novelbin Chapter 1482 751: Heavenly Constitution
Chapter 1482 751: Heavenly Constitution
Luo Island is now short of everything.
With the Harmful Wind rampaging, the shadow of the Sea Locust has returned. In just one day, the nearby sea area has already seen massive swarms of Sea Locust gathering, and even more giant beasts are being attracted over.
Their comeback in force is only a matter of time.
With huge swarms of Sea Locust ravaging the area, all external transport has been completely cut off, every shipping lane scrapped, and beneath the sea the water is choked with vast, horrifying shadows.
And the pitch-black clouds formed by the hordes of Disaster Beasts keep sweeping past overhead, pouring down a chilling, incessant buzzing.
The probing attacks have started again.
Only, this time the human island hasn't, like last time, gotten beaten half to death and then spat out a bunch of little iron blocks full of food.
Every so often, a few starving, frenzied Sea Locust will dive down from the sky, swooping at Luo Island.
Then they smash into an invisible barrier.
A barrier like a glass curtain wall flashes into existence and vanishes again, and the purple lightning and Fierce Flames beneath the curtain erupt outward, incinerating every Sea Locust that dares to come close.
Such an over-the-top spectacle has given the residents an unprecedented sense of safety.
Even though everyone who knows the inside story understands this is just a temporary façade, a false peace.
Luo Island, which looks stable on the surface, is already on the brink of doom.
Such a wide-area defensive field and such dazzling Destruction all come at the cost of massive spiritual consumption. Twenty-four-seven, non-stop protection—the consumption behind that would make any city-state howl in pain, and a curtain as exaggerated as what they put up the previous two days would be enough to push a small city-state right to the edge of bankruptcy.
Does Luo Island really have that deep a family fortune?
It's nothing more than eating tomorrow's rations today, burning through the future.
If it weren't for the stockpiled food and medicine being sufficient in advance, Luo Island would probably already have turned into a slice of Hell by now.
People with good intel have already received the latest information through the Desert Market—the fleet dispatched by the Lou Family has been stalled in international waters for nearly two days, unable to move forward.
With the Harmful Wind raging, the hunting range of the giant Disaster Beasts is constantly expanding; one fast ship they sent out as a gamble has already sunk in the seas near Luo Island.
It was bitten to fragments in a single chomp by a Double-tailed Rust Whale that rose from the depths, not even a complete corpse left.
Just a little bit more, just a bit, and Luo Island could've topped up on calcium!
And now, they can only watch helplessly as precious Spiritual Crystals and supplies sink into the sea…
The flashes from the explosion of the Spiritual Crystals flickered on the seafloor for a full seven or eight hours, a heartbreaking sight for anyone watching.
After hovering for a long time, the Lou Family fleet finally chose to turn around and head home.
Wrap the shoot and go pick up their boxed lunches.
The performance was about good enough.
Anyway, the entire fleet only carried that much spiritual stock on the fast ship; the rest of those crystals were all goods ordered by Huan Yu Heavy Industry. Once the show's over they have to rush them back, or the overdue penalty alone would be enough to make Lou Guan choke.
And the thing Ji Jue really wanted had long since been delivered to the Coast, to the Xinquan Factory Area, and handed over to Yu Shu.
—Three crates sealed with the stamp of the Federal Security Bureau.
They were taken straight out of the Bureau's warehouse—Heavenly Origin Blessing—by having an old friend from Central City come forward at Lou Suwen's request and having Pang Pei review and sign off.
At the same time, the Hai Zhou Security Bureau also had to vouch for Ji Jue, guaranteeing that these three blessings would not flow into the market or appear in any venue or channel restricted by existing agreements.
You could even say, just these three blessings alone are enough to make Ji Jue willing to follow the Lou Family into another raid and go fight the Xu Family to the death all over again!
You have to understand, right now in the whole world, there are only two places where you can obtain High-level Heavenly Yuan Blessings.
The Federation and the Empire!
More precisely, the Security Bureau and the Security Bureau.
With their sheer scale and advantages, the Heavenly Yuan Dual Polarity have jointly and completely monopolized and locked down all avenues to obtain High Rank blessings from the Heavenly Origin System.
After all, if you want the favor of Tian Yuan, the simplest and most effective method is to rely on organizational density and sheer size.
Rogue, off-the-grid Tian Yuan users don't have a way to live; they're even worse off than Ember.
With Ember you can rely on your own unreasonable talent to brute-force your way through most problems, but Tian Yuan doesn't work like that. If Tian Yuan says no, then it really is no.
And when Tian Yuan says "in principle, yes," that actually means still no!
Just like Ember needs certifications to advance, if you want to make progress with Tian Yuan, you also have to pass the civil service exam!
Otherwise, how are you supposed to climb step by step above the masses and seize control of the overall situation?
How many people can there really be who build an entirely new order from scratch?
Someone like Ji Jue, who can rely on Mechanical Descent and Sky Rail's All-Domain Circulation Control to forcibly wrench a Governance Axis out of Spring City, is one of the few among the few.
Even if you let him do it all over again, he probably wouldn't have much confidence that he could achieve the same result.
But within the Security Bureau, so long as you can, in critical events and key positions, play the role and bear the responsibility of Integration—coordinating the whole situation and linking every side—then you again have a chance to succeed.
Aside from that, there are also many posts set up specifically for obtaining blessings. These special "assignments" and temporary positions can even be handed out as rewards and commendations.
If you want to get them, then you have to bash your head against others: scramble, overcompete, and fight.
No wonder that back in Central Earth, Jin Wuyan would be so jealous of Tong Shan—after stewing in that Mud Pond for so many years, he was always just that one step short. But with Ji Jue giving him a hand, Brother Plant easily snagged the opportunity to obtain a key blessing.