151: Omega

After the engine was destroyed!

Even this giant spindle-shaped spaceship, eight hundred kilometers long, had completely turned into a pile of immobile scrap metal before Zhang Sheng!

The ship's thick alloy armor was torn open, and Zhang Sheng's majestic Mental Energy surged in instantly without further obstruction.

The complex internal structures were revealed in minute detail under the scan of his Divine Sense!

At the same time, countless thirty-meter-long giant Moon Blades, like a living silver storm, raged, sliced, and destroyed wildly inside the ship!

Zhang Sheng's goal was clear: find the core body of the Intelligent Machine!

According to Xiao Ling's information, for a special life form like an Intelligent Machine, the core is its only true body.

As long as the core was destroyed, everything would end.

And the sign to identify the core was extremely distinct—it possessed a Soul!

This was precisely the key that distinguished Intelligent Machines from super artificial intelligence, allowing them to be regarded as life forms and participate in the Civilization Assessment.

The widest part of the ship was only two hundred kilometers.

After breaking through the hull, under the frantic destruction of the Moon Blades, Zhang Sheng's Divine Sense could easily cover the entire cross-section!

He charged at high speed along the ship's longitudinal axis, his Divine Sense scanning and searching like radar.

Found it!

An egg-sized, completely black egg-shaped object had just rushed into a small black warship—obviously trying to escape!

"General Black?" At the moment he saw that core, the image of a certain cartoon character from Earth inexplicably flashed through Zhang Sheng's mind.

The Soul fluctuations emitted by that egg-like body were so dense they almost condensed into substance; it was undoubtedly the Intelligent Machine's true body!

"Don't even think about running! I've found you!" Zhang Sheng's Divine Thought coldly pierced through space and struck directly at the black egg.

Before his voice had even faded, the surrounding Moon Blades had already shredded that small warship into pieces filling the air!

Possessing a Soul of such strength, comparable to a Cultivator in the Divine Breath Realm, it was impossible for it not to receive his Divine Thought transmission.

The black egg "omega" "looked" toward Zhang Sheng's direction in despair, its entire egg-like body trembling violently:

"Sor... ry...!"

The cold fear of death instantly seized it, as if it had returned to the moment its home planet was on the brink of destruction.

"Eh? It can communicate?" Zhang Sheng was delighted.

With just a single thought, the Moon Blades surrounding the black egg could cut it into pieces.

"You even know how to apologize? Tell me, what did you do wrong?"

As an intelligent life form, omega was like a Yao Beast of the Divine Breath Realm, capable of understanding the meaning conveyed through Divine Sense.

"I shouldn't have launched interference harmonics at your planet!" it responded hurriedly. "Please! Don't kill me! I swear I'll leave immediately and never approach your star System again!"

"Attacking us leads only to a dead end," Zhang Sheng's voice was calm.

"I don't want to die! Don't kill me! I can serve you! Build robots! Do anything!" omega's Soul fluctuations were full of pleading.

Zhang Sheng's thoughts raced: "As a being with a Soul... it should also be controllable by a Slave Seal, right?"

It would indeed be a pity to directly destroy such a powerful Intelligent Machine.

A Slave Seal core shimmering with an eerie light flew out from between his eyebrows.

"I can choose not to kill you, and even take you with me for Ascension," Zhang Sheng's voice carried an unquestionable coldness.

"Really?! That's great!" omega's egg-like body jumped suddenly.

"Wait, there's a condition," Zhang Sheng interrupted it. "Fusion with this core. During the process, your Soul must not resist in the slightest! Resist, and you die!"

omega's intelligent brain instantly completed billions of calculations: Refusing Fusion, mortality rate... infinitely approaching 100%!

"I accept!" Without any hesitation.

Zhang Sheng's mouth curled slightly.

The Slave Seal core merged into the black egg; the process was so fast it was almost imperceptible.

Success! Zhang Sheng immediately sensed the existence of the other's Soul, as if he had gained a switch he could control at will.

"This Slave Seal technique is indeed useful, but it's a pity it's only second-rank..." Zhang Sheng thought to himself.

"The Soul of an Intelligent Machine... is truly unique, so pure that there isn't a single stray thought."

From this point on, omega's life and death were entirely within his single thought.

Zhang Sheng also obtained a large amount of information from the other party, learning that this Intelligent Machine, which resembled "General Black," had its own name—omega.

Crisis, averted!

Zhang Sheng exhaled a long breath of turbid air.

His tense nerves finally relaxed. Checking his Dantian internally, the continuous high-intensity combat had consumed nearly one-third of his Spiritual Power!

Although the Spirit Pearls in his storage ring had not been used, over ten thousand blood essence pills had been consumed!

Nanobots began to work, prioritizing the repair of the least damaged engine.

Once the repairs were completed, this behemoth would head toward Earth.

Zhang Sheng, carrying the newly captured "black egg" omega, took a step ahead, turning into a stream of light and rushing toward his azure home.

Breaking through the atmosphere!

"As expected of you!" Song Xian's voice rang out. He had been waiting outside with a group of Earth Cultivators, everyone's face brimming with excitement as they cast admiring looks at Zhang Sheng.

"Here, your storage ring," Song Xian handed it over.

Zhang Sheng took the storage ring, his gaze sweeping over Song Xian, and he understood instantly:

"Your true body came in person? Weren't you afraid that if I failed, you'd be finished too?"

Song Xian grinned and laughed, his spirit reaching the clouds:

"Hahaha! Because I believe in you! See, in this world, the only one who can distinguish between my true body and my Clone is you!"

"Let's go! Home!"

Back on the ground.

"Wow! This is the alien from the spaceship?" Everyone crowded around, staring curiously at the "omega" on Zhang Sheng's shoulder.

—This really is a rare thing!

Zhang Sheng informed everyone that omega had been captured, reassuring them not to worry about the giant spaceship that would arrive later.

Earth's communication System was also rapidly recovering... Although only one engine was repaired, a day later, the eight-hundred-kilometer-long giant spindle-shaped spaceship still descended upon Earth as expected.

Zhang Sheng stationed it on the vast Pacific Ocean.

Nearly thirty percent of the ship had been damaged—all Zhang Sheng's "masterpiece."

At this moment, countless Nanobots were busy with the repair work.

This behemoth, far surpassing Earth's technology, attracted the gaze of countless Cultivators, symbolizing an unimaginable level of civilization.

Zhang Sheng stood atop the ship, the pitch-black "egg" on his shoulder particularly eye-catching.

With the Intelligent Machine crisis resolved, next was the time to fulfill the promise to Xiao Ling.

"omega, start manufacturing immediately!" Zhang Sheng ordered.

"I need a large number of highly intelligent mining, excavation, and transport robots!"

"Understood!" The black egg gave a light hop on his shoulder.

A few hours ago, after a discussion among the group, they unanimously decided to deploy omega's robot army for resource extraction in the Blue-level Secret Realm.

Tens of thousands of powerful robots with Advanced intelligence—it would be a waste not to use them.

All information regarding spirit plants and minerals had been loaded into omega's database.

Although limited by the rules, omega's true body, which had fused with Soul Power, could not enter Earth's Civilization Assessment Secret Realm, those robots equipped with pure artificial intelligence programs could be brought into the Secret Realm by Cultivators as "tools."

Zhang Sheng also figured out the reason why the black sphere that generated the special force field—named the "Obsidian Bead"—could not be put into a storage ring:

It had fused with a trace of omega's Soul Power!

As long as the robots did not fuse with Soul Power, they could be brought into the Secret Realm as pure mechanical equipment.

The goal was clear: Cultivators would be responsible for clearing the Yao Beasts in the Secret Realm and obtaining core Spiritual Materials (spirit plants, minerals, Yao Beast Materials, and drops),

while the heavy excavation, collection, and transport work would be left to these efficient robots.