Chapter 1073: Chapter 578: Returning to the Deep Space Sea, Meeting Wind Cloud Pride Again, Battle with the Mechanical Mother_2
Explosions echoed endlessly as the silver-white swarm of insects disintegrated in the purple lightning storm. Yet, a strange curve appeared at the corner of the Mechanical Mother’s mouth.
The scattered insect remnants did not disappear; instead, they turned into silver light points and hovered in mid-air.
These light points interconnected, weaving into a giant net that covered the sky in the blink of an eye.
Every node on the net displayed the Dao Rhyme trajectory of Jiang Shu’s earlier thunder skill, completely replicating his attack method!
"Brother Jiang, watch out!"
Zhan Feng roared as he swung his fist towards the Silver Net.
The Power Dao gathered on his fist. The force, powerful enough to shatter mountains, fell into the Silver Net like a clay ox into the sea.
The Silver Net was exceptionally resilient, dispersing the violent fist force across each node and bouncing it back, causing Zhan Feng’s tiger’s mouth to split open.
The Mechanical Mother’s silver hair moved without wind as her fingertips lightly tapped the Void.
"Analysis complete. Replicating thunder skill..."
As her voice fell, the entire Silver Net suddenly contracted. Each node on the net erupted with Purple Sky Divine Thunder identical to Jiang Shu’s!
Even more terrifying, amidst the replicated lightning were silver threads, exhibiting the energy corrosion characteristic unique to the Mechanical Clan.
"What a tactic!"
Jiang Shu laughed instead of showing fear, sweeping the Desolate Star Halberd to carve out a dark gold arc light.
The moment the Halberd Tip touched the Thunder Net, the unparalleled Power Dao surged through, encompassing the Sharpness Law as well, unmatched in the Tenth Realm.
The copied purple lightning twisted and deformed suddenly, with silver threads snapping one after another.
The Mechanical Mother’s pupils contracted abruptly.
She saw that her meticulously woven Law network was being dismantled by some higher-level power.
It wasn’t a simple destruction but a fundamental negation of the replication basis of the thunder skill!
"Taichu Dao, returning to origin!"
Before Jiang Shu’s Halberd stance retracted, his left fist, wrapped in thirteen Great Dao Embryos, blasted forth.
Where the fist wind passed, the metal remnants floating in the space crevice were all pulverized.
The Mechanical Mother finally showed a change in expression.
She crossed her arms to block, with a honeycomb-shaped defensive matrix surfacing on the silver-white shell.
The fist force collided with the matrix, its explosive shockwaves clearing the stray energy within a hundred feet around.
"Crack!"
The crisp sound of shattering resounded through the Void. The armor on the Mechanical Mother’s right arm cracked in a web-like pattern, with a streak of silver-blue Energy Liquid seeping from the fissure.
Zhan Yun widened her eyes in disbelief.
She and her brother had battled arduously for three days without good results, and yet Jiang Shu broke through the opponent’s defense with a single punch!
"Your growth curve... is abnormal..."
The Mechanical Mother’s voice showed fluctuation for the first time, with scanning beams forming dense grids around Jiang Shu,
"Since the last meeting just a month ago, your realm’s growth speed has already surpassed my estimates by thousands of times."
"It truly surprises me."
Jiang Shu flicked his wrist, pointing the Halberd Tip at the Mechanical Mother’s forehead.
"There’s even more to surprise you."
Before the words fell, his figure suddenly blurred.
It wasn’t teleportation but a more mysterious state.
He seemed to exist in every corner of the space crevice simultaneously, yet it seemed as though he hadn’t moved at all.
This state only exist when one begins to truly touch the Space Law!
The Mechanical Mother’s core processor issued frantic alarms.
Her prediction system completely failed, forcing her to instinctively transform her left arm into a rhomboid shield.
Dozens of crystals on the shield surface lit up simultaneously, forming a multi-layered defense method.
Bang!
The Desolate Star Halberd struck the shield’s center. What seemed a casual blow shattered the dozens of force fields like bubbles in a row.
Gray Dao Rhyme drilled through the cracks into the Mechanical Mother’s core, causing her entire left arm to uncontrollably twist and deform, with piercing friction noises emanating from beneath the silver-white shell.
"Law pollution?!"
The Mechanical Mother finally exclaimed, promptly severing her left arm. The remnant turned into a pool of silver-blue liquid mid-air.
That liquid should have immediately reassembled, instead constantly evaporated while wrapped in the Gray Dao Rhyme.
Zhan Feng watched with boiling blood. He had never imagined someone could combat the Mechanical Clan in this manner.
Instead of a hard-hitting clash, it was dismantling the opponent’s Law structure from the root!
"It’s not over yet."
Jiang Shu suddenly spun, with the Desolate Star Halberd swirling a full-moon trajectory.
Where the Halberd Blade passed, a pitch-black rift tore open in the space crevice.
Flowing out from the rift was not the usual Void turbulence but some more primal, Chaotic Aura.
The Mechanical Mother showed a grave expression, with her remaining arm rapidly morphing, extending three silver-white barrels from her palm.
The barrel had no energy accumulation process and directly fired deep blue beams. This wasn’t an energy attack, but a highly compressed Space Law realization!
The blue beam collided with the black rift, causing no earth-shattering explosion, only a chilling extinguishment phenomenon.
The space at the collision point vanished silently, like pencil drawing erased by a rubber, revealing the bizarre space layer behind.
"Go!"
Zhan Feng tugged his sister back swiftly.
They were now heavily injured, with only a fraction of their abilities intact. This level of engagement was beyond their involvement.
Zhan Yun kept her gaze fixed on the battlefield, with the Axe Spirit wailing in her Sea of Consciousness.
It was the instinctive tremble faced with higher-level forces.
Jiang Shu had a trickle of fresh blood at the corner of his mouth.
Forcing the Taichu Dao Rhyme was still a burden to him now, yet his eyes burned with even greater combat intent.
The Chaos Thunder Pool suddenly inverted, with the Three Holy Embryos leaping out, containing Great Dao mantras.
The Mechanical Mother suddenly froze when detecting anomalies in her core processor.
Some undecipherable Law was rewriting her base logic!
Gray patterns emerged rapidly across the surface of her silver-white body as if corroding.
"Warning! Core protocol breached!"
The mechanical alarm was squeezed out from her throat, clear to even Jiang Shu.
Her chest armor suddenly cracked open, revealing the pulsating crimson core inside.
The core surface was covered with golden circuits, flickering at a terrifying rate.
In a dazzling flash, countless silver light points exploded from the Mechanical Mother, transforming her entirely into a data stream that dissipated into the Void.
Only her final warning echoed in the space crevice.
"Jiang Shu, the Mechanical Divine Country has marked your soul wavelength..."
"You can’t escape."
Zhan Yun exhaled deeply, letting the Broken Axe slip from her grip.
She only then realized the cold sweat soaking her back. In those few brief seconds of engagement, every second was enough to collapse the Dao Heart of an ordinary Tenth Realm cultivator.
"She escaped?"
Zhan Feng looked incredulously at the spot where the Mechanical Mother vanished,
"That’s the Mother of the Mechanical Clan, who knows how many years she has reigned in corners of the cosmic, yet she would flee?!"
Jiang Shu wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, using the Desolate Star Halberd to steady himself.
"She was injured when she engaged with you before, just now she was struggling at the end."
He then began coughing suddenly, with gray sheen blood seeping through his fingers.
"Brother Jiang!"
Zhan Feng hurried to support him, only to recoil as if shocked by electricity.
What surged through Jiang Shu wasn’t True Yuan but some more primal energy, just contacting it started crystallizing the skin of his fingertips.
"No problem."
Jiang Shu waved dismissively, as the Taichu Dao Rhyme withdrew the alien energy corroding Zhan Feng.
"Let’s leave this damned place first."
The Mechanical Mother was at the end of her strength, and Jiang Shu was no different, his severe injuries yet to recover. Coupled with the vast vital energy and blood exhausted breaking through the Realm, Jiang Shu was not in an optimistic state now. This was the primary reason he had tried to avoid battle before entering this space.
He forced himself to stand straight, as the Chaos Thunder Pool rotated slowly above his head.
The Three Holy Embryos seemed overly drained, currently curling into sleep.
But as he glanced over a spot in the space crevice, gray Dao Patterns reignited in his pupils.
"There."
Jiang Shu pointed the Halberd Tip at a point in the Void, concise.
"Three strikes as one can break the barrier."
Zhan Feng didn’t hesitate, force from Power Dao gathered at his right fist.
This time, he held nothing back, with a micro black hole-like distortion appearing around the fist.
Zhan Yun also picked up the Broken Axe, with ancient runes lighting up on the remaining ax blade.
This was her ace in the hole, originally intended for a desperate struggle with the Mechanical Mother, she hadn’t thought she would encounter Jiang Shu.
"Attack!"
