341: Chapter 341 The Rancher Arrives? Lu Sheng: Who's the Dinner?!

East Sea, Dengxian Island.

Outside the Heros Tomb, half of the gray mist dispersed, revealing a crimson sky that had yet to fade.

Lu Sheng flipped through the "immortal qin military codex," stopping at the page for the Oracle Institute, his brow furrowing.

"A computing power of 286, performing less than ten thousand deductions per second." He smashed the holographic data in mid-air. "Using this piece of junk as a server, my Soldier Figurines would lag even during a basic attack when they go out."

Dao Yi held his horsetail whisk, standing aside and not daring to speak. The astrolabe of the Oracle Institute was revered as a holy relic in the West, but in this master's mouth, it became electronic waste.

Lu Sheng's fingertip slid across the military codex, and the star map zoomed in rapidly, passing Earth and freezing on a grayish-white celestial body.

"So the main party is here."

The far side of the Moon.

An ancient seal script was marked on the star map: [Heavenly Palace]. The forward outpost and Earth monitoring center of the Immortal Qin Thirteenth Legion.

"Dao Yi." Lu Sheng closed the ancient scroll.

"Your subordinate is here!" Dao Yi straightened his back.

A Bronze Tiger Tally was thrown into Dao Yi's arms.

"Seal Dengxian Island. I'm handing over the standby permissions for the one hundred and eight Personal Guard Soldier Figurines to you." Lu Sheng looked up at the sky. "If any fools come knocking, don't waste words; let them experience what fire coverage means directly."

"Island Master, you are going to..."

Lu Sheng's legs bent slightly.

The specially made white jade floor tiles beneath his feet instantly turned to powder, and the gravity field within a hundred-meter radius was forcibly rewritten.

"To get a motherboard from the sky."

A sonic boom cloud exploded in mid-air.

No sword flight, no Star Core Spaceship. Relying purely on the terrifying power of his Physical Body, which surpassed that of a Mortal by 3000 times, Lu Sheng turned into a black-gold rainbow and slammed violently toward the stratosphere.

The violent atmospheric friction generated temperatures of several thousand degrees, pulling a long tail of fire across the Dragon scales on his body.

Breaking through the atmosphere in ten seconds.

Breaking free from Earth's gravity, he completely stepped into the cold, absolute vacuum of the Universe.

No air, no gravity. The starlight no longer twinkled but became piercingly direct spots of light.

Lu Sheng hovered in low Earth orbit, the black-gold Imperial Markings flowing across his chest. The Extreme Abyss Water System Law wrapped around his body, turning into a thin, invisible internal circulation barrier that locked in the energy loss within his body.

At the Level 41 Spirit King Realm, he could already discard the respiratory needs of a Mortal. This Ancient Desolate Divine Body was a self-sufficient nuclear reactor.

He locked onto that massive grayish-white satellite.

Retracting his right leg, he kicked off against the void in the vacuum.

Visible ripples appeared in space, and the overbearing explosive force tore open tiny black cracks.

The counterforce pushed Lu Sheng out, his speed approaching sub-light speed.

The 380,000 kilometers between Earth and the Moon were crudely shortened under the extreme physical crossing.

...

The far side of the Moon.

A place of absolute dead silence that always faces away from Earth.

There was no sound here, only craters of various sizes created by meteorite impacts.

Lu Sheng landed heavily in the center of a giant crater over a hundred kilometers in diameter.

No dust was raised; the ground beneath his feet was unnaturally hard.

Lu Sheng squatted on one knee and wiped away the lunar soil, which was several meters thick.

What was revealed beneath was not rock, but dark gold casting plates emitting a faint glow.

His gaze followed the casting plates as they extended in all directions. This hundred-kilometer crater was simply a giant, artificially disguised silo.

The "immortal qin military codex" appeared in his palm, gold light flowing.

On the crater wall ahead, light and shadow distorted. After a wave of spatial folding, a bronze base so massive it was suffocating revealed its true form from its hidden state.

Thick mechanical pipes coiled like Dragons and snakes, and a towering bronze signal tower pierced into deep space. On the tower's body, dark red array markings flashed from time to time, exuding an aura of eternal vicissitudes and slaughter.

Heavenly Palace Outpost.

Lu Sheng put away the military codex and strode toward the thousand-meter-high bronze gate.

Just as he stepped into the red line one kilometer outside the gate.

Click, click, click.

At the site of the dead metal wreckage on the surface, dozens of defensive spiritual energy cannons loaded with high-grade crystal cores automatically raised their muzzles. A destructive purple light lit up inside the barrels.

This was an indiscriminate defensive array left by the Immortal Qin. After ten thousand years, the internal spirit source had leaked severely, but it was still more than enough to instantly kill an ordinary Spirit King.

"No time to be polite with dead things."

Lu Sheng did not stop.

The great Dragon of his spine vibrated. The Extreme Abyss Water System Law permeated from his body.

There was no water in the vacuum. But the Law within his body forcibly extracted high-dimensional Rule-Water from the surroundings.

A black water film covered his right fist, its density so great that even the surrounding light was swallowed.

Lu Sheng aimed at the invisible defensive light screen ahead and threw a punch.

Space collapsed.

No sound could be heard. That defensive array, capable of withstanding the main cannon fire of an interstellar battleship, was like a piece of tempered glass hit by a giant hammer, covered in spiderweb-like cracks.

Bang.

The array completely shattered.

The energy backlash from forcibly breaking the array turned into a visible energy storm, sweeping across Lu Sheng's entire body.

The black-gold Dragon scales opened, absorbing all the storm and driving it into the [ancient desolate heaven swallowing furnace] in his Dantian.

"The power bank's quality is decent."

Lu Sheng brushed off the energy residue from his shoulder and kicked open the giant bronze door.

Inside the base was a deep metal corridor.

The backup energy lights on both sides lit up with a faint red glow.

After walking less than five hundred meters, the temperature dropped sharply.

A squad of patrol guards marched in unison from around the corner.

They had no Physical Body. Their upper bodies were translucent ghosts wrapped in tattered Qin Armor, while their lower bodies were pure mechanical structures combining treads and anti-gravity engines.

What they held in their hands were not long halberds, but Gauss Spiritual Energy Rifles engraved with explosive runes.

"Dao Soldiers." Lu Sheng recognized these things.

The lowest-level cannon fodder of the Immortal Qin era, created by fusing the remnant Souls of fallen soldiers with interstellar mechanical technology; they never tire and never betray.

Seeing Lu Sheng, the intruder.

The red light in the eyes of the leading Dao Soldier ghost flared up, and the Gauss rifle was instantly raised, its muzzle spewing blue ion sparks capable of melting a Spirit Ancestor.

The gunfire was silent, and the lethal killing intent locked onto all of Lu Sheng's paths of retreat.

Lu Sheng did not dodge.

He held the "immortal qin military codex" above his head.

"Can you read?"

His voice vibrated through the spirit source, pouring directly into the Soul cores of all the Dao Soldiers.

On the cover of the military codex, the phantom of the 'Mu' Character War Flag was projected in mid-air. The golden highest authority code of the Thirteenth Legion turned into a visible stream of data, washing over them like a waterfall.

The trigger was halfway pulled.

All the blue ion sparks were forcibly extinguished at the muzzle.

The mechanical body of the leading Dao Soldier emitted a violent sound of grinding gears. The red light in the ghost's eyes quickly shifted to a deep blue of absolute obedience.

It put away the rifle, its mechanical treads folded, and its upper body leaned forward.

One knee slammed onto the metal floor.

Behind it, over a hundred Dao Soldiers simultaneously performed the same action.

In the silent corridor, there was only the low-frequency vibration of armor clashing.

No cheers, no emotions.

The killing machines of Immortal Qin, after ten thousand years, offered their loyalty to their new commander.

Lu Sheng stepped past the kneeling Dao Soldiers and walked straight toward the deepest part of the base.

The central control room.

The space here was as large as an indoor plaza.

In the center, a liquid metal sphere with a diameter of over fifty meters was suspended.

The mercury-like surface constantly flowed with a real-time holographic star map of the solar system, with countless golden Immortal Qin seal scripts rolling inside.

war array heavenly disk.

This was the true "brain" of the Immortal Qin for monitoring Earth and commanding the great army.

Compared to it, the astrolabe in the Oracle Institute was not even as good as an abacus.

Lu Sheng walked beneath the Sky-Plate.

His finger cut his palm, and a drop of golden God Blood flicked out, accurately merging into the liquid metal sphere.

The military codex authority synchronized and covered it.

"Connect the Dengxian Island sub-node. Establish the first command sequence for the Soldier Figurine legion."

Lu Sheng issued the command.

A low rumble emanated from within the Sky-Plate, and violent ripples appeared on the liquid metal surface. A hidden spatial information channel instantly crossed 380,000 kilometers, connecting to the Heros Tomb in the East Sea of Earth.

The progress bar in mid-air quickly filled up.

[108 Personal Guard sequences successfully connected.]

[Tactical deduction module activated.]

[spirit source allocation network established.]

Lu Sheng watched the Soldier Figurine perspective images projected by the Sky-Plate. Those rigid machines, with the support of the Sky-Plate's computing power, saw the cold electronic light in their eyes become agile. They began to autonomously form Immortal Qin battle arrays, and the clunkiness in their movements vanished.

With this supercomputer, his personal guard legion had grown fangs.

"Now this is more like it."

Lu Sheng turned around, preparing to order the Sky-Plate to take over the defensive firepower on the far side of the Moon.

A sudden change occurred.

The red lights in the entire control room flashed frantically.

The solar system star map on the surface of the liquid metal sphere distorted violently, and the blue interface was swallowed by a piercing crimson.

A piercing alarm sounded directly in Lu Sheng's Sea of Consciousness.

There was no extra analytical data.

On the giant holographic screen, only a row of blood-red characters composed of Immortal Qin seal script jumped out.

[Warning: Information shielding protocol encountered a dimensionality reduction strike; the defense line has collapsed.]

The characters flickered and turned into even more direct information.

[Detected 'rancher' high-dimensional gaze anchoring.]

[Warning: We... have been discovered.]

The red light reflected on Lu Sheng's cold face.

The surrounding temperature dropped below absolute zero, and a shuddering sensation that even the Ancient Desolate Divine Body felt hair-raising was transmitted from the depths of the Sky-Plate.

It wasn't a bone battleship.

It wasn't some vanguard from the abyss.

It was the existence that treated the entire solar system as a dining table and the living beings of Earth as ingredients.

Lu Sheng did not retreat.

He looked up, peering through the thick bronze dome at the boundless deep space.

His Cross-shaped Pupils locked onto a tiny coordinate point being forcibly torn open in the star map.

The black-gold Imperial Markings ignited beneath his skin.

"Found me?"

Lu Sheng pulled back his lips in an extremely violent curve, revealing a row of white teeth.

"That's just as well."

"One gets hungry after looking at the menu for too long. If you have the guts, come to the kitchen and see who is the dish being served on the table."

He raised his hand and slammed it heavily onto the war array heavenly disk.

"All-channel broadcast. Preheat all the main cannons for me!"

Within the empty Heavenly Palace on the far side of the Moon, the gears of war roared into place.