Swallowing the Stars: Cultivate to Become Stronger.

Chapter 169

"Have you located the target?" Yan Na sent a message to Luo Shen through the military system.

With the two acting separately, they did attract the attention of the mechanical immortal. After all, Luo Shen and Yan Na both possessed king-level combat power and were incredibly fast, so they couldn't be easily subdued by the other party.

If it weren't for the fact that the detector was inferior to the opponent's and couldn't find the opponent's location, Luo Shen could have even teleported directly with Yan Na into the opponent's core position.

"That guy is too slippery; we haven't found any trace of him yet."

Luo Shen replied, "But don't worry, these mechanical people want to eat us, so they will definitely take further action. That will be our opportunity."

really!

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

Nine bright lights flashed in succession. At the same time, dazzling lightning shot out from nine distant locations in this void, almost instantly piercing through the entire void. In the primordial universe, even the most powerful immortal gods could not reach the speed of light instantly; this was a limitation of the universe itself.

But lightning and light are different; once they erupt, they travel at the speed of light!

Therefore, the nine points of lightning were connected almost instantly, forming a huge lightning cage!

The lightning cage completely enveloped Luo Shen and Yan Na.

"Good heavens!"

Looking at the lightning cage, Luo Shen couldn't help but lick his lips, a smirk playing on his lips. "A lightning cage, are you trying to trap us like turtles in a jar? I'd like to see what you mechanical race are capable of, daring to attack me!"

"Hiss—"

In an instant, lightning flashed, and countless electric snakes pierced through the void. The entire lightning cage, covering a diameter of hundreds of millions of kilometers, was filled with countless electric snakes. No matter where you were, you were attacked by the lightning snakes.

"So it's the Thunder and Lightning Prison."

Looking at the lightning serpent, Luo Shen instantly recognized it as a technique commonly used by the immortal powerhouses of the mechanical race.

The Thunder Prison itself poses no real threat.

Although each lightning bolt possessed power comparable to an E3-level laser gun, capable of easily killing second or third-tier Realm Lords, for Luo Shen, the lightning bolt's attack power was too low, and its speed was too slow to hit him at all.

However, the Lightning Prison itself is not a means of attack, but a means of restraint.

The mechanical race are all elites in legion battles, extremely skilled in melee combat. However, for individual powerhouses, their mechanical legions are too slow to keep up.

If you can't even catch up, how can you talk about sniping?

Therefore, mechanical binding methods such as the Thunder Prison, the Nine Absolute Divine Kingdom, and the Six Directions Prison Realm were created. Their purpose was to bind the strong within them, making it easier to dispatch mechanical legions to encircle and annihilate them.

"The Lightning Prison is not something that ordinary mechanical race powerhouses can afford to set up."

Luo Shen glanced at it.

The lightning prison, capable of spreading over hundreds of millions of kilometers in diameter, would cost over a million Chaos Units just to set up its equipment. Even if the Mechanical Race were skilled in this, the cost would still be considerable. Therefore, only the strongest among the Mechanical Race could afford to set it up.

"I encountered two big fish as soon as I arrived at the extraterritorial battlefield. My luck is incredible."

Luo Shen dodged the attacks of the surrounding lightning snakes while quietly waiting for the mechanical race to launch further attacks.

This lightning attack was merely a prelude; its power was too weak. It only limited the speed of Luo Shen and his companion, preventing them from directly reaching the speed of light and then entering the dark universe, thus causing the encirclement and suppression to fail.

Suddenly, Luo Shen's gaze sharpened: "They're here!"

"Rumble~~~"

Suddenly, countless points of light burst forth from the nine base points of the lightning cage, rapidly encircling Luo Shen and Yan Na from nine directions. Since there were only two people, a large number of points of light were present in every direction.

"Lightning Mechanical Puppet!"

Luo Shen glanced at them and instantly recognized the identities of these points of light.

Each point of light is a silver robot about twelve meters tall. Each robot carries a heavy alloy sword on its back, and wisps of electric snakes run across their alloy bodies. However, when the countless electric snakes in the entire 'Thunder Prison' touch them, they have no effect whatsoever.

This lightning mechanical legion is the most common partner for the Lightning Cage. The combined power of these legions can easily kill ordinary immortal gods.

After all, each of these iron lumps is made of a high-level core. To destroy them, one can only use brute force or spatial cutting power to shatter and cut the operating core inside them.

"However, is it a bit of an underestimation to think that you can deal with us with just this kind of method?"

Luo Shen smiled.

Clang!

Swords drawn!

Of course, it was still that ordinary F-grade pure metal battle sword, not the skull battle sword. For dealing with these iron lumps, a weapon of the skull battle sword level was not necessary for the time being, unless it was against a King-level expert, then it would be more appropriate.

Upon glancing at the approaching mechanical legion, Luo Shen instantly unleashed his speed, a speed far exceeding that of ordinary immortals.

"boom!"

Like a tiger descending a mountain, a dazzling flash of light appeared, instantly blasting away the surrounding steel machinery.

It's not just about being blown away.

Each of Luo Shen's strikes carried a spiraling energy that could penetrate their steel surface defenses and reach their mechanical cores. With just one strike, he caused hundreds of lightning robots to lose power and fly backward, hovering in the void.

Moreover, Luo Shen did not stay for long, but instead flew a kite.

These mechanical puppets were too slow to catch up with him. If there were no mechanical beings controlling them from behind, he could easily defeat them all and make them his spoils in a short time.

Meanwhile, the mechanical immortals within the meteorite fragments were immediately struck by Luo Shen's performance.

"The Human Realm Lord actually possesses combat power comparable to an immortal god!"

Regardless of which of the four top clan factions they belong to, all have issued reward clauses: the greater the fame of the person who kills a genius powerhouse from the opposing faction, the greater the reward.

For a genius like him, killing him is not easy.

Even if they had the chance to meet, they had too many trump cards to protect themselves. Just like the immortal of the Thorn Clan that Luo Shen had encountered before, if Luo Shen hadn't acted so quickly and instantly cleaved him into pieces, giving him the opportunity to take out his trump card to protect himself.

Even if Luo Shen eventually kills her, she will certainly pose a great threat to him.

Therefore, many immortals focus their attention on those genius world lords, especially those world lords who possess combat power comparable to immortals.

Especially the rulers of the human realm.

Because humans have the worst physical attributes among the four major races, and the lowest starting point, it is extremely difficult for a World Lord to possess combat power comparable to an Immortal. Therefore, the probability of a genius World Lord appearing is also low, and the rewards obtained after killing one are the highest.

Killing one is more profitable than killing a Marquis or Immortal of the same level!

"Once I take him down, combined with my previous accumulations, I can exchange for an even more powerful Nine Absolute Divine Kingdom!"

The combat power of the Machine Race is closely related to the combat power of their mechanical puppet legion. The combination of Thunder Prison and Thunder Mechanical Legion is powerful and can be fatal to many immortals, but its upper limit is too low.

To defeat a Marquis Immortal of the same level without the help of allies, it would take at least 87% of the mechanical legion to achieve a kill!

This is under the most ideal circumstances.

Therefore, this mechanical immortal has always wanted to replace his mechanical legion with a more powerful one, but he has no backing, so he can only rely on his own efforts.

"Since that's the case, then there's no need to hold back anymore. Let's unleash our strongest attacks and capture them all!"

Just as Luo Shen was having a great time flying a kite, the mechanical puppet legion closest to him suddenly absorbed a large number of electric snakes. Instantly, countless electric snakes roaming throughout the Thunder Prison were absorbed. The more than 100,000 Thunder mechanical puppets seemed to form an circuit, with countless electric snakes roaming and gathering. Moreover, dazzling lightning orbs appeared on the bodies of twenty-one of the mechanical puppets.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

Twenty-one lightning orbs, forming unique patterns with each other, were instantly unleashed like a lightning fishing net.

Whoosh!

The lightning fishing net bombards at the speed of light.

"Drink!" Luo Shen narrowed his eyes, his battle blade swirling with the aura of the two primal laws of fire and space. In an instant, he unleashed a strike that tore a huge hole in the lightning net, and then leaped out from it.

To think that you can bind him with just this method is wishful thinking.

But clearly, this is just the beginning.

Looking around, he saw that of the five mechanical puppet legions that had surrounded Yan Na, only three remained. The remaining two, along with the four mechanical puppet troupes that had previously surrounded him, were all rushing over at near-light speed.

"kill!!"

One by one, twelve-meter-tall mechanical puppets drew their giant swords from their backs in unison, unleashing deafening roars as they surrounded and attacked Luo Shen.

The giant lightning net was merely to give these mechanical puppets ample time to trap Luo Shen. Even if Luo Shen broke free from the net, it would only be a death struggle.

Of course, this is how the immortals of the machine race see it.

"boom!!"

Luo Shen's performance remained fierce. Even surrounded by a group of mechanical puppets, he showed no signs of weakness. He even had the energy to glance at Yan Na in the distance, who was currently spinning around with those mechanical puppets.

With the opponent's King-level strength, dealing with these mechanical puppets forged from E-grade alloys is like an adult fighting a newborn baby.

They don't make any sense at all!

"Um?"

A sense of crisis suddenly flashed through Luo Shen's mind. He instantly left his original spot and immediately saw thousands of bolts of lightning suddenly burst out from the lightning mechanical legion. Each bolt contained a law-based attack, which was extremely terrifying.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out that the surrounding mechanical puppets were constantly absorbing Thor and transferring the energy to one of the thousand core puppets.

"Only one thousand?"

Luo Shen's expression was somewhat strange. His battle blade instantly tore through the sky, carrying an incomparably terrifying power, and slammed heavily into one of the core puppets. The E9-grade alloy on its body was directly blasted open, revealing the pure purple metal inside.

That's its true nature!

A mechanical puppet made entirely of pure purple metal—the Purple Iron Mother!

Among F-grade metals, this is the metal most suitable for the Thunder Prison. It is extremely tough, and even a King-level expert would find it impossible to tear it apart. Moreover, it possesses the property of "extreme stability." It is no longer possible to shatter its core with the vibration of a heavy blow, as before.

However, Luo Shen still didn't care.

Even though these core mechanical puppets continuously absorb the energy of the Thunder Prison and unleash even greater power, Luo Shen is still confident that he can keep them all!

After all, although these mechanical puppets are made of metal and have extremely strong defense, they are still just ordinary mechanical puppets. Even with the lightning energy provided by the Thunder Prison, they are only comparable to ordinary World Lord War Generals.

It might be able to deal with ordinary immortals, but it's clearly far from enough to deal with Luo Shen.

A flash of wings!

click!

In an instant, it blasted a core mechanical puppet backward, and the E9-grade alloy on its surface instantly collapsed, revealing the purple iron mother inside. The spatial cutting power contained in the wings cut and broke the core pattern inside.

One of the core mechanical golems has lost its power source!

"receive!"

Luo Shen swept it away with a wave of his hand, directly taking it into his inner world.

Although he himself cannot directly unleash this cutting power, he has the Wu-Slaying Wings. He only needs to reveal a little bit of the Wu-Slaying Wings' effects to directly shatter the core of this core mechanical puppet!

Without a power source, it's just a sturdier mechanical puppet.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Luo Shen moved with incredible speed, transforming into a series of afterimages as he instantly traversed through the mechanical legion. One after another, the mechanical puppets lost their power source and hovered in the void, no longer displaying their previous arrogance.

"I'll take it! I'll take it, I'll take it, I'll take it!"

Like a hardworking little bee, it collects these mechanical puppets time and time again. Even if the core patterns inside these mechanical puppets are broken, they are still made of E9 grade alloy, and the core machinery inside is even F8 grade purple iron mother. If there are many of them, they can be worth a lot of mixed yuan units.

Of course, these mechanical golems are just appetizers; the truly valuable one is definitely the mechanical immortal who has yet to show his face.

"Have you found any trace of him?"

Luo Shen asked.

The reason he kept dealing with these iron lumps was to buy time for Yan Na to find the location of the mechanical immortal. Once he could find his location, Luo Shen would have a way to completely devour him!

Yan Na easily blasted away the mechanical puppets once again, and casually replied, "Found them."

"Where?" Luo Shen asked urgently.

In truth, he didn't have much hope. After all, their detectors were inferior to the enemy's, and the initiative was in the enemy's hands whether to fight or make peace. Sending Yan Na to find the enemy's location was just a way of holding onto a sliver of hope.

Unexpectedly, Yan Na actually found the other person's location.

Sensing Luo Shen's anxiety, Yan Na secretly rejoiced, thinking, "This little guy doesn't know yet that once he fully comprehends the laws of space, he can use his control over the entire space to find everything within the area he controls."

This is actually one of the manifestations of the universe's mastery of spacetime, only the effect is somewhat weaker.

(End of this chapter)