169: Chapter 169 Breaking Through the Heavenly Remnants

The black umbilical cord hung down into the deeper depths.

There was no wind.

There was no light.

Only the sound of a baby's cry came from below.

It was very faint.

Yet it made one's spine go cold.

The curses at the tip of Li Yan's tongue were forced back down his throat.

This place was too eerie.

He had fought in wars, seen mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and witnessed monsters besieging cities.

But the thing before him was not a battlefield.

It was like a slaughterhouse specifically designed to turn "people" into tools.

The Dragon Girl held a row of infant pods, her tail curled into a circle to protect the little things that hadn't even opened their eyes yet.

Her small face was tense.

"Master, there are more bad things down there."

Jiang Feng gave a brief acknowledgment.

"Mm."

He inserted the Colorless Key into the fissure next to the black umbilical cord.

Click.

The fissure opened.

It wasn't a door.

It was a downward birth canal.

The walls were blue-black, and their surfaces were covered with dense rows of serial numbers.

[Pangu Prototype: Failure.]

[Pangu Prototype: Abnormality.]

[Pangu Prototype: Self-Destruction.]

[Pangu Prototype: Devoured the Mother.]

[Pangu Prototype: Killed the Recorder.]

Li Yan's eyelids twitched as he read them.

"How is this a delivery room?"

"This is more like an accident exhibition hall, isn't it?"

Zero Seven's face was pale, and her voice sounded somewhat dry.

"These aren't the later variable bodies."

"These are experimental records from before Pangu."

Li Yan fell silent for a moment.

"In other words, before Pangu, they scrapped a whole bunch of them?"

Zero Seven nodded.

"And they were scrapped quite miserably."

Jiang Feng did not stop.

He walked down along the black birth canal.

As his feet stepped on the ground, a string of records lit up with every step.

[First Batch of Samples: No Maternal Source Anchor, all collapsed.]

[Second Batch of Samples: Implanted with combat instincts, lost control.]

[Third Batch of Samples: Implanted with Heaven-Opening Command, survived for seven breaths.]

[Fourth Batch of Samples: Controllable growth appeared for the first time.]

The more Li Yan looked, the angrier he became.

"These things really know how to conduct research."

"They just don't know how to be human."

At the end of the passage was a massive black rotunda.

In the center of the rotunda stood a corpse.

It was very tall.

It was very large.

Its limbs were nailed to four colorless pillars.

Its chest was split open.

There was no heart inside.

There was only an empty core slot.

The skin of that corpse was covered in ancient patterns.

Jiang Feng took a look.

Those patterns were identical to the core patterns of the Pangu Dao Fruit inside his body.

They were also the same as the ancient patterns deep beneath the Blue Star.

Zero Seven stopped in her tracks, her throat bobbing.

"Pangu..."

Li Yan's eyes also widened in shock.

"The Pangu from the legends who created heaven and earth?"

Jiang Feng looked at the corpse's chest.

A System prompt popped up.

[Detected: The First Pangu Remains.]

[Type: Primordial Key Carrier.]

[Status: Core has been stripped; residual factory commands are still running.]

[Plunderable.]

Jiang Feng raised an eyebrow.

"It really is a material."

As soon as he said those words,

The entire rotunda lit up.

The four colorless pillars vibrated simultaneously.

The corpse slowly lifted its head.

It had no eyeballs.

Within its eye sockets were two hollow orbs of white light.

[Pangu No. 1 variable body.]

[Detected a high-matching core.]

[Executing recovery.]

The corpse opened its mouth.

The sound didn't resemble a human's.

It sounded more like countless mechanical gears turning at the same time.

[You are the latest model.]

[You should return here.]

Li Yan sneered on the spot.

"Again?"

"Does your First Blue Star not have any new lines?"

Jiang Feng raised his hand.

"Get back."

Without a word, Li Yan grabbed Zero Seven and retreated.

In a battle of this level, he was very self-aware.

Not dragging others down was his greatest contribution.

The Dragon Girl crouched in a corner holding the infant pods, conveniently propping up the Purple-Gold Canopy.

She shouted earnestly, "Master, smash it!"

The First Pangu Remains moved.

The nails on the four pillars were pulled out simultaneously.

It took a step forward.

The entire rotunda sank directly downward.

It wasn't that space had shattered.

Rather, the dimension itself had been stepped down a level by sheer force.

Zero Seven's expression changed.

"It knows Void Dimensional Reduction!"

Just as she finished speaking,

The First Pangu Remains raised its hand.

An axe-strike came down.

It had no axe in its hand.

Yet above the rotunda, a Heaven-Opening Axe shadow appeared out of thin air.

That axe shadow did not cut the Physical Body.

It cut the structure of the world.

As this axe fell, it seemed ready to split the entire rotunda along with existence itself into two halves.

Jiang Feng looked up.

"So the Heaven-Opening Module in the Pangu Dao Fruit came from here."

After he finished speaking, he reached out his hand.

His fingers gripped the axe shadow.

Crack.

The axe shadow stopped mid-air.

A cold alarm sounded from the chest of The First Pangu Remains.

[Heaven-Opening Command obstructed.]

[Target strength exceeds the prototype.]

Jiang Feng clenched his fingers.

The axe shadow shattered.

[Touched the heaven-opening remnant rule.]

[Plunderable.]

Jiang Feng said, "Plunder."

[Secret Art: Pangu Plunder activated.]

[Plundered heaven-opening remnant rule.]

[Gained 50 Ji to all attributes.]

[Current basic six-dimensional attributes: 817 Ji.]

A wisp of colorless axe light appeared in Jiang Feng's palm.

He glanced at it and casually fused it into his body.

The Pangu Dao Fruit inside him shook.

Then it immediately played dead.

Jiang Feng said indifferently, "Don't fake it."

The Pangu Dao Fruit showed no reaction.

Li Yan watched, amused.

"Why does this Dao Fruit act like a student being called on by the homeroom teacher?"

Zero Seven's lips twitched.

She hadn't intended to laugh.

But the analogy was indeed both ridiculous and fitting.

The First Pangu Remains moved again.

It pressed both hands toward the ground.

Around the rotunda, black incubation pods rose one after another.

The pods were filled with semi-finished Pangu.

Some had no heads.

Some had six arms.

Some had chests filled with tubes and wires.

Some had only half a body, yet were still twitching.

In the next moment,

They all opened their eyes at once.

[Production Line Guards activated.]

[Clearing abnormal variables.]

Hundreds of semi-finished Pangu burst out of their pods.

Every single one had energy fluctuations ranging from Zheng-grade to Zai-grade.

If placed in the outside world, any one of them could crush countless Star Domains.

Li Yan's teeth ached at the sight.

"Wholesaling mythical Gods of War?"

Zero Seven's expression was grim.

"These are just the rejects warehouse."

Li Yan choked.

"Even the rejects are like this?"

He was silent for two seconds before adding another sentence.

"Then the finished products really do deserve to die."

Hundreds of semi-finished Pangu lunged forward simultaneously.

Jiang Feng didn't move.

He merely lifted his foot and stomped the ground.

Thud.

The entire rotunda sank another inch.

Hundreds of semi-finished Pangu were instantly crushed into black fragments.

There were no screams.

There was no resistance.

Only the System prompts went off like firecrackers.

[Killed Pangu Defective Form.]

[Triggered Pangu Plunder.]

[Gained 3 Ji to all attributes.]

[Gained 3 Ji to all attributes.]

[Gained 4 Ji to all attributes.]

[Gained 2 Ji to all attributes.]

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