Martial arts have become extinct worldwide, yet I am forced to have a large family.

Two more days have passed.

Yang Xian stayed in the cockpit.

In front of the mecha was a small metal mountain made of wreckage.

They were all mechanical monsters that he had killed.

"That must have cost a lot of merit points."

Yang Xian looked at his spoils and rubbed his sore neck.

If we could dig out all these magic cores and bring them back to Star City, we could probably exchange them for a large apartment in the city center.

Unfortunately, I don't have time to do that right now.

He turned his head and looked at the suspended energy core inside the mech.

A faint blue light flowed across the core surface.

The light was much brighter than it had been four days ago.

A faint, extremely slight vibration emanated from within the core.

【Eeya…】

A very faint sound rang out.

Yang Xian was stunned.

He picked at his ear and brought it closer to the core.

The core blue light flicker frequency has increased.

【Eeya...ya...】

The sound is clearer.

It sounds like a baby who has just learned to speak.

Yang Xian's eyes widened.

Holy crap.

"You actually managed to bring this thing back to life in just four days?"

The birth of life, even mechanical life, is such a miraculous thing.

He stretched out his finger and gently poked the surface of the core.

The core responded immediately.

【dad……】

A clear, baby girl's voice echoed in his mind.

To be precise, she didn't make a sound because she didn't have that function yet; instead, she communicated via brainwaves.

Yang Xian's fingers froze in mid-air.

"What did you call me?"

【dad!】

The core sound became cheerful, and the blue light even simulated the shape of a smiley face.

Yang Xian swallowed hard.

"What kind of nonsense is this?"

"This core not only came back to life, but it also recognized me as its father?"

The core understood his words, and its light danced even more joyfully.

[Dad! Mom!]

Yang Xian keenly caught the second word.

"etc."

"If I'm the father, then who is the mother?"

Lin Ai's voice rang out, but it sounded somewhat weak:

Yang Xian...

Now Yang Xian understood.

He asked in confusion:

"Lin Ai, this little guy calls me Dad and you Mom."

"Does this count as our child?"

"What do you think should be a good name for our first child?"

"She's a mechanical life form, how about we call her Unit-01?"

Yang Xian never expected that his first child would be a mechanical life form.

But Lin Ai's voice suddenly rose in pitch.

[...Run!]

Yang Xian's smile hadn't yet faded.

The next moment, he felt his consciousness being forcibly pulled away by an irresistible force.

The cockpit view disappeared.

The surroundings were plunged into absolute darkness.

No sound.

There was no light.

In this endless darkness, the void directly in front of them suddenly cracked open.

A giant eye slowly opened.

Those are not the eyes of a living being.

The eyeball is made up of countless extremely precise mechanical gears and luminous patterns!

In a flash of red light, his pupils locked onto Yang Xian.

The moment he was being watched, Yang Xian felt his very soul tremble.

He was all too familiar with that level of pressure.

He had experienced it once a few months ago in Nanhai City.

"Nine...Nine Realms...Demon God!"

Yang Xian managed to utter a few words.

At that moment, Lin Ai's shouts pierced through the darkness.

【Yang Xian!】

【Yang Xian!!!】

Yang Xian's consciousness was abruptly pulled back to the cockpit.

He was panting heavily, his back completely soaked with cold sweat.

This time, he did not possess the strength of the Ninth Realm, but instead faced the Demon God directly at the Third Realm.

Compared to those at the Ninth Realm, this level of strength is less than that of an ant.

Stop standing there! Run!

Lin Ai urged her again.

Yang Xian didn't dare to hesitate for a moment and immediately pushed the thruster's power to its limit.

With a roar, the white mech fled frantically toward the outer edge of the rift.

He had just left that area.

One by one, palm-sized mechanical insects crawled out from the other side of the abyss.

They are entirely black, with dark red stripes on their backs.

"Drip-dong... drip-dong..."

The insects emitted strange mechanical grinding sounds, and then quickly swarmed towards the mountain of metal corpses left behind by Yang Xian.

It's like a pack of wolves that's been starving for ten or fifteen days seeing fresh meat.

In the blink of an eye.

The metal mountain, made up of the remains of hundreds of third-realm demons, was completely devoured.

Not even a single metal shaving was left.

After consuming the metal, the insects began to swell in size.

Their backs split open, directly dividing them into two.

The number multiplied several times in just a few seconds.

And it continues to split.

Yang Xian glanced at the radar screen.

The previously empty screen suddenly burst with a dense cluster of red dots.

The number of red dots is still increasing exponentially.

"Damn it!"

"What the hell are these things?"

Yang Xian felt like his trypophobia was about to flare up.

The red dots on the radar have now merged into a sea of ​​red.

Those are iron-eating worms!

They feed on metal, and given enough metal, they can reproduce indefinitely.

Even more frightening is that they can merge with each other, enhancing their overall strength.

If they aren't all killed at once, they will keep multiplying.

Yang Xian felt a chill run down his spine.

"Unlimited reproduction? And fusion?"

"What's the point of fighting now?!"

He glanced back.

From the dark red mist behind them, a massive swarm of insects surged forth.

The swarm of insects rapidly converged in mid-air.

Thousands upon thousands of tiny insects pieced together and interlocked.

In just a few seconds, hundreds of enormous iron-eating worms were assembled.

The aura emanating from each one had reached the level of the third realm.

Hundreds of demonic creatures from the third realm.

And it continues to increase.

"Hold!"

"This is a huge mess!"

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the other side.

The outer region deep within the fissure.

Eleven mechs are advancing forward in a fan-shaped formation.

Guo Jingyi sat in the orange mecha at the very front.

The other ten people were all skilled fighters sent by the Guo family, each of them a martial artist at the peak of the third realm!

"I have already sent you the data characteristics of those two monsters."

"Once the target is spotted, capturing him alive is the best outcome."

"If we can't capture them alive, we'll just kill them!"

Guo Jingyi said coldly.

"Yes, Miss!"

The ten Guo family experts at the peak of the third realm responded in unison.

Eleven mechs dispersed and began a thorough search in the dark red mist.

I searched for quite a while.

The surroundings were deathly silent; not even a single ordinary monster could be seen.

"strangeness."

The captain of the guard frowned.

"This area is too quiet."

"The depths of the rift should be teeming with monsters, so why isn't there a single one?"

What he didn't know was that Yang Xian had killed almost all the monsters inside.

But soon, he discovered a small black mechanical insect.

Upon seeing this, the captain of the guard's pupils suddenly contracted.

"This is……"

"Ironeater!"