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--- Chapter 541 ---
Everything within a hundred-mile radius of the spinning triple red halos felt an oppressive, suffocating weight slam onto their bodies.
The pressure was especially severe for those equipped with heavy Battle Armor or Mechas, their internal power systems whining under the gravitational distortion.
WHIRRRRRRR—!
The three red particle rings spun continuously, letting out an ear-splitting frequency as Tang Hao's Clear Sky Hammer rushed downward to strike the giant mecha.
With the speed of lightning, the silver giant swung its broadsword directly into the hammer's path.
"HEAVY PARTICLE SLASH!"
BANG!
Tang Hao felt as if his hammer had slammed into an impenetrable wall of absolute thickness. The strike stopped abruptly mid-air, the violent recoil shattering the muscles in his arms and leaving his upper torso completely numb.
Before Tang Hao could pull back, a concentrated wave of crimson particle energy erupted from the blade's edge, swallowing both him and his Clear Sky Hammer.
"I-IMPOSSIBLE!"
Drowned in a sea of explosive red energy, Tang Hao was crashing down toward the ocean floor like a meteor. The resulting impact detonated with the force of a thousand spirit guidance missiles, sending a shockwave echoing across the heavens like rumbling thunder.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
"Brother Hao!" Mo Yin rushed to her husband's side, channeling her divine life essence to heal his ruptured meridians.
However, her eyes widened in terror. The moment her divine life energy touched Tang Hao's body, it was instantly devoured by the rampant red particles flowing through his veins, completely stopping any natural regeneration.
Mo Yin bit her lips in confusion. "What is this red energy?! How can it neutralize my divine life healing?!"
Up in the lunar command hub, Xu Deming watched the diagnostic feeds and snorted in disdain. 'Foolish brute.'
'Do you honestly believe the Heavy Particle Slash was a mere physical strike infused with basic elements?'
'I successfully reverse-engineered the laws of degradation, synthesizing a particle stream that is non-lethal to mortals, but naturally acts as a hyper-targeted parasite toward Divine Beings.'
'It continuously feeds on your divine force, mutating it into a corrosive, self-sustaining toxin.'
'Heh... I wonder how it feels to suffer from Anti-Divine Cancer!' Xu Deming grinned in satisfaction, adjusting the neural link parameters.
Down below, Tang Hao mustered his own share of authority as the Plane Master to suppress the internal decay in his origin. Groaning in agony, he forced himself back up with Mo Yin supporting his weight.
He exhaled a ragged breath, his voice strained. "Da Ming, Er Ming... do not let that blade touch you! That red energy acts like a curse on Divine Beings... it actively gnaws at and consumes our divine force!"
Da Ming and Er Ming shared a look of utter horror. Looking at the giant silver mecha hovering above the sea, they finally understood where that suffocating sense of dread was coming from.
This machine possessed the explicit power to kill Gods!
Though Da Ming and Er Ming weren't purely natural Divine Beasts—having relied on Tang San's divine intervention to break through their limits over the last twenty thousand years—their bodies were still divine.
The Titan Giant Ape. The Azure Dragon.
"Er Ming, deploy your Gravity Control!" The Azure Dragon commanded in his human form. "I will slow its movements with my domain and strike it with Divine Lightning!"
"Got it!" The burly giant nodded solemnly.
Tang Hao gritted his teeth, raising his hammer once more. "Let's go, Mo Yin! We cannot allow this machine to destroy our home!"
"Yes, Brother Hao!" Mo Yin unleashed her authority, causing thousands of massive, divine sea-vines to erupt from the ocean floor, wrapping tightly around the silver giant's limbs.
The four divine entities launched a coordinated assault, surrounding Xu Deming's unit.
Yet, they failed to realize that they were merely clashing with a remote-controlled robot. Xu Deming was simply keeping them occupied on the surface while preparing a more devastating attack in the background.
Watching the four divine figures battle the silver giant in the distance, Han Tianyi's spiritual consciousness fluctuated silently.
Even at a massive distance, his powerful spiritual power sense could trace the silver mecha's impossibly swift trajectories as its blade carved deep rifts across the ocean, repeatedly repelling Tang Hao and Mo Yin.
Da Ming and Er Ming pushed their combat output to the limit.
Realizing their current human forms lacked the physical scale to hold the silver mecha, both returned to their true forms, a colossal Titan Giant Ape and a towering Azure Dragon, using overlapping gravity suppressions and heavy lightning storms to pin the silver mecha in place.
With the mecha's limbs bound tightly by Mo Yin's divine vines, Tang Hao found his opening. Channelling every ounce of his remaining divine force, he slammed his hammer squarely against the mecha's chest plate!
BANG!
The silver giant let out a metallic groan as its energy shielding trembled, sending its massive frame crashing into the ocean and causing a massive tsunami that swept across the coastline.
"It worked! Don't let it recover!" Tang Hao roared, his voice echoing across the battlefield. "Everyone, charge!"
Behind the primary frontline, several Title Douluo powerhouses from the Tang Alliance had been watching in tense silence. Hearing Tang Hao's direct command, many hesitated.
"What are you cowards waiting for?! Advance!" screamed Long Yeyue, who had already donned her Battle Armor and launched herself toward the fallen mecha.
Seeing the Grand Elder charge ahead bravely, the remaining Title Douluos hardened their resolves and followed her into the fray.
What Long Yeyue and her allies failed to recognize was that their actions were being live-streamed to every major political figure in the Federation.
Even though assisting one's ancestors was natural, abandoning a civilian crisis to aid an unaligned divine entity was viewed by the Federal Council as an act of high treason.
It seems Long Yeyue forgot the recent parliament meeting. So, instead of denying it, she just confirmed it with her own action.
Just a few hundred miles away, an uncontrolled Ocean Spirit Beast Tide was bearing down on human settlements.
Yet, Shrek and the Tang Alliance chose to direct their entire force toward destroying the Mechanical Demon instead of protecting the people.
General Dong Zian, fighting from the cockpit of his crimson wolf mecha, watched the live transmission with white knuckles. He had been holding off multiple high-tier sea beasts for minutes on end.
His men were burning through their energy reserves at an unsustainable rate, and the defensive line was on the verge of collapsing.
Recognizing the looming tragedy, Han Tianyi made his decision. Stepping into the sky, nine brilliant spirit rings flared into existence behind him as he glided toward the Eastern Front.
"Is that..." General Dong Ziqi recognized the figure instantly. After all, this man was widely acknowledged as possessing the most formidable mind in the Federation.
"The Illusory Brain Douluo!"
Hovering above the surging wave of ocean spirit beasts, many of which were hundred-thousand-year-old lords of the deep, Han Tianyi remained entirely unbothered.
In fact, deep down, Han Tianyi was already calculating which sea beasts possessed the best spirit rings, spirit bones, or Spirit Soul compatibility for his grandson, Han Yuan. To a doting grandfather, a beast tide was simply a treasure trove.
Still, duty came first.
Han Tianyi folded his hands behind his back, his voice resounding across the heavens like a tranquil bell.
"Illusory God's Domain—Ten Thousand Thoughts Weave a Dream!"
An invisible, high-frequency mental barrier expanded instantly, enveloping a hundred-mile zone.
Every living consciousness caught within the spiritual domain was pulled into a dreamscape where Han Tianyi reigned as its sole master.
Within that very domain, he could effortlessly sever their mental sea with a single thought, which translated directly to brain death in the real world.
Against a spiritual powerhouse operating at the Divine Origin Realm, these ferocious sea beasts were reduced to helpless livestock awaiting the butcher's knife!
General Dong Zian watched the massive ocean spirit beasts collapse into the ocean one by one, his eyes filled with profound awe. "As expected of the man called the strongest mind..."
"His mental domain control is terrifying."
"Sigh... What a pity he belongs to the Spirit Pagoda. It would have been a blessing if a man of his level had joined the Military."
Up on the moon, Xu Deming observed Han Tianyi's effortless control of the beast tide on his auxiliary monitor, stroking his chin thoughtfully.
"Huh... Brother Han's grandfather is genuinely impressive. His mental force has fully crossed into the Divine Origin Realm."
"He would have made an absolute genius in the field of Spirit Guidance research."
Suddenly, the central terminal flashed bright crimson, accompanied by a piercing alarm.
'WARNING! HIGH-MASS PROJECTILE APPROACHING AT HYPERSONIC SPEED! ESTIMATED IMPACT IN 5 SECONDS!"
'THREAT LEVEL: RED!' Gnosia's voice alerted him in his mind.
Xu Deming shifted his main monitor, following a sleek, jet-black projectile descending from the upper atmosphere toward his God-Slaying Mecha, which was currently pinned down under the combined assault of Tang Hao, Mo Yin, Da Ming, Er Ming, and the Tang Alliance.
"Hmm?" Xu Deming's eyes widened slightly as he recognized the energy signature of the warhead.
"Isn't that one of those ultra-expensive military black projects that the federal research units abandoned due to instability?"
"What was that prototype called again?"
"Ah... right!"
"The Godslayer Missile: Destroyer of Heaven... Armageddon!"