I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 923 - 662: What Was Seen

Chapter 923: Chapter 662: What Was Seen

"The enemy has changed, be careful!" Du Gang shouted loudly, finding it very difficult for Zheng Yichen to bloodsuck in the current battle.

The enemies appearing here were formidable, even the cannon fodder, and with the protection their equipment provided, killing them required significant effort. That effort, in turn, often resulted in those people being obliterated into dust.

Du Gang had observed that many of the enemy’s equipment were not standard issue; they looked more like custom-made gear.

This meant that the people gathered here were not mere soldier-like beings but elites. The Great World was divided into many great domains; even if only a few hundred were gathered from each place, there could still be tens of thousands of people here.

The variety of equipment did not affect the combat power they could exert. Personnel arrangements were clearly planned with corresponding tactics; even though these people came from different places, they could still coordinate.

However, it was really hard for Zheng Yichen to bloodsuck.

"More robots," Zheng Yichen said as he saw the enemies approaching in the distance, smirking slightly as he flung out a thunderstorm with a wave of his hand.

His Elements manipulation powers were not very effective in high-end combat, but the Thunder type’s capabilities were now greatly different.

When he annihilated that mountain, Zheng Yichen acquired not only a special Curse ’physique’ but also the ability to draw on the natural forces that the mountain could call upon.

Since Zheng Yichen already possessed relevant powers, this enhancement merely strengthened his existing elemental manipulation capabilities. Later, after he killed a domain master from a great domain, his Thunder type powers were further enhanced.

The domain master’s powers were very primitive, mainly Thunder type, without too many fancy techniques. Therefore, Zheng Yichen’s Thunder type powers received a considerable boost.

The thunderstorm fell, devastating the amassed mechanical army. The bouncing lightning connected into a web, but even the mechanical units used here were no ordinary constructs.

The weaker ones were destroyed by the thunderstorm, while the higher-quality units were supercharged.

"...They seem even more formidable now," Du Gang said with a slight twitch at the corner of his mouth. His God Shocking Saber could produce attacks similar to electromagnetic pulse strikes, but these had little effect on the mechanical army. They could interfere with signal transmission but couldn’t completely paralyze those metal brutes.

"That’s because I haven’t put in my full strength yet," Zheng Yichen exhaled, the ground under his feet rapidly becoming overgrown. The terrain itself wasn’t eroded away; it just turned barren after he devoured and plundered the vitality of the earth, which greatly boosted the power of his thunderstorms.

This time, the mechanical units that could absorb lightning were directly overloaded, unable to release the charged attacks they had been preparing.

Du Gang, who had readied his defenses, let out a slight sigh of relief. It seemed he wouldn’t have to face hundreds or thousands of energy cannons with his bare flesh anymore.

This was still due to the spatial distortion caused by the proximity to the Demonic Abyss. Without this distortion, the attacks he had to defend against would be at least several times more numerous.

"Charge!" Du Gang roared. Until now, he could only see the beacon of Dusk; he could not see Dusk itself, but he knew they were very close to their target.

It might be a few hundred kilometers, a few thousand kilometers... but compared to their previous location, they were indeed very close.

"The Demonic Abyss..." At the command center, Ban Long looked at the Demonic Abyss. Without its presence, Zheng Yichen and Du Gang would be bearing at least ten times more firepower. Relying on the Demonic Abyss, they had forcibly charged hundreds of kilometers forward.

During that time, Du Gang had borne a large number of attacks. The enemy’s Vajra Body strength abruptly surged, but without Zheng Yichen’s stronger output, Du Gang would have been intercepted eighty kilometers ago.

What awaited him next would be his demise from being worn down alive.

The place where the Demonic Abyss fell was probably dozens of kilometers from the command center. If the deviation was a bit greater, that one strike could directly obliterate their command center.

The Aurora Barrier was broken so swiftly that even Ban Long was surprised and wary. That barrier was connected to the consciousness of the land.

The land’s consciousness was not something like Gaia’s consciousness but a special kind of ’artificial intelligence’ developed by the Boundary Breaking Organization. By implanting this unique AI seed into the land, which would gradually grow, it could become a land’s consciousness.

A land’s consciousness had limited growth speed and would struggle to grow normally after reaching a certain level. However, such an entity could bring immense convenience in defending a specific area.

Allies on this land could gain additional blessings, enemies would be repressed and targeted by the land itself, and when needed, natural disasters could be invoked to strike at foes—all benefits of the land’s consciousness.

Utilizing the land’s consciousness to seal off Dusk was very effective, but the consciousness being used now had turned timid. When Zheng Yichen employed Earth Devouring, the land’s consciousness tried to resist, furiously attempting to unleash a blast of earth energy at Zheng Yichen.

But after the addition of Oblivion to Earth Devouring, the land’s consciousness became fearful.

Later on, within the area covered by the Demonic Abyss, the land’s consciousness was as good as dead, completely unresponsive. It wasn’t that the land’s consciousness had gone offline; rather, the interference from the Demonic Abyss was so severe that it utterly lost control over that region.

The attack from Demonic Abyss brought Zheng Yichen and his allies too much convenience.

Even when they wanted to take action against Zheng Yichen, they had to get through Demonic Abyss first. However, according to Hong Yuan’s analysis and on-site testing, whoever was too high-profile in dealing with Zheng Yichen would end up in a dire situation.

After the enemy had broken through the aurora barrier, they weren’t far from Dusk. To be more specific, it was still over two thousand kilometers away.

With the Explosive Speed Mode Zheng Yichen had maintained before, he could reach Dusk in at most fifteen seconds, but there was no chance for them to display such speed on the spot.

Ban Long was still controlling the earth consciousness, gathering the vitality of this land to fuel one attack, even though it would leave the land weakened, and the earth consciousness would thus fall into slumber for a while.

But wasn’t the Boundary Breaking Organization cultivating earth consciousness to prevent worst-case scenarios?

If the earth consciousness couldn’t weaken the enemy, then put it to better use. After all, leaving the vitality of the land for the enemy to exploit was pointless; it was better to harness it collectively.

"What’s wrong?"

Du Gang noticed that something was off about Zheng Yichen’s expression and immediately asked, "Can’t hold up anymore?"

"No, it’s the enemy draining the vitality from the earth." Zheng Yichen shook his head; he could feel the vitality of the land slipping away when he used Earth Devouring. Specifically, it was transferring spontaneously to the areas covered by Demonic Abyss after other places became Overgrown Wilderness.

Water flows downhill.

"This means we are close to Dusk, and they are limiting you with such self-harming methods. Hang in there!"

"...I’m not that young anymore; there’s no need to encourage me specifically at this time," Zheng Yichen twitched the corner of his mouth slightly and produced a spike with intertwined black and white light in his hand. The projectile, whistling through the air, pierced through a dozen enemies before finally being shattered by a sword swung by a Boundary Breaker.

The gathering of Boundary Breakers here was an eye-opener: immortality cultivators, magic users, those who wielded fighting Qi, shapeshifters, etc.—a variety of types was present. Without the cover of Demonic Abyss...

The fight would truly be arduous.

"Hahaha, my apologies for being nosy," Du Gang laughed as he exploded a cannonball that had come from nowhere with his saber, leaving behind a dense cloud of dust.

With his vision, he could see that the dust particles comprised countless tiny nanobots attempting to integrate into the air and devour their bodies from the nanoscopic level. A layer of nanobots also clung to the God Shocking Saber.

But these creatures couldn’t inflict any substantial damage on the God Shocking Saber.

"It’s a pity I’m not proficient in many types of strength; otherwise, it could have been more efficient." Du Gang scattered the nanobots, appearing somewhat regretful. He had acquired new equipment that possessed reversal effects, but his type of strength was not suitable for reversal.

If such a strengthening effect was applied to his own body, he could consider whether it might be possible to reverse his Vajra Body into something akin to a metamorphosed body.

But the Vajra Body was a blessing on his own strength, not outwardly projected, and it paired terribly with artifacts.

"There will be plenty of opportunities to make up for it in the future." Zheng Yichen frowned lightly as he looked into the distance. After Demonic Abyss had slashed open the aurora barrier, it had spread hundreds of kilometers, but further space was distorting, preventing Lilith from making accurate observations.

She could only provide a highly erroneous estimate, but it was certain that the end of the Demonic Abyss was not in sight of Dusk.

"Do you have a way to observe over a wide range?" Zheng Yichen asked while firing a shot into an empty space next to him. An invisible figure that had been approaching was suddenly revealed, wearing an expression of disbelief.

Zheng Yichen yanked over the Boundary Breaker with a gaping hole in its chest. The remnant life faded quickly with the loss of blood, and under Zheng Yichen’s preemptive action, the emerging soul was shattered by a bolt of lightning, denying it any chance to escape.

"No... How did you detect this guy?" asked Du Gang in surprise. The power of Zheng Yichen’s bullet was immense—being shot, the Boundary Breaker had only a gaping hole in their chest but no explosion; a strong individual but to no avail.

"I saw it." Zheng Yichen casually explained that he had once killed a creature related to eyes. His own Eyes had undergone a transformation, gaining the ability to penetrate deception, mainly to counter invisibility, shape-shifting, and other factors that affected vision.

Yet, with his multiple senses, this special vision often had no presence. But now, faced with a being that eluded his senses amid chaos, his ability to see through deceit finally came into play.

This particular Boundary Breaker possessed not abilities related to concealment, but rather, to space... which took Zheng Yichen aback. After trying it out, though a bit unfamiliar, he could definitely identify this force.

It was a type of spatial fusion that he truly didn’t need at the moment; the initial experience was like integrating into space to a degree, as a drop of water merges into more water, achieving maximum concealment without any additional bonuses.

No speed or attack enhancement; if attacked, he would still be revealed, as it was merely a fusion, not an alteration of one’s own existence to become part of space itself. Their intrinsic properties remained different from those of space.

Yet this kind of fusion could avoid Zheng Yichen’s perception, an exclusive advantage. But such methods failed to deceive his Eyes.