Mythical Era: My Evolution into a Celestial Beast

Deep underground, in a research facility in West Meng, within the center of a cooled lava lake, Mech No.1 sat buried in black volcanic rock. Its eyes were dim, its body radiating no energy fluctuations. However, for Luo Wuming and the others, the lack of change was the best possible outcome.

Suddenly, a startled cry rang out. "Report! Violent soul fluctuations detected inside No.1. The frequency is too complex. It's now impossible to distinguish between Major General Luo and No.1."

"Alert! No.1's soul fluctuations have exceeded 500%, 600%... It's still climbing!"

As alarms shrieked and red warning lights flashed, the previously silent No.1 suddenly began to tremble. Its eyes once again flared with a terrifying bluish-white glow. However, unlike before, its once-brutal gaze now held a trace of spirit, as though a once-mindless being had suddenly gained a soul.

Boom!

No.1's arms quaked, and the explosive force they unleashed fractured the ground within a hundred kilometers. Countless black rocks shot into the sky. The detonation was so powerful that the entire facility trembled. One by one, cooled lava pillars collapsed, and thunderous booms echoed everywhere.

Through the rolling smoke and dust, the nearly four-thousand-meter-tall mech, clad in black and red armor stretched taut over its frame, stepped heavily toward the shore like a war machine in full battle gear.

Though No.1 had restrained its power, every step of its immense body still stirred violent gales, making it hard for Luo Wuming to even open his eyes. However, as he looked up at the towering mech before him, Luo Wuming was overwhelmed with emotion. His eyes glistened, and his voice trembled. "Did you see that, Yueyue? Are you seeing this? Little Fei has succeeded. It worked. All our efforts weren't in vain. We can save the world."

Just then, the elevator at the back opened, and Luo Wuyue, who had been far away in East Xia, slowly stepped out. Standing atop a command platform hundreds of meters high, Luo Wuyue looked up at the mech before her. Its black-and-red armor, golden-white skin, and now taller and more fearsome form left her momentarily dazed.

She had never expected the fusion between Luo Fei and No.1 to succeed so easily. They had once envisioned countless accidents and difficulties. They had even prepared multiple emergency shutdown protocols, but none had been necessary.

Luo Wuyue softly said, "Little Fei, how are you feeling now?"

The massive bio-mech vibrated slightly, and from within came Luo Fei's cold voice, devoid of any emotional fluctuation. "I feel perfectly fine. No.1 as well. At present, its heart has been repaired. Flesh and blood are now spontaneously forming around it, and they're beginning to replace the original biological systems. As this ancient creature's body is reshaped, we can expect more residual souls to return and begin reconstruction. From now on, I will need to remain in a primal state for a long time. My spiritual consciousness must merge with the Primordial Azure Sky itself in order to withstand the torrent of information."

"To remain in a primal state for an extended period?" Luo Wuyue frowned.

Although Luo Fei had fused her mind with that special Primordial Azure Sky world with the help of a primal secret art and could briefly become a part of something akin to the will of the Heavenly Dao, this method didn't come without cost.

While maintaining her consciousness in a Heavenly Dao state for a prolonged period, she had indeed avoided being overwhelmed by the ancient being's soul information. However, there remained the very real risk of her mind falling into the Primordial Azure Sky permanently. As a human at the mythical level, her strength was simply no match for the might of an entire great world.

Previously, she had only entered briefly, allowing her mind to reflect upon it as though threading a temporary connection. The impact had been minimal, and she could exit at any time since she was separated by an entire world. If she stayed connected for too long, her consciousness could be lost there forever, completely assimilated and dissolved. This move was essentially setting a tiger to catch a wolf, using the Primordial Azure Sky world to counterbalance the returning incomplete soul of the ancient being.

Luo Fei's voice remained cold and calm. "This is the inevitable price. I once promised her that I would hold up the world. Now I am closer than ever to success. No matter the cost, I will not stop."

There was never such a thing as a perfect outcome in this world. How could there be no risk in stealing the power of an ancient being?

Hearing this, both Luo Wuming and Luo Wuyue fell silent. Their family and the entire research institute had carried too much. Luo Fei's grandfather had died over twenty years ago during research for the Sky-Supporting Project. Luo Wuming's wife had also passed away early due to No.1's corrosive energy.

Over ten years ago, Luo Fei's older sister, the first-generation pilot developed for the program, had been assimilated during No.1's berserk episode due to insufficient data. At the same time, Luo Wuyue's fiance had also died in that same spatial catastrophe triggered by No.1's rampage. One could say their entire family had sacrificed everything for this project.

Looking at the two who remained silent, Luo Fei's voice continued, cold and unwavering. "Right now, I need more world energy from the Blue Planet to maintain the Flesh Derivation process inside No.1. Based on the current rate of growth around the heart, calculations show that it would take at least one hundred years to fully replace the biological body."

"More energy, huh." Luo Wuyue's gaze fell on the nuclear energy locks on Mech No.1's back. Her expression grew tense.

From the moment Luo Fei fused with Mech No.1 until now, nearly half the planet's nuclear plants had been running nonstop, transmitting all available electrical energy, yet it would still take a century. Not to mention that, after replacing the ancient biological systems, even greater energy would be needed for further revival, perhaps hundreds or even thousands of times more.

Luo Wuming slowly said, "There is not enough energy on the Blue Planet to allow No.1 to be reborn. If we want it to revive quickly, we'll have to go to the sky."

Luo Wuyue froze. "The sun? Isn't that too risky? Wasn't our next step to submerge No.1 into the Blue Planet's core?"

Luo Wuming shook his head. "The core may not be enough, and once No.1 absorbs too much thermal energy, it could destabilize the planetary core. If the core's balance is broken, then unless all of the supreme powerhouses return to suppress it together, the shifting tectonic energy could tear the entire continent apart. If that happens, we wouldn't even need a second mythical surge to erupt. Doomsday would arrive first."

Luo Wuyue frowned slightly. "I know that. But while the sun's surface temperature appears to be only a few thousand degrees Celsius, the real problem lies in the surrounding tearing forces. That's why I think Little Fei should first enter the core to absorb energy and enhance No.1's strength. Only then should we consider the sun."

The sun, a massive celestial body over a million kilometers in diameter, was constantly burning with nuclear fusion, releasing blazing light and energy. It also possessed a significant amount of matter compression. The gravitational force created by its rotation was unimaginably powerful.

Once, a mythical king had grown curious about the sun. After two months of traveling more than one hundred million kilometers toward it, he stopped abruptly upon reaching the corona layer.

According to past technological observations on the Blue Planet, the corona layer was the sun's outermost atmospheric layer. It spanned millions of kilometers in thickness and reached temperatures of over a million degrees Celsius.

However, in the eyes of that mythical king, the corona was a terrifying space where reality had been torn apart. Under the immense gravitational pull created by the sun's rotation, the spatial surface of that region had completely shattered, filled with tearing forces strong enough to annihilate even the true form of a mythical king in an instant. Because of the distance and darkness, past physicists had no foundation to observe it properly.

"We're out of time." Luo Wuming slowly shook his head. "The global spatial shatter earlier was already a sign that the second mythical surge could erupt at any moment. We must accelerate the plan. Also, I've calculated No.1's strength after the initial fusion. Its body is stronger than that of an ordinary heavenly king, so it should be able to withstand the tearing force of the sun's corona. With the limitless nuclear fusion energy inside the sun, No.1 can quickly complete its biological replacement. More importantly, based on all my calculations, the true core of this severed world isn't the Blue Planet. It's the sun."

"What? The sun?" Luo Wuyue was stunned once again.

Luo Wuming nodded firmly. "Yes. It's deep within the sun. This conclusion comes from my analysis of the failed bearing attempt by the Primordial King. I've discussed this matter with him. The so-called core deep within the Blue Planet is a false one. It's just a hollow space, once pierced through by an unknown force."

From within No.1 came Luo Fei's cold voice. "If that's the case, then let's go to the sun directly."

A few minutes later, the heavy armor plating on the surface stage of the base slowly parted, revealing a pitch-black passage hundreds of meters in diameter.

Hum!

A faint glow flickered at the bottom of the passage. In the next instant, a massive black-and-red mech shot into the sky, its engines blazing behind it like a meteor streaking through the air. Under countless tense gazes, the enormous mech quickly pierced through the atmosphere and surged into outer space at incredible speed, accelerating continuously. According to the base's data calculations, that ever-accelerating streak of light would reach the surface of the sun in just a few days.

Meanwhile, more than two hundred thousand kilometers away from the Expansion Division, the upheaval of heaven and earth had already affected a region over thirty thousand kilometers wide. Endless transcendent energy was being drawn into the collapsing funnel of the central zone.

Beneath the funnel, a golden-white glowing sphere had already expanded to more than five thousand kilometers in diameter, emitting an increasingly greater invisible pressure.

Such immense power, especially the chaos caused by the collapse of the laws of heaven and earth, with thunderbolts crashing wildly, hurricanes twisting through the land, and entire mountain ranges collapsing, had turned the surrounding tens of thousands of kilometers into an apocalyptic wasteland.

Countless mutated beasts, colossal beasts, and alien beings were fleeing in all directions by instinct, triggering beast tides that rippled out for tens of thousands of kilometers.

Three days had passed since Chen Chu entered seclusion. At the center of the radiance, which resembled a black hole devouring the heavens and the earth, stood a vague and towering figure. In its hands were a golden-black halberd and a black saber, both engulfed in white flames.

Knowing that this seclusion would take time, Chen Chu had taken the opportunity to expend 500,000 attribute points to fuse the pseudo-world-level weapon obtained from the last great battle into the Eight Desolations Halberd. Heavenly King Yan Kuang had acquired this weapon, and it had been in Chen Chu's possession for several days.

However, he had been occupied with rushing back to the Blue Planet and refining the primordial origin to break through to the supreme level, so he hadn't had time to enhance the Eight Desolations Halberd until now.