This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 475 Sneak attack!

Completely transform living organisms into mechanical bodies and gradually improve their strength.

This is the orthodox mechanical evolution system.

Whether it was Forge Hammer, Reynolds or Mikhail, they had only undergone mechanical modifications but did not have the ability to evolve.

Before, he thought that the Holy Spirit Civilization was the same, and that it was essentially a mechanized transformation based on an extremely advanced level of technology.

But once this mechanical seed appears, everything can be explained.

He thought of the Heart of the Holy Spirit again. That thing should be used in conjunction with the Mechanical Seed.

"It's really powerful..." Li Ming was more and more amazed. However, this thing only needs 100,000 metal energies to control, and can only transform F-level life forms.

In his hands, it doesn't have such a great effect.

However, Reynolds and Mikhail should be quite interested. I wonder if they know about the existence of this thing.

As he was thinking, he looked up and happened to meet Mikhail's gaze. The other party looked away as if nothing had happened and then went to check other places.

Li Ming frowned slightly.

Others were also exploring, turning almost the entire area upside down, using various methods, and found some things here and there, even a few deserter entities, but none of them were of any special value.

"That's all." Gonzalez was still a little unwilling.

"Let's go somewhere else." Cedric asked, "How many places are there that have not been explored yet?"

"Two left."

"Heh..." Klaue's meaning was incomprehensible, and others no longer had the initial expectations.

There was nothing valuable in the two places I visited, and I'm afraid the remaining two places will be similar.

Even though I thought this in my heart, I still had to go.

The crowd casually opened a hole in the wall, but before they could get out, they began to murmur in their hearts.

Outside the hole in the wall, it was already shrouded in a hazy gray-black mist.

Li Ming's expression was slightly condensed. Why does this fog look so familiar?
"Will the fog here spread automatically?" Cedric was puzzled. They had only been here for less than half an hour.

"There has never been a similar phenomenon before." Mikhail was still thinking about the thing that seemed to be a "mechanical spark".

If Li Ming takes her out and she falls into Qinglong's hands, he will definitely notice something is wrong and he will have to find a way to trick her into giving her away.

But this kid is not easy to fool.

Everyone went out one after another, their faces all changed a little. The hazy gray-black fog all around had completely enveloped the area.

Compress their field of vision and perception abilities to an extremely small range.

"This..." Li Ming's heart beat slowly, and he became more and more certain that this thing was the mist that accompanied the Yuan Clan.

Are the Yuan people really present in this place?
"Everyone be careful, I have a bad feeling." Costat said in a deep voice.

Everyone looked around, their faces gradually becoming solemn. Mikhail calmed down and said in a deep voice: "There has never been a similar situation before. It's very strange."

A subtle clanging sound was heard. Li Ming had already put on the tank guard. The sense of crisis became stronger and stronger. The mechanical guards gathered around him, on high alert.

"I feel like something is coming, and it's getting closer..." Kostat's pupils shrank, and he suddenly shouted, "Be careful!"

Before he finished his words, a shadow invisible to the naked eye came over the swirling fog.

As soon as he appeared, he was less than a hundred meters away from everyone. For them, this distance was within their reach in the blink of an eye, and they felt a chill in their hearts.

The first one to react was Lancaster. A black scepter appeared in his hand. It was as black as ink, but it was flickering with faint light, like stars dotted in the night sky.

The body of the staff was carved with intricate and ancient patterns that seemed to contain some powerful power and emitted a faint mysterious glow.

A huge black gem is inlaid on the top, and there seems to be deep darkness surging inside the gem.

Without hesitation, he smashed down with the scepter in his hand.

In an instant, the surrounding space was squeezed by this powerful force, making a "creaking" sound as it could not bear the weight.

boom!
There was a dull sound, and the head of the staff hit the attacker accurately. A tremendous amount of energy instantly gushed out from the staff, boiling and tumbling like boiling water, presenting dazzling colors, interweaving and colliding with each other, forming a gorgeous and violent ocean.

Gray fog surged all around, the ground cracked in an instant, and the terrifying energy annihilated everything around and spread to further away.

"Be gentle!" Mikhail warned in a deep voice.

"What is that?" Kostat had been paying attention to the attacker, and then his expression suddenly changed. In the boiling energy, he vaguely saw the other party's appearance and was horrified: "Shadow of the Eternal Abyss!?"

In the boiling energy, the shadow escaped and disappeared without a trace.

"what?"

Others were also shocked. How could the shadow of Yongyuan be here?

The sudden attack, and the identity of the attacker, caused all sorts of thoughts to arise in their minds.

"No, this is a bait, behind it!" Costat suddenly spoke again, already feeling something was wrong.

Everyone's expressions were slightly shocked, and as soon as they turned their heads, a ball of energy suddenly exploded.

Li Ming?

Everyone had different expressions. Mikhail's heart skipped a beat, but then he realized.

The gray-white life form punched the tank guard in the chest, but did not cause any damage.

"Feigning an attack on others, your real target is me?" Li Ming felt indifferent.

These Yuan people are indeed powerful. They use the fog to cover up their traces and launch attacks at a very close distance.

When he came out, he had already replaced all the objects he had controlled sporadically back to the main combat system.

This resulted in him not noticing the opponent's ambush, but the defense brought about by this, superimposed on the tank guard, was terrifying.

"How come this metal shell is so hard?" The Yuan clan, who failed to launch an attack, were also surprised.

He only felt his arm go numb. Not only did he fail to break the opponent's defense, he also felt a considerable recoil force. However, in his perception, this metal could not be so hard.

At the same time, Li Ming had already raised his head, ready to activate the [Guards Armament] when the enemy attacked. In that instant, the mechanical guards attached themselves to the tank guards and transformed into the king form.

The Yuan clan's face changed slightly, and by the time they reacted, the purple giant hammer had already fallen.

Li Ming was already familiar with this combo, and the ultimate power exploded in an instant, like the surging corona of a star or the violent collapse of a giant, unmatched.

There was a loud bang, and the giant hammer hit the Yuan clan hard. The force was so terrifying that the Yuan clan had no time to react and was directly hit.

The ground, which had already been deeply cut away, collapsed instantly. Even though the material used was quite hard, it could not withstand an explosion of this level.

"Want to leave?" Li Ming sneered in his heart. He was very familiar with these old guys. He chased them immediately and did not give him any chance to resist.

"Surround it, we must catch it!" Costat shouted.

The others reacted quickly and occupied all four sides, using all sorts of methods, causing the place to become bustling with activity.

The strength of the Yuan clan was not too strong, and they could not withstand the combined forces of so many people. They were soon pinched in Li Ming's hand and were as weak as a dead dog.

The surface of the grayish-white skin was covered with wounds, but it was absorbing some kind of free energy particles in the mist to repair itself.

Dius immediately sealed it off to isolate him from external energy.

Everyone's eyes were filled with wonder and fear, as they glanced at the huge mechanical body obscurely.

The strength displayed by the mechanical body in front of them was almost catching up with Lancaster, which was far beyond their expectations.

Qinglong's mechanical combat methods are more numerous and stronger than those of the other two master craftsmen.

"This is the Shadow of the Eternal Abyss..." Cedric was quite surprised. He fixed his eyes on this gray-white life form. It had slender limbs, smooth skin, strange facial features, and it kept making hoarse sounds.
"This is the first time I've seen a living one. In the past, I could only get a glimpse of it in various materials." Costat frowned, his eyes moving back and forth between the Yuan people and the burly mechanical system.

Why did this guy attack Li Ming?

"According to the information, shouldn't this thing only be active in the Eternal Abyss?" Deus was puzzled.

The energy around him gradually dissipated. Mikhail looked very unhappy. Everything below him turned into nothingness, with only scattered metal debris floating around.

The brief collision directly destroyed a quarter of the land in this area.

This caused a chain reaction, and the edges farther away also began to collapse, as if some kind of balance had been broken.

The space-time isolation state covering the entire area actually began to flow slowly.

"How could something like this suddenly appear in this place?" Gonzalez looked at Mikhail, "You should give us an explanation."

"I don't know why it has never appeared before. This time, in addition to bringing you in..." Mikhail seemed to remember something halfway through his words, and his expression became very interesting: "Is it... the black hole?"

With just a little thought using the control variable method, you can lock on to the target.

"Huh?" Reynolds reacted and said in surprise: "No wonder the broken crystal has such a strong power left. It turns out that it is locking these two things."

"Let's put him down first." Kostat said, his eyes flickering. "This should be the first time that the Shadow of the Eternal Abyss has been caught alive."

"Put him down? He just attacked me." Li Ming made a dissatisfied sound.

"He is extremely valuable and may be able to reveal many secrets to us," added Costat.

Li Ming didn't say anything, but just tightened his palm silently. He certainly didn't have to kill the Yuan clan.

Instead, he discovered that he could actually extract genetic essence from the body of this Yuan clan member, and that there was not only essence, but also something else.

"These guys are also X-level life forms, flesh and blood, so it's normal to be able to extract them." Li Ming muttered in his heart, he must extract the genetic essence cleanly before putting it down.

There was another kind of energy that could be absorbed, and he was also curious about it.

"Don't kill him." Costat's eyebrows jumped, and he said hurriedly: "After this thing dies, it will leave a polluted area, eroding the space and corrupting the physical matter. It will be difficult to deal with and will continue to expand."

"Contaminated area?" Li Ming was quite surprised and asked, "What are these things? I thought they were just a kind of mimicry in the previous challenge."

Costat was not surprised. After all, Li Ming was not very old and had no access to relevant information.

After a slight hesitation, he looked around at everyone and explained, "The Empire calls them the Shadow of the Eternal Abyss, or the Abyss Clan."

"In fact, we have never actually seen this kind of life form. We have only obtained fragmentary records in many ruins and relics of civilizations."

"They live in the Eternal Abyss. We have no idea whether they have their own civilized living customs, evolutionary paths, etc. We only know that they are closely related to the destruction of many powerful civilizations."

"What do you mean? They will destroy civilization?" Li Ming asked in a suspicious tone, "You mean, they also destroyed the Terrax civilization?"

"This..." Costat hesitated and shook his head, "We don't have clear evidence of this."

"They hardly appear in the main universe, which will suppress this kind of life form," Deus added.

"Suppress?" Li Ming was stunned. He really didn't know this. Others were also quite surprised.

Dius added: "Yes, just like suppressing dimensional life forms, their power cannot be exerted, and the air in the main universe is extremely poisonous to them."

"But how did the Holy Spirit Civilization perish? It was obviously killed by something like this." Li Ming asked puzzledly.

"Not sure." Costat shook his head and emphasized: "So, many answers need to be found in this thing."

Li Ming pondered for a moment, until everyone was getting impatient, he said: "But my teacher taught me to cut the grass at its roots."

"It's been caught." Crow said impatiently, "Put it down quickly."

"Hmm..." Li Ming hesitated, dragged his feet, and delayed for a while before reluctantly saying, "Okay, I'll listen to you."

Everyone was speechless. They landed in the undamaged area and watched Li Ming casually throw it down. They immediately carried out various blockades.

Dius even tried to communicate with them through mental fluctuations, but after a moment he was surprised and said, "They don't have spiritual bodies?"

"No spiritual body?" Mikhail asked in surprise. "Usually, this phenomenon only occurs in maternal species. They use pheromones as guidance."

Dius said nothing, and runes fell into his brows one by one. Then he shook his head and said, "I can't find any memory. It's all nothing."

"Perhaps, the biggest gain this time is this guy." Costat stared at the Yuan Clan on the ground. This life form did not make any sound, but just stared at them, which was chilling.

Everyone glanced at Li Ming covertly, and they were all very curious. Why did this guy attack Li Ming? Was it just because his life level was the lowest?

However, as soon as Costat finished speaking, the Yuan Clan on the ground suddenly let out a wail.

Everyone's vigilance instantly rose to the highest level.

There was no movement around, but the Yuan Clan in the center underwent incredible changes. They twisted their bodies and seemed to be in extreme pain. The surface of their skin began to melt and white mist evaporated.

Costat's eyes suddenly fixed, and everyone frowned.

Li Ming felt a gaze that was almost tangible. This guy was staring at him intently.

The others finally heard the sound made by the Yuan Clan, which was a string of strange syllables.

No one understood what he meant and watched him evaporate into mist.

(End of this chapter)