Chapter 1086: Chapter 585: Fortune at Last!
Along the trajectory swept by a thin line, three thousand puppets simultaneously froze.
They seemed intact on the surface, but the Dao Rhyme structures deep within their bodies had been completely dismantled.
When the Mechanical Mother tried to recall these combat data again, all the puppets suddenly collapsed, turning into scattered dust, dispersed by the Taichu Tribulation Thunder.
Crack! Crack!
The core crystal of the Mother showed cracks for the first time, looking as if it could collapse at any moment.
This Taichu Tribulation Thunder was a brand new Great Technique that Jiang Shu recently comprehended. It primarily used the Taichu Law to attack, employing the unreasonable restoration method of Taichu Law. Although its destructive power was slightly weaker than such ultimate slaughter techniques as the Panwu Heaven Opening Axe and the Qi Swallowing Vientiane Fist, in terms of ingenuity, it was undoubtedly among the best of the Great Techniques mastered by Jiang Shu.
The Mechanical Mother extended four more arms from her side, six mechanical arms suddenly plunged into her abdomen, pulling out a giant sword entwined with blue light from the quantum warehouse within her body.
This was a Dimension Blade forged from layers of shattered space. Every time the sword vibrates, it would summon thousands of sword shadows in parallel timelines.
"It’s useless."
Jiang Shu’s figure suddenly faded. It wasn’t a high-speed moving afterimage, but his true form existing simultaneously at different time points.
When the Dimension Blade slashed through his "present" self, the "past" Jiang Shu had already shattered two of the Mother’s mechanical arms with the Desolate Star Halberd, while the "future" Jiang Shu struck her back with a palm.
This was not the effect of the Time Law, but rather an application of space. More accurately, it should be called a body outside the body of Jiang Shu.
The attacks in three states descended simultaneously, finally breaking the graceful left side of the Mechanical Mother.
Exposed under the silver-white shell was not a mechanical structure but wriggling gray-blue neural bundles. These nerve bundles, resembling biological tissue, pulsed with signals extremely similar to the brainwaves of the Human Clan.
"So, you were polluted long ago."
Jiang Shu sneered, and the Chaos Thunder Pool suddenly overturned.
The Purple Sky Divine Thunder was no longer an attacking means but turned into Thunder Water pouring into the Mother’s damaged shell.
Each drop of Thunder Water carried the Taichu Dao Rhyme, rushing directly to the core processor along the nerve cords.
The Mother made a harsh metallic scraping sound, shouting loudly.
Her remaining four limbs suddenly detached from the torso, reorganizing in the air into four rotating serrated flywheels.
The closed loops formed by the flywheels cutting space surprisingly built a space-time labyrinth around Jiang Shu.
At the same time, the core crystal was overclocked to the limit, and the dozen or so mirrors in front simultaneously projected the phantom of the Mechanical Divine Country, vaguely revealing the splendid mechanical kingdom within.
"Final Protocol!"
Amidst the roaring sound of gears meshing, Jiang Shu saw the steel city’s holographic projection emerge in the void.
It was not an illusion but an entity attack summoned by the Mechanical Mother burning her core.
The entire city descended from the sky, with each brick possessing the power to crush an ordinary Tenth Realm genius.
"This is finally interesting!"
At the moment the steel city projection pressed down, the Chaos Thunder Pool behind Jiang Shu exploded with a roar as well.
The Three Holy Embryos simultaneously formed seals with both hands, and countless blood energy and Dao Rhyme transformed into purple-gold flowing light, immersing into the Desolate Star Halberd. The thirteen Great Dao Patterns began to circulate and hover on the halberd body as if they came alive, condensing into a drop of grayish Primordial Thunder Paste at the halberd tip.
"Go!"
Within just a moment, the drop of Thunder Paste fell into the projection of the Mechanical Divine Country.
There was no earth-shaking explosion, only a chilling moment of nothingness.
The gears began to collapse, making sounds of metal crumbling and rubbing that would set one’s teeth on edge. Jiang Shu could see a flash of humanized panic in the Mother’s eyes.
This Mechanical Ancestor finally realized what kind of person she was facing.
The cracks on the core crystal of the Mechanical Mother spread like a spider web, gray-blue liquid seeping out from the fissures, vaporizing into mist the moment it met the Taichu Tribulation Thunder, and a vast Dao Rhyme emanated.
Jiang Shu’s nostrils were filled with the acrid smell of burning metal, and the muscles in his right arm suddenly knotted and swelled.
The Power Dao condensed into dark gold meridians under the skin, each pulsating with the frenzied rhythm of the Law of Power.
"Slash!"
The Desolate Star Halberd suddenly deformed, the thirteen Great Dao Patterns on the halberd body slithered like live snakes, converging into an axe shadow at the halberd tip.
This axe strike, seemingly a simple chop, actually contained all of Jiang Shu’s understanding of the ultimate power.
Before the axe blade fell, the front space had spontaneously collapsed, revealing pitch-black void, and hundreds of space fragments emitted cries of distress under unbearable pressure.
The six mechanical arms of the Mother crossed to block, instantly revealing a honeycomb-shaped force field matrix on the arm armor.
This was a defense program she developed after analyzing the Protective Dao, theoretically capable of dispersing any physical impact.
But Jiang Shu’s Panwu Heaven Opening Axe never cared for "theory."
At the moment when the axe shadow touched the force field, the matrix shattered like thin ice.
The metal of the mechanical arms didn’t break; instead, it was smashed and restored directly to the most basic particles.
The Taichu Dao Rhyme wrapped around the Law of Power, able to forcibly restore the contacted matter to a state of chaos.
The Mother’s right side combat form instantaneously vaporized, with gray mist surging at the cross-section, even nano-machines unable to regenerate.
"Warning, the material’s fundamental level is beginning to collapse..."
The mechanical voice abruptly stopped. Jiang Shu’s left fist had already struck toward her exposed core crystal, the fist wind carving a kilometer-long vacuum corridor in space.
It was the Qi Swallowing Vientiane Fist about to burst forth!
This punch seemed straightforward, but every inch that the fist edge advanced, layers of space were compressed, transforming into the momentum of Jiang Shu’s attack, charging forward.
