Boom!

It was as if suddenly, the entire building was spinning!

As the central hub that supported critical nodes, the materials used certainly couldn't be skimped on, considering it was crucial for Spring City's grand plans, so sparing a few extras wasn't an issue; it was almost equivalent to a pared-down workshop core.

Calling it fully automated wasn't an exaggeration at all.

Air, temperature, water and electricity supply and maintenance, internal environmental control, and external defense—all were available, and even some that shouldn't be there, including a self-destruction button.

Once activated, it would immediately draw in the Mutated Pollution present everywhere in Spring City, then violently erupt and backflow into it. By then, coupled with an explosion, there definitely wouldn't be any survivors.

Faced with such stringent defenses, Lou Feng's unlocking, Tong Shan's suppression, Ji Xue's acceleration, teammates' protection and clearing the path, and Ji Jue's Mechanical Descent and Dissociation Technique.

Even, this crucial ten seconds.

Lacking any of these, they would just be delusional lambs walking into the slaughter.

According to Ji Jue's readings, once the central alarm was triggered, at least four authorities would immediately descend remotely, and what they would face was the Thunderbolt sweep of the Evil Cult.

Realizing this, Ji Jue immediately locked down all functions and sequences related to the alarm, even manipulating Mercury to infiltrate and literally freeze these functions using solid alchemy.

"Everything is normal, all is well, there absolutely are no problems."

"Plan is proceeding orderly!"

"Stable and improving!"

Operating the central hub with one hand, Ji Jue distractedly responded in the manner commonly used by craftsmen in his previous records to the inquiries that came every ten or so minutes, while his other hand manipulated the changes in Mercury...

—relentlessly pursuing the You Sui Craftsman who was originally supposed to operate all of this!

Boom!!!

A hand grenade casually thrown by Ji Jue exploded, and the force of the gunpowder, along with the Mercury infused in it, violently burst, covering the central hub with a myriad of sparkling fragments like fireworks.

Another layer of luminescent film emerged with the impact, the craftsman staggered back but remained unscathed, glaring at Ji Jue with blue eyes and swearing in the language of the Empire non-stop.

Ji Jue, unapologetically, cursed right back in the language of the Empire.

A middle finger rose, gesturing boldly.

Following that, with his movement, Mercury spread underfoot and a middle-finger-shaped iron wall erupted from the ground, blocking the incoming bullets. The exploding firelight roared and spread, flames blazing furiously.

It was an Alchemy Bullet.

Astonishingly powerful.

Even the raised gigantic middle finger had an impressive gouge, the Golden Iron Quality wavered.

"Transformation?"

Ji Jue instantly understood.

A craftsman from the Empire, at the Transformation Stage, Sixth Rank, the Matrix probably being "Red Anvil," the awakened ability was "Transformation," which could fully activate any material's reactive process, specialized in forging weapons and quality alteration. Given adequate preparation, his own Destructive Power could rival that of other Chosen Ones.

Ultimately, any weapon whose power is boosted by physical reactions, as long as it's in the opponent's hands and catalyzed by "Transformation," its power would at least double.

And the opponent would suffer because of it.

After all, next to the central hub, this thing was more important than his life; he absolutely couldn't afford to throw bombs for a mutual destruction plan, otherwise, even if he lived, he wouldn't face a good outcome.

He could only pray internally for faster backup and struggled to stall for time.

Relying on his own defensive equipment, he took a barrage of output from Ji Jue and was now covered in dust and ash, gritting his teeth as he pulled out a palm-sized 'toothpick bottle' from his chest, flinging out thin iron needles, following swiftly, the falling needles rapidly expanded in mid-air, turning into various lengths and styles of sword blades, soaring and crisscrossing with thrusts and slashes.

In an instant, slicing noises filled the air, and a myriad of sword shadows whistled towards him.

It was as if in the blink of an eye, countless fearless, intangible, material-less expert swordsmen were sacrificing themselves in an assault, he wanted to see just how long this Summoning Stage scar-faced brat could last!

Then immediately after, he paled in shock.

Only seeing the silver light swirling up, the initially unremarkable Mercury suddenly dispersed into countless fine threads, stirring and entangling, relentlessly wrapping around the sword blades, one or two were insignificant, ten or a hundred was not worth mentioning, and a thousand or ten thousand was considered routine. But after cutting through a thousand or ten thousand, there were still freakin' thousands more, and in an instant, countless layers of bindings trapped the foremost sword tips, making it difficult to advance.

He still wanted to sneer in response.

The Sword-shaped Bottle was his proud creation. Even if a single sword got bound by the odd blessing of Supreme Resilience, he still had seventy-one more!

Could you possibly find seventy-one blessings of Supreme Resilience?

Boom!

In that moment, all the other sword blades unexpectedly all hesitated, as if wedged into solid rock—Golden Iron Quality!

And before the You Sui Craftsman could infuse spiritual essence to incite destruction, his sneer got stuck in his throat.

—Because the earliest blade that got tangled by Supreme Resilience had lost its connection!

It was as if it had vanished into thin air.

From behind the slashes of the other blades, he finally saw it—held casually in Ji Jue's hand, his labor of love being casually played with!

"Average stuff."

Ji Jue's Dissociation Technique stripped away all its spiritual composition in one move, turned it into a blank slate, and tossed it into the toolbox. The material was decent; he could remake it later.

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