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Chapter 259 The Misty City - The Core of the Mechanical God!
As Li Wei's main body and his mirror image continued to accelerate, the dense fog and the churning rain gradually faded away, and the two invisible forces surrounding him disappeared as well.

But for some reason, he still felt a gaze constantly fixed on him.

Beneath the surface of the Forbidden Land of Bewitching Souls, in an area beyond Li Wei's perception, countless dead corpses are now reviving, silently observing his every move like surveillance cameras.

After realizing he couldn't shake off that gaze, Li Wei felt even more vigilant.

"This forbidden land of bewitching spirits really does harbor all sorts of demons and monsters!"

Without knowing the other party's true form, Li Wei did not waste time searching rashly. He sped up and soon arrived at Misty City, one of the three cities in the Forbidden Land of Bewilderment.

At the edge of the sky, an endless, bewitching mist stood upon the earth.

They solidified into walls, like doors, seals, or even a giant coffin.

Vaguely,
Li Wei could even hear the eternal roar of an ancient mind left in the mist.

The feeling was like being trapped in a coffin, struggling frantically before being suffocated to death, leaving countless scratches on the coffin lid.

On this wall of mist before us, the struggles and pain of an ancient being before its death are eternally etched, and its mournful roars can be heard every second.

"It seems this is the spot where the [Bewitching Smoke] killed the god. If that god left any remains, they should be here."

Li Wei looked down and indeed found traces of the laws of mechanical arts beneath the mist.

The dense rust covered the entire land like moss, and the incomparably rich power of the mechanical laws eroded the surrounding area. Even the gaseous bewitching smoke was forcibly transformed into solid rust.

Meanwhile, the bewitching smoke was also invading the rust, doing everything it could to prevent the rust from spreading outwards.

Through the power of his own Jingzhe (Awakening of Insects) law, Li Wei could even clearly see that the two lines of law, one white and one rusty, were like mortal enemies, waging war at the level of law!
"It's confirmed now!"

"The Lord of Bewitching Smoke, who created the Bewitching Forbidden Land, is not the same person as the Lord of the Rust Law of the Mechanical Path, who eroded this land. These two laws belong to two different gods!"

The mist, being the place where gods fell and the fatal blow of the Bewitching Smoke technique, is arguably one of the areas with the highest concentration of laws and the harshest living environment in the entire Bewitching Forbidden Land.

The conflict between the Bewitching Law and the Rust Law has filled every inch of this land and every breath of air with distorted power of law.

Therefore, people living here are more likely to be transformed into mechanical life forms and will also be invaded by the laws of bewitching, turning into soulless, vegetative people.

Even so, it still couldn't stop the cultivators of the forbidden area from surviving here!
Why?

Because this place contains the largest and most enduring source of energy for survival in the entire Forbidden Mist Land—the Core of the Mechanical God!

Although the mechanical god was trapped inside the Coffin of Bewitching Souls, its mechanical laws continued to operate, its energy core never collapsed, and had already leaked out long ago.

Otherwise, how could this vast forbidden land of bewitching souls have been eroded by the Law of Rust?
Li Wei raised his head.

Through the layers of misty walls, one can see something like the sun, constantly shining and radiating heat, making the land within hundreds of miles seem to be placed in a furnace, radiating immense heat!
A large number of cultivators from the Misty City sat cross-legged in front of the core of the Mechanical God, using their own bodies as batteries to absorb the energy within, and then using some peculiar secret technique to transform and condense it into energy stones.

These energy stones, in addition to ensuring the self-sufficiency of the cultivators in Misty City, will also be sold in large quantities to Rust City, and even to Water Rust City, providing energy for the cultivators throughout the Forbidden Land of Bewilderment.

"No wonder the cultivators in the Bewitching Forbidden Land were able to survive for so long. It turns out that the core of the Mechanical God is still there. With this thing, even if He had died, He could be revived sooner or later, right?"

"Didn't the owner of the mind-control smoke consider this point back then?"

We've already risked our lives, how can we give the other side a chance to recover?

A hint of doubt arose in Li Wei's heart, but after flying closer, he discovered that there were a large number of ancient cultivation formations in front of the Coffin of Bewitching Souls.

These formations, like scalpels, precisely cut into the coffin formed by mist and smoke, slicing through layers of fog to allow the light of the Heart of the Machine God to shine through.

"I see."

A look of realization flashed across Li Wei's eyes: "The original mind-control smoke attack was perfect. After trapping the Mechanical God, it should have been able to trap this Mechanical Heart as well!"

"But later, in order to obtain energy for survival, the cultivators in the Bewitching Forbidden Land actually opened a gap in the seal of the Bewitching Smoke, allowing the Mechanical God Core, which was destined to die, to miraculously survive!"

Even ants, for the sake of survival, can hollow out a mountain.

In order to protect themselves, cultivators would frantically search for any possibility of survival!

In ancient times, after countless lives and efforts were lost by the people of Misty City, someone finally succeeded in using an array to tear open the coffin formed by the Bewitching Smoke Killing Technique, releasing the Heart of the God trapped within.

Without this thing providing energy, the Bewitching Forbidden Land could never have nurtured so many cultivators!

"However, this is, after all, the core of a mechanical god. Although the energy it releases is inexhaustible, it is not so easy to absorb."

Just as Li Wei was thinking this, a steel cultivator on the ground who was converting energy suddenly exploded, and countless tentacles covered in slime poured out from his steel body.

It couldn't withstand the radiation from the Heart of the Machine God and mutated and collapsed directly.

The law enforcement team from Misty City, who were guarding the side, rushed forward and killed the mutant. Soon after, someone else took over and became a new employee on the Mechanical God Energy Transfer Production Line, using their own lives to refine energy.

"With this absorption method, it would be a miracle if the people of Misty City didn't mutate!" Even Li Wei couldn't continuously irradiate the core of the Mechanical God 24 hours a day to absorb its energy, but these cultivators absorb energy year after year, and their bodies will definitely collapse sooner or later.

But given the sheer size of the population in Misty City, every year so many people manage to survive and become new mutated prodigies.

"This city has over 600,000 people living under such harsh conditions. Although it's not as big as Rust City, the combat power of the cultivators here must be terrifying!"

Do you even understand the value of mutation flow?

When resources are insufficient, mutations are used to compensate. Relying on the radiation of the Heart of the Mechanical God, the cultivators of Misty City are bound to master some powerful mutation attributes. In addition, Misty City encourages combat and the struggle for benefits, so the combat power of the cultivators here is generally much greater than that of the other two cities.

Among the three cities of the Bewitching Forbidden Land, Iron Rust is "abundant," Mist is powerful, and Water Rust is cruel and isolated. Each place has its own unique characteristics.

As Li Wei got closer and closer, the radiation from the Heart of the Mechanical God became stronger and stronger, which triggered the mutated Flowing Thunder Body on his body, and then began to forcibly replace the Kunpeng Demon Body.

"Oh no! I lent my 'Seventy-Two Transformations' entry to the dark web. That guy still hasn't been able to contact me or return the entry. My control over my body has reached its limit once again."

Freed from the constraints of the code, Li Wei's mutated Flowing Lightning Body was already at risk of going out of control. Now, stimulated by the core of the Mechanical God, it completely broke free of its limitations, transforming into a massive mountain of flesh and blood in mid-air.

Whoosh!! Boom!!

The mountain of flesh crashed down, causing the ground to shake violently.

The cultivators of the Misty City Mutant Stream, who were converting energy, suddenly turned around and looked in the direction from which the roar came. They immediately saw the terrifying mountain of flesh that was hundreds of meters tall.

"Hiss!! Flesh and blood, so much of it, all fresh flesh and blood! Everyone, hurry and grab it!"

"Don't drag me down with you if you want to die! That flesh and blood exudes the aura of a Nascent Soul Grand Perfection expert, clearly an extremely terrifying mutated powerhouse. All of us energy workers combined might not be enough to defeat him."

“Hey! But we also have Nascent Soul cultivators and a Divine Transformation City Lord in our city! If those beings make a move, this thing will definitely die without a burial place. At that time, we can even steal some scraps.”

Upon hearing this, the eyes of the people in Misty City immediately lit up.

“Those Nascent Soul elders and city lords usually collect flesh and blood at high prices, so they probably won’t let this mountain of flesh go this time either.”

So everyone hurried home to get pots and pans, ready to pick up the meat at any time.

But to everyone's surprise,
After the Nascent Soul Ancestor and the City Lord of Misty City appeared, they not only did not fight, but also took the initiative to leave Misty City and go outside the city to greet the mountain of flesh.

"We are deeply sorry for not being able to welcome Inspector Li Wei properly."

A mutated cultivator, covered in barbs and resembling an octopus, led the group to Li Wei.

Perhaps due to years of exposure to radiation from the core of the Machine God, his slimy body still bore numerous traces of metal limbs.
It looks like a monster formed from the fusion of flesh and steel, filled with a twisted and bizarre aura that defies evolutionary selection, making people instinctively feel uneasy.

"I am Zhang Hebei, the city lord of Misty City, and I greet Inspector Li Wei!"

After sensing the powerful aura of a peak Nascent Soul cultivator emanating from him, Li Wei's expression turned solemn.

While informing Xiao Zi to be prepared to spend money to forcibly break through to the Nascent Soul stage at any time, he said, "You know me?"

Zhang Hebei laughed heartily: "We are competitors with Rust City. If we didn't even know about such a big thing happening to them, how could we compete with them?"

"So I not only knew that Inspector Li was coming, but I also knew that you were coming to find a way to leave the Bewitching Forbidden Land, and to inquire about the secrets of Chu Zeng and Rust City!"

"no problem!"

"I can tell you everything!"

"However, this will require you to pay a small price."

Li Wei's heart skipped a beat, and he frowned, asking, "What do you want?"

Zhang Hebei smiled and tentatively asked, "We previously found out that a late-stage Nascent Soul stage mechanical bull demon died in the forbidden area. If I'm not mistaken, it should have been you who killed him, right?"

Seeing that the other party was so certain, Li Wei figured they might already have evidence, and there was no point in denying it, so he readily admitted it.

"That's true, but that bull demon is undergoing his own tribulation. I just got lucky and got a bargain."

"Whether you got a bargain or not is not important. What matters is that you killed that bull demon!"

A glint of greed flashed in Zhang Hebei's eyes as he looked intently at him and said, "I wonder if you would be so kind as to lend me your memories? Not all of them, just the memories of your encounter with that bull demon!"

Li Wei frowned immediately.

memory?

What do they need this for?

(End of this chapter)