Zongwang: Unspeakable fear!

The warhammer crashed to the ground, creating a deep crater in the already flattened earth. Blood seeped from the cracks and gathered at the bottom of the warhammer.

The old man stood in front of Gao Yang, his eyes filled with no regret or remorse, only the relief of liberation.

"Young man, the older people get, the more they fear getting old, and the more they fear dying."

It's no exaggeration to say that when the old man was your age, he never even considered that he would die one day.

But as time passed and one by one my relatives and friends passed away, the old man inevitably felt the power of time. The old man was afraid!

The old man's dark eyes were filled with emotion as he murmured softly, as if in a dream, "Now that I think about it, I should have died long ago."

But because I'm attached to this world, I've made a lot of mistakes.

"Young man, this old man has to thank you. If it weren't for your move that caught my attention, I shudder to think what I might have done next."

Gao Yang looked at the one-armed old man in front of him, but did not rush to make a move. Instead, he listened with great interest.

"Anyway, thank you very much, young man, for solving a problem for this old man."

The one-armed old man sighed softly, then suddenly turned around. His dark gaze seemed to transcend time and space, landing on a flying boat beyond the horizon.

On this airship, which was only a hundred meters off the ground, a middle-aged man of similar height looked solemnly at the center of the battlefield.

As their eyes met, the middle-aged man turned his head slightly to look at the ground below, but the relaxation in his eyes was obvious.

The one-armed old man withdrew his gaze, seemingly muttering to himself, yet also sighing, "Alright, you can all rest assured now, this old man is finally going to die."

"Finished?"

Gao Yang's voice rang out behind the one-armed old man.

“I’ve finished speaking. Thank you for your help, young man.” The one-armed old man nodded and said.

The instant he finished speaking, a flash of sword light had already slashed across his neck.

The old man's expression froze, and his powerless body collapsed forward into the pool of blood.

Yongyao gave a slight tremor, and the blood that stained the blade was shaken away.

Gao Yang raised an eyebrow and looked at the already dead old man with some surprise.

"Network notification: The hunt for the divine priest was successfully initiated. The hunt is now complete, and you have obtained 3 power fragments."

This is the first time that a successful hunt for a divine priest has failed to yield a life essence crystal.

Gao Yang looked at the old man, who had deflated like a punctured balloon and returned to his emaciated state, and seemed to understand something.

The old man before me had reached the end of his life, and his life essence was almost exhausted. With his life essence depleted, it was like trying to draw water from a dried-up well with a bucket – naturally, he would get nothing.

However, although the old man's life essence was exhausted, his strength, honed through countless trials, did not diminish much.

The acquisition of the three power fragments allowed Gao Yang to directly fuse them into a power gem, further enhancing his own power.

Gao Yang looked down at the warhammer beside the old man, paused for a moment, and reached out to grasp the long handle of the warhammer.

Just as Gao Yang's fingertips were about to touch the metal handle, his body suddenly appeared a thousand meters away.

Boom!

In the next instant, centered on Gao Yang's previous standing position, the earth within a radius of a thousand meters suddenly turned into a dark swamp. The moment this dark swamp appeared, it unleashed an unparalleled suction force, pulling and deforming the surrounding soil, blood, and even space.

A brilliant light of will shone in Gao Yang's eyes as he calmly slashed down with his sword.

With a single sword strike, the dark swamp was cleaved in two, and the astonishing suction force immediately vanished.

As the sword slashed down, Gao Yang turned his head to the side, and a leech-like creature, half-mechanical and half-flesh, flew past his cheek, easily slicing through the space in its path.

It wasn't until the leech had flown quite a distance that a barely audible whooshing sound reached Gao Yang's ears.

Gududu~
Golden-red solar energy flowed unrestrainedly down from Gao Yang's body, like a great sun overhead. The space here began to distort and boil, emitting a dense sound like boiling water.

As the temperature here rose sharply, some of the incoming attacks were melted by the terrifying heat before they even reached Gaoyang.

Gao Yang looked up at the sky, which had suddenly darkened. It was a giant hand burning with scarlet flames that completely covered him and the surrounding area within a radius of 10,000 meters.

The fiery palm slammed down, causing the space in its path to collapse inch by inch.

Zheng!
The sword rang out, and a ten-thousand-foot-long sword aura shot into the sky, severing the fiery hand with unstoppable force.

The moment the fiery hand was severed, the entire hand shattered with a deafening roar, and endless lava, carrying raging magical power, erupted violently.

Boom! !

With a deafening roar, the tangible shockwave surged unchecked in all directions, engulfing the space and the earth within a radius of ten thousand meters, turning the area into a pitch-black vacuum.

Within this vacuum black hole, a dazzling sun radiates boundless light, and within that light, Gao Yang stands holding his sword.

"kill him!"

A frenzied roar resounded through the heavens and earth, followed by countless attacks crashing down on Gao Yang from all directions like a tidal wave.

After witnessing Gao Yang swiftly and decisively slay a veteran immortal legend with three sword strikes, no one was willing to fight him alone anymore, and instead they all chose to gang up on him.

In an instant, energy attacks, physical attacks, and rule-based attacks surged towards Gao Yang like waves, one after another, seemingly intent on overwhelming him with their sheer volume. However, the vast majority of these attacks were melted by the terrifying heat once they entered Gao Yang's vicinity of a thousand meters. Only extremely refined attacks, or those with a profound understanding of the rules, were able to break through this range.

Gao Yang's heart stirred, and he stopped his counterattack. He sat cross-legged, placed Yongyao on his knees, and began to maintain the existence of his fighting spirit sun.

During this process, attacks continuously exploded around him, unleashing terrifying energy fluctuations.

These energy fluctuations engulfed his location, distorting spacetime and making it impossible for other legends to sense his situation.

Since these legends have already begun their siege, Gao Yang does not intend to kill them outright. The more people besiege them, the more courage the other legends will be emboldened.

Gao Yang would not overlook the fact that beyond this blood-red plain, there are many legends hidden in the shadows.

For him, drawing out these carefully selected legends before taking them all down in one fell swoop was a more time-saving and labor-saving method.

Rumble~
In the center of the blood-red plain, the once flat land has been completely shattered by the raging energy. Above the blood-red sky and beneath the shattered earth, stand legendary powerhouses with powerful auras and energy fluctuations as deep as the ocean.

At the center of the encirclement of all the legendary powerhouses was a deathly silent vacuum black hole with a diameter of ten thousand meters. Within this vacuum black hole, there was only a sun emitting a dim light.

"It's been three days, why is this person's defense so strong?!"

Outside the energy fluctuations, a burly man, extremely fat and over five meters tall, spoke with some fear.

His head showed no trace of flesh or blood, and was almost entirely made of living metal. A pair of protruding mechanical eyes glowed red, and the energy furnace in the center of his chest constantly emitted heat waves, providing energy for his body.

As he spoke, a cannon barrel nearly ten meters long and thirty centimeters in diameter emerged from behind him and fired a blazing red shell at the sun in the vacuum black hole.

The shell pierced through space and exploded around the sun in the blink of an eye, creating a spatial storm that destroyed all the aftershocks of the attack.

Seeing that the attack had no effect whatsoever, the mechanical giant clenched his steel teeth, and amidst the ear-piercing grinding sound, a fierce glint shot out from his mechanical eyes.

As a powerful figure in the mechanical field on the technology side, Yoran's strength has reached the upper limit of the technology side. His flesh and blood body was replaced by his current mechanical body in the past. The mechanical body provides him with great power and almost infinite energy, but at the cost of his upper limit being locked.

Without the support of stronger materials and a more powerful energy core, his power can no longer be increased.

More importantly, over a long period of time, in order to ensure the purity and vitality of his personal consciousness, he continuously edited his own consciousness logically, forming his own logical closed loop.

However, it was precisely because of this operation that his consciousness inevitably became assimilated with the machine. If this continued, Yoran's fate would be to completely merge with his mechanical body and eventually become a high-level intelligent robot.

By then, he would no longer be a living being, but an intelligent robot with memories called "Yoran".

As an immortal legend on the technology side, Yoran could not accept this outcome, which is why he came to the battlefield.

Unable to climb to the pinnacle of power through his own efforts, he can only choose to continue existing in another way.

As long as he kills that sun, seizes its divine essence, and merges with it, he will be able to discard his current mechanical body, forge a divine body for himself through divine power, and exist eternally as a god!

And now is the time when he is most likely to kill that sun.

Yoran didn't know what the person inside the sun looked like, nor how strong that person was, but none of that mattered to him.

The opponent remained stationary, making no move. This presented Yoran with the perfect opportunity to attack. He could recklessly accumulate his power to enhance his attack, ultimately unleashing a strike far exceeding his limits.

As this thought flashed through the active metal processor in his metallic mind, the red light in Yolan's eyes subsided, and then the energy furnace in his chest began to accelerate.

Yolan stared at the sun, which was growing dimmer under the siege of many forces, in the vacuum black hole. He took out a cigar that he had treasured for hundreds of years from the folded space, put it in his mouth and lit it.

He took a deep breath amidst the faint red light.

Zizzi~
The thick cigar burned quickly, and with Yolan's movements, the nearly half-meter-long cigar was completely burned away, leaving only a stub of less than ten centimeters that he held in his mouth.

As the nicotine, reeking of engine oil, surged through his metal lungs, Yolan's eyes suddenly blazed with a red light, and a thick cloud of deep blue smoke billowed from his metal nostrils, transforming into two long plumes of smoke that shot far into the distance.

Since mechanizing his entire body, Yoran no longer needs to eat. As a former human, smoking is the only way he can experience being human.

As he felt the processor begin to operate efficiently under the influence of nicotine, Yolan revealed a sinister smile. Then, he spread his legs apart, and the folded space embedded in his legs quickly unfolded.

Kakakka~
Numerous metal bases emerged and were directly embedded in Yoran's legs. Then, more and more mechanical parts appeared and began to connect with various parts of Yoran's body.

Like assembling and piecing together, in just a few seconds, Yoran's original metal body was no longer visible, replaced by a huge metal creation lying on the ground.

It resembles a steel behemoth, radiating a cold, hard metallic luster. Between the metal gaps are thick electrical conduits and energy channels, within which azure energy flows wildly.

Yoran was at the core of the metal fortress. Under his control, a pitch-black cannon barrel, a hundred meters long and three meters wide, emerged from the split metal shell, like the ferocious fangs of a steel behemoth, boiling with endless killing intent.

Beep beep beep~
A rapid, synthesized electronic voice rang in Yoran's ears, and in just three seconds, Yoran had completely locked onto the sun.

"Now! Let the multiverse witness the mechanical power capable of slaying gods!"

Yolan's eyes blazed red, and with a fanatical expression, he pulled out a metal rod that was only one meter long and as thick as a wrist from the folded space.

The metal rod is conical at one end and has a flat cross-section at the other, resembling a bullet.

This metal rod was forged and fused by Yoran over a century, extracting the essence of ten thousand legendary alloys. In terms of material alone, it far surpasses the legendary and quasi-divine levels, and is a metal truly capable of forging divine artifacts.

This was also Yoran's backup plan. By killing a true god, he could seize the godhood and ascend to godhood!
Click~
With a heavy cocking sound, the metal rod had been filled into the hundred-meter-long cannon barrel by Yoran.

Azure energy began to converge from all parts of the metal fortress toward the cannon barrel, circling and circling, growing faster and faster, with an increasingly higher frequency. The surrounding space involuntarily distorted and deformed under this powerful and condensed energy fluctuation, exuding a sense of destruction.

The base of the cannon barrel featured a prominent gauge. As energy accumulated, the gauge rapidly increased, and the dark muzzle began to emanate azure energy, forming a star-like aura of light. (End of Chapter)