178: Chapter 178 Heavenly Warning

Eight hundred zhang deep in the underwater abyss, inside the titanium-carbon alloy Immortal Cave, the sky-blue formation light flowed like water ripples, stubbornly resisting the ruthless crushing of the millions of tons of dark water outside.

On the meditation cushion, Gu Shen's figure was as steady as a bell. The thick blood scabs covering his body, a mix of purple-crimson and deep black, rose and fell with an extremely subtle rhythm. Deep within his flesh and blood, the gray-blue Death Qi from the nirvana nuclear crystal and the pale yellow vitality of the kongqing spirit marrow had already crossed the bottom-layer boundary under the crushing of the Taiji millstone.

Two vastly different high-dimensional Laws, forced together by Gu Shen's iron-nail-like will, finally began an absolute fusion on a physical level.

Within the microscopic horizon, cell telomeres were completely rewritten in an infinite loop of decay and proliferation. Strands of gray, deep, and alien True Qi—not belonging to the Five Elements—fed back from the depths of his bone marrow, slowly converging into his Dantian Qi Sea.

The moment this mutated True Qi was born...

Deep within Gu Shen's brow, the AI Crystal suddenly erupted with unprecedented high-frequency flickering. The ghostly blue light even pierced through the thick blood scabs on the outer layer, casting the entire stone room in alternating light and shadow.

"Master! Special interference alert!"

The Crab's single-machine electronic voice vibrated wildly along his collarbone, its tone stretched to its physical limit. "The microwave radar and environmental sensing matrix have captured extreme abnormal data gaps! The physical readings of the new energy field within your body are experiencing severe bottom-layer logical rejection with the basic constants of the current Universe!"

"The external spatial magnetic field is undergoing disordered distortion! The Great Yu Cultivation World's status correction force field... is forcibly locking onto our physical coordinates!"

Gu Shen sat with eyes closed, his Divine Sense as cold as black ice.

He knew deeply that the bottom-layer ecology of the Great Yu Cultivation World was extremely cruel. The operation of the Heavenly Dao was by no means a compassionate saint, but a cold ledger precise to an outrageous degree. When a Cultivator absorbs the spirit objects of heaven and earth, they owe the Heavenly Dao Karma. When the time comes for a Breakthrough, the Heavenly Dao sends down thunder to settle the account.

However, the nirvana nuclear crystal in Gu Shen's body came from the ultimate reactor of Shelter No. 7 in the Wasteland, and the kongqing spirit marrow had its Karma imprint wiped clean by the rules of the Great Furnace.

These two massive assets were completely "black market residents from outside the realm."

Now, Gu Shen attempted to build his Dao Foundation in this world using assets from outside the realm, which was equivalent to seizing Lifespan and status out of thin air right under the nose of the Heavenly Dao's ledger.

The accounts did not balance, and the heresy appeared.

The bottom-layer obliteration mechanism of the Great Yu Heavenly Dao was triggered with a roar.

...

Outside, the Yunmeng Great Swamp.

The ten-thousand-mile waters were usually filled with thick fog and miasma. At this moment, the daylight suddenly turned dark.

The north wind howled, and muddy waves soared into the sky.

High above the dome, the heavy gray-green haze was instantly torn apart by an invisible giant force. Beneath the ten-thousand-mile firmament, thick, ink-black clouds crazily closed in from all directions. The clouds piled up like a thousand-zhang iron wall, pressing low over the swamp, as if to crush the entire earth into pieces.

All sounds ceased, and the surroundings fell silent.

The birds and water beasts that were fighting and biting above the water surface just a moment ago were struck as if by a heavy hammer the next. The world was filled with an extremely cold, destructive Heavenly Dao pressure devoid of the slightest vitality or consideration.

As this pressure poured down, the miasma on the surface of the swamp instantly condensed into gray-black frost.

Deep under the water, ten thousand beasts were terrified.

In the mudflats three miles away, dozens of huge, bloodthirsty venomous crocodiles had their scales trembling, their massive Yao Beast bodies stuck deep in the mud, not daring to exhale a single bubble. In the deeper waters, various second-order and third-order Yao Beasts retracted their Yao Cores and locked their Meridians, swimming toward the deeper bottom of the pool like cold corpses.

The calamity of fate pressed down on all living things.

This was by no means the test phenomenon triggered by ordinary Cultivators in the Cultivation World during a Foundation Establishment Breakthrough. Ordinary Lightning Tribulations still left a glimmer of life, containing the principle of creation from heaven and earth.

But the pressure hovering over the Yunmeng Great Swamp at this moment was only pure physical destruction and status obliteration.

In the center of the gray clouds, a ten-thousand-mile cyclone collapsed rapidly.

A huge Void Realm funnel covering a hundred miles formed slowly in the depths of the clouds. In the core of the funnel, there was no red flame, nor purple-crimson heavenly thunder.

Only a destructive black thunder, pitch-black as ink and surrounded by dense spatial cracks, was quietly gestating.

Before the black thunder fell, the water surface of the ten-thousand-mile swamp had already sunk several feet. The invisible Law of destruction passed through the water and struck the basalt strata at the bottom of the eight-hundred-zhang abyss.

...

Inside the Immortal Cave.

"Creak—"

A harsh sound of metal squeezing broke the silence in the room.

The surface of the special titanium-carbon alloy walls actually cracked with several fine physical lines under the infiltration of the external heavenly might. The Formation Plate of the [Xuanming Heavy Water Array] buzzed violently, and the thirty-six Low-Grade Spirit Stones embedded in the grooves were consumed at a speed visible to the naked eye, their spiritual light halo dimming in an instant.

The eleven nuclear-powered black-armored iron guards arrayed beside Gu Shen had the red electronic light in their eye sockets flickering crazily under the pressure of the magnetic field. The Yao Beast skeletons inside their bodies made dull sounds.

"Master! The energy level of the tribulation cloud above cannot be measured by conventional computing power!"

The Crab, transformed into an iron buckle, clamped tightly onto Gu Shen's collar, its single-machine electronic voice as rapid as a rainstorm. "That black charge does not carry conventional electromagnetic properties! It is entirely condensed from pure physical annihilation constants and spatial collapse force fields! Target lock rate is one hundred percent! Physical barrier isolation is ineffective!"

Deep within the blood scabs.

Gu Shen's internal organs were suffering, but his will was like refined steel that had been tempered a thousand times, never wavering in the slightest.

A large amount of cold, hard calculations guided by the AI Crystal flowed rapidly in his Sea of Consciousness.

"The Great Yu Heavenly Dao wants to destroy the resources from outside the realm, to settle the account and obliterate me."

"If I disperse the embryonic form of my Dao Foundation now and let the nuclear energy and spirit marrow vaporize, I can certainly avoid the obliteration of the black thunder, but the sunk costs of early investment will all be in vain, and there will be no hope of such an extreme Dao Foundation Establishment in this life."

"The Cultivation World monopolizes resources, and the Sect treats all living beings as cattle, horses, and firewood. Since I have chosen this path of plundering through the mutual complementarity of two worlds, I must trample the rules of this Heaven under my feet."

"If you want to destroy my private property, let's see if this heavenly thunder can break my bones or not."

Within Gu Shen's body, the dark cyan poisonous evil mana and the extreme Dao nuclear energy completed their final microscopic engagement.

The finger bones of his left hand flicked slightly, and the corpse-controlling iron plate held in his palm emitted a pure physical resonance signal.

Swish!

The eleven nuclear-powered black-armored iron guards simultaneously stepped forward, their tall, dark metal bodies shielding the space above his head. The micro-batteries operated at overload, and scorching white gas spewed from the gaps in their chest armor.

Outside, the black water churned, and the night was like ink.

The black funnel over the Yunmeng Great Swamp had collapsed to the extreme.

That destructive black thunder, pitch-black and seemingly capable of swallowing all surrounding light, finally broke free from the shackles of the clouds.

Silent and shadowless.

The black thunder struck down, leaving an absolute trajectory in the ten-thousand-mile sky that could not be healed for a long time.

The heavenly might's absolute kill was aimed directly at Gu Shen's Immortal Cave under the water.