Flesh Is Weak, Mechanical Ascension

"Hero Core..."

Seeing Ge Xiaolun's troubled expression, Zhi Xin smiled. "Don't worry. I can teach you how to control Hero Core and make it work for you. By then, you might grow into someone no less formidable than Queen Keisha."

"But first, I need to teach you some basic theoretical knowledge..."

"Hey!"

Liang Bing closed the distance in a few quick strides and placed a hand on Qiang Wei's shoulder.

"You're walking so fast. Wait for me."

"Can't wait."

Qiang Wei said in a low voice, "If you want to follow me, walk faster."

"You're in a hurry?"

"Yeah."

Qiang Wei answered, "I found Leina."

"That Nuclear Bomb Goddess?"

Liang Bing remembered.

She had once used nightmare demons to disrupt the minds of the Super Soldier Squad's warriors, focusing especially on Di Lena.

In the end, she had successfully pushed Leina past her breaking point.

Although the operation had been intended to abduct Di Lena and eventually use her to kill that bitch Keisha, it had somehow gone unused afterward. Still, it had successfully driven Di Lena away from the main battlefield, buying the demons and the Taotie Legion some breathing room.

After all, Leina was a genuine god, a walking nuclear bomb with stellar energy.

As for what happened afterward, Liang Bing had not cared. The objective had already been achieved, and Leina was no longer useful.

She had not expected to see Leina here again.

Wait...

Liang Bing remembered her subordinates reporting that Pan Zhen had come to Blue Star.

Could it have been for Leina?

A hint of vigilance immediately rose in Liang Bing's heart.

If that God of War Pan Zhen had come, she would have to be even more careful. She might even have to prepare for a confrontation with Pan Zhen.

"Hmph... Pan Zhen, I don't care what you intend to do, but you'd better not ruin my plans."

Liang Bing frowned slightly. "Qiang Wei is almost mine. At a time like this... you'd better not pick a fight with me."

"Hm?"

Qiang Wei suddenly turned around and looked at Liang Bing strangely. "What did you just say?"

"Ah... nothing, nothing."

Morgana awkwardly cleared her throat. "I was just talking to myself!"

"Take your hand off me."

"Come on, Qiang Wei, we're already so familiar with each other. Don't fuss over little things like that."

"I said, take your hand off me!"

The two kept walking until they reached a motorcycle, the kind that could carry two people.

Qiang Wei took two helmets from a micro-wormhole and tossed one to Liang Bing.

"Put it on."

With that, Qiang Wei swung herself onto the motorcycle.

Liang Bing secretly delighted and hurriedly sat behind Qiang Wei, wrapping both arms around her soft, slender waist.

"You just said I couldn't touch you, but now... we're in especially intimate contact. What do you call that again... right, saying no while your body says yes. Such a tsundere~"

A flush appeared on Qiang Wei's cheeks. "Say one more word, and I'll throw you off the bike!"

"Don't, don't!" Liang Bing grinned slyly. "Um, Qiang Wei, I'm scared. Drive slower."

"You... Liang Bing, don't press so close!"

"Honored My God, thank you for granting me this body."

Taotie King Shi Hao knelt respectfully before Carl.

At this moment, his entire body was mechanical. The capabilities of this body far surpassed his former slow and outdated fleshly one.

"Mhm. How does it feel?"

"Better than ever, My God."

Shi Hao carried two blades on his back, pale blue light flickering in his eyes.

"I need you to do something." Carl's voice was calm. "Sino will brief you on the specifics. When the time comes, you may show your strength to your heart's content."

"My God Karl has bestowed her Divine Revelation. Shi Hao is deeply grateful."

With that, Shi Hao respectfully withdrew.

Sino glanced at Shi Hao's departing figure.

"Honored My God Karl, is it truly enough for only Shi Hao and me to make contact with the Triangle Civilization?"

"Forgive my bluntness, but those Triangle Civilization beings do possess some strange methods I cannot understand."

"It is entirely sufficient."

Carl said blandly, "Shi Hao's mechanical body carries equipment designed specifically to counter Triangle beings. Before you two, the Triangle Civilization will not be able to make any waves."

"However, I have only one requirement for this contact with the Triangle Civilization."

"Crush them."

Sino's body shook. "I understand!"

"Go."

Carl raised her head to gaze at the stars, the corner of her lips lifting slightly.

"By my calculations, Hua Ye, you should be unable to resist attacking Meru Heavenly Court any longer."

Once Meru Heavenly Court was occupied by the Old Heavenly Court, it would mark the true beginning of the fall of the Age of Divine Authority.

"It's... about to descend into chaos."

"Zerg Scourge... High-Dimensional Demons... These calamities, capable of destroying the universe, truly shocked us."

"But what will come next?"

"Yeah! Why did the Ranking List suddenly stop showing calamities?"

Following the pattern, the Ranking List should have displayed, one after another, the calamities that had once appeared and been destroyed by the Immortal Qin Empire Civilization.

Yet strangely, after showing the High-Dimensional Demons calamity, the Ranking List did not continue with another calamity.

Instead, it began displaying things they could not understand.

"We once first possessed electricity. We once illuminated the night. We once sought to exploit information to its fullest extent. We once truly understood positrons for the first time."

"We created AI."

"For the first time, we passed laws recognizing robots' legal rights as citizens. They were called intelligent beings."

"The evolution of organic life has always been describable, and only describable, by one simple and brutal word: failure."

"Today, we will define success ourselves."

"The age of organic life has ended. The future of the universe belongs to machines. This is the dawn of the Mechanical Age."

"Our age has arrived."

A robot sat upon a throne, speaking passionately to the billions beneath it.

The mechanical synthesized voice paired with that impassioned tone sounded incomparably jarring and strange.

Even stranger, those gathered beneath the throne, those surrounding their king...

Were not human!

Their exteriors gleamed with metallic luster.

Their eyes had been replaced by optical cameras.

A closer look revealed that the entire bodies of these "people" were made of dense circuitry.

This was a robot empire.

They had developed mechanical science to its utmost limit and believed that bodies of flesh and blood could no longer support further advancement.

Thus, they abandoned their fleshly bodies and uploaded their consciousnesses into robotic bodies.

Afterward, they possessed mechanical bodies, bodies that never tired, and minds capable of acquiring nearly all knowledge merely by implanting chips.

"Flesh is weak, mechanical ascension."

"Flesh is weak, mechanical ascension!"

Countless synthesized electronic voices resounded through the sky.

Countless Mechanical Arms rose high.