Cave Refuge

It's like watching a movie; if there is a high-definition source available, who would want to watch a low-quality version?

After those few people returned to the human battlefield, they said something unknown, and the surrounding people's expressions relaxed a lot. Then, they took out some things from their Storage Space, and the Bat Monsters that were actively attacking them fell into the water in swathes, like mowing grass.

"It seems that the Imperial Court still has some masters!"

After seeing the situation, Dong Tianyu muttered a few words casually, and then through the White Bone Puppet, he observed the Plane Transmission Channel in the Bone Ball gradually shrinking.

Normally, from when the Plane Transmission Channel opens, it would be a bit more than half a day at most. But according to the information they received, under normal circumstances, the Plane Transmission Array should be open for a whole day.

The clearly premature closure, different from the usual full day of activity, naturally led Dong Tianyu to some speculations.

"Either they detected that the Plane Transmission Channel has been sealed by me, so they deliberately closed the channel ahead of time.

Or it's because of the excessive number of Bat Monster deaths during the invasion of Blue Star, and they noticed the problem here, which led them to close the Plane Transmission Channel early."

Thinking that there were no more Bat Monsters approaching, to confirm his conjectures, Dong Tianyu decided to retract the White Bone Puppet back into the White Bone Banner, then as if he remembered something, he threw the White Bone Banner directly into the water.

Dong Tianyu was not the kind of person to do things without purpose. The Bat Monsters that swarmed to attack him had their Souls and flesh already plundered by the other banners. So now sinking to the bottom of the sea were not only the miscellaneous items plundered by the Bat Monsters but also a pile of Bat Monster skeletons.

Although the quality of those skeletons might not be excellent, looking at the layer upon layer of white bones underwater, one could roughly guess how many Bat Monsters Dong Tianyu had killed in this battlefield.

As the Bone Ball formed by the White Bone Puppet disappeared, the Plane Transmission Channel that was originally enveloped by the Bone Ball was revealed again.

However, the Plane Transmission Channel had shrunk even more now. It was like the security gate at the entrance of a supermarket—originally, everyone could walk through it while standing upright, but as the Transmission Gate kept shrinking, now one would have to crouch down to pass through it.

Watching the still slowly shrinking Plane Transmission Channel, Dong Tianyu didn't pay any more attention to it and instead sensed the presence of his Companion Spiritual Treasure, and then he controlled it to float to the surface.

By then, the White Bone Banner had absorbed all the skeletons of the Bat Monsters that sank to the bottom. The White Bone Banner's upgrade method was much simpler compared to the other two banners. When it was first created, bones were used as materials, so absorbing skeletons to enhance the Magical Weapons' limit was a straightforward task.

After Dong Tianyu also retracted the White Bone Banner into his Dantian, his Companion Spiritual Treasure finally floated up from the water beneath him.

Just as Dong Tianyu was about to retreat into his Companion Spiritual Treasure for a rest, he suddenly noticed someone entering the range of his Divine Sense, and they were approaching his location at high speed.

Since he couldn't tell if the person was a friend or foe, Dong Tianyu directly controlled his Companion Spiritual Treasure to submerge immediately.

Before the Companion Spiritual Treasure had a chance to dive deep, Dong Tianyu saw a person 'walking' over directly above the water from afar.

Although it appeared that the person was walking leisurely, just like taking a stroll, their seemingly slow pace was actually closing the distance very quickly.

What was key was that each time the person took a step, they barely touched the water's surface. Dong Tianyu noticed that there were no water stains on the person's shoes.

The person also noticed Dong Tianyu, who was Floating on his Sword in midair, and when they reached about a hundred meters away from Dong Tianyu,

They directly summoned their Companion Spiritual Treasure, then with a light leap, they landed on the deck of their Companion Spiritual Treasure.

Upon witnessing the other party's actions, Dong Tianyu faintly felt that they must be the same kind of person as himself.

After the other party steadied themselves on the deck, they directly invited Dong Tianyu, saying, "Comrade, do you mind coming over for a chat?"

Dong Tianyu knew the other party was one of the five people who had jumped from the transport plane, and at this moment, the only power he could think of that could casually arrange a transport plane and muster so many expert reinforcements would probably be the Imperial Court.

Furthermore, when the other party had just greeted and invited him using the term "comrade," this address alone was enough to warrant Dong Tianyu to take a trip over there.

In a bygone era of hardship and heroism, merely this address alone could make many people assist you unconditionally, and even during some critical actions, some would voluntarily sacrifice themselves.

And why did this address, which should have been highly respectable, become a word with a somewhat derogatory connotation?

This was actually due to the cultural output of the enemies, or even cultural distortion, because they had experienced that just a title could swiftly transform the relationship between two strangers who had never met before, from complete unfamiliarity to an intimate bond of life and death in an extremely short period of time.

And most crucially, they had encountered this situation twice, each time paying a heavy price.

Because of that, they spent a lot of money and went to great lengths to stigmatize this address, to drag this once noble title through the mud, and even make everyone unconsciously show a look of disdain and awkwardness upon hearing it.

Of course, at this time Dong Tianyu felt some warmth when he heard this address and did not find it offensive.

Upon hearing the other party's call, the Flying Swords under Dong Tianyu's feet promptly brought him to the deck, and when Dong Tianyu disembarked from the Flying Swords onto the deck, the sword remained levitating just behind him.

Dong Tianyu noticed the other party's involuntary display of envy when they saw him control the Flying Swords, and even now, though they stood face-to-face, the other's gaze still occasionally drifted towards the sword floating behind him.

Since the other party did not initiate conversation, Dong Tianyu naturally would not take the lead. He could never just stare at a man for no reason for an extended period.

Seeing that the other party seemed to be focused on scrutinizing his Flying Swords, Dong Tianyu pretended not to notice and instead controlled his Divine Sense to survey the surrounding geography.

Although both parties seemed to be doing their own things as if to gain the upper hand in the upcoming conversation, they tacitly refrained from any aggression, vying only for a simple win or loss.

Perhaps because he was on the other's turf, and considering that the other party had been the one to invite Dong Tianyu first, it was okay to pretend at first, but if this continued and others became aware, they would definitively consider him rude.

Therefore, once it was evident that Dong Tianyu could keep his composure long enough to proceed, the eager expression that once creased the other's face gradually faded, and then with an embarrassed look, they said to Dong Tianyu, "I'm sorry, truly sorry.

I won't hide it from you; since I was young, I've always dreamed of Cultivation. Yet, as I grew older, while I still deeply believed that there were cultivators in the world,

my convictions began to waver as I grew up and realized through various incidents that Cultivation was just a scam.

But when the Natural Disaster struck, as the entire populace fervently surged towards martial arts, my once-shaken conviction became firm again.

After all, when you read enough books, whether they are textbooks or extracurricular, they can directly or indirectly enhance your understanding of the world.

And in my understanding, cultivators are just a stronger kind of human. Since people can become extraordinary through martial arts, there must indeed exist a method for Cultivation."