332: Mechanical God Zero, standing on the earth

"It doesn't look like a mechanical monster, what exactly is this?"

"Whatever it is, it's so cool."

"Could it be some ancient product dropped from a ruin?"

"Hey, don't get too close, this thing feels dangerous!"

"No reaction, is it lacking energy?"

"Tsk, the prompt says it cannot be stored in the warehouse, as expected, it's not ownerless."

There were still over thirty people who hadn't left, most of them small Hunter teams of less than ten people, with the strongest leader being only an eighth-rank Martial Artist or a ninth-rank Martial Artist.

They gathered around the huge silver humanoid mechanical body, looking around curiously.

A team of middle-aged and elderly Hunters, all over sixty years old, was led by a white-haired, close-cropped old man wrapped in a cloak with dark skin and one eye.

His name is Tang Shanhuang, an eighth-rank Martial Artist, a lone Hunter, extremely introverted and strange in personality, even among the many Prefecture Lords in the Emperor Capital, he is considered a famous eccentric.

With a stern and serious expression, he gazed at the mechanical creation before him, then suddenly seemed to think of something and reached out to take out a blood-colored cubic iron block, covered in strange runes that seemed to pulse like a heart.

From the moment he saw this mechanical creation, the strange, unidentifiable iron block he had accidentally obtained in his warehouse began to stir, as if the giant mechanical body before him had a strong attraction to it.

At this moment.

As Tang Shanhuang took it out.

The blood-colored cubic iron block instantly emitted a dazzling red light throughout its body, shining towards the chest of the silver humanoid mechanical body ahead, like a red channel connecting them.

Immediately after, the blood-colored cubic iron block suddenly shattered into countless blood-red particles, which followed the red channel and were about to enter the silver humanoid mechanical body.

"!"

Everything happened in an instant.

Even Tang Shanhuang didn't react in time.

And just then.

A black figure teleported into existence, appearing in the air in front of the silver humanoid mechanical body, reaching out to cut off the red light, and clenching his hand in the air, terrifying mental force turned into an invisible giant hand that grabbed the cluster of blood-red particles.

The sudden change startled everyone present, and they all looked up.

The black-clothed youth who had suddenly appeared had eyes like cold lightning, and his voice was calm:

"My property, and you want to seize it?"

As soon as he said this, everyone was shocked.

This huge silver humanoid mechanical body before them was actually his property?

"Get... out!"

Black energy surged within the blood-red particles, forming a huge mechanical skull, which let out an angry roar at the black figure.

Tang Shanhuang's brows furrowed as he recognized the strange black energy as the mechanical curse from the Abyss of the Machine Emperor Burial Ground, which was feared by all. He hadn't expected that piece of strange iron to contain it, and in such intensity.

If it were allowed to enter and occupy that silver humanoid mechanical body, the consequences would be unpredictable.

He felt a bit of lingering fear, and also some annoyance.

It would have been better if he hadn't gotten this thing in the first place.

Now he had even implicated others.

It was truly unjust...

Thinking of this.

The old man felt even worse.

Watching the cluster of blood-red particles, emitting thick black energy, send out a powerful suction force, gathering scattered mechanical fragments and parts from the surrounding ground to combine into an aberrant monster, which rushed towards the black-clothed youth with bared fangs and claws.

The old man could no longer sit still.

He pushed off with his foot, his body rushing out along the ground like an arrow from a bowstring, getting faster and faster, wrapped in layers of white air waves, finally stepping heavily on the ground, his body soaring into the sky like a flood dragon amidst waves, the spiraling white energy resembling a rotating spear thrusting out, hitting the aberrant steel monster in a straight line.

"Boom!"

This strike directly shattered half of its body.

The old man turned his back to Jiang Yuan and said, "This trouble was caused by this old man, so let this old man solve it. Kid, take your thing and leave quickly."

He knew well the trouble with this kind of mechanical curse; it was like a maggot attached to the bone. As long as the curse wasn't removed, the mechanical monster condensed by the curse could regenerate infinitely. It was destined to be a death match.

But this was his doing; there was no reason to drag others into the trouble as well.

"Go quickly."

Tang Shanhuang said sharply, throwing out another punch, his fist power immense, like a large fish hitting the water, causing the air waves to surge and ripple like a water surface, with wind and tide rising.

The spiraling fist energy blasted out in a straight line, but this time it was avoided.

The reassembled mechanical monster looked at Tang Shanhuang with its red eyes.

"Die..."

Mechanical tentacles rose from its back, and lasers lit up at the tips.

Whoosh!

A beam of pure white light tore through the void, once again shattering half of the mechanical monster's body.

Tang Shanhuang turned his head to look.

On the ground, a stunning woman with short silver hair had her long scarf fluttering in the wind, holding a silver rifle with wisps of white smoke coming from the muzzle.

Behind her stood the members of the Gong Huang Guild, each with a relaxed and confident smile on their face, their momentum soaring.

"It's the Gong Huang Guild!"

"The Judgment Princess, Zheng Huangtong!"

Someone shouted, their eyes filled with awe.

A hand patted Tang Shanhuang's shoulder, making him tremble. He turned his head to see the black-clothed youth from before, smiling. He hadn't noticed when he had arrived beside him.

"Senior, I appreciate your kindness, but let me handle this."

"You?" Tang Shanhuang was a bit disbelieving. "You're so young, what can you do? This mechanical monster, if not for an eighth-rank Martial Artist..."

Jiang Yuan slightly released a trace of his Aura, his body surrounded by golden vital energy and interwoven with golden electric arcs.

Tang Shanhuang's voice stopped abruptly, his eyes wide with disbelief.

"E-eighth-rank?!"

Looking at the youth who was the age of his grandson, the old man couldn't help but gasp.

An eighth-rank Prefecture Lord so young?!

What kind of joke was this?!

The black-clothed youth's eyes were sincere. The old man felt a bit embarrassed by his own startled reaction and coughed twice, saying:

"Cough cough, so what if you're an eighth-rank Martial Artist? Unless you're a purifier, you still can't..."

Before his words had even finished.

He saw.

The black-clothed youth reached out and clenched his hand from afar, vital energy surged, a translucent golden giant hand covered the sky, grabbing the mechanical monster that had reassembled again, and crushed it in front of the stunned and shocked eyes of everyone present.

"Boom!"

Golden-red vital flames burned fiercely, and the strange black energy screamed as it turned into ashes.

From beginning to end, it took less than 3 seconds.

The entire place was silent.

Tang Shanhuang's mouth was wide open, too shocked to say a word.

"..."

This, this, this... are you messing with me?

Am I still dreaming?

"Senior, can you sell me this piece of strange iron?"

The black-clothed youth held the blood-colored cubic iron block that had reassembled from the blood-red particles and asked. After the curse was removed, the runes on the strange iron turned from pitch black to gold.

Tang Shanhuang came back to his senses as if waking from a dream.

He waved his hand and said, "Sell it? Why sell it? This was trouble I caused in the first place, and this thing is useless to me anyway. If you want it, I'll give it to you."

Jiang Yuan was startled. "Senior, are you serious? This thing's price isn't low..."

"I said I'd give it to you, so I'm giving it to you, stop spouting nonsense." The old man waved his hand, as generous as ever, and turned to leave.

Jiang Yuan looked at his back and sighed slightly.

Truly a character.

He inserted the blood moon curse iron, which was quite valuable and extremely rare and precious, into the silver humanoid mechanical body. Instantly, countless thin blood-colored energy lines spread from its chest, from head to toe, like blood vessels in a human body, and its grade was once again improved.

"Wake up, Zero."

As Jiang Yuan gave the command.

"Swish!"

The eyes of the silver humanoid mechanical body, named [Mech God Zero], lit up with red light, and its entire body's functions activated. As if possessing intelligence, it lowered its head to look at its hands and nodded slightly.

Then...

Under the shocked gazes of everyone present.

It, like a silver giant, half-knelt before the black-clothed youth, like a knight paying homage to a monarch.

Tang Shanhuang also clicked his tongue in wonder, curious about who that black-clothed youth could possibly be.