Having the genes of a demon king, I never intended to be a kept man.

Unlike Adam's heavy, powerful armor, Karl's silver-white mech has elegant lines and is clearly more agile and nimble, with flexible joints. Several pairs of thin auxiliary wing membranes unfold on his back, flowing with a pale blue halo.

Karl slowly raised his hand, and a lightsaber made entirely of high-energy particles sprang out from his palm with a clang. The blade hummed, its light swirling.

Karl flicked his wrist, executing a simple yet incredibly precise sword flourish, his posture as composed as a classical swordsman.

Then, his eyes sharpened!

With a "whoosh—!", the lightsaber suddenly extended! The blade grew to hundreds of meters long, a solid, crystal-like beam of blazing white light, with dangerous arcs of ion electricity dancing along its edges!

Karl swung his arm horizontally and vertically—his movements were so fast that only light and shadow remained!

"Shh! Shh!"

Two arc-shaped light blades, each hundreds of meters long, crossed and pierced the air, sweeping forward in a cross shape! Wherever the light blades passed, space slightly distorted, emitting a high-frequency tearing sound!

"brush----!"

Countless human warriors were instantly cleaved in two at the waist!

Before even a scream could be heard...

"Not good..." Yu Li's expression changed drastically, and she quickly formed hand seals, "Dark Magic: Demonic Light Barrier!"

Multiple layers of dark light shields unfolded in front of her.

However, the moment the light blade struck, the magic light barrier was as fragile as glass, unable to withstand the attack for even a moment before being sliced ​​open instantly!

The light blade swept across her body without stopping—

Yu Li's pupils dilated, and her expression was almost blank.

Her vision was filled with blinding white light. Looking down, she saw her upper and lower body slowly separate, the cut smooth as a mirror. There was no blood spurting out immediately, only charred marks from being instantly burned and carbonized by high-energy particles...

"Xiao Li!" Nangong Qiuyue exclaimed in surprise.

However, before she could say another word, a blade of light was already stabbing straight at her!

Nangong Qiuyue's heart skipped a beat. Instinctively, she used the Returning Wind Shadow Dance Step, her body swaying rapidly, narrowly avoiding a fatal blow to her chest.

But the penetrating beam of light still pierced through her side abdomen with a "whoosh" sound!

The excruciating pain of the high-energy particles burning her flesh caused her to groan, and her face instantly turned deathly pale.

Time was running out, and the blood array in the sky above was gathering its final strength.

So Karl stopped looking. He grabbed at the air with his left hand, and the gears of the last remaining mechanical portal in the distance spun rapidly, the spatial passage accelerated and stabilized, and a strong spatial traction force emanated from the dark blue vortex portal.

“Let’s go!” Karl said.

The Dream Butterfly and Ji Cangyuan were the first to transform into streams of light and disappear into the spatial gate.

Carl and Adam were preparing to follow them inside.

However, at this moment, a wave of law, which was different from divine power but much more magnificent and profound, spread out without warning!

Adam sensed this strange power and frowned slightly: 'This divine power is...'

Not quite right.

Although it resembles divine power, it also seems distinctly different from it...

"The laws of time..."

The sound of the night song seemed to come from the end of time and space, echoing heavily, indifferent and grand.

"The Heavenly Dao—The Vortex of Eternal Reincarnation!"

In an instant, everything stood still!

The splattered blood droplets froze in mid-air, the shattered mech wreckage paused in the instant of disintegration, and the horrified expressions on everyone's faces froze...

Then, time began to reverse!

Yu Li's severed body recoiled, her wounds healing completely; the bloody hole in Nangong Qiuyue's abdomen disappeared, the light blade withdrawn from her body and returned to Karl's sword; the human warriors who had been cut in half at the waist had their bodies reassembled and returned to their original positions...

Everything was like a video being played in reverse, instantly returning to a few seconds earlier!

Everyone was completely bewildered, not knowing what had happened, as if everything that had just happened was a collective hallucination.

"!!??" Adam's expression changed drastically.

The power of the laws of Heaven?!?

Night Song, who was knocked away, has returned to its original position as time flows backward.

Time rewound to the moment when Adam's punch was about to strike the Night Song Demon God's Dharma Armor.

"Holy Spirit True Fire - Vermilion Bird Armor!"

"boom--!"

A crimson-gold holy flame erupted from Ye Ge's body, quickly wrapping around every blue scale on the surface of the demon god's avatar!

Adam's heavy fist slammed into the double armor that was burning with holy flames!

"Bang!!!!"

Another deafening roar! But this time, no cracks appeared. Instead, the crimson Holy Spirit Fire, like a persistent plague, spread wildly in the opposite direction along Adam's gauntlets and arm guards! Wherever the flames passed, the pitch-black armor hissed and burned, and the mythical metal even glowed slightly red!

"!!!"

Adam was shocked and furious. He abruptly pulled back his fist and stepped back, but the flames on the mechanical arm did not go out.

"asshole!!!"

"Cunning humans!!!"

Ye Ge chuckled softly, and deep within the pupil of her left eye, pitch-black, extremely Yin patterns swirled eerily: "So this is cunning?"

"It's not over yet!"

"The Eye of Extreme Yin—See Through!"

Ye Ge activated the Eye of Extreme Yin in his left eye.

The view suddenly changed. Under the gaze of the Eye of Extreme Yin, Adam's mecha form became translucent, and the flow of internal energy was clearly visible.

In the center of Adam's chest cavity, a deep blue crystal core with sharp edges and an incredibly precise structure floats, about two centimeters in diameter. Its surface is covered with a vast flow of data light, which is closely connected to every energy node of the armor around his body.

'Is that the Mechanical Heart?'

Ye Ge thought to herself, 'Sure enough, it's the same thing as the mechanical heart Xue'er got before.'

Through the Eye of Extreme Yin, Night Song also saw that Karl had an almost identical mechanical heart inside his body.

'It seems that's the key to their transformation into humanoid mecha warriors...'

'So......'

The deep red flames in Yege's pupils suddenly surged once more.

"Holy Law - Holy Spirit True Fire!"

The Vermilion Bird Flame moved according to Night Song's will, aiming at the location of the mechanical heart within Adam and Karl's bodies.

"boom----!!!!"

Adam and Carl: "!!!!"

Adam's expression changed drastically.

In the machine vision interface, the data bar representing the integrity of the machine core plummeted, and the piercing alarm almost tore apart his auditory sensory organs.

This human wants to destroy his mechanical core!

He could actually see the location of his core! And the flames he released had such penetrating power!

"Ughh ...

Adam roared and growled as the exoskeleton of the mech was completely engulfed by crimson flames. The Vermilion Bird Flame suddenly collapsed and exploded inward! Countless streams of scorching fire erupted from the gaps in the chest armor, joints, and even the faceplate!

"..."

Karl's silver armor was also consumed by the Holy Spirit's true fire and could not escape its burning.

'Oh no...'

'This sacred fire of the Vermilion Bird will burn until its target is utterly destroyed, otherwise it will not stop...'

[System: Warning! The mechanical core is being corroded by an unknown, irregular flame! Energy conductivity has decreased by 71%!]

[System: Critical Warning! The core structural integrity is about to fall below the critical threshold! Irreversible collapse is expected in 37 seconds!]