Chapter 358

The First Collector is criticized by many forces in the Boundless Spirit Realm, and even loathed by the gods, because his conduct is extremely shameless.

But he also has many recognized merits, such as being learned and wise, and his love for brilliant civilizations, historical events, and all new things.

Of course, in reality, he is just an old scoundrel with kleptomania and a hoarding obsession.

Aberrant Mechanical Ancient God!

This collection piece made him very satisfied.

So, after experiencing it, he did not hesitate to extend a helping hand to the Aberrant Daoist hiding in the mechanical torrent, as well as this newly born "Aberrant Mech Tribe."

One could see that sky-covering, incomparably huge Ancient God.

Ignoring all obstacles, it went against the torrent and met the large number of pursuers behind.

Its aged mechanical voice sounded on this vast battlefield for the first time, and because it was too sharp-tongued, it successfully attracted most of the attention:

"Let me see which foolish, reckless, and aesthetically-challenged sycophants of the True Gods are attempting to exterminate such a vibrant new race."

"Hmm, no surprise, a bunch of blood-crazed maniacs, green-skinned brats, rot-sore ghosts, hanging ghosts... Oh, and ten demigods who worship that 【Cosmic Parasite】 and 【Stellar Vampire】; what a grand lineup."

"How about you give me some face, hold back for a few seconds, and let them run first."

Hearing this, it wasn't just the pursuers whose attention was attracted.

Li Yu in the rear also became a little interested.

Li Yu could instantly understand the other derogatory terms in the Collector's mouth.

The one for the Ancient Saint, however, was surprising.

He had originally thought it would be something like "Flesh Profaner," but he didn't expect it to be a stigma like parasitism or blood-sucking.

"Like the Blood God and the Sin God, the Ancient Saint is also a True God of the 【Chaos Universe】. His main forces, followers, and kin are all in the Chaos Universe; the Sacred Nest is just one of his sects in the mortal world."

"I haven't truly gone to the Boundless Spirit Realm to mingle yet, so I cannot know all of the Ancient Saint's deeds."

"It is known that he is addicted to researching everything and, through various means, creates and controls new life forms, viewing everything in the world as an experiment or a surgical table... These are not enough to explain parasitism and blood-sucking; I fear it also involves the Ancient Saint's survival or path to godhood?"

Li Yu's guess had no result for the time being.

On the battlefield, a major change followed.

One could tell from those few sentences.

The First Collector did not intend to hide his identity; he threw out his "face fruit" right from the start.

This was probably because he was the only one in the entire Boundless Spirit Realm who could freeze so many powerhouses with a large-scale stasis field.

At least on the surface, this was the case, and it was already the Collector's signature move.

As for offending the gods because of this?

If you have many lice, you don't fear the itch; he was long accustomed to it.

As long as he wasn't caught on the spot, he could be considered reckless.

Although these powerhouses in Wanfu City all started as humans and lived in the mortal world.

They knew quite a lot about the Boundless Spirit Realm.

Especially the ten Sages of the 【Sage Council】; in order to promote to demigods, they had all traveled and trained in the Boundless Spirit Realm, so naturally, they guessed the identity of the speaker at the first moment.

Upon hearing the last sentence, they guessed what he was going to do in an instant.

However, it was already too late.

Because at that very moment, the field was released.

Starting from the edge of the Ancient God camp and spreading toward Wanfu City, the large-scale field enveloped all the pursuers.

No matter how powerful!

No matter how numerous!

Even more so, the avatars of True Gods had already begun to descend.

Yet without exception, they were all frozen.

Time and space were solidified.

Almost all the pursuers in that large area stopped functioning, even their thoughts.

Demigod-level powerhouses could still think, but they could not move.

Each of them could only stare with their eyes at the First Collector, who had appeared at some unknown time and was planning to take the "Aberrant Mechanical Ancient God" and flee the mortal world.

Their eyes were full of anger and killing intent.

Unfortunately, a glare could not stop an old scoundrel who had made a huge name for himself in the 【Chaos Universe】.

Especially since the Collector had launched a sneak attack, and they had no way to avoid it.

They were all frozen.

Of course, although frozen, their lives were not in danger.

Because other existences, as long as they entered that area within that time limit, would suffer the same fate.

If the "field" had a smaller range and weaker power, the Collector could move freely within it, which was also the reason his thefts often succeeded.

But once this kind of super-large-scale field was released, he had no power to intervene.

As for how much time?

Not much, just two seconds.

Don't underestimate these two seconds; here, at this juncture, it was enough to completely reverse the outcome.

The Aberrant Mech Tribe, which was already terrifyingly fast, clearly knew that the "First Collector" would take action. At that instant, they disregarded everything, abandoned all defenses and combat modules, as well as their forms, and put all their energy into acceleration mode. Each of them deformed and merged into the collective, turning into a truly aberrant mechanical torrent.

And in the next second, they tore through space and crashed into the border realm shrouded in the Eternal Mist.

Too fast!

Too fierce!

One must know that there were many forbidden zones in between, and even the existence of evil gods, such as that Cold God and countless ghouls.

But at that moment, indeed, no existence dared to stop them.

When that kind of power erupted, even a divine avatar would be crushed into minced meat by the torrent.

After the entire "Aberrant Mech Tribe" entered the border realm!

It also seemed to mean that this Tiangong aberration catastrophe had ended hastily.

A tiger's head and a snake's tail?

No, it should be counted as a major failure for the followers of the gods in Wanfu City.

Since the establishment of Wanfu City, in the long years, there had never been such humiliation.

A perfectly fine, prosperous city with diverse styles had been tossed into a mess in a short time. The scene in the city now looked as if it had been robbed by the most brutal "locust star pirates" of the Boundless Spirit Realm; it was extremely miserable.

Especially the South District, which looked as if eighteen layers of topsoil had been scraped off.

Yet they could do nothing to the culprit and could only watch them escape.

Everyone knew that after entering the depths of the border realm, even if the entire Wanfu City went in together to hunt them down and called all the avatars of the gods... it might not be possible to find all the Aberrant Mech Tribe members, and more importantly, it wasn't worth it.

It shouldn't have been like this; the turning point was the First Collector.

Those few crucial seconds completely nailed the followers of the gods in Wanfu City to the pillar of shame.

If they could, they would temporarily shift their target of hatred to the "Collector."

Unfortunately, he was the slipperiest powerhouse in the Boundless Spirit Realm.

Even if a True God took action personally, they couldn't catch him, let alone them.

The moment the field was released, he took his harvest from this trip, the "Mechanical Ancient God" gifted by the Aberrant Daoist, and fled directly.

This move was also a slap in the face of the City Lord's Mansion.

The City Lord's Mansion personnel in the Ancient God camp tried to stop him, but they didn't even have the qualifications to be looked at by the Collector.

That void book representing "Narrative Divinity" also fundamentally changed its character positioning due to the drastic changes that occurred in the Pioneer, meaning it was completely out of control; the book tore itself apart and dissipated into the void.

As the largest existence among the mechanically "aberrantly resurrected" creations.

Coupled with the special status of the Pioneer, its collection value was undoubtedly maxed out, and the Collector was very satisfied.

And his style of conduct was to satisfy himself.

As for the rest, he had no taboos.

For example, while plotting against a bunch of forces in Wanfu City and bullying the City Lord's Mansion, this First Collector did not forget to stab Li Yu in the back.

And, it was far more than one dirty trick.

"Master!"

"The Collector did indeed honestly fulfill the signed mechanical contract, but he additionally marked the master and the small robot."

"At the same time, he split off a portion of his consciousness to invade the 【Aberrant Mech Tribe】. He is trying to find the Aberrant Daoist; he should be wanting to control him, although the Aberrant Daoist has already reached the Weak God level and, because he is a void virus, can exempt himself from the means of most True Gods."

"But the Collector is an exception; he possesses the technology to pollute mechanical life forms."

"His goal is still to collect the Aberrant Daoist, as well as the entire Aberrant Mech Tribe."

"When he took away the 【Mechanical Ancient God】, he left behind some physical evidence in the camp pointing to the master."

"At the same time, he also left a one-way path dimension displacement device in the Immortal Fortress... Once the master's 'incident' occurs and he is hunted down by the City Lord's Mansion, the dimension device will emerge on its own and take the master to the other end of the escape route."

"There is a 99 percent possibility that on the other side of the dimension is his museum."

Listening to Hongdou's spiritual report.

The expression on Li Yu's face was very colorful and complex.

While not knowing whether to laugh or cry, a kind of appreciation for an "outstanding peer" also emerged.

As expected of the Boundless First Collector!

The owner of all ownerless things!

He was truly too greedy.

There was a reason for his notoriety.

Judging from these actions of his, his goal was undoubtedly to take it all.

Unfortunately, he was not without a nemesis here.

As beings who both walked the "Mechanical Path."

In a simple comparison of strength, Hongdou and the Aberrant Daoist were both inferior to the Collector; the latter had iterated for who knows how many years, and various inconceivable advanced technologies were not something the two could compare to.

But there was one thing they could barely compare with.

That was the origin status!

Hongdou was a genuine Tiangong seed; she was exempt from the control of all mechanical gods and, in turn, could exert influence on the Aberrant Daoist who had already promoted to a Weak God.

With the two powers superimposed, they dug out all the "dirty hands" left behind by the First Collector.

And just as Li Yu was sighing, suddenly he and Hongdou perceived something at the same time and exclaimed:

"This old thief actually discovered and cleared the 'Void Bait Thread' I left on him."

"The target discovered the virus I used to counter-invade, and it has been cleared."

From these two spiritual responses, it is not hard to see that while the First Collector was stabbing them in the back, this master and servant, without even discussing it, very tacitly stabbed the Collector in the back as well.

It's just that they both failed.

Clearly, this "First Collector" who roams the Boundless Spirit Realm and who knows if he has ascended to godhood is different from past opponents and is very difficult to deal with, even if the other party didn't come in his true body, but rather a substitute with who knows how many layers of dolls.

After their friendly cooperation, both sides also very politely pitted each other.

The final result was that neither side suffered a loss.

Well, Li Yu probably even made a small profit.

Because the so-called fatal physical evidence was actually the most useless; he, Li Yu, had a high-level mole in the City Lord's Mansion.

With Zuo Zuo Cikui's status, it was not difficult at all to destroy the evidence.

And the 【Dimension Transmission Device】 left behind by the Collector, once in Hongdou's hands, would sooner or later be analyzed and perfectly replicated.

In this way!

The only ones who suffered damage were the forces of Wanfu City, the City Lord's Mansion, and the most miserable Sacred Nest.

At this moment, in the battlefield area, the stasis field had dissipated, and the powerhouses regained their freedom.

But apart from staring at each other, there was nothing they could do.

They could only let out unwilling roars, then return to Wanfu City to find ways to repair the huge losses caused by this catastrophe and complain to their own True Gods.

As for complaining to whom?

It would most likely be the Sacred Nest and the First Collector.

Although the latter appeared at a critical moment and attracted a lot of hatred.

But as long as they weren't stupid, they would all conclude that this obvious mechanical life uprising catastrophe, "Tiangong Aberration," stemmed from the Sacred Nest's management failure.

"Oh, Great Master!"

"That shameless Collector from the Chaos Universe actually stretched his dirty hands into Wanfu City. He stole a major asset of the City Lord's Mansion, the 【Pioneer】, and at the same time helped that Aberrant Weak God take his newly born mechanical race and flee into the border realm within the Eternal Mist."

"However, most of the fault for this catastrophe still lies with that group of 'Cosmic Parasite' followers. I don't know why they were so stupid as to let a fallen Tiangong god follower devour a large amount of resources under their noses and quickly ascend to godhood."

"Wanfu City was already highly mechanized, so the losses were huge."

"I pray that the Master will bestow..."

These words would most likely appear in the prayers of various sects to their respective True Gods.

Although the losses were not small, as long as they cleared themselves of responsibility, they might even be able to coax a large amount of benefits from the gods.

Calculated this way, none of the parties necessarily lost out.

Those with slightly darker hearts could even take the opportunity to make a profit.

However, as the "biggest victim," the Sacred Nest was much more miserable.

Below the high-level leadership of the entire organization, they either collectively defected to become the Aberrant Mech Tribe or were completely wiped out.

The territory they controlled was scraped clean, with no resources left.

Only ten weak and exhausted Sages remained!

They were about to face the blame from their own master god and the entire Wanfu City, especially the South District.

As the former overlord of the South District, the 【Sacred Nest】's prestige was unimaginable.

Who could have thought?

In just one day, such a huge change would occur.

Generally speaking!

For a transcendent organization to cause such a big mess, it was almost impossible for them to continue being the overlord of a district.

But for the Sacred Nest, that was not necessarily the case.

Standing behind the ten Sages was the Ancient Saint.

Although he was disparagingly called a "Cosmic Parasite" by the First Collector, in reality, he was an extremely powerful Ancient God in the absolute first tier.

As long as the Ancient Saint did not abandon them and was willing to pay the price to provide compensation to Wanfu City, then everything could be easily solved.

Of course, these ten Sages would inevitably be counted as part of the price.

As for the form?

In that battlefield where the stasis field was gone but still incomparably quiet, a slightly trembling voice suddenly sounded:

"Fellow Sage friends!"

"Are you ready to go to the Master's 【Sacred Surgery Table】 together?"

(End of chapter)