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Chapter 299: Chapter 296: Refitting Complete
Watching the catastrophic-level demon spirit that was annihilated in the span of a single breath, Zhang Lihuo, Zhang Yukan, Si Tianyan, Guan Xingyun, Xiang Fengyun, and others felt their brains buzzing.
Catastrophic-level demon spirit!
This was a terrifying existence that reigned above ordinary, medium, and large demon spirits, one that could cause a disaster upon descending upon a city or even an entire state.
Their spiritual and demonic nature contained within was so astonishing that even Heavenly Masters found it difficult to withstand.
A body spanning tens of meters would sweep across a city, and all living beings it touched, from Heavenly Masters to mortals, would have their spiritual essence devoured, leaving behind only corpses.
If even Heavenly Masters who had cultivated spiritual essence were like this, what about other cultivators?
Refining God, Divinity Transformation, Primordial Spirit... None had any hope of resistance against a catastrophic-level demon spirit.
The only thing they could do was to flee.
The farther, the better, and prays that the demon spirits would not set their sights on them.
Hiding was meaningless.
Demon spirits were a special existence between energy and spirit, and houses, city walls, and the earth couldn’t block their penetration.
Even powerful Devas would succumb in an extremely short time after being eroded by a catastrophic-level demon spirit, their spiritual essence absorbed instantaneously, resulting in death.
For cultivators, this was a bona fide natural disaster.
For ten thousand years, the number of cities and top sects destroyed by catastrophic-level demon spirits was countless.
These included sects superior to Purgatory Sect, Cold Moon Sect, and Netherworld Sect, boasting Devas among their ranks.
These demon spirits were a terrifying existence that even Heavenly Masters greatly feared.
Even Heavenly Monarchs had to exert a great deal of effort to combat a single catastrophic-level demon spirit.
But now...
Such a formidable existence that brought disaster to ordinary people, cultivators, and even Heavenly Masters, under the soul secret technique of Gu Jinlai, was nothing but ice melting away within a breath’s time...
The impact of this scene caused Zhang Lihuo, the Heavenly Monarch, and the ranks of Great Heavenly Masters and Heavenly Masters to be so shaken that they couldn’t regain their composure for a long time.
It took a while before a series of shouts suddenly rang in everyone’s ears.
"Extract spiritual essence, co-spirit fighting machines!"
The speaker was Gu Jinlai.
With this reminder, everyone suddenly snapped out of it.
"To think... it was so quick... This was a catastrophic-level demon spirit..."
"Is this the strength of reaching the True Spirit Realm on the Third Step of Heavenly Monarch? It’s simply inconceivable!"
"No wonder the Venerable Daoist didn’t pay much attention to the demon spirits from this rift, treating it as an inexhaustible reserve of spiritual essence. With such power, what’s there to fear from mere demon spirits!?"
Zhang Lihuo, Zhang Yukan, Si Tianyan, and others expressed their emotions from the depths of their souls.
Their reaction speeds were also extremely fast.
With the fall of this catastrophic-level demon spirit, a massive amount of spiritual essence was released.
Gu Jinlai focused on visualizing the Great Sun Stars, the brilliant radiance persistently purifying these scattered spiritual essences, refining them and infusing them into the Mystic Bird Fighting Machine beside him.
As the spiritual essence was infused, and with Gu Jinlai’s continued visualization of the complete Mystic Bird Fighting Machine, the entire machine’s form appeared to change, with light hovering around it and its shape subtly transforming.
Particularly, the newly added Electromagnetic Cannon flashed with electric light, the once intricately modeled weapon visibly growing to striking realism, appearing more technologically advanced and dream-like.
Zhang Lihuo and the others quickly followed suit.
While not as brightly shining as the Great Sun Core produced by Gu Jinlai, the Great Sun Stars they visualized were just as radiant, extracting and refining the dispersed spiritual essence from the catastrophic-level demon spirit and infusing it into another Mystic Bird Fighting Machine.
As they began to extract the spiritual essence, more large demon spirits surged out from within the rift.
However, like the catastrophic-level demon spirits that could barely last a breath against Gu Jinlai, the lesser large demon spirits fared no better.
Gu Jinlai didn’t even need to resort to the Eternal Heavenly Curse; merely with the intense brilliance materialized by the Great Sun Eternal Radiance Technique, he quickly incinerated each large demon spirit emerging from the Demon Realm Rift.
Hardly any large demon spirit could withstand the brilliance of the Great Sun Eternal Radiance for two breaths.
As their bodies were burned up, abundant spiritual essence was released and then extracted by the Heavenly Masters, rapidly completing the co-spirit process for multiple Mystic Bird Fighting Machines.
"Thrilling! So thrilling! This is just so thrilling!"
Xiang Fengyun, who joined Lingxiao City after the Aries Star Palace assessment, couldn’t help but shout joyfully, "I never imagined there would come a day when our forging of War Spiritual Artifacts could be so exhilarating! This is practically equivalent to having endless spiritual essence, endless Spiritual Sense! Under such forcible infusion of spiritual essence, I can clearly feel this Mystic Bird Fighting Machine forming at a speed exactly as I envisage!"
"Hahaha, isn’t it just! If the Mystic Bird Fighting Machine wasn’t so large, requiring more places to be co-spirited, and if it was just to refine a single Spiritual Artifact, at this rate, I could forge eight or ten in a day!"
Si Tianyan laughed along.
"Large Demon Realm Rift! Even a hundred years ago, every time a large Demon Realm Rift opened, our Heavenly Master World would treat it like facing a formidable enemy, with legions of Heavenly Masters, Great Heavenly Masters, and even Heavenly Monarchs needing to spread the word and gather almost all the power of the Heavenly Masters to ensure the rift was secure without fail. But now..."
Zhang Yukan, watching a man who single-handedly blocked the Demon Realm Rift and indiscriminately incinerated all emerging demon spirits, had eyes filled with envy and admiration!
This was the Venerable Daoist of their Great Sun Heavenly Sect!
This is the successor of the Heavenly Master lineage!
This is the pioneer of the New Heavenly Master Sacred Land!
A being who has reached the third step on the path of Heavenly Sovereign and has already touched the True Spirit Realm!
If such a great Heavenly Master cannot rekindle the Heavenly Master Torch and open up the Heavenly Master’s Holy Land, then who can?
Even...
Even if someone claims in the future that he could become the Creator and reach the apex of the Heavenly Master Path, she would not have the slightest doubt.
Because he has that kind of power.
"Demon Spirits, what is there to fear?"
Zhang Lihuo said with high spirits.
At the same time, an Eternal Heavenly Curse obliterated a Demon Spirit that was struggling to escape the range of the illumination of the Great Sun Eternal Radiance Technique.
Under the blockade of Gu Jinlai, who had reached the third step and touched the True Spirit Realm, when Zhang Lihuo, the newly advanced Heavenly Monarch, joined in, no matter whether they were Catastrophic-level Demon Spirits, large, medium, or small Demon Spirits emerging from the rift in the Demon Realm, all were quickly dissolved by the dazzling brilliance without exception.
As a great number of Demon Spirits were incinerated, their escaping spiritual nature was also successively gathered by the Heavenly Masters, including both Heavenly Monarchs, Gu Jinlai and Zhang Lihuo.
This spiritual essence poured into the Mystic Bird Fighting Machines, causing them to undergo Transformation one after another!
One, two, three, four...
Gu Jinlai had not yet felt his Spiritual Sense depleted when all eight Mystic Bird Fighting Machines had already completed their Co-spirit.
After the Co-spirit, each Mystic Bird Fighting Machine was filled with a sense of aerodynamics and a metallic feel, with the lingering spiritual essence forming residual Spirit Light halos around the machines, endowing the eight fighting machines with both a science fiction-like luster and a mysterious fantasy-like aura.
Especially with their size, 22.6 meters in length and 14.2 meters wingspan, it was enough to make anyone realize just how terrifying these war machines would be.
When the last Mystic Bird Fighting Machine completed its Co-spirit, Si Tianyan couldn’t help but exclaim, "All eight Mystic Bird Fighting Machines have completed their Co-spirit."
"That’s great."
Zhang Lihuo reached out and touched one of the machines.
Although Gu Jinlai was the main designer of these machines, to ensure efficiency, they had also invested a large amount of time and energy into the refining process of these fighting machines.
Seeing these machines taking shape, they were quite moved.
"Yes, we made it," said Gu Jinlai.
"With these eight fighting machines, Lizhou State and the Twelve Islands of the Eastern Sea should no longer be a cause for concern," Guan Xingyun said with a smile.
"It’s not just about being unworried."
Zhang Lihuo was invigorated, "Before the modifications, the Mystic Bird Fighting Machines were already faster than any Primordial Spirit True Monarch. Even the Sparrow Sword Immortal Huo Yuqing, renowned for his sword control technique, might not be able to catch up with a Mystic Bird Fighting Machine flying at full speed. The only shortcoming of the fighting machine was its slightly insufficient attack power, but now..."
His gaze fell on the newly installed Railgun: "Let alone True Monarchs, even an Upper-level Demon with an Undying Demon Body geared towards defense, or even a demon king with weaker defenses, can be directly annihilated! And it’s a dimensional strike at that!"
Gu Jinlai nodded in agreement.
The Champsosaurus King dared not say a word.
But if it were the Flash Falcon from the previous encounter, a single Mystic Bird Fighting Machine would be more than enough to handle it.
If we really have to talk about combat power...
These Mystic Bird Fighting Machines, due to not using too much spiritual material, are considered a simplified version of the Xuan Nu Fighting Machines and are slightly inferior to the Devas in comprehensive ability.
But they definitely surpass a Peak Monarch.
They could be considered somewhere between a Peak Monarch and a Deva in terms of capability.
With these eight fighting machines, Lizhou State and the Twelve Overseas Islands are no longer a threat.
After all, the Mystic Bird Fighting Machines are nuclear-powered and also have vertical takeoff and landing capabilities.
They can take off from Lingxiao City and fly directly to Lizhou State for a bombing run.
What is beyond visual range strike?
With the Mystic Bird Fighting Machines, Lingxiao City will finally have the real capability for beyond visual range strikes!
"It’s a pity that we only modified eight Mystic Bird Fighting Machines. If we had modified the remaining eight models as well, we would have the equivalent of sixteen Mystic Bird Fighting Machines. Star State, Yellow State, Jiangzhou State would have no worries at all."
"The Railguns installed on the Mystic Bird Fighting Machines were made using the highly resistive spiritual material ’Silicon Jade’ to ensure power and stability. This spiritual material is expensive, and the finances of Star State, Yellow State, Jiangzhou State were almost drained by the Cheng Ying Mecha. They no longer have the resources to purchase more ’Silicon Jade’ to refine railguns, which is why we can only afford to modify eight Mystic Bird Fighting Machines for now," Zhang Lihuo said with some emotion.
"The rift in the Tianhe portion of the Demon Realm is larger than expected, and the number of Demon Spirits emerging from it is also greater. The rift is not yet closed, and as of now... at most, only Heavenly Monarch Gu is continuing to refine nuclear raw material rods. We have not yet mastered this technology, so as there’s nothing else for us to do..."
Zhang Yukan said, glancing at the Cheng Ying Mecha, "How about..."
