities. If it weren’t for their limited ability to produce second-level elixirs, they might have completely squeezed out the Zhou family’s market share.
The Zhou family felt helpless about this situation, but they had no better solution. After all, the Hartmann family already had a solid foundation and was no longer a small family.
Even if the Zhou family wanted to strike back, they couldn’t think of an effective way to do so at the moment. Moreover, the policy previously adopted by the Zhou family was to maintain friendly relations with the Hartmann family—if they were to strike now, all of their previous investments might be wasted.
Luis was equally sensible.
After capturing the first-level elixir market, he never ventured into the second-level and above elixir markets.
He knew that in Guang’an Prefecture, it was best not to push the Zhou family too hard. At least, not until he was promoted to Golden Core or until his father upgraded.
It simply wasn’t convenient to press the Zhou family too much.
Besides, the elixir market in the Ten Thousand Star Sea was vast—why should he limit himself to one prefecture? There were also the elixir markets in Cangzhou Fairy City, in neighboring prefectures, in Jingzhou, Taizhou, and so on.
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Why bully only within his own territory?
Luis’s thoughts were racing.
Half a day later, he looked at the Zhou family’s residence before him and quickly deactivated his escape light, then stepped into the main hall of the Guang’an Prefecture Allied Forces Headquarters.
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Inside the main hall, a murmur of surprise arose as Zhou Mubai began his narration.
"What?" someone asked.
After listening to Zhou Mubai’s report, everyone was visibly shocked.
Yang Linyuan frowned and remarked, "Weren’t the zombies on Lotus Island supposed to be suppressed by the East Defense Zone coalition? How can they suddenly be erupting again?"
In response, Zhou Mubai’s deep voice carried across the hall.
"My previous guess was correct. The zombies on Lotus Island actually have the ability to rapidly upgrade from Qi Refining zombies to Foundation Building zombies."
A stunned silence followed until someone finally asked, "The ability to quickly upgrade to a Foundation Building Zombie?"
Everyone exchanged uneasy glances. Luis bowed slightly and addressed Zhou Mubai, "Brother Zhou, are you saying that the zombies on Lotus Island have been battling with Guang’an Prefecture all this time just as a diversion?
That they are deliberately delaying time in order to create Foundation Building-level zombies?"
"Very likely," Zhou Mubai replied after a pause.
"It isn’t necessarily that they are attacking Guang’an Prefecture with full force; rather, Guang’an Prefecture isn’t their main target at all. Their true target has always been Cangzhou Immortal City!
Nearly all the islands from Lianhua Island to Cangzhou Immortal City have fallen within just a few days, and now the corpse tide is rapidly approaching Cangzhou Immortal City."
"Does that mean that all the islands from Lotus Island to Cangzhou Immortal City have already fallen?" asked Zhou Mingyan."You could say that," Zhou Mubai nodded heavily.
"This is happening too fast!"
When Yang Linyuan and Luis heard this, their faces fell into frowns, the gravity of the situation clearly weighing on them.
