Chapter 352: Saint Level Yuanchen, Beast Tide Guarding the Border

Li Xiang now had more than a hundred holy-level items in his hands. He gave the three best ones to Jiang Caier, and there were still many left. So he gave a holy-level spiritual armor and a holy-level spiritual weapon to Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, Lei Xiaohui, Qianye Xuexu and her daughter, Irene, several children, and cousin Shen Wenqian as New Year gifts.

Although Shen Wen Qian and several children have low cultivation levels and cannot temporarily unleash the full power of holy-level items, they are still very useful for saving their lives.

The nine-headed holy-level spiritual pets are also equipped with holy-level spiritual armor.

This kind of spiritual armor can change its shape according to one's will, and can be worn by anyone, whether human or beastman.

It’s just that the spirit pets cannot transform into human form and still have the bodies of animals. They cannot use weapons, and they all have their own unique skills, so that’s all.

As for Lei Jiaming and others, using the Saint level was too wasteful for the time being, but they also changed into extraordinary spiritual armor and spiritual weapons of level twelve or above.

After the mourning session, after a dull day or two, everyone's mood recovered and began to prepare for the Spring Festival. The dead are gone, but the living must continue.

Nowadays, people all over the world learn Chinese and celebrate the Spring Festival. Of course, Western countries still retain traditional festivals such as Christmas and Thanksgiving.

Li Xiang didn't force them to celebrate the Spring Festival. This was purely spontaneous. Because China today, especially Underground City 03, is undoubtedly the beacon of mankind, and it is only natural for them to "love China".

In fact, the "Kazakhstan-China" trend did not start now, but around 2026, or even earlier, when the Chinese trend swept the world. This is actually related to the level of economic development.

For example, the United States was developed in the past, so various American movies and trends were highly sought after. In the 1970s and 1980s, the small-scale economy was good, so many Japanese dramas were also sought after.

Later, the small script was castrated by Da Piaoliang. The economy was in recession, and there was no more capital, so naturally there was less investment in film and television, and the films made were not as good.

In the 1990s, Taiwanese dramas, Hong Kong dramas, Korean dramas, as well as variety shows and music from these three places were all very popular.

After the 2000s, the economies of those places were in trouble, and the craze for Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong disappeared. Maybe there are still a few people who follow them, but they are not as popular as before. For example, TVB has long been in a period of transition, and there are no new generation actors or works to show off.

Later on, even American TV series and American blockbusters were not very popular anymore. It felt like that was just the way it was.

Meanwhile, mainland China's animated films, science fiction films, costume dramas, and various songs have risen and begun to gain momentum.

Now, Li Xiang represents the pinnacle of the extraordinary people on Earth, while Jiang Caier and her team are the ceiling of science and technology. City 03 can be regarded as one of the world's top cities in both "extraordinary" and "technology". Its status has long surpassed that of New York and Tokyo in the past. It is only natural to admire Zhong, Li, and Jiang.

The underground area around Lijia Village is undoubtedly the center of City 03. In Li Xiang's villa on the mountain, Jiang Caier's parents, younger aunt, older aunt, and second aunt all came to help prepare the New Year's Eve dinner, while Li Xiang's grandmother took care of the children. There were dozens of people in the family, so Li Xiang didn't have to worry about anything.

He simply took out a rich variety of ingredients, including delicacies from land and sea, and prepared several tables of banquets for everyone.

Well, there's no room for one table.

Because of the underground city today, ordinary people have no way to "start a fire", mainly to prevent safety hazards. Only public canteens and a handful of households have installed natural gas.

If you cook without permission, you will be fined. This is similar to the model of Singapore in the past, but the management is stricter than that of Singapore. There is no other way. The underground city is densely populated and it is a closed space. Once a fire occurs, the consequences will be disastrous.

Moreover, when every household cooks, a large amount of waste gas is produced, which is a huge burden to deal with.

As for things like induction cookers, rice cookers, and electric hot pots, they also have safety risks. In addition, the production capacity is insufficient and there are no such factories.

In special times, it is natural to concentrate manpower and material resources to mass-produce various military equipment such as artillery shells, missiles, robot dogs, drones, etc. Then there are daily necessities such as medicines, clothing, shoes and socks.

Otherwise, after a few rounds of beast tides, when all high-powered weapons are used up and high-level extraordinary beings have not yet been born in large numbers, then humanity will be in real danger.

Of course Li Xiang's family can cook, so all the relatives and friends come to "eat for free".

The more festive it is, the more attention should be paid to safety. Jiang Caier was not at home, but was busy with various meetings, arranging the work of the laboratory teams, the city defense department, the municipal department... In fact, the most powerful person in City 03 is Jiang Caier.

In City No. 03, Jiang Caier is involved in almost every detail.

Zhuge Liang was a man who took care of everything himself and worked until his death. But Jiang Caier will not die of exhaustion because she is not an ordinary person. Her super brain can handle hundreds of thousands of tasks at the same time, or even more.

The memory palace allows her to remember everything she sees. She knows all the big and small affairs in the dungeon without having to look up any information. Her team of secretaries are full of admiration and regard her as a genius.

Li Xiang used the earth escape technique to quietly come to the surface and returned to his old courtyard.

At this moment, the earth was shrouded in darkness. After another severe winter, the entire world had already frozen over. Ice ridges as thick as bowls were all over the eaves, and many houses in the village were collapsed by the ice and snow.

But it doesn’t matter, this place has been abandoned long ago.

Without the sun, there will probably be no more "spring flowers blooming" in the future, and the land will remain frozen forever. Fortunately, the underground city ecosystem has been established, so the impact is not great.

Due to the "global hibernation", the "mountain guardian beasts" originally deployed on the surface have also moved underground, and the original nests are vacant.

Li Xiang had already swept the surrounding area many times, and there were no large alien beasts anymore. However, there were many native animals and plants on Earth in the darkness. Perhaps they had absorbed enough extraordinary particles and began to mutate.

Now that there is enough space beasts, Li Xiang will naturally not attack these local "demon beasts". Compared with space beasts, these local mutant creatures are more friendly to Li Xiang. Moreover, due to the short time, they are still too weak.

Li Xiang activated the Nine Netherworld Breaking Delusion Eyes and looked around. He saw from afar a nest of space beasts coming from seventy or eighty kilometers northwest. The strongest ones were only two Saint-level leaders. So he flashed and came to their nest.

This was originally a primeval forest, but many trees were frozen to death, with less than one-tenth surviving. The same was probably true for animals. Even if there were some that survived, they would probably be food for the space monsters.

This is a nest of black fire crows, their whole bodies burning with flames. Those above level six have a wingspan of more than ten meters. When they fly in the sky, they look like one "little sun" after another. The thing that Houyi shot down the sun in ancient times might have been this kind of thing.

The two on the holy level were even more terrifying in size, with a wingspan of three to four hundred meters. When they flapped their wings, a blazing black wind could howl for dozens of kilometers.

Li Xiang was suspended in the air with his toes lightly tapping. Under his feet was a forest that had been trampled by the beasts. Many dead trees had long been burned to charcoal by the black fire of the flaming beasts.

But Li Xiang's ability to sense the earth's veins detected that in the thick ashes, there were new plants native to the earth, with small buds sprouting from their roots and rhizomes. They were pushing away the ash layer and trying hard to poke their heads out.

The ash layer not only keeps warm and provides heat, but also contains rich nutrients.

As soon as Li Xiang appeared here, the Black Fire Crows below the Saint level were frightened and flapped their wings and flew away, while two giant birds with a wingspan of hundreds of meters swooped towards Li Xiang from the left and right.

This is a male and female crow.

“Screech!”

The combined wingspan of the two holy-level Black Fire Crows was seven to eight hundred meters, seemingly blocking out the sky and the sun. Before their figures arrived, countless black flame meteorites dropped from the sky and poured down towards Li Xiang.

The afterimage of Li Xiang's Mach 80 speed formed a silver light net in the rain of fire. The white jade golden hook stick chopped out and fought fiercely with two holy-level black fire crows.

Although he was small in stature, each of his strikes had the power to split a mountain, and his speed was extremely fast. The two Saint-level Black Fire Crows had no way to dodge and were beaten so hard that they cried out in panic.

The levels of these two holy-level black fire crows are quite high, one is level twenty-six and the other is level twenty-four, but under Li Xiang's stick, they have no ability to fight back at all.

In less than half an hour, two Saint-level Black Fire Crows were shot down in the valley, seriously injured and coughing up blood.

Li Xiang stepped on the crow's head, and the golden chain of the soul contract pierced into the deepest part of its soul.

"Submit, or be annihilated."

When signing contracts with his pets, Li Xiang was very gentle and even asked for their opinions. However, when it came to the captives of these alien space beasts, he was naturally very tough! The majestic whispers resounding in the sea of ​​consciousness and the murderous intent emanating from Li Xiang made the struggling beasts finally lower their burning heads.

Soon, Li Xiang followed the same method and subdued another female crow.

"Great master, we couple will always obey your orders!" The male and female crows lay on the ground, trembling with fear, because they could clearly feel that after signing the soul contract, as long as Li Xiang had a thought, they would immediately die.

After some spiritual communication, Li Xiang was very satisfied with the two newly subdued holy-level birds of prey.

Since there was no kill, the system did not give any reward. But these two Saint-level raptors were the best reward. No, it should be this nest of seven or eight thousand Black Fire Crows.

"You can move the nest over there and guard that area." Li Xiang redesignated the nest location for the two Saint-level Black Fire Crows. It was located on a satellite city of Underground City No. 03. Together with the underground satellite city, it guarded the main city.

At the same time, Li Xiang also sneaked into the satellite city, explained the matter, and told them not to worry.

The officers and soldiers guarding the satellite city were stunned when they heard this. They thought Li Sheng was really amazing. How could he do such a trick? They were good at fighting and naturally guessed Li Xiang's intention. They estimated that Li Xiang wanted to subdue a series of alien beast tribes and protect the entire "City 03".

If humans were to guard the place themselves, strange beasts from other places would surely come to attack. However, since strange beasts have occupied this place themselves, strange beasts from other places probably would not come to snatch it when they see it.

Even if it is a robbery, well, it is a war between alien beasts and has nothing to do with humans on Earth.

During the Spring Festival, many officers and soldiers and militiamen in this satellite city are still sticking to their posts without any slackness. Although the underground city is "closed and locked", some strange beasts can burrow underground and dig holes, and they may launch sneak attacks. Sporadic wars have been going on, so strict defense is very necessary.

Once invaded by strange beasts, it will cause very heavy casualties.

Li Xiang saw that many of the officers and soldiers had northern accents, so he took out a lot of flour, as well as venison, Wagyu beef, etc. from the warehouse in the other dimension, and asked the kitchen team to make dumplings for everyone.

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The officers and soldiers were all delighted.

Because the staple food of the underground city is super rice. This hybrid rice is very high-yielding, but wheat has not cultivated such high-yielding seeds, so everyone usually eats rice, but this super rice tastes really ordinary. Now there is high-quality white flour, as well as venison and Wagyu beef. If you can eat this kind of dumplings, it will be a real New Year! The high-quality venison and Wagyu beef that Li Xiang gave, even in peacetime, many families may not be able to eat them.

Especially the beef, which is rich in fat and oil, is a very valuable source of energy for humans in the last days. It will also have a lot of juice and fragrance when made into dumplings, which makes people salivate just thinking about it.

Li Xiang did not show favoritism. He visited every satellite city and the main urban area, and delivered high-quality flour, venison, and beef to the officers and soldiers who were sticking to their posts, and extended his warm greetings.

Originally Li Xiang was doing it very low-key, but a reporter was well-informed and rushed over quickly, filmed the scene, and it was on the news that night.

Jiang Caier also instructed all the canteens to prepare a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner for the people. Well, this is a free benefit on New Year's Eve.

With free New Year’s Eve dinner, laughter and joy were everywhere and the atmosphere was very warm.

Li Xiang hurriedly finished the New Year's Eve dinner with his family, and set out again at night. He cleared the 200-kilometer radius of City 03 and tamed 16 holy-level beasts, signing soul contracts with them.

Including the original two, he now has a total of eighteen holy-level space beasts, belonging to twelve tribes.

These twelve ethnic groups were just scattered, guarding the surface of the twelve satellite cities and surrounding the main city No. 03.

When he finished all this, he looked at the time and thought, "Oh my god, it's already the 14th day of the first lunar month, and the Lantern Festival is coming soon." He hurried back home. Because some of the alien beast tribes are very powerful and numerous, the largest one has five holy-level alien beasts, and more than 300,000 below the holy level, which is far from comparable to the previous Black Fire Crow tribe. Li Xiang had to work hard.

In addition, he also killed many beasts below the Saint level, and gained a lot of achievement points, elixirs, and extraordinary items as rewards. He even "accidentally" killed a Saint level beast. Fortunately, the rewards were very generous, barely making up for the loss.

Jiang Caier: "When Yu the Great was controlling the flood, he passed by his home three times without entering. You don't even go home during the Chinese New Year. Tell me the truth, did you go to fool around with your mistress?"

"No way?" Li Xiang cried out. He really didn't have any, he had been immersed in taming the exotic beasts and building a safe zone.

"Hehe." Jiang Caier chuckled, grabbed his ear and dragged him into the bedroom.

The bedroom actually has good sound insulation, but Li Xiang always feels uncomfortable, so he takes Jiang Caier to the surface, the former residence of the old house.

The two of them were naturally not afraid of the cold, and the room was fully equipped with bedding, quilts, etc. There were also hundreds of thousands of alien beast armies guarding the 12 satellite cities, so there was no need to worry about being disturbed.

A short separation is better than a new marriage. Jiang Caier was very proactive. After some inspection, she found that Li Xiang had paid enough public contributions.

Jiang Caier had a smile on her face, her skin was white and rosy, and she was as beautiful as a peach or plum.

She is now twenty-seven years old and is no longer the young girl she used to be. Although she has given birth to three children, as a Saint-level extraordinary being, her figure is still very perfect. Her mature charm is different from that of her girlhood.

The Lantern Festival is the last day of the Spring Festival. Although everyone has gone underground, the pace of life has slowed down.

In Underground City No. 03, a lantern festival and garden party were organized.

Li Xiang and Jiang Caier brought their children, wearing hats and masks, and also went to the lantern festival for a tour.

There are no private cars in the underground city, only public transportation, and most of the time, people are not even allowed to leave their community at will. This is the case in China, while abroad it is relatively free and also relatively chaotic. Some underground cities already have black areas.

But there is definitely no such thing in Dungeon 03.

In this city, there are many robots, robot dogs, super cats and super dogs, as well as police and militia patrolling everywhere. The underground city is also full of cameras, all under Jiang Caier's surveillance.

It is very safe.

In this regard, the people are relieved because they are safe here. As for privacy, it is not worth mentioning compared with safety in the end times.

The underground cities are interconnected, and there are often news reports of robbery, rape, murder and other cases occurring in certain underground cities abroad, but these rarely happen in China and everything is in good order, especially in underground city No. 03. So far, the biggest case was a fight between two extraordinary people in the street. When they were caught and questioned, it turned out to be a disagreement caused by their different cultivation concepts.

They practiced the same breathing method, but the powers they awakened were completely different, so each of them believed that their own way of practice was authentic.

Regarding this point, Li Xiang also gave a special lesson in an online classroom, providing a comprehensive explanation to avoid similar doubts in the future.

Underground City No. 03 is the safest place in the world, no doubt about it.

…

"Boss, how much is this umbrella?" Luo Feifei's mother was walking in the market and saw an old man selling umbrellas. There seemed to be a lot of people buying them, so she went up to him and asked.

"Thirty calorie coins a bunch." The old man said with a smile.

"So expensive?" Luo Feifei's mother was surprised. The purchasing power of the calorie coin is about five times that of the original RMB.

"This is purely handmade, the only one in the entire dungeon!" The old man smiled slightly and said with some pride.

Now that they have moved to the underground city, where there is no longer any exposure to the sun or rain, who would still make or sell umbrellas? Only this old man, whose family used to produce umbrellas, later went bankrupt and there was no need to move to the underground city, because the underground city did not need this industry.

But the old man was unwilling to give up. Making and selling umbrellas was his family's ancestral business that had been passed down for more than a hundred years. Although the modern automatic umbrella factory had gone bankrupt, the ancient craftsmanship that was still an intangible cultural heritage was still there. So he went back to his old business, making some handicraft ancient-style umbrellas, set up a small stall, and supported his family.

He originally thought that business would be bleak, but he never expected that after the world stabilized, his ancient style umbrellas would be sought after again. Today alone, he sold 70 or 80 umbrellas, leaving only a dozen or so, and after they are sold out, he will have to rush to make new ones.

"Then let's take this one." Luo Feifei's mother picked out an oil-paper umbrella with plum blossoms painted on it and poems inscribed on it. She paid with heat coins using the communicator and left with the umbrella.

It’s not that she likes it herself, but when her daughter was around, she liked this kind of ancient-style umbrella the most. It was amazing to take pictures with it, and it could also be used as a prop for dancing.

Unfortunately, my daughter’s life or death is now unknown.

She lived a good life in Underground City No. 03. Li Xiang often visited her and arranged a special team of spirit dogs to protect her. She had no worries about food and drink, and no need to worry about her safety. However, he felt sad every time he thought of his daughter.

(End of this chapter)