Translator: CinderTL
Buzz!
A blinding white light engulfed Chen Feng's vision, followed by a sudden, disorienting sensation of weightlessness and spatial distortion.
The feeling was strangely familiar, inexplicably reminding him of his past experiences at Yun Port on Earth.
It resembled the space-spanning teleportation power of the Star Ring Device.
Thud!
A few seconds later, his body regained its weight as his feet touched solid ground.
The white light completely dissipated, and Chen Feng snapped back to his senses, cautiously surveying his surroundings.
His Azure Armor had already activated on the back of his hand, and Crimson Gold Steel Bones rapidly spread across his body, forming an impenetrable suit of armor to completely shield him.
But then,
As Chen Feng took in his surroundings, his eyes narrowed in astonishment.
He stood in a vast, cavernous space.
Or, more accurately, a unique chamber.
The white circular ring beneath his feet gradually faded away, revealing dark brown walls on either side.
Yellow crystals, like suspended lanterns, dotted the walls, casting a dim light that clearly illuminated intricate linear patterns etched into the stone.
The white light flickered past like a surge of energized water, making these patterns appear like miniature crystalline conduits.
Etched into the walls around him were intricate patterns:
Mountains and flowing rivers.
The sun, moon, and starry sky.
Metal fortresses roamed the heavens, while spaceships and warships warped through space.
At the heart of this world lay a sprawling metropolis teeming with advanced technology, dominated by a colossal metal altar suspended in mid-air.
Diverse creatures prostrated themselves in worship, forming a loyal throng:
Serpentfolk, mermen, eaglemen, mammoth-like beasts, griffins, and other strange creatures—non-human entities from across countless worlds.
In a single glance, Chen Feng recognized this as a historical vision of the Ancient Taiduo Civilization.
This wasn't mere speculation. He had experienced Dream Incursions before, and something here felt familiar: the Inverted Pyramid in Cloud Dream Forest.
The murals there bore a striking resemblance to this scene, including the Ancient Taiduo people on the metal altar receiving the kneeling worshipers.
They appeared human at first glance, but each possessed a vertical, slit-like pupil in the center of their forehead.
A surge of emotion washed over Chen Feng as he suddenly believed Wang Yu's journal entries.
Heaven's Fall Mountain truly was a colossal construct of a vanished civilization.
Moreover...
Chen Feng's gaze shifted to the center of the vast chamber.
A thick pillar of white light, half a meter in diameter, descended from the dark brown ceiling. Within this beam, a golden speck hovered, reflecting in his eyes.
It resembled a fingernail-sized golden fragment or a tiny, rhomboid crystal. Chen Feng focused intently, and a system notification suddenly materialized before him, delivering a startling revelation:
[You have discovered a Fragment of Divinity!]
[A remnant of the Origin from an entity of the Ancient Taiduo Empire!]
The messages froze before his eyes, sending a tidal wave of shock through Chen Feng. He had never imagined finding a Fragment of Divinity in such a way.
Gathering enough of these fragments could resurrect the angels within Qinggang City's Heroic Spirit Hall.
Whoosh!
Without hesitation, Chen Feng surged forward, shattering the air with a sonic boom as he reached the golden pillar.
His Crimson Gold Steel Bones extended like a third arm, reaching out toward the floating fragment.
Fifty centimeters... thirty centimeters... ten centimeters...
Chen Feng maintained unprecedented vigilance, his mind razor-sharp and calm, wary of any unexpected occurrences.
Until the very end.
The anticipated mishap never materialized. Instead, his Steel Bones' palm closed around the fingernail-sized golden fragment in a firm grip.
But just as he prepared to retrieve it...
Whoosh!
The world shifted, and history spiraled into chaos.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Deafening explosions echoed through the air as towering flames erupted skyward.
A metal fortress plummeted to earth, followed by colossal alchemical constructs—pyramids, Sky Islands, arks, and more—all crashing down in plumes of black smoke and fire.
A thick, pitch-black mist, like a relentless tide, blotted out the sun and engulfed the entire world.
Crimson and eerie green eyes flickered within the gloom, while countless grotesque mutated creatures shrieked and descended, swarming the doomed airborne civilizations like locusts.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Intense magical fire erupted as the crystal-forged Magic Cannons on the arks retaliated with furious salvos.
The gargantuan alchemical constructs were not without defenses. Powerful laser-like beams erupted from the pyramids, repelling wave after wave of the encroaching Black Tide.
Chen Feng staggered, disoriented, then glanced down at himself.
He was clad in silver-inlaid Golden Armor, his crimson cape billowing dramatically behind him.
Though it was his own body and face, the attire felt undeniably foreign.
His gaze fell to his left hand.
There rested a palm-sized cylindrical container holding a dazzling golden fragment.
The fragment seemed to radiate its own light, appearing fluid as it floated within the cylinder.
Suddenly, Chen Feng realized it was the Fragment of Divinity he had just absorbed.
Looking around, he found himself standing atop a colossal, floating Silver Ark, thousands of meters in length.
Silver Armor Warriors roared as they clashed across the ark's surface, wielding crystal laser rifles and razor-sharp blades to repel the Black Tide Creatures that leaped aboard.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The muffled thud of explosions echoed incessantly, as countless streams of blood rained down like crimson rain.
Chen Feng's vision dimmed momentarily before he looked up at the distant sky.
"Roar!"
A monstrous roar reverberated as a Winged Serpent, hundreds of meters long, soared past. With a wingspan approaching a kilometer, it resembled a primordial dragon descending upon the world. In a single strike, it shattered and sank a colossal Inverted Pyramid.
Countless lives were lost in the ensuing cataclysm. A towering column of fire rose from the ground, reaching hundreds, nearly a thousand, meters into the sky.
Below, alchemical constructs of stone crumbled and shattered into dust.
Giant craters scarred the landscape, fissures spiderwebbing across kilometers, and shockwaves of dust and debris rippled outward for tens of kilometers.
Humans in archaic robes scattered in terror, their faces etched with despair.
Yet a few Ancient Taiduo People, recognizable by the vertical third eye on their foreheads, charged into the arks and other civilization-made constructs. Unleashing alchemical beams and activating barrier shields, they fought back with desperate courage.
"Kill them all!"
"Annihilate these monsters!"
The deafening roar of battle shook the heavens as Chen Feng's eyes flickered, snapping him fully awake.
"Another Dream Realm?"
His gaze deepened as he pieced together his surroundings, recalling his experience in the Cloud Dream Forest while exploring the Inverted Pyramid. There, he had suddenly entered a new space and witnessed what appeared to be the annihilation of the Ancient Taiduo Civilization by the Black Tide. That ordeal had ultimately yielded him a vial of Primordial Creature Blood Essence. Comparing the two experiences, he suspected he was facing a similar phenomenon once more.
Whoosh!
At that moment, dozens of colossal Black Tide Creatures, each several tens of meters in size, surged forward, encircling the ark from all sides. Just as they were about to breach the vessel...
Boom!
Multiple alchemical beams erupted, forcibly obliterating the Saint-level peak strange beast.
"Lord Spirit King!"
"We beg you, escort Heaven's Fall to safety!"
A desperate cry echoed from the sky, emanating from the massive metal fortress guarding the ark's rear. A human Legion Commander, strapped into some kind of cockpit and bleeding from all seven orifices, gritted his teeth as he struggled to maintain control. Behind him, Black Armor warriors fought fiercely, repelling the leaping Black Tide Creatures.
Across the empire, the Human Legion shed blood without hesitation, swords clashing against the enemy with unwavering resolve.
"Master, we must retreat now!"
A shout rang out behind them. A burly warrior in blood-stained silver armor, his face pale, stood there. With a single sword stroke, he had decapitated a Pseudo Sixth-Tier Mutant Eagleman, the splattering blood cascading onto the ark's surface beneath his feet.
A howling wind swept in from all directions as the massive ark, known as Heaven's Fall, roared to life. Dozens of-meter-thick blue flames erupted from its tail and sides, unleashing tremendous propulsive force.
Heaven's Fall surged forward at breakneck speed. Suddenly, the sky lit up.
Boom!
The metal fortress that had been covering their retreat exploded in a cataclysmic blast, fire and debris soaring skyward.
A dark beam of energy, spanning over a kilometer, pierced through the barrier of the Inverted Pyramid, shattering the alchemical construct into two halves.
Human Legion warriors rained blood across the sky. Chen Feng spotted the colossal creature hovering in the distance: a serpentine being with a wingspan hundreds of meters wide and deep brown scales like a Giant Python. Yet it possessed two massive legs, each tipped with razor-sharp claws over ten meters long.
The creature tore through the Inverted Pyramid's defenses, crushing it underfoot. The human warriors trapped inside died swiftly, like ants.
"Master!"
Sensing Chen Feng's shock, a fresh metal fortress raced to provide covering fire.
"We may despise the traitors, but the Fire Seed of Heaven's Fall is paramount!"
"We beg you—lead the ark to safety!"
The urgent roars of the Legion Commanders echoed through the air, as if this ark carried a mission of paramount importance.
Boom!
But fire erupted in a violent explosion.
The metal fortress providing cover shattered once more, pierced by a spiked tentacle as sharp as metal.
The tentacle, thicker than a giant tree trunk, originated from a colossal, grotesque eyeball hovering nearby, its massive form nearly a hundred meters in diameter.
With each movement, the monstrous eyeball crushed and destroyed the surrounding war constructs. Seven more such tentacles shot out, tearing through the Barrier and briefly snagging the ark's tail like living ropes.
"No!"
The ark shuddered violently, its blue tail flames flickering precariously.
The Silver Armor Warriors paled as nearby metal fortresses and alchemical constructs rushed to provide support.
But the enemy had seized their opportunity.
The Black Tide surged explosively across the sky, its creatures raining down in increasing numbers and overwhelming the reinforcements.
The massive ark, already struggling to escape, found itself besieged. Several more eyeball creatures surrounded it, using the same tentacle tactics to restrain it.
Simultaneously, Lava Giants wreathed in phosphorus fire descended on Bone Eagles, leaping into the fray to detonate themselves against the ark in suicide attacks.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The sky blazed with apocalyptic explosions, their shockwaves tearing repeatedly at the ark's Barrier.
Below, the earth itself writhed, transforming into colossal pythons and Earth Dragons that lunged skyward, coiling around the ark.
The overwhelming power filled the Silver Armor Warriors with despair and fury.
Until the very end.
Just as the ark's engines sputtered, its warp drive failing, and it began to plummet from the sky—
Boom!!!
A titanic shockwave tore through the heavens as a platinum-colored giant descended from the sky.
The clouds parted like a curtain, and approaching Lava Giants and Bone Eagles exploded in unison.
The deafening sequence of explosions left the warriors paralyzed with horror.
For a crucial few seconds, both the Black Tide Creatures and the colossal alchemical constructs froze, stunned by the spectacle.
Then—
Boom!!
A massive crater erupted as hundred-meter-long Earth Dragons, surging upward, shattered into pieces, their fragments scattering across the sky.
The hurricane-force shockwave swept across the battlefield, churning through clouds of dust. Amidst the chaos, several hundred-meter-wide Eyeball Creatures materialized, their grotesque bloodshot veins pulsating as they hovered mid-air, forcibly halting the shockwave and preparing to counterattack.
But then—
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Sonic booms ripped through the air, white vapor trails expanding into circles.
Crimson Gold Javelins, imbued with earth-shattering momentum, hurtled forward like primordial spears, piercing the bloodshot eyeballs with brutal efficiency.
Splurch!
Jade-green blood rained down across the sky, accompanied by an invisible roar that shook the heavens and scattered the swirling smoke and dust.
The Silver Armor Warriors stared in disbelief as the spiked tentacles binding the ark loosened dramatically.
"Just leave," Chen Feng said impassively, his golden armor reflecting the sunlight. He wielded the Steelbone Golden Sword, his crimson cape billowing fiercely in the wind.
"I'll take care of the rest."
(End of the Chapter)
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