Chapter 1 The Metamorphosis

In the blink of an eye, the dark mechanical deity changed its appearance. Countless flesh and blood grew from the seams of the mechanical structure, like the roots of a plant, quickly taking root in the gigantic body, intertwined and knotted. The original mechanical body seemed to become a skeleton, and the gnarled flesh covered it, transforming a mechanical giant into a bio-armor giant.

During the transformation, the energy fluctuations released by Han Xiao seemed to be amplified in sync, displaying individual energy readings that broke records on the radar screens of various warships.

At the same time, the scarlet blood energy and the golden arcs of machinery force intertwined, like scattered steam, constantly emanating from the surface of the mechanical deity, which was very eye-catching. The surrounding mechanical legions reflected light, making the battlefield golden red.

Clotti and his party watched this scene in astonishment, feeling a vague sense of oppression coming, and their hearts palpitated, awakening long-sealed memories…

This feeling was like the life level pressure they had experienced when they were young. Since entering the Beyond Grade A level, they had not felt it for a long time!

"What the hell is that? I have never seen this type of mechanical deity!" Ou Lu's expression changed drastically.

"I haven't seen other mechanics use it either. It's probably Hei Xing's original technology. It seems to have a bit of the *Gokuto-ryu* (Extreme Path Style) shadow. It should be some kind of explosive method… It doesn't look simple, so be careful!"

Clotti's face was extremely solemn.

On the other side, Manison also widened his eyes, feeling surprised inside.

"What kind of trick is this…"

As a veteran mechanic, he couldn't understand it for a while and was very puzzled.

This is not the operation that a mechanic should have!

What kind of things does Hei Xing usually study?

However, after taking a closer look, Manison suddenly tasted a detail.

"It seems to have traces of the Sanctuary technology… Hei Xing wouldn't have mastered the Sanctuary in reverse, would he?!"

Manison was a little confused.

Just as everyone was shocked, the space vibrated, and a ring of energy suddenly exploded from where the mechanical deity was. Looking again, the huge body of the mechanical deity suddenly disappeared from the spot, dragging a series of electric light traces. It had already killed to Clotti and the others' eyes, a sprint like a teleport, and the size did not hinder the speed at all.

A halberd rolled up a wave-like blue psionic energy, as if breaking through the dark curtain of the universe, and instantly stabbed in front of Clotti!

*Getter Beam Wave Fist - Vortex Blade*!

At the critical moment, Clotti took a deep breath, absorbing the dark energy that permeated the universe, which surged like a tide and collided head-on with the halberd blade.

Boom!!

The next moment, a ring-shaped shock wave suddenly burst from the point of collision!

Clotti's figure shot out like a cannonball, like a fleeting ray of light, instantly crashing through a row of warship hulls, leaving a series of transparent openings.

In just one encounter, the Dark Emperor, the pillar of the Crimson Empire, was knocked away!

Many direct line Beyond Grade As reacted instantly. Ignoring their shock, they immediately cooperated with each other and launched a siege on Han Xiao. The battle started instantly!

At the same time, Clotti's serious voice sounded in the team channel.

"Don't fight him head-on!"

Clotti finally stopped the momentum of flying upside down and rushed back to the battlefield, shrouded in a crystal yellow prismatic shield, which was now covered with cracks.

This shield was not his skill, but a protective universe treasure that he activated, which had extremely strong defensive power. Since the three major civilizations sent these direct line subordinates to crusade against Hei Xing, they would naturally not be stingy with the universe treasures in their hands and distributed several pieces to each direct line.

Although he was not injured, the power of Han Xiao's thrust still made Clotti amazed.

The defensive power of this protective universe treasure he used was not as good as the abnormal level Time-Space Amber, but it was also extremely outstanding. If the peak damage did not reach the standard, it could almost exempt all attacks. Even he himself had to accumulate power for a while to break it, but he did not expect that it would almost be shattered by Han Xiao's casual blow.

Hearing Clotti's reminder, more than a dozen direct line Beyond Grade As scattered and besieged. The mechanics summoned their troops, and the mages also pulled out a large army of summoned creatures, covering the sky and the sun, containing Han Xiao. At the same time, Han Xiao's mechanical legions also followed up and participated in the battle.

Both sides had a sea of tactics, and it immediately evolved into a melee.

Han Xiao transformed into a mechanical deity, wielding the Mechanical Emperor's Three Holy Halberd to open and close, splitting waves in the sea of people. Basically, touching meant injury, and collision meant death. The halberd blade swept across, crushing large swaths of the enemy army, showing a unparalleled posture.

The ranged weapons were not idle either, constantly pouring fire, chasing the direct line Beyond Grade As and shooting wildly. The surface was also covered with electromagnetic, space, and other force fields. Once approached, they would either be fixed in mid-air or be crushed and penetrated.

This form of the mechanical deity was a product of Han Xiao imitating swy-001, named \[Mechanical Deity - Semi-Living\]. Based on swy-001, it integrated a variety of abilities to finally form a special transformation technology, which was an advanced version of the mechanical deity. All performance increased by a large margin compared to the regular version.

The prerequisites were not only \[*Gokuto-ryu* - Blood Energy Berserk], but also Hela's death energy and Aurora's life energy. Over the years, he had used the Godora character card's \[Energy Analysis] to study the principles and properties of these two special energies, and he had achieved some results. He integrated them, which allowed the blood energy to be re-inverted into flesh and blood tissue, as if it was growing again. At the same time, it did use some of the principles of Sanctuary technology, successfully reconciling the symbiosis between hypergene cells and mechanical structures. These flesh and blood tissues greatly increased the power output.

However, the reason why it was "semi-activated" was because the function of the flesh and blood tissue was not complete enough. The ideal state was the swy-001 model, that is, the flesh and blood tissue increased the output and supplied energy, balanced and perfected, like an independent life form.

However, Han Xiao failed to completely replicate this mechanism. The flesh and blood cells covering the mechanical deity after reverse transformation only increased the output, but it was difficult to produce energy, which meant that the consumption increased, but the upper limit of energy did not change, and the supply broke the balance. He didn't know if it was because the flesh and blood came from one person, forming some kind of conservation, and he could never reach the form of swy-001, which led to the consumption of maintaining \[Mechanical Deity - Semi-Living] being extremely exaggerated. Even the blue bar of a peak Beyond Grade A was difficult to bear.

However, Han Xiao's evolution path had reached the apex of the Void system. He had already hooked up with the Void dimension and borrowed the power of the Void like Kesuye. Even if he was not beaten, he could absorb almost infinite blue energy and was not afraid of consumption at all.

Han Xiao's instant burst of combat power was too amazing, causing a group of direct line Beyond Grade As to run away with their heads in their hands. But after passing the initial impact, Clotti and his party gradually adapted to this pressure, and the two sides were fiercely entangled, making it difficult to separate.

Clotti and Ou Lu were both peak Beyond Grade As in the first echelon, with energy levels exceeding 90,000. They had also accepted various enhancements. Although neither of them could beat Han Xiao in a one-on-one fight, the combat power they exerted when they joined forces increased exponentially.

In particular, the abilities of the two people were both large-scale firepower bombardment types. They did not care about the amount of blue energy at all, and they were extremely suitable for this kind of large-scale team battle. With various protective universe treasures, they withstood more than 50% of Han Xiao's firepower.

Moreover, Clotti and Ou Lu also had a group of powerful teammates. More than two direct line Beyond Grade As had an energy level of over 70,000. Most of those guarding the secondary dimension base were elites, and they usually did not show up much.

*Zzzzzz-*

One after another, shockingly large plasma arcs formed jumping lightning chains, wantonly running through the mechanical legions and causing huge damage. Guzar was covered in dazzling blue electric light. He stirred up a lightning storm by himself, like the arrival of Thor. From time to time, he raised his hand and fired dense electromagnetic guns, bombarding Han Xiao's protective force field, exploding into sparks of electric sparks.

He was a character who joined the army in the same era as Clotti. Although his potential was not as good as Clotti's, he was also a powerful Beyond Grade A. Otherwise, the Empire would not have sent him to guard the secondary dimension outpost for many years.

On the other side, "Saint" Monan, dressed as a ascetic, flashed among the mechanical legions in succession with the help of some phase-shifting universe treasure. His fists and feet were not fast or slow, as if hitting a transparent barrier. A large number of particles in the space resonated, causing continuous area-of-effect vibration damage to Han Xiao's mechanical troops. Although he was a martial artist, he had a lot of universe treasures to make up for many shortcomings.

"Leader" Padro summoned endless summoned creatures and alchemy golems to fight with Han Xiao's mechanical troops. There were also many Boss-level units among them, who disregarded casualties and frantically contained Han Xiao's Apostle Weapons, while "Banner" Inide continuously activated her ability to provide a wide range of encouragement and enhancement to all friendly units on the field.

The thirteen direct line Beyond Grade As were not only outstanding in their personal strength, but also cooperated tacitly. With the addition of universe treasures, they were able to fight Han Xiao to a standstill for a time and withstand the pressure of dozens of Apostle Weapons.

Han Xiao was not to be outdone. The universe treasure equipment he had created over the years was put into battle in turn. Even in the face of this luxurious lineup, he fought with offense and defense, and did not fall into passivity.

Once again, he used his halberd to knock Clotti away, Han Xiao glanced at the battle situation, and his thoughts flew around.

The situation on the field was at a stalemate, but his pressure was not great. The main reason was that the threat of his opponents was limited. Although he could not break the siege of this group of people for a while, the situation was not dangerous.

His own individual strength occupied an absolute advantage. As long as it was a local one-on-one fight, he could form a crush. Neither Clotti nor Ou Lu could stop his fierce offensive. However, the others would definitely come up to contain him and cooperate closely to resolve this danger.

"Start with the weak link and open a breakthrough."

The essence of group fights was to catch one person and beat them hard. Han Xiao changed his attack target without saying a word, turned his halberd blade, and charged towards a weaker direct line Beyond Grade A.

The other direct line subordinates saw this and hurriedly stepped forward to focus their fire. Han Xiao did not care. He bathed in the artillery fire, and the Mechanical Emperor's Three Holy Halberd flew up and down, slashing the opponents to their feet. The heavy blows seemed to be able to shatter the starry sky.

*Boom*!

The huge halberd blade fell once again, and a blood flower suddenly exploded in mid-air. This direct line Beyond Grade A was smashed away and severely injured.

Han Xiao was about to rush forward to finish the job when the other dozen people entangled him, regardless of their injuries. On the other side, a beam of traction light shot out from the main ship of the three major civilizations and sucked away the injured person at once.

The next moment, three more direct line Beyond Grade As flew out of the main ship and joined the battle. The number of Han Xiao's opponents suddenly increased to fifteen, and the situation returned to a stalemate, and the pressure increased.

Seeing this, Han Xiao's eyes flashed.

"Attrition warfare?"

He immediately understood the intentions of the three major civilizations. They left a group of direct line subordinates in the rear to cover the formation. As long as someone was seriously injured by him, they would immediately pull the injured person back for treatment, and at the same time send more reinforcements to join the battle group, so as to take advantage of the fact that the fleet would not be attacked and provide the direct line Beyond Grade As with the opportunity to rest and recover.

This was equivalent to going up to fight for a few rounds, then coming down to rest, and changing people to continue to fight, giving play to the advantage in numbers. After all, Han Xiao was the only one and could not rest, while the three major civilizations had dozens of direct line subordinates and were determined to use attrition warfare to wear him down.

They wanted to win, but they didn't want casualties.

"Tch, how cunning."

Han Xiao curled his lips and did not say anything. After all, there was no rule that the three major civilizations could not fight like this.

"Since you want to fight an attrition war, then let's see who is more durable."

He shook his head, put aside his distracting thoughts, and focused on the battle.

The two sides rolled and fought endlessly, and this fight lasted for six days and six nights.

…

The battlefield had been moved many times, and the field was full of mechanical debris and summoned creature corpses. The scale of the troops on both sides had shrunk by a large margin. Both Han Xiao's mechanical legions and the various troops of the direct line Beyond Grade As had suffered heavy casualties, and both sides were injured.

The mechanical deity that Han Xiao transformed into was still fighting fiercely with Clotti and others, but in comparison, Han Xiao was still alive and well. Many people on the side of the three major civilizations had shown signs of fatigue.

The number of direct line Beyond Grade As on the field at the same time had increased to twenty-one. After six consecutive days of high-intensity combat at the same level, most people were greatly exhausted, and their state was constantly declining. Even after rotating more than a dozen times, they were still a little unable to withstand it.

The news media broadcast everything in real time, second by second.

Not many interstellar citizens could stay in front of the screen all the time, but whenever they turned on the program, they would still see the scene of the two sides fighting fiercely.

I don't know how many people prayed day and night for Hei Xing to be defeated as soon as possible, but Hei Xing, who was besieged by this luxurious lineup, remained as firm as ever and did not show any signs of defeat. Many interstellar citizens gradually became desperate from the initial shock, and finally turned into numbness, staring blankly at the fierce battle in the picture, and their brains were blank.

What kind of monster is this Hei Xing? Doesn't he get tired?!

Seeing that there was no hope of ending the war at all, more interstellar citizens became exasperated and racked their brains to criticize Han Xiao, as if being strong had become a sin. All the anger, panic, and dissatisfaction found an outlet and vented it towards Han Xiao, the target, like impotent rage.

The soldiers of the three major civilizations on the field became more and more demoralized these days, and their minds were shaken by Hei Xing's combat power.

Their own high-level combat power abandoned their face and besieged for several days with more people than the opponent. The attrition war was already embarrassing enough, but now they not only couldn't take down their opponent, but were even counter-killed several times?

Isn't this still being beaten?

The Beyond Grade As who watched the battle from various channels were even more shocked. They knew the difficulty better than others, and they were all shocked as if they were meeting Han Xiao for the first time.

Although they always knew that their president was very powerful, this was too much!

In the history of Supers, there seemed to have never been such an epic record. Many Beyond Grade As sighed in inferiority.

In their opinion, the combat power displayed by Hei Xing had probably exceeded all the Beyond Grade As recorded in the explored universe and become a unique existence.

"Holy sh*t, is Old Hei still human?!"

"I finally understand the meaning of the version name… Is this the meaning of the Hei Xing Era?"

"It's too much, I'm just asking who else!"

Compared with others, the player community was the most excited. They had been watching action movies for six consecutive days and had already been boiling.

Regardless of the reactions of all parties, the battle in the field was still continuing.

*Clang clang clang-*

The halberd blade danced for a while, chasing a direct line Beyond Grade A and slashing continuously, shattering the opponent's shield and causing blood flowers to explode in mid-air.

Just as Han Xiao was about to finish the job as usual, Clotti and Ou Lu once again stood in front of him, and dark energy and golden energy shot out, colliding with the halberd blade!

*Boom!!*

A dazzling explosion burst out, and Clotti and Ou Lu spat blood and retreated violently, their injuries aggravated again.

At the same time, the scarred Mechanical Emperor's Three Holy Halberd finally couldn't bear the heavy burden and shattered into pieces with a crash.

Han Xiao's hands were empty. He looked down at his hands and then scanned the surroundings. All the direct line Beyond Grade As besieging him were injured and exhausted.

"It seems that you can't hold on for much longer."

Han Xiao squeezed his fists and took out a melee mechanical weapon that resembled a spear. It was black and gold in color, and the spear tip was hexagonal cone-shaped, like a jousting lance. It was also a universe treasure level equipment, from Jess's technology treasure.

Clotti coughed twice, spit out a cloud of blood, and tried to cheer up. He was unwilling to show weakness and said in a deep voice, "You don't have many troops left either."

"It's enough. It seems like you and Ou Lu can't do it anymore. Others can rotate, but you can't get away. Can you still hold on?"

Han Xiao did not care.

Clotti was silent and could not refute.

Other direct line subordinates could rotate and rest, but once he or Ou Lu, any one of the mainstays, was missing, the team would definitely not be able to stop Hei Xing and would only be crushed.

So in the past six days, the two of them had not rested either. They were covered in injuries. Although they did not lack energy, their injuries were not light, and they were almost at the end of their rope.

It would be great if the Chosen One was willing to take action. Unfortunately, he had been watching coldly for the past six days and had never made a move, as if he was really just here to cover the formation.

There were still two days left until the ultimatum time. The task assigned by the higher-ups probably could not be completed…

Just as Clotti decided to make a final fight, a helpless sigh suddenly sounded in the team channel.

At this time, a figure flew out of the main ship of the three major civilizations and entered the battlefield.

Everyone turned their heads to look, and their faces changed. The person who came was Urnos, who had been silent for several days.

Ignoring his teammates, Urnos looked up at Han Xiao, shook his head helplessly, and sighed:

"Hei Xing, although we have only met once, I actually admire you very much and don't want to fight you, but… I am still a direct line subordinate of the Arcane Church, and I cannot disobey the order."

After saying that, regardless of everyone's reaction, Urnos stretched out his finger and pointed at Han Xiao from a distance.

An invisible energy vibrated, and a white-gold light suddenly flew out of the mechanical deity's body and instantly entered Urnos's body.

At this moment, a phantom of a giant mechanical deity suddenly protruded from his back.

The next moment, this mechanical deity broke away from his main body and quickly turned from virtual to real. It had Urnos's face, but its appearance was extremely similar to Han Xiao's mechanical deity, as if they were twins!