**Chapter 404: Fierce Battle, God Falls**
Under the dim night sky of the desert dunes, a brutal battle was unfolding. White gas continuously puffed from the nostrils of the Flesh Giant, whose muscles were exposed beneath his skin. This was the condensation effect of his scorching breath meeting the ambient temperature of over sixty degrees below zero.
Wielding an Engineering Hammer stained with foul blood, the Flesh Giant swung the hammer wildly in all directions. With every strike, the sand within a hundred-meter radius trembled.
Many Sand Scorpions that had just poked their heads out of the sand surrounding the Flesh Giant were smashed into paste by his hammer. However, the rustling sound of sand churning in the nearby sand continued incessantly. Abad could tell from the Flesh Giant's fatigue that the creature seemed to have been fighting for a long time before he arrived. Soon, as the white gas expelled from the Flesh Giant's nostrils grew thicker, the speed at which he swung his hammer also slowed. Finally, with a clang as the Flesh Giant's foot landed...
From the sand behind him, several Sand Scorpions burst forth. Two pairs of sharp pincers clamped onto the Flesh Giant's arms, and their sharp Tail Needles stabbed directly into his back. "Roar!"
The Flesh Giant threw away the hammer in his hand, grabbed one of the Sand Scorpions clamping his arm, and brutally tore the Sand Scorpion's pincer from his body.
With a forceful pull of his hands, he brutally ripped off the Sand Scorpion's tail, then swallowed the entire Sand Scorpion whole, chewing loudly.
The ferocity of the Flesh Giant, with blood constantly dripping from the corner of his mouth, sent shivers down Abad's spine. However, having thrown away the Engineering Hammer in his hand, the Flesh Giant was like a tiger that had lost its teeth.
From all sides, large numbers of Sand Scorpions surged out of the sand like a spring, rushing towards the Flesh Giant. Although the Flesh Giant stomped with his feet and smashed with his fists, these Sand Scorpions, each the size of an Earth car, quickly overwhelmed him. Sand Scorpions pounced onto the Flesh Giant's body, clamping onto his muscles with their sharp pincers. Their sharp armor-piercing Tail Needles pierced into the Flesh Giant's body, continuously injecting potent poison into his body. At the same time, they clung to the Flesh Giant's body, tearing at his flesh and blood with their sharp mouthparts. Although the Flesh Giant kept jumping and rolling in the Desert, he soon fell silent. Moments later, the Flesh Giant was gnawed into a pile of white bone right before Abad's eyes.
And the Sand Scorpions devouring the Flesh Giant was just an insignificant scene in this killing Battlefield. In the silent Desert, no matter how powerful the hunter, they moved cautiously, not daring to make any sound. Yet, the full-throated voice of the fat toad seemed to have provoked countless terrifying Variants.
These Variants were not controlled by any chips. MODOK, the only one who could control them, was currently leading a large number of Variants across the Planet, tracking the movements of the Predators.
Survival of the fittest was the only commonality among these Variants.
A monster resembling a crocodile with sword-shaped bone armor on its back shook its head, biting a Sand Scorpion into its mouth and eating it until its mouth was bursting. As for the swarming Sand Scorpions, it was completely fearless. It retracted its head and tail, instantly transforming into an orb covered in sword-shaped spikes, allowing the Sand Scorpions' tail needles to stab at its thick back armor. The Armored Crocodile, which hadn't died from falling from a height of ten thousand meters, relied precisely on its powerful back armor defense.
Although these Sand Scorpions surrounded the Armored Crocodile, they couldn't cause it any damage.
The Armored Crocodile, the size of a truck, swallowed the Sand Scorpion in its mouth. Taking advantage of the Sand Scorpions' inattention, it suddenly extended its head and, with a flick of its head, bit off another Sand Scorpion from its body, crunching it into meat paste with a snap. Its biting force was more than a hundred times stronger than Earth's crocodiles! As more and more Variants were killed and injured in this Desert, the smell of blood grew stronger, and more and more Variants with keen sense of smell, drawn by the scent of blood, arrived. A dense swarm of mice, each the size of a normal domestic cat, these black mice not only had large front teeth capable of gnawing through metal, but their forelimbs also had small fleshy membranes connecting them.
Although these fleshy membranes didn't allow them to fly very high, at most two or three meters, these swarming mice were terrifying creatures capable of easily gnawing a person down to white bone.
The dense swarm of mice glided at low altitude, locked onto their target, and with cries of "Squeak, squeak, squeak," swarmed forward, quickly gnawing a thick-skinned, tough giant bear until only a pool of blood remained.
The sharp teeth of these mice even gnawed away the giant bear's hard bone. However, these mice were not without rivals. A wind sound swept through the Night Sky, and several strange birds with the heads of eagles and bodies of lions, possessing wings four to five meters long, descended from the sky. With dives of their claws, they easily snatched the mice in their claws.
A gentle peck from their eagle-hook-like beaks would crush the mice into meat paste, which they would then slurp down into their stomachs. The arrival of these griffins also attracted some aerial predators. Several giant wolves appeared in the Night Sky at some point, their eyes like green bonfires.
These winged giant wolves took advantage of the griffins diving to hunt, silently approaching them from above. As the griffins began to climb again, these giant wolves swooped down.
Two griffins had their necks bitten off by the giant wolves on the spot. "Howl!"
"Roar!"
The pungent smell of blood grew thicker, and more and more Variants arrived in this Desert. Soon, the Variants gathered here attracted the attention of some truly top-tier hunters.
In a valley depression less than thirty miles from this hill, in the darkness, a Dark Predator stood invisibly in a mountain wall recess, tapping on the personal computer on its arm. Connecting to the two surveillance satellites they had deployed overhead, the surveillance satellite with built-in infrared sensing quickly locked onto the Desert where the Variants were continuously gathering.
The Dark Predator looked at the picture projected on the personal computer on its arm. After a moment of thought, it shook the jade tablet in its hand, transforming it into a jade whistle, which it placed to its mouth and blew!
A silent frequency, reaching directly into the soul, spread out from the jade whistle. At the bottom of the valley, countless dense aliens quickly climbed up along the mountain wall and rushed towards that Desert. "Hey! What are you looking at?"
Facing the Giant Wolves that could swallow him whole, Abad now wished he could maximize the power of his mecha stealth module. Just as he was slowly retreating by reducing the frequency of his anti-gravity thruster, a claw suddenly patted his shoulder.
Abad, his nerves taut, instinctively and quickly drew his Blade in a counterattack. With a screech, the wide and sharp High-Frequency Oscillation Energy Battle Blade slashed directly at Rocket Raccoon's forehead behind him.
Rocket Raccoon suddenly leaned back, and two streams of light blue energy flames sprayed from the battlegear backpack on his body, instantly carrying him hundreds of meters away, dodging Abad's Blade.
After stabilizing himself, Rocket Raccoon exclaimed, "Are you crazy?"
Abad also saw that the person behind him was Rocket Raccoon, but he had no time to explain. He simply shouted at Rocket Raccoon in a low voice, "Run!"
Then he took the lead, maximizing the power of the thruster on his feet, and instantly disappeared from Rocket Raccoon's eyes. "Heh roar—"
Rocket Raccoon looked up, and several starving wolves, alerted by the commotion, were already flying towards him.
"Fuck, shit, you bitch wait for me!" "Puff puff—"
Rocket Raccoon raised his hand and fired two shots, turning one starving wolf into meat paste, then turned and ran. Behind him, several starving wolves the size of adult horses and a dozen winged lions flapped their wings, chasing after the two. Tang Song's magic cube transformed again. It was golden and solid, its entire body hazy, seemingly substantial yet somehow not existing in this World. A faint, ethereal golden glow flowed across the surface of the magic cube. The six sides of the magic cube faintly displayed several huge golden talismans. If one concentrated their mind to look, these talismans would become increasingly large, eventually giving the illusion of filling the entire heaven and earth.
Buzz buzz!
Inside the magic cube's Small World, Tang Song's mind condensed into a physical form, holding an ancient golden bell. After Tang Song's refinement, even without the power of the Infinity Stones to augment it, this bell faintly possessed some of the power of the legendary Innate Supreme Treasure that could attack and defend, break through The Void, and immobilize Earth, water, fire, and wind. At the very least, the quality of this Chaos Bell had surpassed that Genuine Article Great Desolation Bell in the Jambudvīpa World!
Inside the island near the Main God Hall, Tang Song held the Chaos Bell in his hand, with a ball of golden light suspended before him. Inside, a Damaged Artifact was vaguely visible.
Looking at the miniature architecture model in the golden light, carved into the shape of a Barracks, Tang Song was silent for a long time. Suddenly, he made up his mind. Above his head, three streams of Qi Flow soared into the sky, transforming into three half-opened lotus flower buds. Within the flower buds, the Taiji Diagram, two Sword Implements, and the Phantom of the Twelve Capital Heaven Nether King Banner manifested! At the same time, a golden metal glove appeared in Tang Song's hand, each inlaid with an oval gemstone of a different color. Looking at this Main God Barracks, which he had never refined, with everything prepared, Tang Song opened his mouth and sprayed a mouthful of Natal Vital Qi onto it.
The Innate Origin Energy of the entire Small World instantly concentrated on this mouthful of Natal Vital Qi from Tang Song, turning into a vast, misty Qi that carefully wrapped around this Damaged Artifact.
The Main God Damaged Artifact, in terms of position/status, was equivalent to a Great Principle creation, or even a Great Principle's limb. Tang Song didn't know what the consequences would be if he rashly refined it, so he had never deeply refined it, only treating it as a tool for cultivating Yellow Turban Strongmen.
What Tang Song wanted to do now was to deeply analyze the mysteries of this Great Principle Damaged Artifact. The Infinity Gauntlet on his hand gave Tang Song a certain degree of confidence.
Tang Song glanced at the instrument next to him that was connected to the Quantum Realm. If he encountered danger, he would throw this Main God Barracks into the Quantum Tunnel and temporarily store it in another Universe! The thing that nearly scared Tang Song out of his wits happened. Just as his Divine Sense had penetrated the core of the Main God Barracks, a mechanical voice sounded.
"Core logic of Barracks touched, core sovereignty triggered, danger level highest, ultimate defense activated, main body severely damaged, ultimate defense activation failed, counterattack mode initiated. First sequence, Pangu Chaos Break! Attack initiated, weapon unit lost, attack failed... First sequence, Fate Warship activated, weapon unit lost, Fate Warship disconnected, attack failed... First sequence, Causality Weapon activated, weapon unit lost, energy severely depleted, first sequence attack cannot be completed... Second sequence, Four Immortal Slaying Swords attack, attack initiated, weapon unit lost... Third sequence, Agent attack, summoning unit lost, energy severely depleted, third sequence attack cannot be completed..." A series of cold voices scared Tang Song out of his wits. Those Pangu Chaos Break, Four Immortal Slaying Swords, Fate Warship, just hearing the names, they were not easy to deal with.
Fortunately, this was just a Damaged Artifact. But as he expected, there was indeed a backup plan left by that Main God in this Main God Barracks. After hearing the cold voice from the Damaged Artifact, Tang Song immediately covered it with the Chaos Bell. At the same time, the Taiji Diagram transformed into a golden bridge and pressed down, and the Twelve Capital Heaven Nether King Banner also cast down black and green radiance.
This Damaged Artifact was firmly trapped. However, the voice from the core of the Main God Barracks continued to sound:
"Fourth sequence, Dao Soldiers attack, Dao Soldiers manufacturing in progress, Dao Soldiers unit damaged, energy severely depleted!
Fifth sequence, Market unit lost, energy severely depleted!"
"Alarm, alarm, core permission check, core data invaded, Eternal Divine Artifact - Training Camp Main God Space - Barracks unit about to shut down!"
Suddenly, the golden light around the Main God Barracks, which was trapped under the Chaos Bell, dispersed. Inside the damaged Camp, a pure white figure was squeezed out of the Camp, transforming into the image of a white person old Elder wearing a black hat, with white hair and beard, leaning on a cane.
The Elder's complexion was gloomy as he looked at the extremely simple Main God Barracks Damaged Artifact. Just a little more, if he had another few hundred thousand years, he would have been able to silently refine this Main God unit, and then find the entire Main God Space and obtain that Eternal Divine Artifact. One must know that an unmastered Eternal Divine Artifact could fight his main body to a mutually wounded state. If he controlled this Divine Artifact, few in the entire Chaos Sea would be his Rivals.
A Remnant Soul of the Supreme God looked up, seemingly able to see Tang Song's figure through the Chaos Bell and the Taiji Diagram.
Tang Song looked at the gloomy-faced Elder and showed no politeness. He sprayed out a mouthful of Natal Vital Qi and directly snapped the Infinity Gauntlet on his hand. Space, Time, Reality, Power, Mind, the five Infinity Stones simultaneously released radiance, enveloping the Supreme God and the Main God Damaged Artifact. The Supreme God hadn't expected Tang Song to be so decisive. Under the great power of the Infinity Stones, his Remnant Soul directly shattered, turning into countless pure white spiritual light that scattered, merging into the Chaos Bell and the Taiji Diagram.
At the same time, the Main God Barracks also shattered, revealing its golden heart core. After absorbing countless spiritual light, the two Magic Treasure True Forms instantly swelled rapidly as if injected with hormones. Even though Tang Song continuously used Magic Power to refine the two Magic Treasures, the endless spiritual light seemed impossible to devour completely.
Tang Song extended his hand, and the two Lifebond Sword Artifacts far away in the Blood Sea Hell instantly tore through The Void, arriving in his Small World.
Not just his two Lifebond Sword Artifacts, but also the Twelve Capital Heaven Nether King Banner, the Ghoul White Bone Banner... Tang Song summoned several Magic Treasures to share the pressure. A Great Principle, even just a Remnant Soul of one, left behind an inheritance after shattering that elevated the quality of numerous Magic Treasures.
Not only that, the Taiji Diagram manifested the Yin-Yang Great Mill, which while devouring the spiritual light transformed from the Supreme God's Remnant Soul, also ground it down and integrated it into Tang Song's Divine Soul. Tang Song only felt a heat in his brow, and his Primordial Spirit Infant also swelled rapidly as if it had drunk hormones.
Whenever his Primordial Spirit Infant expanded to be even larger than his physical body, the Taiji Diagram above his Heavenly Spirit would rotate, compressing him back to three inches in height, and then he would continue to expand again.
This was repeated forty-nine times. After forty-nine expansions and compressions, Tang Song's Primordial Spirit Infant had solidified like a crystal carving. A Primordial Spirit Infant the same height as his true person quietly floated in his Sea of Consciousness, continuously emitting vast soul pressure.
Unknowingly, Tang Song's Primordial Spirit Infant had actually fused with a trace of Innate Qi, faintly showing the appearance of an Innate Primordial Spirit! And generally, Innate Primordial Spirits were only possessed by Innate God-Demons born together with heaven and earth.
"Tang! Help!"
Tang Song, who was riding on a pack beast, had most of his mind invested in the magic cube's Small World. His body left Outside was in a drowsy state. From the distance, Rocket Raccoon's voice, echoing across the horizon, reached him, mixed with the heavily suppressed roar of the Modified Human Abad: "Don't fly that way, you'll kill them, let's change Direction!"
Tang Song, in his drowsy state, frowned slightly. From his Heavenly Spirit, a stream of Qi Flow rose. Within the Yin-Yang Auspicious Cloud, a beautiful red figure stepped out and merged into the Night Sky.
Countless extremely fine Blood Threads silently streaked across The Void. The Variants that were closely pursuing Rocket Raccoon in the path of the Blood Threads instantly had all the blood inside their bodies sucked dry, withering and falling to the Ground.
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