Chapter 96: A Heavenly Work Nuke by My Side?

The instant he stepped into "Alchemist," Li Yu perceived the astonishing transformation of his body and the new strange arts he had acquired.

First is the body. The body of an Alchemy Apprentice was already not weak, but compared to the Alchemist Dharma Body, it was far behind. In addition to all attributes such as strength, self-healing, poison resistance, and medicine resistance being doubled, he also gained resistance to negative states and pollution, as well as powerful inspiration.

At this time, even if he didn't operate his alchemy fire, the time it would take for the blood rust virus in the air to invade would be ten times longer than before.

Then there are the strange arts!

Li Yu's original three arts of alchemy fire, ingestion, and medicinal cuisine had all been greatly amplified.

For example, with the ingestion technique, Li Yu didn't need to use his tongue at this time; he could "taste" the flavor and strange characteristics of the blood rust virus just by using the pores of his skin, and the direction of detoxification also faintly emerged.

Of course, he also gained new strange arts.

They are: 【Demon Speech】, 【Playing God】.

Both are very easy to understand and are extremely useful arts.

The former allows Li Yu to form a special force field after speaking. People who hear his voice will have their emotions swayed by him and will involuntarily choose to believe him. If it's someone with weak resistance like a mortal, even if Li Yu says something outrageous, they will still obey.

The latter allows him to play the role of a cultivator of other sequences, such as the nine elixirs he swallowed. Of course, he can only play the appearance and does not possess real power, unless he continues to swallow elixirs to assist, then the effect will far exceed before, reaching the level of perfect acting.

To put it plainly, it is exactly the eight characters "demon speech confuses the crowd" and "playing god and acting like a ghost."

And in the next moment, he used it directly.

Due to the effect of the 【Furnace Refining Body Soup】, it was truly astonishing.

The more than a thousand people who were attracted to buy it recovered to normal after drinking it, and they all reacted.

The spiritual effect of this soup only lasts for one day.

What should be done after that day?

Who knows when the Sacred Nest's rescue will come, or if it will really come?

So these people didn't leave, but surrounded Li Yu, wanting him to continue boiling more Furnace Refining Body Soup.

At the same time, they tacitly blocked the news.

More than a thousand people gathered, and there was no lack of some low-level cultivators. With many people, they became bold. At first, they just asked Li Yu to lower the price.

Later, as the noise grew, some blind ones began to shout for it to be free, otherwise they would tear down Li Yu's house and slaughter him.

Such a rapid change!

Li Yu saw it with his own eyes and couldn't help but be shocked.

Fortunately, he wasn't too surprised. It's Wanfu City, after all; it's perfectly normal.

This is human nature. I believe that even in the Three Kingdoms, if it were really a desperate situation, the residents wouldn't be much better.

However, now that Li Yu had advanced to "Alchemist," he naturally lost the interest in continuing to sell the Refining Body Soup, even though this could make a lot of money.

But he also knew at this time!

When at Sequence Seven and below, money is still very useful.

Further up, it is useless.

The higher the sequence, the more terrifying the power, and the secret medicine formula is simply not something that money can buy.

"Causing such a big stir is already a bit out of control. I can't sell soup anymore."

"Stop here."

Once the idea was set, Li Yu took action immediately.

His complexion became visibly pale, and the Qi breath he emitted was also incredibly weak, while he said:

"Neighbors, it's not that I don't want to boil soup for everyone, it's really that I can't do it."

"These medicinal soups have exhausted all my spiritual Qi, and all my forbidden arts and supernatural powers have been used. To recover, it will take at least two or three days, or even half a month. Neighbors, please wait for me a little longer."

"During this period, news about me must not be leaked."

"Everyone, disperse."

Li Yu's disguise and these evasive words were not very clever.

Normally, few people would listen.

But at this moment, a strange scene occurred: the mortals among the more than a thousand neighbors all smiled and agreed when they heard this, then obediently dispersed. The remaining low-level cultivators didn't hold on for too long either, and after hearing the last sentence, they all completely accepted Li Yu's statement and followed suit.

A big trouble that was likely to cause death was easily resolved by Li Yu, and on the surface, there didn't even seem to be anything special about it.

Demon speech confuses the crowd; it is truly strange.

Afterwards, Li Yu looked at the barrier from afar, as well as the lively crowd of onlookers outside the Heavenly Mechanism Workshop.

His brows furrowed slightly, then he turned back to the residence, dragging Hongdou straight to the alchemy room.

On the way, he even shouted:

"Come, come, evaluate my combat power for your master again."

"This time, can you still kill me easily?"

When night fell on the Heavenly Mechanism Workshop again, the alchemy room door opened once more in the meat shop residence.

Li Yu walked out with a satisfied expression. Behind him, in the scarlet steam carrying a strange fragrance, was the mechanical maid who was slowly putting away her chainsaw sword.

The post-battle evaluation report was spat out from her mouth:

"According to the battle results and the information provided by the master, when the master does not take elixirs for assistance, Hongdou must exhaust her spiritual energy to enter the high-intensity killing mode to barely kill the master... If the master takes elixirs, Hongdou will be killed by the master... As a mechanical body, Hongdou is immune to other abilities that the master is more proficient in, leading to a deviation estimate of more than 50% of the master's combat power..."

"Hongdou suggests that the master should store as many relevant spirit elixirs as possible. The richer the variety and the higher the tier, the stronger the master's combat power."

"At the same time, for the second strange art 【Playing God】 possessed by the master, it is suggested that the master reduce the frequency of use... Every time this art is used, the probability of the master being noticed and killed by an unknown True God will increase."

"And for the new path sequence cultivation that the master will undertake, according to its characteristics and requirements, if you go to the Qian, Li, and Jing Three Kingdoms ruled by the Six Great Righteous God Sects, the efficiency will drop by 30% to 60%. If you stay in Wanfu City, you can significantly shorten the time to advance to the next sequence..."

Obviously, Hongdou had evolved and transformed significantly. This time, in addition to the battle conclusion, she also gave some cultivation suggestions.

Falling into Li Yu's ears, he really felt that every point was very useful.

Although he really wanted to leave Wanfu City!

But he also knew that the Alchemist sequence was indeed the fastest to progress in such a dangerous and complex place as Wanfu City.

"Let's take it one step at a time."

"There is still a big trouble right in front of us, and I don't know how the 【Sacred Nest】 will deal with the Heavenly Mechanism Workshop."

"There are tens of thousands of residents here, many cultivators, and forces like the Rouge Society that are slightly inferior to the Three Saints Gang... For an overlord of a district, this is a major asset that cannot be lost."

"Normally, they shouldn't ignore it. The question is, can the Sacred Nest detoxify it once and for all?"

"If it drags past tonight, I'm afraid people will start dying on a large scale."

Just as Li Yu stood in the courtyard, looking up at the barrier, and deducing the follow-up.

The "rescue" he had estimated suddenly arrived.

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A full ten steam airships, huge in size, with scarlet paint and a large and obvious Sacred Nest logo, flew in from afar.

Along the way, there was constant roaring.

Even a fool knew that the Southern District overlord, the 【Sacred Nest】, was finally going to rescue the Heavenly Mechanism Workshop. The pranksters who had watched enough fun during the day and dispersed gathered outside the barrier again.

Very quickly, the ten airships reached above the barrier, and as the dome of the barrier cracked open.

One after another, mechanical creations that looked like "cannonballs" detached from the bottom of the giant airships and smashed straight into the Heavenly Mechanism Workshop.

This scene!

Scared many people silly.

Both inside and outside, the residents subconsciously had terrifying thoughts: "What is the Sacred Nest doing? Are they going to wash the Heavenly Mechanism Workshop with artillery fire? Since they can't detoxify it, they're just going to kill all the residents? Has the Sacred Nest gone crazy?"

Fortunately, in the next moment, warning prompts of beep, beep, beep echoed inside and outside the Heavenly Mechanism Workshop.

"Attention all residents of the Heavenly Mechanism Workshop! Please stay at home and do not move around, and do not panic."

"The Sacred Nest is deploying an antidote, which can completely decompose the blood rust virus in all residents at once, without leaving any sequelae."

"It's just that the detoxification process will have some tolerable pain."

"After half an incense stick of time, the barrier will be canceled."

"Repeat once! Please Heavenly Mechanism Workshop..."

As the broadcast began to repeat.

All the bombs that landed also exploded with a bang, bang, bang.

But, there was no power at all.

They just released a large amount of miserable green smoke with a hiss, hiss, hiss, which seemed to have life and quickly filled the entire Heavenly Mechanism Workshop.

Old Street was naturally within the coverage area.

As the green mist filled the meat shop residence, Li Yu first smelled a sour taste like vinegar, followed by a faint corrosiveness. The blood rust virus in his body, which wasn't much to begin with, was instantly decomposed and destroyed by this green mist.

The virus concentration filling the air dropped rapidly, and even the floating rust particles became larger and thicker, turning into "green copper sand" visible to the naked eye and falling down with a rustling sound.

For a time, it rained green copper in the Heavenly Mechanism Workshop.

The scene looked both strange and had a certain special beauty.

"Hmm? Is it really an antidote that works once and for all?"

"Sacred Nest, they really went all out this time."

"I don't know what the ingredients are, but the effect is much better than my Furnace Refining Body Soup."

While Li Yu asked, he also turned to look at Hongdou.

With the mechanical maid's current intelligence, she should respond immediately and analyze the ingredients of the miserable green mist.

But at this moment, what Li Yu saw was an extremely "vivid" look of surprise and accident suddenly appearing on the maid's face.

And what she spat out was not the answer Li Yu expected, but an inexplicable strong warning:

"Master!"

"An unknown danger has occurred. The source is a mechanical mystic box suspected to be produced by the Heavenly Work Sect."

"It is speculated that the antidote released by the 【Sacred Nest】 organization is a special biological mystic key for this mystic box. It will open automatically as soon as it is touched." 【103】 "Beep, beep, beep!" 【104】 "High-intensity danger detected, which will threaten the master's life..." 【105】 Before these mechanical sounds could finish, Hongdou had already rushed back to the main house one step ahead. 【106】 Li Yu followed closely behind. Just as he entered the house, he saw Hongdou take out the mechanical mystic box that had been temporarily put at the bottom of the box because the mystic key couldn't be solved. 【107】 And at this moment, this box, which was integrated, flawless, and incredibly exquisite and mysterious. 【108】 Was flashing red light crazily, and accompanied by a clatter, clatter sound, it was opening by itself. 【109】 Just before Li Yu could see what was stored inside, he first heard the terrifying notification that made his soul fly away: 【110】 "Biological mystic key contacted, opening in progress." 【111】 "Beep, beep, beep...!" 【112】 "Location error detected, time error detected, contact person error detected... Starting the self-destruct program of the 【Small Heavenly Work Nuke】..." 【113】 (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 97 =====

"Beep, beep, beep!"

"High-intensity danger detected, threatening the master's life..."

Before these mechanical sounds had even faded, Hongdou had already turned back to the main room.

Li Yu followed closely behind. As soon as he entered the room, he saw Hongdou take out the mechanical secret box that had been temporarily shelved because the secret key could not be solved.

At this moment, this seamless, flawless, and incredibly intricate and mysterious box.

Was flashing red frantically, and accompanied by "click-clack" sounds, it was opening on its own.

But before Li Yu could see what was stored inside, he first heard a terrifying notification that made his soul tremble:

"Biological secret key contacted, opening in progress."

"Beep, beep, beep...!"

"Location error detected, time error, contact person error... Starting the 【Small Tiangong Nuclear Bomb】 self-destruct sequence..."

(End of chapter)