Luo Feng's Blade

Although the F-tier Lightning Machine Puppet's body, forged from metal, granted it strong defenses, its offensive power was incredibly weak. Fortunately, countless E-tier Machine Puppets absorbed the vast lightning energy provided by the 'Lightning Prison,' then gathered and transferred it to the core F-tier Machine Puppets, which is how their attack power became formidable.

Even so, a single F-tier Lightning Machine Puppet only possessed the combat strength of a Sector Lord vanguard.

“Damn it, these guys are truly troublesome,” Taiwo roared in frustration.

3,000 F-tier Machine Puppets surrounded Taiwo from all directions, trapping him in a dense encirclement.

They continuously absorbed energy transmitted from the surrounding E-tier Machine Puppets, using it to bombard Taiwo repeatedly. Perhaps the attack of a single F-tier Machine Puppet wouldn't bother him, but 3,000 of them… if even a third of them struck him simultaneously, it would be a nightmare!

Fortunately, he was quick enough to dodge.

“Bang!”

“Boom!”

Taiwo repeatedly sent F-tier Machine Puppets flying, reducing the number surrounding him. Yet, in just a moment, those blasted F-tier Machine Puppets flew back, completely unharmed.

No matter how fast Taiwo attacked… the number of F-tier Machine Puppets assailing him at any given moment never dropped below 2,500.

And so—

Taiwo was firmly entangled by these 3,000 F-tier Machine Puppets, utterly unable to break out of the encirclement.

“Everyone, be careful. After absorbing a large amount of lightning energy, each of these F-tier Machine Puppets is comparable to a Sector Lord vanguard,” Taiwo urgently transmitted. “Poison… it’s up to you. The enemy doesn’t know your true strength, so give it your all. Take Meinv and Wei into your World Ring.”

“And Crazy,” Taiwo observed the battlefield and noticed Luo Feng’s ferocity. “You can unleash the ninth stage of the Yan Shen Blade; help the other team members too.”

…

“Understood!”

“Understood.”

Poison and Luo Feng responded simultaneously.

Poison, using the numerous dark-green vines extending from his body armor, swept up a large number of ordinary Machine Puppets, indiscriminately clearing a path. Instantly, the entire Machine Puppet army formation fell into chaos, and the 100 F-tier Machine Puppets that were supposed to besiege Poison couldn't absorb enough lightning energy.

In fact, everyone present could see that those F-tier Machine Puppets were essentially just large chunks of metal.

A lifeless metal object had no offensive capabilities.

The reason these F-tier Machine Puppets had strong attack power was because countless ordinary Machine Puppets absorbed and transmitted energy from the ‘Lightning Prison.’ Without the ‘Lightning Prison’… these F-tier Machine Puppets would be no threat. And without a large number of ordinary Machine Puppets, the F-tier Machine Puppets’ energy absorption efficiency would likely decrease by thousands or tens of thousands of times.

“Poison, be careful,” Luo Feng transmitted.

Originally, there were 800 F-tier Machine Puppets, but now a full 400 of them simultaneously attacked Poison.

The other 400 were divided among Luo Feng and the other eight members.

“Little guys,” Luo Feng said, stepping on his Dark Cloud Shuttle and controlling his Yan Shen Golden Blade.

Whoosh!

The Yan Shen Golden Blade was like a ghost, appearing and disappearing, instantly traversing space and vanishing from sight, only to reappear hundreds of meters away in the same instant. “Bang!” The Yan Shen Golden Blade directly struck an F-tier Machine Puppet. The ninth stage of the Yan Shen Blade could harm even ordinary Undying Gods, so its attack power was immense.

“Boom!” That F-tier Machine Puppet was instantly sent flying far away, tumbling wildly.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

The Yan Shen Golden Blade was as fast as a ghost, sometimes traversing space, sometimes appearing, striking the F-tier Machine Puppets. One must know… the Yan Shen Golden Blade possessed the ability to traverse space, so its movement speed was terrifying. It absolutely surpassed the physical movement speed of an Undying God like Taiwo. Any deity without instant teleportation ability could not compare to the Yan Shen Golden Blade in terms of speed.

Even Taiwo could send nearly 500 F-tier Machine Puppets flying in a short time.

And the 50 Machine Puppets besieging Luo Feng were all sent flying in the blink of an eye, as the Yan Shen Golden Blade struck 50 times in a flash.

“Whoosh!”

Luo Feng, stepping on his Dark Cloud Shuttle, flickered and quickly approached Meinv, who was struggling the most defensively.

“Meinv,” Luo Feng arrived like lightning, and the Yan Shen Golden Blade merely flickered continuously, sending all fifty F-tier Machine Puppets flying.

“Crazy, Crazy, I love you!” Meinv, who was in a desperate state, cried out in joyful surprise. “Quick, take me into your World Ring!”

Swoosh!

Meinv was taken into Luo Feng’s World Ring.

“Damn it,” Poison gritted his teeth. He had originally taken out a bottle containing a faintly colored potion, but seeing Luo Feng’s explosive display, he smiled and put the potion away.

On the battlefield.

Luo Feng moved like lightning through the Machine Puppet army, while the Yan Shen Golden Blade occasionally traversed space, occasionally appearing, its attack speed terrifyingly fast.

“Hahaha… this new recruit the captain invited is truly amazing! Crazy, I genuinely admire you now!” Wei, the illusionist, who was also struggling against 50 F-tier Machine Puppets, cackled with laughter and blew Luo Feng a kiss, clearly thrilled to have escaped a deadly situation.

Swoosh.

Wei, the illusionist, was also taken into Luo Feng’s World Ring. Luo Feng had acquired 100 World Rings casually in the Wulong Starfield; he had plenty of them.

“Come here quickly!” Hammer shouted urgently. “I can’t hold on much longer!”

Hammer was an incredibly fierce warrior, strong in attack and defense, but much less flexible. He was often hit by some F-tier Machine Puppets, and if not for some innate abilities, he would have died long ago.

“Swoosh!”

As the fifty F-tier Machine Puppets were directly blasted away, Hammer was also taken into Luo Feng’s World Ring.

…

“Crazy, impressive,” Rock, another new recruit, praised admiringly.

“Woo, the first time I saw Crazy, I knew he was a master. Haha, look how powerful, how sharp he is! 50 F-tier Machine Puppets… they’re like toys before his Yan Shen Golden Blade. The ninth stage of these nine divine weapons is indeed strong,” Shenling, the Sector Lord in white combat armor, laughed heartily.

“Tsk tsk, we’ll be happy from now on. Haha…” Cyclone, the warrior, also laughed.

…

One by one, they were all taken into Luo Feng’s World Ring.

Now, only four people remained under the siege of the Machine Puppet army: Taiwo, Poison, Luo Feng, and Kuangwu.

Kuangwu, a mental-force master, used the ‘Wind and Space’ combined divine weapon, ‘Cracked God Blade.’ Currently, Kuangwu’s use of the Cracked God Blade was comparable to the eighth stage of the Yan Shen Blade, ‘Golden Blade Slashes Void,’ and the Cracked God Blade’s speed when unleashed was astonishingly fast, allowing him to easily fend off the 50 F-tier Machine Puppets on his own.

“Haha, Crazy, come give me a hand!” Taiwo shouted excitedly via transmission.

“Coming.”

Luo Feng stepped on his Dark Cloud Shuttle, charging rapidly, while controlling the Yan Shen Golden Blade.

“Buzz~~~” The Yan Shen Golden Blade transformed into countless sword light phantoms. In the blink of an eye, hundreds of F-tier Machine Puppets were simultaneously blasted tens of thousands of kilometers away. This was still because a large number of ordinary Machine Puppets were obstructing them; otherwise, being sent flying millions of kilometers would be perfectly normal.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

The Yan Shen Golden Blade was as fast as lightning, appearing and disappearing, and the ordinary Machine Puppets couldn’t affect its speed at all.

The ability to ‘traverse space’ was simply too heaven-defying, making its speed terrifying.

Instantly! 500 Machine Puppets had already been sent flying far away…

By the time the first blasted Machine Puppet flew back, Luo Feng had already sent 2,000 F-tier Machine Puppets flying, and Taiwo had seized the opportunity to escape the encirclement.

“Haha, Crazy, well done!” Taiwo exclaimed with joy.

Boom! Boom! Boom!~~~

The entire ‘Lightning Machine Army’ that had been besieging Luo Feng’s team suddenly began to retreat rapidly, splitting into nine directions, and the ‘Lightning Prison,’ which had been active, instantly shut down.

“They’re gone.”

“They’re retreating.”

Kuangwu, Poison, Taiwo, and Luo Feng, all four of them, watched from afar as the massive Lightning Machine Puppet army retreated in nine directions.

“Should we pursue?” Luo Feng asked.

“We can’t pursue,” Taiwo shook his head. “A Machine Race member capable of such a grand feat must possess an ‘Origin Crystal’ comparable to the self-detonation of an ordinary Undying God. Even the cheapest Fire God Origin Crystal… is very expensive. Using it to attack us would be a losing business for that Machine Race member. But if we continue to pursue and provoke him to fight to the death… if a Fire God Origin Crystal explodes, we might all be wiped out if we’re not careful.”

Luo Feng was startled to hear this.

Fire God Origin Crystal… he had mentioned Fire God Origin Crystal when fabricating an excuse to Yanzhu King.

A low-grade Fire God Origin Crystal (comparable to the self-detonation of an ordinary Fire Undying God), with Luo Feng’s current authority, could be exchanged for one at a discounted price of 600,000 points.

And for the ‘Machine Race,’ who excelled at manufacturing, the internal cost might be even lower!

It was perfectly normal for a Machine Race member capable of deploying a ‘Lightning Prison’ to have something like a ‘Fire God Origin Crystal’ for self-preservation.

“My guess is correct; this Lightning Machine Puppet army must have suffered heavy losses before attacking us,” Poison chuckled. “We’ve experienced similar battles before. Looking at the strategist’s battle control and resources… they could have done much better.”

…

Far away, inside a damaged spaceship cabin.

Palati, sitting in an alloy chair, let out a low growl: “One has a ninth-tier auxiliary plant life, and another has cultivated the Yan Shen Blade to the ninth stage. How unlucky to encounter such a rare team of human Sector Lords… If, if I hadn’t lost so much after killing the Marquis Undying last time, and my entire Lightning Prison attack system wasn’t incomplete, how could you have escaped? Consider yourselves lucky. I hope I don’t run into you again.”

…

In the void.

Taiwo took out another E9-class spaceship.

“Captain, this spaceship is identical to the last one, the only difference being that the ‘rest lounge’ is empty,” Luo Feng said with a smile.

“It’s not empty now,” Taiwo said, standing in the spaceship’s internal corridor and pointing forward.

Swoosh.

The rest lounge cabin appeared out of thin air, then was secured by various slots, instantly forming a perfect whole.

Immediately, Luo Feng and the other three stepped into the rest lounge cabin.

“Haha, I ordered 600 of these E9-class spaceships in one go back then,” Taiwo laughed. “All the same style. The spaceship’s maximum speed in the Dark Universe is only 1.2 times the speed of light, and the surface solidification secret patterns are very simple. You could say they’re the cheapest E9-class spaceships. But over the years, 182 of the 600 I ordered have been destroyed. Oh, right, release everyone else.”

“Mm,” Luo Feng nodded, and with a thought.

Instantly, Cyclone, Wei, Shenling, Rock, Meinv, and Hammer all appeared.

All nine team members and the captain were gathered together.

“Crazy,” Meinv said crisply, “I love you.”

“Haha, our team has another expert!”

The rest lounge erupted in cheers.