Multiverse Skill System

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"You damned wizard, come and taste the Black Hole Roaring Bomb of my technological empire!"

A humanoid mech, its four arms contracting forward, gathering black energy in front of it, then expanding backward. This was beautiful, much like the sun. As the action was performed, a black beam of light pierced through the entire battlefield and blasted towards the wizard's camp. Everything that stood in the way of this black beam of light was annihilated.

This attack killed nearly one-tenth of the wizarding forces, but the attacking mech was also temporarily rendered incapable of combat.

Just as the tech faction was celebrating, a tall figure flew out from the wizarding camp.

The figure looked very strange; it resembled a giant mouth.

"Damn it, it's the Demon Weapon Devourer! Get out of there!"

"No, it's too late."

The giant maw opened, its immense suction comparable to a black hole, absorbing countless warships and mechs. A series of attacks struck the Devourer, but to no avail.

Once the Devourer's mouth closed, the technology faction's fleet had decreased by nearly one-eighth. Overall, the difference between the two sides was still not significant. The wizard faction had a slight advantage but no absolute dominance, and the outcome was still uncertain.

The battle continues, with both sides fighting with fierce intensity and bloodlust. If no unforeseen events occur, the battle will be incredibly brutal, and even if some survivors remain, less than one in ten will survive.

The battlefield gradually shifted towards the Primordial World. At this point, neither of them noticed the Primordial World, which was surrounded by a peculiar chaotic storm.

Chaos Storm is a special environment that only saints can resist. Those below the saint level will almost certainly die if they enter it, so everyone usually tries to stay away from it.

However, this is a battlefield, and some choose to lure or drive enemies into the chaotic storm in order to kill them.

At the beginning, many people on both sides were thrown into the Chaos Storm and died instantly, but nothing unusual happened.

Later, when nearly a quarter of the people on the battlefield perished in the Chaos Storm, the Chaos Storm underwent an unknown change.

When the top combat forces of both sides, the level 8 mech Demon God of the Tech Empire and the level 8 Holy Spirit Wizard of the Wizarding World, entered the Chaos Storm at the same time, they should have perished together under normal circumstances. However, this time, the Chaos Storm underwent an extremely rare change.

For reasons unknown, the chaotic storm, which was said to never end, stopped at this moment. Even though the pause was only 0.1 seconds, both the technological empire and the wizarding world seized the opportunity and did not perish together.

If that were all, it wouldn't be so bad; at most, they would have come back after leaving the Chaos Storm. But by sheer bad luck, both sides simultaneously discovered that brand new world deep within the Chaos Storm. The odds of this are even lower than discovering a black hole.

It should be known that even a saint would need to fly for thousands of years to cross the chaotic storm surrounding the primordial world. How did they discover the primordial world from such a long distance?

The ultimate battle was thus brought to a halt, and both sides turned their gazes through the chaotic storm toward the primordial world.

Soon after, both sides simultaneously dispatched more troops to garrison on both sides of the Chaos Storm, seemingly reaching some kind of agreement, and ultimately began to study together how to break through the Chaos Storm.

Centuries later, both sides paid a price and developed a method to transport people into the Chaos Storm without them dying. Each side sent a certain number of troops across the Chaos Storm in the hope of reaching a new world. Once they reached the new world, they would naturally have a way to get the main force there.

Chapter 1184, Mechs Appearing in the Primordial World

"Huh!?"

Having just enjoyed his time in his portable world, Yi Shuihan appeared in the prehistoric world. He was planning to send Kunpeng back, as he had been flying for 6 years and it would take about 10 years to return. He planned to go to the Marvel Universe to check on Mandy's situation, and if Mandy hadn't changed her mind, he would also bring her into his portable world.

"Little Kun Kun, have you received the notification?"

"Sir, what are you saying? What notice?"

"Hmm, it's nothing. Change direction and go here."

Yi Shuihan sent a coordinate through his mind, sending the Kunpeng there.

In fact, Yi Shuihan had never been to these coordinates before, so he wouldn't have suddenly issued such an order.

Kunpeng also noticed Yi Shuihan's strange behavior, but he ultimately said nothing and changed direction as Yi Shuihan had suggested.

In fact, just now, Yi Shuihan received a message from the Heavenly Dao, which gave him a coordinate and asked him to go there and see if there was anything unusual.

This information came very abruptly. Yi Shuihan couldn't understand what the Heavenly Dao was trying to do. Logically speaking, he could ignore the Heavenly Dao. He wasn't a local resident of the prehistoric world, so there was no need for him to listen to the Heavenly Dao. Moreover, the Heavenly Dao hadn't even given him any benefits.

What made Yi Shuihan change his attention was naturally our system. After the Heavenly Dao information appeared, the system's Holy Spirit suggested that if he did as the Heavenly Dao said, he might be able to receive a mission when he arrived at the destination.

For Yi Shuihan, tasks were always beneficial. He would receive some kind of reward for almost every task issued by the system, so he naturally wanted to do such a good thing.

Yi Shuihan wasn't afraid to talk about plotting against him. Besides, this was the Primordial World. If we really wanted to plot against him, we didn't need to send Yi Shuihan to that place. The entire Primordial World was the backyard of the Heavenly Dao, wasn't it?

Driven by curiosity, Yi Shuihan and Kunpeng finally arrived at the designated location after a month. This was the result of Yi Shuihan deliberately asking Kunpeng to speed up a bit; if they had continued at their previous slow pace, it would have taken them about a year to reach the destination.

"A desert? That's hard to imagine. I thought a desert was impossible in such a primitive environment."

The endless desert, with its rolling yellow sand, ironically gave Yi Shuihan a strange sense of familiarity.

The reason why it is believed that deserts would not appear in the prehistoric world is simply because the prehistoric world has only recently appeared. As a new world, it is rich in spiritual energy. Nourished by spiritual energy, miracles of life are constantly being born in the prehistoric world. The harsh environment of desert should also become an oasis under the nourishment of spiritual energy.

"I was being too idealistic. Existence is its own justification. Even a place as harsh as the Blood Sea exists here, so it's only natural that this desert appears here. It's not surprising."

Standing on the yellow sand, Kunpeng also transformed into human form, lagging behind Yi Shuihan by one body length. He looked around in confusion, unable to discern Yi Shuihan's purpose in bringing him here, as there was nothing around him.

"Could it be that they're after me?"

The thought of this possibility made Kunpeng's heart clench. Even as Yi Shuihan's mount, he still felt insecure, fearing that Yi Shuihan might do something to him at any time, such as using Kunpeng's blood essence to train his physical body or using Kunpeng's bones to forge magical artifacts.

Kunpeng was clearly overthinking things, and like Kunpeng, Yi Shuihan was also in a state of confusion at this moment.

"What is that guy Tiandao doing? I'm already here, and there's still no sign of him. Or maybe I'm too late?"

An inexplicable fluctuation appeared dozens of miles away from Yi Shuihan, and this fluctuation rapidly intensified in a short period of time, causing a spatial vortex to appear.

"coming."

Yi Shuihan realized that this might be the reason why Heaven had summoned him, and immediately rushed towards the source of the fluctuations.

"This is......"

Yi Shuihan sensed an unusual sense of disharmony, as if what was about to appear shouldn't have happened at all.

"Things from beyond the primordial world, just like me?"

As a member of the company, Yi Shuihan was not as conservative as the locals of the prehistoric world. He immediately came up with a very reliable answer. At least Kunpeng was still looking at the vortex with a blank expression and did not realize the importance of this matter.

“Holy Spirit, am I right in my judgment?”

"Indeed, it is the aura of another world. The specific world is unclear, but based on the energy reaction, it is a being at the level of a Great Luo Golden Immortal."

"biology?"

"Good, there is a living reaction. It will appear in front of the host in 13 seconds."

While Yi Shuihan quietly waited for the unknown creature to appear before him, he was unaware that the same thing was happening in dozens of other places across the prehistoric continent.

The vortex in front of Yi Shuihan was only of medium size among these dozens of vortices; the largest one was more than ten times larger than the one in front of him.

Thirteen seconds passed in an instant, and just as the system had said, something finally appeared in the vortex in front of Yi Shuihan: a rather damaged steel arm. How damaged was it? It was full of pits and craters, and about one-fifth of the area had disappeared.

"Steel Life?"

The world is vast and full of wonders, and there are countless special life forms in all the heavens and myriad realms. When Yi Shuihan saw this steel arm, his first thought was that it was a life form similar to Transformers.

But the next second, Yi Shuihan overturned his idea, because he had already seen the full picture of what appeared in the vortex.

It appears as a humanoid machine, seemingly incredibly agile, with a futuristic feel. Even its steel arms are an illusion, made of countless special materials; in reality, it is an inanimate object.

The mechanical body, several meters long, only possesses a soul at its center; that is the true life center. Without it, the mechanical body is nothing but scrap.

"Mecha!"

This time, Yi Shuihan guessed pretty accurately. What was in front of him was a mecha, and it was the strongest mecha he had ever seen.

Although he hadn't witnessed the true combat power of the mecha before him, Yi Shuihan could still roughly discern some things. This thing might be comparable to a Great Luo Golden Immortal in combat, which was also the biological level initially assessed by the system.

"The creature piloting the mecha, to put it simply, should only be at the Golden Immortal level, but its soul is somewhat strange, exceeding the Golden Immortal level."

The mecha in front of him remained motionless for a long time. If Yi Shuihan hadn't known that the pilot was not dead, he probably would have thought that the mecha in front of him was just an inanimate object.

"What kind of magical artifact is this? The crafting method is so unique; I've never seen anything like it before."

Kunpeng curiously examined the mecha from the side, regarding it as a magical artifact, though that wasn't entirely wrong.

Chapter 1185, The Two-Faced Arms Dealer

After the mecha appeared in front of Yi Shuihan, the Heavenly Dao made a new move, which was to lure him to destroy the mecha in front of him.

It's a kind of psychological suggestion; Yi Shuihan just felt that he would feel uncomfortable if he didn't destroy the mecha in front of him.

It was obvious that this was not Yi Shuihan's original intention, so Yi Shuihan did not make any move. It is not so easy to get help without giving benefits.

As a member of the company, Yi Shuihan didn't really care much about what was going on outside. In any case, the other party's background couldn't be higher than the company's. If the Heavenly Dao could offer suitable benefits, it wouldn't be a bad idea to help it get rid of the mecha in front of it.

Perhaps feeling unable to sway Yi Shuihan, the Heavenly Dao intervened with another being present, namely Yi Shuihan's mount, our Master Kunpeng.

As a member of the Heavenly Dao, Kunpeng was not as resistant to the Heavenly Dao as Yi Shuihan. After receiving the Heavenly Dao's command, he didn't even hesitate before taking action.

Fortunately, Yi Shuihan had been paying attention to his surroundings and easily stopped Kunpeng when he made his move.

"Little Kun Kun, what do you want to do?"

Yi Shuihan's gaze was filled with pressure, instantly waking Kunpeng from the bewitching influence of the Heavenly Dao.

"Um... Master, I was wrong. Actually, it was Heaven that told me that as long as I killed and destroyed what was in front of me, it would grant me my wish..."

At this point, Kunpeng fell silent. He had been misled and hadn't thought things through carefully. Now that he was clear-headed, he realized that the promise made by the Heavenly Dao was simply impossible to fulfill. Having been in contact with Yi Shuihan for so long, he had actually guessed quite a few things. The Heavenly Dao might not be able to do anything to Yi Shuihan, even though he was extremely shocked when he came to this conclusion.

"Could it be that they promised you your freedom? Looks like I was right."

Yi Shuihan knew he had guessed correctly from Kunpeng's expression of not refuting.

"Don't worry, it's normal for you to want freedom. If I were in your situation, I would do the same. But before you do it, you should consider whether Heaven can really keep its promise. Don't do it again."

Although Yi Shuihan spoke casually, Kunpeng was still so frightened that his heart almost jumped out of his chest. He could sense that he might have died from that one wrong thought.

"No... there will definitely not be a next time."

Who would have thought that Kunpeng, the most powerful being in the primordial world, who feared no one except the saints, would be so humble and subservient at this moment, his voice trembling.

"That's good."

Yi Shuihan gave Kunpeng a deep look, so much so that Kunpeng broke out in a cold sweat, before finally looking away.

"How terrifying, even more terrifying than the Heavenly Dao."

From that very moment, in Kunpeng's heart, Yi Shuihan's status began to be on par with the Heavenly Dao, surpassing even that of the Sages.

"It seems that Heaven truly has no intention of offering any benefits?"

A few minutes later, Yi Shuihan felt quite strange. Although the Heavenly Dao had no emotions, it was absolutely meticulous in its calculations, like a computer among computers. How could it not have calculated that Yi Shuihan would not do what it wanted if it didn't give him benefits?

If they weren't planning to offer any benefits, they shouldn't have notified Yi Shuihan in the first place. Instead, they should have notified others to come here and deal with the mechs in front of them. Finding a reliable quasi-saint would have been enough to complete the mission.

"Clearly, some unknown changes have occurred. The creatures from the outside world are unaware of this place. Even if we destroy the creatures in front of us, it will be of no use?"

This is what Yi Shuihan could think of, and it's very close to the truth.

If Yi Shuihan were a native of the Primordial World, he would have to worry about the impact of external invasion on him. There is only one thing between worlds: devouring. If a world like the Primordial World is devoured by another world, then the life originally belonging to the Primordial World will be shackled on its evolutionary path, unless it is a life born after being devoured. If it was born before being devoured, then its strength will be difficult to improve and it will be suppressed by the world's will.

In other words, if the primordial world had been swallowed up and Laozi and his followers had not broken through to the level of saints during that time, they would no longer have had the possibility of continuing to break through.

This is the tragedy of life belonging to a certain world; unless one completely severs ties with the world to which one belongs, one will ultimately be influenced by that world.

Severing ties with the world is not easy. Besides the path of forcibly severing ties when one reaches the level of a True Saint, there is also the path of severing ties when one is extremely weak. The weaker one is, the lower the cost of severing ties.

Yi Shuihan was also bound by the world he was born into, but after obtaining the system, this bondage was broken. He paid a price, which was his original body. His current body was modified by the system.

These beings in the primordial world have received too much from it, especially the powerful beings like the Three Pure Ones, who are basically the primordial world's own children. They have cultivated smoothly all the way to the Quasi-Saint level. If they want to break away from it, their realm will drop by at least two major realms. Therefore, they only have two paths in front of them: either help the primordial world overcome its difficulties, or become True Saints before the primordial world is devoured.

To turn a Quasi-Saint into a Golden Immortal, they would probably rather die. Besides, even if they were willing, in the current situation, losing their power would only lead to their faster death. It would be better for them to continue living as Quasi-Saints. Even if the world is devoured and their strength cannot be improved, they would still receive some treatment.

"The primordial world is about to become more interesting, which seems to be more beneficial to me! My system is a great tool for cultivating strong individuals, similar to a weapon. Normally, the Heavenly Dao would be very restrained, but if there is a possibility of being devoured, it might loosen its restrictions! And the creatures outside will also be tempted once they know of the system's existence. At that time, I can sell the system to both sides and make a fortune."

Thinking of this, a smile suddenly bloomed on Yi Shuihan's face, leaving Kunpeng, who was standing to the side, stunned and wondering what was wrong with Yi Shuihan.

As a double-dealer, he must be making money, but not everyone can do it. After all, there's always the possibility of being robbed. Yi Shuihan dares to do this because he's confident in his own strength. He's like a whole world all by himself, and I believe no one would want to offend him because the profits are disproportionate.

They couldn't stop Yi Shuihan from running away, and when he retaliated, they wouldn't be able to stop him at all.

Chapter 1186, King-level Mech Pilot Apache

Apache struggled to open his eyes, his whole body aching and his arms were numb. Even the slightest movement was difficult. Most importantly, he felt hungry. He felt that if he didn't replenish his energy, he might starve to death, becoming the first Level 7 King-class mech pilot in the Empire to starve to death.

"woke up?"

Upon hearing the sound, Apache realized that he was no longer inside the mech, but lying on a stone bed, with a handsome young man standing a few meters away, calmly watching him.

That look in his eyes, how should I put it? It was like he was looking at a small animal.

Why would he feel this way? Apache was surprised that he would think this way, that he would be seen as a small animal in front of an ordinary person.

Indeed, in Apache's eyes, Yi Shuihan was just an ordinary person, which made him feel at ease for the time being. At this moment, he had not yet thought about how an ordinary person had managed to get him out of the mech.

Is there any food?

Apache asked.

"Yes, you wait."