Cultivation: I Can Traverse Otherworlds

”Argh!”

The furious roar was like a clap of thunder.

Floating in midair, Wang Chan stretched his limbs as wisps of black threads coursed through his muscles.

Neutrino Soul-Piercing Needle!

It was a Forbidden Technique from Genetic Modification Technology, one that treated a Cultivator’s Physical Body as an experimental chamber. It cultivated cells that caused a massive spike in a person’s entropy, allowing them to erupt with power far beyond their normal limits.

Visible to the naked eye, Wang Chan’s hair instantly turned white. His skin cracked and carbonized, turning to ash and blowing away in the wind in a mere moment.

If not for his Cultivation as a Martial Saint and his unimaginable mental fortitude, he would likely have died from the Secret Technique before he could even kill his enemy.

His title of ’Madman’ was well-deserved.

In his pursuit of ultimate power, Wang Chan’s methods were nothing short of insane. He treated his own life as a joke. However, this also made him incredibly strong—so strong that even a Holy King Beast had to be wary of him.

But alas...

A Martial Saint was, in the end, still just a Martial Saint.

Compared to a Holy King Beast, Wang Chan was like a stumbling toddler, while the Nine Profound Spirit Deer...

...was a great whale!

This was not a fight between an adult and a child, but between two entirely different species.

The Nine Profound Spirit Deer possessed the power to crush everything.

The dark clouds expanded.

In just a few moments, they had enveloped the entire Safe City. Countless bolts of lightning, each as thick as an arm, descended from the heavens. A terrifying electromagnetic force filled the air, causing numerous devices within the city to fail all at once.

In the millennia since the Great Catastrophe, humanity had been in a constant war with Exotic Beasts. The Holy King Beasts had clearly evolved methods to counter human technology.

An electrical grid covering a radius of hundreds of miles was systematically and precisely destroying Funeng City’s facilities.

Relying on Wang Chan alone, they were clearly no match for the Nine Profound Spirit Deer.

”BANG!”

”BANG! BANG!”

Streaks of azure plasma beams pierced the void, tearing open gashes on the Nine Profound Spirit Deer’s body.

Funeng City’s defensive measures had also been activated.

Various cannons took aim at the target, and several types of powerful weapons began to accumulate world-destroying energy.

Holy King Beasts...

It wasn’t as if the Federation had never killed one before!

In fact, they had killed quite a few.

The Federation had contingency plans for these existences, especially those that had lived for thousands of years. The Nine Profound Spirit Deer was one of them.

The battle command bureau was fully staffed, and a three-dimensional holographic screen displayed the entirety of Funeng City.

A man in a crisp military uniform rapidly issued commands:

”Activate the Phase Cannons and force it out of its illusory state! Prepare the gravity tractor beams; try to confine it to a specific area. Increase the Glue Melting Furnace’s power output and assist Wang Chan...”

”What’s the status on Elder Xie?”

”He’s preparing,” someone replied.

”Due to the Nine Profound Spirit Deer’s electromagnetic storm, nearly seventy percent of our equipment is down. We only have twenty percent of our energy reserves left.”

”Divert power from all the major Commerce Associations and corporations. Cut all civilian power except for the incubation pods.” The man’s expression was grim.

”This is a matter of life and death. We can’t afford to worry about anything else!”

”Move out!”

”Yes, sir.”

...

「Celestial Wealth Commerce Association」

Two Papermen slipped past all the sensor equipment and appeared inside the company, targeting Hex Huixin and Wangg Xiuzhu.

”SWOOSH!”

The Papermen transformed into streaks of light and silently entered their bodies.

The two of them stiffened, their faces going blank. Then, their eyes shifted, and they began walking toward the core of the company.

’Lucky I made preparations in advance. Otherwise, controlling two Martial Artists wouldn’t have been this easy,’ Zhu Ju, controlling the Papermen from a distance, muttered to himself as he had Hex Huixin open the laboratory where the Ming King Eye was stored.

As for Wangg Xiuzhu, he was sent to the Celestial Wealth Commerce Association’s warehouse, where the Source Crystals and Exotic Beast carcasses were kept.

The entire Safe City had descended into chaos. With everyone fleeing for their lives, no one noticed anything unusual about the two of them.

「A short while later.」

The unpowered security door was cut open with a light saw, revealing neat rows of stacked Source Crystals.

”Whoa...”

Zhu Ju couldn’t help but gasp in amazement.

’I’ve really hit the jackpot this time!’

「Lin Group」

Dozens of Papermen surrounded a convoy, bombarding it with the Spiritual Light of various Magic.

Apparently, he wasn’t the only one looting during a crisis. Someone within the Lin Group was also trying to steal Source Crystals.

And when two such groups met, it was naturally a fight to the death.

With Zhu Ju’s current strength, his Papermen were as powerful as someone at Qi Refining Perfection and were proficient in all sorts of Magic.

Dozens of these Papermen could easily surround and kill a High-Level Martial Artist.

「Not long after.」

The few remaining Papermen wrapped up a large number of Source Crystals, sank into the ground, and headed back toward Zhu Ju’s location.

「Qian Family」

Total chaos.

”You, a Zhou! How dare you betray me?”

”A couple is like two birds in a forest, flying their separate ways when disaster strikes. Besides, I’ve served you Qians for so many years. It’s only right I take some benefits for myself.”

”Aren’t you afraid of retaliation from the Celestial Sound Group?”

”Afraid? Of course I’m afraid! But Funeng City is about to be destroyed. Who’s going to know what happened here?”

Amidst wild laughter, a group of Black-Clothed Men stormed the Qian Family estate and began to slaughter and plunder.

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”HSSSSSS-ROAR!”

The Nine Profound Spirit Deer threw its head back and roared at the sky.

Its voice was far from its holy appearance, instead filled with a savage, vicious, and cruel tone.

The roar shook the heavens.

The lightning in the sky suddenly intensified, weaving into a massive web.

Beams of electricity swept back and forth across the ground, dicing sturdy buildings into countless fragments. Frail human bodies turned to dust upon contact. In an instant, the number of dead and injured was impossible to count.

Even thicker bolts of lightning slammed into the city’s defensive armaments, blasting one sturdy gun turret after another into pieces.

Humanity’s counterattack, while causing it some trouble, was far from fatal.

Instead, it only served to completely enrage the beast.

It pushed its weather-manipulation ability to the extreme, unleashing a bombardment of lightning as dense as rain.

The white tufts on its back danced, leaving afterimages that not only blocked incoming attacks but also made it impossible for Wang Chan to get close.

The destruction of Funeng City...

...seemed to be a foregone conclusion.

Just then, ”BOOM!”

A pillar of light connecting heaven and earth abruptly appeared, directly piercing the Nine Profound Spirit Deer’s body.

A Curvature Well!

Hidden in the distance, Zhu Ju’s eyes twitched.

This was a high-powered weapon of mass destruction. In theory, once it hit a target, it would directly distort the force fields within its range, creating an energy burst akin to a supernova and annihilating everything within.

It was similar to a Forbidden Technique unleashed by a Tier Four Array at full power; even a Holy King Beast shouldn’t be able to withstand it.

”ROAR!”

A flash of black light appeared in midair.

The Nine Profound Spirit Deer, with only half its body remaining, forcibly burst out of the Curvature Well. Its once clear and translucent eyes had turned pitch-black, and wisps of black Qi were now seeping from its body.

”The Power of the Evil God!”

Zhu Ju sighed softly.

’Even a creature like this can provide faith to an Evil God?’

With the blessing of the Power of the Evil God, the Nine Profound Spirit Deer’s strength didn’t increase significantly; in fact, its regenerative ability even weakened considerably.

But its Defensive Power increased exponentially.

The City Defense Army’s Plasma Cannons now only produced a few sparks when they hit its body, no longer able to cause it any harm.

’It’s over!’

Watching the Fierce Beast above, venting its fury and destroying everything, Zhu Ju shook his head in resignation.

’Wang Chan is strong, but his true Cultivation is only at the Early-Stage Golden Core. Even though he can unleash the power of a Late-Stage Golden Core cultivator through various means, it’s ultimately not enough against a Holy King Beast with a Physical Body of the Nascent Soul Realm.’

’With the City Defense Army’s weapons, they could barely trade blows. But now, defeat is inevitable.’

Even if he were to join the fight, it wouldn’t change a thing.

Zhu Ju had many methods, but they were too diverse and disorganized. He hadn’t fully mastered them, and his true combat power was far inferior to Wang Chan’s.

Even if he used every trick up his sleeve, he could only delay the inevitable for a short time, not turn the tide.

Shaking his head, he was about to turn and leave when his eyes twitched, and he looked down at the ground beneath him.

”BOOM!”

The earth shook and the mountains trembled.

As the ground quaked and buildings collapsed, a colossal arm, a full hundred meters long, burst out from underground.

The giant hand made a grasping motion. A terrifying Gravity instantly sucked the air from an area dozens of miles wide into a vacuum. It also seized the rampaging Nine Profound Spirit Deer and flung it violently into the distance.

”SWOOSH!”

The Nine Profound Spirit Deer was thrown clear out of Funeng City.

’Huh?’

Zhu Ju’s expression changed.

”BOOM!”

The earth trembled again.

A terrifying giant leaped out from underground. Blue light flared from beneath its feet as it caught Wang Chan in one hand and rocketed into the sky.

”Xie Zhongru!”

Zhu Ju stroked his chin.

”A Mecha!”

’No wonder...’

The Xie Family didn’t specialize in Genetic Modification Technology; their focus was on technological research and development, particularly all kinds of mechanical creations.

And this thousand-meter-tall Mecha, constructed entirely from some special alloy, was clearly a product of the Xie Family.

’As expected of Funeng City’s two great families, the Wang Family and the Xie Family. Neither can be underestimated!’

The Martial Saints of this world didn’t have particularly strong personal Cultivation or power, but their use of external objects was simply absurd.

Wang Chan could unleash the destructive power of a Late-Stage Golden Core cultivator, but the Mecha controlled by Xie Zhongru was even more terrifying.

”The Qianjun Mecha is powerful, but its energy consumption is even greater. The Source Melting Furnace can only provide power for five minutes.”

Inside the Mecha, submerged in a Nutritional Pod, Xie Zhongru spoke slowly, his voice transmitted to Wang Chan through the Mecha,

”I have already notified the nearby Safe Cities, and the Warships in the sky have begun to lock onto the area. But five minutes...”

”...is too short. It’ll be difficult to lock onto the Nine Profound Spirit Deer’s position.”

”It doesn’t matter,” Wang Chan said, taking a deep breath. He took a short-handled axe from his Storage Ring and gripped it in his hand.

”If I must die, so be it!”

”At the very least, I will save Funeng City!”

”Understood.” Xie Zhongru nodded. The giant hand opened and gave a gentle push forward.

With just a slight exertion of force, the mountain-sized Mecha sent Wang Chan shooting out like a meteor.

”Mountain Opening!”

Wang Chan roared, and the giant axe in his hand erupted with a blinding light as he brought it down upon the Nine Profound Spirit Deer, which had just regained its balance.