75: A triumphant banquet to honor parents, a quiet period of preparation awaits a new chapter.
Zhang Sheng landed at the entrance of the residential area.
Within the perception of his Divine Sense, everyone had already arrived at his home.
When Zhang Sheng opened the door, his father was watching TV on the sofa. The TV was playing an entertainment program that his father usually hated watching the most.
“Sheng’er, how is it? You aren't hurt, are you?” Zhang Yuanfu hurriedly ran over and circled Zhang Sheng to check him over.
Hearing this, his mother also ran from the kitchen to the living room.
“Sheng’er, are you injured? Let Mom have a good look.” His mother's voice was somewhat choked, her eyes were red and swollen with dark bags under them, and tears fell silently from the corners of her eyes.
His mother's hands were rough but warm as they trembled while caressing Zhang Sheng's cheeks.
Pity the hearts of parents everywhere; how could she not worry about her child after seeing the news on TV?
Every minute and every second, she had been worrying, unable to rest for even a moment.
His parents used to be major grain farmers in the countryside. During the times for planting seedlings, pumping water, harvesting, and drying rice, they were at their busiest. Although the income was decent, it was all earned through their sweat.
They looked several years older than their peers in the city.
Even with such hard work, they had never let Zhang Sheng suffer even a tiny bit in terms of material comforts.
Zhang Sheng knew his parents' worries and didn't want them to worry for another second, so he arranged the victory banquet at his own home.
In the living room, Dean Hou Wu, Song Xian, and the others just smiled and watched this scene quietly.
Although Lin Jin and the other two had regained consciousness, their internal organs were too heavily injured, so they were still quietly recuperating in a special ward.
Zhang Sheng spoke up, “It's over. Rodi has been killed by me, not even his bones remain.”
There was another reason why Zhang Sheng hadn't brought back Rodi's corpse.
Rodi's original body was a white man, but the corpse at the time of his death was that of a black man.
If Zhang Sheng explained to everyone that the black man was the result of Rodi's Possession, then a problem would arise.
How would Zhang Sheng explain why he himself hadn't been possessed by Rodi?
Simply put, Zhang Sheng had directly cremated Rodi's body.
On the way back, Zhang Sheng had already thought of how to fabricate the course of the battle.
As for the Demon Insect that could control Cultivators, Zhang Sheng didn't mention it for the time being, planning to discuss the solution with everyone after returning to the university.
Although this Demon Insect was far less of a threat than Rodi, its special means of controlling Cultivators had to be given special attention. Once it gained control of a nuclear weapon button, the consequences would be unimaginable!
“Zhang Sheng, congratulations on your triumphant return! You aren't injured, right?” Hou Wu asked.
“Dean, brothers, everything went smoothly on this trip. Rodi has already been reduced to ashes.”
Rodi's physical body was destroyed, and his Soul was also strangled by the profound spider transformed from Zhang Sheng's Soul; he was as dead as could be.
“Doesn't that mean we can start operations abroad!” Lu Zhuo adjusted his glasses frame and said excitedly.
Zhang Sheng used Divine Sense transmission to tell Hou Wu and several Sequence Members, “Everyone, I made new discoveries after killing Rodi. We will continue to talk in detail after returning to the university.”
“Everyone, just focus on eating and drinking well tonight!” Zhang Sheng's tone was light. Although there were lingering effects, the major illness had been cured.
In order not to trouble his mother, Zhang Sheng had invited the head chef of the Star BBQ restaurant, along with Xingxing, to join the gathering.
Eating various flavors of roasted meat accompanied by alcohol-flavored drinks, the party didn't break up until the middle of the night.
After everyone left, his parents slept very soundly, even smiling in their sleep.
Zhang Sheng, however, quietly left home and headed to First Cultivation University, arriving at the underground hall.
Dean Hou Wu and several Sequence Members were already waiting here.
Zhang Sheng told everyone about the Demon Insect and then set a preliminary plan.
First, find a way to locate the hiding place of this Demon Insect. Second, closely monitor the movements of key figures at home and abroad to strictly prevent people in critical positions from being controlled by the Demon Insect.
Without Rodi's control, no one knew exactly what the Demon Insect would do.
The level of the Demon Insect's intelligence was also unknown.
If the Demon Insect were viewed as an ordinary Yao Beast with the goal of exterminating humanity, and if it possessed extremely high intelligence, it would undoubtedly be a huge disaster for mankind.
However, this was just the worst-case scenario; things weren't necessarily that bad.
If the individual strength of the Demon Insect were truly powerful, Rodi wouldn't have failed to keep it by his side when dealing with him.
Moreover, the Talents awakened by humans were diverse, so they should be able to find a Talent that countered the Demon Insect... Returning to his residence, Zhang Sheng continued to Cultivate the Profound Pearl Thought Knotting Art and Moon Slash.
Several days passed in a row without any news of the Demon Insect, as if it had vanished.
One night, Zhang Sheng looked up at the starry sky.
With the twin moons hanging high, for some reason, every time Zhang Sheng looked up at the sky, that blue moon seemed to have a special magic that attracted him.
Zhang Sheng had asked others, but none of them had this feeling.
Rodi's death was not made public by China.
In this way, the gloom Rodi cast over the Cultivators of all countries would not disappear, and other powerful figures on Earth would not dare to act rashly.
Chinese Cultivators could take this opportunity to go abroad to clear out other Blue-level Secret Realms and obtain more cultivation resources.
For every extra bit of resources China had, they could train more Cultivators, while foreign countries would have less.
As they weakened and we grew, China would be able to stand at the peak indefinitely over time.
Zhang Sheng gave the five nuclear bombs he got from Rodi to Hou Wu, and a Second-order Low Grade Spiritual Artifact long saber to Song Xian.
The promise he made to Song Xian was thus fulfilled.
With the continuous development of new engineering projects, coupled with the participation of those with Earth and Wood-type awakened Talents, the underground structure of First Cultivation University had become increasingly complex.
In the beginning, there was only one elevator and an underground cultivation hall dozens of meters down. Now, with the participation of Cultivators, the area a hundred meters underground had been thoroughly developed and divided into ten floors.
The Nine Extremes Spirit Gathering Array was a trophy obtained after killing the first Yao Beast when the first White-Grade Secret Realm appeared in China; its quality was extremely high.
However, it was now meaningless for cultivation in the Divine Breath Realm.
At this moment, those cultivating on the Spirit Gathering Array had been replaced by new faces. Although their Realm was the Qi Sea Realm, their Talent was extremely high.
There were even two prospects for First Refinement One Hundred Spirits, who clearly had a very deep understanding of the Heavenly Circulation Method Cultivation Technique.
They were the second batch of Sequence Members to be trained by China after a series of adjustments and reforms.
In the new era, the methods for training Talent were constantly being adjusted, and new elites had to be continuously cultivated.
When a Cultivator practices Primordial Chaos Qi Refining to the Perfected State, they can spontaneously Breakthrough from the Qi Sea Realm to the Divine Breath Realm.
Every moment on Earth, a large number of Divine Breath Realm experts were being born, but there were no subsequent Cultivation Techniques.
This created a huge problem—having no method to Cultivate.
Yet resources were very limited. There were only so many Blue-level Secret Realms and only so many Divine Breath Realm Beasts; for every one killed, there was one less.