Chapter 338 Unrivaled (7600)

As he took off his spacesuit, unleashing his power and rushing towards the Amorphous Ones, Su Zhou could finally observe this 'alien monster' he had heard so much about. He had, after all, spent his middle school days wondering if there were aliens in this world, and if so, what they would be like.

But just one glance filled him with doubt.

As a life form, the Amorphous One was too perfect. There wasn’t a single redundant design. The golden nucleus within its body, resembling an eyeball, was essentially a massive spiritual energy node, while its amorphous colloidal body could withstand most unexpected situations and freely transform to adapt to its surroundings.

It also wasn't like most slime monsters, with extreme requirements for water. In essence, its bodily structure was more like some kind of nanobot machine.

"This is an alien lifeform? But rather than an alien slime, it's more like a high-tech biological weapon manufactured artificially. Natural evolution couldn't have conceived this kind of life - it should be some kind of creation of an alien civilization."

But who cares, time to beat it up.

Now, Su Zhou activated the Sacred Geometry: Five-Point Star's 'bullet time', simulating rocket propulsion with spiritual energy to accelerate forward. The whole world instantly slowed down in his eyes.

Su Zhou even had time to turn his head and make sure Bai Jingtao and Gu Yaoluo were safe.

Facing Su Zhou's attack, the seven giant Amorphous Ones, as large as small mountains, all turned their gazes towards him. In response to their gazes, semi-transparent spiritual energy ripples distorted the light, and immense 'telekinesis' transformed into invisible tentacles, attempting to pull him down—but Su Zhou in bullet time could clearly see the Amorphous One’s huge spiritual tentacles slowly moving towards his location, causing the moon dust to swirl and dance.

But it was all too slow.

Su Zhou simulated a rocket's spiritual energy jet, instantly accelerating his body to over ten times the speed of sound in zero gravity. His body disappeared in an instant.

Then, Su Zhou swung his iron fist, wrapped in spiritual energy flames, downwards like a hammer, and slammed it into the location of 'abnormal spiritual energy' marked for him by Gu Yaoluo.

*Pa-cha!*

Faced with this punch, the solid moon rock rippled visibly, like raindrops falling on a calm lake.

Centered on the location of Su Zhou's punch, countless fine lines shattered into countless dust particles in an instant, revealing what was hidden behind them.

It was a humanoid covered in a silver carapace: a Deep Space Caller.

A glance told Su Zhou that the silver carapace covering the Deep Space Caller was an 'Amorphous One'... no, the whole person *was* an Amorphous One, condensed into a human form!

Regardless of whether the Deep Space Caller chose to transform into this form, or whether he had been devoured by the monster he summoned, it was no longer human.

The surface of the Deep Space Caller's true form was different from ordinary Amorphous Ones. It had a large number of nano-scale, scale-like crystal structures inlaid and connected, making the surface look incredibly smooth, but actually uneven. Ordinary transcendents would be harmed just by touching it. Its head was like mercury, with only a pair of silver-shining pupils at the eyes. The rest was like a liquid, deforming slightly with movement.

The surrounding moon rock was shattered, and countless flying debris drifted and rose in the moon's low-gravity environment. Facing Su Zhou's breath, the Deep Space Caller was already preparing a counterattack, its arms slowly transforming into gun barrels, and silver streamers were gathering in the very center of the gun barrels, ready to fire.

But Su Zhou didn't give it any chance. Taking advantage of the last bit of bullet time, and in that moment of hesitation when the Deep Space Caller had difficulty aiming at him due to the flying debris, he erupted spiritual energy behind him, creating an explosion, and propelling his body forward as if teleporting.

Immediately afterward, he threw a punch, directly hitting the opponent's chest.

Everything happened in a flash. When Su Zhou punched, the Deep Space Caller wasn't slow to react. Its chest was denting inward, trying to transform into a deep hole with countless sharp teeth growing inside, wanting to lock Su Zhou's hand in place.

But Su Zhou's speed was too fast. His supersonic punch unleashed all of its power on the opponent when it was only halfway through transforming.

*Boom, boom, boom!*

The moon had no atmosphere, but living things had mediums for sound waves and shockwaves to propagate within their bodies. As Su Zhou's punch, powerful enough to smash a solid steel tank, exploded, a huge tremor spread through the Deep Space Caller's body, emitting a bizarre thunder that only it could hear. Its body was knocked away like a cannonball, creating a conical track of moon dust, and slammed into a distant ring-shaped mountain.

In an instant, the surface of the ring-shaped mountain was shattered, and the Deep Space Caller's body was embedded inside the ring-shaped mountain, buried by the collapsing rocks.

At this moment, a majestic golden spiritual energy cannon crossed the vast distance from afar, turning the ground along the way into lava—Su Zhou didn't turn his head. He could sense that it was a joint attack from Gu Yaoluo and Bai Jingtao.

Using the art of heavenly craftsmanship, Gu Yaoluo used the carried weapon parts to assemble a vehicle-mounted spiritual energy cannon. Just like in surface training, he and Bai Jingtao charged together, unleashing a strike comparable to a Commander-level—but it was just this one strike, because the other wriggling Amorphous Ones were pouncing towards them. The lunar rover was speeding rapidly across the lunar surface, carrying the mountain-sized monsters flying between the uneven lunar surface and the ring-shaped mountains.

"It seems that I don't need to help for now."

Nodding slightly, Su Zhou knew very well that Gu Yaoluo and Bai Jingtao seemed to be in danger, but in reality, they were handling things with ease. The giant Amorphous Ones didn't move very fast, and the lunar rover was fast enough to leave them behind.

The ring-shaped mountain hit by the golden light cannon had melted, and golden-red lava was flowing. Su Zhou originally wanted to take advantage of the situation to pursue and directly kill the Deep Space Caller.

But for some reason, in his perception, the enemy's aura suddenly surged—immediately afterward, accompanied by a spiritual light rising from the ground, the original collapsed ring-shaped mountain was directly blown away. As countless moon rocks shot out in all directions like bullets, an intact humanoid, its chest glowing with silver light, appeared on the lunar surface.

In the next instant, the Deep Space Caller, unscathed for some reason, turned itself into a cannon, and countless starlight-like spiritual lights began to converge in the center of its chest, then erupted—a dazzling stream of light shot out, directly towards Su Zhou.

Su Zhou was also ready—he took a deep breath. The moon had no atmosphere, but in the instant he inhaled, all the free spiritual energy within a thousand meters was forcibly plundered by the youth and taken into his mouth.

In the instant that the silver light stream shot towards him, Su Zhou also spewed out his breath—the four attributes fused into one, wind, fire, thunder, and water revolving. The four-colored dragon breath collided with the silver light stream, erupting into an incomparably brilliant explosion of dust and mist, like a solar corona.

Then, the four-colored dragon breath, somewhat smaller than before, completely swallowed the silver light stream. It turned into a stream of light, piercing through the Deep Space Caller's body, completely evaporating and burning away everything from the chest down.

But Su Zhou, who exhaled a puff of hot smoke, frowned, because in his spiritual energy perception, the Deep Space Caller's aura not only didn't decrease at all… it was even rising little by little!

——What exactly is this guy's ability?

Amidst his doubts, a slightly smaller Amorphous One shot out from the ground and merged with the Deep Space Caller, who had lost most of his body. Soon, in less than a second, with the fusion and solidification of the silver colloidal body, the Deep Space Caller was once again restored to perfection, and slowly rose.

"I am immortal, kid."

The incomparably arrogant soul transmission traveled across several kilometers to Su Zhou's ears. Su Zhou narrowed his eyes, extended his right hand, and a crack opened in space. A jet-black straight sword was drawn from the crack.

"What a coincidence." He replied calmly, "This sword and I specialize in killing immortals."

Su Zhou originally intended to continue fighting with the Deep Space Caller for a while, looking for the essence of the opponent's weakness and ability. After all, a battle between transcendents was, in a sense, an intelligence war, a process of probing each other's cards. During this time, an immortal could use his 'life' to probe the enemy's cards, thereby gaining a certain degree of advantage.

But he didn't expect that the Deep Space Caller neither continued to exchange harsh words with him, nor did it run away, nor did it continue to attack. Instead, it looked in the direction of Bai Jingtao and Gu Yaoluo and used a wide-area soul transmission.

"My real name is John Harrison!"

The powerful soul power instantly crossed a dozen kilometers and was transmitted to the minds of the two astronauts who had already taken the seven Amorphous Ones to a very distant place. Immediately, the two astronauts were shocked and then felt inexplicable.

"John Harrison? The Deep Space Caller's real name is actually this? That's ordinary enough."

"Why did he tell us his real name?"

Su Zhou didn't understand the reason either. This was also why he wasn't good at curses. Otherwise, he would have used the karma of the person personally speaking his real name to curse it with the five signs of decay - but even more shocking things happened.

Su Zhou noticed that in the instant the Deep Space Caller spoke his real name, its aura had become stronger!

"What's going on? Could it be that its supernatural power is that the more people who know its real name, the stronger its power? No, if that were the case, even if governments around the world had been besieging it for decades, it would have been impossible for a transcendent's name to be unknown!"

Faced with the Deep Space Caller's rising strength, Su Zhou couldn't help but become more serious and earnest—and at this moment, he felt that the Deep Space Caller's power had become a little stronger.

And in that instant, as the earth shook and trembled like the surface of the sea, more giant Amorphous Ones rose from the ground. Swelling spiritual energy stirred up rocks and flying dust, and immense telekinesis imprisoned all the surrounding space even before the physical bodies appeared. It even condensed into chains that shot out, entangling Su Zhou, who had just drawn the Extinction Blade!

"You have already stepped into my trap."

The Deep Space Caller said this.

And on Earth, the explanation of the Deep Space Caller's abilities was still in progress.

"The Deep Space Caller's abilities allow it to draw power from any emotions directed at it within a certain distance of itself."

The voice of Ms. Cita, vice president of the NW Foundation and the highest-level administrator of the American Federal Transcendent Organization, was tired: "Power of faith? Or power of emotion? We don't know. But as long as it is directed at it, whether it is joy, pain, vigilance, contempt… any kind of emotion can allow it to directly gain power, and even do all kinds of strange things."

"In fact, all members of the Foundation who have truly faced the Deep Space Caller, except for the most elite, must have their memories of the Deep Space Caller erased after the mission—otherwise, its power and speed of becoming stronger will be unrivaled."

"Such a tricky ability… no wonder you want to block any news about it."

Hearing this, Yan Sheng directly transmitted the relevant information to the Zheng Country Aerospace Administration, and the Aerospace Administration informed the lunar landing team on the moon. As for himself, he repeated with doubt: "Unrivaled?"

And Ms. Cita nodded seriously, her expression solemn.

"Unrivaled."

On the lunar surface, the space locked by the telekinesis of the five giant Amorphous Ones that had suddenly appeared shattered, and countless light silvery spiritual energy flakes instantly enveloped all areas within a few kilometers.

But within this magnificent spiritual energy mist, where countless lights reflected each other, a golden-red blade of light shone. It broke through the sky with scorching radiation and slashed towards the Deep Space Caller, who had not yet reacted, at eight times the speed of sound.

A honeycomb-like spiritual energy barrier appeared, but the Extinction Blade easily broke through this shield, which was enough to block the bombardment of an entire heavy artillery battery, and directly stabbed into the Deep Space Caller's right shoulder.

"What?!"

The feeling of being melted from his right shoulder instantly awakened the Deep Space Caller. The monster, which had long since modified itself to be unable to feel pain, immediately withdrew and flew back, leaving Su Zhou only a right shoulder that had been burned into ashes—it directly abandoned all body parts related to the Extinction Blade and regrew its arm once again. But the fear and anger of having one's arm cut off could not be faked.

"You bastard!" Clearly, it had increased its strength, but it was still unable to react to Su Zhou's attack just now. Fear mixed with anger. The Deep Space Caller's back began to wriggle, growing thick, crystalline light wings, apparently about to transform into a battle form. But in the next instant, Su Zhou didn't give it time to transform at all. The Extinction Blade once again slashed with high heat that could instantly vaporize steel, forcing it to continue to flee in embarrassment.

No killing intent, no baleful aura. Killing villains was like sweeping away trash. Why bother with emotion? Su Zhou's body was surrounded by Tempest Seeds, controlling the spiritual energy jets, allowing him to fly using a strange, inertia-free orbital change trajectory. His eyes had already transformed into dragon eyes. Su Zhou calmly scanned all possible flaws around the Deep Space Caller, and then slashed with the fastest speed.

The surrounding Amorphous Ones tried to use their bodies and telekinesis to block Su Zhou, but their speed couldn't even keep up with Bai Jingtao's party in the car, and telekinesis melted like butter in front of the Extinction Blade.

The Deep Space Caller's power was still rapidly increasing. The more serious Su Zhou and the other three astronauts were, the stronger it became, but Su Zhou's power increased even faster!

Even a fire dragon formed from black and white cold flames was already entwined on the golden-red Extinction Blade. The flames of karmic sin were burning fiercely, causing the alarm bells in the Deep Space Caller's heart to ring loudly.

One ran and one chased. Soon, the two began a rapid pursuit on the moon.

"Running is useless."

After running hundreds of kilometers, the Deep Space Caller wasn't stupid after all. It quickly realized that it couldn't be faster than Su Zhou in terms of mobility without transforming into a battle form. So in the next instant, it directly turned its head, and its body shattered into thousands of pieces that exploded at supersonic speed, trying to avoid Su Zhou's offensive by self-splitting, and then seize the initiative again.

But Su Zhou's attack range was far larger than the Deep Space Caller imagined. Or rather, it underestimated the upgraded Extinction Blade too much—with the golden wish power flashing, the divine blade, which was jumping for joy because it was facing an 'immortal', erupted with unprecedented power under its master's tight grip.

*Boom!* With a flash of the blade, a giant fire blade forty meters long and twenty-four meters wide was slashed out by Su Zhou. The purple-green magic fire mixed with the Extinction Blade's pure wish power flames directly swallowed almost all of the Deep Space Caller's physical structure. The remaining force didn't diminish, and even when it fell on the lunar surface, it directly melted and vaporized large areas of moon rock, creating a huge lava pool on the surface.

*Hua la*—in the instant after the Deep Space Caller was swallowed by the Extinction Blade's flames, all the giant Amorphous Ones rapidly self-collapsed and melted like sandcastles washed by the sea. Bai Jingtao and Gu Yaoluo, who were being chased in the distance, noticed this. The two in the car looked at each other, then slapped each other's hands and laughed heartily, as if they were planning to celebrate their victory.

They celebrated a little too early.

Su Zhou didn't dare to relax at this time—he hadn't seen the evil soul yet. This was the best way to confirm whether the enemy was dead. However, he didn't show this on the surface. After slightly checking his positioning, he revealed the smug expression typical of young people. He even returned the blade of the Extinction Blade to his personal space.

Then, just as Su Zhou seemed to have completely lifted his guard and was about to turn around and join the other two, the ground began to wriggle, and silver stars shot out, like rain, shooting towards Su Zhou.

And what they had to face was Su Zhou's backhand draw and slash from his personal space.

Immediately, the silver stars in the sky turned to ashes and fell. They were the 'small Amorphous Ones' that were still constantly wriggling even though they had been burned black and even mostly turned to ashes.

Stepping down and crushing a wriggling small Amorphous One into powder, Su Zhou coldly scanned the surroundings, but still didn't see the Deep Space Caller's figure.

But the other party's soul transmission came from all directions, sometimes on the left, sometimes on the right.

"Su Zhou?"

"The youngest and most powerful cultivator of the new era on Earth."

"You easily gained everyone's attention. I really envy you—but I sensed your heart. Like me, you are a madman who doesn't care about the thoughts of those ordinary people. We are very similar, but you have defected to the authorities. That's really strange."

"I originally thought that I would find a chance to devour you and replace your identity so that I could enjoy the attention and praise of countless people."

"I didn't expect that you, who have so many fans and followers, would also run to this empty moon—haha, here, if I eat you and kill the others, then the Deep Space Caller can die, and I will become you!"

The Deep Space Caller's soul transmission was erratic, sometimes the source was underground two hundred meters to the left, and sometimes it was on the surface three kilometers in front. Its words carried a strange power that could bewitch people's hearts and interfere with people's thoughts.

But Su Zhou didn't care. Since the enemy's location couldn't be determined, he would destroy everything. He held the divine blade and took a step forward. In an instant, more than eight sources of the Deep Space Caller's soul transmission were destroyed by Su Zhou. Terrible heat was transmitted, turning the ground into a lava pool.

It could be seen that there was a lurking Amorphous One of varying sizes at each source, and it was these Amorphous Ones that sent out soul transmissions to interfere with Su Zhou.

"You can't kill me. I am immortal."

But even though so many Amorphous Ones were killed, the Deep Space Caller's voice still kept coming. Its tone carried a hint of fear and greed: "I originally thought that dealing with an ordinary Commander-level wouldn't take much effort at all. I didn't expect that you are also a 'monster'… It's really strange. Why do you obey the authorities? You clearly have the power to subvert the entire world!"

"But soon, this power will be mine—my little cuties will…"

Su Zhou had long unilaterally blocked the Deep Space Caller's soul transmission. Of course, the other party didn't know this. At this time, the youth had turned into dozens of afterimages, and in an instant, he swung hundreds of blades, bombarding every underground location where he sensed a spiritual energy reaction.

For a time, it looked as if a series of explosions had occurred almost simultaneously on the ground within a radius of three kilometers. Countless moon rocks were shattered by the huge force, rising into dust, and in this area, a hole was opened in the moon's crust, and hundreds of Amorphous Ones of varying sizes were directly wiped out by Su Zhou.

But the Deep Space Caller was still not dead. Although he couldn't hear what the other party was saying, Su Zhou knew that it was still nagging, which immediately made him frown.

*Pa-cha*—without any words, Su Zhou landed on the ground. He thrust the Extinction Blade into the earth with a backhand stroke, and golden-red patterns began to spread out in all directions, centered on the Extinction Blade—in the next instant, the earth began to crack, and surging golden magma heat winds spewed out from the cracks, sweeping across all areas within a few kilometers. In this area, rocks melted, lava boiled, and the scorching rock gas created fragmented whistling sounds in the vacuum.

As Su Zhou continued to input his spiritual energy, an area the size of an entire small town was completely turned into a lava pool by the power of the Extinction Blade. Even the Deep Space Caller could only shut its mouth for a while.

But after a moment, the other party's voice came again from afar: "It's useless, Su Zhou. You can't kill me in this way—your power is indeed very strong, but it's all in vain!"

Knowing that the other party hadn't been killed, Su Zhou couldn't help but frown. He pulled the Extinction Blade out of the already melted ground, twirled it, and fastened it to his waist.

"The Deep Space Caller has been on the moon for a long time before us, but only recently made a big commotion. I have no way of knowing how many of its clones there are."

Thinking this in his heart, Su Zhou also knew the other party's purpose: "It wants to use this method to consume my power. Of course, this is useless. With my recovery power, I can fight at this intensity for several months."

At this time, Su Zhou had analyzed the Deep Space Caller's cultivation method—it had completely abandoned its human body and chosen a brain cultivation method that Yala had once told him about.

That is, a decentralized cultivation method.

The entire body of a transcendent who chooses this brain cultivation method is a thinking organ, and there is no distinction between the main body and the clone. All of them are the main body, and all of them are the clone. As long as the remaining body is large enough to ensure the integrity of the thinking, a transcendent who chooses this cultivation method can be said to be immortal.

Of course, this cultivation method also has a big flaw, that is, as the body is destroyed, its intelligence and thinking speed will have a significant decrease… But the Deep Space Caller obviously stopped being human a long time ago. Su Zhou felt that the size of its body could be compared to those mountain-sized Amorphous Ones.

While thinking, the ground continued to vibrate, and silver Amorphous Ones drilled out of the cracks in the ground, then tried to combine into Deep Space Caller shapes. Su Zhou's figure moved again, turning into a stream of light and directly killing all the Amorphous Ones that were emerging from the ground.

However, after killing for a while, Su Zhou stopped.

And the Deep Space Caller heard for the first time Su Zhou responding to its verbal harassment.

"All the Amorphous Ones in this place, including you in human form, are all clones controlled by your main body, right—if it's the main body, I've killed so many, your thinking should at least be a little unstable."

Although it was just a guess, his tone was very certain. Su Zhou sneered, "I haven't sensed much resentment after sensing for so long. I originally thought it was because you were dispersing your body, but now it seems that it's just a guise."

——Has it been discovered?

The Deep Space Caller didn't reply, quite surprised—it originally thought that if it continued to show weakness, maintaining the level that Su Zhou could easily eliminate it, but couldn't completely kill it, and continued to provoke him, Su Zhou would ignore some details and continue to waste time here.

According to the Deep Space Caller's intelligence network, Su Zhou was just a surprisingly talented, lucky big boy. He was argumentative, foul-mouthed, could quarrel with those lowly mortals, had an extremely unhealthy mentality, and was extremely easy to be angered. He was a typical ordinary person who had suddenly gained power… and even a little arrogant, conceited, and violent.

Although it felt that those postures were all disguises, and that beneath Su Zhou's seemingly normal nature, there lurked a true monster as identical to itself, the Deep Space Caller still didn't expect that the delay tactic would be noticed by the other party in less than two minutes.

Su Zhou didn't know the Deep Space Caller's true thoughts. If he knew, he wouldn't be angry.

His usual performance was half his nature, which he was too lazy to hide, and half intentional. Su Zhou knew very well that a powerful existence holding his power, if he wanted to get along well with other companions who were far behind him, had to show some behaviors and characteristics that they could accept.

For the people he cared about, Su Zhou was willing to compromise and show some personalities that were easy for others to understand and willing to approach. If he were serious, cold, mysterious, and didn't show his emotions, then besides a few true friends, everyone would only fear him.

These were all unnecessary things—and they could also mislead others in their personality profiling and assessment of him.

"I was having too much fun killing you, I forgot the purpose of coming to the moon."

Retracting the divine blade and looking at the spiritual energy beacon in the distance, Su Zhou shook his head. He took off directly, turning into a cyan-purple light cluster, dragging a long light band behind him, leaving only a cold message: "I'll go solve the alien spaceship matter first, then come back to deal with you, shapeshifter."

"Decisive enough."

Watching Su Zhou's departing back, the Deep Space Caller narrowed its eyes, turning away from its previous frivolous and provocative appearance. It looked serious: "But the spaceship is the real defense line."

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