Li Haidong gritted his teeth and roared, "Increase the severity of the punishments! Dismemberment, amputation, skinning, cutting out tongues—use them all..."
Good heavens, Judge Li Haidong, who has always been somewhat resistant to torture, actually brought out all the torture methods he learned during his last trip to hell.
Su Peng and the ghost messengers were secretly surprised. It turned out that their judge had been pretending all along. In fact, he had far more insidious and vicious ideas in his heart than they did.
Lying in bed listening to Wang Yonggan's report in his mind, Xu Zhengyang was very satisfied.
...
The following afternoon, Xu Zhengyang gave Li Ruiyu a positive reply.
He said, "When divine power erupts, the enormous energy surrounding it should be detectable with high-tech equipment, right?"
“Yes.” Li Ruiyu nodded and said, “That’s why you were discovered and tracked by several countries when you went to Rubaya.”
“Very good.” Xu Zhengyang thought for a moment and then said, “Let’s set up two firing targets and conduct two missile attacks.”
Li Ruiyu looked at Xu Zhengyang in surprise and said in a trembling voice, "Zhengyang, once is enough, why take this risk..."
"What's the risk?" Xu Zhengyang asked with slight dissatisfaction, then said with a contemptuous tone, "From the lightest to the most dangerous, I was originally thinking of testing how powerful these advanced weapons really are, and even trying out how powerful nuclear weapons are!"
"This...no need, no need." Li Ruiyu was so shocked that his heart was in his throat.
"It's good that they all know, so they can put their minds at ease and not have any more wicked thoughts!" Xu Zhengyang snorted coldly.
Li Ruiyu froze completely.
The meaning behind my aloof son-in-law's words was all too clear. He wasn't accommodating us, nor was he giving face to his father-in-law. Instead, he was using this incident to deliver a stern warning and reminder to us!
So, is it still necessary to conduct this experiment?
Xu Zhengyang's expression changed, and he said gently, "Dad, you don't need to feel too much pressure. I'm not targeting you..."
"Oh, I know, I know," Li Ruiyu replied somewhat blankly.
Whether it's necessary or not, this experiment has to go on. Sigh.
"Alright, go make the arrangements, the sooner the better," Xu Zhengyang said with a smile. "However, there's one thing I must state: I'm too lazy to change this physical body, and I imagine you don't want me to either. So, I'll only use my consciousness to leave my body and let you attack me..."
Li Ruiyu was a little confused. Physical body? Divine consciousness?
"Just like now."
Xu Zhengyang's voice rang out behind Li Ruiyu.
Li Ruiyu was startled and quickly turned around, only to see Xu Zhengyang standing behind him with a smile. Li Ruiyu then turned his head to look at the physical body of Xu Zhengyang, who was sitting motionless on the sofa with a smile on his face.
"The physical body is merely a shell that gods need to live in the world, just like clothes..."
"Oh." Li Ruiyu nodded as if he understood.
Xu Zhengyang's consciousness returned to his physical body, and he smiled as he got up and walked outside.
In the study, Li Ruiyu remained silent for a long time before finally picking up the phone and relaying Xu Zhengyang's affirmative reply to his superiors. He also mentioned that Xu Zhengyang had permitted two missile strike experiments and allowed relevant researchers to collect and analyze the data from the experiments.
He also recounted the situation of Xu Zhengyang's consciousness and physical body.
However, Li Ruiyu did not reveal Xu Zhengyang's other words and attitude.
Upon receiving the news, the senior leaders were overjoyed, but also couldn't help feeling remorse and guilt. Sigh…
Because the matter was of utmost importance, all arrangements were made extremely quickly, and by evening, the location and time for the experiment had been finalized.
To maintain secrecy, the time was chosen to be 4 a.m.;
The location was a military-controlled exercise area in the northernmost part of Beijing, in a mountainous region with no inhabitants for dozens of miles.
Xu Zhengyang did not tell Li Bingjie about this, so as not to worry her.
After dinner, Xu Zhengyang and Li Ruiyu drove to a military base in western Jingshishan, and then took a military helicopter directly to the experimental site.
Xu Zhengyang had already calculated the costs in detail; at worst, he would just be wasting the divine power needed for two City Gods.
This way, you can more clearly understand the advantages and disadvantages of your own weapons compared to advanced ones, which is worthwhile!
Volume Six, Chapter 346: Who is Stronger and Who is Weak?
In the northern mountainous areas, the temperature is much lower than in Beijing, especially in the early morning hours, when it can drop to minus seventeen or eighteen degrees Celsius.
The night was as dark as ink, and everything in the silent valley seemed frozen by the low temperature, devoid of any vitality.
Suddenly, a bright beam of light appeared abruptly from the other side of the mountain, piercing the thick, black night like two sharp daggers. Then, the beam shifted, tilting slightly downwards, illuminating the road as a dazzling halo. Then another halo appeared, and then another…
The faint roar of engines gradually became clearer.
Upon closer inspection, it turned out that those clusters of light were beams of light emitted from the vehicle's headlights.
At this moment, Xu Zhengyang was sitting in one of the military off-road vehicles, and next to him, Li Ruiyu, dressed in military uniform, had a solemn and deep expression.
In the preceding hours, they had arrived at a military base in the mountains by helicopter. After resting for a few hours, they set off together from the military base toward a missile firing test site not far away. During those few hours, Li Ruiyu and Xu Zhengyang, who appeared to be resting, were actually not taking a break at all.
Li Ruiyu couldn't sleep; Xu Zhengyang, on the other hand, went into the State God's Palace and carefully calculated how much divine power to bestow upon Gulierya and Master Xuanyi. Then, he summoned the two ghosts, who were about to be used as live targets, from the City God's Palace prison to the State God's Palace office.
Lord Xu Zhengyang personally explained some details to the two ghosts:
After enduring incredibly cruel tortures, I believe your willpower has now reached an absolutely unwavering level, capable of withstanding divine power and ascending to divine positions. However, you still need to pass the final hurdle: mastering and integrating divine power, fusing your spiritual strength with it to achieve complete control. Furthermore, you must meditate and overcome the test of your inner demons. These inner demons are the terrifying and dangerous situations you may encounter during the period of meditation and fusion of divine power and spiritual will after you have acquired divine power, such as being scorched by flames or attacked by various extremely powerful forces… I remind you, these are the inner demons at work. Do not run away; use your divine power to resist and fight against them!
If you, as a deity, choose to run away from the threat of your inner demons, then you have failed.
There are only two possible outcomes: either the soul is scattered or the spirit goes mad.
While Guliya and Daoist Xuanyi were excited, they were also somewhat apprehensive. However, the Governor's subsequent words strengthened their resolve: "Don't let me down..."
These words filled Guliya and Master Xuanyi with immense pride.
The two ghosts were immediately filled with a sense of heroic camaraderie, like a scholar dying for a friend!
Now, both ghosts are filled with the powerful divine strength that only a City God can possess. They have also assumed the divine position of acting City God. They are eagerly awaiting that the State God will place them in a mysterious place so that they can overcome the final hurdle to becoming true gods, eliminate their inner demons, and leap into godhood.
Sitting in the car, Xu Zhengyang smoked a cigarette, unable to suppress a slight, hypocritical sense of self-reproach. As the only deity in the Three Realms, to lie and deceive ghosts... it was truly despicable. However, Xu Zhengyang didn't feel too guilty. He secretly pondered and gave Guliya and Master Xuanyi high praise: "If you two die, you'll die a truly worthless death."
Don't they even think about the wicked things they did while they were alive before they want to become gods?
The car drove until it stopped in front of a few bungalows nestled among trees and rocks.
Then the fully armed soldiers got to work, and several experts entered the room to begin intensive equipment debugging. Xu Zhengyang, along with Li Ruiyu and two other responsible persons, entered a room on the side.
On the huge screen, the positions of each target point were clearly displayed, and real-time monitoring was enabled.
Although the scene in the dark is not very clear on the screen, it is still distinguishable.
Those were two metal target houses that had been arranged in advance.
Xu Zhengyang had a brief exchange with several technicians, inquiring about the specific target locations. The reason was simple: Xu Zhengyang couldn't understand these things, so he needed the technicians to explain and point them out to him in layman's terms.
Unfortunately, these technicians were unaware that today's missile launch target was a legendary deity, and that the data they were responsible for collecting was merely a vague instruction from above. The target of this missile test was a new type of energy we were secretly researching. The purpose was to test what would happen to this energy upon impact and explosion by a missile, and whether it could withstand the attack.
Of course, among those in charge on site were two top professors who knew the truth about this experiment.
They had only learned of this major news a couple of days ago.
Prior to this, during the terrorist hijacking incident, the appearance of mysterious dark matter energy waves over several countries was a top-secret fact they had already learned of and analyzed. However, they never imagined they would have the opportunity to personally conduct an experiment to attack these super-energy fluctuations, and... to their astonishment, they learned a colossal secret: these energy fluctuations originated from—God!
What excites and thrills them is that today's missile attack test will be conducted twice.
This is fantastic! Two experiments are enough for them to collect more data for more detailed research and analysis. It might even lead to the development of some kind of super weapon energy in the future…
After determining their specific objective, Xu Zhengyang and Li Ruiyu entered a side room.
"Don't let anyone disturb me. If anyone enters this room before the experiment is over, I can't guarantee they won't suffer fatal harm from my subordinates," Xu Zhengyang said calmly.
“Okay, you can rest assured about that.” Li Ruiyu nodded, then left the room and closed the door.
At this moment, Wang Yonggan was in the inner room, while Li Haidong, Su Peng, and other ghost messengers were in the outer room, closely monitoring everyone's every move and any possible changes in their mentality.
In fact, Xu Zhengyang had thoroughly investigated everyone's thoughts and intentions to ensure that no one intended to harm him.
In short, everything is for safety.
Even now, the staff of the City God's Office, including Li Haidong, are still puzzled as to why the State God would risk his life to conduct such an experiment. Of course, they all believe that this experiment poses no danger to the State God.
The reason is simple: the God of the Prefecture is a deity.
Xu Zhengyang closed his eyes, and his consciousness flew away from his physical body, instantly reaching the mountainside of a small hill more than ten kilometers away. In the darkness below the mountain, there were scattered lights, which were military researchers and soldiers, ready to record relevant data and take pictures at any time.
Halfway up the mountain, there is a dark green metal prefabricated house, about the size of an ordinary guard post.
Upon entering, it was completely empty except for two large rocks that were part of the mountain itself.
Xu Zhengyang summoned Master Xuanyi from the Records of the Nine Provinces, and then said very seriously, "At dawn, deep in the mountains, where there is no one for miles around, it is the best time and place to break through your inner demons. Please sit quietly."
"Yes, yes, thank you, sir, thank you, sir." The old Taoist Xuan Yi knelt down excitedly and kowtowed repeatedly.
"To fuse with divine power, one must channel that power through the body and into the mind. Repeat this process, and the divine power will constantly surround the body. Is that it?"
"Uh... I understand, I understand." Master Xuan Yi was actually a little confused.
Xu Zhengyang said calmly, "Figure it out yourself."
"yes."
Xu Zhengyang activated his divine sense and immediately entered the target house.
The old Taoist Xuan Yi straightened his knees and sat cross-legged on the ground. He quietly began the first time in his life that he had seriously meditated, sensing the divine power.
soon……
Following Xu Zhengyang's instructions, he released the divine power within his body, which he had not yet fully adapted to and could not use skillfully, enveloping his entire body and allowing the divine power inside and outside his body to circulate back and forth.
At the same time, the radar monitoring system below also detected a powerful and strange energy fluctuation emanating from the target.
The command center below immediately collected and analyzed the data, and issued the order for the missiles to prepare for attack.
Li Ruiyu's mind also became highly tense, staring intently at the live footage on the screen. Under the detection of the special instrument, the originally dark green target house on the screen suddenly burst into a golden-red halo in the darkness, and it seemed that the surrounding air was slowly flowing under the influence of this halo.
Three, two, one...
Boom... Whoosh...
The missile roared into the sky, trailing a fiery red tail flame as it pierced the dark night and hurtled toward its designated location.
In the blink of an eye, the missile had reached the target.
Sitting inside the target practice room, Master Xuanyi felt a clear sense of impending danger rapidly approaching. Almost instinctively, he wanted to stand up and use his divine power to quickly evade the peril. However, the instructions from the Provincial God reminded him to calm his mind; this was merely a demon in his heart, an illusion, nothing but fleeting clouds…
While suppressing his mind, Master Xuanyi followed the instructions of the State God and exerted his divine power to the fullest extent to resist his inner demons!
The missile struck the target house with lightning speed, like a meteor!