Cultivation towards immortality, starting from being a fisherman

Chapter 81: Chapter 81: Body Refining Level 6, Alarm

To outsiders, Gad City in Nepal appeared as usual.

The disappearance of the Coyote Gang was just a fleeting ripple on the surface of the water.

However, internally, within the upper echelons of Gad City’s governmental scene,

It had already caused a major earthquake!

The officials who received the black business cards did not voluntarily expose that they had been warned.

Yet, through their extraordinary governmental instincts, they sensed changes in their colleagues and thus guessed certain facts.

In the port area of Gad City, early in the morning, the key assistant, the man with sunglasses, and those officials waiting to make a quick buck were quite surprised to receive a cancellation notice from their boss.

When the detailed news came through that the Coyote Gang had disappeared overnight, the man with sunglasses suddenly realized and secretly speculated that those people must have a significant background, so much so that even their boss had been warned from above!

And when the man with sunglasses, through his own connections, saw the hostages’ accounts provided by the onsite security personnel,

He widened his eyes, his first reaction was that it was impossible!

But after seeing so many testimonies that varied slightly due to psychological states, yet with almost no difference in key details,

And those unnaturally clean scenes captured on video and photographs,

Next, as a native of Gad City,

The man with sunglasses, driven by his deep-seated beliefs, couldn’t help but lean towards believing the hostages’ accounts—that there were Ghostly Gods secretly helping the Eastern people!

Ghostly Gods had driven rats to attack the desperadoes of the Coyote Gang and taken away all impurities!

This fitted well with the local legend of Ghostly Gods.

In their primitive religions hidden in dense forests, there are numerous Ghostly Gods known to control rats, cockroaches, various venomous insects, and snakes.

Some villages had even been influenced by sects such as Black Mama from far north, venerating statues depicting dogs, cats, and rats.

As more and more accounts were provided by the hostages, the local security personnel could hardly keep the secret.

In less than a morning, at least a third of the people in Gad City were aware of this bizarre incident and quickly, in an excited discussion, reached a consensus: these Eastern people are not to be trifiled with!

They are protected by Ghostly Gods!

Consequently, after President Huang and his companions reluctantly left, wanting to practice a bit longer, but were ruthlessly kicked out by the Rat Taoist,

They quickly noticed the change in the locals’ attitude towards them.

It seemed there was less envy and resentment, and more awe and ingratiation?

Initially confused, President Huang and others collected some information and slowly came to understand.

The six of them unanimously decided to take up the blame on behalf of the Rat Taoist.

Publicly, they would absolutely deny any claims of Ghostly Gods; the rescue of the hostages had nothing to do with them—it was the act of good people who could not stand bad deeds!

Any talk of Ghostly Gods driving rats was sheer nonsense!

Privately, however, they would behave as mysteriously as possible.

They resolved to play the enigma, letting those officials and businessmen guess and speculate!

With their strategy decided, President Huang and his companions felt greatly relieved.

And then they started discussing how to fulfill another important task assigned by the Rat Taoist!

Buying arms!

And preferably, it would be powerful individual heavy weaponry!

The rationale was loud and clear—the Rat Taoist was already near his end, no longer ashamed to arm himself with modern weapons—it only made sense!

And in the Rat Taoist’s view, such weapons could only achieve their true potential in transcendental hands, accomplishing feats beyond ordinary people!

For instance, the automatic rifle the Rat Taoist casually acquired allowed him to easily achieve a hundred hits out of a hundred shots.

“Just buying a small amount of light and heavy weapons is actually not difficult. There are plenty of illegal arms dealers around Nepal, they even dare to sell tanks and artillery, selling us these is not hard,”

“Even buying those heavy machine guns and cannons meant to be mounted on vehicles is not hard if you’re willing to pay more, but the trade location cannot be here. Perhaps we need to ask the Taoist Master to pick up the delivery.”

“Getting weapons is easy, getting ammunition is the challenge.”

“Fortunately, this time the Taoist does not require us to purchase explosives, just to customize various detonators and other components. Otherwise, we might have been treated as a terrorist organization by the officials in Nepal.”

With frightened by this incident, buying some guns and artillery for the security of their own factories was understandable to everyone; even if you pay enough, you could be allowed to set up machine guns on your own rooftop.

After all, this amount of weapons and the base quantity of ammunition would not stop the regular army’s tanks and helicopters.

However, if you were to stock up a few tons of explosives… then it would be suspicious what exactly you were planning!

Pot Cave Heaven.

After sending away President Huang and his group, Su Ping began tallying the gains from this trip.

It was only in a place like Gad City in Nepal that he dared to act like this.

There was no Heavenly Eye, no intelligent big data, not even a qualified investigator.

Moreover, where various powers entangle, if anyone took interest, they would find it exceedingly difficult to gather any useful information.

The investigation budget, probably, would not even suffice for the intermediaries to split among themselves.

In the hostages’ testimonies, they could only describe how suddenly chaos erupted outside, then came the sounds of gunfire, screams, and various things breaking and falling.

At most, coupled with a few curses that mentioned rats, a lot of rats, etc.

The hostages could not discern any more valuable clues.

Without surveillance, without a crime scene, just relying on the hostages’ accounts to reconstruct the scene was quite a challenge for the local personnel.

Ultimately, the incident would most likely end up quietly lying alongside its peers in a pile waiting to be shredded on the day the files reached the upper echelons’ safety vault.

Of course, intelligence personnel from various major powers would also notice this incident and report it as yet another strange tale.

And then… and then there would be no ‘then’.

If you say a few decades ago when there was momentum and money to be made, intelligence personnel might have shown some interest.

Now? These types of cases can no longer swindle funding!

Without any benefit, intelligence personnel would slack off just the same.

In some sense, the rate of slacking off in this field is much higher than in other areas!

If anything, I could really draw attention and be discovered.

The scapegoat would be the villainous Rat Taoist from Bone Burying Ground, a place that screams low prestige at first glance.

What does this have to do with Su Ping and Yunlai Sword Immortal!

Su Ping first checked the weapons and ammunition inventory.

It must be said, the young people nowadays are fierce.

This group of desperadoes had over seventy firearms, with thousands of bullets.

There were even over ten homemade grenades and five packs of explosives.

Regrettably, these items were of no use during the unexpected rat attack, and the owners fell before they could react.

This is the awkward situation ordinary people face when confronted by rodents familiar with the devastating firepower of modern weapons.

In front of the Transcendent, the shortcomings of ordinary people are too evident.

Aside from weapons, there were also several boxes of cash, containing mostly Huaqi Blades and money from the Eastern Ancient Country.

These are recognized as general currency in Nepal and its surrounding areas as well.

However, to Su Ping, these were less useful than gold, so he planned to keep the Eastern Ancient Country’s currency for petty cash and give the rest to his registered disciples later.

Finally, Su Ping’s gaze fell on the box he had obtained.

After bathing and changing clothes, he washed his hands in hot water that had been infused with Flowing Patterned Fake Dragon Fish.

Only then did Su Ping open this unexpected prize.

“Hmm!”

“This is…”

Su Ping opened the box and saw a large number of metal parts inside.

His mind quickly recalled the various new infantry weapons he had studied online recently.

He soon found the memory of this weapon model.

Click, clack!

After tens of seconds of assembly,

Su Ping held a new model of heavy sniper rifle in his hands, similar in design to the Barrett Anti-Materiel Rifle, but even larger.

This sniper rifle was probably second-hand equipment swapped out from the battlefield, but it was well maintained with no visible damage.

As a new model, meant to be used with individual soldier auxiliary units, this sniper rifle weighed up to 30 kilograms—more than twice the old model!

However, with the increase in weight, its power, bullet speed, and ammunition capacity greatly surpassed the old model.

And the issue of weight, seen as a flaw by others…

Su Ping easily lifted the sniper rifle with one hand as if the thirty kilograms were non-existent.

“It’s a pity there’s only one, otherwise holding a heavy sniper in each hand and another rocket launcher on my back would be the true romance of Body Cultivation!”

Su Ping checked the ammunition and found only fifty regular bullets and twelve armor-piercing bullets.

As for armor-piercing incendiary bullets, he found none.

“It seems the Coyote Gang’s boss might really have secrets?”

“Otherwise, he wouldn’t have access to, let alone the chance to resell, such infantry weapons that have been equipped only in the last decade!”

“While others might care about this, why should I?”

Su Ping tried firing a few rounds from the sniper rifle.

After three shots, he got the feel of it and easily hit a target a kilometer away.

However, considering the extraordinary Five Senses of the cultivators in the Immortal Cultivation World,

it would be best to shoot from within a hundred meters to leave no time for the enemy to react.

Maximizing the effectiveness of a modern firepower ambush!

Now confident in the weapon in his hands,

Su Ping brought out a generator and began Body Refinement with electricity!

“Hisss!”

“Using electricity for Body Refinement really works; it doesn’t feel inferior to bathing in a Body Tempering Medicine Bag in an environment rich with Spiritual Energy.”

“Next time I use a Medicine Bag while using electricity for Body Refinement, could I achieve double the cultivation speed?”

“Plus, eating Dragon Blood Grass Fish, I feel like my path in Body Cultivation might progress faster and establish a foundation sooner!”

Three days later!

Frost Moon Villa.

Su Ping returned from Pot Cave Heaven, after feasting on fish made from those five grass fish.

He effortlessly advanced to the Sixth Layer of Body Refining!

The Sixth Layer of Body Refining, that’s one-fifth of the Ten Directions Annihilation Body!

Coupled with the North Dipper Greedy Wolf Fist Technique!

Now Su Ping, feeling quite good about himself, was confident enough to fight and beat those adult demon beasts with his fists!

Of course, if he really encountered them, Su Ping would still opt for a long-range resolution!

“Demon beasts attacked Golden Wind City?”

A day later, Su Ping received an alert from Golden Wind City.

Five adult demon beasts had raided this neighbor of Golden Sparrow City, breached the city walls, rampaged for over two hours, and then fled.

There, it was suspected that these demon beasts were systematically slaughtering mortals and might be heading toward Golden Sparrow City!

Golden Sparrow City consequently rang its alarm bell.