Witch Wind

Chapter 427 Mechanical Catastrophe (Part 2)

It was a thin spike made of completely pure single-crystal silicon.

It contains no impurities.

It is filled with the unique Taoist principles and charm of silicon-based civilization.

Like a ghost, it tore through the void and teleported to Liu Bei's chest.

Throughout the entire battlefield, countless Shu Han and Sun Wu warriors engaged in battle, along with numerous powerful cultivators and generals from both sides, including Xing Tianli, all heard an extremely fierce roar coming from the darkness: "Liu Bei, die!"

purely.

Fierce and cruel.

Unscrupulous.

Unabashedly.

The target of this thin thorn was Liu Bei.

The purpose of this thin thorn was to kill Liu Bei.

Kill him, destroy his soul, seize his physical body, and plunder his Dao foundation.

There was nothing to hide. The moment this thin stinger shot out, it had already completely attached its ultimate goal to it. Through waves of violent vibrations and the ever-expanding Daoist energy, it declared to the entire universe that they wanted Liu Bei dead and that they wanted to seize Liu Bei's saintly body!

Xing Tianli saw that ray of light.

His gaze, however, could not lock onto that streak of light. He could only turn his head blankly, straining to look back in the direction the streak of light had flown—he strained so hard that his neck bones and muscles made a loud 'crack' sound, almost dislocating his own neck.

Sun Ce, who was being fiercely attacked by Xing Tianli and was struggling to breathe, let out a loud roar.

Together with more than a dozen of the most powerful generals of Sun Wu, they raised their weapons and, taking advantage of the moment when Xing Tianli turned around to look, launched a frenzied counterattack against him in that one-in-a-billion-finger-second moment.

The terrible blow struck Xing Tianli.

More than a dozen powerful figures, some at the late Quasi-Saint stage and others at the peak of Quasi-Saint stage, joined forces. Their purple robes rippled with purple energy, neutralizing most of the attacks. However, countless terrifying attacks and numerous fighting techniques still slammed into Xing Tianli.

Xing Tianli's body slammed shut with a tremendous roar, like the tolling of a giant bell. He retreated step by step, unhurriedly.

Even with Sun Ce and the others joining forces, all they could do was cause him excruciating pain and make him lose his footing, staggering backward. That was all. Although his cultivation level was still a little short of Quasi-Saint, after experiencing the trials of more than a hundred small and medium-sized worlds and refining the Heavenly Dao of those worlds, Xing Tianli's physical body had become ridiculously powerful.

At least, the fact that a quasi-saint level attack could cause him excruciating pain was already quite good.

This proves that Sun Ce and his companions' training was indeed useful!
Sun Ce even managed to break through Xing Tianli's skin with his spear, the tip of which gleamed coldly as it pierced through Xing Tianli's muscles, penetrating several feet deep.

Well, given Xing Tianli's current height of over a hundred miles and the several-foot-deep wound, it's quite something...

Feeling the sting, Xing Tianli didn't even bother to turn around. He just screamed hoarsely, "Uncle Liu, be careful..."

Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and other generals of Shu Han all charged back with their full strength.

Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, who had been sitting next to Liu Bei, suddenly had a phantom image of the Eight Trigrams rise behind him. He communicated with the giant creations in the void, including the Twelve Yuan Chen, the Thirty-Six Heavenly Generals, the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends, and the Three Hundred and Sixty Star Lords, and truly activated the strongest array power he had mastered.

'Pfft'.

The moment Prime Minister Zhuge's grand formation was activated, it was shattered by that ray of light.

This is an attack at the level of a saint. Faced with the power of a saint, even a prodigy like Prime Minister Zhuge Liang would be unable to do anything.

Liu Bei remained calm as he watched the streak of light draw closer and closer.

What was almost invisible to Xing Tianli and the others was so clear in his eyes—Xiu San San's cultivation was not much higher than Liu Huangshu's.

"Is this the sign of danger that I sensed earlier?" Liu Bei smiled, and then drew his sword.

Two longswords, radiating warmth, soared into the air, and two long dragons roared to the sky, tracing an extremely graceful path as they struck the thin stream of light.

'choke'!
The tiny spikes shattered and exploded into a shower of powder.

Liu Huangshu stood up, gripped a pair of swords tightly in his hands, and said with a smile, "Second brother, third brother, everyone, don't forget that the Gu Ying sword technique we have prepared is also famous throughout the world."

Xing Tianli's eyes twitched violently.

He suddenly remembered that in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Liu Bei was a seemingly weak and vulnerable man who traveled around with his family. However, although it was not mentioned in the official history, it was recorded in some Ming and Qing dynasty books that Liu Bei was a master swordsman of the Gu Ying sword technique and one of the top sword masters in the late Han dynasty.

Tsk, Xing Tianli believes such records.

After all, look at Liu Bei's two long arms that almost reach past his knees when he hangs down. If such arms were to wield a sword, they would naturally have a huge advantage over those with short arms.

Such physical characteristics, wow.

When Liu Huangshu drew his sword, even Xing Tianli was momentarily stunned by the two sword beams—Liu Huangshu's sword, though seemingly simple, was actually ancient and unadorned, with a subtle charm of unpretentious grandeur.

However, his swordsmanship does not seem to be a simple swordsmanship.

In his sword, Xing Tianli saw a kind of persistence, a kind of compassion, and a strange power that, like thick earth, could bear the weight of all people.

Liu Bei held a sharp sword in his hand, but had no sword in his heart.

His sword was merely a tool; the path he pursued was far more profound.

Xing Tianli smacked his lips. No wonder. A few days ago, when Xing Tianli brought out the Tongtian Cauldron, Liu Huangshu clearly saw the "Tongtian Sword Manual" on it, but he did not seem to show the slightest interest. As a swordsman, he did not show the reaction that a swordsman should have to such a supreme swordsmanship.

Countless thoughts churned in Xing Tianli's mind, while over there, Master Zhang was already shouting and cursing wildly.

Uh, the sheer volume of his curses shattered the tens of thousands of Sun Wu warships arrayed in battle formation before him.

As for the 'pleasant' words that Zhang Sanye uttered... cough, cough, can you expect a veteran who has fought on the battlefield all his life to speak eloquently, or expect his curses to be full of elegant classical phrases?

It was probably because what Master Zhang said was really too harsh.

Then, another streak of light shot out.

This time, the streak of light pierced directly at Zhang Sanye's vital point between his eyebrows. A terrifying killing intent filled the void. The same pure silicon thorn, with its terrifying killing intent, resounded in everyone's minds—'Die, die, die, die, die!'
There was no explanation, no elaboration.

This attack was simply intended to kill Master Zhang, to annihilate his soul and body.

Liu Huangshu's body swayed, appearing out of thin air in front of Zhang Sanye. He brandished his twin swords, and sword light rose again. In the void, it seemed as if a city stood, with hundreds of millions of people living and multiplying within it. A blazing 'human energy' surged from the chilling sword light, accurately striking the thin thorn.

'choke'!
The thin thorn was also crushed.

Liu Bei slowly said, "What world is this, and which sage is before me? Liu Xuande is here."

Xing Tianli swung the rapidly transforming Tongtian Miaozhu, unleashing a terrifying torrent of divine light, and slashed downwards fiercely. Sun Ce and the others, who were relentlessly attacking Xing Tianli, felt a chill run down their spines. They instinctively turned and fled, each one faster than the last.

'boom'!
The three rearguard generals of Sun Wu joined forces and clashed head-on with the Tongtian Miaozhu.

The armor on the three generals shattered simultaneously, and all three coughed up blood. Their six arms exploded at the same time, spraying blood mist all over their bodies. They were completely out of control and flew backward rapidly like paper butterflies in the wind.

The generals of Sun Wu cried out in alarm and cursed in unison.

Xing Tianli narrowed his eyes in shock—without realizing it, he had actually reached this level?
He was clearly only at the level of a Great Luo Golden Immortal, but after his Pangu essence blood had been purified and refined many times, his physical strength had become strong enough to defeat three late-stage Quasi-Saint generals working together.

Pure physical strength!

At that very moment, Liu Bei suddenly turned around and looked towards Xing Tianli.

The void around Xing Tianli suddenly cracked.

In other words, the void within a radius of a hundred miles suddenly vanished without a trace. A powerful being used extremely terrifying methods to directly erase the 'conceptual basis' of the existence of this space.

From the edge of that vanished space, twelve silicon-based creatures, their bodies a matte metallic color, ranging in height from two to twelve zhang, and roughly humanoid in shape, suddenly appeared. Their eyes flashed with cold, merciless scarlet electronic light. With a simultaneous wave of their hands, metal spheres the size of human heads shot out from their palms. Countless thumb-thick electric shackles, crackling with blinding light, erupted from the metal spheres, instantly transforming into a large net that enveloped Xing Tian Li.

These guys want to capture Xing Tianli alive.

These twelve silicon-based lifeforms exuded an aura that was cold and rigid. Every carbon-based lifeform that saw them, both on and off the battlefield, felt a chill run through them, their pores contracted wildly, and goosebumps rose all over their bodies. This was a dangerous premonition of a 'natural enemy'.

These silicon-based life forms should not exist here. Their presence caused all the carbon-based life forms present to simultaneously feel an extremely strong sense of crisis stemming from instinct.

In fact, because of their appearance, at that moment, countless soldiers from the Shu Han and Sun Wu groups actually felt a sense of shared hatred for the enemy—they completely abandoned their previous battles and focused all their killing intent and fighting spirit on these twelve silicon-based life forms.

"Lowly and weak carbon-based life forms... We have destroyed countless civilizations of the same origin as you... Your fate is sealed, you are destined for destruction." A silicon-based life form, twelve feet tall, hurled dozens of metal spheres, its cold electronic voice echoing across the entire battlefield.

There is no air in the void, so proper sounds cannot travel.

Previously, the generals of Shu Han and Sun Wu would challenge each other to battle, communicating with each other through Taoist secret methods and divine thoughts.

When this silicon-based life form spoke, the void within a radius of billions of miles trembled. The entire void rippled and surged wildly like water, and countless tiny fragments of space were even shaken out.

Waves of cold, merciless voices, carried by these spatial particles, instantly spread throughout the entire battlefield.

For cultivators at the Quasi-Saint level and above, this sound was merely grating.

As soon as cultivators below the Quasi-Saint level came into contact with this guy's voice, their bodies began to resonate along that strange frequency, and their immortal souls also resonated uncontrollably.

Their bodies and immortal souls, in that instant, were about to completely disintegrate and shatter in the terrifying resonance, just like the shattered space.

By sheer luck, Liu Bei swung his two swords.

A vast expanse of primordial energy poured down, and a faint, ethereal city silhouette enveloped the battlefield spanning billions of miles. Within the city, countless illusory civilians lived and multiplied, working at sunrise and resting at sunset.

The hustle and bustle of life.

Greed, delusion, and anger.

That unique warmth, belonging only to humans, swept down in a mighty torrent.

In an instant, it smoothed out the entire trembling void, smoothed out the shattered bodies of all the soldiers on both sides, and instantly solidified their almost collapsed physical bodies and immortal souls.

"You dare to defy me!" Liu Bei easily deflected the indiscriminate, wide-range attack from this silicon-based life form. He shouted sternly, raising his twin swords: "Shameless freaks, state your names!"

"They are the Destruction Beasts! Or rather, the Annihilation Beasts? They are scourges of the world, destroying everything in their path!" Xing Tianli shouted, as countless blinding bolts of lightning struck him. This was a terrifying binding power that surpassed the quasi-saint realm.

Even with Xing Tianli's incredibly strong physical body, when he was covered by the large net formed by the electric current, his entire body was charred and convulsing, and he instantly lost all ability to move.

His body, which was a hundred miles tall, was frantically compressed by this net of lightning, shrinking from a hundred miles to a little over ten feet in the blink of an eye. A silicon-based life form, about six feet tall, stretched out its giant hand and, like a mischievous child grabbing a cat, grabbed at the back of Xing Tianli's neck.

"Do you all think of me as a dead man?"

Xingtianli let out a long, piercing roar.

In the void, deep within the heart of Sun Wu's territory, glittering silver lights flickered. Countless warships were accelerating wildly, rushing towards this battlefield. Sun Wu's territory was vast; normally, at these warships' speed, it would take them at least half a year to reach this battlefield from the heart of Sun Wu.

However, a faint layer of silvery cold light enveloped these warships.

These warships teleported through the air at superhuman speeds, each blink covering an astonishingly long distance in the void—judging by this, they could reach the battlefield in a maximum of ten breaths.

Another extremely thin silicon spike transformed into a stream of light and shot out from the void.

Liu Huangshu had already raised his twin swords, preparing to slash at the twelve silicon-based lifeforms that were trapping Xing Tianli... Just as he was about to swing his sword, a stream of light suddenly appeared in front of him.

Liu Bei snorted angrily, and with a flick of his twin swords, he ruthlessly shattered the thin thorn.

However, another stream of light, radiating malevolent energy, shot towards them.

Liu Huangshu's swordplay shifted, shattering the flowing light. Just as he was about to charge towards Xing Tianli, three more streaks of light arrived in quick succession, forcing Liu Huangshu to swing his sword and shatter them one by one.

Beside Xing Tianli, the shattered void suddenly closed inward.

Twelve silicon-based life forms surrounded Xing Tianli, about to escape into the void and take him to an unpredictable place.

Xing Tianli struggled desperately.

However, this layer of electric netting was clearly designed specifically for the powerful physical bodies of 'body cultivators'. Even though Xing Tianli's physical strength was enough to defeat a late-stage Quasi-Saint directly, he still could not escape the restraint of this layer of electric netting.

Ran Min is rushing this way.

Guan Yu swung his long sword in this direction.

Master Zhang had already thrust out his spear with great force.

Zhao Zilong, Jin Ma Chao, Huang Hansheng, and even Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, all powerful figures from Shu Han, launched an attack on the twelve silicon-based life forms. Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, in particular, activated his Eight Trigrams Formation, causing the void within a radius of billions of miles of the battlefield to solidify.

However, behind these twelve silicon-based life forms, there clearly stands a terrifying existence.

They were about to lead Xing Tianli away from this void...

On the Purple Mansion of Xing Tian Li's Spirit Platform, a point of chaotic light suddenly shone, and a million lotuses of the Great Dao bloomed simultaneously. The Pangu incarnation, towering tens of thousands of miles high, appeared majestically in his mind. Terrifying chaotic power swept across, and countless rays of chaotic divine light poured down. In that instant, the Pangu incarnation and Xing Tian Li's physical body perfectly merged into one.

Xingtianli's body suddenly swelled up.

The electric grid covering his body shattered inch by inch.

Wisps of chaotic energy emanated from his body and condensed into two angry dragons roaring to the sky on his left and right arms.

The enormous palm shattered the void and fell heavily like whack-a-mole.

The electronic eyes of the twelve silicon-based lifeforms simultaneously emitted a blinding red light, and countless torrents of turbulent energy erupted from their bodies. Their bodies expanded rapidly, and they used all their strength to block the giant hand that was about to strike them down.

'boom'!
The giant hand slammed down, and countless metal parts exploded.

The twelve silicon-based life forms, whose strength faintly surpassed that of peak quasi-saints and had even glimpsed a trace of the profound mysteries of the sainthood, were like the folk custom of iron-making in the ancient land of Kyushu, spraying countless sparks and spreading out completely.

These traces of silicon-based life have been erased.

Their spirit, their wisdom, vanished in an instant.

Only their broken bodies sprayed wildly in all directions, and the ruins and wreckage formed by countless parts expanded wildly in the void—these guys were completely annihilated, and their bodies, freed from the constraints of power, began to return to their normal size.

Silicon-based life forms are larger the more powerful they are.

These twelve individuals, who are infinitely close to the Sainthood, are composed entirely of rare, high-grade innate spiritual metals, and each of their bodies is comparable in size to a medium-sized world.

A raging torrent of metal raged and surged through the void.

With a roar, Xing Tianli waved his hands, forcibly compressing the massive bodies of the twelve silicon-based life forms into twelve metal balls no more than ten feet in diameter, and stuffing them into the Tower of Creation.

What excellent natural talent!

Twelve innate spiritual materials of medium-sized worlds—how many Great Luo-level war puppets and warships could Xing Tian Li create from these materials?
The moment these twelve unfortunate fellows were violently destroyed by Xing Tianli, a cold and merciless electronic sound echoed throughout this world.

"You all deserve to die!"

"My people, awaken!"

Xiu San San's image appeared in the minds of all cultivators in this world. With unfathomable power, he influenced the workings of the Heavenly Dao of this world, causing all cultivators to uncontrollably 'see Him'!
In the next instant, a turbid current belonging to silicon-based life forcefully invaded the Heavenly Dao system of this world.

Shu Han, Sun Wu, Cao Wei, and even the Sima Jin Dynasty.

In this world, the civilization formed by those tiny indigenous people, their means of transportation, their weapons of war, their ships of all sizes, and their 'technological' creations, regardless of size or level of advancement, all burst forth with dazzling bursts of lightning.

A breather.

This world has suddenly gained trillions of silicon-based life forms.

They simultaneously launched a desperate attack on all the carbon-based life forms around them...

(End of this chapter)