349: Chapter 349 Crushing a Warship with Bare Hands, All of Humanity Reduced to Laborers

The dark red sky pressed down on the sea level. On the ruins of Dengxian Island, the pungent smell of blood mixed with the burnt scent of metal, pouring into everyone's nostrils with the sea breeze.

A streak of black-gold light fell straight from the sky.

Lu Sheng hovered in mid-air. Eclipse Black Flame burned quietly on his body, and light was severely distorted as it passed through his surroundings.

Below, at the Dengxian Island Departure Port.

Eight blonde-haired, blue-eyed remnants of the Western Pantheon were crouching and crawling into a thousand-meter-long Immortal Qin frigate. Elder Chixing's bones were not yet cold, but they had cracked the hatch overnight, attempting to seize the ship and escape this chaotic planet.

The main engine emitted a low-frequency hum, and the tail spewed azure exhaust flames. The bow of the frigate lifted off the sea surface, and the thrust climbed rapidly.

Running away without even putting up a camouflage net. Starry sky jumping doesn't use fuel; are you planning to use your lives instead?

Lu Sheng looked down with lowered eyes.

He raised his right hand, spread his fingers, and pressed down into the air.

A gravitational field three thousand times beyond that of a mortal body, superimposed with the ultra-high mass of the Eclipse Power, transformed into a physical Law force field, brazenly sealing off the entire harbor.

The air exploded with an unbearable sharp screech.

The Immortal Qin frigate that had just taken off, along with the defensive light shield outside the hull, was forcefully stuck in mid-air.

Immediately after, the massive hull flattened and compressed downward. The high-strength starry sky titanium alloy armor emitted the ear-piercing sound of metal fatigue fracture. The screams of the eight Western powerhouses were stuck in their throats for half a second before they were completely fused with the bow armor.

No extra movements.

In the blink of an eye, the thousand-meter warship vanished. At the harbor berth, there was now a dark red metal disc with an area of five hundred square meters and a thickness of less than ten centimeters.

From the gaps in the high-density metal, viscous beads of blood seeped out.

The surviving Cultivators of Dengxian Island were deathly silent.

Dao Yi supported himself with one arm on the ground, Li Xiaoyao dropped his broken sword, his knees went weak, and they both knelt on the gravel-strewn White Jade Plaza. Behind them, over a thousand Cultivators from various Schools knelt in a dense mass, their foreheads pressed firmly against the floor tiles.

No one dared to look up at the man in the sky.

Lu Sheng retracted his wings and set both feet firmly on the ground. His combat boots crushed a jade tile end, the crisp sound extremely jarring in the dead silence.

"Schools, rules, the greater good of humanity—from today on, they are all abolished."

His voice, carrying the shockwaves of the Extreme Abyss Water System Law, precisely pierced everyone's eardrums.

Standing with his hands behind his back in front of everyone, the Cross-shaped Pupils in his eyes had been replaced by two pitch-black miniature stars, deep and intimidating.

"The Blue Planet is under my control." Lu Sheng's gaze swept over this group of cowards. "This is my private ranch. You are all long-term laborers on this ranch."

Dao Yi's Adam's apple bobbed, cold sweat dripped from his forehead, and his breathing rate was suppressed to the minimum.

Lu Sheng continued his sentencing: "No Sect offerings, no prestigious Schools. Everyone will be registered according to their combat power rating. On the fifteenth of every month, you must hand over a full quota of Abyssal crystal cores or high-level sea beast meat."

He took a step forward, stepping on the wet bloodstain of Chixing.

"If you don't hand over enough, I will extract your spirit source to make up the difference."

A few suppressed gasps came from the Cultivator phalanx. No one refuted. The high-and-mighty Cultivators had become bottom-level piecework laborers, and the fate of those who disobeyed lay in that bloody iron disc at the harbor.

Lu Sheng withdrew his gaze.

Raising pigs always requires sending someone to cut grass. Doing it himself to slaughter low-level monsters to accumulate energy was too inefficient. Setting a quota to force all Cultivators on Earth to work and produce was much more convenient for harvesting.

Luo Tianfei followed behind Lu Sheng, her steps unsteady. After the Ancient Emperor's Bloodline mark was forcibly tampered with by Lu Sheng, her face remained as pale as paper.

Lu Sheng stopped and turned to look at her.

"Your identity as the 'Key' has expired." Lu Sheng raised his right hand.

A drop of golden ancient divine blood was forced out of his fingertip. Inside the blood, a complex golden matrix flickered. It was the core sub-node of the war array heavenly disk of the Tiangong Base on the far side of the moon.

Luo Tianfei's pupils constricted slightly. Before she could answer, Lu Sheng pointed a finger at her brow.

The divine blood broke through her skin, and the heavenly disk sub-node forced its way into her Sea of Consciousness.

"Ugh—" Luo Tianfei groaned in pain, her hands clutching her head tightly.

High-heat steam rose from the cracks in her skull, and pale blue data fluid flowed from the corners of her eyes. A massive stream of data washed over her neurons. The standby status of the Xianqin Terracotta Warriors, the trends of the global leyline spirit source, and the distribution density of mutated sea beasts poured in at the magnitude of petabytes.

A layer of fine blue electronic circuit textures lit up on her exposed skin. This flesh-and-blood body was being forcibly transformed into a semi-mechanized living supercomputer.

"Endure it, and you will be the only star map guide in the world." Lu Sheng's voice was cold and hard, showing no pity for the fair sex. "The global resource output will be under your dispatch, and the computing power will be connected to your brain. I only care about the final income figures."

Luo Tianfei gasped for breath, the blue light freezing in her eyes. She stood up, her voice stripped of extra emotion due to datafication: "Permissions taken over. Global resource monitoring network activated."

Lu Sheng nodded. It was enough for a tool to have the awareness of a tool.

Luo Tianfei's gaze swept across the Void Realm, data flowing like a waterfall in her eyes.

She paused slightly and looked up to report: "The deep scan of the heavenly disk feedback indicates a geological anomaly. Deep in the Earth's Core, three hundred kilometers below the original location of the Old God's main body, a spirit source collapse zone has appeared in the mantle structure."

Hearing this, Lu Sheng's eyes narrowed slightly.

Previously, while fighting the Old God in the Earth's Core, the Desolate Heaven Emperor Venerable Dharma Idol had shattered hundreds of miles of the surrounding strata. The abyss energy had been completely consumed by him, yet something was still hidden underneath?

"Send the coordinates."

Luo Tianfei raised her hand. A holographic 3D map of the Earth's core was projected in mid-air, with a red dot flashing frantically at the edge of the golden core.

Lu Sheng soared into the sky, the black-gold light breaking the sound barrier and plunging straight into the deep sea.

The Extreme Abyss Water System Law led the way, with ten thousand meters of seawater receding to both sides. He smashed through the seabed, broke through the scalding magma layer, and sped towards the edge of the Earth's core.

The surrounding temperature climbed to hundreds of thousands of degrees, and the Eclipse Black Flame emerged from his body, swallowing all the extreme heat.

Arrived at the target coordinates.

This was originally the dimensional rift where the Old God was rooted. After the rift closed, a layer of dark rock wall was revealed below.

An extremely hidden dark-gold magic circle was carved on the rock wall. The Immortal Qin breath-concealing formation used ancient techniques, and its spirit source fluctuations were at a freezing point, perfectly avoiding the previous violent energy impact in the Earth's Core.

Lu Sheng pressed one hand against the rock wall.

A powerful suction erupted from his palm as the ancient desolate heaven swallowing furnace reversed.

The dark-gold formation patterns struggled violently. The spirit source hidden within was forcibly pulled out like silk from a cocoon, turning into wisps of subtle energy that entered Lu Sheng's body.

The magic circle shriveled, the rock wall lost its support, and it cracked inch by inch.

Crash.

Large areas of rocks peeled off, revealing a dark and deep miniature tunnel. The tunnel was less than three meters in diameter, its walls paved with some unknown alien crystal. A murky dark red glow flowed inside the crystals.

An Immortal Qin secret escape route? Or a leftover star path from an even older era?

As soon as the tunnel opened, a thick, pungent smell of blood mixed with a prehistoric aura gushed out in a spiral.

Lu Sheng stood at the entrance of the tunnel and took a deep breath.

The black Dragon wings vibrated slightly behind him, dispersing the approaching magma. This smell wasn't right.

There was no moldy smell of decay. Hidden in the smell of blood were complex and high-level spirit source fluctuations. It was all the fresh aroma emitted by top-tier ingredients.

The other end of the tunnel connected to an unknown Star Domain full of vitality and slaughter. This was not an escape route; it was a bridge to a brand-new hunting ground.

Earth was too small a piece of meat to satisfy his furnace. There was no reason not to use a table that had been delivered to him.

He took a long stride and stepped onto the ancient star path paved with alien crystals.

"What's the point of going into seclusion to eat stored grain?"

The darkness swallowed his tall figure. A low declaration echoed at the entrance of the tunnel.

"Going to someone else's pot to scoop out meat—that's what you call restocking."