This is not mechanical ascension...

"If I can find a chance to get the secret of Li Ming..." Levenbaker kept thinking in his mind.

But at this moment, his heart skipped a beat, his pupils shrank, and he looked at the virtual star map in front of him with doubt.

"This, I seem to feel..." He was not sure. He had a vague feeling of panic, as if something had happened, but he didn't know where it came from.

Suddenly, his expression froze, and he saw the black figure on the throne walking down.

This was the first time he saw Lord Yuan come down from his seat.

"There was an accident. You should prepare for the promotion."

Hao Miao's voice suddenly sounded in his ears. Levenbeck's pupils dilated and he hesitated, "Promotion? Now?"

The Abyss Lord ignored him and only gave an order to Tanus, "Follow my instructions and intercept him. He is absorbing the blood mist. Don't let him interfere with the promotion process."

Levenbeck’s life level is not very high, and although he has a certain control over the blood mist, he cannot sense every corner, but he can.

He immediately noticed Li Ming who was absorbing the blood mist, and the speed was getting faster and faster.

"He? Who? Li Ming? Absorbing blood mist?" Levenbaker blinked, confused for a moment.

The change happened too quickly, and it was even hard for him to accept. He couldn't help but ask, "He actually dared to absorb the blood mist. Isn't that courting death?"

"Even if he is an ultimate life form, his large number will cause great damage."

Still no response, Tanus took the order and walked past him with an indifferent expression.

Li Ming can even absorb the power of the Eternal Abyss, let alone this blood mist mixed with the power of the Eternal Abyss.

The only surprise for Tanus was that the other party absorbed the energy too late, and it was too late to stop it.

"Unfortunately, it will take a long time for the others to come out." The Abyss Lord's eyes fell on Levenbeck, but the current scale of the blood mist, combined with this little thing, was enough.

Levenbeck suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart and said hurriedly: "Don't worry, I will prepare for the promotion now, and I will succeed in the promotion before he comes."

Still no response, the black shadow just gradually walked towards him. Levenbaker subconsciously wanted to retreat, but found himself suppressed by an invisible force and unable to move at all.

"You...you...what exactly do you want to do..." Levenbeck's throat rolled and he could only watch the black shadow walk into his body.

The huge flesh and blood heart shook violently, and the dark gold blood vessels on the surface suddenly exploded. Tens of thousands of blood vessel endings expanded into a black hole iris in the vacuum.

The blood-gold halo expanded rapidly, expanding into nine haloes layer by layer. The walls of the halo spun wildly, tearing the blood mist around it and gathering towards the center at a terrifying speed.

.........

The majestic blood mist vortex continued to expand, and it seemed difficult to see its size considering the scale of the starry sky.

But the front-line base in the distance was only the size of a hair in front of it.

In the center of the vortex, Li Ming closed his eyes tightly. The continuously pouring blood mist formed a kind of potential energy, and the speed of flowing into his body continued to increase.

In order to keep the body in a normal state, more and more metal energy is consumed. In just one hour, nearly 100 million metal energies have been consumed.

"Unfortunately, I can't use the Star of Eternal Silence to accelerate in this state." Li Ming was still not satisfied, but he had no choice because the time difference would inevitably lead to the appearance of a vacuum area during absorption, which was meaningless.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes, and a sharp light flashed across the depths of his pupils. "Your reaction speed is really fast."

The huge blood mist in front of me suddenly stopped expanding outwards and instead showed a rolling posture. The momentum was not very fast, but it was indeed shrinking.

Even the vortex formed around him showed a tendency to be torn apart.

"I'm waiting for you..." Without hesitation, he leaped forward, still maintaining the posture of absorbing the blood mist, and went deeper into the center of the vortex.

They are all control abilities, running automatically in his body, and his body is moving in the direction where the blood mist is shrinking.

.........

[The blood mist may produce some kind of violent reaction next. Do not react at all for now and cancel all targeted plans.]

Costat, with a frown on his face, was presiding over a high-level meeting attended mainly by representatives of the three major civilizations, including Anduin and Anatoly.

They were discussing the core strategy, because the emergence of blood mist life forms had hindered the elimination plan.

Next, whether to respond with more drastic measures or to think of other solutions requires further discussion.

At this moment, everyone looked at Costat with burning eyes.

Ding - as the screen went out, Costat looked up helplessly and said, "He refused."

"Chairman, where are you?" Anatoly looked at Anduin and asked, "Why did you suddenly ask us to cancel the plan?"

"I don't know either." Anduin shook his head.

"Does he want us to give up resistance?" Costat frowned, "Or does he have other methods? What's the matter with the violent reaction of the blood mist?"

Everyone was very confused. Li Ming would reveal some information when he needed them to do something, but most of the time he basically said nothing.

Anduin said solemnly, "It shouldn't take too long to figure it out."

Then, he emphasized: "Also, don't think too much. Even if all of us give up resistance, the chairman will not give up."

The unknown ultimate life form that suddenly appeared and attacked Li during the Empire War was no longer a secret among many high-level officials at the scene. They knew that the other party actually came from Yongyuan.

Although we don’t know why the other party suddenly attacked, we don’t know how long the other party has been lying in wait.

But one thing is certain, the other party did not attack Li Ming for no reason, there must be deeper reasons behind it.

Costat glanced at him and explained, "What I mean is..."

Before he could finish his words, the screen hanging behind him suddenly flashed red and a shrill buzzing sounded in the conference room.

"The most urgent case?" Costat's face changed slightly. He turned around hastily without caring about anything else.

This kind of emergency situation has the highest authority. When he turned around, the figure of a commander with a solemn expression appeared on the screen.

"Commander Wayne..." Costat said hurriedly, "What happened?"

Wayne quickly reported, "The blood mist suddenly showed large-scale abnormal movements."

"Hmm?" Costat's eyes narrowed slightly, and the others also looked at him.

The commander had already synchronized the situation on the scene, and saw that the boundless blood mist in the starry sky was shrinking back at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In the starry sky where there is almost no comparison scale, the speed visible to the naked eye is already extremely fast.

"Shrinking?" Everyone was slightly shocked, and the first thing they thought of was what Li Ming had just said.

"When did it happen?" Costat asked further.

"Just one hour after Lord Qinglong entered the blood mist." Wayne explained.

"Qinglong entered the blood mist?" Costat was even more surprised. The others had different expressions. Since the blood mist crisis broke out, Li Ming had never gone deep into it, but this time he took the initiative to enter.

"You don't know?" Wayne was also surprised, "I thought Mr. Qinglong..."

Suddenly, Wayne added, "Then you probably don't know about Lord Qinglong absorbing the blood mist?"

"He is absorbing the blood mist?" Anduin was stunned, and a look of urgency rose on his face. "Why would the chairman use this method?"

Wayne has replayed the video, and the picture shows a huge vortex of blood mist. The center of the vortex is blurry and no specific human figure can be seen clearly.

But Wayne added: "This is the vortex that appeared shortly after Lord Qinglong entered. It kept expanding in size until the blood mist shrank. It had expanded to the size of a galaxy and kept catching up with the shrinking boundary of the blood mist."

Costat's face was tense and the meeting room was very quiet.

The characteristics of blood mist have long been analyzed very clearly. It will cause uncontrollable impacts on living organisms and even cause genetic distortion.

If the number accumulates to a certain level, it can cause erosion to X-level life forms.

Although Li Ming is the ultimate life form, he cannot withstand the qualitative change caused by quantitative change. Qinglong is solving the problem by sacrificing himself.

"I'm afraid he has no other solution." Costat sighed, but he had a strange feeling in his heart.

Qinglong was still at the forefront after all. If it was Adam...

He subconsciously thought of his brother and couldn't help feeling dazed.

Anduin stood up suddenly and said solemnly: "The chairman did not hesitate to sacrifice himself and finally created a variable."

"As the blood mist shrinks, a core will surely appear. Now is the best opportunity. Without further delay, we should mobilize all our manpower and head towards the location where the blood mist shrinks."

"At worst, we have to shrink the encirclement to prevent the blood mist from expanding again."

"That's right." Costat came back to his senses and immediately issued a series of instructions in the command system, while Anduin went to notify all X-level life forms.

If this matter is not handled properly, it will affect the safety of everyone. Even Anatoly, who is always cunning, did not say much and started moving in silence.

The wartime command system has been put into play and the highest order has been issued. The three major civilizations have already created an encirclement at the border of the blood mist. Now is the best opportunity to close it.

However, even if they acted immediately and jumped through the star gate, they were still a step late when they arrived at the front line, and the blood mist shrank to be almost invisible.

Anduin and the others did not hesitate, and streams of light flew in the direction where the blood mist was shrinking, chasing after the Azure Dragon.

The starry sky is boundless, and the blood mist covers the entire area like an aurora.

At first, the blood mist rolled back very slowly, but it became faster and faster as time passed.

In the end, Li Ming couldn't even keep up. He could only switch a few controlled objects and forcibly increase his speed before he could barely catch up.

For more than half a month, the environment in the universe seemed to have not changed at all. There was no other scenery on the road except some planetary debris.

Li Ming consumed a huge amount of metal energy, amounting to 30 billion.

However, the development progress has skyrocketed to 53%, and is improving almost every moment. This kind of pleasure makes him unable to stop.

Until a certain moment, the huge vortex of blood mist suddenly stopped. Li Ming's eyes flashed slightly as he stared at the figure wrapped in the hazy blood mist.

The smell was familiar, it was Tanus.

Li Ming immediately recognized that this guy did not launch a sneak attack, and most of his control was still focused on development and blessing.

If Tanus comes up and hits him, he will probably be able to knock out a lot of his metal energy, and only metal energy.

As long as the Eternal Holy Throne is there and the metal energy is not exhausted, no one can kill him.

"Li Ming..." Tanus saw this familiar figure, and his thoughts, which had been silent for many days, began to stir. "The Abyss Lord's promise is still there. Is it not too late to surrender now?"

"The injuries on my body have been basically healed." Li Ming noticed this.

Silently, all switched to the main combat system, and the blood mist lingering around disappeared in an instant, going away with the shrinking blood mist.

In just a moment, the swirling blood mist exposed the two of them in the star field.

Li Ming asked calmly: "Are you confident that you can kill me this time?"

"No." Tanus shook his head, the trident in his hand trembling, blocking in front of him.

Even though his injuries have completely recovered and his condition has reached its peak, based on the situation in the last confrontation, he can have a certain advantage, but he is not sure he can defeat the opponent.

But the Abyss Lord only asked him to delay time. He was confident that the Abyss Lord would not just let that guy evolve to Level X. He knew clearly what kind of power was contained in the Abyss Core.

Once that guy evolves successfully, the two of them will be able to defeat Li Ming easily by joining forces.

"Delay time?" Li Ming figured it out, frowned slightly, and his eyes were cold. Since the other party wanted to delay, he should rush over at a faster speed.

"You should feel honored..." As the dark sticky substance seeped out from Tanus's pores, angular patterns like crocodile skin emerged, and then condensed into a thick armor.

The aura of the ultimate life form gushed out without any concealment. Compared to last time, Tanus was much stronger. Not only did his injuries recover, but he also had more means at his disposal.

"This is the first time that the Abyss Lord has treated an individual life so seriously."

The gun in Li Ming's hand was also frozen, but he smiled slightly after hearing this, "In this case, I will naturally give him the greatest respect."

Without any hesitation, [Giant God's Strike] was launched. An incredibly powerful and terrifying force erupted on the Kashmir Spear. Billions of golden arcs suddenly split from the surface of the spear and gushed out across the entire starry sky.

The void collapsed in an instant, and even the particle-level units were pierced before the gun tip, and time and space seemed to have lost their continuity.

What appeared in front of Tanus was like the moment a gun was fired, appearing in front of him. Even with his current reaction speed, he was unable to catch up.

But what shocked him was the power contained in the gun.

Tanus's originally calm expression suddenly changed, mixed with horror and disbelief, and his silent emotions suddenly boiled over -
"How... could it have improved so much?!"

He felt personally that compared to the last time, the opponent's explosive strength had not only doubled, but increased several times.

The incredible impact made him dazed for a moment, and the Spear of Kashmir had already torn through layers of shields.

He only had time to block the spear with his trident.

At the moment of collision, a huge force rushed along the halberd, and pure raw energy exploded, covering his face.

Tanus only felt his palm shaking violently, and the trident almost slipped out of his hand.

At the same time, the tip of the spear missed the halberd and violently penetrated into his chest.

He didn't have the strength to resist at all!

(End of this chapter)