Chapter 831
Mechanical Civilization
For Jiang Shu, the situation at this moment was almost a matter of life and death.
At that moment, the mechanical giant's body trembled slightly, as if it had malfunctioned, and began to shake violently.
The mechanical giant's body was glowing intermittently, and various nodes on its body began to malfunction.
"Where am I? I...no!"
"Fate...I worship..."
Countless jumbled messages emanated from each of the energy cores and mechanical heads.
If Jiang Shu hadn't already learned the various languages of this world through the inheritance of the orc saint and a wealth of information, he wouldn't have been able to understand them.
I'm afraid I still won't understand what these words mean.
"Fate? Worship?"
Jiang Shu felt a sense of surprise. But he had no time to think about it. He was about to travel between the two worlds in front of everyone, especially the mechanical race.
It's easy for the Mech race to spot some clues.
If that's the case, he would need to reach at least the level of a sage when he returns.
The best approach is to charge out now.
One after another, the laws on his body erupted.
At this moment, the mechanical giant malfunctioned and its power was insufficient, so Jiang Shu was in much less danger.
In the blink of an eye, Jiang Shu withstood the attack and suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.
"We were almost, almost moved to another world."
A flash of killing intent suddenly appeared in Jiang Shu's eyes, and he immediately chased after the mechanical giant in the distance.
At the same time, other powerful beings also stepped into the subspace, chasing after the mechanical giant.
After all, entering the subspace doesn't mean one's whereabouts are unknown.
Even a Venerable One who doesn't understand the laws of time can use the laws of space to track things.
Many powerful figures stared intently at the mechanical giant.
At that moment, the voice of the mechanical mother pierced the subspace like a sharp sword, and then it made its own sound.
"Be careful, he's modifying the power of the laws again..."
"Modifying the laws of the universe? In the subspace?"
Jiang Shu's pupils suddenly contracted.
If the external environment is merely a calm lake, then the opponent's alteration of the laws is nothing more than stirring up waves within that lake.
However, the environment of the subspace itself is filled with towering waves, and those without sufficient power or special skills are not qualified to step into it.
Almost instantly, the already turbulent and chaotic subspace was stirred up again, just as a storm was stirred up in an already extremely turbulent ocean.
Upon seeing this, many powerful figures were immediately kept out of the storm.
"not good……"
Jiang Shu's pupils suddenly contracted, and he immediately realized the problem with his situation.
He had just been dragged into the subspace by that monster, and the distance between them was far too close.
The subspace storm has now been forcibly stirred up, which, in a sense, has effectively isolated him from the many powerful human beings in the distance.
At the same time, the mechanical giant did not formally attack Jiang Shu, but immediately turned around and left, as if something was wrong with him.
Jiang Shu suddenly looked towards the Mingkuang Star Region, a thought flashing through his mind.
"The frenzy unleashed by that monster is extremely dangerous even for me right now. Trying to cross it would be very risky. It would be better to retreat for now and find some peace in another region."
Without the slightest hesitation, Jiang Shu immediately headed towards a relatively calm area of the subspace waves.
He was extremely fast and did his best to maintain the surrounding spacetime environment.
However, before he could make a move, a sudden, sweeping wave from another world swept in, forcefully engulfing him.
Even he was somewhat unable to maintain his position in time and space.
"Damn it, looks like I'll just have to go with the flow..."
Jiang Shu gritted his teeth, suppressed himself, and did his best to maintain the stability of his time and space so as not to be completely swept away.
"Hold on, the mechanical giant's alteration of spacetime can't last long, after all, he's also on the run."
……
On the other side of the temporal wave, Zhan Jiuxiao's face was extremely gloomy. "Damn it, that brat Jiang Shu is on the other side. This is troublesome..."
Zhan Feng hurried over from the side.
The battle just now was not something he could easily participate in, so just now, Zhan Feng was only assisting the other Venerables.
"Father, what about my brother?"
"This is troublesome... I don't know how that kid is doing either, I can only wish him good luck."
"It should go to some corner of the universe."
"However, given Jiang Shu's abilities, unless a saint intervenes, even I wouldn't dare say I could completely subdue him."
"Moreover, you have known Jiang Shu for many years, so you should know that this person has a great secret. He will not perish easily."
After Zhan Jiuxiao finished speaking, he couldn't help but sigh.
"This……"
Zhan Feng's face fell, and he looked extremely ugly for a moment.
Although he knew that what his father said was true.
But it's important to understand that when moving from one world to another, the danger isn't just on the other side.
It also lies in the process.
After all, Jiang Shu wasn't at his peak when he got involved.
I don't know how many injuries he will suffer.
If we were to enter a completely backward world, without all sorts of rare and precious materials, it would take countless years to recover.
Not to mention, they returned to the universe and found them. Just then, a mechanical venerable flew over and appeared before the assembled powerhouses.
"Greetings, everyone. My clan's mother has sent me to deliver some words."
"What information?"
Zhan Jiuxiao frowned slightly.
According to their original plan, the entire star field was under their monitoring and management.
But that mechanical monster was truly beyond their expectations.
The next moment, a gentle female voice came from the mechanical venerable one's mouth.
"In the battle just now, I have figured out some of the opponent's secrets."
“He is not a single individual will like us, but the will of a collective, a being that is the unity of countless living beings and countless powerful beings.”
"What we just fought against was not a single individual, but a mechanical civilization."
"Mechanical civilization?"
The powerful figures present exchanged glances, all seeing the confusion and surprise in each other's eyes.
What does it mean to fight against a mechanical civilization?
At this moment, the mechanical mother continued to speak.
……
"it hurts……"
Jiang Shu suddenly woke up, sat up, and large beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
"I, I'm..."
His expression was blank and puzzled, as if he hadn't figured out where he was.
Just then, he came to his senses and found himself seemingly in a wasteland.
The surroundings were littered with various ruins and remnants, as if they had been destroyed long ago. At the same time, a memory began to slowly emerge in Jiang Shu's mind.
“I remember now. I seemed to be in a spacetime wave at the time, and I really didn’t know where to go. I just happened to discover a gap in the spacetime wave.”
"I emerged from that gap and entered a star field."
He looked down and saw a huge crater in the ground, clearly made by something smashing it open.
For a moment, Jiang Shu's expression became quite strange.
He roughly understood that this was a huge pit he had created himself.
"I must have stumbled into a starry sky by chance, and then drifted to this planet by accident."
Jiang Shu slowly got up and looked around.
At the same time, he felt a wave of exhaustion wash over him.
Unfortunately, Jiang Shu had suffered many injuries, which had not yet healed at this moment.
It's not just physical injuries, but also injuries to the laws of nature.
He took a deep breath and, while utilizing his own laws, searched for a safe area.
Soon, he found another cave.
Roar!
A low, hoarse roar suddenly rang out.
A giant bear, nearly three or four meters tall, crawled out of the cave, its scarlet eyes fixed on Jiang Shu, drooling continuously, clearly regarding Jiang Shu as food.
However, Jiang Shu laughed as soon as he saw the giant bear.
He casually picked up a stone and threw it away.
puff!
In the blink of an eye, the giant bear died and fell to the ground.
Jiang Shu threw the giant bear out and went straight into the cave.
He sat cross-legged and began to slowly recover his strength.
Sitting like this, almost half a month passed.
He left the cave only after his injuries had almost healed and the strange Daoist aura on his body had been completely suppressed.
"Go and see what's going on in this area."
Jiang Shu did not immediately use his divine sense to explore the surroundings, because this was very likely to attract the attention of other powerful individuals.
Jiang Shu's condition is far from good right now.
He simply confined his divine sense to a small area.
"found it……"
Jiang Shu's eyes lit up, and he immediately set off. In a short while, he arrived in front of a carriage.
In the ordinary mountains, a carriage was slowly moving, but the one driving the carriage was not a living person.
Instead, it resembled a mechanical puppet constructed from iron blocks and rivets.
At that moment, a sound came from inside the carriage.
"Uncle, how shall we begin our path of cultivation?"
Inside the carriage sat a young man and a middle-aged man.
It was the boy's turn to ask a question.
After hearing this, the middle-aged man stroked his beard and then said, "If you want to cultivate, you must obtain a spiritual root."
"If one possesses spiritual roots, one's cultivation will naturally progress by leaps and bounds; otherwise, one can only temper oneself, ultimately rendering one useless."
"Then I..."
The boy immediately became quite nervous and couldn't help but speak up.
Seeing the young man's stance, the middle-aged man chuckled and said:
"Feng'er, don't worry. When you were eight years old, I already determined that your spiritual root was not a useless one, so you can naturally cultivate."
Upon hearing these words, the boy breathed a sigh of relief, then happily said:
"In that case, do you think I will have the opportunity to join the Luo Tian Sect this time?"
"This……"
The middle-aged man was speechless for a moment, and hesitated before saying:
"Uncle, I don't know. Perhaps, perhaps there will be a chance."
Upon hearing these words, the young man's expression immediately darkened.
Luo Tian Sect is a sacred place for cultivation in the Great Jin Dynasty, and it is even guarded by a Venerable-level ancestor. Even the royal family can only treat him with courtesy.
Just as the uncle and nephew fell silent, the carriage suddenly stopped.
"what?"
The middle-aged man frowned and said, "Could it be that there's been another problem?"
He stood up, about to go and repair the iron horse, when suddenly, as if he saw something, his expression froze.
At that moment, a figure appeared not far away, blocking the middle of the road.
It was a young man, but his clothes were quite different from his own, and he even found them rather strange.
However, for some inexplicable reason, the middle-aged man felt a sense of fear, as if the person in front of him was someone he could not afford to provoke.
"Gurgle..."
Just as he swallowed hard, the young man smiled, and at the same time, a will resonated in the middle-aged man's mind:
"Excuse me, I stopped your car. But I'd like to ask you a few questions. Is that alright?"
"Yes, what are your orders?"
The middle-aged man nodded repeatedly, almost instinctively believing that the person in front of him was a senior he couldn't afford to offend.
"I am Li Gang, and the person inside is my nephew, Li Feng."
"It's nothing, but I wanted to ask you a few questions."
Jiang Shu pondered for a moment, then spoke to convey his will.
"What are you referring to?"
He had already discovered the uncle and nephew, and then, through the method of mind-to-mind communication, he understood what they were saying.
Then he grasped a special key.
Spiritual root?
"What does it mean that as long as one possesses a spiritual root, their cultivation speed will increase day by day?"
Whether it was the universe, or the vast and desolate demon realm, he had never heard of any such thing as spiritual roots.
Or rather, everything can be a path to spiritual cultivation!
As long as one can give birth to one's own divine soul and primordial spirit, that's fine.
As far as he knew, there was a Stone Man race among the demon race, whose bodies, apart from their souls, were composed of various metals and stones.
"what?"
Li Gang froze, a look of bewilderment immediately appearing on his face.
Seemingly caught off guard, the senior in front of him was asking about the most basic thing—what is a spiritual root.
He swallowed hard, then couldn't help but say, "Senior, the so-called spiritual root is something that is born in our bodies and assists in cultivation."
"Everyone can be born with a spiritual root, not just humans, but even beasts and plants can be born with one, except that the spiritual root born by beasts is called a spiritual core."
"The quality of spiritual roots is divided into four levels: A, B, C, and D, as well as the lowest level, waste."
“The cultivation speed of a low-grade spiritual root is extremely slow, and it is also more dull than other spiritual roots. As for other spiritual roots, the higher the grade, the stronger the aptitude and the more intelligent they are.”
……
Li Gang spoke at length about what spiritual roots are.
At this moment, his nephew Li Feng also poked his head out of the carriage. He had been listening to his uncle's words, but his expression was completely blank.
"This person in front of me should be a senior, but why doesn't he even know what a spiritual root is?"
However, the more Li Gang spoke, the more puzzled Jiang Shu became.
"Do you know what a spiritual root looks like?" (End of Chapter)