Right now, Su Jie felt terrifyingly strong, even against a Second or Third Layer Heaven Taoist Platform Realm expert, Su Jie felt he could still put up a fight.
The higher the cultivation level, the harder it is to challenge higher levels, but Su Jie had this confidence.
"Now, it's time to consider how to break through to the Taoist Platform Realm. Only at that level can one be considered a significant figure who can call the wind and summon the rain in the Tianyuan World."
Su Jie murmured to himself, filled with anticipation for the future.
The Secret Realm involves cultivating the five internal organs; the essence from these organs reaching the seven orifices, this is the path to the Taoist Platform Realm.
The seven orifices correspond to the sea of consciousness, each orifice opened corresponds to one layer in the cultivation, totaling seven layers.
It sounds easy, but achieving this is extremely difficult.
One only needs to compare the Secret Realm and the Taoist Platform Realm to see this. In the vast Ghost Ridge Palace of the Demon Sect, with dozens of Secret Realm Elders, there is only one Zhang Junwei at the Taoist Platform Realm.
If breaking through to the Taoist Platform Realm was easy, there would be several more figures at this level in Ghost Ridge Palace.
"Every person has seven orifices: food, hearing, sight, breath. The ear is the essence orifice, the eye is the spirit orifice, the nose is the qi orifice, and the mouth is the transformative orifice. Where should I start?"
Su Jie murmured to himself, planning to meticulously plot his path to the Taoist Platform Realm, attempting all seven orifices to find the best breakthrough point.
After tidying up, Su Jie turned and left the underground poisonous insect training base.
Breaking through to the Taoist Platform Realm is not something achievable in a short moment, Su Jie has time to ponder slowly.
After this period of training, Su Jie has been in secluded cultivation for a week.
Immediately upon emerging, Su Jie received a call from Liu Yingying.
"Su Jie, the Beautiful Country's election has ended, Jesmine won the election victory."
The moment the call connected, Liu Yingying reported the most heavyweight news to Su Jie.
"Oh, the pro-war faction has taken power, good news! Let's give them a welcome gift, celebrate along with them."
Hearing the news, Su Jie instead showed a smile, considering this quite good news for him.
The Beautiful Country's election finally concluded. Because of the scandal from the Los Angeles Olympics, and the subsequent Camp Town incident, despite President Lawrence's best efforts to shift the blame, he was still burdened with the fallouts, causing his public approval ratings to plummet continually.
Originally, Lawrence still had a slight chance of winning, but in the final stretch before the election, a series of scandals erupted fiercely, causing his support to completely collapse.
The outcome was clear: the Democratic Party's candidate, Jesmine Holland, a vigorous President just over fifty years old, successfully ascended, taking control of the Beautiful Country, the Blue Star Dominator.
One of Jesmine Holland's campaign slogans was to crack down on the Jieke Group, severely punish any forces that dared to challenge, making the Beautiful Country great again.
His methods compared to his predecessor Lawrence were much tougher; he was a staunch pro-war faction.
To be precise, the forces backing him included the military-industrial complex as the main pushers. Having been nominated, the elected needed to fulfill political promises, giving due returns as there are no free lunches in this world.
This is also the result of interest conflicts between capital tycoons; the competing sides support different candidates, whoever's supported candidate gains power will see more benefits and development during the term.
It's often said that new officials set three fires. Mere hours after his inauguration ceremony in January next year, Jesmine signed up to 19 executive orders, nullifying 12 of the procedures implemented by former President Lawrence.
Among these new executive orders were initiatives to strengthen cooperation with Thousand Island Strategic Alliance member countries, expand domestic arms production and procurement, and increase the troop presence across various Southeast Asia outposts...
Simultaneously, Jesmine actively removed dissidents, swiftly appointing a batch of his trusted officials.
These appointees didn't just represent one person; behind them were entire industries or massive interest groups.
Many among them had worked for or cooperated with arms companies, and their appointments signaled Jesmine's interest orientation.
One surprising decision was to keep Judith as the CIA Director, continuing his tenure.
Meanwhile, seemingly in opposition, on the same day as Beautiful Country's new President's inauguration.
The Jieke Group grandly announced the completion of the Kra Isthmus Canal and held a massive celebration for it.
In Siam, Kra Isthmus Canal.
On this day, numerous high-ranking officials and wealthy merchants attended the event.
As an investor in the Kra Isthmus Canal, Wang Lin from Wanda Group was also present.
The scene for this ceremony was set in a luxury hotel built by Wanda Group. From the hotel's observation deck, one could see the surging waters of the Kra Isthmus Canal.
This Kra Isthmus Canal is about seven hundred meters wide, over sixty meters deep, and 102 kilometers long, capable of navigating all the world's known ships.
Approaching the canal, many supporting facilities were already set up: docks, ports, cranes, warehouse areas, railways, etc.
Seeing this grand canal, Wang Lin couldn't help but praise: "What an extraordinary work of architecture, completing it in such a short time, this engineering prowess is astonishing."
Wang Lin also knew that the canal had actually been dug through some time ago; it was only the completion ceremony that had not been held yet.