210: Chapter 210 Treasures Beneath the Earth's Veins

On the surface of the Wasteland, violent winds howled, carrying radioactive dust.

Fifty t-7 heavy purgers moved in tactical formation, slowly advancing through the vast, boundless mutant primeval jungle.

The ecology of this world was savage and chaotic. The jungle was filled with trees and plants that blotted out the sky, like giant umbrellas spreading open, tightly blocking the dark red skylight from entering.

Vines as thick as coiled dragons intertwined, constructing a three-dimensional labyrinth between the quagmires and the towering ancient trees.

Colorful, eerie poisonous mushrooms emitted an alluring, ghostly blue fluorescence, while visible pink hallucinogenic spores floated in the air, creating a lethal killing intent everywhere.

Gu Shen, dressed in gray robes, walked with his hands behind his back behind the purger formation, while nine Demon Bone Iron Guard stood like abyssal pools and towering mountains, guarding the surroundings without leaving his side.

"Master, thermal reactions are increasing sharply five miles ahead. It seems a large carbon-based organism is approaching rapidly."

At his collar, the Crab, transformed into an iron buckle, transmitted a steady bone-conduction electronic voice, "Target mass exceeds limits, and the trees along its movement trajectory have suffered devastating destruction."

As soon as the words fell, the earth shook.

A deafening beast roar erupted from the depths of the dense forest ahead. Large swathes of towering giant ferns collapsed with a boom, and a behemoth the size of a hill smashed through layers of vines, crashing into view.

The beast was over five zhang long, shaped like a lizard, its body covered in heavy, dark yellow bone scales resembling armor. Its thick limbs stomped deep craters into the muddy ground, and it exhaled foul, radioactive turbid gas from its nose and mouth.

A Tier 3 Aberrant Earth Dragon.

An overlord-level Vicious Beast that had long entrenched itself in the Wasteland jungle, its flesh and blood had long since become unimaginably tough under the long-term catalysis of nuclear radiation.

"Engage."

Gu Shen's tone was cold and hard as he issued the command.

The fire-control radars of the fifty t-7 heavy purgers all flashed red. The multi-barreled machine guns instantly spat out half-foot-long tongues of flame, and a dense rain of armor-piercing bullets wove into a net of metal storm, pouring down overwhelmingly onto the Earth Dragon's bone armor.

Sparks flew everywhere, and the explosions sounded like thunder.

The bullets, which were capable of piercing gold and cracking stone, only left tiny white marks on the surface of the dark yellow scales, completely unable to harm its flesh and blood foundation.

The attacked Aberrant Earth Dragon flew into a rage. It roared wildly, and its extremely thick giant tail swept out with the force of wind and thunder, bringing up a shrill whistling of wind.

Several t-7 heavy purgers at the very front could not dodge in time and were hit head-on by this immense force. Their steel bodies, weighing several tons, flew into the air and crashed heavily into a poisonous swamp dozens of zhang away, their tracks broken, and electric sparks scattering everywhere.

Gu Shen raised his hand, signaling the Crab to have the purger formation cease fire and retreat.

Conventional thermal weapons had limited lethality against such thick-skinned Tier 3 mutants.

Gu Shen strode past the steel defensive line, facing this violent Wasteland Vicious Beast alone.

Seeing a tiny creature daring to provoke it, the Earth Dragon's large vertical pupils were filled with cruelty. It opened its blood-red mouth full of fangs and lunged at Gu Shen, biting down.

Gu Shen stood still, his posture like a pine tree.

Deep within his Dantian Qi Sea, the steadily rotating [Nirvana Star Core] suddenly reversed.

All the deep cyan poisonous true essence retracted, and a terrifying mass far exceeding the ordinary collapsed crazily into a tiny point.

The Divine Ability appeared: Absolute Collapse!

The spatial curvature within a radius of three zhang distorted instantly. The light in mid-air bent strangely, and the floating dust and spores fell straight to the ground at an irrational speed. An immense gravitational field, heavy as Mount Tai, seemed to pour down from the Nine Heavens, suppressing the Earth Dragon's massive body tightly.

The Earth Dragon's fierce, unparalleled forward momentum came to an abrupt halt.

"Crack, crack!"

A continuous series of crisp bone-cracking sounds exploded in the jungle. The Earth Dragon's indestructible bone scales shattered over a large area under the heavy pressure, and its thick limbs sank deep into the mud, snapping inch by inch. The originally solid ground beneath it instantly caved in and collapsed, turning into a giant pit dozens of feet deep.

This jungle overlord, which had been arrogant just moments ago, was now pinned tightly to the bottom of the pit by invisible gravity. No matter how it roared or struggled, its massive body could not move a single inch, and large mouthfuls of black blood gushed wildly from its nose and mouth.

The Cold Jade Bone around Gu Shen's body shone brightly. He walked slowly to the front of the Earth Dragon's massive head and gripped the saber hilt with his right hand.

The thunder pattern gold-slaying blade was unsheathed with a clang.

Ghostly blue thunder light wrapped in deep cyan true essence, and the blade light surged to over two zhang. He held the saber with both hands, carrying the momentum to split mountains and cleave peaks, and slashed fiercely at the weak spot of the scales on the Earth Dragon's neck exposed by the pressure.

A cold flash.

The massive dragon head separated from its body, and hot, foul-smelling poisonous blood sprayed like a fountain, instantly corroding the surrounding large swathes of plants until they withered and curled.

Gu Shen sheathed the saber and grabbed into the void with his left hand.

The phantom of the [Heaven and Earth Furnace] appeared in the air, and the pale fire of rules swept down, stripping and purifying the purest life Origin within the Earth Dragon's massive remains.

A moment later, ten drops of [essence white dew (medium)] radiating rich vitality and one drop of [essence white dew (superior)] with flowing luster fell into a jade box, which he stored in his ring.

The battle ceased, and the jungle returned to silence.

Just as Gu Shen was preparing to recall the purger formation to continue advancing, the Crab at his collar issued an urgent warning.

"Master, the geological radar has detected an abnormal feedback! Under the dual impact of the gravitational field suppression and the giant beast's death throes, the surface rock layer has suffered large-scale fracturing. Deep in the strata below, there seems to be a super-large-scale regular geometric metal structure."

Gu Shen's gaze narrowed.

He looked in the direction of the blue cursor projected by the Crab. At the bottom of the giant pit where the Earth Dragon's carcass lay, soil and rocks were continuously sliding downward, revealing a deep, pitch-black underground fissure. At the edge of the fissure, a section of smooth, flat dark gray alloy wall, which was definitely not naturally formed, was exposed.

"Let's go down and take a look."

Gu Shen leaped, his body falling straight into the depths of the fissure like a meteorite.

After falling dozens of zhang, his feet landed steadily. With the true essence fire lit at his fingertips, a giant explosion-proof door, over a dozen zhang wide and embedded in the slanted rock layer deep underground, came into view.

The surface of the door was engraved with faded pre-war serial numbers and military industrial logos.

"Master, this is truly a gift from heaven. This building was clearly squeezed to the surface of the earth vein due to violent crustal movement after the Great Cataclysm." The Crab's analysis data was generated rapidly, and its electronic voice was filled with undisguisable excitement.

Gu Shen did not say a word, stepped forward, and pressed a palm against the heavy explosion-proof door.

The deep cyan poisonous true essence crazily corroded the door's mechanical locks, and with the power of the Cold Jade Bone, accompanied by a dull roar, this residual metal door was torn open by his single arm, revealing a wide gap.

Inside the door, it was deep and vast.

Gu Shen stepped inside, the fire at his fingertips blazing, illuminating this long-sealed underground building.

Everything that met his eyes was an industrial miracle that could shock the soul.

The warehouse was vast and boundless, with no end in sight. Rows of neatly stacked high-carbon steel ingots undulated like mountains, the anti-oxidation grease coated on their surfaces still intact, shimmering with a cold metallic luster. In an independent compartment on the other side, hundreds of thousands of finished titanium-tungsten alloy armor plates lay silently in wait, their dimensions and specifications perfectly precise, specifically designed for armored vehicles and heavy individual exoskeletons.

The Great Cataclysm destroyed the surface prosperity of human civilization, but it perfectly sealed these excellent heavy industrial Materials capable of arming a great army until now.

The Cultivation World often sneered at mundane metals, but in the eyes of Gu Shen, a Body Cultivator of the extreme path who understood the dual mysteries of array patterns and machinery, this was a priceless Treasure Trove.

"Black ice iron is hard to find, but high-carbon steel is inexhaustible. The physical defense of titanium-tungsten alloy is enough to withstand the bombardment of Foundation Establishment Stage spells."

Gu Shen touched the cold armor plates, his heart already making a comprehensive plan. "Previously, I was limited by the difficulty of finding demon bones, which restricted the number of the Iron Guard legion. Now that I have this massive batch of Materials as a backup, I only need to supplement it with Spirit Gathering Array patterns and Spirit Stone drives, and the concept of mass-producing a mechanical army can become a reality."

The absolute cornerstone of the Wasteland's flood of troops was already in his grasp.

He immediately turned around and issued an order to the Crab: "Mobilize all logistics transport Puppets and take full control of this place. Transport the first batch of supplies to the armory on the sixth underground level immediately. The assembly line is ready to restart."