We Should Have Struck Them Head-On Long Ago (43, Thanks to the Silver Alliance Leader Chi Lei Wu Hen)

The steel-forged earth heaved and rose, like a silver giant god breathing in and out boundless primal energy. As its breaths grew ever more rapid, the flow of energy surged ever more fiercely. Vast numbers of tiny silver machines, like mercury, emerged from cracks in the earth and ruined buildings.

They began to break down and devour everything, transforming all the rugged, impassable ruins into a silver sea of liquid. Iridescent light shimmered across their surfaces as they continuously extended nimble tentacles and limbs, carrying out incomparably complex assembly and transformations, becoming all manner of intricate structures and machinery.

Wherever they passed, the ruins vanished, while towers and buildings rapidly took shape, like mountain peaks solidifying out of the sea into steel icebergs standing amid silver waves.

"Th-this is Thousand-Mechanism Flowing Mercury?"

Shang Yuguang, who had maintained an expressionless face all along, saw the sight through the screen and could not help widening her eyes. Her own body was constructed from these minute Thousand-Mechanism Strange Apparatuses, but the ones within this Grotto-Heaven were clearly more advanced, more powerful, and more agile than those that made up her body!

In the main hall's control room, An Jing raised his brow as well. "This is the prototype of the Kun Demon?"

"Yes. One could even say that after the Kun Demon became 'life,' its abilities deteriorated considerably."

Watching it all, Yin Yuelan's expression was filled with pride. "This is the true Thousand-Mechanism Strange Apparatus, the Dao Court's greatest engineering creation—apart from requiring an astronomical amount of Spirit Fiend to activate, it has no flaws whatsoever. And that flaw is less its own than ours."

"Unfortunately, the current Thousand-Mechanism Strange Apparatus is still incomplete. Its crucial nodes were destroyed back then, and what remains are merely backups that were not contaminated by Heavenly