137: Chapter 137 Energy Qualitative Change

Shelter No. 7, underground second-floor security room.

Debris of shattered refined steel vats scattered everywhere.

Gu Shen's dense mana at the Qi Refining 9th Layer Great Perfection flowed through his Meridians like mercury. That feeling of power, which was almost enough to burst his Physical Body, made a flash of ruthlessness appear in his extremely calm eyes.

Gu Shen waved his left hand.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Twelve battered Iron Corpses, like twelve dilapidated statues, slammed neatly onto the refined iron floor.

Four of them had withstood the self-detonation of Wei Lingfeng's Magical Artifact in the Myriad Insect Tomb; their arms were severed, and their chest bones had largely collapsed. The remaining eight were also covered in sword marks deep enough to see bone.

"Crab. The blueprints." Gu Shen said indifferently.

"Received! My Lord!"

In the corner, the detection head of the mechanical spider emitted an extremely clear, deep blue holographic projection.

The projection constructed a 3D wireframe of a human skeleton in mid-air.

"After computational deduction, the 'Thousand Mechanisms Spirit Pivot Array Diagram' of the Qianji Pavilion is essentially an extremely inefficient energy conduction circuit. We only need to strip away its core nodes and replace them with physical output interfaces for fusion batteries."

Crab's electronic voice carried the excitement of a tech fanatic.

"My Lord, you need to cut open their chests, strip out the necrotic hearts, and implant the micro-batteries into the left ventricle position. Then, use high-purity superconducting Materials to connect their spinal centers!"

Gu Shen looked at the blueprints. After only three breaths, he had firmly engraved all the array patterns and the connection points for the physical circuits into his mind.

A cultivator's Divine Sense, combined with the computing power of a Wasteland AI.

A match made in heaven.

Clang!

Gu Shen backhanded and drew the thunder pattern gold-slaying blade.

On the blade, a smear of deep blue lightning was extremely compressed, turning into an extremely sharp cutting ray. The top-grade Magical Artifact had now been reduced to an extremely brutal biochemical scalpel.

He walked with long strides to the most severely damaged Iron Corpse.

Rip!

Without any anesthesia, and without any hesitation, Gu Shen flicked his wrist, and the gold-severing saber cut down with extreme precision along the center line of the Iron Corpse's sternum.

The blackened skin and flesh rolled back to both sides, revealing the dark gold refined iron ribs filled with cracks inside, as well as a withered heart that had long stopped beating, wrapped in dark green mutated wood marrow.

"Materials." Gu Shen extended his left hand.

His Storage Ring flashed with a faint light.

Hundred-refined refined iron ingots and refined red copper appeared in his palm.

Gu Shen moved his mind.

The Heaven and Earth Furnace in his Sea of Consciousness let out a low rumble.

Pale white flames of rules sprayed out from his palm.

The terrifying high temperature instantly melted the hundred-refined refined iron into a pool of scorching molten iron. Gu Shen's Divine Sense, like a pair of extremely precise invisible hands, forcibly squeezed and shaped the molten iron, turning it into brand-new refined iron bones.

Crack!

He brutally snapped the shattered old bones of the Iron Corpse with his bare hands and forcibly embedded the newly cast iron bones into its body.

The molten iron touched the mutated flesh and blood, making an extremely harsh "hissing" sound, and a plume of acrid white smoke rose. But the vitality of the mutated wood marrow surged instantly, biting and fixing the new ribs tightly.

Physical bone setting complete.

Gu Shen picked up the explosion-proof black box and took out a high-energy fusion micro-battery, only the size of a fist, entirely silver-white, and emitting a faint blue light.

"Implant."

He crushed the Iron Corpse's withered heart with one grip and precisely stuffed the micro-battery into the cavity that originally belonged to the heart.

Immediately after, the flames of rules in Gu Shen's hand jumped again, melting the refined red copper into extremely thin liquid copper wires.

Relying on his powerful Divine Sense at the Peak of the Qi Refining 9th Layer, like threading a needle, he welded one end of the liquid copper wire to the output end of the micro-battery and, with extreme brutality, stabbed the other end deep into the spine of the Iron Corpse!

Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!

Gu Shen's ten fingers danced crazily inside the opened chest of the Iron Corpse like butterflies fluttering through flowers.

Following the "Thousand Mechanisms Spirit Pivot Array Diagram" improved by Crab, he used the refined red copper to outline brand-new high-dimensional energy conduction circuits on the spine and limb joints of the Iron Corpse.

The whole process had no brilliant brilliance of Spells. There was only the acrid smell of burnt metal, the white smoke of burnt flesh, and the cold, hard sound of metal colliding.

Extremely bloody, extremely barbaric.

"Last step. Weld it shut."

Gu Shen slammed his palms onto the flesh rolled back on both sides of the Iron Corpse's chest. The phantom fire of the Great Furnace flashed, directly carbonizing the flesh and physically welding it shut!

Bang.

Gu Shen withdrew his hands and let out a long breath of turbid air.

Modifying just one consumed a great deal of his Divine Sense and physical strength. But once this cross-boundary magical modification succeeded, the returns would be terrifying.

"Initiate self-test." Gu Shen stepped back half a step and gave the order coldly.

"Received! Physical wake-up command sent!"

Crab's mechanical legs tapped frantically on the ground.

Hum—!!!

A dull mechanical roar suddenly came from inside the Iron Corpse on the ground, whose chest was still emitting burnt smoke!

That was not the surge of corpse Qi; that was the physical vibration when the micro-nuclear fusion reactor was ignited!

Swish!

The Iron Corpse's tightly closed eyes suddenly opened.

The eye sockets were now replaced by an eye-piercing, deep blue electronic light!

A violent, pure physical kinetic pressure erupted from within its body.

Click, click, click.

The Iron Corpse slowly stood up from the ground.

The arms, which had been completely severed due to Wei Lingfeng's self-detonation, were now not only restored to their original state under the reshaping of the hundred-refined refined iron and the drive of the fusion battery, but they also exuded a suffocating heavy metal pressure.

Gu Shen did not use the "Soul-Pulling Threads," nor did he even input a trace of mana into the corpse-controlling iron tablet.

"Punch that wall." Gu Shen pointed to the thick refined steel wall beside him and gave the order.

The Iron Corpse's deep blue eyes instantly locked onto the wall.

No charging up, no mana brilliance.

It twisted its waist, thrust its shoulder, and slammed its right fist out!

Boom—!!!

The entire security room shook violently!

The refined steel wall, half a foot thick and capable of withstanding heavy machine gun fire, was actually smashed by this punch from the Iron Corpse, leaving a terrifying fist mark three inches deep!

And the Iron Corpse's hand bones did not have the slightest bit of bending or shattering!

"Such strong kinetic energy."

A burst of extremely intense, scorching light erupted in the depths of Gu Shen's eyes.

This level of destructive power had completely surpassed an ordinary Qi Refining 9th Layer Body Cultivator! The most critical thing was that this output did not consume a single drop of Gu Shen's mana! This was entirely the energy of the Wasteland battery!

"My Lord! This is simply a work of art!"

Crab's excited voice was trembling. "With this heart providing power, its continuous high-intensity combat time is as long as three months! And, I also took the liberty of loading a high-frequency particle oscillation module into its arm bones. As long as it throws a punch, it can generate a weak high-frequency oscillation wave!"

"Continue."

Gu Shen didn't waste words; he carried the gold-severing saber and walked toward the next broken Iron Corpse.