The armor on their backs opened up, releasing a dense laser net, but it couldn’t stop the pervasive corrosion of the gray mist.

The mechanical being on the far left suddenly froze, its eyes turning from blue to crimson.

Slowly, he turned his head, his arm morphing into a spinning chainsaw, fiercely slashing at his companion’s neck.

"He’s infected by the virus, controlled!"

The Battle Cloud Axe swept horizontally, cutting that traitorous mechanical being in half.

But what sprayed from the severed section wasn’t energy liquid, but a sticky gray-white substance.

The Eye of the Void had completely changed its appearance by then.

The Crystal Heart exploded into a skyful of crystal fragments, each shard reflecting different images of the black-robed man.

The gray mist solidified into chains, polluting all the remaining nanomachines of the Mechanical Mother.

The voice of the black-robed man came from all directions, tinged with sneer and disdain.

"Thank you all for feeding my Great Doomsday Banner."

As the chains shook, the entire void suddenly collapsed.

Those fighting cultivators, mutated corpses, even space fragments themselves, all seemed to be swallowed by an invisible giant mouth, collapsing inward toward the center.

Jiang Shu felt a void beneath his feet and looked down to see his shadow being pulled by some force, detaching from his body.

The black-robed man also aimed to strike at him.

"Hold firm to the Divine Soul!"

He shouted fiercely to everyone, the Desolate Star Halberd stabbed into the void.

The Protective Dao, enveloping the Taichu Law, exploded along the halberd shaft, forming a gray, egg-shaped shield around him.

Yu Tianming and the others grabbed the halberd shaft in time to avoid being torn apart by the collapsing space.

The Zhan Feng siblings stood back-to-back, the Power Dao forming dark gold armor outside their bodies.

But the surface of the armor rusted at a speed visible to the naked eye, and gray spots like mildew appeared on the blade of the Battle Cloud Axe.

The worst off were the Mechanical Clan.

Aside from the Mother, all the mechanical clan elites’ computation cores began reporting errors.

They froze in place, streams of data in their eyes turned into garbled text, some even began to bash their nonexistent heads into walls.

"Is this... the Soul Tide?"

Yu Tianming’s voice trembled. Her neck scales fully revealed, the Heavenly Snake Pupil stared dead at a certain spot in the void.

There, a gigantic face formed of gray mist was taking shape.

The giant face opened its mouth to exhale, the materialized soul shockwave spread outward in a spherical pattern.

Wherever it passed, space shattered, revealing the pitch-black void behind.

The three supreme geniuses from Jiuyu Commerce Alliance were caught by the wave’s sweep and instantly turned into stone statues, then crumbled to dust.

"Form the array!"

Jiang Shu’s eyes seemed to contain the sun and moon, power surged on the Desolate Star Halberd.

Thirteen Great Dao Patterns brightened simultaneously on the halberd shaft, resonating with the Chaos Thunder Pool.

The Three Holy Embryos surged on the Chaos Thunder Pool, manifesting into tangible runes in the void.

Zhan Feng, seeing this, pounded his chest fiercely.

Origin Blood transformed into a blood mist enveloping the War Alliance cultivators, forming an ancient bronze battle array under the Power Dao’s lead.

Zhan Yun then threw the Bronze Battle Axe into the air, the axe spirit buzzing incessantly, transforming into a red-gold light shield protecting everyone.

Just as the three-layer protection took shape, the second soul shockwave arrived in front of everyone.

"Boom!"

Amidst a loud noise akin to stars colliding, Jiang Shu’s gray shield broke first as it had to protect the Jiuyu Commerce Alliance behind him.

The Taichu Dao Rhyme and Soul Tide clashed fiercely, creating energy turbulence that peeled all the flesh from his right arm, revealing bones as hard as metal.

Zhan Feng’s ancient bronze battle array depressed greatly, and a dozen War Alliance cultivators spat blood.

Zhan Yun’s axe spirit light shield shattered directly, its backlash rattled her insides.

The Mechanical Mother suddenly pushed aside her guards, the rust on her silvery-white shell suddenly flaked off.

She fully detached her damaged left arm, from the severed section extended dozens of data cables inserted into the void.

"Mechanical Divine Country, projection descends!"

At the other end of the cables, a faint silhouette formed of gears and pipes appeared.

From the silhouette shot a thick light beam, clashing destructively with the soul tide.

The Mechanical Mother’s main body staggered backwards, her silver hair visibly losing its luster.

"As expected of the Mechanical Mother, truly impressive spirit!"

The man in the black robe looked at the Mechanical Mother’s form, appearing somewhat surprised, then burst into laughter, as if he had seen something very interesting.

The current avatar of the Mechanical Mother was not enough to wield such a Great Technique; she had employed her Origin to perform it.

The Mother ignored everything, as cracks increasingly appeared on the crystal surface of her chest.

Yet the steel city’s phantom became more solid, even the rotating triangular symbol at the tower’s peak could be seen.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Jiang Shu suddenly sprang into action.

He abandoned his shattered right arm, holding the halberd in his left hand, thrusting it toward the huge face in the gray mist.

Panwu Heaven Opening Axe!

Panwu Heaven Opening Axe, was Jiang Shu’s most powerful Great Technique, derived from the "Panwu Great Strength Dao Book", and as Jiang Shu deepened his understanding of the Law of Power, more and more Law Origin was integrated into the Panwu Heaven Opening Axe, and its power grew stronger.

As the halberd tip touched the giant face, time seemed to stand still.

A gray Dao Rhyme spread across the giant face like a virus, clearing away the gray mist along its path, revealing the nine Bronze Lamps hidden behind.

"Kill!"

Simultaneously, Zhan Feng Pride leaped up, intertwining the Power Dao and axe light into a net, covering three of the lamps.

Yu Tianming then fiercely opened his Snake Pupil, a Heavenly Snake Illusion pounced towards two others.

The black-robed shadow sneered coldly, as the remaining four lamps suddenly fused, transforming into a bronze giant over ten feet high.

The giant, chest embedded with Space Heart Fragment, raised its hand and shattered the Heavenly Snake Illusion.

Though Yu Tianming gained some fortune in this Deep Space Sea, he still had a considerable distance to reach the level of Supreme Genius like Jiang Shu and Wind Cloud Pride; immediately, he spat a mouthful of blood, and Jiang Shu gestured to bring him behind for protection.

"Watch out!"

Before Jiang Shu could finish shouting, the bronze giant already flashed behind Zhan Yun.

Its actions seemed slow, but it broke through the space constraints, leaving only three inches between its fist and Zhan Yun’s back.

In the nick of time, the Mechanical Mother’s steel city suddenly collapsed.

All gears and pipelines turned into flowing light, forming a barrier between the bronze giant and Zhan Yun.

Simultaneously, her main body rushed towards the black-robed shadow, her silver-white shell cracking inch by inch, with only the cold mechanical sounds reverberating between heaven and earth.

"Data Stream Overload!"

"Mother Lord!"

The surviving Mechanical Clan spoke out to stop her, aware of what this meant.

This avatar has its own mission, and sacrificing so much here to stop the Doomsday Sect is somewhat a loss.

But only the Mother knows what the Doomsday Sect represents.

Even if she dies here, she must interrupt the Doomsday Sect’s conspiracy.

In a sudden intuition, Jiang Shu sent out the Desolate Star Halberd.

The halberd body wrapped in all the Purple Sky Divine Thunder drawn from the Chaos Thunder Pool, the latter shot forward, piercing the bronze giant’s eye socket.

"Boom!"

Thunder strikes and data stream erupted simultaneously.

Steel city fragments, silver-white mechanical wreckage, purple thunder snakes and gray mist tangled and tore, turning the entire void into mush.

The shockwave even fractured distant space folds, revealing the normal cosmic starlit sky behind.

When the light dissipated, the Eye of the Void no longer existed.

The Mechanical Mother knelt on one knee, her silver-white shell scorched with burn marks, but her core crystal still slowly rotated.

The black-robed shadow had vanished completely, with only a few strands of gray mist left unwillingly writhing.

The aftermath of the second trap outbreak of the Eye of the Void had yet to dissipate, as survivors from various clans crawled out from the fractured space folds one after another.

The Golden Crow Clan’s Pride dragged his charred wings, leaving a trail of burning bloodstains in the void with each step; the scales of the Sea Demon Princess were mostly peeled away, exposing flesh eroded by mechanical toxins, and the White Tiger Clan’s Genius was even more wretched, half of his body shattered, surviving solely on a breath of Original Essence Qi.

Amidst this desolation, a cold presence suddenly descended.

"You’ve all played quite a show."

The voice was low, chilling to the bone, as if coming from the depths of the Nine Nether.

Ming Wuya walked over the corpses, and with each step, a layer of bluish frost condensed underfoot.

He wore a gray-white linen robe that moved without wind, and his exposed skin was covered with dark purple Curse Patterns, each line crawling like a living being, exuding a chilling Netherworld Clan aura; his pair of gray-white eyes watched Jiang Shu, Wind Cloud Pride, and the Mechanical Mother, devoid of any emotion.

"Things have come to this point, are all of you still not planning to tell the truth?"