Soul of Burning Steel

Atrium Star, the edge of the Far East Continent, the deep seabed around the Maelstrom Abyss.

With a gap in the space, a strong wave of spiritual energy was released, and Joshua escaped from the body of the mother tree, and came to a huge seabed space supported by the opponent's spiritual energy.

This is because if Joshua wants to construct a psychic leap engine in his body, he must reveal his real body, and although the mother tree is huge, it is impossible for a huge giant hundreds of meters tall to use it in his body at will. With all its strength, it used its own power to prop up an empty semicircular seabed space with a diameter of about ten kilometers on the edge of the Xingdonghai in the atrium for the soldiers to use.

"Chi-boom!"

Accompanied by a burst of crimson light, Joshua undid the restraint on his own power without hesitation, and at this moment, the scorching high temperature spread along with the distorted heat wave, blocking the psychic wall several kilometers away. The seawater directly vaporized, and countless bubbles rushed towards the sea level along with the boiling seawater, causing a dark red high-temperature area to appear on the sea surface, and countless dead fish spread towards the surroundings with a smell of being cooked.

boom. Stepping firmly on the solid rock crust of the seabed with both feet, the sediment and the remains of underwater creatures that had been deposited for thousands of years were blown away by the huge force released by Joshua's real body. Now, standing on the ground The one is 400 meters high, a golden-red four-armed steel giant, with a layer of misty silver radiance flowing all over his body, with layers of complex and philosophical regular stripes deriving and disappearing in it, revealing the meaning of indestructibility.

But this time was different from the previous ones. After a few seconds, with the sound of steel quenching, the golden-red shell of the four-armed steel giant instantly cooled down, turning into silver-black two-color stripes, only the giant's mouth There is a circle of flickering golden light flickering everywhere, and underneath it is a heat that is so powerful that it seems to be able to burn all substances. It is beating steadily, causing ripples in the surrounding space.

Joshua knew that the change in his appearance was due to the fact that he had completely controlled his own power—the steel giant's golden-red shell and the high temperature on its body surface of tens of thousands of degrees were because he could not control the fusion in his body. The huge energy produced by the nuclear heart furnace, so the overflowing energy is released in the form of visible light and heat, making him a human-shaped sun. The warrior had actually already controlled this power, but because of the gathering of people in the atrium, the power that was originally used to open the door to the void was taken away by the will of the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrifice and blessed on him, making his power suddenly become too strong. Strong, it was impossible to control it for a while.

After standing firmly, Joshua originally wanted to start to transform himself immediately, but before he could start to act, he only exerted a little force on his feet, and with the sound of cracking, the crust on the bottom of his feet suddenly shattered, Countless sedimentary rocks turned into fine powder-like quicksand like biscuits. Fortunately, Joshua reacted quickly and immediately formed a position with his own strength to swallow the warrior into the ground, roughly blocking the gravitational force. the center of the earth.

"Sure enough, after being strengthened with psychic power, the real body becomes too heavy, comparable to a large asteroid."

Regarding this, Joshua had to sigh—the outer skin of Joshua in the steel giant form is an extremely thin layer of ultra-dense degenerate matter. From a microscopic point of view, it is completely composed of dense middle It is composed of sub-protons, and 90% of his steel power is used on it. Because of this, this extremely thin shell can almost isolate all energy penetration from the outside world, even the assimilation of the plague evil god's family can powerless.

But even this powerful defense is just a superficial appearance. The strongest function of this shell of steel power is far more than that. Its most important power is to absorb external energy and temporarily gather surrounding materials to increase Self-quality, so to speak, if the enemy's attack does not reach a certain level, such as the gamma rays of the demon lord Helm, then it is sending food to Joshua, and the attack of the stolen energy will make the power of steel Spontaneously assimilating the surrounding dust, the earth and rocks add mass to himself, which is why Joshua's weight will increase countless times as soon as he transforms into his real body, because he untied the shackles of the melting core furnace, and the huge Energy charges the Force of Steel, causing massive shifts in mass, even more so when enhanced by the psionic powers of the Atrium Men.

"At this time, there are still system messages?"

After roughly controlling his power, Joshua suddenly discovered something interesting: "It actually appeared again, long time no see."

He turned his attention to the system, but as always, the fighter still couldn't find the source of the system, even with the meticulous observation and control of the legendary powerhouse, he couldn't find where the opponent came from.

【The Descendant-Joshua Van Radcliffe】

[Status: A visitor from a foreign country, with spiritual energy soaring]

[Visitor from a foreign country: You are not an aborigine in this world, but unexpectedly, this world does not reject it, and actively welcomes you like a guest. The process of "adapting to another world" was cancelled, and the label of "aboriginal people" was temporarily added. 】

【——This is not returning to my hometown. It's just that this has become your hometown. 】

[Psychic Ascension: Tens of thousands of people have called for your arrival, and that is why you are here. For some special reason, the energy that should have restricted your actions has been completely blessed on your body, which has greatly increased your strength, greatly increased the temporary basic attributes, and increased the level of some skills. 】

【——Beyond the veil, infinite power. 】

Originally, there should be some lists related to age, attributes and charms behind this, but now all of them have become completely garbled characters, with strange lines like the most complicated and difficult magic runes at the bottom of the system The ups and downs flickered back and forth, and the confusion was more serious than before.

"Under the situation where I fully released the power of steel in my real body, this system has almost completely collapsed..."

Joshua couldn't help sighing when he saw the system with only a short paragraph of recognizable text, but there were frequent faults like snowflakes. However, because of this, the reaction of the system made the soldiers understand its existence With a certain guess, it must be some kind of existential power, so it will be affected by the power of steel, which is also the basic power. But now is not the time to care about the mere system. Joshua, who has settled all other matters, clenched his right lower arm, a layer of hazy silver light flashed on the solid steel arm, and the next moment, he put this His right hand pressed against his chest that was shining with golden light.

"boom!!!"

As if some kind of valve had been opened, or some kind of seal had been untied, accompanied by the rumbling sound like a mighty torrent, the high-density material shell covering the outer layer of Joshua's body suddenly acted like a cover, and was covered by the The right hand opened, and immediately a huge gap nearly 100 meters long and tens of meters wide appeared, revealing the extraordinary organ in Joshua's body that was extremely complex and completely composed of various strange half-energy and half-material structures.

At this time, Joshua, because the power of steel has not completely assimilated with the body, so the inside of the body is actually somewhat similar to that of a human being—the skeleton supporting the giant's body, with divinity as the bone marrow, and high-density matter as the bone, as if The red-hot steel-like muscle structure is completely composed of steel power woven into a spiral shape mixed with unknown supernatural substances. They are covered on the skeleton shining with silver brilliance, connecting the various strange organs inside the body, And the most important organ is the huge nuclear fusion reactor located in the center of the giant's body, which was originally the heart.

Like a ball, the crimson core of the fusion core simulates the energy reactor that exploded from the self-explosion of the fusion core star to create a huge energy flow all the time. The liquid energy drives every part of the organs and muscles in the body, creating enough The mighty force that allowed Joshua to easily move mountains and landfill land. Joshua has long used the power of steel to recode the genetic information and material structure in his body. Now, ninety-nine percent of the material in his body is equivalent to high-strength machinery at the micron or even cellular level, and everything is redundant. He completely discarded the rest of the information and structure, leaving only the ones that are most conducive to combat and survival. Now, in terms of pure physical strength alone, fighters can directly lift a small piece of the continental shelf and create artificial giants. islands.

All these, while making the steel giant's appearance more and more ferocious, also became more and more perfect and simple in the future.

"Except for the real body of the beholder Helm's thousand-eyed snake, I haven't actually fought other legendary powerhouses with all my strength, but judging from the current point of view, if I sublimate myself step by step The incarnation of perfect steel that is immortal and immortal, then it is probably the ultimate pursuit of 'energy cohesion'."

Realizing his powerful power, Joshua now has a new understanding of the legendary realm: "For beholders, the shape of the body, the number and size of eyes, and even whether they have eyes are all indifferent, because Their essence is the extraordinary creatures that are born with the ability to manipulate energy, that is, the original ray magic - Helm's study of gamma rays is one of the most correct paths for beholders, and it is not surprising that it can become a legend."

As for the shape of the snake, it is also easy to understand. After all, whether it is a human body or a strange body like other demons, it is not conducive to the condensation of energy. The long body can form a structure that condenses energy like a particle accelerator, and then the The destructive power of gamma rays is maximized. Joshua believes that if Helm can, he will definitely change his form into a form similar to that of ouroboros, so that the process of energy condensation will be infinitely repeated, forming a 'singularity' level of destructive power.

To put it bluntly, the way of transcendence is nothing more than to compress the natural evolution of a race that can take tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years, or even impossible, into a short period of decades or hundreds of years through self-sharpening, energy absorption, and directional breakthroughs. Inner, the two realms of extreme intention and legend are the leap of self-evolution, fully presenting the "way of self" in one step, and then becoming the culmination of the life system. Therefore, every strong man at the peak of legend can be regarded as the forerunner and achiever of the final evolutionary path of his original race. They abandoned the inefficient and slow method of natural evolution and directly reached the final step of life.

Natural evolution is a beast with simple thinking. It follows the only path towards the already determined end point. The extraordinary way is to master the trajectory of evolution by oneself. Countless people have countless uncertain paths, and then reach its final step through thousands of years of tempering.

"Unfortunately, the transcendent way inherited in the Mycroft Continent is actually not perfect. Not only the Mycroft Continent, but in the multiverse known so far, it seems that the existence that has reached this step is not perfect."

Thinking of this, Joshua couldn't help but sighed.

The legend has spanned hundreds of millions of years with extraordinary power, and directly became a super life form from ordinary people. This step is too fast and too big, and too many things have been ignored. In addition, the way of extraordinary itself is not a perfect evolution. System, it really values ​​individual talent too much and ignores the power of civilization, so the current legendary powerhouses are actually not perfect super life forms, otherwise, legends can be completely transformed simply by breeding offspring The blood of a race makes that race directly sublimate to the "God" in the eyes of ordinary races, instead of being reproductively isolated from ordinary life as it is now, and its lifespan is far from perfect immortality.

"Compared to Helm relying on energy to condense his physical body, which is used to imitate a particle accelerator to condense gamma rays, my steel body is essentially born for better fighting."

"Sturdy, extremely difficult to destroy, and versatile in all worlds. In addition, you can also load a variety of special structures, which are so-called plug-ins to better target combat. This is in line with my nature Instinctive form."

In the right hand pressed on the fusion core, there was a beating silver light condensed. Joshua inserted this hand into his body neatly, letting the light spread like thunder and lightning to his various organs, muscles and bones. . In an instant, the entire seabed space was transformed into a silver ocean of energy, so powerful that even the Atrium Fleet in the universe sounded an alarm. Between the lightning and the flint, one could see that the parts of Joshua's body touched by the lightning had turned into countless ashes-like silver particles. These particles flew in response to the energy fluctuations, and traces of patterns were outlined on the right hand of the soldier. It seems to be a trajectory like a mechanical blueprint.

The Realm of Material Reorganization!

At this time, Joshua was decomposing some of the organs and muscles in his body, and then reorganized them into a brand new existence. Accompanied by the frightening, unstable energy fluctuations that even the mother tree could feel, a star with a diameter of about four A huge crystal ball of about fifteen meters appeared under the furnace of the warrior's heart, and a series of golden-red spiral pipes connected the two, instilling a materialized energy flow. The charging crystal shone with an inexplicable silver-blue brilliance. It was connected to the heart and released a spiritual energy wave that was powerful enough to distort reality. When it was swept by this wave, the seabed crust within a radius of ten kilometers seemed to be lost. Gravity generally floats countless rocks and dust, and they sink and float with the fluctuations, and the magnitude of the rise and fall is as unpredictable as thinking.

Joshua Type I Psionic Leap Engine, loading is complete!

After accomplishing this step, Joshua pulled out his right hand, layers of metalized flesh covered and filled the original area, and then formed a high-density shell again. Cooperating with Joshua's information processing ability and control ability that has penetrated into the microcosmic level of matter, he can already use the power of steel to directly decompose and reorganize the material structure in his body. This ability can actually be used to attack, but it takes time to analyze It's really too long. If the fighter is really given such a long time to analyze, then he can kill the opponent dozens of times with his fists.

All in all, after thoroughly analyzing the psychic engine of the people in the courtyard, Joshua also has a psychic leap engine in his body. The output of this engine has not been tested, but the simulation experiment is good. His teleportation length should be about two to three times that of ordinary atrium fleets, that is, two or three times the speed.

"Turn the extremely condensed spiritual energy into a one-dimensional long line to create a vacuum of spiritual energy, and the entire ship resonates with the spiritual energy in this way, and directly transmits the one-dimensional long line to its end... It is worthy of Psychic energy is really a spiritual ability that is as magical as thinking."

Feeling the powerful power and peculiar operation of the Psionic Leap Engine, Joshua couldn't help but nodded in admiration. The civilization of the people in the atrium is indeed very miraculous, completely different from the ordinary technological civilization. Even if it is as huge as the mother tree The limit extension of his spiritual power is nothing more than covering a planet, but if this power is turned into a one-dimensional long line, even the power of a warship can be extended to hundreds of billions of kilometers away in an instant, and Joshua It is not impossible to extend the psionic energy to trillions of kilometers.

"The only thing that needs to be careful is to be careful not to accidentally teleport to the interior of the planet or the sun... The teleportation on a cosmic scale is okay. If it is teleportation inside the galaxy, it is too dangerous. It is better to fly directly."

The huge psionic energy not only satisfied the operation basis of the leap engine, but also gave Joshua a special sense. Now, like the people in the courtyard, he can feel the psionic energy around him as if he felt the existence of air. At a glance, the warrior can see the psychic light of the mother tree that fills the sky and the earth like the sun, this energy is far inferior to him even in the state of psychic ascension, but this huge power is extremely loose, not at all Cohesion, which greatly reduces the fighting power of the mother tree. And now, the mother tree, which is the gathering of countless psykers' wills, is fearful and wary of herself, but Joshua understands the other party's feelings. He knew that this was just a purely instinctive fear and avoidance of overly dangerous and powerful people. Generally speaking, it was still a friendly side.

In addition to leaping, the existence of the psychic engine is also a great enhancement of Joshua's power. The original warrior's high-density body shell is shaped to correspond to the power of the world of Mycroft, and it cannot completely block the strange power of psychic energy. This also allowed even a psyker of Mill Habs' level to see through Joshua's terrifying power. But now, through the previous self-adaptation and reconstruction, the warrior's shell has been able to resist the scanning of psychic energy, and even the battleship-level radar cannot scan him.

This is the way Joshua chose to evolve—through continuous imitation and assimilation of new systems to strengthen himself, just like the original star absorbs foreign asteroids to increase the quality of himself, he can continue to experience new civilizations and energies system to become stronger.

"Now when my outer shell is penetrated, it will even release terrifying energy like nuclear fission or even nuclear fusion... It is completely fusion reaction armor in a certain sense."

Clenching his four fists, Joshua waved them, and suddenly the huge force stirred up the seabed air, forming strange tornadoes. He nodded in satisfaction: "If it is the one who encountered the previous battle of the Holy Mountain now, If the Earth God Sword strikes directly, then I can block it directly with the external armor alone, instead of deflecting it with all my strength."

Going one step further, Joshua reckoned that even a gamma ray cannon would not be able to penetrate his outer armor if Helm didn't go all out. He can even pick it up with his face. At that time, it can be called neutron star reactive armor, and maybe black hole reactive armor, but that is too far away.

And at this moment, the mother tree also felt the violent spiritual energy fluctuations from Joshua's body, and its will descended, and asked cautiously: "The descendant of the curtain... Are you finished?"

"Yeah, it's done." Joshua nodded casually. From the beginning to the end, he spent almost a whole day researching the essence of the psionic engine and the void mother beast. This speed is enough for ordinary people. It is unbelievably fast, but for him who is good at assimilation simulation, it is just right. After all, a soldier does not need to understand the operation method of the psionic engine from beginning to end. He only needs to know how to use it, the principle or something , You can think about it slowly in the future.

"Your friend, another descendant from the other side of the curtain created a space storm of unprecedented scale in the center of the Far Eastern continent. He seems to have found a way to use his own power to make the leap, and he completed it earlier than you."

The voice of the mother tree sounded a little emotional, this is an inevitable thing, it took thousands of years for the people in the atrium to find out how to go to the starry sky and navigate in the universe. As a result, these ultra life forms from the other side of the void all lived within a day or so. It did the same thing within a short period of time. Although it knew that both Joshua and Nostradamus had to stand on their shoulders to do such an exaggerated thing, it still couldn't help but want to sigh.

"Nostradamus is a legendary mage of the time-space department. He even knew how to teleport, but he just adapted to your local energy and space constants. It's faster than me relying on entity analysis to barely use tools to teleport. It's a very normal thing."

Joshua smiled, he didn't discuss this topic too much, the soldier said directly: "I feel the tension and urgency in your psionic energy... Tell me, Mother Tree, is it Void Mother?" The beast has moved again."

"indeed so."

The will of the mother tree hesitated for a while, and then she replied simply and neatly: "The remaining fleets of the Garden of Flowers and the Garden of Roots have merged with the fleet of the Second Garden of Leaves, and they have returned to the colony planet for repairs, but at the same time However, the psychic radar scanned huge space-time distortion fluctuations—the time-space trajectory of the mother beast chasing them is warping space..."

"All in all, the situation is critical. Your last colonial planet is about to be invaded by a female beast?"

Joshua didn't let the mother tree continue, he interrupted the other party's words, and at the same time, the huge four-armed steel giant slowly shrank, and finally returned to the image of a human warrior in black armor. He said calmly: "Then don't say too much, just tell me where the Void Mother Beast is now, and send the space-time coordinates quickly."

"I'm leaving."

You can just think that yesterday's chapter and today's chapter and two chapters have been merged...

I posted a picture in the group, it is true that there is a problem with my background and I can’t upload it, it was updated yesterday by the help of the technical department of the starting point...