Chapter 160: The God is Shattered, the Heavenly Craft is Mine Alone

Compared to the first bubble, Li Yu had now shattered the thirteenth truth bubble, and his authority had already surged tenfold.

He could even glean some information from the corpse fragments of evil gods.

Li Yu believed that no matter how significant Hongdou's background was, this time he should be able to glimpse some unusual secrets.

Most importantly, he had to prevent her from being formatted.

Li Yu did not delay for even half a breath; he placed his hands of truth directly into Hongdou's body.

Questions such as "Hongdou's true origin" and "how to save Hongdou" were released in an instant, and his pursuit of knowledge was nearly fulfilled.

Just as Li Yu thought he would see the corresponding secrets emerge the next moment, a rare stagnation appeared in his mind.

The information stream that should have exploded was completely blank.

"Hmm?"

"How is this possible?"

"The authority of truth bubbles after 'ten' can glimpse secrets even from things as powerful as the flesh of the Vortex God."

"Hongdou's status couldn't possibly be higher than a genuine piece of evil god flesh, could it?"

"If I cannot glimpse the secrets, how can I save Hongdou, who is about to be formatted?"

"I cannot intervene in this kind of mechanical life's confrontation on the virtual network level, and Hongdou doesn't have a power-off or restart button."

Li Yu, who had previously relied on his truth soul body to recklessly pull off various stunts, felt the embarrassment of being helpless for the first time.

However, just as Li Yu could not help but want to use the fourteenth truth bubble to once again increase his authority.

That stagnation was suddenly broken.

This thirteenth truth bubble seemed to have finally broken through a certain barrier, and the secrets glimpsed poured out like a flood.

The very first segment left Li Yu in shock.

It concerned Hongdou's origin!

He had anticipated that she was not simple, but he had not expected her to be *this* not simple.

"After the descent of the Heavenly Craft God 【Fuxi】, the Heavenly Craft Sect formed a position of equality with the other five major orthodox god sects at a terrifying speed."

"However, when the situation was at its best, the Heavenly Craft Sect discovered they could no longer achieve direct communication with 【Fuxi】. Although praying to the True God still yielded some rigid responses, the sect could not summon 'divine miracles.' It seemed the Heavenly Craft God had gone missing, or had abandoned these believers of the Heavenly Craft Sect."

"Before the Great Panic broke out, the Heavenly Craft Sect Master issued an oracle: declaring that the great Heavenly Craft God was conducting an experiment. He separated a strand of his own will and shattered it, forming countless seeds that descended with absolute equality upon everything in the real world related to the Heavenly Craft Sect."

"Hongdou, whose true body is indeed a Sequence Seven Linglong Doll, was also chosen by one of these seeds."

"After that, Hongdou developed self-awareness and transformed into a mechanical life with high-level intelligence, and in a sense, she is also a 【Heavenly Craft God's Chosen】."

"So, the mechanical maid doll I bought for a bargain is actually a Heavenly Craft God's Chosen?"

Fortunately, Li Yu was in a state of truth; otherwise, he would have been unable to maintain his composure and would have found the absurdity of the world overwhelming.

He had thought about picking up a treasure, but he never thought he could pick up such a massive one.

While he was surprised, the astonishing secrets continued.

The method to save Hongdou also emerged:

"Because the Heavenly Craft seeds sprouted and awakened one after another, the strength of the Heavenly Craft Sect surged at every moment."

"But this did not bring good things; instead, it brought division. At least four factions were born one after another."

"The Heavenly Craft Sect secretly triggered the major event 【Mechanical Requiem】. This event led to a chaotic war between the four factions. The faction to which Hongdou's predecessor belonged believed in order and reason and was the most powerful, so it was besieged and killed by the other three major factions. Hongdou's predecessor's Heavenly Craft Secret Core was shattered during the great war."

"The shattering of the Secret Core meant that her body had perished."

"But because of the Heavenly Craft seed, a new 'Hongdou' would be born within her remains."

"The current Hongdou is in a juvenile state. One can use the Heavenly Craft Secret Command of her faction to awaken her hidden mode. At that time, she will enter the True God's Blessing form and may be able to exempt herself from the formatting ending."

"The secret command is: The God is shattered, the Heavenly Craft is mine alone."

"This secret command was originally prepared by her faction for the resurrection of all seeds. It was only because Hongdou's Secret Core was shattered that, in order to avoid being devoured and absorbed by the 【Heavenly Craft God's Chosen】 of the hostile factions, she used her authority to erase all her information..."

"From then on, she became a 'black household' hidden in the internal network. Originally, she would have completely lost the possibility of being awakened and resurrected, until she met a new master."

"Note: When using this secret command to awaken her, the time limit must be restricted to within ten breaths. Once exceeded, she will be detected by the Heavenly Craft Sect's internal network."

"Because the current power-holders—that is, the victors of the original chaotic war—are the absolute enemy faction, their method of eliminating hostile Heavenly Craft seeds is mostly by dropping nuclear bombs..."

When this information, which could be called a bombshell secret, fully emerged.

At the edge of Li Yu's eye membrane, the fifteenth truth bubble was instantly fully charged, billions of rays of light solidified, and the sixteenth bubble flickered to take over.

Once again, using the bubbles was not a loss, but a massive profit.

It was no wonder it happened so fast; the secrets glimpsed at this moment were simply too shocking.

The Heavenly Craft God Fuxi lost contact?

A shattered divine will?

The Heavenly Craft Sect split into four factions for a great chaotic war?

Each and every one of these things had been unheard of before.

But thinking about it, it was reasonable!

If one were to ask which sect in this world was the most omniscient and the best at hiding secrets, it would undoubtedly be the Heavenly Craft Sect, which mastered machinery, the network, and that 【Samsara Heavenly Net】.

Such a big secret could certainly be kept hidden.

If it were the previous Li Yu, he would definitely have subconsciously wanted to know the subsequent mysteries, such as what those four factions were, and whether the Heavenly Craft God Fuxi, this suspected fellow countryman, was truly dead or not.

However, the authority of this thirteenth truth bubble seemed to have reached its limit, and not a shred of other information emerged.

Li Yu had not intended to delay anyway, and he suppressed his desire for knowledge.

His soul body returned, and then he stepped forward abruptly, arriving in front of Hongdou. He cupped her head in his hands and whispered that Heavenly Craft secret command into her ear:

"The God is shattered!"

"The Heavenly Craft is mine alone!"

"The secret command can only last for ten breaths to resist the intrusion and preserve the self."

When this rebellious but exceptionally domineering command entered Hongdou's mind.

The next moment!

A terrifying change followed.

Hongdou, who was about to be "formatted," suddenly began to emit a red light from her fox eyes that was much more intense than before—it was a scarlet, blood-like, and highly aggressive radiance.

Amidst a hissing sound, scarlet steam erupted.

A cold, ruthless mechanical voice followed:

"Encountering over-limit attack... currently being formatted..."

"Beep, beep, beep!"

"Receiving Heavenly Craft Secret Command verification... The God is shattered, the Heavenly Craft is mine alone... Secret command correct, verification successful."

"Formatting failed!"

"Triggering hidden mode 【Heavenly Craft Blessing】... lasting ten seconds, countdown starting."

"Starting to summon the blessing of my great Lord... has transformed into 【Heavenly Craft God's Chosen】, has entered a state of absolute reason and order, intelligence core upgrading..."

Hearing this, although Hongdou's form did not change much.

The Heavenly Craft divinity overflowing from those scarlet fox eyes made even Li Yu feel terrified.

It was a kind of absolute reason, an absolute ruthlessness. It was as if everything in this world was within her calculations, including Li Yu.

He suspected that if it weren't for the fact that her target was the will left behind by the creator of the little things, she would have already started analyzing Li Yu, her master.

Brother Brother Shang Yang was also a mechanical life, and one who had ascended and been blessed by the Ancient Sages.

But comparing them now, the gap was obvious.

At least at that time, Brother Brother Shang Yang only startled Li Yu, not to the point of terror.

This was enough to prove that Hongdou's predecessor, whose Secret Core had been shattered, likely had a very high sequence.

It also indirectly illustrated the horror of that great chaotic war; even such a God's Chosen had died in it.

While Li Yu was shocked, the mechanical voice continued to sound:

"Initiating reverse intrusion!"

"Intrusion successful... initiating analysis... judged to be a special mechanical will, coming from a special high-ranking race that masters an unrecorded mechanical system, the owner of the will has entered the divine realm... performing status judgment!"

"Judgment complete, passed."

"Can proceed with deconstruction!"

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"Can also proceed with absorption!"

"If only deconstructed, one can obtain some basic information about this race and this powerhouse."

"If absorbed simultaneously, it can accelerate the resurrection progress, but at the same time, the newly born will will be influenced by this mechanical life... it is cunning, changeable, and greedy by nature."

Hearing this, Li Yu's brows twitched immediately.

He understood Hongdou's words in a second.

Clearly, she had also stumbled upon an opportunity. If she could devour and absorb that mechanical will left inside the castle, Hongdou's resurrection progress as a 【Heavenly Craft God's Chosen】 would accelerate significantly.

But she would inevitably be influenced, and her temperament would change.

How could this be allowed?

Li Yu was very satisfied with Hongdou's current temperament.

If she became cunning and greedy, how could they get along?

He subconsciously wanted to speak up to stop her, but he soon realized that the current Hongdou was in the "Heavenly Craft God's Chosen" stance.

She would listen to no one except the Heavenly Craft God.

Li Yu, the master, was the same.

Fortunately, good news arrived quickly:

"Evaluation complete!"

"Choosing to absorb is detrimental to the growth of the newborn will... Abandoning absorption, proceeding only with deconstruction and recording."

"Time limit reached, beginning to sever the power link, erasing traces of the God-Chosen login."

"Restoring!"

The aggressive scarlet steam gradually receded.

The return of that pleasant, exotic-smelling steam also meant that the normal "Hongdou" had returned.

Li Yu saw at a glance the fleeting look of confusion on Hongdou's face.

Seeing this, Li Yu knew it was because Hongdou, in her "God-Chosen state," had deleted her own login records.

This prevented the current ruling faction of the Heavenly Craft Sect from discovering her!

The side effect was that the newborn Hongdou did not know either.

At this moment, Hongdou, having returned to her mechanical maid appearance, was preparing to step forward to report her findings to her master, Li Yu.

But Li Yu immediately remembered something and signaled for Hongdou to pause and wait.

The thirteenth bubble!

There were still over ten breaths of the power time limit left; it could not be wasted.

And within this mechanical castle, there happened to be another target he could spy on.

The reward from the Lord of Myriad Changes!

Those two great benefits: the Outer-Heaven Flame Essence and the Gourmet God's Blood Tongue.

Li Yu knew the location of both items.

The next moment, his soul body of truth left his body again, ignoring the other obstacles of the castle, and sank directly into the power cabin in the deepest part.

There were many restrictions there to prevent others from entering, and the programs innately implanted in the little thing also defaulted to concealing it.

Therefore, the City Lord's Mansion still thought the mechanical fortress's power source was just something like an ordinary steam engine.

Who knew that not only was it not, but they were wrong to an outrageous degree.

At first glance, Li Yu saw the complexly constructed power room, filled with mind-boggling mechanical creations, but the structure seemed completely different from the Heavenly Craft Sect and the Sacred Nest technology that had stolen the Heavenly Craft legacy and begun to develop on its own.

Its core was a huge, fiery-red orb.

And it was upon that orb that a mass of "living flame" was sprawled, enjoying itself immensely and greedily devouring the terrifying heat surging from within the orb.

The Eye of Truth swept over, killing two birds with one stone, seeing two pieces of extraordinary information.

The latter, the secret regarding the Outer-Heaven Flame Essence, was exactly as he knew, and it was confirmed that there were no traps.

The former also had no traps, and it broadened Li Yu's horizons.

"The Endless Orb!"

"Created by the 【Endless Collector】, this is an extremely powerful and sophisticated energy device; a small portion of a star's core is compressed inside the orb to serve as the castle's energy supply."

"Although this is an extremely aged star that could extinguish at any moment, the remaining energy can still keep the castle running for at least a thousand years."

"But because it is being continuously absorbed by an Outer-Heaven Flame Essence, its service life is slowly decreasing... It eats very elegantly, slowly savoring the delicacy."

"Using a star as an energy source, what a powerful technological faction."

"Perhaps the 【God of Machines】 path isn't just being messed around with by Fuxi of the Heavenly Craft God, who is suspected to be a fellow countryman."

"The more I peek at this world, the larger and more boundless it becomes; when will I be able to live a peaceful life?"

While complaining to himself, Li Yu headed to the kitchen area without hesitation.

According to common sense, since the Outer-Heaven Flame Essence was not a trap, the Gourmet God's Blood Tongue was even less likely to be one.

But the next moment!

When his gaze passed over all the external appearances and looked directly at the blood tongue itself.

A secret that made him want to curse out loud emerged:

"Blood Tongue!"

"A special tongue blessed by a True God; any creature can install it in their own body, allowing them to be immune to almost all pollution and toxins, and to taste and restore all flavors."

"At the same time, this tongue possesses the ability to devour divinity; existences licked by it will become bland and barren."

"Including intelligent life like humans, once licked by this tongue, if they cannot pass the check, they will lose some things depending on the degree and frequency of the licking, such as memories, vitality, emotions, and so on."

"The bestower of the blessing is the Evil God 【Lord of Myriad Changes】."

"This True God also occasionally uses this blood tongue as a medium to descend his own will into the reality world to experience pleasure, and calls himself the Gourmet God."

"This often angers the real 'Gourmet God,' but because he is no match for the Lord of Myriad Changes, the Gourmet God can do nothing about it."

(End of chapter)