Cave Refuge

Although Jack hadn't finished speaking, Peter understood what Jack was about to say next. However, since they had already acted and had just stolen Dong Tianyu's prey, reconciliation seemed nearly impossible at this point.

Given the extent of the conflict, they might as well fight it out. If they lost, there was nothing more to say, but if they won and captured Dong Tianyu, the curse he bore could simply be resolved.

With this thought, Peter sternly said to Jack, "Fight, let's have a battle first, we can talk about everything else after that."

Having said that, he immediately controlled his Giant God Soldier and headed towards Dong Tianyu's location.

Compared to traditional robots, the EVA, despite its massive size, was highly agile. As it approached the area below Dong Tianyu, it suddenly leapt like a dragon rising from the sea.

This leap, reminiscent of the Hulk's great jump in American comics, launched it into mid-air.

As the massive Giant God Soldier neared Dong Tianyu, Peter, controlling the robot, suddenly reached out to grab him.

The enormous hand was like a huge net covering the sky, enveloping not only Dong Tianyu but also the area around him within its vast palm.

However, what seemed like a lightning-fast speed was incredibly slow to Dong Tianyu.

Seeing the giant coming aggressively towards him, Dong Tianyu chose not to evade this time; instead, he directly activated the Hundred Ghosts Banner behind him.

As soon as Dong Tianyu activated the Hundred Ghosts Banner, a Fierce Ghost underlying in the cockpit of the Vajra immediately pounced towards Peter, controlling the Vajra. As the Fierce Ghost entered Peter's body, he, initially focused on controlling the Vajra, suddenly fell into unconsciousness.

Jack, who was circling in the air, had thought that Peter's surprise jump from the water to attack Dong Tianyu might succeed.

However, even though the Vajra had leaped from the water and just extended its arm to attack Dong Tianyu, it suddenly fell limp like a crashing machine.

Just as he was about to inquire about Peter's situation through the communication device, Jack, who was piloting the Eagle King, suddenly experienced darkness before his eyes, and then the Eagle King, like the Vajra, dropped out of the sky, limp and crashed into the water.

The successive falls of the Vajra and Eagle King into the water created an enormous splash.

Despite the violent impact, there was no effect on Jack and Peter in their cockpits.

Even though they were chosen as pilots of the Giant God Soldiers due to their strong spiritual power, they were merely ordinary humans who couldn't resist the possession of the Fierce Ghost; their bodies temporarily became mere puppets under its control.

Dong Tianyu initially wanted to break open the cockpit to check its construction, as the concept of human spirits connecting to machines, which then connect to the bodies of monstrous beings, only appeared in anime, and this complex connection method was unique to this particular anime.

There were other animes featuring giant robots controlled by humans, but most control methods used spirits or mentality directly, without such complicated mechanisms.

Just as Dong Tianyu approached the position of the Vajra's cockpit and was about to break in, perhaps because the distance between him and the Giant God Soldier was less than a meter, he suddenly felt a devouring desire emanating from the Cave.

Although he sensed that devouring this object could significantly enhance the growth of the Cave, Dong Tianyu chose not to directly absorb it and break it down in the Cave at that moment.

After all, at this moment, the Vajra, the Giant God Soldier before his eyes, still had a pilot inside, though the pilot in the cockpit had been knocked unconscious by the Fierce Ghost, but the pilot hadn't died yet.

Therefore, Dong Tianyu had to figure out whether the Cave wanted to devour the body of the Giant God Soldier or the living person inside the Giant God Soldier. Understanding these two different devouring targets was very important to Dong Tianyu.

The capsule-shaped cockpit not only facilitated the pilot's entry and exit but also made it easier for Dong Tianyu to separate it from the Giant God Soldier.

The Flying Swords swiftly glided over its outer shell, and the firmly sealed isolation cover at the neck of the Giant God Soldier instantly fell off. At this time, Dong Tianyu did not directly enter the cockpit to drag Peter out.

Instead, he directly sent the cockpit into the Cave. At this time, since Peter in the cockpit was unconscious, he naturally wouldn't show any resistance, making it very easy for Dong Tianyu to send him along with the cockpit into the Cave.

When Dong Tianyu sent the cockpit into the Cave, the desire that came from the Cave didn't dissipate. By then, Dong Tianyu realized that it seemed the Cave wanted to devour not the pilot but the Giant God Soldier they were controlling.

After determining this result, Dong Tianyu relaxed quite a bit, though the pilot in the cockpit was an enemy too and although Dong Tianyu had killed many people so far, and had also crafted the Hundred Ghosts Banner, a Demon Path Treasure that grew by absorbing souls.

But when guessing that his residence needed to consume humans to grow, Dong Tianyu hesitated for a moment. It wasn't that Dong Tianyu was particularly kind, for if he truly was, he wouldn't have killed so many people without a reason.

But that was, after all, Dong Tianyu's residence. If the Cave really needed to decompose humans to grow, then Dong Tianyu would feel somewhat uncomfortable staying in the Cave in the future, even worrying whether he might be devoured or decomposed by the Cave.

It was because of this concern that when he confirmed that the Cave wanted to devour not the pilot but the Giant God Soldier, Dong Tianyu finally heaved a sigh of relief.

Though the Giant God Soldier was ultimately a creature of flesh and blood, just like most people feel no psychological burden eating livestock, most people wouldn't feel any mental strain from slaughtering or consuming non-humanoid creatures.

Despite the Giant God Soldier's size far exceeding a hundred meters, to the Cave at the moment, it was still easy to take it into the Cave.

As soon as it was sent into the Cave, before the Giant God Soldier even landed, Dong Tianyu began to dismantle it. As the Giant God Soldier slowly descended, its entire body rapidly shrank as if a meteorite was landing.

Ultimately, unlike a meteorite crashing onto the ground, before the Giant God Soldier even touched the ground, the massive Giant God Soldier disappeared without a trace under the Cave's dismantling.

Only after the Cave completely dismantled the Giant God Soldier did Dong Tianyu learn from the information transmitted out of the Cave that the Cave's desire to devour the Giant God Soldier wasn't about consuming its metal armor or flesh and bones.

What the Cave wanted to devour, the one that could bring it growth, was just a special organ inside the Giant God Soldier.

This special organ was also present in the bodies of giant creatures before the disaster, similar to how a sneak only has a gallbladder, but a giant snake that is hundreds of times larger than its kin would have a Snake Pearl.

It was said early on that the Snake Pearl inside a snake, much like the Pearl in a clam, was the undigested remnants from the snake's prey, transformed over a long period into a kind of solidified substance.

But those who had seen a Snake Pearl all said it naturally carried a strange fragrance and like spices, it would continuously shrink with prolonged evaporation until the strange fragrance was completely gone, at which point the Snake Pearl would disappear without a trace.

Therefore, compared to the theory that a Snake Pearl is similar to a Pearl, more people considered the Snake Pearl as the Dragon Ball within the Divine Dragon, with legends saying that only when a Snake Pearl appeared within a snake, did that snake have the chance to evolve into a Mythical Serpent.

And once that snake successfully evolved into a Mythical Serpent, it proved that the snake possessed the potential to transform into a dragon.