Mecha Era, Punch the Stars

The divine nature of the prison was stirring.

Li Yi could clearly sense that something ahead was attracting the divine power of the Prison Suppressor.

This is extremely rare.

Divinity itself is a very special form of energy. What could possibly attract it be some kind of higher purity, absorbable energy?

This is something I've never encountered in any other upgrade pool.

After thinking for a moment, he spoke:

"Chief of Staff Lin, which direction should we go?"

Lin Jianlong pondered for a moment and said:

"Now that we're here, there's no rush. Let's investigate the activity traces of those three branch-class star races first."

The group immediately split into two groups and began their own exploration.

Li Yi and Yan, along with Tan Yaozu, formed a group responsible for the western route.

Lin Jianlong, Lu Yunsheng, and Xiao Pingchuan formed a group and were responsible for taking the eastern route.

With their current instance configuration, any one of them could withstand three support-level powerhouses, and might even have a chance to win.

Therefore, they are not afraid of the disadvantages brought about by dividing their forces.

With two powerful individuals, each possessing at least demigod-level strength, leading the team, everyone felt quite confident.

At this moment, the divine mechs were still gathered inside the entrance, having just stepped into the ruins of time, preparing to split up and search.

As you can see, the environment ahead is quite unique.

On this side of the entrance, there is a tall mountain, about 10,000 meters above sea level, with a gentle slope at the top, covered with thick snow, dividing the sunset into two lines.

One side is bathed in the red and white light of the setting sun, while the other side is covered in shadow.

The mechs hovered above it, looking down.

Further ahead, there was a very obvious spacetime interlayer.

That enormous, all-encompassing, colorful spacetime barrier directly blocked everyone's vision.

The space-time membrane covered an area roughly equivalent to half the size of the moon, which was quite enormous.

This relic of time is itself a large spacetime interlayer, forming its own small world, and there is actually another one inside it.

Those who created the relics of time must have been powerful beings who had reached a considerable level in the realm of time and space.

The spacetime interlayer stands suspended in mid-air, a thousand meters below, where there is a vast, lush plain with swaying reeds, patches of water, and in the middle, a large expanse of reeds at least seven or eight meters high surrounding the water, which is quite astonishing.

The six mechs reversed direction and began to fly separately.

"Don't rush to fly far away, let me observe first."

Li Yi activated the detection system and carefully observed and scanned the plain below.

Flame nodded immediately, hovering in mid-air, waiting for Li Yi.

Tan Yaozu knew that Li Yi was an expert in trace detection, so he naturally had no objections.

A moment later, a hint of surprise flashed across Li Yi's eyes.

He had just discovered an extremely ingenious and unique spacetime structure beneath those pools of water.

This spacetime structure is very hidden and imperceptible, like a honeycomb shrunk countless times.

Even now, with the help of the Hades mech's information detection system and his own keen senses, he almost didn't notice.

If he hadn't been cautious and noticed a hint of unnatural spacetime characteristics, he wouldn't have discovered this hidden structure and would have simply assumed it was a normal natural structure.

These spacetime structures are clearly not original, natural spacetime structures, but rather stable structures modified by human intervention, like individual spacetime batteries.

Each tiny structure contains an immense power of spacetime, comparable to the power of a peak demigod.

If they were combined, they could probably interfere with even the Supreme Being at will.

"This is probably the power of time to transform the sea into mulberry fields."

"Once inside, the divine mechs, including their pilots, will instantly lose a large amount of time and perish."

Having figured this out, Li Yi quickly said on the public channel:
"Never go near the pool of water beneath the spacetime rift!"

"Once within a kilometer of it, the divine mech will instantly lose control!"

"If one does not have a deep understanding of the characteristics of spacetime, one may turn into bones in the blink of an eye, and thousands of years of lifespan will be exhausted in the blink of an eye."

Everyone was startled upon hearing this. Lin Jianlong, who had already flown far away, immediately activated his detection system and carefully observed the pool.

After a moment, he said solemnly:

“Li Yi is right. Everyone, please be careful. If a battle breaks out, get away from the water area immediately.”

The group of people were naturally awe-inspiring.

A thousand years of lifespan wasted in the blink of an eye?

Is this the power of the properties of time?
It seems that the characteristics of time are more harmful to them than the passage of time and the traces of time.

The group became noticeably more cautious, and their flight speed decreased significantly.

In the blink of an eye, 10 minutes had passed quickly.

The mechs had each flown to the back of that huge spacetime interlayer, and could not see each other directly.

During the flight, Li Yi focused his attention on the opposite direction of the spacetime interlayer.

That which has always attracted the divine nature of the prison comes from there.

"Sister Yan, we've already gone around once and haven't found anything. How about we go check in that direction?"

Li Yi made the suggestion.

Yan said, "Alright, I'm just a thug anyway, I have no experience or memory, so you can lead the team."

Tan Yaozu naturally had no objection and immediately turned around, flying towards the outermost direction.

This side is exactly where the setting sun is.

That deep red sun is likely a conceptualized image of the sun, not a fixed star.

It continuously releases a vast red light, which smudges the clouds and illuminates the surrounding mountains.

Time passed slowly, and another hour went by.

Even with the mechs flying cautiously and slowly, the distance they covered should have exceeded the distance between the Earth and the Moon, yet they still couldn't see anything else in the distance.

The ground remains a vast, continuous plain, with occasional large bodies of water to be avoided.

"Damn, is this another case of looking at a mountain only to find it too high and running away with it?"

Tan Yaozu recalled his previous experience at Wudao Mountain.

They had seen the Enlightenment Mountain long ago in the cyclone zone, but it took them several days to get close to its outer edge.

Flame, her eyes gleaming, said from inside the cockpit:

"No, it's not like looking at a mountain and running to your death; at least I can see a large number of wandering souls moving around in the clouds under the setting sun."

"A free-floating soul?"

Tan Yaozu's heart skipped a beat, and he said:

"Like the Supreme Being Puying, who can create countless clones?"

He was almost possessed by one of the soul entities when he was on the surface of the Enlightenment Mountain, but fortunately Li Yi arrived in time.

"No, every soul I see is different."

Flame said:
"And each one of them is at the level of a demigod."

Tan Yaozu frowned: "They're all at the level of demigods? Could those be demigod-level souls left over from the Fifth Era? Were they actually not completely destroyed by the calamity?"

Li Yi sensed the increasingly intense agitation of the Prison Suppressor's divine nature.

Clearly, there was something special in that sunset.

It might be some kind of time-space artifact, or it might be some kind of special item.

In short, it should be of great help to the divinity of the prison.

The three were discussing this when...

Suddenly, in the setting sun, the silhouette of a huge, majestic black giant slowly emerged.

Everyone could see that the black giant had the character '岁' (year) from the first era engraved on its forehead.

Immediately following, an unprecedentedly terrifying pressure was released by the giant and instantly reached the three people in the cockpit. Their expressions changed drastically, and they felt as if they were carrying a huge star on their shoulders, which was terribly heavy.

boom! ! !
In the setting sun, a gigantic, massive hand suddenly reached out and scooped up the clouds below. (End of Chapter)