Chapter 342: A Great Being of the Lingneng Clan Descends? An Unexpected Visitor

Even though the Chuixing Pao that Baichuan had replicated at this moment was merely a half-finished product, it was still not something an ancient treant that hadn't even reached Planet Overlord could obstruct!

Brilliant, dazzling light surged forth from the mechanical bixi's mouth in the form of a stream of photons, like the most beautiful thing in the world streaking across the sky. After sweeping away the ancient treant's extraordinary right fist with irresistible force, it pierced straight through the ancient treant's massive, rock-solid, magnificent body, and finally shot toward the azure, distant heavens.

The dazzling, eye-catching radiance completely illuminated the entire sky, proclaiming to the world this terrifying power capable of shattering continents!

"Wh-what… exactly… what… power…"

A huge gaping hole appeared on the chest of the ancient treant controlled by the Great Elder. He slowly lowered his head, staring at the massive piercing wound on his chest and the overwhelming power within that could make one's heart pound with fear at even the slightest leakage. The Great Elder, whose consciousness was already slowly dissipating, questioned in confusion.

Unfortunately, he would no longer have the chance to receive an answer.

The next second,

The astonishing explosive force brought by the still-rushing terrifying stream of light directly blew his body to smithereens!

"BOOM!!!"

The deafening, enormous explosion only reached their ears from afar at this moment, like the grandest of fireworks displays.

"What?!"

"No! Impossible!"

"Th-the Spirit God was defeated?!"

"Defeated in an instant, no less?!"

"Am I dreaming?"

Staring at the situation that had completely reversed in an instant, one after another cries of disbelief rang out. The people, each of whom had even prepared themselves for death, were utterly dumbfounded, completely unable to believe that this mysterious beast from god-knows-where had defeated the Forest People's Spirit God in one go!

Among them, the Black Stone Mountain Range Elder, who had just been chatting away moments ago about how immensely powerful the Spirit God was, was especially unable to believe it. Facing the playful, knowing gazes of the others as they came back to their senses, his face flushed red with anxiety as he stammered out words that even he himself couldn't understand.

Things like how he really hadn't been lying, nor had he grown senile; how a worldly-wise old man like him could possibly exaggerate; how an elder's words couldn't be called nonsense—strange words and stranger talk.

However, shocked as the crowd was, the explosion of the Spirit God was still fresh in their minds and couldn't be faked, so they joyfully accepted the fact that they had finally survived. At the same time, some of them secretly speculated and worried about the decision this even more powerful mysterious creature would make.

This was an existence even more powerful than the Spirit God that had gone berserk earlier!

After all, the stream of light that had erupted forth had not yet ceased, still continuously spewing from the terrifying bixi's mouth, illuminating the entire distant sky like a giant umbrella of light!

If it so wished, it would only need to slightly shift its head to blast everyone present sky-high to meet their long-departed, aged grandmothers!

Presumably, after this incident, many powerful forces in this world would be terrified and want to investigate this scene.

Wh-what kind of divine being is this, exactly?

At this moment, this thought slowly surfaced unbidden in everyone's mind.

As if by unspoken agreement, under the shock in their hearts, everyone slowly turned their heads to gaze at that powerful beast.

At this moment, beneath the gorgeous light illuminating the entire sky, and aided by the unusual celestial phenomena, the mechanical bixi appeared especially mysterious and magnificent! The ribbons fluttering in the air currents, the terrifying stream of light erupting forth, the radiance flickering all over its body—all undoubtedly added a fatal charm to it.

However, why had that mysterious beast still not stopped its attack?

Looking at that beast, a trace of doubt inevitably flashed through everyone's minds.

Just as this thought surfaced, the astonishing stream of light finally stopped.

It had finally been forcibly halted by Baichuan!

If anyone could see inside Baichuan's mouth at this moment, they would surely discover that the internal structure of this bixi's mouth was almost a mess of blood and flesh, appearing as if it had rotted away!

The Chuixing Pao truly lived up to its name.

It was worthy of being a super-creation specifically designed by those super-civilizations against various civilizations and planets. It was also worthy of being a powerful force that he had tried every possible way to replicate with biological means but never succeeded.

Feeling the intense pain from the non-metallized flesh and blood parts of his mouth, as well as the ticklish itch of rapid healing, Baichuan exclaimed inwardly.

This was the greatest weapon he had obtained from that super warship of the Fugitive Fleet, a power belonging to technological creations, and it was also the first time he had used this power.

Before this, although he had always tried to replicate this power with a body of biological flesh and blood, he had been constrained by various materials and unable to succeed.

But at this moment, he could confidently say—he had succeeded!

From this day forth, this terrifying offensive method, aided by the extremely exaggerated exotic metals brought by this wild beast's bloodline, could finally be mastered successfully, ignoring all limitations such as materials!

Even though he couldn't fully manifest it right now, it was merely because he hadn't completed his full wild beast transformation. Once his wild beast transformation was successfully completed, and supplemented by the nuclear energy brought by Radiation Absorption, he would completely transform into a cannon platform!

If later he could analyze and install those super technologies so powerful that even the Fugitive Fleet hadn't been able to manufacture them—such as the Environment Scanner, the Omnidirectional Defensive Shield, the Planet Engine Thruster that propelled starships forward, the Short-range Space Flicker Device, and so on—then this bixi body of his might completely transform into a killing machine!

Its power, Baichuan estimated, even if it couldn't completely rival his full-power main body form, would be enough to reach his normal main body combat strength.

One must know that his main body was an existence that could truly be called invincible at the Planet Overlord level; he still had this much confidence.

Sighing inwardly, Baichuan also looked down again. The Forest People's Spirit God had been dealt with; it was time for him to take over this force and put it to his use.

Thoughts flashing through his mind, Baichuan also secretly transmitted an order to the still-living knight servants.

Words of subjugation could not be spoken by him, their savior who had saved them, otherwise it would become leveraging a favor for repayment. That way, these humans' gratitude toward him would be greatly reduced, their emotional initiative would also decrease accordingly, and might even cause trouble.

On the contrary, if they were the ones begging him, and he put on a reluctant appearance, considered it for a moment, and only then reluctantly agreed, then they would, for the sake of his protection, worry that he might leave without saying goodbye, and would give their all.

Although the possibility of them causing any trouble was very low, and they weren't of much use, Baichuan always liked to eliminate all unstable factors. After all, completely controlling everyone was too unrealistic and could easily slow down his plans.

……

Meanwhile, deep within the Forbidden Forest, pairs of majestic beast eyes lit up one after another, simultaneously gazing toward that stream of brilliant light in the sky that had almost illuminated half the heavens, a flash of shock and wariness inevitably passing through each pair of eyes.

"What powerful strength!"

In the darkness, a beast exclaimed in awe, a trace of longing in its tone.

"What kind of divine being could possibly be this powerful?"

"I can sense from it that this power absolutely does not belong to this world! I wonder which great being of the Lingneng Clan has descended now?"

One of the beasts, who perhaps knew some inside information, analyzed.

"That direction seems to be where Disaster headed. Could it be related to that newly-born member of our kind?"

A beast recalled the previous events and replied somewhat uncertainly.

As soon as the words fell, they were denied by another voice, "That's not right either. That newly-born member of our kind has very obvious lightning aura, and is also mixed with the aura of a barbaric civilization. It has nothing to do with the Lingneng Clan at all; it should be a lucky fellow from a small civilization that has just broken free from the constraints of its mother planet."

"Forget it, guessing further is useless. We'll know once Disaster returns."

In the darkness, the pairs of beast eyes extinguished once again, vanishing without a trace.

……

Half a month later, the great city of the Forest People… no, perhaps it can no longer be called the Forest People now. The incident a few days ago affected not only the Forest People themselves, but also all the humans of the surrounding Desert Land (the Jiaoyisuo of the Forest People). Because of this, Baichuan directly subdued all the factions of this Ji Xi land, integrated them into one, and renamed it the Extreme West Alliance.

Early in the morning, the girl's chattering voice, like a lark, rang out.

"Brother, let's go! Let's go hunt Fierce Beasts!"

"Although I don't know why Mao Mao needs it, this is the only thing we can do to help Mao Mao."

"How many times have I told you, that's not our Mao Mao, don't say that in front of other people," the young man rubbed his head helplessly, and at the girl's slightly aggrieved expression, his tone shifted, "But indeed, we do need to go hunting. This newly born force is waiting to be built up from scratch. Whether we want to firmly establish ourselves in this force, obtain more powerful strength, or even gain the right to speak, we all need to make huge contributions and earn that one's favor."

"Let's go, Uncle Dan and the others must be getting anxious waiting."

Just as the two siblings stepped out the door, they heard an unusually lively commotion outside. Every passerby who possessed martial strength was excitedly discussing all sorts of unfamiliar matters from days past — should we partner up to hunt Fierce Beasts? How many points are you still short, I've already got a hundred points… Lord Bi'an is truly a benevolent deity. It seemed that anything related to Baichuan had become a matter of universal concern.

In fact, it really was so. Zhou Yun naturally understood why everyone was discussing so heatedly.

Naturally, it was because a few days ago, the beast that saved them and called itself Bi'an had taken out an extremely precious treasure — a potion radiating a mysterious glow — along with a list of items that was updated from time to time.

This was an extraordinarily precious treasure capable of bestowing upon humans powerful talents, and even strength!

No matter how weak a person was, as long as they had enough points to exchange for a potion corresponding to an item on the list, after drinking it they could obtain a powerful talent or strength — be it a talent for accelerated physical recovery, speed comparable to a Swift Leopard, strength far surpassing a Blade Tiger, the power to control plants, and so on.

As long as one had points and was a member of the Extreme West Alliance, they could exchange with that lord! And this power could be completely passed down to one's descendants!

And points, naturally, were obtained by completing Lord Bi'an's missions.

At the time, that lord had even personally selected a few lucky ones to prove his words were true.

Once this move was made, everyone watched as former acquaintances and down-and-outers instantly possessed strength comparable to or even surpassing their own. Not a single person doubted it any longer, and they all threw themselves into this feast of power brought by Baichuan.

One after another, people risked their lives to bring Baichuan everything he needed, all for the sake of obtaining points and potions.

One must know that before this, in this Ji Xi land, apart from some great clans protected by "gods," other small tribes could only desperately temper their own physiques, supplemented by the essence blood of various powerful creatures to stimulate and strengthen their bodies, combined with armor and weapons made from materials taken from powerful creatures, or powerful tools that appeared when civilizations from other worlds descended, just to barely survive in this world.

Even so, they still had to endure the invasion of the Grey Mist from time to time, being wiped out overnight, or declining after losing the protection of their strongest leader.

Now, they finally had another powerful source of strength to rely on — a power that could be passed down to their descendants!

At this moment, hope seemed to rise in everyone's heart. Perhaps, looking at it now, this power was no different from that of a powerful physique — at most it was obtained without effort, granting in one breath the strength others would need over a dozen years to achieve, with a few more varieties and the advantage of still being usable in old age and physical decline.

But, as generation after generation of descendants inherited and grew, and even evolved this talent power (Mao… as that lord had said), then humanity would rise irresistibly and completely, no longer needing to worry about having no successors. One day, a world would come where every person was like a dragon, living and working in peace without fear of crisis!

Therefore, at this moment, no matter from which angle, the entire Extreme West Alliance's support for Baichuan was settled, even without some high-level puppets in place.

Even if someone were to reveal right now that the previous disaster was caused by Baichuan, that everything was his conspiracy, not a single person would believe it. They would only roll their eyes and stay away from him, and some would even think of seizing this opportunity to report it, thereby earning that lord's appreciation and leaping up to become a great figure possessing powerful strength.

Perhaps some sharp-witted high-level figures in power who heard of it would only narrow their eyes, smile lightly, and make the fool who spoke the "truth" vanish without a trace!

This was Baichuan's current status in this place.

Of course, from this point, even though Zhou Yun didn't want to admit it, his inner evasion was still pierced through by his sister, and by this mysterious potion.

Because he had once drunk this radiant, flowing potion!

It was precisely the treasure that Mao Mao had left for the siblings before her final disappearance.

Now, observing its effects here, he further discovered that what the siblings had drunk was, at the very least, a top-tier limited potion worth a full thirty thousand!

……

As Time passed, under Baichuan's lure of profit, his growth became increasingly rapid.

With the support of massive amounts of flesh-and-blood energy, in just two months he had eroded most of the forested area on the outer edge of the Primitive Mountain Range, and began the generation of the Radiation Absorption ability.

Once this ability appeared, he would completely break free from the lack of energy, no longer needing massive amounts of creature flesh and blood. The speed of erosion would directly switch from bicycle to rocket-like speed. At that time, he might only need to target various powerful beings possessing the bloodline of wild beasts.

Of course, under the presentation of those wild-species corpses one after another, Baichuan's wild-beast metamorphosis was also completed silently on the tenth day. The entire process had not the slightest obstruction, becoming without any ripple a wild beast with completely metalized limbs and mechanized surfaces on other parts of the torso!

A wild beast of merely Tier 3 could not achieve mechanization of the entire torso including the interior; only Tier 4 could possibly do so.

This was something Baichuan only learned after his breakthrough, feeling the changes within his body.

He just didn't know what form a Tier 5 wild beast would take, and that legendary Tier 6 comparable to a Planet True Immortal.

Baichuan grew increasingly curious. Unfortunately, that group of wild kings had not yet noticed something was wrong and come looking for him.

However, he was not in a hurry. In his spare time, he directly set his sights on the Lord of the Desert that had once hunted him — the Camel Dragon!

He now also knew the Camel Dragon's level — merely Tier 3, that's all.

He didn't even need to act personally; merely his subordinate puppet Zai, or the Extreme West Alliance, could handle it.

However, before Baichuan could act first, an unexpected situation presented itself before his eyes……

(End of this chapter)