Transcending Godhood: I Extract Keywords and Crush the Gods

Li Xuan and K knelt on the mud.

An immense, irrational spiritual force crashed into the depths of their consciousness.

Naked rule.

A raging storm erupted in Li Xuan's sea of ​​consciousness.

Mental power has no concrete form, but it carries a cold, mechanical, and unyielding will.

His diamond-level divine sense was nothing more than a toy in the face of this power.

K's electronic eye flashed red, and the system firewall was torn apart in an instant.

The highest level of control was forcibly taken over.

Two uranium beetles lay motionless on the ground.

Li Xuanliu's compound eyes darted around, looking at K beside him.

K looked over as well.

Both of them saw shock in each other's eyes.

An immeasurable group is connecting their consciousness through this spiritual network.

A coordinate.

One instruction: Go to this set of coordinates.

Li Xuan gritted his teeth, his mind aching terribly from the pressure.

He was fed up with feeling manipulated.

Previously in the River Styx, they were forced to become part of the bone fish, unable to even control their own lives and deaths.

Now that we've just gotten ashore, they're pulling this stunt again!

"Dispel the mimicry!" Li Xuan transmitted his voice to K through his remaining divine sense.

"Revert to human form and sever this mental connection! Otherwise, we'll become part of them again!"

The source of the Time Demon within Li Xuan surged, and the edges of the Heavy Beetle's carapace glowed with a grayish-white light.

He prepared to forcibly exit the mimicry state.

boom!

One of K's mechanical limbs slammed into Li Xuan's back armor, shattering the primal power he had just gathered.

"You're insane!" K's electronic voice exploded in Li Xuan's mind, tinged with unusual impatience. "It can't be deactivated!"

"This spiritual force has locked onto us!" K quickly pulled up the analysis data and projected it directly into Li Xuan's consciousness.

"The other party's scanning frequency is all-around."

"Once you shed your mimicry and lose the cover of the Zerg genetic sequence, we will be judged as outsiders!"

Li Xuan froze.

"Look at the magnitude of this mental power!" K continued telepathically, his tone stern.

"Don't even mention the two of us who are half-crippled; even if the captain and the others were all in their prime, they would still be doomed in the face of this power!"

Li Xuan fell silent.

The grayish-white light on the carapace faded, and he came to terms with reality.

Faced with an absolute power disparity, any struggle is futile.

"What the hell is this divine realm?!" Li Xuan cursed inwardly.

"They're always talking about merging! Always using mind control! Can't they survive without merging?"

He, a dignified elite of the demon race and a sword-cultivation genius on the immortal path, has actually been reduced to surviving by pretending to be an insect.

Complaints aside, actions speak louder than words.

The pressure from this mental command grew stronger and stronger, leaving them no room for hesitation.

"Let's go," Li Xuan transmitted his voice.

Two heavy beetles spread their limbs and quickly crawled across the wasteland in the direction indicated.

Along the way, they saw more and more Zerg emerging from the ground.

Mad Scythe Shadow Blade Bug, Psionic Plasma Bug...

All the Zerg remained absolutely silent, converging into black rivers that surged in the same direction.

Li Xuan and K blended in among them, completely inconspicuous.

Two hours later.

They crossed a purplish-red hill.

The sight before them caused Li Xuan and K to stop in their tracks at the same time.

Ahead lay a vast plain.

At this moment, the plain was completely filled with black.

Zerg.

An endless swarm of Zerg.

The densely packed carapace shimmered with a metallic luster in the dim light.

Various forms of Zerg are arranged in neat square formations.

There was no whispering, no unnecessary movements. Only a suffocating, chilling atmosphere.

A rough scan reveals that the number definitely exceeds one million!

A Zerg army numbering in the millions!

Moreover, the aura of each insect was at least at the high-level Silver rank!

At the very front of these formations stood forty thousand even larger and more terrifying insect soldiers.

They are the commanders of this army, precisely controlling the movements of each phalanx through a mental network.

Li Xuan and K were pushed and shoved by the swarm of insects behind them, forced to merge into this black ocean.

They were assigned to the edge of a square formation consisting of 100,000 Nether Uranium Heavy Beetles.

"It's over." K's electronic voice echoed in Li Xuan's mind, filled with despair.

"What's wrong?" Li Xuan asked.

"Data model derivation complete." K's voice was flat. "With such a massive scale, there are only two possibilities."

"First, they have completed a major battle and are returning home in triumph."

"Secondly, they are gathering, preparing to invade the territories of other higher-order species."

K paused for a moment, then continued, "Judging from their marching formations, energy reserves, and the emotions transmitted through their mental networks..."

"Ninety-nine point nine percent, that's the second type."

"Invasion War"

K's mechanical limbs trembled slightly. "A war on a million-strong scale."

"What we're about to face is an absolutely cataclysmic battle. In our current state, the probability of us surviving the first wave of attacks is zero."

K has given up.

In his calculations, this was a complete dead end.

However, Li Xuan's six compound eyes lit up.

Unlike K's despair, Li Xuan felt a surge of excitement deep within him.

"You miscalculated, you iron lump," Li Xuan transmitted his voice, which was filled with barely suppressed excitement.

"Where did we go wrong?"

"Your mistake was that your vision was too narrow!" Li Xuan looked at the vast army ahead.

"We had a hard time getting around in this godforsaken place before; we would fight tooth and nail even if we encountered a crab."

"Why? Because we're outsiders! We have no connections, no backing!"

Li Xuan swung his forelimbs.

"But things are different now! We've infiltrated this million-strong army! That's our best protection!"

"In a war of this scale, the enemy's territory is undoubtedly the most central and prosperous region of this divine realm!"

"The concentration of spiritual energy and the rare and precious materials there far exceed our imagination!"

Li Xuan's tone grew increasingly fervent: "The antidote! The antidote that can cure that genetic collapse must be right there!"

"This isn't a dead end, it's an incredible opportunity! These insects are leading the way for us!"

K remained silent for a long time.

"Your logic has a fatal flaw; high returns come with high risks."

"Even if there were an antidote, could you survive a battle between a million-strong army and the local overlord to obtain it?"

"How will you know if you don't take a gamble?" Li Xuan sneered. "Cultivating immortality is inherently defying the heavens."

"Fortune favors the bold, something you pile of scrap metal will never understand!"

K stopped arguing.

He knew that Li Xuan had lost his temper.

A rallying cry echoed through the spiritual network.

Thousands of Overlord Insects simultaneously let out a low growl.

A million-strong army has moved.

The earth was trembling.

Li Xuan and K, sandwiched within a formation of 100,000 beetles, began to advance.

They don't need to think about the route or be wary of their surroundings.

They have hundreds of thousands of companions protecting and escorting them.

This feeling was surprisingly exhilarating.

Along the way.

The flock of eagles circling in the sky scattered in terror when they saw the black torrent of steel below.

There were no obstacles.

They swept through the enemy lines.

This is the prestige of the overlord of the divine realm.

Li Xuan became more and more excited as he walked.

He keenly sensed that the concentration of spiritual energy in the air was rising sharply.

"Can you feel it?" Li Xuan transmitted his voice to K, "The spiritual energy has become denser! And there's no longer that cold, corrosive feeling."

"What lies ahead is absolutely a treasure trove!"

The spiritual energy within Li Xuan's body even began to circulate on its own, absorbing free energy from the air.

Antidote.

There must be an antidote.

Li Xuan firmly believed in his judgment.

If they can get the antidote and find the captain, they can turn the tide.

The army continued its advance.

The surrounding environment began to change visibly.

The purplish-red soil turned into charred black rocks.

The surface temperature rose sharply.

The beetle's carapace made a hissing sound as it stepped on the rock.

K's electronic eye continuously scanned the surrounding environmental data, and the red light flashed more and more frequently.

"Warning! The ambient temperature has exceeded 300 degrees Celsius and is still rising."

"Warning! Unknown high-energy law fragments detected in the air, which are extremely destructive to the mech's armor."

K's voice echoed in Li Xuan's mind: "Li Xuan, something's wrong."

"What's wrong with that?" Li Xuan said dismissively. "High-level spiritual lands are protected by extreme environments; that's common sense."

"What's wrong with a little higher temperature? We're heavy beetles now, we can withstand this temperature."

"It's not just the temperature," K reminded him. "Look at the formation ahead."

Li Xuan raised his head.

The compound eyes pierced through the swarm of insects ahead, looking towards the very front of the army.

The bladed insects that charged at the forefront began to emit black smoke from their carapaces.

But they didn't stop.

Not a single insect retreated.

They maintained their orderly formation, marching with mechanical steps towards the unknown area ahead.

Li Xuan's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

He finally sensed something was off.

The atmosphere among this million-strong army was far too calm.

There was no pre-war fervor, no desire for prey.

There is only one kind of numbness... heading to the execution ground.