Chapter 1072: Chapter 578: Return to the Deep Space Sea, Reunion with Wind Cloud Pride, Battle with the Mechanical Mother Again
Jiang Shu looked up, his face still streaked with blood.
Insect-like Dao Rhyme lingered at the wound, gnawing at his flesh and slowing the recovery of his injury.
"Mother, long time no see."
As Jiang Shu’s mind stirred, the Devouring Law absorbed the laws of the Mechanical Mother, and his wounds instantly healed as he looked up at the Mother in the Void.
"This guy’s realm has already broken through to the Peak of the Tenth Realm, and has read much information from its body. Now, its skills cannot be underestimated."
For the Mechanical Mother, breaking through to the Venerable Realm is effortless.
And the Wind Cloud Pride, with years of accumulated understanding of the Dao, is no less than Jiang Shu. Now emerging, their cultivation speed is a thousand miles a day, aided by some opportunities obtained in the Deep Space Sea, now also breaking through to the Tenth Realm Late Stage, just one step away from the peak.
Zhan Feng’s voice emerged in Jiang Shu’s ear, heavy and grave.
The Mechanical Mother was expressionless, like a lofty deity, and spoke slowly.
"Jiang Shu, I’m giving you one last chance; join the Mechanical Clan and embrace the glory of mechanical existence!"
There was a trace of fanaticism on her face, with invisible allurement wrapped in her words, yet it could not shake Jiang Shu’s Dao Heart.
Jiang Shu shook his head firmly, even with a hint of a smile on his face.
"Until now, I have yet to see any reason why the Mechanical Clan should make me defect. If all you have is talk, then forget it."
The Mechanical Clan is indeed strong, but to this day, Jiang Shu hasn’t seen any Supreme Genius emerging from the Mechanical Clan. It seems only the Mother propels the banner of the Mechanical Clan, which indeed leaves Jiang Shu a bit disappointed.
However, the Mechanical Mother did not become angry at Jiang Shu’s words.
"You will see."
She simply uttered this sentence, then suddenly countless mechanical flying insects burst out, like sharp arrows, shooting toward the three of them.
"With these little skills, you can’t touch me."
Jiang Shu laughed heartily, with thousands of Dao Rhymes emerging through his body, forming a vast protective barrier, blocking all the flying insects outside, not letting them in.
The silvery metallic body rippled with water-like patterns in the Void, and every inch of the Mechanical Mother’s shell shimmered with mercury-like luster.
The twelve suspended crystalline facets at her fingertips rotated like a kaleidoscope, each mirror facet reflecting Jiang Shu’s image.
A 360-degree no-dead-angle combat analysis crazily ran within her core processor.
"Forget Form Realm Peak?"
The Mechanical Mother’s voice momentarily stuttered, something eternal within her seemingly endless life.
Her silver pupils shot out scanning rays, forming an invisible detection net around Jiang Shu.
"Last time I saw you, you had just broken through to Tenth Realm Late Stage."
"Who are you exactly?"
She has lived through countless ages, seen many Supreme Geniuses, even rulers of an era.
But in her database, there has never been a person like Jiang Shu, which makes her deeply shocked, suspecting that Jiang Shu is not actually someone from this era, but perhaps some old monster reborn or akin to her own Body outside the body.
Otherwise, how can Jiang Shu’s realm elevation speed be explained?
The Chaos Thunder Pool suddenly surged with purple lightning reaching three zhang, shredding the scan net to pieces.
Grayish streams hanging from Jiang Shu’s shoulders condensed into ancient chains, the chain ends dangling thirteen virtual shadows of the Great Dao.
"Aren’t you also hiding half a foot into the strength of the Forget Realm?"
He deliberately crushed a floating metal fragment, with mechanical clan’s unique blue energy liquid seeping from the crack.
The dust floating in the space gap suddenly stagnated.
The particles that should have moved chaotically now formed walls and barriers in front of the Mechanical Mother, enshrouding her at the center.
Each of these particles is the Mechanical Mother’s detector, capable of detecting all the nuances within a thousand miles around.
Meanwhile, where Jiang Shu stood, the space fragments seemed summoned by Jiang Shu, hovering beside him, emitting waves to avoid the probes of those particles.
At this moment, Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun, who originally stood tall with chests high, simultaneously let out a muffled groan.
From their wounds drilled out thread-like insects, furiously gnawing at their flesh and the Law Origin within their bodies.
"She still had a backup plan!"
Only now did they realize, those seemingly random wounds, were actually carefully placed data traps by the Mechanical Mother, waiting for the right moment to explode, to claim their lives.
Zhan Feng’s voice still echoed in the space crevice, as the attack of the Mechanical Mother had already arrived.
Those silver-white mechanical flying insects were not physical entities, but manifestations of pure energy laws.
On each flying insect’s wings were tiny runes inscribed, resonating a piercing screech upon vibration, like thousands of sharp blades scraping on glass.
"Be careful!"
Zhan Yun blocked with the Broken Axe, from which burst a curtain of crimson gold light.
The insects crashed into the light curtain, bizarrely opening serrated mouths, frantically gnawing at the axe light.
In Jiang Shu’s eyes, gray Dao Patterns flowed, seeing clearly that these insects were devouring Zhan Yun’s axe intent!
The Mechanical Mother could actually convert the opponent’s Power of Laws into her own energy; this is very similar to his Devouring Law, yet it is not the work of the law, more like the inherent ability of the Mechanical Mother.
"Interesting."
Jiang Shu chuckled, as the Chaos Thunder Pool leaped from the Heavenly Spirit.
The small hands of the Three Holy Embryos formed seals, and the purple lightning submerged in the Thunder Liquid suddenly divided into thousands, each precisely striking a flying insect.
