Chapter 283: How did this happen?

Judging by the naked eye alone, what is embedded in the iron claw at this moment is just an incomplete sword blade of one foot and two inches.

The sword light is like water, the chill is compelling, the blade pattern is complex, and it circles and overlaps.

It is enough to be called a good sword.

But from the spiritual quality perception of the Chosen One, what is seen is no longer the outline of matter, but the violent torrent released from it!

Like a volcanic eruption, a natural disaster appears.

Pure scarlet and void darkness intertwine with each other, turning into a vortex that expands without end.

The moment it was unsheathed, it made all witnesses hair stand on end, dizzy, trembling, and unable to control their fear. It was as if life and soul were also going to be swallowed by the vortex...

Evil among evils, fierce among fierce!

This is the third of the nine types of Elephant Sword—Panying.

Among the nine types of sword inheritance, it is the simplest and most difficult to learn, has the highest and lowest casting rate, and is also the dangerous inheritance that has killed the most artisans.

Compared with other prototypes, the casting of Panying's sword blank is unusually simple, nothing more than piling up materials, and the technical content and difficulty are really not high.

Although it possesses a chain sequence composed of seven blessings, spanning the three systems of Metamorphosis, Bai Lu, and the Big Group, as long as there is one, it can start, and the follow-up can be added by tempering and adding as the progress goes.

The entire casting process takes only three days to come out of the furnace, and the subsequent tempering and sharpening are gradually completed.

Well, it's just that many researchers often don't live to master it completely, and don't wait for the day it is completely completed.

Before this, basically, out of ten, nine and a half will die, and the remaining half might not wait for the day they walk out of the ICU alive...

Just like the broken sword in the Little Niu Ma's hand at this moment.

A semi-finished product of the sword blank, without tempering and sharpening, cannot be called a weapon at all... This is simply a mobile Sin-Tainted radiation source!

As long as it exists, it will continuously release the vortex, plunder all life and spiritual quality, and swallow everything with insatiable desire.

Moreover, it doesn't distinguish between friend and foe!

The way of grinding and cultivating is also straightforward, just like the vast majority of fierce weapons—sacrifice! Sacrifice! Sacrifice! Sacrifice!

I'll sacrifice it to explosion!

Kill enough to be strong, sacrifice more to be fiercer!

When it came out of the furnace, it was only one foot and one inch, far from the three-foot perfection realm. Every time the sacrificed soul is full, it needs to be tempered and recast, growing an inch, just like a fierce beast shedding its fetus.

Every inch cast, it becomes three points fiercer, three points more evil!

To reach the perfection realm, it needs to be tempered nineteen times.

The further back, the easier it is to lose control and explode the furnace, taking the sword artisan and the user to the same life as heaven and earth.

Every extra tempering, the fierceness surges by a cut, and the requirement for the controller and user's control power increases by one point... Even if it is simple and easy like a spring outing at the beginning, the low starting point will expand into a desperate astronomical number in the end.

If you give up, then all previous efforts are wasted, and all inputs are self-destructed and wasted—this can be called a strong man breaking his wrist.

If you don't give up, it's like walking a tightrope gambling with your life.

And in the end, there is usually no good end.

In the article "Speaking of Swords", the record of its dangerous degree and many failed cases is detailed, which can be called blood and tears, and the words are full of persuasion to quit.

It is called 【Extremely Fierce and Violent, Extremely Evil and Wicked】.

If the evil spirit and fierceness can be completely suppressed in the subsequent tempering and creation, and return to the right path, then the 'Panying' that has shed its fierceness can be called 'Shengxie', and then it is an impeccable Heavenly Artisan realm, a Kingly weapon.

It's just that...

In Ji Jue's view, there seems to be no need for this, right?

Anyway, the sword is used to chop people, the birth of a weapon is destined for casualties, why hesitate?

Even if the harm is great, the consequences are fierce, and the backlash is miserable...

As long as you don't use it for yourself, it's fine!

Don't you think so, Little Niu Ma?

"—Roar!!!"

At this moment, behind Ji Jue, the huge steel beast roared, the sharp and high-pitched horn sound of the past, at this moment, seemed to be mixed with the wailing and hissing of thousands of people, and the blood light rose all over its body.

Even the thick smoke sprayed from the exhaust pipe turned into sticky crimson, like blood-colored wolf smoke, soaring into the sky!

In a flick, it had already sped out.

The steel body of several meters stood up, two thick hind legs resembling wild beasts trampled the earth, and countless mud splashed.

The long tail danced, and the chainsaw-like structure spun wildly.

And on the four arms that were unfolded, one held a giant axe, one held an iron hammer, one was equipped with a close-combat armor-piercing anchor cannon dedicated to power armor, and on the last hand, under the infusion and raising of dragon blood, Panying shook violently, and the blood color on the broken edge surged, just like a scarlet giant sword of several meters, waving wantonly.

Fearless of impact and hacking, ignoring the control and suppression of gravity, and even not confused by illusions, the life and spiritual quality that Panying was hungry for would point the way.

Raging and charging!

Thunder shook, electric light galloped, descended from the sky, turned into a torrent, and instantly swallowed the Little Niu Ma, but in the dissipated fierce light, the monster shrouded in blood light was still violent, just that there were traces of dissolution on the outer armor plate.

The Entropy-series Chosen One didn't even have time to be dazed, and that steel beast face was already close at hand.

The blood-flowing giant sword whistled, hacking down!

From the top of the head to the crotch, it was evenly divided into two halves, and the corpse hadn't landed yet, and it had already lost its blood energy and spiritual quality, turning into shriveled remains.

On the sword blade, the blood light was one point thicker!

Combat tempering is indeed a good partner for blood-sacrificing fierce weapons, not to mention Ji Jue also spent money to buy the blessing 【One Heart's Persistence】 of the Metamorphosis Path from the association, further helping to grow the fierceness of Zhang Panying and improving the efficiency and stability of blood sacrifice.

The structural main material of the sword blank is the stone marrow sent by Sister Wen. Besides that, Ji Jue added his own blood, the Little Niu Ma's dragon blood, many Sin-Tainted auxiliary materials scraped from Quancheng, and even the corpse of the Ether old fogey on the cruise ship before.

Besides that, Ji Jue was afraid that the school wouldn't be violent enough, so he added fierce ingredients and mixed in some Sin-Tainted alchemy small techniques learned from the Jianyuan old fogey...

The fierce weapon Panying form is thus formed!

All the taboos mentioned in "Speaking of Swords" such as 'act according to one's ability', 'do not be too fierce', etc., were all violated by Ji Jue.

So much so that the moment Panying was born out of the furnace, it was constantly Sin-Tainted and deformed, backlashing the artisan in the furnace, and backlashing the user after coming out of the furnace...

It's a pity that these two, it couldn't bite either.

A Ji Jue with non-attack in hand and full Sin-Tainted resistance, and a mutated evil thing that is purely a combination of dragon blood and mechanical descent, negative and negative make positive.

With Little Niu Ma as the sheath, Panying, sealed within the dragon blood, couldn't stir up even the slightest storm. It could only grind against the dragon blood within Little Niu Ma's body, and while nurturing its baleful energy, it conversely refined the dragon blood.

The Little Niu Ma, which has dragon blood but no way to exert this foundation, and Panying, which has fierceness but is fundamentally weak, these two combined, fierce and fierce restrain each other, negative and negative make positive, simply a match made in heaven!

Under Ji Jue's adjustment and interference, between one car and one sword, a strange symbiotic state was actually formed, and even the life and spiritual quality extracted from blood sacrifice were one 'person' half.

Well, after excluding the big head offered to Ji Jue... Brother Ji Jue contributed the most, Brother Ji Jue worked the hardest, of course, Brother Ji Jue takes it first.

Boom!!!

The Little Niu Ma ignored the blockade of the solidified air, turned around suddenly, the anchor cannon was pressed against the chest of the wilderness ruins, pulled the trigger, amidst the high-pitched loud noise, the iron stone light dissipated, and then, Panying swept across!

The remnant corpse hadn't landed yet, the giant axe and iron hammer fell in an intersection, directly smashing the dazed Mirror-series Chosen One into a pool of rotten mud...

Massacre!

The combination of dragon blood monster and Panying, facing this group of Chosen Ones who were only at the Metamorphosis rank, was purely chopping melons and vegetables. In the desperate slaughter, it wasn't that no one wanted to attack the seemingly most vulnerable artisan Ji Jue.

But amidst the rainstorm, Ji Jue, who was holding an umbrella leisurely, just took out a bell from his pocket and shook it a few times, and immediately, the monster reshaped from the remnant spirit was reborn from the wriggling mercury.

Not to mention the activated machine guns and bomb spiders with legs rushing over. Within ten steps, even if it was just a momentary delay, under the invisible spiritual quality hand and dissociation art, it was enough to grind this group of miscellaneous Chosen Ones who fell to the wilderness to loot into powder.

Not to mention the extra blue bar bonus provided by the Doomsday Special Train's fuel tank.

No difficulty at all.

When Old Lin finally arrived with people, what he saw was only Ji Jue holding an umbrella amidst the mess.

As if nothing had happened.

Couldn't even see the corpses.

There was no hell as expected, only the rich blood energy that couldn't be dissolved and traces of cracks.

"Where are the people?" Old Lin was stunned for a moment.

"Well, everyone went on a group spring outing."

Ji Jue shrugged and told him: "Went to a very, very far place, won't be back for a while, and asked me to tell their relatives and friends not to miss them."

Hum—

In the middle of the night...

In his hand, the half-broken scarlet sword shook violently, the blood color wriggled, extending upward in strands, hungry and thirsty, plundering and backlashing. But no matter how the blood color entangled and eroded, it couldn't break through the spiritual quality isolation layer and touch the flesh and blood close at hand.

Ji Jue lowered his eyes, expressionless.

"To be a dog, you have to have the appearance of a dog."

He reminded softly, "Understand?"

Clearly there was no movement, and even the dissociation art hadn't been used, but the hungry, clanging sound stopped abruptly, as if recalling some terrifying haze, the broken sword body shook slightly, as if trembling, with strands of wailing.

So obedient.

"Very good."

Ji Jue nodded with satisfaction, threw out the broken sword that made people's hair stand on end, and it fell into the steel hand extended from the armored vehicle, layers of mercury circulated and locked, and it returned to the sheath.

The violent and crazy breath disappeared, as if it were an illusion.

"Is it packed?"

Ji Jue turned his head and asked, telling them: "Everyone's actions must be fast, next, there is still a long way to go."

Clearly smiling as before, but this time, the big groups were no longer as lazy as before, instantly holding their heads high and chest out, responding solemnly, no longer delaying, abandoning the spoils that were too late to be processed to the recycling team behind, and regrouped.

Amidst the rainstorm, a silent and strange convoy sped toward the new target again.

Then the next one, then the next one, then the next one...

Under the scouring of the rain, the remnant corpses were buried in the mud, and the blood color dissipated in the river.

After a long night, the clouds dispersed and the rain stopped. When the sun illuminated the earth again, the wilderness of Haizhou had never been so quiet.

Dead silence.

No news, no reports, and no echoes.

Within a few short hours, all the personnel secretly dispatched by the four major military-industrial complexes to Haizhou seemed to have evaporated, disappearing without a trace.

It wasn't until personnel were sent again, traveling far to Haizhou, that they could distinguish traces of the past in the unrecognizable ruins and relics.

And even, the final residue...

When the news reached Shang Tongwen's hands, he had just finished the meeting with the Dongcheng City Hall.

The subordinate stood at the door with a serious expression, knocked on the door, he was stunned for a moment, interrupted the conversation on the other end of the phone, and took the folder.

After opening it, there was only one photo taken from the scene.

In the ruined settlement that had been burned into scorched earth and turned into a mud pond in the rainstorm, the personnel and subordinates he sent out could no longer be seen. Amidst the mess, there were only gifts carefully arranged on the empty square.

Those broken bones were piled up messily, intersecting, and with this tragic shape, they conveyed greetings and invitations to the peepers on the other side of the photo:

They said:

——【hello】!

This is just the beginning of the greeting.

Immediately after, in the afternoon of the same day, the four companies of Echo, Xinyuan, Tiancheng, and Beijing received urgent reports from Haizhou, dense and fluttering, like snowflakes descending from the sky.

The two mines and non-ferrous metal smelters recently invested in by Beijing Group received notices of indefinite suspension for rectification due to sewage problems; the two fully loaded cargo ships of Tiancheng Industry that had just arrived at Yacheng Port were detained and fined punitively by customs due to carrying undeclared items; the car company under Xinyuan Power broke out huge scandals such as cutting corners and data fraud; the general manager of Echo Science and Industry in Chaocheng was officially arrested for bribery, intentional homicide, and stock market manipulation...

In just a few hours, all industrial chains in Haizhou suffered unexpected blows, and even the enterprise operations and production outside Haizhou were impacted and affected.

Just when Coast Group was crumbling under a wave of blows, Xu Chaoxian was dead or alive, and Lu Yingyue was far away in the Central City and unable to preside over the overall situation, the Tong family changed its low-key style of the past, walked from behind the scenes to the front, took over the situation, and then... the wind direction of Chaocheng, the only two central cities in Haizhou, changed suddenly.

Just at the juncture when the Chaocheng Governor was deeply involved in corruption investigations and had no time to take care of other things, the Lou family, which had a light relationship with the Tong family in the past, actually jumped out and stood in line!

Not just a close coordination and union in pace, but that very afternoon at 4:30, near the market close, Tianya Investment CEO Tong Shengnian and Guangji Industrial Executive Director Lou Guan appeared simultaneously at their own temporarily convened press conference. In a live television broadcast, they announced to everyone present: In order to revitalize local industry, boost the economy, increase employment rates, and create more value for society... under the auspices of both parties, they would proceed with the merger and reorganization of Yacheng's Coast Group and Chaocheng's Qiaoshi Group, to change their appearance, eliminate their ailments, and be reborn!

At that time, the reorganized new group will receive joint capital injection and holding from both sides, and at the same time inherit the seat of Qiaoshi Group in the Cosmic Heavy Industry Union, as well as the military-industrial qualification of Coast Group.

At the end of the press conference, both sides announced the name of the brand-new group after reorganization and restructuring...

——Haichao Industry!

Once the news came out, it was like a thousand-pound giant stone thrown into muddy water, setting off stormy waves, making the original dead water surge again.

From the silt, I don't know how many fish in the pool had their fate turned upside down, and I don't know how many life-and-death disputes will be spawned.

And at this moment, everyone's eyes focused on the Central City, the woman who was about to be awarded the official post of Haizhou Town Guardian.

Amidst the noisy meeting of the House of Representatives, Lu Yingyue sat between the two parties, smiling as before, as if light and breezy. At this juncture, this lunatic actually added weight!

And without even waiting for the market to open the next day, the Federal Trade Commission proposed an anti-monopoly investigation bill against the mergers of Coast and Qiaoshi, and for a time, new waves were set off in the House of Representatives.

At the same time, the chaos in Haizhou intensified again, and around Coast and Qiaoshi, new storms had appeared.

And at the same time, in the open and secret confrontation, the Southern Four Military-Industrial Complexes, led by Echo, and within the groups of Xinyuan, Beijing, and Tiancheng, also had a small problem...

Specifically, it was seeing a ghost.

Not only the car companies controlled or related to the four companies, but all friendly merchants who had launched sniper attacks against Coast Automobile fell into being overwhelmed, and scandals and lawsuits broke out one after another.

From the 30th, all manufacturers gradually found that for some reason, the defect rate of products produced on their production lines began to rise like a rocket, intensifying.

But no problem could be found, even if all equipment was dismantled and checked step by step, no problem could be found. Besides that, either the voltage caused damage to the die-casting machine, or the parameters of precision parts were wrong, or the engine seal was wrong, or the motor system had poor contact...

Even after heavy screening and finally leaving the factory, after delivery, it would inexplicably appear to be parked due to various messy idiotic accidents after ten kilometers.

This kind of problem doesn't need too much, even if one in twenty vehicles has a problem, the bad influence brought will make enterprises and manufacturers suffer heavy losses.

So much so that, accompanied by the reconstruction of Coast Automobile Factory, the entire market began to show strange depression and turbulence.

Regarding this, Factory Manager Ji of Coast Automobile Factory, after just finishing a long-distance trip and returning to the factory to drink tea and watch the fun, expressed a sharp comment:

——It's really strange! How did this happen?

It wouldn't be retribution for doing too many bad things, right?

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 284 =====