Chapter 1085: Chapter 584: Upheaval! Taichu Tribulation Thunder! (Part 2)
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Sharp metal prisms occasionally protruded from the vortex, covered with runes of the same origin as the mechanical array just now.
The Mechanical Clan functions in the form of code, and while they can maintain extreme calm and rationality, they also have their own drawbacks.
They cannot possess a steadfast Dao Heart like the Human Clan, which leads to them being disturbed by the Heart Demon, also known as the mechanical virus.
Eliminating the mechanical virus is actually quite simple, just suppress it with powerful cultivation.
However, in the Deep Space Sea, the Mechanical Mother is the strongest among those at the verge of the Venerable Realm, who else can suppress her?
Moreover, a mechanical virus that can infect the essence of the Mechanical Mother is not so easily removed.
"Retreat, retreat!"
Zhan Feng dragged two War Alliance Cultivators back rapidly, and suddenly the space beneath their feet collapsed.
The place where they originally stood was reduced to nothingness by a particle cannon with a diameter of about ten feet.
This wasn’t a traditional energy weapon; the cannon barrel was simulated from the blood and flesh split from the Mechanical Mother’s chest, with grey-blue nerve bundles wriggling inside the barrel at firing.
The residual energy at the muzzle scorched the surrounding space with a charred smell, even the shattered space fragments were melted into glass-like crystals.
"She previously read our combat data, now she’s attacking us, hurry and go!"
Zhan Feng dragged Zhan Yun back quickly for three thousand feet, the Bronze Battle Axe spun into a light wheel in front of him.
The barrier woven with the Power Dao and axe light was now covered with web-like corrosive patterns.
The mechanical virus was analyzing the War Alliance Cultivators’ secret defense Dao Patterns, their injuries had not recovered, and unlike Jiang Shu who had the Taichu Law and Devouring Law to recover quickly, they were impacted again while defending against traps, staying here would only be counterproductive.
"Go!"
Zhan Feng coughed up blood clots mixed with organ fragments, and the Fierce Beast Pattern on his right arm completely extinguished.
He saw clearly, the Mechanical Mother’s silver-white long hair had transformed into liquid metal snakes, the nano-machinery at the hair ends were madly gnawing at the spatial structure.
Yu Tianming glanced at Jiang Shu who was standing before them, then quickly left the scene with the geniuses from Jiuyu Commerce Alliance, following the War Alliance members.
At that moment, Jiang Shu’s Desolate Star Halberd emitted a dragon-like tremor, and thirteen Great Dao Patterns like chains were unleashed at the void pierced by the halberd tip, forcibly shredding the newly formed quantum annihilation cannon of the Mechanical Mother.
The dim Taichu Dao Rhyme reverse-eroded along the data flow, tearing open a crack sparking with electric fire in the Mother’s chest.
"You won’t last for thirty breaths."
The Mechanical Mother’s voice suddenly emerged from all directions.
Her elegant humanoid shell was collapsing, revealing the constantly reassembling mechanical matrix inside.
Each matrix piece reflected Jiang Shu’s combat images, dozens to hundreds of kill plans iterating and evolving amid the collision of nano-machines.
The Chaos Thunder Pool suddenly expanded, and the Dharma Seal formed by the Three Holy Embryos created three halos behind Jiang Shu.
He stepped forward, the space beneath his foot cracked like a mirror, yet what gushed out from the cracks wasn’t void turbulence, but rich Dao Rhyme with overwhelming power.
"To kill you, is enough!"
On the trajectory of the sweeping Desolate Star Halberd, the Power Dao and Devouring Law formed a spiral storm.
When the halberd blade struck the Mother’s left shoulder, the erupting gray light reverted that piece of silver-white armor to basic particles.
But gray-blue mucus immediately surged from the wound, nano-machines reconstructed a new spiked armor like a swarm of ants.
The Mother’s arm suddenly exploded, transforming into a hundred thousand silver-needle-like mini-missiles.
These warheads continuously split during flight, each carrying space folding technology, appearing as three-inch metal stingers, yet unfolding as prism spears spanning a hundred feet.
Jiang Shu’s pupils shrank, his expression turned solemn.
He recognized this as a mechanical method to deal with Venerables, simply put it seals off space, even if a cultivator at the Venerable Realm can appear in different parts of space in an instant, it can be killed without blind spots, a highly potent Great Technique.
At this moment, the Three Holy Embryos stacked their seals.
Purple Sky Divine Thunder poured down from the Chaos Thunder Pool, not to attack the Mother, but to weave a cocoon of lightning around Jiang Shu.
The Taichu Dao Rhyme floating in the thunderlight collided with the space folding Great Technique, the erupting energy turbulence cleared the surrounding thousands of miles to nothingness.
Beneath the cracked armor on the Mother’s chest, the dazzling core crystal suddenly spun at super speed.
"Kill... kill!"
The cold mechanical voice was somewhat hoarse, but as it sounded, gear phantoms suddenly appeared throughout the void.
This was a projection of the Mechanical Divine Country, data floods of silver-blue color flowed through each gear tooth.
The next halberd strike Jiang Shu made stayed suspended in midair, not blocked but his surrounding space was individually segmented into countless frames of different spaces.
"Space Law?!"
"But with just this, it’s not enough to kill me."
Jiang Shu sneered coldly, the Desolate Star Halberd suddenly disintegrated on its own.
The dark golden halberd body returned to his Dantian as primordial Dao Rhyme, replaced by gray-white light sprouting from his palm.
This was a space utilization recorded in the Great Void Heart Scripture, specifically able to cut through spatial shackles.
As the light stabbed into the gear phantom, phoenix True Fire leapt from Jiang Shu’s left eye, Dragon Clan Essence Blood settled in his right eye.
Synchronized by Taichu Dao Rhyme, the two supreme bloodlines at the halberd tip condensed into a spiral drill of red-gold two colors.
"Break!"
Dimensional entrapment shattered like glass, the figure of Jiang Shu breaking free left dozens of lingering time-space remnants.
Each remnant was executing different Great Techniques, finally converging into a wave of Dao Rhyme covering the sky.
The Mother’s silver-white shell suddenly vaporized, she abandoned her humanoid form, transforming into a metal nebula that encompassed half a Star Domain.
Each nano-machine carried a combat memory, the simultaneously released data stream enough to collapse the Sea of Consciousness of any Tenth Realm cultivator.
But Jiang Shu’s Chaos Thunder Pool also collapsed at this moment.
Three Holy Embryos’ tiny hands formed sealing, compressing the Thunder Pool into a sesame-sized black hole.
When this primordial thunder-particle descended into the metal nebula, ancient and mystical letters of Taichu Dao Rhyme were inscribed on its surface.
After a soundless flash, an absolutely dark sphere appeared at the center of the nebula.
It was not a black hole but void returning to chaos, an existence where even space and time were temporarily erased, a third of the Mother’s nano-cluster annihilated in it.
The remaining nebula shrank drastically, the re-coalesced Mother was already unrecognizable.
Her left side remained humanoid and elegant, right side had transformed into a combat form with multiple joints, six jagged metal arms protruded from her shoulder blades, each arm end embedded with Dao Seeds stripped from deceased warriors.
"You are strong."
The mechanical voice carried electronic noise,
"You are worthy of invoking the Mother Nest protocol."
Her chest split open again, revealing a pulsing red core.
This was not an energy device but an egg-shaped crystal engraved with runes, within its cracked gap, Jiang Shu saw imprisoned cultivator souls wailing, those who perished in traps just now.
Even in death, they suffer torment.
The red core’s bursting light dyed the void with blood.
In the light, Jiang Shu saw not mechanical creations but flesh puppets identical to him.
Each puppet replicated his combat posture from a previous battle, even attempting to emulate the frequency of Taichu Dao Rhyme’s waves.
"The flourishing of my Dao cannot be imitated by mere puppets!"
The Law of Power exploded with endless Dao Rhyme, Jiang Shu’s entire body issued the hum of bowstrings.
Every inch of muscle surfaced with dark golden Dao Patterns, even his hair was wrapped in waves of extreme power.
The Nirvana Dao burned into golden flames behind him, unfurling phoenix wings.
Each feather was solidified flame, scattering embers burned the approaching flesh puppets to ashes.
Strings of thunder transformed into gray mist, condensing into a micro Chaos Thunder Pool in his palm.
This Thunder Pool, smaller than sesame, floated with primordial thunder that blended thirteen Great Dao.
"Taichu Tribulation Thunder."
Jiang Shu pressed the Thunder Pool into the Desolate Star Halberd, the halberd body instantly covered with blood vessel-like purple-gold patterns, the halberd tip sparkled not with electric light, but a twisted gray line distorting time-space.
