109: Chapter 109 The experienced mechanic steps in: Move aside, the engine is leaking oil.
Central State, ruins of the Wanfa Immortal Sect (now a construction site).
Once a celestial paradise shrouded in mist where cranes soared together, it had now turned into a dusty, massive construction site. The Ancestral Hall had been leveled, revealing a giant, bottomless black hole beneath—the **[Antimatter Psionic Engine - Ignition Port]**.
"Cough, cough... I have failed the ancestors!" True Lord Tianfa (Sect Head) had fainted, but was quickly startled awake by the massive tremors. Looking at his devastated Sect, he wept bitter tears. "Quick! Summon the Grand Elder! Invite the Old Ancestors to emerge from seclusion!"
As if in response to his call, several terrifyingly powerful auras suddenly erupted from deep within the Forbidden Ground of the back mountain. Those were Soul Transformation Stages! There were even Pseudo Void Refining old monsters!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Three ancient bronze coffins burst from the earth and hovered in mid-air. The lids slid open, and three withered figures stepped out. Though they were skin and bones, the power of Law swirling around them caused the surrounding space to distort.
"Who... moved my coffin lid?" The leading old man, eyes glowing with ghostly green fire, spoke with a voice like two pieces of pig iron rubbing together. He was one of the founding Ancestral Masters of the Wanfa Immortal Sect—Old Ancestor Kurong. "What petty scoundrel dares to destroy my lineage?!"
A terrifying pressure instantly swept across the field. The Tentacle Monsters operating the excavators trembled so hard they couldn't even hold their jackhammers steady. Although Butcher Xiao and Lei Wanjun were also powerful, they felt a sense of suffocation before these old monsters who had lived for tens of thousands of years.
"It's over... the Old Ancestors have awakened!" Hope ignited in the eyes of the captured Wanfa Immortal Sect Disciples. "Kill them all! Restore the Sect's glory!"
Old Ancestor Kurong's gaze scanned the scene, finally locking onto the bottomless black hole (the Ignition Port). "That is... the 'Ascension Passage' left by the Ancestral Master?" A hint of greed flashed in his eyes. "So the passage has opened? No wonder I sensed the summons!"
"Ignorant juniors, how dare you break ground before the Great Dao!" Old Ancestor Kurong raised a withered palm and struck down toward the construction crew below. "All of you, die!"
However, at the very moment that heaven-blotting giant palm was about to fall...
*Ding—* The crisp chime of an elevator sounded, appearing exceptionally out of place on the noisy battlefield.
Everyone froze. Above the black hole (Ignition Port), a rift suddenly tore open in space. There was no radiant golden light, nor any celestial music. Only a silver-white elevator door appeared out of thin air.
The door slowly opened. A young man wearing deep blue coveralls, a yellow hard hat, and a large wrench tucked into his belt walked out. He held a grease-stained blueprint in his hand and had an unlit cigarette (actually a refreshing Spiritual Plant stick) dangling from his mouth.
It was Li Mo.
"What's all the racket?" Li Mo removed the Spiritual Plant stick from his mouth and glanced impatiently at Old Ancestor Kurong in the sky. "Don't you know that shouting is strictly prohibited on a construction site? You've knocked my sonar detectors out of alignment."
"Who are you?" Old Ancestor Kurong paused. He actually couldn't see through this young man's cultivation. There was no Qi fluctuation from the opponent, only a... strange smell of engine oil?
"Who am I?" Li Mo straightened the collar of his coveralls and pointed to the ID badge on his chest: [Tianhe Technical Service Co., Ltd. · Advanced Maintenance Engineer · Li Mo]
"As for what I'm here for..." Li Mo pointed to the black hole beneath his feet, "I'm here to fix the sewers. This toilet of yours... oh wait, this engine has been clogged for tens of thousands of years. The smell was too strong, and we got a complaint."
"Impudent!" Old Ancestor Kurong roared in fury. "This is the Ascension Passage! How dare you speak such nonsense! Die!" The giant palm struck down again, carrying Law power capable of destroying heaven and earth.
Li Mo sighed. "Are family members always this emotional nowadays?"
He didn't dodge; he simply pulled the massive wrench from his waist. This was no ordinary wrench; it was a **[Conceptual Grade Universal Maintenance Tool]** he had manifested using Administrator Privilege. [Attribute: Possesses a forced 'correction' effect on any 'malfunction' (including but not limited to machine failures, Formation failures, and people with malfunctioning brains).]
"I said construction is in progress, yet you insist on barging in." Li Mo raised the wrench and gave the descending giant palm a light tap.
*Clang!* A crisp sound of metal clashing.
The giant palm, condensed from Law power and capable of crushing mountains, suddenly... fell apart the moment it touched the wrench. It was like a precision machine having its key screws removed. Laws collapsed, and Qi dissipated. The giant palm instantly turned into a breeze that ruffled the hem of Li Mo's clothes.
"What?!" Old Ancestor Kurong's eyes nearly popped out of his head. His Law Divine Ability had been tapped away by a wrench?
"And you two." Li Mo looked at the other two old monsters who had crawled out of their coffins. "Stop posing over there. Since you're awake, come over and lend a hand."
He pulled two massive hand-cranked generators (Li Mo Special Edition) from his tool bag and tossed them in front of the two old monsters. "The engine needs an instantaneous high-voltage jolt to start. Current energy levels aren't enough." "You two have decent cultivation; you'll make perfect 'starters'." "Grab the handles and crank hard. Don't stop until you've hit ten thousand rotations."
"Arrogance!!" The two old monsters trembled with rage. "We are Void Refining experts! You dare treat us like coolies?!" The three of them lunged simultaneously, manifesting their Lifebound Treasures in an attempt to surround and kill Li Mo.
Li Mo shook his head. "I guess communication is impossible." "Since you refuse to be 'starters', you'll just have to be 'Fuel Rods'."
He snapped his fingers. [Administrator Command: Forced Reclamation.] [Target Identification: High-energy waste (the three old monsters).] [Disposal Plan: Toss into the Combustion Chamber.]
*Hum—* The bottomless black hole (Ignition Port) suddenly generated a terrifying suction force. But this suction was extremely precise, targeting only the three old monsters.
"No! What is this power?!" Old Ancestor Kurong discovered to his horror that his body was completely out of control, and the Qi within him was draining frantically, forcibly stripped away by the black hole. "Save me! Sect Head, save me!"
*Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!* Under the despairing gazes of the Wanfa Immortal Sect crowd, their three proud Old Ancestors were like three lumps of coal tossed into a furnace—they didn't even make a splash before being sucked into the black hole.
*Rumble—* As the three high-grade "Fuel Rods" were thrown in, a low roar echoed from deep underground. It was the sound of the engine preheating. The earth began to vibrate slightly, but this tremor was no longer a destructive earthquake; it was a rhythmic pulse, like a heartbeat.
[System Prompt: Combustion Chamber charging complete.] [Current Energy Rank: 30% (Barely enough for ignition).]
"Only 30%?" Li Mo frowned and glanced at the remaining Wanfa Immortal Sect Disciples. True Lord Tianfa's legs went weak, and he knelt directly: "Saint... Saint, have mercy! We aren't good for burning! We have too much water content!"
"Don't worry, I don't burn trash." Li Mo waved his hand. "Go crank the generators. There's strength in numbers; a few hundred thousand rotations should do."
Having said that, he ignored them and turned to jump into the black hole. "Butcher Xiao, watch the door." "Before I come out, if anyone dares to stop their work (cranking the generators), throw them down as firewood."
"Yes, Director!" Butcher Xiao gave a salute, then walked toward True Lord Tianfa with a sinister grin, holding the hand-cranked generator. "Did you hear that, Lord Sect Head? Start cranking! For world peace!"
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Deep underground, Engine Core Chamber.
Li Mo slid down the passage for a full fifteen minutes before finally reaching the bottom. Here was a massive, metallic spherical space. Countless thick pipes (Spiritual Veins) converged here, and in the center hovered a giant, extinguished, dusty crystal ball. This was the core of the ship—the Antimatter Psionic Reactor.
But at this moment, the reactor was covered in... barnacles. No, those were the **nests of "World Parasites"**.
Dense tentacles and tumors wrapped around the crystal ball, greedily sucking the remaining energy. At the top of these tumors sat a half-human, half-insect monster. It had a human upper body but the lower body of a spider, and its face had no features except for a giant, vertical mouth.
[Warning: 'Virus Mother' detected.] [Identity: Survivor of the previous civilization (also the culprit behind the ship's crash).] [Cultivation Assessment: ??? (Exceeds the limit of this world).]
The monster sensed Li Mo's arrival and slowly turned its head. That vertical mouth split open, letting out a roar that made one's sanity plummet: "Maintenance man... have you come to die again?"
Li Mo landed, straightened his coveralls, and pulled a bottle of... rust remover (actually concentrated Abyss Venom) from his tool bag. "I wouldn't go so far as to say 'die'." "I'm here to perform a 'disinfection' on you."
He pushed up his glasses, and the wrench in his hand glowed with a faint white light. "Trash from a previous civilization belongs in the trash can." "You're hogging the toilet and not doing anything, and you've even clogged the engine." "Today, I'll show you what a Gold Medal Plumber looks like."