32: Chapter 32 Mechanical Spark

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The fierce and sharp dragon claws violently tore apart the mecha's alloy skull, and the hard metal shell shattered like tissue paper.

Layer upon layer of precise mechanical structures inside the mecha snapped and scattered, and the true form of the mechanical deity hidden within the mecha's core was instantly exposed, with not a shred of cover left.

Sargalian's crimson vertical pupils flared with fierce light, and the tyrannical killing intent in the depths of his eyes boiled completely.

"Die!"

A low and domineering dragon roar shook the wasteland, and a mouthful of pure, ultimate world-destroying black flames gushed out unreservedly, instantly swallowing the body of that mechanical deity.

The only ultimate truth professed throughout the lifetime of the Mechanical Race — — flesh is weak, machinery ascends.

All deities within the race would conduct omnidirectional mechanical modifications on their own bodies, though their modification paths varied.

Su Ming had once seen the ultimate mechanical transformation in ancient books: some top-tier Mechanical Race powerhouses completely purged all carbon-based flesh within their bodies, completely discarding the shackles of the physical body.

Taking alloy as the body and consciousness as the soul, with not a shred of organic residue left on the whole body, purely relying on the mechanical core to carry the divine soul, the physical strength was sufficient to clash head-on against top-tier races of the heavens such as dragons and Titans.

But the mechanical deity before him evidently had not walked that path.

Under the scorching of the world-destroying dragon flames that annihilated everything, its incompletely modified semi-mechanical body rapidly melted, carbonized, and disintegrated, and even the remnants of its divine soul were completely burned away by the black flames, finally dissipating into the void without a trace.

As the mechanical deity completely fell, the massive mecha that lost core control could no longer maintain its form, violently falling apart and turning into metal wreckage all over the ground.

Having resolved the greatest threat, Sargalian did not linger for a moment. With a flap of his wings, his massive dragon body carried rolling black winds and directly dived into the mechanical legion array below to slaughter.

At this moment, the mechanical corps of the entire battlefield had long since revealed a trend of decline.

Their numbers seemed to far exceed Su Ming's Undead Army, but they were all low-tier standardized mechanical units. All their actions followed fixed programmatic logic, being rigid, stiff, and inflexible.

Before Su Ming, who had long since thoroughly figured out their tactical shortcomings and operational patterns, every step of their actions was accurately predicted, and they were easily counter-targeted, split up, and encircled.

Coupled with the entrance of Sargalian, this black dragon, the battle situation was completely settled.

Not long after, the mechanical legion across the entire wasteland was completely annihilated, and the densely packed precision mechas were reduced to piles of cold scrap iron, posing not a shred of threat anymore.

[Second-layer trial cleared!]

The void vibrated, and a large group of glossy white, pure divine power light slowly condensed and formed, suspended in front of Su Ming.

On the second layer of the Hanging Pagoda, the clearance reward for each level was this kind of origin light group, which could directly nourish the body and purify and strengthen divine power.

Su Ming raised his hand to absorb all the light groups, and the pure energy instantly circulated through his limbs and bones.

Feeling the soaring divine power within his body, intense joy instantly surged into the depths of his eyes.

"The light group in this level directly amplified a full one hundred points of divine power! My divine power has finally broken through the five-hundred-point mark!"

Before stepping into the Hanging Pagoda, his divine power was still less than two hundred points.

According to normal cultivation speed, it would take at least half a year of hard cultivation and accumulation before having a chance to break through five hundred points.

Yet under the rewards of the second layer of the Hanging Pagoda, in less than a day, it was achieved.

Just as his emotions were churning, his peripheral vision caught sight of a strange Rubik's cube-shaped artifact floating quietly in the center of the battlefield.

The artifact was silver-gray throughout, with intricate and complex mechanical patterns flowing on its surface, carrying a heavy and ancient aura of origin.

[Mechanical Spark (Semi-Artifact Embryo)]

[Power of Origin]

Divine Modification: Inputting various metals and mechanical raw materials can autonomously deduce structures, iteratively optimize design blueprints, and uninterruptedly mass-produce mechanical kin.

Spark: All subordinate mechanical kin have an embedded origin spark core, which can autonomously and continuously repair the mecha body after suffering damage.

The moment he saw the item's attributes clearly, Su Ming was completely stunned, his pupils contracting sharply.

"Semi-artifact embryo!"

He couldn't help but swallow slightly, monstrous waves stirring in the depths of his heart.

What kind of precious item was a semi-artifact, even if it was just an embryo!

If this item flowed into the outside world and fell into the hands of orthodox technological deities, it would be worth at least fifty million divine crystals, and it was a peerless treasure that had a price but no market, enough to make countless stellar region forces frantically fight for it.

Ordinary non-technological deities who obtained this item, lacking mecha-power, could ultimately only sell it off.

But Su Ming was different.

With a thought in his mind, he could completely immerse and transform this Mechanical Spark into the Nether attribute.

By then, driving the spark would require no mecha-power; only consuming Nether yin qi would allow him to continuously and in batches forge mechanical kin.

Thinking of this, the shock in Su Ming's heart grew even more intense.

"This Hanging Pagoda is simply too against the heavens! If all ten clearance participants pass this level, could everyone be rewarded with a semi-artifact?"

Su Ming did not know yet that the rewards of the Hanging Pagoda were not identical, but were dynamically calculated based on clearance rankings and battlefield performance.

The domain soul bead of the first layer was like this.

As the first clearer, he exclusively enjoyed an amplification of 300,000 kilometers of divine domain, the second place decreased sequentially, and the domain soul bead obtained by the tenth place only had an amplification of 100,000 kilometers.

The semi-artifact of this second layer was also an exclusive reward belonging solely to his first clearance. Although the rewards of the other nine prodigies were quite good, they definitely could not reach the level of a semi-artifact.

After a brief shock, Su Ming immediately reined in his thoughts and quickly issued instructions, having all kin completely clean the battlefield and transport all the mechanical wreckage scattered everywhere back to the Jiuyou Divine Domain.

Without the Mechanical Spark, this wreckage could at most be treated as ordinary materials to be sold for divine crystals.

But now, with the blessing of this semi-artifact, every piece of metal wreckage was prime raw material for forging mechanical kin!

"With the Undead Calamity in hand, and now acquiring the Mechanical Spark, I shall forge a Mechanical Calamity."

Brilliant light flickered in Su Ming's eyes as he sighed inwardly, "Now I'm just missing the Zerg Calamity to gather all three major calamity systems."

Moments after the wreckage was all transported back to Jiuyou, the thirty-minute rest period ended punctually.

Spiritual light fell across the sky, enveloping Su Ming and his crowd of kin as the scene instantly shifted.

When a brand-new Divine Domain Gate came into view, a hint of surprise instantly flashed across the depths of Su Ming's eyes.

The patterns, aura, and fluctuations of the Divine Domain Gate before him were actually highly similar to the gate of his Jiuyou Divine Domain!

"The third layer—what I need to face is actually a Nether Divine Domain!"

Su Ming looked intently into the gate, instantly seeing the gushing army, and couldn't help drawing a sharp breath.

Eerie black fog churned endlessly, and densely packed skeleton warriors stepped out of the Divine Domain Gate endlessly, bones gleaming ominously and yin qi soaring to the heavens.

In just a brief moment, the number of skeletons gushing out broke through thirty thousand, and there was still an endless Undead Army continuously rushing to the battlefield from within the gate, with no end in sight.

On the other hand, under Su Ming's command, having gone through two rounds of high-intensity slaughter, only about fifty thousand kin remained. The force comparison instantly appeared thin and sparse, falling into an absolute disadvantage.

Yet facing an Undead Army of the same origin that outnumbered him several times over, there was not a shred of solemnity on Su Ming's face; instead, intense ecstasy and anticipation surged forth.

"That's great!"

He felt incomparably gratified in his heart.

The Mechanical Race could not be transformed into the undead by the Nether Sovereign, but these skeletons before him were different—they were pure undead creatures!

To others, this was a desperate situation!

But to Su Ming, who held the Nether Sovereign, this sky full of the undead was not an enemy at all, but an endless armory delivered right to his doorstep!

"My Undead Army can finally skyrocket once again, and even advance further!"

The two armies instantly collided with a bang.

Towering Nether yin qi intertwined and collided, countless skeleton warriors fell to the ground in the slaughter, but the next second, they were forcibly infected, reversed, and assimilated by Su Ming's Nether Laws.

The enemy skeleton mages and bone warriors who died in battle all stood up and switched sides, turning into newborn combat power under Su Ming's command, turning around to slaughter their former kin.

The outcome of the battle was already destined from the very moment it began.