337: Chapter 337 Crossing Boundaries to the Mechanical Domain, Flesh and Blood Suffering, Laughing at Absurdity

That crack that tore through the bottom layer of the Universe.

It was extremely sharp.

Lingering at its edges was the ultimate cutting Law that shredded all dimensional concepts.

But.

When Zhou Wannian's tall and straight figure in green passed through it.

Not even the corner of his faded green robe was cut in the slightest.

The perfectly self-consistent dimensional barrier of the Great Five Elements Illusory World Art smoothed over this dimensional transition with extreme ease.

With one step forward.

It felt like a lifetime away.

The cosmic rift behind him, having lost the forceful support of the inner universe, naturally closed and vanished.

Zhou Wannian had completely stepped into a brand new and entirely unfamiliar dimensional world.

What met his eyes.

Subverted all the common knowledge of cultivators.

Here.

There was no vast and boundless starry sky.

There was no ethereal and misty Immortal Qi.

Nor were there any vibrant cultivation planets.

What was presented before Zhou Wannian's deep eyes.

Was a cold mechanical galaxy constructed entirely of steel, gears, and endless energy conduits.

The sky.

Was covered by a massive Dyson Sphere barrier of dark gold, composed of interlocking hexagonal metal lattices.

Inside this barrier.

There were no naturally glowing stars.

Only a giant Mechanical Heart, large enough to hold tens of thousands of Major Thousand Worlds and forged entirely from Primordial Metal.

This Mechanical Heart was beating with extreme regularity and coldness.

"Boom... Boom..."

With every beat.

It would spew out massive energy pulses in the form of ethereal blue high-dimensional data streams.

These energy pulses traveled along the dense, transparent conduits that spanned the entire Star Domain.

They were delivered to every corner of this world.

Zhou Wannian's feet landed steadily on level ground.

He lowered his head slightly.

Beneath his feet.

It was not soil, nor was it jade.

Instead, it was an interstellar orbital track millions of miles wide, paved entirely with an unknown alloy that emitted a dark luster.

The surface of the track was as smooth as a mirror, without a single seam.

On both sides of this track stood countless metal towers that towered into the clouds.

At the top of the towers, piercing scarlet scanning rays flickered like emotionless mechanical cyclopean eyes, coldly patrolling this territory.

Here.

There was no Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.

There was only a cold and vast "Mechanical Origin," carrying a strong sense of order and mechanical logic.

This was a power System completely different from the cultivation world.

It did not care for comprehending the heavens, nor for Yin and Yang and the Five Elements.

It only pursued the most extreme energy conversion, the most precise data calculation, and the crudest mechanical modification of matter.

Zhou Wannian stood quietly in the center of that massive metal track.

His faded green robe.

His Physical Body, which showed no signs of mechanical modification.

Even his posture, with hands clasped behind his back and an extremely relaxed and easygoing demeanor.

In this mechanical Star Domain filled with cold metal and rigorous logic, he appeared so out of place.

He was like a drop of clear spring water falling into a precision gearbox.

Extremely eye-catching.

And extremely lethal.

Zhou Wannian did not panic because of the sudden change in environment.

On his elegant and easygoing face, a faint smile of great interest actually appeared.

His eyes, deep as an ancient well, slowly swept over those roaring metal towers.

Zhou Wannian's voice was steady, as if he were visiting a massive blacksmith shop, carrying a hint of leisurely appreciation as he spoke softly.

Zhou Wannian said composedly, "No Spiritual Qi, relying entirely on these hard iron lumps and rigid Formation patterns to drive it. Transforming the entire Universe into a giant machine. Quite a grand undertaking, but this scenery is inevitably too cold and lacks vitality."

The moment those words left his mouth.

This mechanical Star Domain, which had been operating regularly, suddenly underwent an extremely intense disturbance.

"Beep— Beep— Beep—"

A series of sharp, ear-piercing scarlet alarms that seemed capable of directly penetrating a biological nervous System.

They blared frantically in the air above the metal track that was millions of miles wide.

The scarlet cyclopean eyes atop the metal towers on both sides of the track all turned in unison.

Tens of thousands of high-dimensional scanning rays.

Like an airtight dragnet, they locked onto Zhou Wannian standing in the middle of the track.

Immediately following.

A mechanical electronic voice, devoid of any emotional fluctuation and synthesized entirely from pure data streams.

It bypassed the obstacles of physical space and boomed before Zhou Wannian's Sea of Consciousness.

The mechanical electronic voice coldly announced: "Alert. Unregistered extreme abnormal fluctuation detected."

"Target scan complete. Material composition analysis: Carbon-based lifeform. Mechanical Ascension modification level: Zero percent."

"Energy System analysis: Unknown. No mechanical force core detected."

"Bottom-level logic determination: Extremely primitive inferior flesh-and-blood creature. Severely violates the supreme iron Law of this Star Domain: 'Flesh is weak, Mechanical Ascension'."

"Threat level determination: Extinction-level system virus. Executing supreme cleaning protocol: Formatting erasure."

This announcement.

Left no room for negotiation.

Nor was there any buffer for testing.

In this dimension ruled by pure mechanical logic.

A pure Physical Body that had not been mechanically modified was the most unforgivable heresy, trash that had to be eliminated immediately.

With the issuance of this cold command.

At the end of the deep space ahead.

The originally calm ethereal blue energy grid suddenly twisted violently.

"Rumble!"

Space was forcibly torn open.

A pitch-black mechanical fleet, massive enough to be suffocating, charged out from the spatial jump rift.

These were no ordinary starships.

There were tens of thousands of "Star-Destroyer class" mechanical fortresses, each with a volume comparable to a mid-sized cultivation planet.

The surfaces of the fortresses were densely packed with cannon barrels resembling honeycombs.

At the very front of the fleet.

Were twelve "Logic Enforcer" mechas, each a hundred thousand feet tall and forged entirely from dark matter alloy.

These mechas had no pilots.

They were high-dimensional killing weapons with independent intelligence.

From their backs, they spewed ethereal blue ion exhaust flames capable of melting the Void Realm.

The weapons in their hands were not physical swords, but massive light blades condensed from pure "Dimension-cutting rays."

They carried the absolute ruthlessness to crush all flesh-and-blood creatures.

Like a pitch-black cloud of death, they launched a world-covering, violent charge toward Zhou Wannian's position.

Faced with this level of terrifying technological firepower that could reduce an ordinary Major Thousand Worlds to cosmic dust in an instant.

Zhou Wannian, standing in the center of the metal track.

Still did not retreat half a step.

He didn't even have the intention to pull out his hands, which were casually clasped behind his back.

On that elegant and easygoing face, the lazy smile did not fade; instead, it grew a bit more intense.

Carrying a cold and sharp mockery.

Zhou Wannian's tone was steady, as if he were looking at a group of baring-claws-and-teeth but fragile tin toys.

He spoke faintly.

Zhou Wannian said composedly, "Flesh is weak? Mechanical Ascension? Stuffing yourselves into these cold, rigid iron shells, turning a naturally self-sustaining internal circulation into a pile of scrap metal that only runs according to code. To call such a trick of severing one's own Dao 'Ascension'?"

He tilted his chin slightly.

In his eyes, deep as an ancient well, one hundred and eight clusters of golden time dao patterns began to circulate slowly and steadily.

Zhou Wannian's voice carried a supreme dominance that transcended all dimensional Laws as he coldly uttered the second half.

Zhou Wannian majestically declared: "Today, I shall let you dead things see how a true Physical Body crushes this iron turtle shell you take such pride in."

His voice fell.

The massive mechanical fleet ahead had already completed its fire control lock.

"Fire."

A cold command echoed from within the twelve Logic Enforcer mechas.

In an instant.

Tens of thousands of Star-Destroyer class fortresses.

Exploded simultaneously.

Billions of dark matter annihilation beams, high-dimensional space shockwaves, and absolute zero freezing rays.

Interwove into a sea of destructive light that left no blind spots and was enough to destroy all physical concepts.

It poured down violently toward that small, dust-like figure in green.

Such a terrifying volley.

Even the indestructible unknown alloy track nearby was instantly vaporized into a bottomless crater by the high heat.

However.

An unbelievable scene of desperate suppression was shockingly staged in this mechanical Star Domain.

When that sea of light capable of destroying galaxies.

Was about to touch the three-foot range around Zhou Wannian's body in the ten-thousandth of a second.

Buzz.

The Great Five Elements Illusory World Art.

Its perfectly self-consistent rules of the inner universe, which formed a world of its own.

Descended with a bang.

No Magic Treasure was needed for defense.

No Protective Aura was needed.

A translucent air wall, as thin as a cicada's wing and emitting a five-colored glazed luster, appeared abruptly in front of Zhou Wannian.

"Boom boom boom boom boom!"

The world-ending energy explosion erupted frantically on the surface of the five-colored glazed air wall.

But.

That seemingly fragile air wall.

Did not even show a single ripple.

It was like the most indestructible Wall of Dimensional Sighs in the world.

The power of Great Perfection Space Collapse arrogantly and forcefully folded and compressed those dark matter annihilation beams into harmless tiny singularities.

The power of Great Perfection Five Elements Disintegration, like an invisible dimensional tsunami, directly cut into the underlying physical structure of those high-dimensional energy beams.

Whether it was dark matter or absolute zero.

Before the extreme dismantling of Five Elements Disintegration.

They were all forcibly determined to be "invalid energy."

They were reduced to the most primitive and pure void dust.

That world-ending strike could not even lift a corner of Zhou Wannian's green robe.

"Warning. Energy attack ineffective. Target's defense mechanism exceeds the database's cognitive upper limit. Logic calculation has entered an infinite loop."

Inside the intelligent cores of the twelve Logic Enforcer mechas, scarlet lights flashed frantically.

They could not understand why a carbon-based Physical Body without mechanical modification could withstand the volley of an entire fleet.

But the logic of machines knows only killing, not fear.

Since long-range energy attacks were ineffective.

Then execute close-quarters dimensional cutting.

"Engine overload. Executing Physical Erasure Protocol."

The ion exhaust flames behind the twelve giant mechas, a hundred thousand feet tall, instantly erupted with an intensely bright white light.

Their speed broke the limits of space in an instant.

Like twelve black gods of death.

Wielding dimensional light blades tens of thousands of feet long that could cut through world barriers.

They slashed down violently toward Zhou Wannian from twelve different directions in the sky and on the ground.

Before the blades even arrived, the terrifying cutting Law had already sliced the Void Realm around Zhou Wannian into shattered mirror-like pieces.

Faced with this terrifying combined attack that could dismember a god.

Zhou Wannian.

Still stood steadily in place.

He didn't even look at the mechas slashing toward him.

He simply and quite normally pulled his right hand out from behind his back.

With his long, fair index and middle fingers.

He casually, in the Void Realm before him.

Lightly snapped his fingers.

"Snap."

A very crisp sound.

Yet it seemed to represent the heartless detonation of some underlying rule.

It rang out abruptly in this cold mechanical starry sky.

The next instant.

An unbelievable sight of an instant kill was shockingly staged.

The twelve Logic Enforcer mechas, which had already charged above Zhou Wannian with their dimensional light blades less than a hundred feet from his forehead.

The moment they heard that finger snap.

Their massive bodies suddenly froze in mid-air without any warning.

It was as if an invisible cosmic hand had firmly pressed the pause button.

Immediately after.

The Great Perfection Time Reversal Law, following the vibration of the finger snap, swept through like an invisible storm.

"Crack... Crack... Crack..."

An endless series of crisp metal shattering sounds exploded densely.

Starting from the head cores of those twelve mechas.

Their mechanical bodies, claimed to be indestructible through ten thousand tribulations and forged from Advanced dark matter alloy.

Under the wash of Time Reversal, they instantly lost all their durability attributes, as if they had undergone hundreds of millions of years of rapid oxidation and rusting.

Then.

The power of Great Perfection Five Elements Disintegration erupted.

Arrogantly and directly, it dismantled all their physical structures at the atomic level.

No explosion occurred.

Those twelve terrifying killing machines, a hundred thousand feet tall.

Right there in mid-air.

Like collapsing sand sculptures.

Disintegrated inch by inch.

They turned into a sky full of extremely fine rust-colored powder.

It fell in showers onto the cold metal track.

And this was only the beginning.

The disintegration storm triggered by the finger snap did not lose momentum.

Like an invisible tsunami sweeping through the Star Domain, carrying the supreme power to crush all scrap metal, it slammed into the fleet of tens of thousands of Star-Destroyer class fortresses behind.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle sizzle sizzle!"

The sounds of tooth-aching melting merged into one.

Those massive starships.

The moment they came into contact with the disintegration storm.

Didn't even have the chance to activate their energy shields.

From bow to stern, from armor to power core.

They were all forcibly dismantled and crushed.

In less than half a breath's time.

That aggressive mechanical fleet, enough to steamroll countless low-dimensional Universes.

Under Zhou Wannian's casual finger snap.

Was completely and utterly erased from the concept of existence.

Turning into a massive cloud of metal scrap drifting in the Void Realm.

A true instant kill.

An absolute dimensional suppression that defied all logic.

Zhou Wannian slowly withdrew his right hand and casually dusted off the sleeve of his green robe.

His expression was as composed as ever, as if he had just brushed away a speck of dust that had fallen on his shoulder.

He did not pay any attention to the drifting scrap.

Instead, he tilted his head up slightly.

His eyes, deep as an ancient well, pierced through the long interstellar distance.

He looked calmly toward the very center of this mechanical Star Domain.

Toward that massive Mechanical Heart main star hidden inside the Dyson Sphere barrier.

There.

Due to the instantaneous annihilation of the entire outpost fleet.

An extremely terrifying and grand Ultimate Mechanical Will, exuding absolute coldness and calculation, was frantically awakening.

The scarlet alarm lights even dyed half the Star Domain red.

Zhou Wannian looked at that main star flashing with piercing red light.

The corner of his mouth curled into a cold and sharp smile that also held a hint of leisure.

Zhou Wannian spoke calmly, with a natural sense of control: "Just in time. Since the master is awake, I shall take a trip to that largest iron lump and see just how tough a mecha skeleton is hidden at the end of this so-called Mechanical Ascension, and how many of my disintegrations it can withstand."