Unfilial disciple, do not ruin your master's dream of ascension and peaceful life.

Zhanghe Science and Technology Park was shrouded in smoke and dust. The upper part of the Lazarus Science and Technology Office building was reduced to ashes, which fell like black snow! Yao Gang had been blasted away, and two figures leaped out from the billowing smoke and dust!

"Since you want to be king of the mountain, you probably don't want the city to be destroyed, right? How about we find a secluded place?" Qian Jing shouted.

"That's exactly what I was thinking."

Ellen activated the data transmission protocol, and with a flash of red light, the two appeared in the air above the sea near Haijing City!

Above them was a cloudy sky, and below them was a calm sea. Qian Jing flew through the air like a large bird, while Ellen stood directly on the void. Only upon closer inspection could one see that a stream of shimmering blue data formed a suspended ground beneath her feet!

"Quarantine zone".

Allen casually pointed at Qianjing, and a torrent of data appeared out of nowhere, sealing Qianjing off! Then—

"Compressed file".

The cage of data suddenly tightened, even distorting the space within it, enough to crush everything inside! But just as the cage was about to tighten completely, it suddenly trembled violently, deformed, and was then shattered from the inside!

Electricity crackled at Qian Jing's fingertips, enough to power a power plant to condense in his hands. He aimed at Ellen with his hands in the posture of drawing a bow and nocking an arrow!

"An electromagnetic superpower?"

Allen muttered to himself, "I can levitate using magnetism, create lightning, fire the same electromagnetic cannon as Yao Gang, and even activate muscles and strengthen my body with electric current... That makes perfect sense."

"But attacking me with lightning? Trying to recharge my sister's battery?"

Allen opened his arms, ready to absorb all of Qian Jing's lightning attacks, but his lightning arrows were just a feint, and he suddenly changed his move just as he was about to strike!

A sudden, frigid wind swept over Ellen's body, freezing her into an ice sculpture in an instant, and even the temperature of the sky dropped sharply!

"And then...do one more thing!"

Qianjing fired another electromagnetic cannon, shattering the large block of ice that was trapping Ellen into pieces!

Won.

Did we win...?

"That's surprising..."

Ellen's body, which should have shattered along with the ice, suddenly became ethereal and then reformed, completely unharmed.

"I thought you could only control electromagnetism, but... ice too? Can you manipulate multiple elements? Or control the weather like those guys in Western Europe?"

"Who knows? Keep guessing. There's no reward for guessing right, and a punishment for guessing wrong."

"I hate riddles... Bitvane, Kaspersky, dinner's ready."

The data stream formed two vortexes around her, from which two colossal beasts emerged.

One was a blood-red Romanian lynx, and the other was a bright green Russian giant bear, each over a hundred meters long! They attacked Qian Jing at the same time. He fired an electromagnetic cannon at the lynx "Bitvande," but it was swallowed whole!

"roar!!!!!"

The giant bear "Kaspersky" surrounded them and smashed the office building floor with a single swipe of its paw! The damage they caused was quite bizarre; everything they attacked was reduced to nothingness, leaving not a trace!

"A monster that materializes a virtual program? A summoner, are you?"

Qianjing didn't forget to joke, dodging the encirclement of the two monster antivirus software in a flash, and casually conjured up a Katyusha rocket launcher to blast them away!

"Fire & Fluor, Norton, WD, keep going."

Three more monsters attacked, and the two that had been blasted away earlier repaired themselves and came back to fight! Qian Jing snapped his fingers twice, and a total of seventeen Sidewinder missiles enveloped him like a hedgehog, firing outwards in a salvo! The monsters screamed and howled as they were blown away, but a huge shadow loomed over the sky. It was an aerial mothership that could only be seen in games, an aerial fortress with a diameter of more than 500 meters!

"Framework construction, BIOS boot, driver installation, instruction fetching and decoding..."

Ellen waved her hands like a conductor, and the aerial fortress took shape in just a few seconds, with hundreds of giant cannons aimed at Qianjing!

"Bomb it!"

Seeing his opponent make a move, Qian Jing was about to act when his abdomen suddenly swelled up—and then burst open! One after another, disgusting mechanical worms burst out of his body, wantonly destroying him!

(Trojan horse + worm virus?)

In that brief moment of distraction, hundreds of shells rained down from the sky! Each shell corresponded to a powerful unloading tool that was hard to find on the market, enough to obliterate any obstacle!

"Unlimited Power, huh?"

Qian Jing pointed his hands towards the sea, and the once calm sea suddenly surged, with sea dragons whipping up tens of thousands of tons of seawater, engaging in a fierce battle with the aerial fortress!

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In the port area, one could only vaguely see a fierce battle unfolding on the distant sea, with continuous booming sounds, one moment an explosion, the next a tornado. Ye Yinqiu was stunned by what she saw.

"Master is so strong...? Wait, what am I surprised about? It's only natural that Master is strong! Long live the Holy Lord!!"

"Um, Xiao Qiu, don't move around..."

Ning Ruozhi helped Ye Yinqiu piece her body back together after it was cut in half at the waist. In fact, a person who has been cut in half at the waist should not survive for more than a few seconds, but Qian Jing seemed to have done some kind of life-sustaining treatment on his disciple's body beforehand, allowing her to hold on until the rescue arrived.

"Look! Sister Ning, Master is amazing!"

"I knew he was amazing five years ago... but now it seems he wasn't even at his full potential back then."

"But looking at myself..."

While her master was soaring through the air and disappearing into the earth, she could only wield a beggar's version of sword energy.

"Don't be discouraged. Apart from a few exceptions, first-class ascendants are generally significantly stronger than second-class ascendants. But this is also because they start from a high level. We second-class ascendants may also grow to their level through diligent practice."

Ruozhi's mother offered her words of comfort, though she herself was also feeling quite anxious.

Even among the Ascended beings, who are surrounded by monsters, Ellen Masco is one of the most formidable, but Qian Jing was able to fight her to a standstill... It seems that she and Lin Zhiyu still underestimated his strength.

Perhaps, even at this moment, Qian Jing hasn't used his full strength?

Just then, something unexpected happened.

Ning Ruozhi suddenly felt a splitting headache, and Ye Yinqiu also clutched her head and cried out in pain. It wasn't just them; everyone in Haijing City who frequently watched live streams on Tigerfish TV felt the same way—their brains were running at an uncontrollable overclock!

The mechanical wreckage containing Yuan Ying, whose fate was unknown, took off and flew towards the sea. All sorts of mechanical products in the city were also drawn there by an invisible force. A few minutes later, a gigantic mechanical behemoth, as big as a mountain, burst out of the sea! Its shape resembled the Zorah Magdaros from Monster Hunter, but its body was entirely made of metal and sea rocks, making it a veritable mobile fortress at sea!

【Mr. Qianjing, you can choose to fight me while protecting the innocent people of Pujiang District from this giant robot, or you can choose to surrender on the spot and kiss my feet to swear allegiance. What do you plan to do?】

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~~~Ascension Guide~~~

Name: Ellen Marks

Hometown: Comstock, the Dieselpunk World

Ability: The myriad forms of illusion and reality

In detail: It can digitize real-world matter (including living organisms) and store it in a medium, and it can also materialize virtual data into matter. The upper limit depends on the amount of computing power that Allen currently possesses.