Transcending Godhood: I Extract Keywords and Crush the Gods

On the crimson wasteland, six figures moved swiftly close to the ground.

Renn walked at the very front, his body bowed low.

The five team members behind him were all diamond-level powerhouses.

At this moment, they took caution and cunning to the extreme.

On the left side of the group, Li Xuan, a sword cultivator from the immortal cultivation system, pressed his natal flying sword, which had drunk countless bloods, deep into his dantian.

He activated the Turtle Breathing Technique, locking all 36,000 pores on his body, and even forcibly reduced his heart rate to once per minute.

On the right, the cyborg "K" severs the miniature nuclear fusion power plant inside his body.

He activated the most primitive spring-loaded backup power, the sound of gears meshing perfectly masked by the sound-absorbing coating on his body.

The mechanical electronic eye scans the surroundings, but dares not release any active detection waves.

At the rear of the group, the necromancer Morgan compressed death energy into the bone staff in his hand, his entire body wrapped in a gray-black cloak, and he even stopped breathing.

Elemental mage Ella and body cultivator Gangku followed closely behind, concealing all energy fluctuations as they moved forward, stepping in Rein's footprints.

These six individuals represent the core fighting force of the Time Demon Clan.

Any one of them could easily dominate a low-level divine realm.

But here, they didn't even dare to breathe loudly.

"Captain, are we heading in the right direction?" Li Xuan's voice was sharp and clear, ringing in Rein's ear.

"Look at those trees," Raine replied in a similarly sharp tone. "The closer you get to the center, the higher the density of the dark red shrubs, and the denser the abyssal spiritual energy in the air becomes."

"The antidote must be in the place with the most abundant spiritual energy."

The six continued their stealthy advance.

Suddenly, a dense rustling sound came from ahead.

Ryan waved his hand, and all six people froze, like six lifeless black rocks.

At the edge of the horizon, a patrol of tens of thousands of Nether Uranium Beetles was rapidly crawling past.

Raine secretly observed the group of insects.

He could sense that the strongest individual of these insects was only at the Gold rank, but they exuded a strange sense of unity.

If even one insect is moved, the invisible spiritual connection will detonate the entire swarm.

The sky suddenly darkened.

The six people looked up.

High in the sky, tens of thousands of vultures with wingspans of over fifteen meters swooped down from the leaden-gray clouds.

Their target is the insect swarms on the ground.

A brief but bloody battle broke out a few kilometers away.

The Vulture's talons tore through the Zerg's carapace, and the Zerg swarm crushed the Vulture's body.

Screams, chewing sounds, and the cracking of bones mingled together, shaking the wasteland.

"Go around it." Renn withdrew his gaze and gave the order to the group.

They have a deep psychological trauma related to the skies of this divine realm.

The storm and hail that came with them had shattered their courage to take off.

They would rather crawl on the ground like rats than mimic a flying race and become live targets in the sky.

With their exceptional skills and caution, the six managed to avoid several waves of insectoids and flying creatures without major incident.

Two hours later, they stopped.

What lay before them was a black river thousands of meters wide.

The river water was as black as ink, and its surface was so calm that there was not a ripple.

There was no sound of flowing water, and no steam rising from the surface.

The entire river is like an abyss, dividing the wasteland in two.

"This water...something's not right." The necromancer Morgan gripped his bone staff tightly.

"I'm someone who plays with death energy, but the concentration of death energy in this river makes even me feel uneasy."

"It's devouring the surrounding light and energy."

Mechanic K crouched down, picked up a fist-sized piece of metal ore from the ground, and threw it forcefully into the center of the river.

The ore traced a parabola before falling into the river.

There was no splash, no ripple, not even a "plop" sound of water falling into the water.

When the ore came into contact with the water, it melted and disappeared without even a bubble.

The six people gasped in shock.

"Captain, make a decision," Ti Xiugangku said in a deep voice.

A disagreement arose within the team.

The elemental mage Ella pointed to the opposite bank of the river: "Let's take the waterway. We'll disguise ourselves as aquatic creatures and sneak along the current; that's the fastest way."

"There are more and more insects on the ground. There were several thousand in that patrol just now. If we go any further, we'll be discovered sooner or later."

"It's better to be in the water than facing those horde of freakish insects."

Li Xuan shook his head, his brows furrowed: "I object. This river is very strange."

"My sword spirit is warning us. This water can absolutely block divine sense; once we go down, we'll be blind."

"If we encounter danger, we can't even run away."

Both of them turned their eyes to Ryan.

Renn stared at the river, then glanced back in the direction he had come from.

On the horizon, the smoke and dust raised by large numbers of Zerg could be faintly seen.

In the sky, tens of thousands of even larger mutated demonic vultures are circling, searching for prey on the ground.

"Go into the water," Ryan declared decisively. "The dangers on land and in the air are obvious; we can't afford to waste time."

"Although the water is eerie, as long as we mimic the creatures here, we can avoid the aquatic environment's inherent rejection."

The captain made the decision, and the others said no more.

The six walked to the riverbank, their demonic essence surging within them.

Their bodies began to swell and elongate, and fine black scales grew on their skin.

To adapt to the river, they chose to mimic the form of an aquatic insect with hard shells.

"Thump! Thump!"

The six figures leaped into the River Styx one after another.

The moment you enter the water, you are enveloped by extreme cold and terrifying gravity.

"The density of this water... is ten times higher than that of mercury!" K's mechanical voice crackled in the team channel.

Li Xuan tentatively released his divine sense, which had just left his body less than half a meter away.

It was mercilessly swallowed by the stagnant water around it, and a sharp pain shot through its mind.

"Total blindness. Everyone stay close together and communicate using bio-sound waves!" Ryan gave the order.

The six people quickly stood back to back, forming a circular defensive formation.

Before they could adapt to the underwater environment, a sudden change occurred.

Suddenly, countless tiny blue lights appeared in the pitch-black depths of the water.

These points of light showed no signs of life and emitted no murderous aura whatsoever.

They are like ghosts from the bottom of the water, approaching silently.

It wasn't until they were less than ten meters away that the six of them could see what it was.

Bonefish.

Thousands of strange fish, each over six meters long, with only pale white bones remaining on their bodies.

Their eye sockets burned with eerie blue soul fire, and their mouths were filled with crisscrossing bone spurs.

These bone fish are not particularly strong; most are at the mid-Gold level, and the strongest are only at the high-Platinum level.

For a diamond-level Time Demon squad, monsters of this caliber are usually not even worth a second glance.

But now, the situation is completely different.

The school of bony fish had already formed an encirclement formation underwater.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Hundreds of bony fish launched an attack simultaneously.

They don't wag their tails; they rely entirely on the subtle force of manipulating the water flow to move at lightning speed.

The sharp bone spikes aimed straight for the vital points of the six men.

"You're asking for it!" Li Xuan sneered.

The natal flying sword Qingming within his dantian burst forth, transforming into a dazzling azure sword light that slashed towards the bone fish charging at the forefront.

However, the flying swords that could easily flatten mountaintops on ordinary days lost 70% of their speed in the dense waters of the Styx River.

The sword light struck the skull of the bone fish, producing a piercing scraping sound.

After severing only three bone spikes, the flying sword's spiritual power was corroded by the stagnant water, becoming dull and lifeless, and it flew back into Li Xuan's hand.

Li Xuan's expression changed drastically: "The water resistance is too great! The consumption of spiritual energy has increased exponentially!"

"I'll do it!" Mechanic K raised his right arm, his palm splitting open to reveal a dark blue plasma cannon barrel.

"Boom!" A ball of high-energy plasma light was unleashed.

As soon as the light sphere left the cannon barrel, it was forcibly compressed and assimilated by the surrounding stagnant water.

An attack that would have melted a spaceship only created a fist-sized bubble in the water.

"Energy weapon malfunctioned! This water can absorb a large amount of high-energy reaction!" K roared.

The school of bony fish gave them no chance to catch their breath.

The first wave of attacks was thwarted, and the second and third waves followed in quick succession.

With a roar, the body-cultivating Gangku's muscles bulged, and his fists slammed out like heavy hammers, forcefully smashing several approaching bone fish to pieces.

But the bonefish felt no pain. Even when its body was broken in two, the remaining half still opened its mouth full of bone spurs and bit Gangku's arm.

"Get out of here!" Gangku swung his arm violently, tearing off a large chunk of his own flesh.

The necromancer Morgan attempted to control the bone fish with death energy, but was surprised to discover:

"Their souls are so weak as to be negligible; my magic is ineffective against them!"

The elemental mage Ayra unleashed extreme cold in an attempt to freeze the water.

But the dead waters of the Styx were completely unaffected by this; the freezing law was shattered by the corrosive properties of the dead water as soon as it took shape.

suffocated.

I felt incredibly frustrated.

Six diamond-level Star Wanderers were utterly defeated by over a thousand gold-level fish!

They possess extraordinary abilities, yet they can't even utilize a tenth of them in this bizarre Styx environment.

In contrast, the bony fish has all the advantages of timing and location.

Each impact carries the pressure of the entire river, and each tearing action is accompanied by the corrosive effects of stagnant water.

Raine swung his arm, which had transformed into segmented limbs, severing the two approaching bone fish.

His expression was unusually grim.

"Captain! Think of something! We can't keep dragging this on!" Li Xuan's flying sword was getting dimmer and dimmer, and he had more than a dozen wounds of varying depths on his body.

Renn gritted his teeth.

He desperately wanted to get rid of these troublesome monsters!

The most crucial survival tactic of the Time Demons is to create a Time Veil to isolate themselves from space.

But in this dense, stagnant water, the laws of space are greatly compressed, making it impossible for him to open the curtain.

Even more critically, the Time Demon race's mimicry talent requires in-depth analysis of the opponent's genes and energy circuits.

This takes time and requires enduring the opponent's fundamental attack at close range.

In this chaotic battle where everyone attacked at once, he didn't even have time to lock onto a single bone fish for analysis.

"Step back! I'll clear the way!"

Renn's eyes widened in anger, and he finally decided to use his trump card.

In this divine realm where energy cannot be replenished, using a powerful move means taking another step closer to death, but he had no other choice.

The diamond-level essence within him burned, and the power of spatial laws erupted from his body.

"Spatial Shock Slash!"

Renn crossed his arms and swung them forward.

The water ahead was shaken apart.

A crescent-shaped gray light blade, a hundred meters long, appeared out of thin air, forcefully pushing aside the surrounding dense stagnant water, and with the power to destroy everything, it crashed into the school of bone fish.

"boom!"

The muffled sound of the explosion echoed underwater.

This attack consumed nearly 30% of Rein's original energy.

The effects are also extremely significant.

The first few hundred bone fish, under the influence of the spatial laws, turned into bone dust that filled the sky.

The remaining hundreds of bony fish were also thrown into the shockwave and plunged into deeper waters.

The water around the six people was finally cleared.

"Quick! Swim upstream! Get out of the water!" Renn roared, his face pale from exhaustion.

The teammates had just breathed a sigh of relief and hadn't even had a chance to praise their captain's prowess.

Suddenly, a sound of bones grinding came from the deep water.

"Snap! Snap!"

The bone fish that fell into the deep water did not all die.

Under the pull of some strange law, those broken bones and incomplete bodies began to piece together and fit together.

The skull of one bone fish got stuck in the spine of another bone fish, and the ribs of a third bone fish became the outer armor.

In just a few seconds.

The remains of more than a thousand bony fish were assembled in deep water to form a super bony fish that is over 100 meters long!

Two enormous black-blue soul flames burned in the eye sockets of this super bone fish.

Each bone spur on its body was like a sharp spear, and the aura emanating from it was rising at a terrifying speed.

Platinum pinnacle... half-step into diamond... faintly touching the barrier of diamond tier!

This is how the Bone Fish clan has struggled and persevered through the endless years of the River Styx.

To defend against predation by celestial creatures and brutal attacks from underground insectoids, a new trait has evolved: Legion Bone Fusion.

The superbone fish swings its tailbone, creating a whirlpool in the surrounding stagnant water.

It opened its enormous mouth, big enough to swallow an elephant, let out a roar, and charged straight at the six people above.

Holy crap!

Cultivator Li Xuan couldn't help but swear.

He had cultivated Taoism for hundreds of years and had never seen such an outrageous creature.

If you can't beat them, just combine your forces?

What the hell is this unreasonable divine law?!

"What kind of hell is this place?! Can't we even play here?!" Mechanic K pounded his chest armor, his electronic eyes filled with frustration.

In the face of danger, the Star Wanderers displayed their combat skills to the fullest.

They knew very well that they absolutely could not afford to be held back by this super bony fish in this environment.

Once entangled, their energy will be completely drained.

"You guys go first! I'll cover the rear!" Renn roared, advancing instead of retreating, charging towards the Super Bone Fish.

"team leader!"

"Stop talking nonsense! Once we get up there, set up the Veil of Time to guard against the demonic vultures in the sky!" Raine said without turning his head.

Li Xuan and the other four bit their tongues and swam frantically upwards.

"Bang!"

A muffled thud came from below.

The giant bone fish slammed solidly into Renn's body.

The black scales on Raine's body shattered inch by inch, and he gushed out mouthfuls of blood, staining the surrounding water red.

Using this enormous reaction force, Renn's body shot upwards like a cannonball.

"Splash!"

Five team members were the first to rush out of the water.

They didn't have time to adjust their breathing and joined forces to unleash a secret technique.

A hazy, timeless veil unfolded above the water, isolating them from each other's presence.

Immediately afterwards, Raine burst out of the water and crashed heavily onto the purplish-red mud on the shore.

He was covered in blood, his chest was caved in, and he was extremely weak.

"Captain!" The five rushed forward and frantically pulled out healing potions.

Ryan raised his hand to stop them.

He gasped for breath and spat the blood from his mouth onto the ground.

"Don't worry about me. This little injury won't kill me." Renn struggled to his feet and looked at the calm river surface.

"Captain, you were too impulsive! You could have easily dodged that attack!" Tishu Gangku said, his eyes red.

Raine wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, a ferocious smile appearing on his pale face.

"Hide? Why should I hide?"

He slowly raised his right arm.

Under the shocked gaze of his five teammates, Ryan's right arm muscles began to twitch.

The skin and flesh receded, and in their place was a pale, bony skeleton covered in barbs.

The material, texture, and even the deathly aura emanating from this bone fragment are exactly the same as the bone fish that was underwater just now!

"We've wasted too much time." Ryan's voice was hoarse, yet it carried a strange excitement.

"The Time Demon Clan's mimicry can only perfectly analyze the opponent's genes and energy circuits at the moment of enduring the opponent's original attack."

He turned his head and looked at the five dumbfounded team members.

"I have figured out the details of these skeletons. Now, we can cross the river without any obstacles."