Solo Battle

"You all deserve to die!" A cold voice rang through the sky.

Looking at the Mechanical Race that had already closed in around him, Li Ze saw a vast Puppet Legion formed from countless C-grade and D-grade Mechanical Puppets, with Mechanical Race soldiers hidden among them.

At a glance, the Puppet Legion had completely surrounded Li Ze's position.

"If all these elite Mechanical Race squads die here, will this Sacred Mountain Battle even need to continue?"

Holding the Annihilation God Weapon, Li Ze remained remarkably calm before so many Mechanical Race puppets. There was even a Cold Smile on his lips.

Faced with so many Mechanical Puppets, Li Ze was not worried in the slightest.

For one thing, these Universe-level Mechanical Race members did not possess much wealth. Aside from the enormous expenditure required to strengthen themselves, they would not have much left to manufacture Mechanical Puppets. Moreover, the puppets they had made were merely C-grade and D-grade metal puppets, whose attacks could barely display the power of a newly advanced Universe-level fighter.

Furthermore, the current Mechanical Puppets had been manufactured and controlled by different Mechanical Race soldiers. The differences between the puppets made it impossible for them to coordinate closely.

On the other hand, one should not forget that Li Ze was also a Controller of the Mental Master path. Having reached Universe Level 9, his Mental Power had increased enormously, and the power he could unleash through the Enlightenment God Weapon had also risen greatly!

No matter how numerous these Mechanical Puppets were, they were nothing more than targets for slaughter!

What he truly needed to watch out for were the Mechanical Race soldiers hidden among the countless Mechanical Puppets.

Most of these Mechanical Race members had comprehended Origin Laws. Their attacks could injure him, and because they were concealed within the vast number of Mechanical Puppets, he could not easily kill them.

The Mechanical Race were Intelligent Lifeforms by nature. With the Mechanical Puppets in their hands, as well as their formations, terrifyingly precise control, coordination, and strategy, every one of them could create powerful attacks and defenses. They were extremely troublesome.

Within the Space-time Fortress, inside a distant abandoned building away from Li Ze's battlefield.

Mechanical Race commander Lanmos watched the image of Li Ze being surrounded and grinned. "In the end, our Mechanical Race will still claim victory in this Sacred Mountain Battle. Attack!"

Suddenly, the countless Mechanical Puppets surrounding Li Ze launched their attacks.

Five-meter-tall golden robots, each holding a D-grade alloy heavy sword, charged at Li Ze under the commands of the Mechanical Race soldiers. A flash of red light passed over their alloy blades.

One-meter-tall silver robots, all made from C-grade metal, each had eight mechanical legs like a spider. Their heads were covered in eyes, and bolts of lightning shot from those many eyes, converging into huge streaks of electric light that blasted toward Li Ze.

Half-meter-tall blue robots instantly assembled by the hundreds, forming a giant mechanical puppet over a hundred meters tall. It wielded a massive light sword and swung it at Li Ze.

For a moment, all manner of attacks poured forth from the countless Mechanical Puppets.

Various energy and Material Attacks engulfed the area where Li Ze stood.

Li Ze used his strange movement technique, swiftly weaving and evading through the barrage of attacks.

These Mechanical Race puppets lack flexibility in their attacks. They can't hit me at all. Li Ze thought as he dodged.

Suddenly, a massive lightning net formed from hundreds of C-grade metal puppets swept toward the constantly evading Li Ze.

Lightning flashed across every C-grade metal puppet, making them resemble individual thunderballs. These thunderballs became the many nodes of the great net.

From the hundreds of nodes emerged intricate Mystic Patterns containing immense lightning energy. Linked together, they formed the cords of the massive net.

The enormous electric net carried powerful binding and suppressive force. That overwhelming pressure rapidly closed in and directly covered Li Ze. The net actually contained fluctuations of the Law of Space Origin, startling Li Ze.

"Ha!" Li Ze shouted softly as Original Force and the power of Origin Laws erupted from within him.

He swung the Annihilation God Weapon in his hand, and a gigantic crimson energy sword slashed toward the lightning net.

Screech!

Like a sharp blade cutting through a net, the gigantic energy sword instantly tore a long gash through the lightning net.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

The energy nodes formed by the Mechanical Puppets could not withstand the impact after coming into contact with the giant energy sword, exploding one after another.

Whoosh!

The instant the lightning net was torn open, Li Ze had already passed through it. Before him was a group of five-meter-tall golden robots wielding alloy giant swords.

"Kill!"

With a roar, the Annihilation God Weapon in Li Ze's hand moved with his will. A crimson Sword Light over a hundred meters long swept out from it.

The crimson Sword Light seemed to cross the distance of space itself as it slashed into the foremost golden robots.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

A continuous series of explosions rang out as the robots charging at the front directly shattered apart.

As Li Ze advanced, the Annihilation God Weapon in his hand swung continuously. One Sword Light after another, each more than a hundred meters long, cleaved ahead, shattering countless robot puppets.

Whoosh!

Li Ze, wielding the Annihilation God Weapon, was like a phantom. His figure flickered in and out of sight as he instantly shuttled through the void and vanished from view, only to appear out of thin air dozens of meters away in the same moment.

Bang! The Annihilation God Weapon struck a giant mechanical puppet formed from numerous smaller puppets.

Boom! Scorching, explosive energy detonated across the puppet's body. The Mechanical Puppet was immediately blasted far away, crashing into the surrounding Mechanical Puppets.

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

Empowered by the Law of Space Origin, Li Ze's movement technique was as swift as a phantom. Attack after attack appeared without warning and smashed into the Mechanical Puppets.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, a blue light appeared among the many puppets. It was a metal Long Whip carrying enormous energy and the aura of Water Origin, lashing toward Li Ze as he shuttled about and slaughtered Mechanical Puppets.

At the end of the metal Long Whip stood a Mechanical Race soldier over three meters tall, with a body resembling that of a human.

Nine other Mechanical Race soldiers stood nearby, each holding a metal plate. The nine metal plates formed a strange pattern as streams of energy gathered toward its center.

"I found you!" While fighting the Mechanical Puppets, Li Ze had remained alert to the surrounding battlefield. He immediately sensed the presence of the Mechanical Race soldiers.

Whoosh! Li Ze's figure suddenly vanished from where he stood. When he appeared again, he was already not far from those ten Mechanical Race soldiers.

Whoosh!

Cleaving Sword—an enormous crimson energy sword nearly thirty meters long instantly formed and shot toward the nearby Mechanical Race soldiers.

The Mechanical Race squad soldiers preparing to attack had clearly not expected Li Ze's senses to be so sharp. Their attack had not even arrived when Li Ze's attack had already slashed toward them.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

The huge energy sword directly struck the Mechanical Race soldiers one after another. Scorching energy traveled through their D-grade-hard bodies and into their internal Origin Cores, shattering them.

The light in those Mechanical Race soldiers' eyes went out in an instant. They became metal wreckage and crashed toward the ground.

As that Mechanical Race squad was eliminated, the thousands of puppets controlled by those soldiers also lost control at once. They became motionless and fell toward the ground.

With thousands of Mechanical Puppets gone, a huge gap immediately appeared in the Mechanical Race encirclement.

Whoosh!

Seeing the opening, Li Ze did not pause for even a moment. His strange movement technique flashed as he rushed toward the outside of the Mechanical Race encirclement.

The other Mechanical Race squads saw this and hurriedly controlled their Mechanical Puppets toward the gap, trying to stop Li Ze.

Before the opening could be sealed, Li Ze successfully broke out of the Mechanical Race encirclement with his movement technique.

His figure flickered as he rapidly widened the distance between himself and the Mechanical Race Puppet Legion.

In mere moments, Li Ze had arrived several hundred meters away from the Mechanical Race squads. The Annihilation God Weapon in his hand vanished, replaced by a Long Mace covered in crimson Mystic Patterns.

After killing that squad of Mechanical Race soldiers, Li Ze understood that if he did not deal with the Mechanical Puppets controlled by those soldiers, the Mechanical Race soldiers would likely no longer dare to reveal themselves.

To increase the speed at which he killed the Mechanical Puppets, Li Ze decisively took out the Enlightenment God Weapon and directly employed the methods of a Controller.

Nine crimson streaks of light flew from the Long Mace, condensing in midair into nine red illusory swords that shot toward the many Mechanical Race puppets.

After Li Ze broke through to Universe Level 9, his Mental Power had also risen to the level of Universe Level 9. However, because he had not had time to continue studying the third form of the Enlightenment God Weapon, he could still only use its second form.

The difference from before was that, due to the increase in his Mental Power, the second form of the Enlightenment God Weapon was now much more powerful. He could also activate nine red illusory swords at once.

As one of the nine great weapons of Controllers, the Enlightenment God Weapon had been the last among the nine great weapons to be created.

Back then, the expert who had obtained part of the Qishen Clan's inheritance had drawn upon the other divine weapons while creating the Enlightenment God Weapon. Thus, it shared many similarities with them. Aside from the different Origin attributes it contained, its nine forms did not differ greatly.

The Enlightenment God Weapon's full name was the Nine Rebirth Enlightenment God Cudgel. In its ordinary form, it was a crimson Long Mace composed of 10,081 crimson swords as thin as cicada wings. Every crimson sword contained incomparably profound fire and Law of Space Origin Mystic Patterns.

The Enlightenment God Weapon could also be used in nine forms, each more powerful than the last.

The first form was called Enlightenment Sword Style.

The second form was called Explosion Sword Style.

The third form was called Blazing Sword Style.

The fourth form was called Treating Light as Heavy.

The fifth form was called Explosive Space.

The sixth form was called Self-Contained World.

The seventh form was called Enlightenment God Heaven and Earth.

The eighth form was called Void Shuttle.

The ninth form was called Immortal Can Also Be an Enemy.

Within the Space-time Fortress, Li Ze alone faced the enormous Mechanical Race army.

"Kill!"

With a furious shout, he controlled the nine red illusory swords and sent them charging toward the Mechanical Race army.