Witch Wind

Chapter 430 Absolute Power (Part 1)

In the void, countless mechanical beings swarmed in.

The officials of Shu Han, from Prime Minister Zhuge Liang down to Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Xu Shu, Yan Yan, and others, all fell into a state of "enlightenment" because of the clash between Xiu San San and Liu Bei. They saw the "benevolence" revealed by Liu Bei and the path of destruction escaping Xiu San San's path.

Even within the Shu Han army, many deputy generals and lieutenant generals, second and third generation descendants of various families, and even some grassroots soldiers who had followed Liu Bei for countless years, such as Guan Yu's swordsmen, Zhang Fei's heavy cavalry, and Zhao Yun's light cavalry, had followed Liu Bei and their own commanders for millions of years.

Wandering in chaos.

Conquer the heavens.

In the Shu Han army's organization, they were just insignificant soldiers.

However, in the Shu Han family, they were no different from family members... They were already Liu Huangshu, the backbone and brothers of their own commander.

They put Liu Bei's 'benevolence' into practice.

They followed their commander and practiced various ways of 'killing' and 'fighting' in the battles and conquests of the myriad worlds.

The clash between Liu Bei and Xiu San San vividly demonstrated the ultimate Dao before them.

In particular, both saints suffered Dao injuries. Every wisp of Dao light flowing from their bodies was an unnatural outpouring of their essence and soul. These leaked Dao lights were insignificant to the saints, but to ordinary cultivators, they were highly nourishing treasures.

Thus, these veteran soldiers, who had long been immersed in the 'benevolent' atmosphere of Shu Han, yet constantly engaged in battles and fights, all fell into a state of miraculous 'enlightenment'.

A boundless aura of enlightenment swept across the sky, and the core leadership of the Shu Han army all experienced sudden enlightenment.

Thus, the group was leaderless.

Even powerful weapons like the Twelve Earthly Branches, the Thirty-Six Heavenly Generals, the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends, and the Three Hundred and Sixty Star Lords have had their combat power reduced by 70% due to the loss of their commanding generals.

Within the enormous wooden horse and flowing ox creation, there were only countless soldiers maintaining their own small sections of the array, spewing out countless thin streams of light to bombard the overwhelming mechanical creatures, creating countless brilliant streaks of fire in the air.

Faced with an astonishing number of mechanical legions, such attacks were like small water guns spraying into an erupting volcano, utterly unable to suppress the surging flames of the mechanical legions.

At this moment, the only one in the vast Shu Han army who could fight was Liu Bei.

Liu Bei smiled, carrying two long swords, and strolled forward.

"Because my second brother, third brother, and many ministers haven't personally taken action for many years, I almost forgot that I am a horse-riding emperor." Liu Bei smiled brightly, and with a wave of his hands, two black and yellow sword lights transformed into two swimming dragons, one on the left and one on the right, forming a Tai Chi light and shadow, encircling the entire Shu Han army in the center.

Without Prime Minister Zhuge's guidance, the Eight Trigrams Formation had already lost its luster.

Suddenly, a pair of dark yellow dragon sword lights appeared within the Eight Trigrams diagram, along with a massive, all-encompassing Taiji diagram. Thus, the entire Eight Trigrams Formation came alive again. The illusory Taiji and Eight Trigrams suddenly lit up, and within the area covered by the formation, it seemed as if the entire universe was undergoing endless cycles of birth and death.

A wave of compassion, yet without any trace of saintly benevolence, carrying a hint of iron will, a touch of heroism, and a deep-seated hatred for foreign enemies and alien races, instantly filled the entire world.

Countless mechanical legions, bizarre and wonderful mechanical creations, roared in.

Missiles were flying everywhere in the sky.

Lasers were sweeping wildly across the sky.

Various colored particle streams and energy streams crashed down on the Tai Chi Bagua diagram like a tsunami.

Even more extreme were those incredibly powerful mechanical creations, quasi-saint level silicon-based life forms. Their surrounding magnetic fields were chaotic, their force fields vibrated, and their space was intertwined and folded, tearing apart time and space, causing extremely terrifying law-based calamities that crashed down upon them.

Those enormous mechanical creations manifested their true forms as metallic lumps with diameters exceeding hundreds of millions of miles. They directly swallowed stars within the territory of Sun Wu, compressing them into neutron stars and even black holes, which then rained down on Liu Bei.

At this moment, it seemed as if the entire universe was at odds with Liu Bei.

Xiu San San raised his scepter high, and wave after wave of terrifying saintly power transformed into an overwhelming torrent of chip-like light, instantly covering the entire territory of Sun Wu.

Waves of chip light crashed into the Tai Chi Bagua diagram, causing Liu Huangshu's body to tremble slightly. Xuanhuang Dao light continuously spewed out from his seven orifices. It must be admitted that Xiu Sansan's cultivation was a notch above Liu Huangshu's, and with countless mechanical creations assisting him, they had completely controlled ninety percent of the Dao of Heaven and Earth in this native world in the nearby void.

Liu Bei could only barely maintain about 10% of the Heavenly Dao Laws to contend with the opponent's 90% of the Great Dao surging.

One by one, stars collapsed, shrank, and turned into black holes.

Planets, one by one, gleam, compress, and turn into metal.

Nebulae contracted, flickered, and emitted bursts of light.

In the void, tiny specks of dust were rapidly metallizing, transforming into countless tiny metallic particles that roared into the frenzied destruction of the mechanical legion, becoming insignificant drops of water in the torrent of metal.

The roads of the entire world are groaning and wailing.

If the Heavenly Dao of the world is a giant dragon, at this moment, this giant dragon is being irreversibly metallized. It is constantly turning into metal, into silicon chips, from head to tail, from skin to bone, and then to its internal organs.

All the paths are transforming in a direction that is beneficial to silicon-based life.

The simplest example.

Under the erosion of the Mechanical Avenue, rivers and lakes on habitable planets in the surrounding billions of light-years of space have turned from clear water into viscous heavy oil!
Heavy oil is the source of life for basic silicon-based life forms.

It is that simple. The most basic and primitive silicon-based life can only thrive and multiply by relying on rivers, lakes, and seas filled with heavy oil and metal particles.

And the volcanoes on habitable planets, whose churning lava once flowed, have transformed into heavy metals. These molten heavy metals, such as iron, titanium, aluminum, tungsten, tin, and copper, regardless of their melting points, boiling points, or vaporization temperatures…

Countless metallic elements, along with various metallic isotopes, mixed with massive amounts of molten silica compounds, transformed into boiling molten iron at temperatures exceeding 100,000 degrees Celsius, surging wildly within the enormous crater.

Driven by the mechanical avenue, countless silicon compounds, along with strange chains, frantically intertwined, linked, combined, and embedded themselves into primitive 'chips' that were burning red-hot in the boiling molten iron.

These 'primitive chips,' some large, some small, some exquisite, some crude, emanating waves of energy that were either powerful or weak, emitted strange streams of energy that gushed out from the chips, attracting nearby molten heavy metals.

Thus, under the pull of the energy flow emitted by these chips, various elemental metals combined to form all sorts of strange alloys with bizarre properties, some extremely hard, some extremely flexible, some incredibly corrosion-resistant, and some incredibly dense and heavy. They were just randomly pieced together.

A series of deep roars rose into the sky.

All sorts of strange and bizarre primitive metallic life forms struggled to burst out of these boiling volcanoes. They shook their bodies frantically, shaking off the molten metal flowing from them, and ran towards the nearby heavy oil rivers, heavy oil lakes, and even heavy oil oceans.

They frantically plunged into the heavy oil, their countless mechanical parts writhing and shifting wildly inside their bodies.

Their bodies vary in size, some as large as a mountain range, others only the size of a mung bean or a sesame seed.

Their mechanisms vary greatly. Some are extremely crude, consisting entirely of huge gears and connecting rods; others achieve a smooth, nanoscale structure, composed of a variety of unimaginable processes.

Their chip computing power varies, some are dull, their computing power is just like that of ordinary humans, they can only perform the most basic decimal addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in the blink of an eye, while the naturally intelligent ones have quantum computer-level computing power, they can easily analyze some of the deep mysteries of the drastic changes in the world's laws and principles...

Thus, these newly born metallic lifeforms began to raise their heads and gaze at Xiu San San, who was radiating a blinding light in the void, making his figure clearly visible throughout the entire universe.

From Xiu San San's body, endless mechanical Dao surged forth, transforming into immeasurable Dao light that shone upon these newly born primitive mechanical life forms.

These mechanical life forms frantically absorbed the Dao spread by Xiu San San. Those mechanical life forms whose innate computing power was comparable to that of quantum computers cheered and resounded wildly. They absorbed and analyzed a part of the profound meaning of the mechanical Dao spread by Xiu San San. Their chips became more complex and their computing power became more superior. They frantically devoured the metallic elements contained in heavy oil and frantically evolved their various components.

These primitive mechanical creatures are like geniuses among human cultivators—no, they are like some monkey who has entered Fangcun Mountain and, in just three to five years, has heard of the Great Dao and easily cultivated to the Dao Fruit.

Those creatures with naturally poor calculation abilities but enormous bodies passively and bewilderedly absorbed the Daoist aura emanating from Xiu San San. They could not comprehend the Dao that Xiu San San propagated; they could only passively evolve their bodies according to certain profound Daoist auras in the Great Dao propagated by Xiu San San.

They are like the rocks, plum blossoms, and old pine trees at the gates of certain great immortals in the primordial era. Although they are huge and dull-witted, they have listened to the great immortals preach for millions, tens of millions, and hundreds of millions of years. Even though they still don't understand what the Great Dao is, one day the great immortal got impatient and directly poked them with a finger.

Driven by the 'Spirit Awakening' immortal technique, these fools who knew nothing about the Great Dao were directly transformed into male and female children, running around under the sect and at the sect's beck and call—this is the principle behind the saying "being near the water tower, one gets the moon first" and "when one attains the Dao, even his chickens and dogs ascend to heaven."

Thus, these massive but computationally weak primitive mechanical beings still didn't understand much about the Great Dao of Mechanics, but their physical bodies began to undergo earth-shattering changes under the influence of the light of the Great Dao of Cultivation.

Their structures have become more powerful, more rational, and more precise.

Their bodies writhed and gradually transformed into enormous warships that soared into the sky. Each of these small but incredibly powerful primitive mechanical beings, with a deep understanding of the mechanical principles, stood calmly atop the heads of these metal behemoths.

Those with exceptional computing power will be generals.

Those with weak calculation ability are called "Zu" (卒).

On habitable planets ravaged by the mechanical path, countless primitive mechanical life forms naturally completed their class divisions. One by one, the most outstanding primitive mechanical life forms took to the air. They had almost no mechanical bodies for combat; inside their bodies, only a huge chip spewed out dazzling electric light.

One after another, enormous mechanical life forms rushed over. Beside these powerful kin with almost zero combat power, they disintegrated their own bodies, and countless mechanical parts were pieced together with a clang, quickly transforming into huge metal spheres ranging from hundreds to thousands of miles in diameter.

One by one, the original versions of the 'mechanical mainframe' were formed.

Near each mechanical mainframe, trillions of massive metal warships converged, and countless primal radio signals surged wildly in the void. They quickly formed legions according to their computing power, and organized themselves into governors, commanders, generals, officers, soldiers, and so on...

The planet's surface is also writhing violently.

Soil and rocks vanished, and mountain peaks underwent violent metallization. Elements of various colors continuously annihilated and mutated, transforming into various terrifying, highly radioactive metallic elements, and even energy crystals containing terrifying energy per unit volume.

One after another, enormous mechanical warships swooped down.

Bathed in the light of the Great Dao of Xiu San San, they rapidly evolved from primitive power sources such as steam furnaces, internal combustion engines, and steam turbines to the level of powerful magnetic field confinement fusion reactors in a very short time.

They opened their enormous mouths and devoured mountains of high-purity radioactive ore, storing the remains in their massive ship holds. This gave them the ability to travel between star systems.

They continued to bask in the light of the Great Dao emanating from Xiu San San. Although they did not understand it, their bodies were undergoing a frenzied self-evolution, and high-tech creations such as warp drives gradually appeared within their bodies.

As a result, the void around these giant metal ships distorted, and one after another, these giant metal ships, each at least five hundred miles long, twisted space and converged on the battlefield of Xiu San San and Liu Huang Shu.

Their number is countless.

The light of the Great Dao of Xiu San San is spreading throughout the entire universe.

This primitive universe belongs to the category of the larger world, and its diameter exceeds trillions of light-years.

At this moment, Xiu San San's Great Dao Light only covers a range of 10 billion light-years. According to his current diffusion power, in about three Jiazi (60 years) later, his Dao will cover the entire world.

In about twelve cycles of sixty years, the entire indigenous world will be transformed into a metal world, a paradise for mechanical life forms.

Time seemed to be very 'long'.

However, for battles at the Saint level, a mere twelve Jiazi (sexagenary cycle) is less than a thousand years... merely a blink of an eye. In a mere thousand years, one can create a battle environment absolutely advantageous to oneself, thereby crushing and annihilating a Saint-level opponent, or even turning the universe into a prison, leaving the opponent with no way to escape...

A mere thousand years of consumption is utterly insignificant!
In the star systems closest to the heartland of Sun Wu, primitive mechanical legions have already rushed to the battlefield.

Inside them, massive but primitive fusion furnaces were burning wildly. Using primitive warp drives, they traveled at a mere ten times the speed of light, passing through several natural wormholes that already existed near the Sun Wu territory, and quickly arrived here.

Billions of primitive mechanical life forms had just arrived at the scene, hundreds of billions of miles away from Liu Bei and the Shu Han army he was protecting, when they opened all their launch pods.

These primitive mechanical life forms have not yet evolved powerful attack methods.

They directly launched heavy hydrogen bombs one after another.

Each hydrogen bomb has a warhead yield of over one billion tons.

The speed of these missiles is truly astonishing—at a distance of hundreds of billions of miles, the missiles only reached a mere hundred times the speed of sound. At such a speed, it would take forever to cross a spatial distance of hundreds of billions of miles.

However, the numerous mechanical quasi-saints present cheered in unison, distorting space as they did so.

Thus, trillions upon trillions of hydrogen bombs simultaneously distorted space and struck the Eight Trigrams Formation enhanced by Liu Bei's two sword beams.

Simple and brutal.

Each hydrogen bomb warhead has a yield of one billion tons.

Faced with such attacks, even if a celestial being was hit once or twice, they could still escape in a sorry state by relying on their celestial treasures for protection.

However, if trillions of hydrogen bombs weighing billions of tons fall from all directions, even a Taiyi Golden Immortal, no, even a Daluo Golden Immortal, would be as stable as Mount Tai if they had sufficient magical power and were protected by innate spiritual treasures when faced with such a 'multi-level' attack.

Once their magical power is exhausted and they are unable to mobilize the power of the Great Dao to protect themselves, even a Great Luo Golden Immortal would be at risk of perishing when faced with an attack of this level.

Only a quasi-saint can continuously receive the blessing of the Heavenly Dao Laws and possess endless magical power, making it easy to withstand attacks of this level. Liu Huangshu is a saint, and under normal circumstances, such attacks are nothing more than a tickle to him.

Unfortunately, there is also Xiu San San at this moment, who is making a strong attack on Liu Huangshu.

As a result, ninety-nine percent of Liu Bei's power was diverted and suppressed by Xiu San San.

Hydrogen bombs exploded everywhere, Liu Bei's two Xuanhuang sword lights trembled violently, and countless bursts of light directly hit the Eight Trigrams Formation, which had lost the command of all its generals and whose power had collapsed to less than 30% of its normal strength.

The illusory image of the Eight Trigrams trembled, and the strange phenomena of heaven and earth, the universe, and the stars that appeared in the Eight Trigrams Formation collapsed in large swathes.

Xiu Sansan smiled.

"Mayfly, that's it."

"Even if you possess the power of a saint, you are still just a mayfly struggling to survive."

"And my race are born beasts."

"With the power of a saint of the same level, we are nothing but beasts that devour and destroy everything!"

"This is not a difference in the essence of life, it is a difference in philosophies!"

"Bah, benevolence?"

"In this vast and boundless chaos, what value does this kind of Dao have?"

(End of this chapter)