We bear people have power

"Your opponents will be mortals without cultivation." Upon hearing Guan Bo's words, the sword cultivators reacted in various ways. Some looked hopeful, some thought Guan Bo was just toying with them, and some seemed thoughtful, as if trying to determine the truth.

The myriad faces of humanity unfolded before Guan Bo, but he had no interest in understanding their thoughts. With a flick of his finger, twelve black and white lotuses bloomed in the void and flew towards the sword cultivators.

The lotus flower transformed into a mark and disappeared into their brows silently and undetectable. Then they discovered that the magical restrictions on their bodies had been lifted.

"This lotus seal was formed by condensing a thousand-year-old corpse poison and ten-thousand-year-old karmic fire. If it is not removed by my unique method a month later, you will turn into a puddle of pus. I am now setting you free. You may return to your sect to seek help, or you may try to cure this cripple."

"However, let me make this clear from the start: if you don't show up in a month, it won't just be the twelve of you who will die; I will also wipe out your Lishan Sword Sect."

Guan Bo's words were resounding and carried immense power. After he finished speaking, the ground beneath the twelve people cracked inch by inch, and almost half of their bodies were buried underground.

Regardless of what these people thought, Guan Bo blew a breath, directly blowing the twelve people out of Wuji City.

"Do you think they will do as you arrange?" Wu Meiniang asked.

"Who cares? No matter how much they struggle, they'll all get their just desserts. I'd love for them to go back to their sects for help, and maybe even drag a few more sects into it. The bigger the commotion, the happier I'll be. If we cripple and terrify this bunch all at once, we can save ourselves a lot of trouble," Guan Bo explained.

"But if they come as agreed, are you really going to let mortals fight these sword cultivators in a duel?"

Wu Meiniang seemed somewhat skeptical of Guan Bo's plan. She had initially thought that Guan Bo was simply making an example of someone, and that even if he went to that Lishan Sword Sect alone and flattened the entire sect with a single paw, it wouldn't be a problem.

But Guan Bo insisted on pitting mortals against cultivators in a duel. If the Great Zhou broke its promise under the watchful eyes of the public, it would become a laughingstock.

How could mortals possibly defeat cultivators? In this situation, wouldn't it be tantamount to sending their own people to their deaths?

"Since I've made this arrangement, I've naturally come prepared. Let me introduce you to some new friends."

The spatial passage was created with a wave of the hand, and two creatures that looked like silver eggs walked out from it, their smooth, mirror-like surfaces constantly emitting neon-like light.

Wu Zetian stared in shock at the alien life forms before her and asked, "What kind of monsters are these?"

“They’re not monsters, they’re friends I met in the outer void.” Guan Bo said, then activated the Soul-Seizing Light, linking Wu Meiniang’s soul power with that of the group of silver eggs.

"Your Majesty, I, Shijin (Shigure), wish you eternal freedom from natural disasters."

These two silver figures were the first aliens Guan Bo encountered. Because their planet was within the gravitational pull of three stars, they called themselves the Trisolarans. Since the Trisolaran civilization had been destroyed countless times by natural disasters, they had a custom of blessing others to be forever free from such calamities.

This could be considered a lucky accident. At this time, the Great Zhou Kingdom was also in turmoil and was constantly targeted by the Heavenly Dao, sharing the same fate as the Three Luminaries Star People.

Wu Meiniang was a little uncomfortable with this kind of direct spiritual communication, but she still politely replied, "You two don't need to be so formal. Guan Bo must have caused you a lot of trouble in the foreign lands. Thank you for taking care of him."

"Hey! Am I really that unreliable? Your man is someone who saved a planet!" Guan Bo protested.

Shichen and Shiyu also said in unison, "Your Majesty, you flatter us. Mr. Shichen's suicide attack at the critical moment truly saved our Sanyao clan. He is our great benefactor."

"At the crucial moment... what was it again?" Wu Meiniang looked completely bewildered.

"Let's get down to business! Let's get down to business!" Guan Bo quickly interrupted. Guan Bo had always found this way of referring to the Sanyao people annoying, but he really didn't know how to correct their perception.

"Here's the thing, during our space travels, out of curiosity, we consulted with Mr. [Name] about cultivation civilization. I must say, you are a great civilization, capable of many miraculous feats. However, your civilization faces challenges in inheritance and dissemination. Due to our relatively short research period, we are unable to analyze the essence of so-called spiritual energy, but we have created this thing based on its basic characteristics."

Shi Yu handed Wu Meiniang a metal device that looked like a bracelet.

Wu Meiniang fiddled with it for a while, but couldn't quite get the hang of it. Finally, with Shi Yu's guidance, she put it on her hand and felt a surge of spiritual energy flowing into her body.

This spiritual energy was insignificant to Wu Meiniang, who had already overcome the Heavenly Tribulation and achieved the Golden Core, but its superior purity was unparalleled. Wu Meiniang asked herself, she had never seen such pure spiritual power in her life, so pure that it seemed to have no attributes at all, yet it could be transformed into any attribute according to the needs of the human body.

"Is this the primordial energy from the beginning of time, as legend says?" Wu Meiniang exclaimed in shock.

Legend has it that before Pangu separated heaven and earth, the world was a chaotic mass, like a chicken egg, with all things mixed together without distinction. At that time, there was no distinction between spiritual energy and matter; there was only a vast, chaotic mass.

Then Pangu separated heaven and earth, and the pure and impure evolved into the universe. From then on, all things came into being, and the five elements came into being.

Chaotic spiritual energy is a legend, said to originate from the source of the world, and is different from any other spiritual energy, but can be transformed into any kind of spiritual energy.

This tiny bracelet can provide chaotic spiritual energy; although not much, it is still astonishing.

“Chaotic spiritual energy? But we prefer to call this energy zero energy. Just like zero, it originally has nothing, but it can become one or negative one. And zero and one can construct a virtual world. With the concept of negative one, the world truly exists. So zero is the beginning of all things.” Shi Yu was excitedly introducing their great invention, waving the bracelet on his tentacle, and then quite laboriously conjuring a fireball in mid-air.

Although the fireball looked no bigger than a fist and extinguished itself after flying very far, it was still a genuine spell. Next, Shiyu used the Zero Qi in her bracelet to cast other Five Elements spells. Although they were all the most basic kind, there were no obstacles in their execution.

Neither Guan Bo nor Wu Meiniang could understand such profound and unfathomable things, but no matter what this spiritual energy was called, it would not affect its efficacy.

"This kind of magic weapon is indeed amazing, but the amount of spiritual energy is too small. Even if it is increased tenfold or a hundredfold, it won't make much difference." Wu Meiniang was still not very optimistic.

Even if the spiritual energy contained within this bracelet increased a hundredfold, it would still be far less than the spiritual energy within the body of a Foundation Establishment cultivator. With such a small quantity, it becomes utterly meaningless.

Guan Bo pointed at Shi Yu and said, "You forgot one thing: this person has never practiced any cultivation techniques. In other words, he is no different from an ordinary person."

Wu Meiniang didn't react at first, but after thinking for a while, she widened her eyes in surprise.