World version update

Chapter 237: The Pendulum of Nirvana, mutual destruction?
Before entering the version fragment, Lu Yan had no idea of ​​attacking the Intelligent City openly.

Lu Yan does have the characteristic of an immutable being, which means he is not restricted by the core rules of the version, but how can the Intelligent Machinery City, which has been operating version fragments for tens of thousands of years, not have a backup plan?

The war fortress of the Intelligent City is famous in the Great Honkai Realm, but it does not mean that the war fortress is the only war weapon of the Intelligent City.

According to the information retained in the War Fortress' main brain, the War Fortress is not the strongest intelligent creation in the Intelligent City. There are many forbidden intelligent creations in the version fragments, and each one is not inferior to the War Fortress.

However, most of those forbidden intelligent robot creations are adapted to the rules of the intelligent robot version and can only exist in the version fragments. If they are brought to the realm outside the version fragments, it is still unknown whether they can run normally without the intelligent robot version rules. Even if they can run barely, it is difficult to exert their due power.

Because of this, these forbidden intelligent creations can only remain in the version fragments as the strongest trump card of the Intelligent City.

Lu Yan's initial purpose was just to attack Lianshu City to divert attention from the Intelligent City, and then sneak into the version fragments to search for the algorithm of the war fortress mastermind.

If everything goes well, you can also rob a wave of rule-level resource libraries to upgrade the seeds of supreme magical powers.

But what Lu Yan didn't expect was that after he stepped into the version fragment, he was suppressed by the nine shackles of the version's core rules.

Lu Yan can certainly rely on his unchanging characteristics to remain unaffected, and can even take the initiative to break the nine shackles.

The impact of shaking the core rules has spread to the entire version fragment. Such a big movement has long attracted the attention of the Intelligent City.

Sneaking in secretly would definitely not work, and Lu Yan knew that he could not confront the Intelligent City head-on, so he began to think about giving in.

It can be said that Lu Yan can gain a lot of benefits by taking advantage of the core rules on the edge of the rule fragments, actively resisting the nine-fold shackles to break the core rules, and plundering some version fragments to enhance the seeds of supreme magical powers.

Just as Lu Yan was about to implement his plan before the Intelligent City could react, an unexpected factor came into Lu Yan's sight, that was the version update interface.

[Current version: Intelligent version
Version update progress: 18% (?%)]

Strictly speaking, the version Lu Yan is in is still the Great Honkai Impact version. The reason why the interface shows the intelligent mechanical version is only because Lu Yan is in a version fragment of the intelligent mechanical version. The environment and rules of the version fragment caused the version update interface to make incorrect judgments.

As long as Lu Yan leaves the version fragment, this small bug will naturally disappear.

But the key problem is that Lu Yan saw the update progress of two versions in this interface.

The first version update progress is the version update progress accumulated by Lu Yan during his stay in the entire Great Collapse version for more than a month.

18% progress is still a long way from the next version update, but this is for a version that affects the entire Great Collapse realm.

If the scope is narrowed down to the version fragments of the intelligent mechanical version, the 18% version update progress is enough to complete several version updates of the entire intelligent mechanical version fragments.

And that strange number of % is exactly the update progress for version fragments.

After realizing this, Lu Yan instantly understood that he had a powerful weapon in his hands that was unprecedented in the Great Collapse version!
Why are version fragments the last line of defense for these major forces? Why did the Great Collapse version last for tens of thousands of years, but only a few versions were truly destroyed?
All of this is because of the protection of the core rules within the version fragments, which can suppress external enemies and improve oneself. As long as they are not destroyed outside the version fragments in one breath, even if their forces collapse and return to the version fragments, they still have unlimited opportunities to make a comeback.

Lu Yan now possesses the characteristics of the Unchanged and has a killer version update weapon in his hand. He can update the version among the version fragments and can completely destroy the core rule advantages of the version forces.

If Lu Yan can really use this 18% version update progress to complete the update, the original rules will collapse, and Lu Yan, who possesses the characteristics of the Unchanged, will be the biggest winner.

Even if this is just a loophole in the version update interface and 18% of the version update progress cannot be completed, Lu Yan can still use the version update to temporarily shake the core rules and destroy most of the forbidden intelligent creations in the Intelligent City.

With the means to enable version updates, Lu Yan will be completely invincible.

It was precisely because of this unexpected factor that Lu Yan abandoned his previous idea of ​​just taking advantage of the situation and leaving, and instead chose to confront the behemoth, the Intelligent Machinery City, head-on.

And now the results prove that everything is exactly as Lu Yan thought.

The Intelligent City has played all its cards. The forbidden intelligent creations, combined with the core rules, can easily strangle a Great True Lord at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage.

But in the face of the general trend of version updates, everything seems so insignificant.

The aura of the Human Emperor spread to the entire version fragment in an instant. Six thousand ghost soldiers waved soul-catching ropes to interpret ever-changing formations. Six hundred ghost soldiers rode on war horses to become the core of the formation. The five great ghosts and gods manifested their appearances as ghosts and gods, and the Yellow Springs Formation, which gathered a huge amount of the Human Emperor's aura, took shape in an instant.

Then, rolling Yellow Springs seemed to wash up from the depths of the earth, and the ghost soldiers and generals stepped on the water of Yellow Springs and rushed towards the magnificent intelligent mechanical city.

In the Round Table Council Hall in the Omnic City, all the Omnic councillors present were staring at the scene in front of them with dull expressions.

Almost all omnic senators have abandoned their mortal bodies and chosen to embrace mechanical ascension. Even a few extreme omnic senators have already completed 100% transformation of themselves, converting themselves into omnic-controlled life forms.

Because of this, they were able to clearly perceive the horrific changes that the entire version fragment had undergone.

It was as if a force that could change the world and reshape the rules had arrived. The core rules were like rubber under that great power and could be kneaded and reshaped at will. The souls of the intelligent senators were also trembling along with that great power, and the existing rules seemed to be collapsing.

But in the end, that great power did not completely reshape the core rules, and the intelligent senators were able to survive.

But the price was that all the forbidden mechanical creations, including the Laplace Demon's omniscient calculation center, were destroyed by Lu Yan alone.

"In the end what happened?"

The Brain in a Vat asked a question, but no one answered it.

The silver-white mechanical body of a senator who was an intelligent mechanical life form sitting at the round table was suddenly covered with rust, as if it had been washed away by a long period of time, and the energy flow in the mechanical body was exhausted in an instant.

The next second, the intelligent machine-controlled life form, which was as expensive as a satellite-level war fortress, completely collapsed, and along with it, three other congressmen who had completed the intelligent machine-controlled transformation also perished.

There were only ten members left out of the original thirteen, and deep fear still remained on their faces.

"It's the core rules. He shook the core rules!"

"Only by changing the rules of this world can we destroy the forbidden creations of the intelligent machines and kill the life forms controlled by the intelligent machines!"

Many Omnic Councillors have even begun to consider retreating into the core secret room of the Omnic City.

At this moment, the voice of an intelligent senator broke the panic in everyone's hearts.

"Don't panic because of a temporary failure!"

"Everyone, think about this. If he really had the ability to change the core rules at will, why would he have avoided our ambush in Lianshu City?

Such means can easily defeat the peak demigod and prophet mecha."

This remark woke the other intelligent senators up, and they immediately came to their senses from their initial panic.

"That's right! If he really had such strength, how could he have been scared away by the demigod Cairns a month ago?"

"It must be that a treasure on him triggered the core rules, causing the abnormality to occur."

"Although the forbidden intelligent mechanical creations are closely linked to the core rules and have been mostly destroyed by his move, we still have other intelligent mechanical creations that are not restricted by the rules, so they may not be that bad."

"Laplace's demon cannot be reactivated in a short period of time. You can quickly try to restart the Nano Guixu and Antimatter Annihilation Cannon. You must take this opportunity to kill him here."

"Kill him and seize the treasure that triggers the core rules, which can make up for all our losses!"

Many intelligent robot councillors issued orders one after another, and the huge intelligent robot city began to move again.

The outermost metal shield of the Intelligent City unfolded layer by layer, like a Pandora's box being opened.

The city’s outermost protective shield glowed with a faint blue light, and three massive satellite-class war fortresses slowly rose into the air from within the Intelligent City, blocking out the sky like ancient behemoths.

Satellite-class war fortresses are the most powerful weapons of the Intelligent City besides the forbidden intelligent creations. Since they are not restricted by the core rules, most of them have been dispatched away from the version fragments to guard the strategic locations of the Intelligent City.

Even these three satellite-class war fortresses stayed here not to guard the Intelligent City, but just completed the initial assembly. They were not even equipped with self-destructive hives and obliteration main guns, so they did not have time to be put into battlefield use.

No Omnic Senator would have thought that these three newly built satellite-level war fortresses would become the last line of defense of the Omnic City.

Like three suns in the sky, the fields released by the nine rule modules above the satellite-level war fortress cover the sky and the earth like a sky curtain. The rule fields are intertwined between this sky and earth, trying to suppress the charging army of the underworld.

Deep in the Robot City, at the bottom of tens of thousands of war factories, a huge mechanical mother nest has been activated.

Thousands of intelligent creatures were sent into the mechanical mother nest through the production line. They seemed to be aware of the coming danger, and their angry struggles and screams were of no avail.

In the mechanical mother nest, the bodies of the intelligent life forms experienced and expanded, and countless mechanical arms completed assembly and transformation in an instant. Among them, the intelligent life forms that could be successfully synchronized turned into giant mechas that exuded the power of the Golden Core Stage. The surface of these mechas was flowing with rune light, and they soared into the air with the roar of the engine, rushing towards the army of the underworld like a metal storm.

However, more intelligent life forms were destroyed during the assembly and transformation process, and their souls collapsed and turned into a pile of scrap metal.

This is the mechanical transformation of the intelligent race, and it is also their last resort in the fight for life and death.

According to the original design, the most suitable for mechanical transformation are intelligent mechanically controlled life forms. Their chance of successful transformation is 100%. Once they are transformed by the mechanical mother nest, they will be able to exert powerful strength comparable to that of a Nascent Soul.

However, there are only three intelligent robots in the entire Intelligent City that control life forms, and they all died when the version changed, greatly reducing the effectiveness of the mechanical mother nest.

The silver mecha storm, carrying the nine-layer rule field, collided with the army of Huangquan Hell in an instant, and the entire sky was dyed into a strange color of dim yellow and silver white.

One mecha after another fell to the earth under the erosion of the Yellow Springs water, and the might of the underworld army was forcibly blocked by the successive mecha storms.

At the same time, a huge cannon with a terrifying caliber inside the Intelligent City has been aimed at the army of the underworld. Every time the energy is fully charged, it will take away hundreds of ghost soldiers and generals, clearing the entire formation.

The battlefield was at a stalemate, as if they were competing to see whether the intelligent machines would be exhausted first, or whether the underworld's army would suffer too many casualties to maintain the Yellow Springs formation.

At this moment, the rule module of a satellite-level war fortress in the sky suddenly failed. Lu Yan had sneaked into the sky above the satellite-level war fortress without knowing when, and the Xuanpin Gate was launched to suppress all things.

Tiangang Yinfu triple kill!

In an instant, an ominous roar came from the core of the reactor of the satellite-class war fortress. The energy control circuit collapsed step by step under the interference of Yin Fu San Sha, and the energy matrix that was originally operating stably began to produce violent fluctuations. Deep energy light wandered on the surface of the fortress, like a volcano about to erupt, containing destructive power.

Amidst the loud bang, the reactor of the first satellite-class war fortress went out of control first. A blinding beam of energy shot up into the sky, tearing a huge crack in the dark sky.

Then, the chain reaction spread like dominoes, and reactors exploded one after another. The huge war fortress turned into a blazing fireball in this terrifying energy storm, dragging a long energy tail, and fell to the earth like a falling star.

The Omnic councillors had sensed the danger the moment the rule module was shut down, and the Omnic City had already activated all its defense arrays, but it was still unable to withstand the devastating impact.

When the first fortress hit the protective shield, the energy shield was instantly torn apart. The terrifying shock wave swept in all directions, destroying the surrounding buildings into dust.

However, this was not the end. The Xuanpin Gate, Tiangang Yinfu and three other kills fell, and the second satellite-level war fortress followed closely behind, crashing with unparalleled power.

In an instant, one-fifth of the area of ​​the Intelligent City was reduced to ruins under this world-destroying blow.

The energy storm swept across the land, engulfing everything in a sea of ​​​​blazing fire. The once prosperous streets became scorched earth, and the towering mechanical buildings collapsed in an instant. Countless mechanical wreckage melted in the high temperature and merged with the ground, forming a purgatory-like scene.

Blazing flames shot up into the sky, reflecting the yellow and silver-white vision in the sky. Thick black smoke blocked out the sun, and only the aftermath of the continuous explosion of energy shone in the fire, like a scene at the end of the world. The earth trembled in the continuous explosions, as if even this steel land was wailing for such a terrible destruction.

Two war fortresses crashed in succession, and the three-layer rule field controlled by the remaining satellite-level war fortress could no longer suppress the army of the underworld.

The Yellow Spring water, along with the energy of the Human Emperor, gushed out from the depths of the earth. The roaring Yellow Spring completely submerged the endless stream of intelligent mechanical mechas.

The huge army of the underworld rushed to the core of the version fragment, the behemoth that had stood in this world for tens of thousands of years.

Omnic City!
Huangquan's power to corrupt everything seems to be the nemesis of technological creations. Neither energy shields nor high-energy metals can stop the army of the underworld from advancing straight in.

The accumulation of tens of thousands of years of the intelligent machine version was completely destroyed under the iron hoof of the army of the underworld.

Inside the parliament hall, the Omnic senators were watching the scenes happening in the Omnic City with bloodshot eyes.

Only the Brain in the Jar Councillor sighed and sneered:

"He wants to destroy our Omnic City, so let him be buried with the Omnic City!"

"Space exiles the Round Table Hall, activate the Pendulum of Annihilation!"

As the order was given, the space where the entire round table hall was located seemed to be peeled off layer by layer and exiled from this world.

At the same time, the last trump card of the Intelligent City - the Pendulum of Annihilation - also appeared at this moment.

It was a huge pendulum that towered into the sky. It was made entirely of an unknown metal, with forbidden inscriptions engraved on its surface that were powerful enough to distort reality. It also had another special name - Dimension Oscillator.

As the pendulum swung, the terrifying dimensional force swept across the battlefield.

Wherever it passed, the space crumbled like a broken mirror. No matter whether it was the army of the underworld, the war fortress or the intelligent mecha, they were all turned into nothingness under this force.

The aftermath of the dimensional oscillation distorted the entire space, and the space-time wave it set off spread rapidly like nuclear fission as if there was no end.

The intelligent city that had accumulated strength over tens of thousands of years was also largely destroyed by the dimensional oscillator. Even though Lu Yan was dozens of miles away, the aftermath of the dimensional oscillation still tried to drag Lu Yan into an unknown dimension.

Even if Lu Yan can escape for a short time, as long as he cannot break away from the version fragments, the exponentially growing terrifying wave of time and space will eventually engulf everything in this world.

This was a means for the Omnic Senators to die together. They sacrificed the entire Omnic City and even the entire version fragments in an attempt to bury Lu Yan here.

In just one breath, most of the army of the underworld was destroyed.

Lu Yan's expression suddenly changed, and he waved the Human Emperor Banner in his hand. The Soul Continent broke through the void and descended into this world.

The continent formed by the gathering of soul computing power is a small world in itself, and above the soul continent, the black sun that looks like a giant egg reflects the light of nothingness.

Relying on this soul continent that was comparable to the embryonic form of the kingdom of God, Lu Yan forcibly resisted the spread of dimensional shock.

Lu Yan tightly grasped the Human Emperor Banner with both hands, and the seed of supreme magical power frantically urged the spatial avenue of the God of the Sky Abyss, and the collapsed space began to be stabilized inch by inch.

All this lasted for just three breaths. After three breaths, the wave of time and space that was forcibly stopped stopped before it could fully take shape.

The Pendulum of Annihilation stopped, but even so, most of the Intelligent City was wiped out by the aftermath of the dimension.

Among the entire version fragments, only desolation remained.

All the means of the Intelligent City were declared failures at this moment. The remaining army of the underworld barely maintained the Yellow Spring Formation. The water of the Yellow Spring rushed in like a broken dam, and all mechanical creations turned into rotten wreckage wherever it passed.

This once glorious city of intelligent machines ultimately could not escape its fate of destruction.

Lu Yan slowly descended from the air, his sharp eyes scanning the ruins of the entire Intelligent City.

In the exiled round table hall, the intelligent robot councillors anxiously awaited the final judgment of the Pendulum of Annihilation.

The Pendulum of Annihilation is the last trump card of the Intelligent City. According to the calculation of Laplace's Demon, it only takes half an hour for the Pendulum of Annihilation to activate the wave of space and time caused by the dimensional oscillation, which will be enough to wipe out everything in the version fragments.

However, this is the first time that the Pendulum of Nirvana has been activated since it was created. The final judgment is only a theoretical result, and no one can guarantee whether there will be any accidents.

Finally, it was Senator Brain in a Vat who spoke up to explain:

“Everyone, rest assured. The fifth breath after the Nirvana Pendulum is activated is enough to completely wipe out the entire Intelligent City. Once the space-time wave is completely formed, even destroying the Nirvana Pendulum will not be able to stop the space-time wave from happening.

Instead of worrying about the outside world, it is better to think carefully about how to rebuild the Intelligent City."

The words of the Councillor Brain in the Vat eased the anxiety in everyone's hearts a little, and everyone began to speak freely about post-disaster reconstruction.

"I hope that the treasures on him that affect the core rules can be kept. This way, we can make up for our losses a little bit."

"I have given up tens of thousands of years of accumulation just to destroy a great enemy. I don't know if it is worth it."

“I propose that we recall all satellite-class war fortresses and only retain the resource mines around the core territory. In the next three thousand years, we will invest all resources into rebuilding the Intelligent City.

As long as the core territory is in our hands, we can still make a comeback even if the Intelligent City is destroyed!"

Just as many intelligent councillors were making proposals, above this exiled round table hall, a pair of eyes that showed indifference to all living beings were projected into the space.

All the robot councillors froze in their tracks, feeling a chill that penetrated their souls.

Then, indifferent words were transmitted into the exile space.

"Found you!"

(End of this chapter)