[Your body shattered into countless pieces like a phantom, giving birth to a true form in the same spot, with nine Dao seals transforming into nine halos of light.]
[With a wave of your hand in annoyance, the 24 million-kilometer-thick layer of rock and soil above your head is parted, and a beam of light traveling at infinite speed arrives in an instant from tens of millions of kilometers away.]
[The dark abyss was then transformed into a patch of light.]
Shen Chuan's maniacal laughter abruptly stopped.
[You crushed and peeled away the thick outer shell of the machine. This "Ancient Mountain," which had been with him for sixty years, resonated with him at 100%, and felt like an integral part of his being, was instantly pierced by you, severing all connection with him!]
[Shen Chuan's lips trembled, enveloped by the instinctive awe of a more powerful being. You pulled him from the giant machine with one hand and gripped his throat.]
"Really... never learns!"
[You poured excruciating pain into his body, you brute forcefully destroyed his spirit, and for the next hour or so, he endured the most agonizing despair in the world.]
"Do you really want to slap me in the face? I've never liked the practice of exterminating entire human races, because I feel it would involve innocent people. I can't slaughter the entire family of an idiot who knows nothing because of his stupidity."
[Shen Chuan truly lives up to his title as the Master of Mecha Combat; after enduring excruciating pain that would drive an ordinary person insane hundreds of times, he still retained his conscious mind.]
[His eyes revealed profound regret.]
You have annihilated him.
In reality, you accept that memory from the future and turn your head to look at a certain place.
[In 57 seconds, Shen Chuan will pilot his "Ancient Mountain" through the wall, shattering your Divine Machine Emperor Battle, which you spent 8700 quarters of an hour building and perfecting.]
[You retrieved the mech and chose to descend.]
Once a pilot acquires a mech and spends some time achieving a high resonance level, they become far stronger than pilots who have just broken through to other systems.
[You are currently at the third realm, eighth stage, making you a relatively strong mid-level pseudo-king: more than thirty times stronger than a newly promoted pseudo-king.]
However, Shen Chuan's mecha piloting strength is over 700 times that of a newly promoted pseudo-king. This is considered below average among aerial mecha warriors, but in the Azure Domain, he would be a racial ace, ranking first below the fifth realm, surpassed only by those with exceptional fighting abilities.
[Even with a 20-fold difference in strength, if the opponent is piloting an external device like the Supreme Battle Body, you might still have a slight chance of defeating them using various different methods.]
Although mechs are external equipment, to the pilots, they are almost indistinguishable from their own bodies. In fact, if any part of the mech is damaged, the pilot inside can feel it simultaneously, as if their own body is being damaged.
"No wonder Twelve was so angry before, it turns out he was hurt."
[Limited to the fourth realm and above.]
"..."
"Since even your true form can't defeat you, then I'll have no choice but to descend into reality once more."
At this moment, 230,000 kilometers away, Shenchuan is traveling underground.
He doesn't know your exact location, but he has a detector; once he gets within 150,000 kilometers of you, he can pinpoint your location first.
The detectors also have mutual shielding capabilities, and coupled with their speed exceeding 6,000 kilometers per second, they can strike your machine before the sound can even travel over time.
A supersonic bullet will only make a person hear the sound of a gunshot after it hits the target.
"Yes, when experts talk across hundreds or thousands of miles, they have to use their Yuan Power to transmit their voices to break the speed of sound. Otherwise, it would take several minutes to transmit a single sentence, which would lose all its prestige."
Similarly, when Shen Chuan was filled with excitement and his mind was filled with the regret on your face when you were destroyed and rebuilding your body, he was also completely unaware that a sudden, excruciating pain, as if his chest was being torn apart, would erupt. In an instant, you would grab his head and forcibly pull him out of the "Ancient Mountain."
"You...you..." Shen Chuan suppressed his discomfort, but when he saw your face clearly, a sense of absurdity, as if his fate was being controlled, enveloped him.
"Idiot." You tightened your grip, squeezing his skull until it cracked.
[Shen Chuan then saw—]
Because of his intervention, the Shen family on the ground was destroyed and exterminated.
[His family was destroyed, and his relatives, those who respected him and looked up to him as a role model, cursed and vilified him.]
He saw the airspace in ruins, and he saw all the blame being placed on his head.
When he was overjoyed to discover that some of his direct descendants had escaped the calamity and were still alive, he was branded a sinful clan and despised by everyone.
[Every day they could only scavenge for garbage, eat dead rats, and have only one grain of rice in a bowl of rice soup.]
[Being bullied at school means being barred from parties; being bullied at work means having your power cut off before you can save your files; being bullied in a nursing home means being beaten up by young men who come to challenge you.]
Finally, he saw his deceased wife crawl out of her grave, pointing at him and yelling, "Look what you've done! Because of the jealousy of a worthless brat, you've dragged our entire family into the abyss!"
"The other party was assassinated and nearly died; this is just retribution. They didn't even spare you, who was implicated, from being killed!"
"But...but he killed Ping'er..." Shen Chuan argued, "He wasn't even hurt, yet he treated Ping'er like that..."
"But was that little beast even hurt? Yet he still wants to assassinate him, to take revenge!"
Shen Chuan was speechless. He stared at the corpses of his descendants being devoured by wild dogs on the ground, and at those still alive struggling to survive.
"So... he really really is a demigod."
"Do you still harbor any illusions even now?"
"He could really implicate innocent people..."
"Damn it, you've taken the mercy that Twelve showed you as a license to be shameless!"
[With tears of blood streaming down his face, and filled with remorse, Shenchuan met his end.]
Remove your hand from his head; the illusion is broken, for it cannot work on a dead person.
[Two weeks later, upon returning to the Abyss Army camp, you received a notification.]
[Shen Chuan has deserted the military camp's control area without authorization and is now considered a deserter. Anyone who kills him in the airspace will not be punished and can even earn merit...]
[It's understandable that the upper echelons of the airspace were aware of what had happened when Shen Chuan disappeared, and they quickly distanced themselves from the situation.]
[No, if they didn't know where Shen Chuan was, given your current relationship with those Mech Warriors, they should be here to inform you, tell you to be careful, or send a few Mech Warriors to protect you closely.]
But now they're acting completely indifferent—which means they already know about Shen Chuan's death through some channels and suspect that you were the one who killed him!
[They simply couldn't gauge your thoughts, nor did they know if you were willing to expose this matter, so they first labeled Shen Chuan a traitor to show that they had no objection to Shen Chuan's death.]
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(Fourth update. Also, there will be a major upgrade tomorrow, opening a new riding area? (ˉ﹃ˉ?))
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