Chapter 1680: 22: Cave Heaven, I Command You to Accept Me! (1/4)
Chapter 1680: Chapter 22: Cave Heaven, I Command You to Accept Me! (1/4)
Some time earlier.
“This Dragon Remains Battleship is actually a Cave Heaven?”
After the Platinum Armor had replenished with Taixu Essence Slaughter to the point of almost filling the entire Armored Cave Heaven, An Jing immediately came to the Dragon Remains Armor.
He observed this Desolate Alliance town-guarding supreme treasure at close range, feeling quite intrigued: “I never thought the Path I pioneered would be flourishing like this. It’s obvious that before he died, this Yinglong had just begun trying to convert all his Whole Body Divine Skills into a Yuhua Dao Cave Heaven. It’s just a pity he didn’t cultivate long enough and never completed the conversion.”
He commented sharply, “If he had completed the conversion, he wouldn’t have died. Even if the Heavenly Dao’s repulsion destroyed both his body and soul, there would still be a True Spirit Seed existing, waiting for resurrection just like me.”
Before An Jing stood a gigantic monstrosity like a mountain range, a sky‑supporting giant dragon.
Just its head was nearly ten thousand zhang tall, and its body was like a true river, more than two hundred li long. The wings on both sides of its body blotted out the sky and the sun, reflecting the silver radiance of the distant Star of the Celestial Abyss.
Placed before it, the Platinum Armor was like a speck of dust.
But the appearance was an illusion. An Jing came to the spot between the brows of the dragon remains, bent down, stretched out his hand, and used his Cave Heaven to touch this colossal thing, immediately sensing something far vaster than this mountain‑like beast.
That was an entire World!
This Cave Heaven was extremely vast. An Jing made a rough estimate: it was a circle with a diameter of about fifty thousand li.
In such an enormous space, there was no material substance, only endless azure Spiritual Fiend clouds, forming several gigantic vortex thundercloud storms.
Billions upon billions of dazzling Thunder Light strands crisscrossed into nets. The massive Cloud Vortices ceaselessly swallowed and spat out the Cave Heaven’s internal Spiritual Fiend, constructing all sorts of wondrous Law, manifesting all kinds of thunder Yinglong and powerful Dragon Beast phantoms, roaring again and again, as if they were living beings.
However, because Yinglong had not completed his Feather Transformation cultivation in life, these thunder Dragon Beasts were not like the Hundred Forms of the Red Furnace—they were not true life and possessed no wisdom.
At the center of the immense vortex, a few floating iron‑steel mountain ranges were the only physical entities in this Cave Heaven. On them were man‑made facilities, with Daoist Patterns of Formation spreading out, seeping into the vortex, attempting to control its course.
[Boundary Fixing Wedge]
The control platform the Desolate Alliance used to pilot the Dragon Remains Battleship and control this Dragon Remains Cave Heaven.
The Desolate Alliance’s mastery of the Dragon Remains Battleship’s Power—let alone one percent, they probably hadn’t even reached one ten‑thousandth. According to Gu Yeqi, before now the Desolate Alliance could only roughly guide the direction of the thunder vortices within the dragon remains, thereby controlling the battleship’s course.
As for things like the True Spirit essence, the Cosmic Light Divine Power, the Yinglong Battle Technique—they couldn’t use any of them.
Yet this wasn’t because the Desolate Alliance’s technology was weak. In truth, after Yinglong fell, he was supposed to return his Dao to the heavens. It was only that the Great Wilderness Heavenly Dao had declined, and this corpse had not yet had time to be decomposed and absorbed by the Heavenly Dao—or rather, had not yet had time to be “decompressed.”
A mere hundred years or so were not enough to thaw this gigantic compressed package, which in turn gave the Desolate Alliance the chance to utilize the power of the dragon remains.
But they had to be extremely cautious, because once they used Power beyond the limit, the Dragon Remains Cave Heaven would begin accelerating its exchange of Spiritual Fiend with the Great Wilderness Heaven and Earth—namely, decompression. If the decompression proceeded slowly, a vast Thunder Vortex Cloud Sea would gradually form within the Great Wilderness Realm, creating a gigantic Void Sea Blessed Land, and the dragon remains would naturally disappear.
However, if the decompression speed was too fast, then like water rapidly turning to steam, an explosion might occur.
If the Dragon Remains Battleship were indeed rapidly decompressed due to operational error, the resulting explosion might be enough to blow away half the Desolate Alliance’s territory… This was the fundamental reason why the Desolate Alliance had to build so many industrial centers at the borders of their domain to maintain the Dragon Remains Battleship.
What the Desolate Alliance was doing was essentially equivalent to humans without any Extraordinary Power using mechanical technology to control hurricanes, control imminent earthquakes, and imminent volcanic eruptions, harnessing their energy—it was that unbelievable.
But An Jing was different.
He was the Taoist Founder who pioneered the Pocket World Technique.
An Jing quickly discovered that to fully power up the Dragon Remains Battleship, all that was needed was a Lord of Cave Heaven, acknowledged by the remnant will of its corpse, to maintain the Cave Heaven’s independence and keep it from being assimilated by the Heavenly Dao.
In this way, he could harness Heaven and Earth Power, bypass the Heavenly Principle that “those above True Person must undergo Ascension,” and display Divine Power that surpassed True Persons.
This was simply too easy.
“Eldest Senior, please wait a bit, the Dragon Remains Battleship is still undergoing overhaul and repairs…”
A streak of emerald‑gold Liuguang, Gu Yeqi, chased after him.
She had long known that An Jing acted with lightning decisiveness, but this was still far too fast. In the last Submerging Abyss War, the Dragon Remains Battleship had been forced back by the evil demons unleashing their full strength. Although its core was Wu Ai, its internal Cave Heaven continued to quake without end.
Regulating a Cave Heaven was a prolonged process—especially a Cave Heaven formed from Yinglong. Even if a Heavenly Venerate came, they would have to carefully nurse it.
Yet by the time she finally arrived, she only heard one sentence.
“Cave Heaven, I command you to acknowledge me!”
A domineering Divine Sense was forcibly poured in as An Jing extended his hand and pressed it onto the top of the Dragon Remains Battleship’s frontal skull.
Golden‑crimson light flared, spread, and seeped in, in an instant diffusing at light speed throughout the entire Dragon Remains Battleship. One pattern after another appeared, like blood vessels, yet also like cracks in porcelain.
The Dragon Remains Battleship, which had been dead‑silent, merely hovering above the Fifth Industrial Center, suddenly began to tremble. The surrounding atmosphere churned violently, vast clouds surged like tides, spreading out in all directions.
But in the very next instant, these scattered clouds rapidly contracted again, condensing on the dragon’s surface, turning into pure‑white Scale Armor that opened and closed without cease, steaming as it rose, as if this colossus had once more gained life and started breathing.
And with its breathing, the Dragon Remains Battleship raised its dragon head. In its pitch‑black eye sockets, azure‑violet light suddenly flared once more, shooting straight into the heavens.
“—Wh‑what?!”
Gu Yeqi stared blankly at all this. Just moments ago she had still been discussing with An Jing the current situation of the Desolate Alliance and the Great Wilderness Realm, and how to respond to the evil demons’ second offensive. But while listening, An Jing suddenly said, “These are all small problems,” then soared into the sky, turning into a phantom and leaving the Pure Dao Casting Platform, heading straight for the Dragon Remains Battleship.
She could guess that Eldest Senior thought there were too many problems and wanted to cut through the mess with a quick blade. Yet in this World, sometimes it simply wasn’t possible to cut through the mess with a quick blade—that was called objective law.
But if one had to obey objective law, then the Extraordinary wouldn’t be called Extraordinary.
At this moment, at the dragon’s head, the Platinum Armor’s Whole Body was suffused with thunder. The plasma ignited the surrounding clouds, causing the heat to swell and surge, displaying destructive Power—but this Power was restrained by An Jing’s Will, forming a coiling Divine Dragon Talisman, which he then grasped in his hand.
A Power that originally needed long periods of infiltration, harmonization, and constraint was, within the span of a few breaths, completely brought under control and joyfully obeyed the commands of its new master.