Martial arts ascend to the gods

Chapter 707 Interweaving
Scene after scene flashed before Zhou Leng's eyes.

With the traps set, the great battle of the Ten Thousand Core Battlefield officially began.

Humans, sorcerers, iron dwarves, and tree people form a humanoid alliance.

Demons, sirens, orcs, and giant insects form a monster alliance.

With their overwhelming numerical advantage, the Monster Alliance charged toward the Humanoid Alliance's territory.

A massive number of demonic creatures at the Qi and Blood Realm and the Innate Realm approached like a tsunami.

Boom boom boom boom...

Humans in the technological age are not weak.

A dense barrage of rockets rained down from the sky, missiles from afar struck first, and even nuclear weapons were deployed.

High in the sky, the demonic demigod made his move, blocking all the nuclear weapons at a distance.

As the monster approached, the cannons roared.

The shells rained down on the monsters.

Groups of demons at the Qi and Blood Realm and the Innate Realm fell to the ground, their flesh and blood flying everywhere.

As they drew near, heavy machine guns roared across the position, their relentless bullets tearing apart all the enemies.

The ranged monsters had no chance to attack and were picked off one by one by the sniper rifle.

As they drew closer, the sound of rifles rang out.

Occasionally, a Grandmaster would approach, and a series of individual rocket launchers would be fired, along with large-caliber sniper rifles, forcing the Grandmaster to retreat.

Within the battleground, the spirit masters provided support in the attack, eliminating any remaining enemies.

If any monsters manage to get close, the dense network of tree roots underground will be enough to trap them.

With the absolute advantage of firearms, any monster below the Grandmaster level that comes will die.

But unlike in the past, this time there are an extraordinary number of monsters, far more than the Humanoid Alliance could have imagined.

As ammunition dwindled, the Humanoid Alliance began to retreat.

Even as humanity ran out of ammunition, the monsters continued to swarm in.

"Go on the bayonet!"

The various factions of the humanoid alliance huddled together and retreated in an orderly fashion.

They retreated while fighting the monsters.

The massive number of monsters continues to drain the power of the humanoid alliance.

Without firearms, one fearless warrior after another was left forever on the battlefield.

Ultimately, the humanoid alliance army retreated to its designated location, with less than one-tenth surviving.

The entire Demon Alliance mobilized, and the demigods pressed forward.

The more than one thousand demonic demigods were a formidable force, but soon, an even more desperate scene unfolded before them.

Behind the monster camp, one demigod after another rose up.

Finally, more than ten thousand demigods hung high in the sky, overlooking the battlefield.

The morale of the humanoid alliance collapsed instantly.

The twenty-three old men, gazing at the myriad gods suspended in the sky, all smiled in unison.

The time is ripe.

The target of this battle was never the billions of ordinary monsters, but the gods.

Without warning, tens of thousands of nuclear warheads detonated simultaneously.

Ten thousand small suns shone brightly, their power merging, overlapping, and amplifying under the influence of the magic array.

An unimaginably large sun rises from the ground.

The hemispherical divine light instantly expanded for tens of kilometers, engulfing everything.

A terrifying shockwave of white gas surged outwards, creating a turbulent effect.

The light faded, and a colossal mushroom cloud rose into the sky.

The earth cracked open, and divine light soared into the sky.

The sky clouds are swaying, and the blue sky is like cracks.

Bright light shines upon the world, and all living beings dissolve.

Zhou Leng was just an observer, yet he could sense death approaching.

It felt as if I was in the middle of a huge shockwave, with strong winds blowing and sand and dust filling the air.

Within the enormous mushroom cloud, everything turned to ashes.

Beneath the mushroom cloud, the light lingered for a long time.

An unimaginably vast and long river floats within it, more magnificent than the Milky Way.

Twenty-three giant, semi-transparent phantoms are imprinted on the long river, as eternal as heaven and earth.

Like holding up the great sun.

Yu Zhimin said slowly, "I see someone looking at us from the future."

The twenty-three elderly people turned their heads, smiled, and looked at Zhou Leng.

"Don't be afraid, walk boldly towards that future where there are humans."

The image faded away, and the world fell silent.

Zhou Leng opened his eyes and returned to the battlefield of ten thousand cores.

The emotions accumulated on the long road to enlightenment and at Shangganling, combined with the wondrous scenery of myriad cores, flowed through my eyes.

"There is a future for humanity..."

Zhou Leng murmured softly.

After a long while, a metallic clang rang out.

Turning my head, I saw that the Star Refining Furnace had expanded from the size of a football to the size of a dining table.

Its surface shone brightly, and divine runes flowed around it.

Zhou Leng had been memorizing and studying the divine text above every day, and it was now completely familiar to him.

This means that with just a little more effort, the Star Refining Furnace can be opened.

but……

That little bit of effort might take several months to materialize.

Zhou Leng turned his head and looked at the colorful lake on the ground.

This thing is probably a condensation of some kind of peculiar cosmic power.

It is the core of a star.

The power of this core is sufficient to activate the Star Refining Furnace.

A flash of lightning struck Zhou Leng's mind, his eyes widening as he stared incredulously at the bright blue, iridescent lake. More than forty years ago, humanity had unleashed a massive nuclear explosion here, creating the iridescent lake.

More than forty years later...

The voice of Master Wu echoed in my mind.

"Your future achievements will far surpass those of others, but..."

"It won't be long before you fall far behind the two of them."

"Their lack of knowledge of divine script is a weakness, but their abilities and talents can quickly compensate for it."

"You may disagree, but some people are just able to reach heights in a certain field that ordinary people can never reach."

"You must remember, remember with your life, that the future of your civilization rests on the shoulders of these two men."

"The life or death of these two people will determine whether your civilization can venture out of space."

"Perhaps, many years later, you will find that the greatest, or even the only, meaning of your life was to learn about divine script and, starting from here, build the path to godhood for the two of them."

Twenty-three elderly people and the heroes of the Ten Thousand Core Battlefield, spanning more than forty years, passed the baton of humanity to Zhou Leng.

With the help of the Star Refining Furnace and divine runes, Zhou Leng firmly grasped the baton of humanity.

Next, as long as we cultivate the Divine Essence Pill to dispel the divine power in Zhang Xinglie's body, and then refine the pill for flesh and blood regeneration, we can restore Zhang Xinglie to his original state, or even make him advance further.

The ancient river sect's billions of years of heritage, the Dragon Kingdom's thousands of years of civilization, and that future with humanity are all intertwined here.

All of this converged on Zhou Leng.

Zhou Leng gazed at the colorful lake and smiled.

"Let us walk together toward a future where humanity exists."

Zhou Leng grabbed the enlarged Star Refining Furnace and threw it into the colorful lake.

boom!
A terrifying burst of destructive stellar power exploded, and Zhou Leng retreated while watching nervously.

The Star Refining Furnace, like parched land, frantically devoured the power of the colorful lake.

Power powerful enough to destroy a illusory god surged into the Star Refining Furnace.

The Star Refining Furnace continued to rise and expand.

When the last of the lake water was drained, the Star Refining Furnace had grown to a height of 100 meters.

A small mountain, shaped like a furnace, stands before us.

The black furnace shimmered with seven-colored divine light, surrounded by pale white auspicious clouds.

Thirty-six unique mythical beasts of the starry sky are carved on the furnace body.

A golden divine script appeared, slowly rotating around the Star Refining Furnace.

Zhou Leng had already read Crystal Dust's "extracurricular books," a set of advanced civilization's "Star Pill Encyclopedia."

After reading it more than a dozen times, I understood this divine text on alchemy.

Even ordinary grandmasters or martial saints would be unable to drive the alchemy furnace.

However, Zhou Leng possesses the true energy of the starry sky, which he can activate.

Looking at the enormous Star Refining Furnace, Zhou Leng felt a surge of emotion.

The Star Refining Furnace was a reward Zhang Xinglie received from the Ancient River Sect trial in Hundred Peaks Valley. He didn't know how to use it or understand the divine inscriptions, so he gave it to himself directly.

On the great battlefield, he and Zhang Xinglie were both severely injured. He lost all his true energy and was forced to switch to practicing the Starry Sky True Energy.

Today, however, I can use the true energy of the starry sky to drive the Star Refining Furnace given to me by Zhang Xinglie, and refine the Small Star Pill for Zhang Xinglie.

Zhou Leng had initially been skeptical of Master Wu's words, but now he believed them completely.

What a coincidence!

"Zhang Xinglie is probably the legendary chosen one, the chosen one of the world."

Zhou Leng admired, but was not jealous.

Helping a brother is the right thing to do.

"Then let's just refine the pills here and give them to you when we get out! Then, let's walk together towards a future with humans."

Zhou Leng was overjoyed. He patted the alchemy furnace with his right hand and chanted divine incantations.

A melodious yet strange sound rang out, and the alchemy furnace slowly shrank, eventually shrinking to about half a person's height.

He took out a large number of medicinal herbs from the starry sky bag and sorted them into categories.

The refining of a true Star Pill is extremely time-consuming.

However, the Divine Essence Pill is a Lesser Star Pill, and it can be refined very quickly.

"However... there are only five portions of ingredients for the Little Star Pill. With my skill level, the success rate is not high. So, as the sect leader said, I will first refine the simplest Little Star Pill to gain experience... um... no, I will first refine martial arts pills to familiarize myself with the Star Refining Furnace."

The demonic brain emitted a light screen that appeared before Zhou Leng's eyes like an eye, and then listed a large number of pill recipes.

"The ingredients for the Martial Saint Pill are too rare..."

"The difficulty of refining innate pills is too low, so there's not much point in doing so..."

Finally, Zhou Leng looked at the "Dragon Tiger Pill".

The Dragon Tiger Pill is a standard master-level pill with extremely high versatility. The materials are precious to others, but I have recently killed too many demons, and their demon spirit bags are full of materials.

So Zhou Leng first found the materials for ten Dragon Tiger Pills and began refining them according to the method of the Star Refining Furnace.

Recite the incantation for controlling the furnace, and the furnace lid slowly rises, hovering above the furnace opening.

A strange fragrance wafted out.

The fragrance was extremely faint, but it felt peculiar. It immediately used its power to penetrate the void and gather all the fragrance together.

Reaching out, the fragrance condensed into a cloud of white mist the size of a thumb.

The white mist slowly condensed, forming a pill.

Zhou Leng was overjoyed, carefully wrapped it up, and put it into the starry sky bag.

When one is conferred sainthood or ascends to godhood, one can rely on this mysterious elixir.

The ingredients for the Dragon Tiger Pill were added, and with a flick of the finger, the furnace lid descended.

With a click, it's sealed.

Next, Zhou Leng recited different divine inscriptions in turn and began the formal alchemy process.

First, chant the Medicine Cleansing Incantation. The Star Refining Furnace hums softly inside, starlight flashes, and then stops rotating in the blink of an eye, cleaning the medicinal herbs and removing impurities.

Then, chanting the Medicine Shattering Incantation, the Star Refining Furnace roared once more, its divine light flashing. In the blink of an eye, all the medicines were reduced to extremely fine powder.

Next, the processes of impurity removal, refining, nurturing, nine refinements, spirit infusion, and star illumination will be carried out in succession...

Until the final step, the gathering of stars.

Several steps require special skills; if these skills are not available, they are simply omitted.

After the Star Refining Furnace stopped, Zhou Leng reached out and touched it.

(End of this chapter)