Big Data Cultivation

Feng Jun was in no hurry to notify Hesheng simply because he didn’t want the other party to know his loading and unloading speed. Who would have thought that the Insect Race would launch a surprise attack in the middle of the night?

Fortunately, he was planning to notify He Runxian in four hours, so he hadn’t left. When he discovered the Insect Race’s attack, he immediately called He Runxian on the radio, "The Spirit Stones have been delivered, and the Insect Race is about to launch an attack."

He Runxian hadn’t gone to rest, as he was also waiting for news of the Spirit Stones, and thus received the message immediately.

However, before he had time to feel happy, he heard the latter part and froze, "Insect Race attack? When?"

As soon as he asked, the base alarms blared, signaling the Insect Race’s attack alert.

Soon after, the comprehensive dispatch center sent a warning and request for instructions, "Director He, the insects are about to attack, should the dome defense field of the third storage yard be activated?"

The defense of the yard domes mainly relies on the energy field provided by the Spirit Stones. The physical defense capability itself is not strong.

Although the material for the dome is very tough, as a large-span component, it lacks support by itself. Moreover, since the dome emphasizes being lightweight, it naturally isn’t considered sturdy.

"Activate it, quickly activate it!" He Runxian immediately shouted, "Also notify the transport team to hurry into the site!"

The order was issued, but for the convenience of the broker’s operation earlier, the dome’s energy field had been completely turned off, and cameras, sensors, and other equipment were physically removed. For a while, everyone was as busy as ants.

Yet everyone knew that shutting down the energy field was easy; restarting it required a process, especially since intensifying the energy field’s strength couldn’t be achieved in one step. Even the military warship’s defense followed this rule, let alone civilian buildings.

In the midst of everyone’s frantic efforts, the Insect Race’s attack began.

Because Hesheng wanted to conceal, three storage yards had raised their domes, two of which were piled with materials and held normal defense strength. As a result, these two yards easily withstood the first round of bombardment, but the third yard was in a precarious situation.

The Insect Race’s attack was launched from a distance because they had tested the base’s firepower these past few days and knew getting too close would incur great losses. Currently in their attacks targeting Xingzheng Star, the Insect Race generally used long-range assaults.

Because of this, the Human Race judged that they were dragging Xingzheng Star with the intent to consume humans’ war potential.

Thus, the subsequent attacks were endured by the two yards forcefully, but several areas of the third yard were penetrated.

Seeing that the third yard was going to be in trouble, He Runxian ordered the energy field of the third yard to be increased heavily while reducing the energy defense strength of the other two yards.

Energy fields are something, improving them is slow, but reducing them is fast. Shortly, the other two yards were also pierced with several large holes.

Originally, the Insect Race found the third yard broken and faintly sensed the aura of Spirit Stones, just about to concentrate fire here when they suddenly found that the other two yards were also breached, leading to some hesitation.

The three yards continued to be attacked, and the Insect Race’s firepower was somewhat scattered. Although they sensed energy-related things in the third yard, the other two weren’t empty either; they had quite a bit of material inside, meaning they were worth attacking too.

Actually, those two yards contained raw materials that wouldn’t hinder reprocessing even if broken—of course, materials corroded or polluted by the Insect Race were practically irretrievable.

But Hesheng as a whole deemed this trade worthwhile. Exchanging some raw materials for protecting a resource like Spirit Stones was simply too good to be true, wasn’t it?

Nonetheless, some Insect Races ultimately focused on the third yard. Although it grew harder to attack and the other two yards easier, destroying Spirit Stones was the most effective way to deplete the Human Race’s resources.

Everyone noticed this shift in focus, not only He Runxian, even ordinary security personnel noticed. Some even expressed confusion, "Why is the fire becoming denser at the third yard?"

He Runxian was so anxious he jumped up, although many wearing civilian mechas were constantly transporting Spirit Stones, but the quantity of five million tons was just too much to move quickly, and those without security measures were unsuitable to join.

At this moment, the rain suddenly intensified, severely affecting the Insect Race’s attack. Many even turned to attack the rain clouds, trying to disperse them.

Honestly,the Insect Race indeed had such abilities, but unfortunately, the rain was not naturally formed. Although their attack had some effect, it wasn’t enough to disperse the clouds significantly.

Feng Jun couldn’t help but mutter, "The Spirit Stone consumption is a bit high; in the future, we should urge Formation Path’s Geng True Immortal to ponder using Spirit Stones to drive the Rain Prayer Array this way to make it more cost-effective... Wait a minute, isn’t there something off?"

After thinking for a moment, he realized, since the Spirit Stone Rain Prayer Array can be used in the Insect World, why not on Tianqin?

When he realized this, he subconsciously felt a bit of chill in his heart: it seems that those fishing elders desperately plundering energy stones isn’t just because the Insect World needs them, but Tianqin needs them too.

The truth he could understand, there’s no reason others wouldn’t. He’s only lived for a few decades, but others have lived for thousands.

Ultimately, he’s been collecting energy stones massively to use this energy on the Earth Plane. There is dissipation of energy stones on Earth too, though smaller compared to Tianqin; however... Earth can withstand this dissipation, why can’t Tianqin?

In the end, energy is something that can’t be too much, non-lasting energy... isn’t it enough to use it now?

As he thought about these issues in his mind, it didn’t obstruct his next move. In the next moment, he flashed directly behind a Blade Mantis mother.

There were many insects besieging the base, but none at the Nascent Soul Stage. About twenty were at the Golden Core Stage, with one extremely rare mother ensuring the insect race didn’t suffer heavy losses—since the insect race changed strategy, mothers have noticeably increased.

The twenty Golden Core insects were scattered, which also meant to prevent the human race from concentrating their attacks.

The insect mother’s intuition was actually pretty good; it distinctly felt a hint of something amiss, but while it was busy analyzing from where the threat came, Feng Jun had already teleported behind it, shook his hand to cast a lasso and bind it.

This lasso is somewhat similar to Yu Meiren’s Immortal Binding Rope, intended to restrain the opponent, and is a Golden Core magical treasure, except Golden Core Masters are quite adept at countering such restraint methods, making its reputation seem less grand, but effectively it’s not bad.

However, Feng Jun didn’t expect to restrain it for long with this object; he only needed the instantaneous binding effect, then directly vanished with the insect mother.

He brought the Blade Mantis mother to the Insect Passage Entrance where a group of cultivators were busy. Sensing familiar spatial fluctuations appearing, everyone discerned briefly and relaxed their vigilance: it was indeed Mountain Master Feng appearing here.

Yet when the insect mother appeared, the gigantic figure instantly shocked everyone, "Oh... Insect Race?"

Most of the Insect Race are larger the higher their cultivation, the Blade Mantis being a mother isn’t very strong in combat strength, but its cultivation level is apparent, after all, it’s a huge creature about ten zhang high.

Feng Jun flickered his body, retreating directly over ten miles away, "The human race battle is intense; I caught a Blade Mantis mother as a gift for everyone. Quickly help me resolve it, so I can go catch another."

Here generally a group of Golden Core Masters are busy; there are Nascent Soul True Immortals, but the nearest ones are seven or eighty miles away. Discovering anomalies here and sensing it’s Golden Core aura, they didn’t rush over quickly, merely divided their divine sense to watch.

These Golden Core people mostly aren’t skilled in fighting; otherwise, why would they be assigned to handle these administrative tasks?

Seeing a living insect didn’t instinctively rush forward; this shows their lack of combat talent.

Yet Golden Core Masters weren’t afraid; the first response was, "Hey, is this the insect mother? Famous indeed."

"Rare to encounter such an Insect Race, wondering if Mountain Master Feng allows us to practice on it."

The Golden Core responsible for these affairs are very mindful of interaction standards; without Feng Jun’s earlier words, most wouldn’t have acted.

Yet once he spoke, everyone became unreserved, and the Blade Mantis mother still struggling against the Immortal Binding Rope was instantly overwhelmed by various attacks.

"Oh, who used the Yin Yang Grinding Disc?" Someone couldn’t help but complain, "I wanted to catch it alive!"

"The Yuangang Gate’s Qi Sword Technique appeared, and you still thought to capture it alive?" The one who used the Yin Yang Grinding Disc was disgruntled, they were late but now had a reason, "It’s already completely dead, testing the Yin Yang Grinding Disc’s effect on the Insect Race, isn’t that okay?"

The one using the Qi Sword Technique disagreed, "Killing the Insect Race is correct, but the corpse... is evidently keepable!"

Amid the debates, a Nascent Soul True Immortal blinked over, "Mountain Master Feng, is the Nascent Soul combat strength over there insufficient?"

"Not really," Feng Jun didn’t want to send them the wrong signal, "Combat strength is certainly lacking, but sufficient for local battlefields. Mainly, I face many insect Golden Cores alone, so sending some for you guys to practice."

"Then bring more," the Golden Core Master from Yuangang Gate using the Qi Sword Technique said, "Mountain Master Feng, which tricky ones, directly transport them over; we’re so many Golden Cores, fearing their number?"

Feng Jun felt a bit disheartened hearing this: seems my transportation attribute unlocked new uses?

That Nascent Soul person voiced a question, "Mountain Master Feng, can you send over some Insect Race Nascent Souls?"