[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-lord-of-all-heavens-from-a-wasteland-farm-to-a-d":3,"chapter-lord-of-all-heavens-from-a-wasteland-farm-to-a-d-lord-of-all-heavens-from-a-wasteland-farm-to-a-d-chapter-204":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Lord of All Heavens: From a Wasteland Farm to a Divine Court of Myriad Worlds",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2344397,4582,"Chapter 204: Lava Hunter and Shadow Devourer","lord-of-all-heavens-from-a-wasteland-farm-to-a-d-chapter-204",204,"\u003Cp>A cold sense of danger instantly coiled around each heart like vines. Before them stood the magma-armored beast, radiating intense heat and ferocious energy; behind them spread the silent, all-consuming Guiyi  black sludge! They were trapped in between!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Zero, analyze the priority and weaknesses of these two threats!” Lin Mo’s voice was barely a whisper; his body was already in combat stance, starlight energy quietly circulating within him, a faint milky-white aura shimmering across his skin. He had to make the fastest judgment possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Magma-armored beast: silicate-based organism, extremely high physical defense, likely excels in close combat and high-temperature Pentu  attacks. Energy core is the crystal cluster on its back, supplying power and defensive energy fields. Weakness: possibly vulnerable to extreme cold or energy neutralization. Threat level: high, but behavior pattern is predictable and it appears lethargic.” “Unknown black erosion: energy signature partially matches records of Abyssal Erosion and Devourer-of-Worlds derivatives. Characteristics: consumes energy, corrodes matter, highly proliferative. Weakness: unknown. Threat level: extreme; recommend immediate avoidance or elimination.” Zero’s scanning and analysis were completed in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The priority was clear! That black sludge-like erosion was stranger and more dangerous—it must be dealt with first!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the few crystal-cluster guides showed even greater panic than they did! When facing the magma-armored beast, they merely emitted cautious clicking sounds, but when confronted by the advancing black sludge, their glow instantly turned blinding, sickly white, emitting piercing, terrified shrieks—as if encountering a natural predator—and frantically scrambled to hide behind Lin Mo and Lingna, even desperately trying to climb up their pant legs!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their terror confirmed Zero’s assessment!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lingna, can you sense its core? Or what it fears?” Lin Mo asked quickly, his gaze locked on the writhing, spreading black sludge. Though slow, it absorbed even light as it passed, leaving the surroundings darker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lingna forced down the instinctive revulsion and trembling in her right arm, focusing her mind to sense. “It… has no fixed core… it’s like a sentient puddle of rot… it absorbs all energy… including… even the faint residual electricity in the walls… it seems… it hates… hates life energy…” Her description came in fragments, sweat beading on her brow. The emerald veins within her right-arm crystal flared brightly, reacting strongly against the lifeless, devouring force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Life energy? Lin Mo immediately looked at the warm glow in his palm—the starlight—and then at Lingna’s right arm, where the emerald light stemmed from the young branch of the World Tree. His starlight energy contained order and vitality!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Try this!” Lin Mo didn’t hesitate. He condensed a pure stream of starlight energy into his fingertip, shaping it into a marble-sized orb radiating warm white light, then flicked it with precision toward the center of the spreading black sludge!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hssss—!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like a red-hot iron plunged into ice water! The moment the starlight orb pierced the black sludge, the viscous substance violently churned, emitting a faint yet nauseating hissing sound. A small patch of black sludge vanished as if evaporated, revealing the pitted, corroded metal wall beneath. Effective!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But soon, more black sludge surged forward to fill the gap, though its advance noticeably slowed, as if wary of the starlight energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet this energy disturbance also alerted the three lethargic magma-armored beasts inside the Qianfang  pipeline junction chamber!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Roar—!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A low, threatening growl echoed from within the chamber. Heavy footsteps followed as one magma-armored beast burst through the breach, its massive armored head emerging. Its molten-rock eyes instantly locked onto the intruders—especially Lin Mo’s lingering starlight glow and Lingna’s emerald-arm radiance. In its primitive mind, this was unmistakably a challenge, a territorial provocation!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn! We’ve alerted both sides!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lingna, use your power to push back the sludge! Hold it as long as you can!” Lin Mo shouted urgently, turning to face the charging beast. “Zero, interfere! Attack its back crystal cluster!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Understood!” Lingna gritted her teeth, suppressing her fear. She focused her will, drawing upon the emerald life-energy from the World Tree branch within her arm crystal. Though primarily chaotic, this sliver of order became her anchor. Emerald light seeped from the cracks, forming a thin, flickering green barrier before her—a wall of nascent vines—stretching across the corridor to block the advancing sludge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hssss… The sludge hissed upon contact with the life barrier, its advance temporarily halted—but it kept surging, and the barrier visibly dimmed. Lingna’s face grew paler, her strength straining to its limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other side, the magma-armored beast roared as it charged! Its massive body nearly filled the narrow maintenance corridor; its thick limbs crushed the ground with thunderous impacts, and its gaping maw spat searing air and sparks!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zero’s console instantly calculated the optimal interception pattern! Several narrow, deep-blue energy beams—like surgical scalpels—fired, not at the hardened shell, but precisely striking the three flickering orange-red crystal clusters on the beast’s back!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang! Bang! Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beams struck the clusters, exploding into blinding sparks! The beast’s charge halted abruptly; it let out a roar of pain and fury, its back crystals visibly dimmed, its invisible energy field destabilized. Zero’s attack successfully disrupted its energy system—and drew its hatred!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now!” Lin Mo’s eyes flashed! As the beast staggered from the energy disruption, he moved! His body slid sideways like a phantom, narrowly avoiding the steel-shattering charge, while his right hand formed a blade of condensed starlight—bright, blazing—not slashing at the thick armor, but stabbing lightning-fast toward the beast’s relatively vulnerable eyes!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pthss!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light-blade pierced the molten eyeball! Hot, corrosive blood spurted out!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Roaawww—!!! The magma-armored beast screamed in agony, thrashing wildly, slamming into the metal wall with deafening force, shaking the entire corridor!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other two magma-armored beasts were startled by their companion’s shriek and burst from the junction chamber, blocking the other end of the corridor! The situation turned critical in an instant!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Lingna’s emerald barrier had thinned to the width of a cicada’s wing. The black sludge surged forward again, now less than two meters away—the cold, hungry aura nearly brushing her face!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this critical moment—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oooom—ZZZZZ—!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A deep, immense hum erupted from deep within the corridor, from the very metal structure of the ark’s ruins—as if a primordial beast, slumbering for ten thousand years, had been fully awakened and began stretching its colossal body!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This hum carried an indescribable, ancient, and majestic will!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, every motion froze—the thrashing magma-armored beast, the two others charging from the chamber, even the spreading black sludge—all halted!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the savage molten eyes of the magma-armored beasts, clear, instinctive fear surfaced! They emitted low, whimpering cries, abandoned their attack on Lin Mo, and scrambled in panic back into the depths of the junction chamber, even abandoning the broken pipe’s energy crystals!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the black sludge, as if encountering its mortal enemy, writhed and recoiled violently, retreating like a tide into the darkness from whence it came—vanishing without a trace!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously, the emerald veins in Lingna’s arm crystal and Lin Mo’s internal starlight energy resonated powerfully with the sudden, vast hum. A warmth, familiarity, a sense of returning to the womb—calm and secure—arose within them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was it the “Gardener”? Or some deeper mechanism of the ark’s ruins itself, activated?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hum lasted over ten seconds before slowly fading. The corridor now held only Lin Mo’s heavy breathing, Lingna’s post-exhaustion coughs, and the faint, reverent clicking of the surviving crystal-cluster guides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crisis… had been resolved in such an unexpected way?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Mo and Lingna exchanged glances, both seeing shock and awe in each other’s eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“W-what was that just now…?” Lingna slumped to the ground, staring at the suddenly empty corridor, unable to believe it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t know…” Lin Mo shook his head, scanning the surroundings warily—but the ancient hum had vanished, as if it had never been. Only the dents in the walls and the scorching bloodstains on the floor proved the battle had been real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zero’s console flickered: “Detected massive energy surge passing through. Analysis: 98.7% match to residual fluctuations of the ark’s core power source. Fluctuation contains strong expulsion and purification intent. Hypothesis: A basic defense mechanism or residual consciousness of the ark was activated by high-energy combat, indiscriminately suppressing and repelling all ‘anomalous’ and ‘invasive’ energies within range.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indiscriminate? Yet they felt only warmth and resonance. Was it because their energy signatures were recognized by the ark?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Temporary safety. Lin Mo turned his gaze toward the junction chamber, where several orange-red energy crystals near the broken pipe emitted alluring glows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stepped forward, carefully wrapping his palm in starlight energy, and retrieved the still-warm crystals. Inside, molten flows pulsed, radiating pure, stable thermal energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“These should sustain the ‘Gardener’ for a while.” Lin Mo stored the crystals, his mind easing slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet as he turned back toward the deep darkness where the black sludge had retreated, his brow remained furrowed. Had the Devourer-of-Worlds’ erosion already penetrated so deeply into the ark? The hum had driven it back—but could it eradicate it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This ark’s ruins were both sanctuary and a vast, unknown danger in itself.\u003C\u002Fp>",1498,"2026-06-21T00:09:54.226Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","d7e2226f1d1db4a552942b5976a09ad29e865885e7deaeaf2a7d5f5e0547d6a6","lord-of-all-heavens-from-a-wasteland-farm-to-a-d-chapter-205","lord-of-all-heavens-from-a-wasteland-farm-to-a-d-chapter-203",247,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Flord-of-all-heavens-from-a-wasteland-farm-to-a-d-cover.jpg"]