NOVEL WEB Chapter 819: Usurpation
In the Mechanical God Temple's Divine Hub Island, the shadow of the Divine Talisman Heavenly Venerate revealed itself within the bronze chains, reflecting the Holy Thunder Tribulation Fire and the Power of Purity surging inside Tan Shenzi.
At this moment, the platinum light mass emitted a sunlight-like radiance, and endless Holy Thunder Tribulation Fire burned along the gaps of the mechanical heart's gears. Each trace of Thunder and every flame of Tribulation Fire was stripping and refining his root will.
The Power of Purity, like an invisible brush, was cleansing the divine thought imprints embedded deep within the runes, inch by inch.
The Divine Talisman Heavenly Venerate let out a cold snort, and the bronze chains suddenly expanded. Each link of the chain emerged with ancient Mechanical God runes, twisting towards the Holy Thunder Tribulation Fire like a giant python.
These runes contained all powers capable of opposing flame and thunder—Water Virtue, frost, freeze, vacuum, gale, space, time sequence, and so forth, encompassing all. At one point, it compressed the sunlight-like heat into mere flickers of flame.
But even so, this Master of Light seemed to master the 'Immortal Method.' Both Divine Talisman Heavenly Venerate and Tan Shenzi were putting all their efforts into extinguishing the fire, yet it was all in vain.
The Holy Thunder Tribulation Fire clung like a leech. If there was the slightest relaxation in suppression or a slight lapse, it would burst forth with even greater brilliance in the moment when the chains entwined, scorching those runes into sizzling white smoke.
What was terrifying was that the components destroyed by the Holy Thunder Tribulation Fire would also frenziedly reassemble under the aid of the 'Immortal Method.'
The true will of the God of All Machines seemed to be emerging within this body.
Divine Talisman Heavenly Venerate swiftly changed his strategy, aiming his main attack at Tan Shenzi.
Wang Yinyue's 'Disordered Spirit Instrument' inadvertently aided him, entangling his and Tan Shenzi's primordial spirits into a mass.
But how could oil and water mix? This instead made it easier for Divine Talisman Heavenly Venerate to refine and replace Tan Shenzi's soul consciousness, bit by bit.
The numerous bronze rune chains moved through Tan Shenzi's mechanical shell like a venomous serpent, and the shadow of the Divine Talisman Heavenly Venerate grew more substantial amidst the roar of gears meshing.
Wherever his fingertips passed over a circuit, ancient glyphs were burned into the metal marrow, and Tan Shenzi's quantum chips continuously spat electric sparks. This Divine Talisman Heavenly Venerate was actually overwriting all programs within Tan Shenzi, along with every circuit and array.
"You'll never—"
Tan Shenzi could barely resist and could only operate the Myriad Spirit Reflecting Divine Art with all his might, his electronic eyes flashing frantically.
Simultaneously, he began guiding the white Tribulation Fire to enshroud those bronze rune chains within himself.
About five hours later, Wang Yinyue suddenly clenched her fists, staring intently at Tan Shenzi's mechanical body.
She hoped the Disordered Spirit Instrument would jumble the spiritual sense of the Divine Talisman Heavenly Venerate as expected, but the scene before her made her heart sink.
The gilded veins on Tan Shenzi's mechanical wings were being corroded by bronze, and the spiritual sense cleansing array she had painstakingly prepared crumbled inch by inch under the grind of the runes like a glass lamp falling into a mire.
The only consolation was that the Purgatory Source Core within the Disordered Spirit Instrument still burned fiercely, releasing boundless light and heat that even the Divine Talisman Heavenly Venerate could do nothing about.
Even Tan Shenzi began using the power of the Holy Thunder Tribulation Fire to resist and delay the intrusion and contamination of the Divine Talisman Heavenly Venerate.
However, Wang Yinyue could feel that Tan Shenzi's self-consciousness was growing weaker, while the shadow of the Divine Talisman Heavenly Venerate became increasingly stable.
Wang Yinyue's mood was one of utter despair and sorrow, thinking that their efforts were ultimately in vain, unable to stand against the ancient divine power.
Just then, the Divine Talisman Heavenly Venerate suddenly looked up, a trace of shock and anger flashing in his eyes.
He sensed a power above all runes surging from deep within the 'Root.'
"This is—Unity? Unity transforms all things, and all things return to Unity?"
It was an unimaginably powerful conceptual force. Though it had not reached the Divine Rank, it had become the source within the root of concepts like mechanics, precision, divine talismans, and arrays, weaving them into sovereignty.
The runes and arrays that the Divine Talisman Heavenly Venerate prided himself on were trembling, as if bowing to their origin and destination.
At this moment, Lin Rui uttered an edict, causing silver ripples to rise in the boundless sea of the origin. Nine pairs of Galaxy Light Wings continued to unfurl in the void, covering a 9000-li celestial expanse, each Light Feather reflecting the track of gear rotation: "Mechanics as limbs, precision as blood, divine talismans as bones, arrays as veins—all are extensions of my 'Unity!'"
The priests of the Mechanical God Temple and the Light God Sect also sensed it, chanting a Holy Song in unison: "Holy Thunder forges golden bones, Tribulation Fire tempers soul crystals. Runes carve the heavenly constitution, gears rotate eternally. Light Wings cover the star fields, origin traces to the supreme purity. Unity melds all mechanisms, God Machine guards the Light."
They had never learned this Holy Song, yet it came to them naturally.
Their song shook the heavens. Holy Thunder's golden flames on Tan Shenzi's mechanical god body suddenly shot up to the sky, burning through the heavenly curtain, and spraying thousands of golden rays like a cascading galaxy.
Countless gears, bearings, bolts, chains, chips, and circuits appeared in the sky, flattening the void into countless pleats. A hundred thousand gilded runes pierced through the star fields, and a torrent of holy power, carrying precise laws, swept through the universe.
Divine Talisman Heavenly Venerate gazed steadily at Lin Rui, who hung in the sky like a radiant Great Sun, thinking to himself, so it is.
This had long been planned; the birth of the God of All Machines was closely linked to his method of 'Unity,' with all of the God of All Machines' powers stemming from this Master of Light. How could they possibly exceed his control?
This primordial spirit struggle occurring within the body of the God of All Machines was clearly a trap aimed at him, the Divine Talisman Heavenly Venerate!