Peace in the fairyland (20): Confusion

The two elders looked at the cold expressions of Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, and immediately understood. They hurriedly comforted the two young people and asked them to go back and rest first. As for the subsequent matters, the elders would handle them.

The Cheng and Feng families were really too small of an obstacle for the Qingyang Sect. As soon as the outer sect Headmaster casually revealed a bit of information, there were people rushing to help deal with the Cheng and Feng families.

The actions of the Cheng and Feng families were also openly revealed, and countless people were astonished after hearing about it. While other families go to great lengths to cultivate cultivators, they actually didn’t cherish their own genius and were heartlessly trying to destroy him?

The most affected were the Cheng family. They were already frustrated because they couldn’t please Cheng Huaiqian, and upon hearing about the actions of Cheng Longhai’s family, they were both shocked and angry, strongly demanding that the clan leader expel everyone from Cheng Longhai’s family except for Cheng Huaiqian!

So, the physically weak Cheng Longhai and his family spent money to hire someone to escort them back home from a thousand miles away. However, what awaited them was not the care and concern of their relatives, but being kicked out of their home.

The Feng family’s circumstances were still far inferior to the Cheng family’s, and they were not favored by the authorities of the city they were in, making their situation even more difficult.

However, none of this concerned Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaizhan anymore; the two were already preparing for their second Behind World.

This time’s journey to the Behind World was not a new discovery, but a world that had existed for months. Dozens of cultivators had already entered it, and the collected information had been inscribed on jade slips for future reference.

Especially noteworthy was that this was a world rated as Class C in danger, yet several cultivators had already fallen here, including two who were at the Foundation Refining stage.

In theory, the danger level of such a world should at least be rated as B, but this world had a special feature: to escape the world, one did not need to return to the initial place of appearance. By simply casting the “Thunder Summoning Technique” one could summon a hole at any time and anywhere to return to the cultivation world.

Since this discovery, the situation in the Behind World remained precarious, but the mortality rate had significantly decreased. As long as the Thunder Summoning Technique was cast in a timely manner, it could provide maximum protection.

“This Behind World has another special feature: each person can only enter once, and then they will be repelled by the hole and unable to enter again. There is no spiritual energy in the Behind World, so use your spiritual power cautiously.

Remember, there are humans in this world, and the humans on the other side possess some highly destructive weapons. So, be very careful. If you notice anything unusual, use the Thunder Summoning Technique immediately. Safety is the priority!”

Song Fengyu, with a serious expression, spoke to the five young people ahead.

Afterwards, he handed over the jade slip containing the senior’s experiences for the disciple to review.

After Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian finished viewing the contents recorded on the jade tablet, the more they thought about it, the stranger it seemed. No matter how they looked at it, those contents seemed like a description of a technological world.

During the process of completing a mission in the cultivation world, getting mixed up with a sci-fi world? It really gave a strange sense of time-space disorientation.

This guess was confirmed after arriving at the area where the Behind World was located. Outside the magic circle sealing the hole, there was a pocket pavilion of a cultivator, which provided clothes in the style of the Behind World. The five young people were asked to change into the fitting clothes before passing through the hole.

After changing into clean and neat combat uniforms, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaichan were even more certain that the world they were heading to was one completely different from the cultivation style, a world of technology.

Passing through the hole and then opening their eyes, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian found themselves directly in a closed room. The room was filled with rows of seats, and the people inside were all strapped to their seats with seatbelts.

With a sweep of their divine sense, they discovered that this was actually a spaceship in flight. Even worse, at that moment, alarms were blaring in the cabin, warning lights were flashing, and a mechanical voice was loudly announcing:

“Alert! Alert! The spaceship has sustained a fatal attack and will disintegrate in eight minutes. Please evacuate the ship immediately! Repeat! Evacuate the ship immediately!”

The cabin was suddenly filled with countless curses. The soldiers strapped to their seats by seatbelts struggled to free themselves, but the cross-locked seatbelts binding their bodies were forcibly secured and couldn’t be undone on their own, causing the entire cabin to be in chaos.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian moved their fingers, using a sword technique at their fingertips to cut through the seatbelt that was restraining them and escape.

The two who had gained their freedom moved towards the ship’s cabin door, closely following a few indigenous warriors who had escaped on their own.

Xia Ruize’s footsteps suddenly halted. His spiritual sense detected Murong Ruide and the other two still sitting in place, looking around. Xia Ruize quickly turned and approached them, asking in confusion, “Why aren’t you trying to break free and escape?”

Murong Ruide replied with a puzzled expression, “Huh? Why are we running away? What are they all talking about?”

Xia Ruize suddenly realized that after Murong Ruide and the other two entered this world, there was a language barrier issue!

And all along, with the support of the Lord God behind them, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huai had never had any issues with potential language communication, yet they surprisingly overlooked this point.

The situation was urgent, and Xia Ruize couldn’t explain either. He just threw out a sentence: “Everyone is escaping, you should escape too, follow us!” After saying that, he ran towards the cabin exit.

Murong Ruide and the other two looked around the chaotic ship cabin. Although they still didn’t understand the situation, they decided to follow Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian. The two junior disciples should be more reliable than the other strangers, right?

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaqian scanned the entire ship while quickly running towards the back of the ship, following a few elite warriors who had escaped on their own.

“There are escape pods on the wings of the spaceship, and there are fighter jets in the rear hangar. There’s a battle going on outside. Using the escape pods is risky. I suggest we leave the spaceship in the fighter jets before it disintegrates!”

The brown-haired warrior running at the front loudly reminded the few people behind him, and the reason for his kind reminder was, “The only problem is that the fighter jets are locked in the warehouse. Who among you has the authority or means to open the warehouse door?”

After running quickly for a minute, the group stopped in front of a tall and heavy door. Clearly, this was the warehouse storing the fighter jets.

There was a keypad for entering a password next to the warehouse, but they were all combat warriors, not logistics personnel. They exchanged glances, and no one knew the password.

“Damn it, the weakling clerk in the cockpit must have been stunned by the previous attack, so no one is unbuckling our seatbelts or opening the cargo hold! What do we do… what do we do…”

The brown-haired warrior was very anxious, pacing back and forth in front of the keypad, not knowing what to do. He also dared not randomly input the password, fearing it would lock the warehouse.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian exchanged glances, and Xia Ruize suddenly stepped forward, pulled out a computer, and connected it to the keyboard at the warehouse entrance. After Gao Hexuan, who was proficient in computer networks, left the team, Xia Ruize had purchased related skills in case they were needed.

He used to think that in this cultivation world it would be of no use anymore, but who would have thought that they would end up in this situation? Truly, the world was full of surprises.

Fortunately, the password for this warehouse was for insiders, so it wasn’t too difficult. Xia Ruize spent three minutes and finally cracked it.

The warehouse doors opened, revealing neatly arranged fighter jets inside. A quick glance showed there were only fifty jets, clearly fewer than the number of soldiers on the spaceship.

The soldiers who had previously gathered at the warehouse entrance quickly rushed to the fighter jet. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaichan closely followed the brown-haired soldier, rushing to the fighter jet at the far side of the warehouse. They mimicked the soldier’s actions to unlock the fighter jet’s securing latches and then opened the cockpit door.

In order to handle this fighter jet they had never operated before, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaichan were truly fixated on the actions of the brown-haired soldier, not daring to miss a single detail.

Fortunately, the fighter jet was successfully activated by them. Sensing that the fighter jet had been activated, the rear wall of the spaceship automatically opened, and the rushing wind poured into the cabin, which also meant that the fighter jet inside the cabin could depart.

The brown-haired warrior’s fighter jet was the outermost, and it immediately forced its way out of the spaceship’s cabin.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaichan discovered an operation manual under the driver’s seat. Not rushing to take off, they spent two minutes flipping through the entire thick manual before following the others’ actions to control the fighter jet and rush out of the cabin.

At this moment, the alarms inside the spaceship were blaring continuously, thick black smoke was billowing from above the cockpit at the front of the ship, and the entire spaceship was no longer flying smoothly but was shaking violently.

Poor Murong Ruide, Ouyang Siyu, and Luo Changze rushed to the warehouse with Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaichan without even understanding the situation in this world. They had no idea what the fighter jets were for, and they clumsily imitated others’ actions to sit in the cockpit, not knowing what to do next.

Watching as the surrounding fighter jets rushed out of the cabin one after another, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaichan quickly disappeared as well. Behind them, soldiers who had just escaped from their seats rushed to the warehouse to find fighter jets. Unable to find any, they aimed at the three who had not yet taken off: Murong Ruide and the others.

The three people, completely bewildered, had no choice but to grit their teeth and randomly mimic the actions of others to get the war machine running. In reality, their fingertips were already pinching the talisman of the Thunder Summoning Technique, ready to activate it and leave this forsaken place at the slightest sign of trouble.

At this moment, as Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian rushed out of the cabin, they finally got a clear view of their surroundings. The sky was filled with various large and small spaceships and fighter jets, clearly belonging to two opposing factions, engaged in fierce combat.

The red-painted allied ships were completely surrounded by the white-painted enemy ships. A casual glance revealed that the number of white warplanes far exceeded that of the red ones, with shells whistling past everywhere.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were fully focused on adapting to the feeling of driving for less than a minute when they saw a huge flame erupting behind them. It was the spaceship they had boarded upon entering the world, which had exploded and disintegrated in mid-air…

Xia Ruize quickly withdrew his gaze because at that moment, the fighter jet he was piloting emitted a piercing alarm, alerting him that he had already been targeted by the enemy ship’s powerful weaponry.

Due to insufficient operational skills, Xia Ruize simply used telekinesis to forcibly move the fighter jet sideways in the air, finally evading the enemy’s targeting lock.

Under immense pressure, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaichan’s operational proficiency rapidly improved, and the fighter jets they piloted performed stunning maneuvers.

After several rounds of back-and-forth on the battlefield, they realized that the situation was very unfavorable for their side. If they couldn’t break through the enemy’s encirclement, being completely annihilated was just a matter of time.

“Since that’s the case, it’s only polite to reciprocate.” Cheng Huaiqian said with a cheerful laugh. Avoiding things had never been his style; in his view, offense was the best defense.

After checking the fighter jet’s ammunition inventory, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian quickly reached an agreement through their heart network and then piloted the fighter jet towards the enemy’s spaceship.

The two people’s mental power enveloped the area around the fighter jet, controlling it to weave through the battlefield with incredible speed and agility, dodging a series of attack locks. They ultimately succeeded in unleashing the fighter jet’s payload of missiles on the cockpits of several enemy ships and successfully returned to their own ship’s area after the attack.

A series of maneuvers took less than two minutes, and before either side could react, the enemy flagship’s cockpit was breached by four consecutive cannon shots hitting the same spot, shattering the cockpit.

This siege battle ended with the destruction of the enemy flagship. The white ships and fighters, eager to protect the flagship, had no energy left to maintain the encirclement and could not pursue the fleeing red ships and fighters.

The previously stalemated and entangled battlefield quickly became clear; the white side stayed in place, while the red side decisively flew far away.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were naturally piloting their fighter jets, following a group of their own ships as they flew towards the distance.

After the chaos ended, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaichan finally had the energy to check on the situation of the other three. They released sound transmission paper cranes, but only Murong Ruide’s paper crane responded; the ones sent to the other two had no response at all.