I became a god through frontier slaughter, and I crushed the academy's prodigies!

Shen Tian nodded and raised his right hand.

Rotate your wrist.

The void ahead, like a thin sheet of paper, silently split open to both sides, revealing the deep purple-gold background of the Origin Realm.

A sphere the size of a fist slowly floated out from the crack.

The sphere is a deep purplish-black color with a surface covered in silver sheen.

Boom, boom.

As it pulsed, concentric circles of light spread outwards.

The surrounding air rippled like water under the influence of this fluctuation.

This was a trophy that Shen Tian forcibly pulled from the chest of the hundred-meter-tall mechanical creation after killing it deep in the gray-white fog sea.

Do you recognize this?

Shen Tian inquired about the source.

"Even after it detaches from the body, its internal energy structure continues to undergo a complex self-circulation, making it unlike a simple mechanical engine."

The blue light spots quickly recombine.

The holographic projection of the source drifted down in front of the purple heart.

"Supreme Commander."

"This is not a mechanical engine. In the terminology of the Azure Sky Civilization, it is called the 'Heart of the Source.' If translated using your human race's existing vocabulary, it should be called... the foundation of cultivation."

Solomon instantly locked onto that beating heart.

He was quite surprised by the translation.

Cultivating a solid foundation?

This is something unique to martial artists on Earth.

The source did not continue to explain in words.

A blue light screen suddenly unfolded in the dimly lit workshop, projecting a grand and ancient historical image.

The scene begins with a desolate planet that appears dark red.

Three dazzling stars hung in the sky, and the gravity on the Earth's surface was dozens of times that of Earth.

Amidst the swirling yellow sand, hundreds of short, humanoid creatures, clad in rough, blue exoskeleton armor, were laboriously mining ore from the ground.

The exoskeletons were rusty, and the hydraulic actuators spewed out thick black smoke, barely helping them withstand the raging sandstorms.

"This is called the exoskeleton stage, which is purely physical assistance."

"The voice of the source narrator rises, saying that the individuals of the Azure Sky Civilization are extremely weak and unable to absorb cosmic energy, with a lifespan of no more than a hundred years."

"In order to survive in harsh environments, the first pioneers chose to cover their bodies with metal."

The images are fast-forwarding.

As the long years pass, the scene shifts to an underground laboratory filled with cold light.

Several humanoid creatures lay on the dissection table. Cold mechanical arms sliced ​​open their chests, dug out their fleshy hearts, and forcibly inserted a metal core that shimmered with blue light.

The fine metal fibers, like plant roots, penetrate their blood vessels, bones, and cerebral cortex.

The blood gushed out, but was instantly stopped by the high temperature.

The next scene.

These creatures, incorporating metallic properties, burst forth from the earth's surface.

They did not wear exoskeletons, but with a thought, liquid metal instantly seeped from the pores of their skin, solidifying in the blink of an eye into a streamlined suit of armor that fit their entire bodies.

A soldier leaped into the air, using no fancy moves, relying solely on the combination of his flesh and metal to unleash a powerful punch.

A ring-shaped white sonic boom cloud exploded in mid-air.

Below, a rocky mountain range thousands of meters high collapsed inch by inch from its summit to its base under the pure physical shockwave of this punch, turning into dust that filled the sky.

"Main Armor Stage"

"The body and the machine began to coexist deeply, and metallic substances replaced the fragile internal organs, becoming the energy center."

Yuan continued his explanation.

The colors on the light screen changed again, transforming into a deep, dark, boundless starry sky.

A crimson nebula hovered in the distance.

"A mechanical giant, hundreds of meters tall, stood amidst the meteorites. Its appearance was extremely similar to the headless monster that Shen Tian had killed in the fog sea, but its head was intact and its eyes burned with blue torches."

The giant was surrounded by a visible sequence of silver laws.

It simply raised its left hand and lightly traced its index finger in the air.

The space ahead was neatly cut open like a piece of cloth, revealing a black void rift tens of thousands of kilometers long.

An entire massive interstellar fleet, teeming with alien species, along with the surrounding asteroid belt, was instantly swallowed up by the rift, leaving not a trace behind.

"This is a high-level life form that has completely mastered the laws of the universe."

"Mech Phase"

Yuan pointed to the screen.

"At this time, the physical body has been completely abandoned."

"Life forms have been sublimated, and the soul has been digitized and stored within the 'Heart of Source Matter.' The external body can be continuously replaced with the finest cosmic alloy."

The scene came to an end.

This is a desolate, dark universe.

Only a superstar hundreds of times larger than the sun in the distance was emitting terrifying light and heat.

However, in front of this star...

A colossal, even more suffocating structure stood there.

It was a terrifying war machine, its entire body a dark gold color and its size comparable to a giant planet.

It carries twelve rings of metal, each ring covered with billions of runes.

Void oscillation.

A colossal abyssal beast, exceeding millions of kilometers in length, squeezed half of its body out of the spatial passage ahead.

The dark abyss transformed into a towering tsunami, crashing against the surrounding stars.

The dark golden battle form moved.

A blinding white light suddenly shone from its chest.

The brightness of that light instantly surpassed that of the stars behind it.

The massive gravitational field directly enveloped that superstar.

Visibly, the nuclear fusion flames on the surface of the star were forcibly torn out, transforming into a pillar of fire tens of millions of kilometers long, which poured into the chest cavity of the dark golden battle body.

After absorbing the star energy, the battle body raised its right arm.

He simply spread his five fingers, palm facing the abyssal behemoth.

A destructive beam of light that pierced through the entire galaxy suddenly erupted.

Wherever the beam of light passed, space evaporated.

The abyssal behemoth, powerful enough to devour planets, didn't even have time to scream before it instantly vaporized into its most basic atomic form within the pillar of light.

The video ended there, transforming into countless blue specks of light that dissipated within the workshop.

"The ultimate form, the Star Battle Body."

Yuan turned his head and looked at the purple heart in Shen Tian's hand.

"The Azure Sky Civilization lacks a meridian system and is unable to absorb cosmic energy."

"Our strong ones are essentially mecha life forms that constantly change their armor and evolve their cores."

"The Origin Heart in your hand belongs to a commander at the Law Mech stage. It not only contains the high-purity energy he refined throughout his life, but also records all the law data he controls."

"This is the essence of a strong person."

Solomon turned his head sharply.

As someone who has mastered the laws of mechanics, he has considered taking the path of mechanical ascension.

but.

He can't make this path work by himself.

It requires the accumulation of dozens of people.

Only then can a completely new cultivation system be created.

His own path involves modifying his mechanical body to bear the laws of machinery.

The evolutionary path of the Azure Sky Civilization fits perfectly.