157: Chapter 157 Clash of Golden Core, Extreme Pull

Eight hundred zhang deep underwater, undercurrents surged.

Twelve Demon Bone Iron Guards, like a swarm of massive army ants, clung tightly to the dragon body of the Sea-Covering Black Flood Dragon, Ao Mie.

The high-frequency particle oscillation modules were running at overload, and visible transparent ripples, traveling down the mechanical arms of the Iron Guards, continuously bombarded the thick, ink-black protective Demonic Qi on Ao Mie's body.

Two distinct forces were locked in a primitive struggle.

The immense kinetic energy provided by the micro-nuclear Fusion batteries transformed into countless minute physical grinding forces, drilling bit by bit into the defensive layer of Demonic Qi.

The high-frequency shockwaves caused by the Iron Guards' punches penetrated the deep water, causing the surrounding basalt walls to shed chunks of rock.

Ao Mie's eyes widened in rage, its massive body thrashing violently in the water.

The terrifying, monstrous strength of a Tier 3 Great Yao was unleashed without reservation; its huge dragon tail, carrying two Iron Guards, slammed heavily against the rock wall to its side, attempting to crush these iron lumps that clung like maggots to bones.

"Crack, crack..."

Rocks collapsed, and mud and sand muddied the entire stretch of water.

No. 3 and Iron Guard No. 7s endured tons of pressure; the flesh on the exterior of their chest cavities instantly festered, and several minute cracks appeared on their dark cyan mystic whale skeletons.

mutated wood marrow rapidly surged toward the damaged areas, forcibly bonding the dislocated mechanical joints and maintaining the machines' minimum operational status.

"I am the Lord of the Great Swamp, how dare you violate my reverse scale!"

Ao Mie's Divine Thought boomed underwater.

It finally realized that simple physical thrashing could not completely shake off these fearless, metal dead things.

Demonic Qi gathered frantically within its body, and between its originally jet-black scales, a heart-stopping, ghostly green toxic light emerged.

"Master, the target's internal energy index is rising geometrically! A high-intensity Fusion reaction of toxins and spiritual power is appearing in the surrounding water; a large-scale, indiscriminate Spell attack is expected to erupt in three breaths!" The electronic voice of Crab quickly reached Gu Shen's ears.

Gu Shen stood quietly at the edge of the collapsed Immortal Cave ruins.

At the center of his brow, the faint, ghostly blue light of the AI Crystal flickered at a high frequency.

Multi-threaded calculation was fully activated.

In his field of vision, the surrounding murky water receded, replaced by an energy model composed of countless lines and data.

The trajectory of the spiritual power circulating within Ao Mie's massive Yao body was stripped away and analyzed bit by bit by the AI Crystal.

"Three inches below the left side of the neck, the Spiritual Pressure gathers the slowest; it is an energy blind spot for Spell casting."

The moment the conclusion was reached, the shadow shoes on Gu Shen's feet shimmered with dark light.

Gu Shen's figure was like a heavy torpedo leaving its tube, utilizing the thrust of the underwater undercurrent to head straight for the massive head of the Black Flood Dragon.

At this moment, the magical power Ao Mie had been brewing had already taken shape.

"Abyssal Poison Swamp: Great Vortex!"

With the Black Flood Dragon as the center, the water within a radius of one hundred zhang instantly transformed into a rapidly rotating, ink-green water tornado.

Demonic poison with terrifying corrosiveness was mixed into water blades with astonishing cutting power, slaughtering indiscriminately in all directions.

The twelve Iron Guards that bore the brunt were forcibly torn apart by this mixed Spell.

The flesh on their bodies rapidly dissolved in the toxic water, exposing the cold metal components and mystic whale skeletons beneath.

The mystic whale skeleton's natural "insulating and spirit-repelling" properties played a vital role at this moment.

The moment the toxic water and Demonic Qi touched the skeleton, they slid off and dissipated, unable to invade the core formation patterns and micro-batteries inside.

Although the Iron Guards were thrown away by the powerful current and slammed heavily against the surrounding rock walls, they still maintained full operational combat capabilities.

In the center of the raging vortex, Gu Shen was like a small boat maneuvering through a storm.

Bone Refining Art, second layer, Thunder Bone, fully activated!

Beneath his skin and flesh, his dark golden bones erupted with muffled thunder.

He forced himself to hold his breath, letting those tiny toxic water blades shred his outer gray robe and leave white marks on the thousand-tough black silk armor.

The precise navigation of the AI Crystal allowed him to perfectly avoid the most lethal core water columns in the Great Vortex, his figure strangely cutting into the energy blind spot three inches below the left side of Ao Mie's neck.

Less than one zhang from the target.

In Ao Mie's massive, scarlet slit pupil, Gu Shen's expressionless face was reflected.

It had never expected that this Human Race Cultivator, with such an extremely weak aura, could penetrate its Spell and advance to such a close distance.

"An ant attempting to shake a tree!"

Ao Mie laughed in extreme rage, its huge head turning abruptly, its full mouth of interlocking, sharp fangs resembling an opening and closing metal cage, biting down toward Gu Shen's head.

Gu Shen did not dodge or evade, his right hand gripping the saber hilt tightly.

Inside his Dantian, all that mutated dark cyan magical power was poured into the thunder pattern gold-slaying blade.

Clang!

The long saber left its sheath.

The ghostly blue thunder light exploded like a blinding sun in the deep seabed.

The top-grade thunder magnetic fine sand fused perfectly with the Geng Metal Sword Qi, transforming into a solidified thunder saber beam several zhang long.

The thunder element naturally counters water-attribute Yao Beasts.

"Slash!"

Gu Shen exerted force from his waist and abdomen, the muscles in his arms bulging.

This strike gathered the ten-thousand-jun immense power of Iron Bone Major Achievement, meeting the Black Flood Dragon's biting maw, and was fiercely thrust upward.

Sshhhla—!

The thunder saber beam extremely precisely avoided the Black Flood Dragon's hardest lower jaw bone armor, following the gaps where the scales grew in reverse, and fiercely cut into that palm-sized reverse scale beneath its throat.

This was the fatal weakness of the Dragon Bloodline, and also its weakest defensive link.

The incomparably sharp saber beam sliced open the outer membrane, and the violent Thunder-Magnetic Force surged crazily along the wound, directly triggering a secondary explosion deep within the Black Flood Dragon's flesh.

"Aooo—!!!"

A dragon roar, extremely shrill and mixed with extreme pain, resounded through the abyss.

That ink-black reverse scale was forcibly pried up and severed by Gu Shen's saber strike!

A large amount of scalding dark red flood dragon blood gushed out like a fountain, instantly dyeing the surrounding pool water a bloody red.

The thunder light raged at Ao Mie's throat; the numbness briefly cut off its nerve conduction, and that bloody mouth about to close froze half a foot above Gu Shen's head.

Having succeeded in one strike, Gu Shen did not greedily seek further gain.

He slammed the black turtle shield in his left hand fiercely against the Black Flood Dragon's lower jaw, and utilizing the recoil force, his figure shot backward like an arrow off a bowstring for over ten zhang.

He landed steadily on a protruding piece of basalt.

Gu Shen flicked his wrist lightly, shaking off the residual scalding flood dragon blood from the gold-severing saber, the blade pointing diagonally at the ground.

The twelve Cyber Iron Guards, having lost their flesh disguise and completely exposing their cold mechanical and Demon Bone structures, climbed up from the ruins once again.

They re-formed their formation in front of Gu Shen, the red light in their eye sockets locking tightly onto the thrashing giant beast ahead.

The lake water was extremely murky.

Ao Mie's massive body twisted painfully in the water.

The wound on its throat was not enough to be fatal, but the intense pain and humiliation of having its reverse scale severed made the sanity of this Great Swamp overlord teeter on the edge of losing control.

It stared fixedly at that Qi Refining Stage human standing on the rock.

The brief death struggle made Ao Mie completely put away the arrogance in its bones.

It knew very well that if it continued to fight for its life in this narrow underwater rift, even if it could exhaust the opponent to death, it would inevitably pay an unbearable and painful price.

In the perilous Yunmeng Great Swamp, being seriously injured was tantamount to handing its territory over to other covetous Great Yao.

"Human, you have won this King's respect."

Ao Mie stopped thrashing, its throat muscles contracting forcibly to stop the flowing flood dragon blood.

Its pair of scarlet slit pupils stared fixedly at Gu Shen, and a coldness mixed with wariness emanated from its Divine Thought.

Gu Shen put away the black turtle shield, and the electric light on the thunder pattern gold-slaying blade slowly receded.

One human and one Yao, in the abyss dyed red with blood, fell into a cold standoff.