novelsite Chapter 349 Crushing a Warship with Bare Hands, All of Humanity Reduced to Laborers
Chapter 349 Crushing a Warship with Bare Hands, All of Humanity Reduced to Laborers
The dark red sky pressed down on the sea. On the ruins of Dengxian Island, the pungent smell of blood mixed with the acrid smell of burnt metal wafted into everyone's nostrils on the sea breeze.
A streak of black and gold light fell straight down from the sky.
Lu Sheng hovered in mid-air. The black flames of the solar eclipse burned silently on his body, and the light passing around him was severely distorted.
Below is the departure port of Dengxian Island.
Eight blond-haired, blue-eyed remnants of the Western Pantheon were crouching low as they crawled into a thousand-meter-long Celestial Qin escort ship. Elder Chi Ming's body was barely cold; they were working through the night to break down the hatches, attempting to seize the ship and escape this drastically altered planet.
The main engines emitted a low-frequency hum, and a deep blue flame spewed from the stern. The bow of the frigate lifted off the surface, and the thrust increased rapidly.
They're running away without even setting up a camouflage net. Space jumps don't require fuel, are they planning to risk their lives for it?
Lu Sheng lowered his eyes and glanced down.
He raised his right hand, spread his five fingers, and pressed down lightly.
The gravitational field, exceeding that of mortals by three thousand times, combined with the supermassive mass of the eclipse force, transformed into a substantial force field, forcefully sealing off the entire harbor.
The air burst forth with a sharp, strained hum.
The Xianqin frigate, which had just taken off, along with its defensive light shield, was abruptly stuck in mid-air.
Immediately afterwards, the massive hull flattened and compressed downwards. The high-strength star-space titanium alloy armor emitted a piercing metallic fatigue cracking sound, and the screams of the eight Western powerhouses were stuck in their throats for half a second before completely sticking to the bow armor.
There were no unnecessary movements.
In the blink of an eye, the thousand-meter-long warship vanished without a trace. On the harbor berth, a dark red metal disc, 500 square meters in area and less than 10 centimeters thick, appeared.
Thick beads of blood oozed from the gaps in the high-density metal.
The remaining cultivators on Ascension Island were deathly silent.
Dao Yi braced himself with one arm, Li Xiaoyao dropped his broken sword, his knees buckled, and they both knelt on the white jade plaza covered in sand and gravel. Behind them, thousands of cultivators from various sects knelt in a dark mass, their foreheads pressed firmly against the floor tiles.
No one dared to look up at the man in the sky.
Lu Sheng folded his wings and planted his feet firmly on the ground. His combat boots shattered a jade tile, the crisp sound jarringly loud in the deathly silence.
"Sects, rules, and the greater good of humanity are all abolished from today onwards."
The sound, carrying the shockwaves of the laws of the Abyss Water System, precisely pierced everyone's eardrums.
He stood with his hands behind his back in front of the crowd, his cross-shaped pupils replaced by two tiny, dark stars, deep and intimidating.
"Blue Star is under my jurisdiction." Lu Sheng's gaze swept over this group of cowards. "This is my private ranch. You are all just farmhands on this ranch."
Dao Yi's Adam's apple bobbed, cold sweat poured from his forehead, and his breathing rate was reduced to the lowest possible level.
Lu Sheng continued his pronouncement: "No sect offerings, no renowned or righteous sects. Everyone will be ranked and registered according to their combat strength. On the fifteenth of each month, they shall submit the full amount of Abyss Cores or high-grade sea beast meat."
He took a step forward, stepping onto the still-damp bloodstains on Chi Ming's body.
"If you don't deliver the required quantity, I'll take a cut of your spiritual energy to make up the difference."
A few suppressed gasps came from the cultivators' ranks. No one objected. The once lofty cultivators had been reduced to lowly laborers paid by piecework, and those who refused would be laid out on that blood-stained iron disc in the harbor.
Lu Sheng withdrew his gaze.
Raising pigs always requires sending people to cut pig feed. Slaughtering low-level monsters to accumulate energy yourself is too inefficient. Setting targets and forcing all cultivators on Earth to work and produce resources makes harvesting much easier.
Luo Tianfei followed behind Lu Sheng, her steps unsteady. Since Lu Sheng forcibly altered the ancient emperor's bloodline mark, her face remained as pale as paper.
Lu Sheng stopped and turned to look at her.
"Your 'key' has expired." Lu Sheng raised his right hand.
A drop of golden, ancient divine blood was forced from his fingertip. Inside the blood, a complex golden matrix flickered erratically. It was a core sub-node of the Heavenly Array Disk of the Moonlit Palace Base.
Luo Tianfei's pupils contracted slightly. Before she could answer, Lu Sheng pointed a finger at her brow.
Divine blood pierced through her skin, and the Heavenly Plate Node forcefully squeezed into her sea of consciousness.
"Ugh—" Luo Tianfei groaned in pain, clutching her head tightly with both hands.
High-temperature steam billowed from the sutures of her skull, and pale blue data flowed from the corners of her eyes. Massive amounts of data washed over her neurons. The standby status of the Qin terracotta warriors, the global trend of the earth's spiritual energy, and the distribution density of mutated sea beasts were all being flooded in at a rate of tens of trillions of bytes.
A fine blue electronic circuit pattern lit up on the surface of her exposed skin. This flesh-and-blood body was being forcibly transformed into a semi-mechanized living supercomputer.
"Hang in there, and you'll be the world's only Star Map Guide." Lu Sheng's voice was cold and hard, showing no mercy. "Global resource output is at your disposal, and computing power is connected to your brain. I only care about the final revenue figures."
Luo Tianfei gasped for breath, the blue light fixed in her eyes. She straightened up, her voice stripped of any emotion by the data: "Access granted. Global resource monitoring network activated."
Lu Sheng nodded. It's enough for a tool to have the awareness of being a tool.
Luo Tianfei's gaze swept across the void, data swirling in her eyes like a waterfall.
She paused slightly, then looked up to report: "The celestial depth scan reports geological anomalies. Deep within the Earth's core, 300 kilometers below the original location of the ancient god, a spiritual source collapse zone has appeared in the mantle structure."
Upon hearing this, Lu Sheng's eyes narrowed slightly.
Previously, while battling the ancient gods at the Earth's core, the Desolate Heavenly Emperor's Dharma Form shattered the surrounding strata for hundreds of miles. He completely absorbed the abyss's energy, yet something was still hidden beneath?
Send me the coordinates.
Luo Tianfei raised her hand. A holographic three-dimensional image of the Earth's core was projected in mid-air, and a red dot flashed wildly at the edge of the golden core.
Lu Sheng rose from the ground, his black and gold light piercing the sound barrier and plunging into the deep sea.
The laws of the Abyss Water System cleared a path, causing the seawater, thousands of meters deep, to retreat to both sides. He smashed through the seabed, shattered the scorching magma layer, and hurtled toward the edge of the Earth's core.
The surrounding temperature soared to hundreds of thousands of degrees, and the black flames of the solar eclipse burst forth, engulfing the extreme heat.
Arrive at target coordinates.
This was originally a dimensional rift where the ancient gods were rooted. After the rift closed, a layer of dark rock walls was revealed below.
A highly concealed dark golden magic array was carved into the rock face. The Immortal Qin's Concealing Breath Array was an ancient technique, reducing spiritual energy fluctuations to a freezing point, perfectly avoiding the violent energy impact from the earth's core earlier.
Lu Sheng pressed one hand against the rock wall.
A powerful suction force erupted from his palm, causing the Ancient Devouring Furnace to reverse its course.
The dark golden array patterns struggled violently. The spiritual source hidden within was forcibly pulled out like peeling silk from an onion, transforming into strands of fine energy that drilled into Lu Sheng's body.
The magic array withered, and the rock wall, having lost its support, began to crack inch by inch.
Splash!
Large sections of stone crumbled away, revealing a dark and deep miniature passage. The passage was less than three meters in diameter, its walls paved with some kind of unknown alien crystal. A murky, dark red glow flowed within the crystal.
Is it the secret escape route of the Immortal Qin? Or a remnant star path from an even more distant era?
As soon as the passage opened, a thick, pungent smell of blood mixed with the aura of the wilderness gushed out in a spiral.
Lu Shengli stood at the entrance of the passage and took a deep breath.
The black dragon wings flapped slightly behind it, dispersing the approaching lava. This doesn't taste right.
There was no musty, rotten smell. The bloody odor concealed complex and high-level spiritual energy fluctuations. It was all the fresh aroma emanating from top-quality ingredients.
At the other end of the passage lies an unknown star field teeming with life yet rife with carnage. This is not a refuge or escape route; it is a bridge to a brand new hunting ground.
The Earth is too small a piece of meat for his stove to even fill a tooth gap. Why not take advantage of a free meal?
He strode forward, stepping onto the ancient star path paved with alien crystals.
"What's the point of staying in seclusion and eating stored food?"
Darkness swallowed his tall figure. A low, resounding declaration echoed at the entrance to the passageway.
"Going to someone else's pot to pick up meat is what it means to source goods."