Counterattack System appeared when I'm already At The Mahayana Realm-Chapter 108 - : The World Where the Brahma Tower is Located
Chapter 108: Chapter 108: The World Where the Brahma Tower is Located
Translator: 549690339
Most of the issues at the meeting were trivial, making Jiang Li feel extremely exhausted.
He knew what the problem was. There were no Heavenly Demons troubling them, and he himself was overseeing Nine Provinces. These guys were simply too idle in their comfortable environment.
Jiang Li was considering finding something for these guys to do, but he didn’t immediately have an idea of what that might be.
He noticed that everyone was happy because they could venture into the universe again.
The area of the Nine Provinces Mainland was relatively large in comparison to the planets in the universe. If compared to the size of the planets from Jiang Li’s past life, it was about as large as ten Jupiter-sized planets.
However, even with such a vast land, cultivators in the Body Integration Realm found it hard to flex their muscles on the Nine Provinces, preferring to fight in the sky or fly into the cosmos to brawl.
Moreover, the Nine Provinces Mainland had restrictions and limitations imposed by laws. Living on the Nine Provinces, one didn’t notice it. But when a cultivator reached the Divinity Transformation Stage, enabling short stays in the universe, or in case of long-term stays, the Body Integration Realm, such high-level cultivators would find themselves surprisingly strong upon arriving in the universe.
They typically moved mountains and seas on the Nine Provinces Mainland, even creating clouds and precipitation. However, in the cosmos, without the law restrictions of the Nine Provinces Mainland, they could change the celestial bodies’ trajectories or even casually obliterate planets.
When Jiang Li had just entered the Mahayana Realm, he too had fun flattening planets like chess pieces and engaged Bai Hongtu in hundreds of Go games.
However, the Imperial Palace suggested that cultivators in the Body Integration Realm should refrain from altering orbits or blowing up stars, otherwise they’d find fewer stars each night.
With the threat posed by Heavenly Demon of the Heavenly Immortal level eliminated, Jiang Li could search for the Fan Heavenly Tower.
The Fan Heavenly Tower was in charge of the spatial laws, and it had a significant impact on the Nine Provinces.
He had initially planned to seek the Fan Heavenly Tower after finding Yin Yang Heaven Seal, but after returning to Nine Provinces from the world of the ancestral immortal’s corpse, he encountered so many issues that he had to postpone the search for the Fan Heavenly Tower.
Jiang Li purchased access to the Fan Heavenly Tower from a store once again, but as per usual, it fled using the power of space before being summoned to the Nine Provinces.
He had to search for it personally.
When these rebellious period Immortal Artifacts ripped space apart to go to other worlds, the system saved their coordinates. It wasn’t difficult to know which world they were in.
Jiang Li asked Yin Yang Heaven Seal if it could find the location of the Fan Heavenly Tower. Yin Yang Heaven Seal politely explained that the tower had many spatial barriers. It felt like he and the tower were separated by multiple worlds, reducing their karmic connection. It could only confirm that the tower was within that world, but couldn’t pinpoint its exact location.
Seeing Yin Yang Heaven Seal reduced to an ineffectual state again, Jiang Li had to continue its study of the cultivation method for spiritual treasures.
Jiang Li then asked Master Wu Zhi what the personality of the Fan Heavenly Tower might be once it acquired intelligence.
After thinking for a moment, Master Wu Zhi stated that the tower would probably like preaching in crowded places.
Jiang Li notified a few close friends of his planned departure from the Nine Provinces to travel to another world. [Do you wish to teleport to an unknown world?]
“Teleport,” responded Jiang Li.
Jiang Li could rip space himself and fly through the void, but the system teleportation was quicker. Besides, he had already scrambled the origin code, so he could use it at will.
In the run-down and ruined city, skyscrapers leaned, windows and doors broken, the bright sunlight failing to shine upon this grey, desolate city.
Despite being told by their parents and watching documentaries, children born in this generation found it difficult to imagine the past prosperity of cities, or a world without threat to life.
In this city, houses had lost their primary function of providing safety. Instead, they had become death traps and cesspools. God knows how many zombies lurked inside, and how many had lost their lives within them.
A zombie wandered aimlessly through the city, instinctively hunting for prey.
“Sis, that lone first-level zombie has entered our trap!” one of them, perched atop a small building, spotted a zombie and sounded somewhat excited.
The things a first-level zombie carried could ensure the siblings live without worry for a month. Of course, if it were converted to weapons or equipment, it would get consumed much faster.
He used a zombie detector to determine the level. It was a first-level zombie.
“Bro, stay calm. We need to make sure there aren’t any other zombies or people around it!”
The sister, situated on the eighth floor of another building, was more cautious.
She used several mirrors to observe the zombie below her, adjusting the mirror angles multiple times to confirm the zombie’s level and whether there were other zombies around, or veterans waiting to scavenge.
In this post-apocalyptic world, their enemies weren’t just zombies.
“Sis, are you done? The prey is about to leave the trap!” The younger brother sounded anxious, fidgeting with his earpiece.
“No ambush, attack!” The sister decisively ordered.
The siblings leaped down from two high buildings on either side. Dressed in black reinforced suits and carrying sharp blades, they jumped in silence, aiming for the zombie’s limbs and neck!
The weak spot of a zombie was its head, where the precious braincore also resided. The siblings couldn’t directly target the head as it risked wasting today’s ambush.
By the time the zombie noticed their movements, it was already too late.
The zombie barely managed to dodge, but the sister sliced off one of its arms.
Taking advantage of the situation, the brother swung his dagger, creating a beautiful arc in the air. Trying to cut off the zombie’s head, the zombie, although devoid of reason, understood its weak spot. It let the brother hit its body rather than let him cut its neck.
The brother became impatient. He knew how valuable today’s opportunity was. A waste would mean they would have to ambush, starved, for several more days.
The zombie’s skin was dry and wrinkled, like a mummy stored in a tomb. Annoyed, it screamed at the brother, revealing its shriveled muscles.
The zombie lunged at the brother and, with a mighty claw, tore his reinforced suit. The brother screamed in pain before quickly retreating, looking terrified.
He had been scratched by a zombie!
But after he screamed, he stopped talking and endured the pain and fear silently, not wanting to distract his sister.
The sister was calmer than the brother. She swiftly moved toward the zombie, took advantage of the gap left by the brother’s failed attack, and continued to attack the zombie.
The brother could still be saved from a recent infection. For now, the most important thing was to kill the zombie. If not, both siblings would end up as zombie food today!
The sister no longer coveted the zombie’s braincore and began to attack its head.
However, the zombie moved more flexibly than the sister, even avoided her attacks. It rolled, picked up its severed arm, and swung it as a weapon at the sister.
Even a severed zombie arm was highly infectious. The arm’s nails were sharper than a knife. The sister’s low-quality suit wouldn’t survive several scratches.
The sister was forced into a crisis.
She was horrified to see this zombie displaying intelligence, a trait usually found in second-level zombies, using tools as an advantage!
This zombie is about to evolve!
Their zombie detector is too cheap, it can’t determine the exact stage of this Level 1 zombie!
My sister takes out a pistol, one hand holding a knife and the other a gun, slashing and shooting, trying to smash the zombie’s head.
After a dozen rounds of battling between the zombie and my sister, she swings her knife at the zombie, but it blocks with its arm.
My sister uses her body weight and arm strength to suppress the zombie, forcing it to lean backward beyond the human limit. Its spine creaks, but the zombie feels no pain.
She seizes the opportunity, fires a shot from her left hand, aiming at the zombie’s eye. She wants to shatter the back of its head along with the eyeball!
The zombie suddenly tilts its head back, revealing a strange smile, and its orderly rows of teeth bite onto the bullet!
“Sis, be careful! The zombie detector shows that it is now a Level 2 zombie!”
My sister’s pupils shrink, she feels the zombie’s strength suddenly increase and is flung back.
My sister uses the momentum to create a distance between her and the zombie and moves toward her brother, intending to flee from there with him.
She wouldn’t be able to beat a Level 2 zombie no matter what, leaving the place may offer her a slight chance of survival.
“Sis, go by yourself, don’t drag me along!” My brother realizes his sister’s intent. However, even she alone may not be able to escape from the pursuit of the Level 2 zombie, how could she possibly escape successfully if she took him, the burden, along with her!
My brother’s eyes turn white, his body shivers unnaturally, he’s beginning to turn into a zombie.
There is a power hierarchy among zombies, he can feel his body producing fear towards this Level 2 zombie.
“I’ll hold it off, you go quickly!” Overcoming his body’s instinctive fear, my brother struggles to his feet, preparing to fight against the zombie.
Sister knows this is the best approach, yet their parents had sold them to others as food when they were eight years old. They had barely escaped from being butchered, and the siblings had relied on each other for survival for ten years in this hopeless world overrun by zombies. If her brother dies now, she would lose her will to live too.
She might as well die.
The zombie is not concerned about the siblings’ mindset. It runs quickly, like lightning, in the ruins, charging towards the siblings.
Despair is written on both siblings’ faces.
My sister closes her eyes, waiting for the arrival of death, yet she feels no pain even after waiting for a while.
She hesitates to open her eyes, seeing a stranger in ancient clothing saying weird words.
“What the hell is that?”
However, she couldn’t understand what the stranger was saying.
My brother just witnessed the entire situation.
The stranger suddenly appeared above the zombie’s head. He seemed surprised when he saw the zombie, then instinctively stomped on it, trampling it to death.
My brother recalls when he used to see cockroaches as a child. He was startled by the fast-moving cockroach and instinctively stomped the insect to death too.
The stranger was naturally Jiang Li.
Jiang Li quickly learned the language of this world: “Does this young man seem unwell?”
My sister reacts to realize that her brother is still in danger. She took a potion from her backpack and injected it into his arm. His rapid breathing gradually stabilized, his eyes returned to their dark color, and his body was no longer shaking.
Jiang Li used his divine sense and found that this is a planet undergoing a zombie crisis.
He frowned slightly, realizing the perilous position of mankind in this world.
“I am in a new world.” Jiang Li contacted Bai Hongtu.
Bai Hongtu spoke at a much faster pace than usual: “Let me see what kind of world this is.”
Jiang Li noticed Bai Hongtu’s unusual speech rate and said, “The flow of time in this world is different from that of Jiuzhou.”
“That’s normal.” Bai Hongtu had already expected this, “It is said that the flow of time in different worlds was originally different. It was only after the Immortal Realm used the Ascension Ladder to connect the Ten Thousand
Realms that the flow of time in all the worlds was equalized.”
“The world you went to before, where the flow of time was the same as
Jiuzhou, was just a coincidence.”
The two calculated the time separately. After comparing, they found that the new world and Jiuzhou have significant difference in time flow. Where Jiuzhou had passed 9000 years, this world had merely spent 1000 years.
“Why is it so chaotic there? Did you collapse their buildings when you arrived?” Seeing Jiang Li’s background on this side, where houses were abandoned, weeds were overgrown, and the place was desolate, Bai Hongtu asked.
“Making assumptions right away.” Jiang Li despised Bai Hongtu’s behavior. He caught a fang-bearing, claw-waving zombie not far away and showed it to Bai Hongtu.
My brother’s eyes widen with terror upon seeing it, as his zombie detector reveals that this is a Level 3 zombie!
He had heard that the strongest zombie in the abandoned city is a Level 3.
“Locals call this thing a zombie. Whoever it bites, becomes a new zombie.” Hearing such a familiar description, a scene flashes in Bai Hongtu’s mind and he shudders: “Isn’t that the same as when we were Human Emperor candidates, and had come across the Heavenly Demon’s disintegration scene!”
“Back then, the entire city was like this. You made the decision to kill all of them without hesitation, and this made you famous as Jiang the Butcher!”
Bai Hongtu recalls an scene he doesn’t want to touch again. Driven to desperation, the Heavenly Demons unleashed Heavenly Demon disintegration in the Tianyuan Emperor Dynasty. Everyone in the city lost their senses, acted like rabid dogs, bit everyone who came their way, and the bitten would become the new source of contamination, infecting others.
Jiang Li, carrying a basket of swords and knives, rushed into the city, killed the infected, and broke all weapons. Then he killed all the infected.
Jiang Li had watched zombie-based movies in his previous life. Even though the military and government forces in the movies were dubious, the danger of zombies was real.
Others Human Emperor candidates didn’t realize how terrifying zombies were, but Jiang Li knew.
For this reason, when the Heavenly Demons disintegrated, and infected the people of a city, he was the first to rush in and kill people.
“It’s quite similar.” Jiang Li nodded, “But that doesn’t mean all zombies are made by the Heavenly Demons.”
Jiang Li killed this terribly frightening zombie and took out its brain core.
“There wasn’t such a thing in the brains of those infected at that time. This thing is like a Spirit Stone, which people can absorb.”
Jiang Li casually threw the Level 3 brain core to the siblings. The sudden happiness made the siblings stunned.
“I think the Corpse-Driving Sect would be quite suitable for this place.” Bai Hongtu remarked.
Jiang Li agreed with Bai Hongtu’s opinion: “If they knew about such a world, they might want to relocate their whole sect..”
