Yamafu Military Affairs

Chapter 589 Soul Shattered in Kunji
【威灵】(爽灵增强): An enlightened roar that intimidates all spirits. It draws upon the power of the Enlightened Beast, gathers it within the user, and then roars out, stunning enemies for two to five seconds. The sound waves from the roar will also deal a fixed amount of damage to the 爽灵 (Shuangling) among the three souls, and disturb the opponent's mind, causing them to act impulsively, become agitated, or even go insane. The duration of the stun is also doubled.

Although Pilarard had cleverly used his ability to stay airborne and deliver a heavy blow to overcome the freezing and stun effects from the Spirit, he was helpless against the exhilarating special attack attached to the Tiger Roar. His digitized soul consciousness inevitably experienced a fatal disintegration.

Fragments of data, scattered and fragmented, drifted through the space. Qin Huai, with his extraordinary spiritual perception, keenly caught them. He traversed the boundless darkness, his eyes fixed on the towering pagodas before him, where bodhisattvas lay prostrate and Buddhas knelt. The sounds of chanting and sutra recitation drifted through the rain and mist.

"Come out, there's no point in struggling to survive."

Perhaps hearing Qin Huai's mockery, all the screens displaying various colors of light and shadow in the Floating Pagoda Forest began to flicker and turn into white screens. At the center of the white screens were Pilarard's facial features.

"Ah Hu, you are indeed very strong. I now understand why Juan was defeated back then. But this place is a sacred realm where gods and Buddhas manifest. Your [divine essence] foundation is not enough!"

Suddenly, all the electronic devices in the entire virtual space, including the huge light screen on the wall of the Buddhist temple in the distance, the holographic projection, and the neon light boxes, all flickered, leaving only white screens and human faces.

Home appliances, car screens, station advertisements on the circular skyrail, and the entire power system in the dilapidated city were all mobilized by Pilarard. A torrent of data swept across the entire venue, exuding a unique feeling of high harmony and unity, as if he had completely mastered the entire space.

"A cyberpunk version of the unity of man and nature?"

Sensing the subtle changes within the space, Qin Huai narrowed his eyes, his expression thoughtful.

Perhaps because he had come with Chu Qing last time and the battle was quick and decisive, he didn't have a deep understanding of these digital life forms that claimed to be gods and Buddhas and were at least level four. Until just now, he thought that to learn the information that Pilarard knew, he only needed to use Cyber ​​Soul Search, which was no different from dealing with those low-level natives.

But as he pondered the changes in the data flowing around him, he finally realized that to figure out what this Level 4 digital life form, Pilarard, who had reached the seventh palace and could only unleash its full power in the virtual space, knew, he had to shatter that indestructible [divinity] and dissect it in detail.

"Dealing with digital life forms might not work with Tianwu Taotie, but my Kaiming Beast is best at destroying souls and exterminating ghosts!"

Before he finished speaking, a golden-red tiger with nine heads on its neck and a hooked tail emerged from behind him amidst a whirlwind. The Kunlun crystal jade, as sharp as swords, surged and expanded, and the Floating Pagoda Forest, carved with the six realms of sentient beings, instantly shattered and was engulfed in raging flames.

With a thought, Qin Huai took out a gilded incense burner covered with coiled lion patterns from his personal imprint space.

【Ruinao Xiaojinshou · Qinan Agarwood】!
Strengthen your spirit and dispel evil!
The five-colored incense sticks were precisely inserted into the sand and spontaneously combusted, emitting a very complex aroma. The Enlightened Beast roared, its nine golden eyes snapping open, its powerful presence almost overflowing.

An enlightened attitude!
"OM!"

A vast chanting of Buddhist hymns suddenly arose, and the immense data of the entire virtual space materialized into an electromagnetic field that enveloped the city, spreading across the heavens and the earth, omnipresent.

A "person" with no visible signs of prosthetic assembly appeared before Qin Huai. The near-perfectly proportioned muscles and bones, combined with Pilarard's old face, looked bizarre no matter how you looked at it.

boom!
Pilarard leaped forward, and with a deafening roar, half of the floating forest collapsed from the recoil. Exploding sparks of electricity illuminated the two people and the beast in the dim light.

Qin Huai exerted force with his palm, his legs as steady as anchors, but he was sent flying by a punch from Pilarard, who had the support of the entire virtual space data. He crashed into two tenement buildings before finally stopping, his boots trailing on the ground with a stain of mixed colors. A sharp, piercing pain immediately spread from the soles of his feet upwards.

"Pollution data?"

Qin Huai frowned, casually flicked out three incense sticks and inserted them into the accompanying [Ruinao Xiaojin Beast]. The wafting sandalwood fragrance immediately dispelled the abnormal state of the bone-attached beast.

【Ruinao Xiaojinshou - Ox-Head Sandalwood】!
When the six senses are in harmony, the mind is as clear as ice!

In the blink of an eye, amidst the swirling winds, Pilarard leaped up again, unleashing a single palm strike. The immense force it carried was like a tsunami, causing mountains to crumble and the earth to split—simply unmatched.

Qin Huai looked at Pilarard, who had come to him of his own accord, and made no move, as if he was waiting for something.

Roar! ! !
The mighty tiger roar that could shatter gold and split rocks suddenly rang out. The sound waves, which should have been formless and intangible, were inexplicably coated with a layer of five colors, showing ripples. As they swept over Pilarard, the strong body formed from the divine essence shattered in the blink of an eye, like paper scraps meeting fire or dust touching water, turning into sand and completely dissipating, just like floating dust hitting water.

At the same time, everything touched by the colorful sound waves—the Buddhist monastery, the pagoda, the dimly lit underground beehive, and even those empty, blurry outlines of chaotic color blocks—was destroyed and erased, disintegrated into the most primitive data characters, and floated away in all directions.

【Divine Seed - Soul Split Kunji】: A divine seed that can only be used in the Enlightened state after breaking through the third peak. Every move of the Enlightened Beast will be accompanied by 【Soul Split】, which has great destructive power and is especially effective on the soul and spirit. When combined with inherited skills, it can cause irreversible "destruction" or "damage" to the enemy's three souls and seven spirits. The specific effect is related to specialization, the secret treasure of Yama, the target of damage and other factors.

Large swaths of characters alternating between "zero," "one," "yin," and "yang" appeared in Qin Huai's palm, transforming into chains that gathered the fragments of information from the shattered divine essence of Pilarard and reorganized them into text.

"Come, let me see just how much the Brahma Group knows about Luwu Heavy Industry."

Qin Huai's eyes gleamed, and his mind was immediately immersed in the vast and boundless divine information.
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Singapore Port, the seat of the coalition government, Raffles House.

The night rain, with its flashing neon lights, still lingers like a nightmare, looming over the heads of countless ordinary people.

As Asia's largest self-governing corporate city-state, since the Divine Grace Incident, the giant corporations in Singapore and Malaysia, no longer controlled by religious oligarchs, realized the shift in the political climate and quickly formed a united government, dispatching their corporate armed forces to suppress and quell the unrest within the city.

However, even today, the well-funded United Government has failed to completely eradicate the rebels. While the decline of the Spirit Realm has prevented them from using large-scale armed forces, the company's top management believes that the key figure leading the rebels is of paramount importance.

“Pilalad’s backup has been activated. Something has happened in Borneo.”

Inside the meeting room, Rajnath, the last remaining director of the Brahma Group, suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Lee Lotte, the president of Temasek Biotechnology, with a somewhat anxious expression.

"Impossible. The Borneo rebels are just a bunch of scattered soldiers. Even if the traitor from the Yin-Yang School went with his men, the 'Culprit' squad led by 'Ten Directions Floating Pagoda' would be enough to take them down, not to mention the 'Chao Clan's' Owl-type fighter jet array. As long as that person doesn't show up." After his subconscious rebuttal, Li Luote suddenly realized something and immediately frowned, asking, "Rajnat, has Pilarard sent back any news? Did that man make his move?"

"Him? Impossible! But Pirala's divinity was indeed shattered, and he couldn't escape back via the satellite channel. Could it really be him?!"

Thinking of what Chu Qing did in the Spirit Realm half a year ago, Rajnath, though not present at the time, still felt a chill run down his spine, and his words were filled with intense emotional turmoil.

"If the [divine essence] is shattered, then it's not worth much. Let's mobilize the company's armed forces and go to Borneo to investigate. If it really is that man who has returned, there's no use running to the ends of the earth. We might as well return to the Spirit Realm as soon as possible to lay low."

Upon learning this news, Li Luote opened the holographic screen on the conference table and put all of Temasek's bio-modification forces on combat readiness.

"All twenty of Brahma's gods will be mobilized this time, striving for victory in one battle."

Rajnath took a deep breath, his face flushed unusually.

"The Chao Clan will deploy 8,000 'Evil Owl' drones. In addition, during this period, the Chao Clan can deploy 'Fierce Shark Security' to fill any gaps in the city's defense of Singapore and Hong Kong."

A burly man with a robust build and a body that gleamed with the unique black sheen of titanium alloy crossed his fingers and placed them on the table, speaking in a deep voice.

"The Aurora Trauma Team is dedicated to serving you and will do everything in its power to ensure your safety."

The beautiful woman in the white suit gave a formulaic smile and spoke with impeccable composure.

Soon, several behemoths that formed a coalition government reached a consensus on the Borneo issue, and tens of thousands of [Shark Type 4] intelligent robot troops entered the city one after another to take over the city's defense.

Lilott and Rajnath, among others, were in the command center directing operations, assigning the Twenty Deities to each lead four hundred Evil Owl Drones and eight hundred genetically modified bio-engineered beings, departing from Xinma Port and heading towards Borneo.

Li Luote believed that being in the city, protected by the defensive system of the divine temples, meant that even if the Yin-Yang School traitor in the resistance army used the favoritism of the spiritual realm to mobilize a large amount of computing power to attack directly, he could still hold on with the other companies.

But since the enemy is in the dark while we are in the light, we feel more at ease once we firmly grasp the initiative.

After assigning detailed instructions for the clearing operation, Li Luote stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window on the top floor of the Raffles Building, looking down at the city's buildings hundreds of meters below and towards Borneo to the east.

Suddenly, the advanced prosthetic eye embedded in his eye socket locked onto a small black dot flying at high speed in his field of vision, projecting a bright red warning sign. The internal files of Temasek Biotechnology Company opened in the next instant, with the title "[S003: Ah Hu]!"
"Oh no, the experimental subject has gone out of control! Could it be that he was responsible for the accident in Borneo?!"

That being said, after using his prosthetic eye to focus and scan the airspace without seeing Ah Niu, the man who terrified countless giants and oligarchs, Li Luote breathed a sigh of relief. All the defensive measures he had prepared in advance to deal with the resistance army were activated, and countless missiles and lasers flew out from all parts of the city, shooting towards the tiny black dot in the sky.

Li Luote kept a close eye on the little black dot's every move, hoping to take this opportunity to collect more practical performance data that the company's laboratory had not yet gathered.

Temasek specializes in gene technology, bioengineering, and microbial modulation, but has not invested much in the development of machines and prosthetics. Therefore, although they had fought several battles in the pursuit of the aftermath of the Ninja, their lack of war experience meant they could not properly assess Qin Huai's strength.

After all, the difference between the battle at the border and Qin Huai's subsequent fighting prowess while he was hiding and running around was like night and day, which made Temasek's senior management repeatedly doubt whether they had arrested the wrong person.

However, these arrests were not entirely without benefit. At least they made it clear to them that Ah Hu and Ah Niu really had nothing to do with Lu Wu Heavy Industry and did not have any secret collusion with the Cyber ​​Gods and Buddhas as they had feared. Otherwise, if the maverick Lu Wu Heavy Industry had acted as an inside agent and betrayed the Cyber ​​Gods and Buddhas by attacking their present-day altar, Li Luote would feel uneasy just thinking about it.

Hello, Singapore and Portland!

The holographic projection in the conference room on the top floor of the Raffles Building suddenly switched, accompanied by some noise, and appeared a strange beast with flames all over its body, nine heads, a tiger's body, and a hooked tail. Its deep and powerful voice rang out and entered the ears of everyone present.

Upon hearing the voice, Li Luote's eyebrows suddenly bulged, then slowly calmed down. He turned around with a normal expression, facing the Enlightened Beast, whose appearance had a strong savage style, and spoke calmly.

"Ancient myths say that the Kaiming Beast is the guardian of the Heavenly Emperor's palace in Kunlun, and also a reliable subordinate of Prime Minister Lu Wu. May I ask which director of Lu Wu Heavy Industry you are?"

The ability to hack into the Raffles Building, protected by sacred Buddhist temples, leaving numerous giant corporations and oligarchs helpless, can only be accomplished by the most elite hackers.

As far as Li Luote knew, the rebel leader, Shao Siming, did not possess such technology.

Moreover, the ability to control the central control display screen of the Raffles Building in an instant also proves that this person can influence the [Shark Type 4] that the Chao family just rotated out of, and even interfere with the military facilities controlled by the Singapore-Malaysia-Hong Kong Joint Government, in the same short period of time.

In a world where cyber gods and Buddhas can no longer act with impunity, such top-tier hackers are undoubtedly a Damocles' sword hanging over the heads of many companies.

Considering all these factors, Li Luote had to speak cautiously and carefully probe the identity of the visitor.

"I never expected that in this barren and malaria-ridden land of Southeast Asia, there would be someone as intelligent as you. You can call me Kaiming. I've come to greet you today because there's a collaboration we need to discuss."

The nine faces of the Enlightened Beast stared intently at Li Luote, a slight smile curving its lips: "Our soldier got lost after completing a mission in Xinma Port. Due to the changes in the Spirit Realm over the past six months, the company has been unable to contact him in time. Now, we would like to ask for your help to find him and return him to our headquarters."

Upon hearing this, the gazes of everyone present toward the Enlightened Beast immediately turned strange.

(End of this chapter)