Chapter 716 Zhuzhou Xingyiquan (6600)

Located in the Milky Way's center, the Twilight Starfield in the shimmering zone was once the capital starfield of the Sernostian civilization. It contained the essence of an entire galactic empire, with fleets and artificial megastructures floating within the starfield, their mass even exceeding that of its parent star.

To better construct this sacred site, the Sernostians moved it into the subspace. They almost exhausted their civilization's strength to transform this ancestral homeworld, which had nurtured all the original Sernostians, into an impregnable fortress, covering it inside and out with psionic circuits, making it almost another small universe.

This even triggered a wave of popularity throughout the galaxy, prompting all powerful civilizations to send their home star systems into the subspace for high-intensity modification and reinforcement.

During that time, the dark subspace was as bright as day, as if surrounded by dozens of constantly exploding supernovas, and even the spacetime of the real universe was distorted, forming a starfield that attracted many stray nebulae and comets.

If there were no accidents, in a few hundred thousand years, these substances twisted and attracted by the subspace would collide and merge, eventually forming a massive star, serving as the gateway to the Sernostian ancestral home.

A few hundred thousand years was nothing. As children of the planet, eternal transcendent deities, the Sernostians, keen on building wonders, looked forward to this day.

However, all these visions were shattered on that day.

On the day twilight invaded everything, the subspace shattered, and rifts to other universes opened. The once prosperous civilization's capital suffered a cataclysmic disaster in an instant. Except for a few powerful individuals who escaped with a portion of the population, the entire Sernostian home star system sank into the deepest abyss of the universe, the most obscure and lightless depths of the subspace.

The followers of the Outer Gods swarmed in, intending to seize this fertile territory and devour the flesh and blood of the Sernostian ancestral land.

The war began.

Initially, the vast Star Sea Empire was stunned and bewildered.

But soon, the enraged galactic empire mobilized all its forces and went to war head-on with an alternate universe.

It was a difficult battle, and the final result could only be described as a pyrrhic victory. The Sernostians did not reclaim their home, but at least sealed the visitors from another universe at the edge of time and space. The visitors from another universe lost countless powerful individuals but gained nothing.

Both sides accumulated anger, until this day, tens of thousands of years later.

Twilight Starfield, around the outer starfield fortress, the dim yellow light flowed and twisted, and a waterfall of light fell toward the central deep well, forming a strange cosmic spectacle.

The Twilight Starfield is essentially a huge depression in the real universe. Its original spacetime structure was broken, and even the subspace could not repair it. Only the power of the Galaxy Star could forcibly sew it up as a seal to suppress it.

Therefore, from the perspective of the real universe, this is just a rather small spacetime depression, which can be suppressed by a starfield fortress—but if you delve into it, it is a vast and boundless subspace ruin.

Now, the rift has reopened, and countless bizarre shadow monsters are wandering out, devouring the remaining mass and energy in the Twilight Starfield.

Legend has it that the universe where these shadows reside has no matter and is on the verge of extinction. Therefore, even in the face of the Sernostians' relentless attacks, they respond with a counterattack that never yields.

And the mission of all Sernostians is to stop these monsters they released.

Or rather... to make up for their mistakes.

[The Council of Elders really thinks highly of me, actually sending me to the front line...]

But none of this has anything to do with Tাইন·先知 (Tain Xianzhi), the former Sernostian civilization's Earth Master, professional explorer, and current Sernostian civilization's Major General.

Meteor-like artillery fire covered the sky, gushing out from the starfield fortress, while the huge silver-black humanoid figure, the towering metal giant, stood with his arms crossed in his warship.

Tain Xianzhi stared at the dim yellow nebula starfield in front of him, his expression extremely complicated: [You know, I'm not a professional combatant!]

This tungsten-alloy giant gazed at the distant starfield, where countless fragments of subspace and the real universe intertwined, and he was located at the very edge of this broken space, at the forefront of the alien universe monsters' attack.

Countless artillery fire and psionic beams erupted from behind him, falling into the starfield. Their explosions were like roars that shook the stars, and the buzzing sound that lingered among them was the angry roar of the alien universe shadows blocked by the artillery fire.

And Tain Xianzhi's mission is to use his own power to block all the shadows that can break through the fortress's artillery fire in this direction.

To be honest, this mission is very difficult.

The firepower of the starfield fortress is so powerful that even in its current state with many vacancies and incomplete condition, it is no less than facing ten full-strength battleship squadrons. If there is sufficient psionic energy, and an α-level psionicist is in charge of the entire situation, it can even suppress an entire starfield on its own, launching a subspace shattering cannon powerful enough to shatter a star.

The shadows that can survive and break through the starfield fortress's attack, attempting to carry out decapitation and assault destruction missions against the starfield fortress, are either extremely lucky or indeed strong enough.

Strong enough to be called 'Overlords'.

Overlord.

This universe-wide term is not actually a self-proclaimed title from within the transcendent civilization, but originated when a purely technological civilization descended on a high-level psionic planet during a barbaric era. After encountering the most powerful psionic creatures on that planet, they uttered the title in astonishment.

--An existence that can become the strongest individual on the entire transcendent planet (world) and the apex of the food chain with pure power and without other forces interfering is an 'Overlord'.

And this level of existence is enough to be called a god in many barbaric civilizations.

Of course, needless to say, Tain Xianzhi also knows that these so-called gods are just 'small gods in the mortal world'. They are indeed powerful to the natives of a planet, but to civilizations that can traverse the stars and surpass the stars, this power is only worthy of attention and is far from being worthy of respect.

Even, like now, in the war between the Sernostian civilization and the alien universe shadows, several Overlords may appear in just one battle, serving as powerful assault forces.

From this point of view, it is enough to prove that this power is not irreplaceable.

At least, the current Tain Xianzhi possesses such power.

Therefore, he was dispatched to the front line to block the strong among the enemies.

Speaking of advancing to become an Overlord, Tain Xianzhi himself felt very strange.

He is not a Sernostian with much talent for cultivation, and he only has a little interest in exploring and using ship equipment.

Theoretically, with many people in the Council of Elders not having advanced, it is unlikely for an ordinary Sernostian navigator like him to succeed.

However, who asked him to be stationed in a place called Earth?

During his time stationed on Earth, Tain Xianzhi often traveled around the world, witnessing the exquisite mysteries of various cultivation methods of Earth civilization, and also ventured into alien spaces with a certain Zhuzhou, facing various crises.

And most importantly, two years ago, under the unintentional guidance of a certain Zhuzhou, this Sernostian understood a truth.

[Du Tian Divine Lightning Cluster Cannon is not Zhuzhou, heavy nuclear fusion engine is not Zhuzhou, mesoscopic rune reaction armor is not Zhuzhou, and even the antimatter core igniter is not Zhuzhou--but these things, combined together, can become Zhuzhou!]

[These modules, which are far from being powerful, can be assembled together to achieve an Overlord, an Immortal, a Creator, a Zhuzhou from α to Ω!]

[Conversely, I am not an Overlord, and my warship equipment is not an Overlord, but as long as I combine with my warship equipment, I can completely become a real Overlord!]

This kind of postmodern deconstruction thinking is obviously not something that traditional Sernostians can think of.

Thanks to a certain Zhuzhou, who was deeply immersed in this way, providing some small help, Tain Xianzhi was able to use the cultivation method known as 'The Way of Heaven' on Earth to completely integrate his own power with the power of the warship equipment, achieve 'Dao and Machine as One', and achieve 'The Way of Law'.

"I just gave a little help." At that time, the young man, who was still a Celestial Immortal, said modestly: "You can become an Overlord, it's entirely your own struggle, and a little bit of history—if you hadn't happened to come to Earth, how could you have obtained the inheritance of Earth?"

"Me? Haha, of course I don't mind. If you can spread the Dao of Earth, the inheritance of Earth, along with my inheritance, to the entire galaxy, and carry out a cultural export... I think, everyone would be very happy."

It has to be said that this ambassador is extremely grateful for this.

However, Tain Xianzhi, who had recently advanced and was summoned back to his home planet, originally thought that he would be rewarded and glorified by the Council of Elders for bringing back the advanced inheritance of other civilizations and advancing to the Overlord.

But what he didn't expect was that as a member of the Xianzhi clan, after a brief investiture ceremony, he directly became a 'Major General' and was sent to the front line!

Tain Xianzhi can sense that the elders are quite dismissive of the inheritance of other civilizations. It's not that they look down on Earth civilization, but they feel that no matter how good the other party's inheritance is, it's impossible for it to be more suitable for themselves than the Sernostian inheritance.

Cultural confidence - that's indeed right.

[Oh well, I can only do my duty.]

Although he complained, Tain Xianzhi was not really angry or dissatisfied.

On the contrary, he was even a little eager to try.

Try it... what kind of power does he have now!

Prove to the entire Sernostian civilization that after absorbing some suitable techniques from other civilizations, the power and inheritance he now holds are powerful enough!

At this moment, the firepower of the starfield fortress is gradually weakening, and the vast psionic fluctuations that are enough to suppress the entire twisted starfield are beginning to calm down, which makes Tain start to cheer up and become vigilant.

Because there is no α-level psionicist to control it, the core furnace of the fortress must be careful after running at full power for a period of time, otherwise it may be driven to an unstoppable point and cause self-dissolution, and the period of weakening firepower will also lead to a great possibility for the strong in the shadows to break through the defense circle.

The Sernostians of the ancient era never thought that there would be a time when their civilization would not have α-level psionicists. The proud galactic empire was too lazy to even assume in this regard, leading to big trouble now.

Like the Earth's immortal god civilizations, they also left a lot of mess for their descendants to clean up.

Several minutes later, the starfield fortress completely shut down and began to cool the core. The twilight light, which was originally covered by various psionic glows, shone again.

Then, as expected.

[Warning! Detecting large-scale psionic aberration phenomenon!]

In the vacuum, the miniature psionic detection machines began to rapidly transmit signals: [Third defense zone, detecting an Overlord-level psionicist is moving at high speed!]

The person in charge of the third defense zone, the silver-black metal giant, opened his eyes, and a brilliant lead-gray psionic energy was shining in his eyes.

Stepping on his warship, the child of the planet is now imitating the posture of human beings, in order to operate various inheritance techniques he learned in the human world.

The Sernostian civilization's inheritance is indeed equally powerful, but the most important thing for Zhuzhou is never to choose one from two powerful inheritances, but 'I want them all'!

At this moment, the already icy cosmic space suddenly became colder.

Without warning, the miniature machines that were still playing notifications back and forth shattered like hot-and-cold glasses, and then, in the next instant, they began to burn and melt due to inexplicable heat.

[Good.]

This abnormal cold-heat reversal is the unique 'phenomenon' of that alien universe civilization's strongman. Tain raised his head and looked around the surrounding defense zone.

At the same time, a psionic ripple visible to the naked eye was rapidly spreading, sweeping across the starry sky.

Wherever the ripple passed, the surrounding heat was stripped away, becoming icy and stagnant, while the heat of the ripple itself became abnormally high, and dazzling plasma clouds churned in the ripple, accumulating tens of millions of degrees of high temperature, enough to dissolve everything.

[It's 'Entropy Flow'!]

Tain's eyes narrowed.

This technique is recorded in his bloodline inheritance. Its essence is not profound, but it controls the movement of molecules to gather heat energy, creating cold and extreme heat. It is considered a common combat technique for alien world shadows.

However, ordinary shadows can control the entropy flow to cover at most around themselves, but this entropy flow has already affected a spherical area with a diameter of three thousand kilometers, and the accumulated radiant energy and heat energy have reached the extreme.

This is not ordinary.

[It's coming!]

And at the moment when Tain Xianzhi thought so in his heart, a loud roar exploded in the spirit world.

He saw that in the center of those ripples, a huge black shadow was leaping out of the cracks in the subspace, and in that black spiritual body, there were extremely dazzling light spots shining.

Boom!

A pure kinetic energy impact beam condensed to the extreme rushed towards Tain at a rapid speed!

The so-called molecular motion is not just about generating heat, but also about doing work. As long as all the oscillating molecular motions are converted into work in the same direction, then the majestic heat can be quickly converted into incredible kinetic energy, thereby penetrating all material and non-material existences!

In the first instant, the kinetic energy impact beam condensed to the extreme directly penetrated Tain Xianzhi's humanoid body, and then blew it to pieces, turning it into scattered dust in the universe!

[...?!]

For a time, even the dark shadow that had just leapt out of the subspace was stunned for a moment—he sensed that there was an Overlord-level powerhouse here was intercepting him, so he accumulated energy all the way, and even risked collecting part of the energy from the starfield fortress's artillery bombardment to carry out a突擊 (tuji, assault), and guide the subsequent comrades to charge.

But... it was killed with one blow?

He was confused—in the inheritance, the enemies on the other side of the Great Rift were not so weak.

That's right.

[Start loading 'Praying Spirit' 'Accursed Wood' modules!]

At the moment when Tain Xianzhi's humanoid shell, which was placed on the warship as a target, was shattered, a rumbling thunder sounded in the huge teardrop-shaped flesh and blood warship: [——Warship Equipment!]

Rumble! In the instant of the shadow's daze, the flesh and blood warship began to rapidly twist and deform, and majestic spiritual light shrouded the surrounding starfield.

And a light-cast giant palm stretched out from the bright light mist, directly slapped away the aftershock of the kinetic energy impact beam that was still pulsating, clearing the surrounding starfield.

Then, there was the second arm, and then the legs and head.

It can be seen that pure white light is condensed, turning into bright light armor, covering the gradually forming warship giant's body, and the structure that spreads like tree roots also takes into account the functions of psionic energy conduction and attack blocking modules, bringing waves like tides in the cosmic minutes.

The rune formations appearing on the surface of the armor make this towering warship giant appear simple and natural, and the most obvious is the image of a cosmic giant dragon with its wings spread in the center of the warship giant's chest!

[Zhuzhou Armed Form!]

The aura far exceeding that of an ordinary Overlord spread out, awakening the shadow who had呆愣 (dālèng, blankly) watched this short transformation scene.

Perhaps it was not awakening—because everything was too fast, it only happened in a short moment.

But in any case, he no longer had a chance to counterattack.

'Praying Spirit' responds to the call, 'Accursed Wood' adjudicates evil. At this moment, with his back to the starfield fortress and facing the spacetime rift of the Twilight Starfield, with the call of his clansmen and the curse of his enemies, the warship giant is in its strongest state!

Boom! In an instant, the huge warship equipment turned into a giant god, or rather, the true Tain Xianzhi, the main body that had been integrated with his 'Machine God Warship', threw out his fist that condensed the power of his whole body!

Pure psionic energy, condensed with the purest negative entropy, exudes a divine light as blazing as thunder.

One can only see a lead-gray beam of lightning penetrating the mist and piercing through the dark shadow.

An invisible wave spread in all directions, causing many Sernostians in the fortress who were controlling the weapon systems to cast their eyes, with expressions of astonishment on their faces.

And even more astonished were the other alien universe shadows following behind that deep shadow. They traveled through the subspace all the way in order to take the lead during the brief time when the fortress cooled down the core.

But now, the legion commander in charge was pierced by the enemy with one punch, and the mist dissipated where the light beam passed, the shadows retreated, and strange electric arc patterns scattered, causing the subspace to vibrate as well.

Tain Xianzhi was very satisfied with the power of his fully spiritual punch. This was the inspiration he got from Su Zhou's breath.

There is such a school on Earth, called Mimicry of the Dao. In essence, it is to imitate the strengths of other creatures and turn them into their own power.

The former Sernostians were puzzled by this, because he felt that humans were the most powerful and terrifying creatures on Earth, called terrifying upright apes, so why imitate other divine beasts?

But soon, he realized that the so-called Mimicry of the Dao was never such an inconvenient thing.

Not only divine beasts, but also various divine artifacts, divine weapons, warship giants, and even Heavenly Venerate Emperor artifacts can be imitated!

And he chose to imitate the strongest person he knew, the breath of the divine beast called Zhuzhou, and turn it into his own fist intent!

[Zhuzhou Xingyi · Five Extremes Divine Thunder Fist]!

This is his 奥义 (Àoyì, profound truth)!

The dark shadow was almost scattered after taking this blow, but Tain Xianzhi knew that the other party would not die so easily - as a preliminary immortal Overlord, to completely obliterate the other party, it is necessary to obliterate the entire shadow legion behind the other party, just like wanting to completely kill an Overlord, an α-level Sernostian, to completely eliminate the natural phenomenon that he represents on the living planet.

Now, the battle is just beginning!

At this moment, continuous warning sounds rang around the fortress.

[First defense zone, detecting large-scale psionic aberration!]

[Fifth defense zone, detecting the aura of an Overlord-level shadow!]

Obviously, the alien universe civilization's突擊 (tūjí, assault) is not just in one direction. They are attacking in all directions, trying to escape the periphery of the Twilight Starfield and cross the Sernostian defense line.

Before Tain Xianzhi returned to his hometown, such攻防战 (gōngfángzhàn, battles of offense and defense) had been carried out no less than ten times, and each time, the Sernostians had to pay a great price to defend it.

This time, with Tain Xianzhi's outstanding performance, the defense will definitely be easier, but we still cannot take it lightly.

[Not bad, perfect condition.]

Sensing the fighting spirit in the hearts of his compatriots, Tain Xianzhi naturally did not relax. He clenched his fists and sensed the abundant power flowing in his body.

This giant god was planning to get up and continue to pursue the shadow legion.

But, at the moment when he just started.

The 'Accursed Wood' residing on him conveyed a message that made Tain stunned slightly.

[Fear]

He sensed that this legion, even if the legion commander was shattered with one blow and was waiting to be reborn, did not have any fear, and now showed obvious畏惧 (wèijù, fear).

[Demon!]

The alien universe shadows were simply terrified beyond words. In the third defense zone, all the shadows were collapsing, and when they were collapsing, they were all collectively shouting a word: [Great Demon!]

[It's the Soul Devouring Demon Lord, the World Devourer who ends all phenomena!]

[Run! Run!]

For a time, it was not just Tain Xianzhi.

All the Sernostians who were planning to deal with this impact of the shadow legion were stunned.

In front of them, all the dark shadows that had gathered like a tide shrank back into the subspace, and then at the fastest speed, a speed even faster than the ebb tide, they shrank back to the central part of the Twilight Starfield, around the rift that had already cracked!

[What the hell?]

Tain Xianzhi subconsciously turned his head, and then, the warship giant stared dumbfounded at the direction where the starfield fortress was located.

There, a round of incomparably bright silver glory was blooming, and in this blooming light, there was a towering, solemn and awe-inspiring shadow of a cosmic giant dragon slowly emerging from the other side of time and space.

Not only that.

There was also a majestic phoenix image, covered in seven-character five colors, incomparably strong, with wings like divine knives, appearing behind the divine dragon, raising its head and鳴 (míng, cry).

Far more than that.

There was also a winding and盘旋 (pánxuán, coiling), 神龙 (Shénlóng, divine dragon) Zhuzhou whose head and tail could not be seen, calling wind and rain, and devouring endless spiritual energy.

And also.

The seven-headed big red dragon Zhuzhou, the giant egg Zhuzhou, the subtle insect Zhuzhou, the mechanical warship Zhuzhou... one by one huge shadow was shining on the other side of time and space, as if confirming some information.

And in the end.

The most龐大 (pángdà, huge), suspended behind many 神木 (Shénmù, divine trees), like the 神木 (Shénmù, divine tree) Zhuzhou in the background version, occupied half of the cosmic sky in Tain Xianzhi's eyes.

In this instant, the brain of this Sernostian was only left with a blank: [Galaxy Star啊 (a, ah)...]

[Zhuzhou... how could it suddenly增殖 (zēngzhí, proliferate)... become so much more?!]

This is a very ordinary感慨 (gǎnkǎi, feeling).

However, for the Great Elder located in the core of the starfield fortress, the problem is not so simple.

The Galaxy Star is shining brightly.

[Detecting abnormal information... energy difference... position too high...]

In the silver brilliance,一道道 (yī dàodào, one after another): [Which kind of Zhuzhou does the manipulator want to transmit?]

Originally wanted to ask for leave, but I didn't expect to write more than 6600...