The two exchanged jokes, and Mu Jinyu turned serious, stopping further discussion on that topic.
He said seriously, "By the way, Aunt Mu, please contact those leaders; I have some matters to discuss with them."
"Oh, alright..."
Mu Hongchen promptly agreed and began contacting the secretaries of those leaders to schedule a time for a remote video conference.
Given the reputation of the Dragon King Hall, those leaders could not ignore Mu Jinyu's opinions; they postponed their original schedules and plans and had their tech teams prepare a secure video conference setup within about ten minutes to prevent eavesdropping.
They took this video conference very seriously, as it was unlikely for the Dragon King Hall to contact them suddenly with no urgent matter; the last time they had initiated contact was due to the chaos of darkness, indicating clearly that this meeting was addressing the current crisis of ferocious beasts.
"The video will connect in a minute. Is the Dragon Master ready?"
Ten minutes later, Mu Hongchen ended the call and turned back to Mu Jinyu, asking.
"Yes." Mu Jinyu nodded.
"Then let's go to the smaller conference room inside," Mu Hongchen suggested, pointing to a small meeting room in the office, ushering Mu Jinyu to prepare for the video call with the leaders.
It seemed she was prepared to exclude herself from the meeting.
"Aunt Mu, come in with me. It's not a confidential matter; much of the subsequent arrangements will need your involvement. How can you not be there?" Mu Jinyu took a few steps, then turned back and looked at Mu Hongchen as he spoke.
"Oh, okay then..."
Hearing Mu Jinyu say this, Mu Hongchen followed him into the meeting room.
"Crack!"
Shortly after the two entered the small conference room, the screen in front of them flickered, turning into a snowy picture, flickered a few more times, and finally connected successfully.
On the screen, the display split into several smaller frames, each showing an elderly person.
Mu Jinyu looked at these leaders, did not show signs of weakness, smiled, and directly addressed the matter, "Thank you, leaders, for taking the time out of your busy schedules to talk to me. I'll skip the pleasantries. In this video call, I merely wish to suggest an idea that could better stabilize our nation in this revival of spiritual energy and prevent us from being overwhelmed!"
"What suggestion?" asked one elderly leader with a solemn face, his voice heavy.
Mu Jinyu said, "As you know, with the end of the dark chaos, nature's spiritual energy is gradually reviving. For cultivators like myself, martial artists, the environment for cultivation has improved, and wild beasts, mutating with the revival of spiritual energy, now possess tremendous destructive power. It's impossible for the Dragon King Hall to have soldiers guarding every city, town, and village at all times; we simply do not have enough personnel. Once a ferocious beast appears, bloody carnage is inevitable, and support cannot arrive in time..."
"So... I propose, let's disseminate the cultivation methods, let everyone engage in martial cultivation, turning the whole populace into soldiers!"
Mu Jinyu spoke in a calm and collected tone.
"This..."
"Impossible!"
The elderly leaders' expressions instantly turned anxious upon hearing Mu Jinyu's suggestion, clearly showing how greatly his words impacted them, causing their emotions to fluctuate and making it hard for them to remain composed.
Mu Jinyu continued, "I know what you are worried about—martial cultivation among all citizens has its pros and cons, and it's likely to lead to martial law violations and be difficult to control. But the situation has already become hard to control..."
"Look at this video!"
Mu Jinyu spoke, took Mu Hongchen's mobile phone, and flipped through it to show a video.
The screen showed a boy of about seven or eight years old, taking his four or five-year-old sister out to play when suddenly a car lost control and headed straight for the siblings.
Without a doubt, a car accident was bound to occur, and the siblings would either die or be permanently disabled!
However…
The next scene was completely unexpected.
The young boy sensed something was wrong, stood in front of his sister to protect her, and raised his hand to push the car away to prevent it from hitting his sister. At that moment, his arm radiated a hazy glow. When the car hit, instead of sending the boy flying, it was as if it had crashed into a massive rock, resulting in the car being totaled and the drunk driver dying instantly!
"This…"
Several elders, after watching the video, had their expressions slightly altered, turning rather unsightly.
This video had been released a few days ago and had caused quite a stir online at the time.
It was eventually controlled and deleted. Coupled with various incidents of ferocious beasts running rampant, the issue had gradually faded into obscurity.
Mu Jinyu handed the phone back to Mu Hongchen, saying, "Seeing this video, you all must have some idea, right? It's not just cultivators whose speed of cultivation has dramatically increased in this grand era. Ferocious beasts that consume Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures also mutate. In fact, among humans, there are quite a few who, even without practicing any Cultivation Techniques, have begun to show extraordinary abilities..."
"Even if you disagree with passing down the Cultivation Techniques, do you really know how many people secretly possess superhuman strengths?"
"Some time ago, I went to Luo City to fight over a Strange Stone. Do you know how many Energy Transformation Warriors were there?"
Not waiting for the elders to respond.
Mu Jinyu coldly scoffed, "A total of over a hundred!"
"What?"
"How is that possible?"
The elders, hearing Mu Jinyu's words, altered their expressions drastically, and a hint of horror could be seen in their cloudy eyes.
The number of Masters of Energy Transformation within the country is unknown to the common people, but they were very clear about it. Whenever a Dark Energy Warrior broke through to Master of Energy Transformation, they would immediately send someone to contact them and register their information, closely monitoring their actions.
As long as these Masters of Energy Transformation didn't cause any widespread negative impacts, they would usually turn a blind eye to the life-and-death struggles among personal warriors.
Now, the mere appearance of a Strange Stone in Luo City had drawn over a hundred unregistered Masters of Energy Transformation, which was indeed shocking for them.
They kept track of the actions of the masters; when the news arrived, they knew that four Divine Rankings powerhouses and about ten registered Masters of Energy Transformation were present.
But Mu Jinyu said that the number of people who had gone there was actually in the hundreds. If their information wasn't wrong, then either those Masters of Energy Transformation had teleported there that day, or many unregistered Masters of Energy Transformation had emerged unexpectedly.
From what Mu Jinyu said and the clues they had gathered, it was clearly the latter!
The dark turmoil had only passed a little more than a month ago, and already so many Masters of Energy Transformation had appeared; how many more would appear as time passed?!
This was the reason they couldn't help but lose their composure!
Mu Jinyu said, "In such a short time, without your knowledge, sects, Martial Arts Families, and those power organizations, they all have developed rapidly, and some of their quite capable people have risen quickly during this Spiritual Energy Revival!"
"Our Dragon King Hall now also has dozens of Energy Transformation Warriors, which can be said to be even more splendid than at its peak in the past. The number of God Realm powerhouses has reached a dozen, but I can't guarantee that we can always recruit cultivation geniuses to serve as the core force to suppress these forces and sects!"