Xia Lun turned around. The hive drones had spread out in a fan-shaped formation before the Mechanical Prophet. Their overheated surfaces glowed red, like irons fresh from the furnace. The lasers from earlier had clearly been fired by them.
“The Arcane Sage sent me to provide support… The others are still dealing with the remaining monsters and can’t get away for the moment.” The Mechanical Prophet grinned and gave Xia Lun a thumbs-up.
A strange noise came from ahead. Flesh writhed, shattered bones sprouted wildly like plants, and muscle fibers twisted together like worms and snakes. In the blink of an eye, the Chaos Demon God’s head had restored itself to its original form.
“That guy is the true body of those monsters?”
Complex streams of electronic data flowed through the Mechanical Prophet’s pupils. “Let me scan this creature’s energy field…”
Bzzzt—crackle!
White smoke suddenly poured from the Mechanical Prophet’s head, while tiny sparks spurted from several of its heat vents.
“Ah, it overloaded. I actually can’t detect it.” The Mechanical Prophet staggered half a step backward, his tone gradually growing solemn.
According to his precision sensors, the monster’s energy field was like a true black hole in the universe. It not only devoured every detection wave, but even caused a brief disruption in his energy circuits.
And now, the Mechanical Prophet watched as a black hole came hurtling straight toward him.
“Move.”
The Mechanical Prophet was still standing there in a daze when Aina’s cold, clear voice suddenly came from behind him.
The thrusters on his back erupted with a brief burst of blue flame, and he immediately darted aside.
The Chaos Demon God’s target had never been him. It was Aina behind him.
The creature only reacted to the powerful threats it could sense. In fact, when facing Xia Lun, it had paid him very little attention.
Roar!
The monster’s twisted arms stretched forward. Its palms began to writhe and split apart like melting candles, transforming in an instant into a flood of flesh that filled the sky. With nauseating squelches, it surged toward Aina.
At that moment, the staff floating beside Aina had already released an incomparable radiance, as though it had become the center of the world.
Aina knew that ordinary methods would be completely ineffective. Instead, the Chaos Demon God would devour their power and turn it into nourishment.
That was why every attack she launched was a long-brewing killing move.
“Crimson End.”
It sounded as though she were proclaiming the judgment of the world.
The crimson staff Aina used to cast her spell disintegrated and melted away. It transformed into countless glittering crimson motes, which gathered within a magic array that suddenly appeared before her.
Then Xia Lun’s vision was consumed by pure red.
There was no thunderous explosion, no shock wave of energy—only an expanse of red that continued to deepen and expand. The color was so pure that it seemed like the first hue born at the dawn of the universe, or the final ray of light at the end of all things.
Time lost its meaning at that moment, and even the concept of space grew blurred. No one knew how much time had passed. Perhaps it was an instant; perhaps it was eternity. Only after an unknowable span did the crimson radiance slowly fade.
Xia Lun felt an intense unreality, as if the world had truly undergone an apocalypse and reincarnation, and they now stood within the new world born after that cycle.
When the crimson radiance finally receded like a tide, reality slowly pieced itself back together.
In his dazed state, Xia Lun felt a slightly cool little hand gently take hold of his right hand. Her fingertips trembled faintly.
When he came to his senses, he realized that Aina had somehow taken his hand.
The Mechanical Prophet stood frozen in place. Even the streams of data in his eyes had stopped moving and flickering, growing dim and lifeless. Clearly, the extraordinary energy shock had temporarily shut him down.
A moment later, a pleasant melody came from inside his head, followed by a gentle female voice saying, “Rebooting.”
As for the Chaos Demon God, not even a trace of it could be seen in the void.
“What happened?” The Mechanical Prophet’s voice was filled with obvious electronic interference. “Something incredible seems to have happened just now… Where’s that guy? Has the matter been resolved?”
No one answered him.
“Are you all right?” Xia Lun supported Aina by the shoulder and asked her softly. He could tell that Aina was somewhat weak.
Aina gently shook her head.
“Do you need me to carry you?”
Aina’s eyes lit up, and she slowly nodded.
The technique of fusing bloodline power with magic was unbelievably powerful, but it also consumed an enormous amount of her strength.
Even that long staff—a bloodline divine artifact she had painstakingly nurtured—had been destroyed by the attack she unleashed.
“Phew… So, can we go back and hold a victory banquet now?” The Mechanical Prophet breathed a sigh of relief. An exclamation mark appeared above his head. “Thank you for your efforts, Scarlet Goddess. You have eliminated the powerful enemy that threatened the entire universe…”
Thump—
A strange heartbeat suddenly echoed.
The joy on everyone’s faces instantly froze.
Xia Lun slowly turned around.
In the void, a few strands of blood first twisted together like living creatures. They then rapidly multiplied and swelled, forming a constantly throbbing mass of flesh shaped like a heart. After that, it quickly condensed into a humanoid figure.
“Damn it! How is this thing still alive?”
The Mechanical Prophet’s face was filled with disbelief. His breastplate abruptly slid open on both sides, revealing cannon barrels within that glowed with a dangerous red light. The surrounding hive drones also rearranged themselves into an attack formation.
Beep—
Accompanied by a sharp, piercing hum, a golden laser cannon shot forth.
The surrounding hive drones crackled, then dimmed and fell silent. Clearly, they had been completely destroyed by the overload.
But just as the laser was about to strike the Chaos Demon God, the flesh raised a crystal-clear, sharply pointed crystal like a tentacle. The laser was scattered by the crystal, and the diverging beams sliced distant meteorites in half, revealing cross-sections glowing bright red from the heat…
Yet they had barely harmed it at all.
“Warning. Energy reserves are nearly depleted. It is recommended that you activate a warp wormhole and return to the energy replenishment station…” A cold electronic voice sounded from within the Mechanical Prophet’s body.
“What? You want me to flee in the middle of battle? How could I possibly do that?” The Mechanical Prophet’s expression turned ugly. When dealing with that monster the day before, he had been one of the primary attackers, and his Incineration Cannon had consumed a great deal of energy.
Before he had even had the chance to return and replenish it, he had encountered something like this again.
The Mechanical Prophet’s gaze shifted toward Xia Lun and Aina.
“They’re our comrades! Human comrades! How could I disgrace our civilization in front of them?”
His radiant wings spread open, and his thrusters erupted in an instant, flames blasting dozens of meters into the void. He poured out every last bit of energy he had.
In the blink of an eye, the Mechanical Prophet charged straight toward the Chaos Demon God, meeting its freshly restored, twisted face head-on.
“Die, monster.”
Beep, beep, beep…
A shrill warning blared from the Mechanical Prophet’s chest. Then a violent explosion swept across everything nearby.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
end. Thus one must continue to cultivate, and become a saint or great emperor, in order to prolong one's life. Chen Xia, however, completely reversed this. Since his transmigration, he has gained immortality, and also a system that awards him with attribute points for every year he lives. Thus between the myriad worlds, the legend of an unparalleled senior appeared. "A gentleman takes revenge; it is never too late even after ten thousand years." "When you were at your peak I yielded, now in your old age I shall trample on you." - Chen Xia
uld barely embark on the path to immortality. Just as he was on the verge of death, his golden finger awakened. No matter whether it was poison, drained blood and vital energy, diminished lifespan, or any other physical debuff caused by paying a price—once midnight passed, everything would be refreshed. From then on, whenever someone asked what kind of person Chu Ran was, the answer was simple: Forbidden arts that other cultivators dared not learn? Chu Ran would learn them. Prices that even demonic cultivators dared not pay? Chu Ran would pay them. Lifespan that even righteous cultivators dared not burn? Chu Ran would burn it. All the blood essence in his body? Take it. Want both his hands and feet? He would cut them off and send them to you. You say he’s finished? He wasn’t built to sit idle. You think he’s gone mad? No—he was simply waiting for midnight. From that day onward, Chu Ran would respect neither Heaven nor Earth, bow to neither gods nor ghosts. He had only one wish: For midnight to arrive a little sooner.
