196: Ultimate intelligent life form

The moment the intercontinental missile landed,

Su Lei's figure suddenly blurred, white runes trailing brilliant light trails in the air.

When the first ray of light from the nuclear explosion appeared, he was already in a natural rock cave three kilometers away, a runic barrier enveloping him like an eggshell.

At the same time,

Demon Shadow slashed with his right hand in mid-air, countless blue lightning bolts erupting from his fingertips.

Where the electric arcs intertwined, space shattered like glass, revealing a ghostly blue spatial rift.

The instant the shockwave touched his clothes, he retreated, disappearing into the rift.

Then—

Light.

Pure, absolute light swallowed everything.

Boom!

Five mushroom clouds bloomed one after another, the Fiery white fireballs expanding into spheres of death a kilometer in diameter.

The shockwave swept in a ring, vaporizing rock and ionizing the atmosphere in its path!

Countless Demonic Beasts, their eyes just blinded by the intense light, were instantly vaporized by temperatures of tens of millions of degrees.

After an unknown amount of time,

When the smoke and dust finally cleared, the valley no longer existed.

Five giant craters, each over five hundred meters in diameter, appeared on the ground, the vitrified crystals at their bottoms refracting eerie colorful light.

The Demonic Beast at the center of the explosion writhed like melting asphalt, while the surrounding Demonic Beast army was almost completely annihilated.

The lingering heat of the nuclear explosion still scorched the air.

Su Lei scanned his surroundings.

In the distance, the valley, flattened by the shockwave, steamed with distorted heat waves.

Charred Demonic Beast remains piled into hills, with occasional unextinguished flames flickering in the wind.

His gaze pierced through the swirling smoke and dust, locking onto the shadow in the sky.

Burial Mound's body was severely damaged; the impact of fifteen hydrogen bombs had torn away nearly half of its flesh,

a wound that should have been fatal.

But at this moment, the edges of those wounds were writhing and proliferating at a visible rate.

Su Lei's pupils contracted slightly, and he immediately activated Void Tempering True Understanding, combined with Mental Energy scanning.

The world in his vision transformed into a network of energy flows.

The free-floating radiation in the air was being drawn by some invisible force, turning into fragmented golden streams that flowed into Burial Mound's wounds.

The gamma rays remaining from the nuclear explosion were being converted into dark purple biomass,

and the shockwave energy was reconstructing into new tissues within the Demonic Beast's body.

It was no longer just simple pitch-black flesh, but covered in a layer of dark silver keratin, with ghostly blue veins flowing across its surface, like some kind of living circuit.

With every joule of energy absorbed, the ghostly glow on its surface deepened slightly.

With every breath, the monster's aura grew stronger!

"So that's how it is..."

Su Lei's expression was extremely grim.

He had been wondering why the opponent hadn't used dark Qi for defense this time.

He hadn't expected that the opponent was deliberately using this method to devour the energy generated by the nuclear explosion!

All that radiation, intense heat, and shockwaves had become nutrients for its evolution!

Just then, the air a hundred meters away suddenly twisted, and a blue rift tore open out of nowhere.

Amidst the turbulent energy flows, four figures stepped out one after another.

Qin Wuyan's black armor pulsed with lingering spatial ripples, Wang Qingtian's heavy combat body steamed, and two other Mecha Grandmasters followed closely, runes flowing across their silver-white armor.

As soon as they appeared, the shadow in the sky trembled.

Twelve crimson compound eyes lit up simultaneously, their gaze pressing down as if substantial.

The roles of trap and hunter were completely reversed at this moment!

In the distance, Zhao Wuji's back armor plates boomed open, and three sets of muzzles simultaneously glowed with dazzling light.

The blue-white electric arcs erupting during the left shoulder railgun's charging ionized the air,

the right arm plasma jet emitted a dark red glow like a furnace,

and the corrosive energy projectiles in his chest corroded the barrel with a sizzling sound even before firing.

The triple attack transformed into a destructive torrent that blasted towards the Demonic Beast, but the moment it touched the dark Qi—

It was devoured.

Even more terrifyingly, on the surface of one of Burial Mound's casually raised tentacles, the same blue-white electric arcs, plasma halo, and dark green corrosive energy appeared simultaneously!

"How is this possible! It can even replicate energy properties?!"

Alarms flashed wildly on Zhao Wuji's tactical visor.

"Stop talking nonsense, go!"

With Grandmaster Ling Yue's low shout,

Zhao Wuji and a tall, thin man beside him immediately charged forward.

Three high-frequency particle blades erupted with sunlight-like intensity, the spatial ripples from the vibrating blades even distorting light.

"Slash!"

Three arcs of light intersected, slashing at the same tentacle, and a piercing metallic screech erupted at the moment of impact.

The three simultaneously retreated violently, their foot thrusters plowing hundred-meter-long scorch marks on the ground.

High-pressure steam jetted from Wang Qingtian's armor joints, and crimson warnings flashed on his faceplate display:

[Wrist drive shaft overloaded and fractured]

[Particle blade energy circuit melted]

"How can this be..." He wiped away the blood seeping from the corner of his mouth, his expression changing drastically.

Last time, ten people working together could still sever a chela; now, a combined attack by three couldn't even leave a white mark!

In the sky, Burial Mound's dark Qi suddenly boiled, and dozens of tentacles, entwined with various energies, stabbed down like spears of divine punishment!

"Get back!"

Su Lei's figure suddenly appeared in front of the three.

The Tian Yu sword's blade glowed with dazzling white light, Protective Aura and Mental Energy fused into a materialized energy torrent, and the moment it collided with the dark tentacles—

Rumble!

The shockwave generated by the repulsion of the two forces lifted a three-meter-high wave of earth from the scorched ground for a thousand meters around.

Qin Wuyan completed his charge at this moment, and twelve sets of laser emitters on his back fired simultaneously.

Hundreds of brilliant beams wove a net of death in the night sky, precisely severing the seven foremost tentacles.

"It's not over yet!"

The Mecha's core reactor let out a shriek of super-frequency operation, and Qin Wuyan transformed into a black lightning bolt, charging forward.

When his combat blade slashed out, all the energy circuits on the blade lit up, and space was torn open with a pitch-black crack—

Pfft!

Three tentacles that were about to regenerate were severed at their roots, but what splattered from the wound was not blood, but boiling dark energy plasma.

These liquids, upon landing, actually corroded the rock layer into deep pits emitting purple smoke.

Burial Mound finally let out its first scream of pain since the battle began, the sound waves making everyone's eardrums bleed.

But the next moment, dense compound eyes opened simultaneously at all its wounds, each eye reflecting different energy operation trajectories—

It was learning.

It was evolving.

It was about to analyze all the combat data of the Mecha Martial Artists.

The compound eyes on Burial Mound's head contracted simultaneously, the light of the Mecha Martial Artists' chest reactors reflected deep within its pupils.

That was the delicious meal it craved most at this moment.

"Whoosh—!"

Countless tentacles tore through the air, each surface displaying different energy patterns.

Su Lei's figure transformed into a white stream of light, and wherever the Tian Yu blade slashed, dozens of tentacles snapped.

Qin Wuyan also followed closely.

Ghostly blue exhaust flames jetted from his back, leaving Z-shaped afterimages in the air with each turn.

Each swing of his combat blade was accompanied by a spatial rift, and the severed tentacles were temporarily unable to regenerate.

However, for every hundred severed, a thousand more thinner, longer tentacles surged from within Burial Mound's body.

The surface of the newly generated tentacles also began to show a metallic luster.

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