Chapter 151: Static Stance! Spatial Confinement! (First Update)

Place of Eternal Sleep, Ancestral God Tomb.

The entire Ancestral God Graveyard was established amidst a vast range of towering mountains.

Within each peak lay the tomb of an Ancestral God.

The entire mountain range stretched for tens of millions of kilometers, presenting a magnificent and majestic spectacle.

This was one of the "holy lands" in the hearts of the indigenous people of Planet Veska.

However, compared to the other holy land known as the "Ancestral God City," the Ancestral God Tomb was far more tranquil.

According to the traditions of Planet Veska, the resting place of the Ancestral Gods must remain undisturbed.

Aside from the batch of immortal gods guarding the Ancestral God Tomb, the indigenous people of the planet never approached the vicinity.

Even the nearest indigenous city was over a hundred million kilometers away from the Ancestral God Tomb.

Thirty-five immortal gods were scattered across the periphery of the Ancestral God Tomb, guarding this resting place of immortals.

"On this planet, the sensory range of an ordinary immortal does not exceed one million kilometers. If I secretly plunder the tombs, I wonder if I'd be discovered?"

Looking at the satellite-captured images, a sudden thought crossed Jiang Chen's mind.

With an "Ancestral God Tomb" of this scale and a sensory limit of one million kilometers, it was utterly impossible for thirty-five immortal gods to achieve complete surveillance over the entire area.

There were bound to be some tombs located beyond the perception range of the guarding immortals.

However, after dispatching a squad of mechanical units to infiltrate and investigate, Jiang Chen abandoned the idea.

Every single tomb was protected by a rigorous barrier.

The moment anyone attempted to break in, an alarm would be triggered immediately.

Through the feeds transmitted back by the mechanical units, Jiang Chen confirmed that he could not breach the tomb barriers without alerting the immortal guards outside.

To acquire the remains of the immortal gods within the tombs, a direct, forceful assault was the only viable path.

"Pity that satellite scans cannot determine the strength or gene levels of these immortals; we can only confirm their status as immortals through their 'immortal divine power'."

Jiang Chen sighed inwardly and issued an order to Jarvis: "Jarvis, take command and prepare for the attack."

"Master, a coordinated strike by the hundred-thousand-strong mecha legion can instantly kill an ordinary immortal. I suggest locking onto five targets for the initial strike," Jarvis proposed.

"Let's make it six. Have the fighter jets also launch a coordinated barrage, while I use telekinesis to grant the jets mechanical affinity," Jiang Chen commanded.

Among Jiang Chen's mechanical legions, the number of fighter jets was relatively small due to cost considerations, numbering just over four thousand.

Without the blessing of "Mechanical Affinity," a single coordinated strike truly wouldn't be enough to kill an immortal god.

But with mechanical affinity added, it would be more than sufficient.

"Understood, Master," Jarvis reported. "A large-scale coordinated strike requires ten seconds to charge. 10, 9, 8, 7..."

High above in the sky, a massive mechanical legion was divided into several formations.

Tremendous energy continuously gathered.

Dazzling beams of light ignited at the muzzles of the laser guns mounted beneath the wings of the fighter jets.

Mecha after mecha began to channel various weapons, preparing for a unified strike.

"3, 2, 1!"

As Jarvis's countdown ended, an incomparably violent wave of energy suddenly erupted across the heavens.

Streams of attacks converged into six distinct streams, roaring downward toward six corners of the mountain range below.

The immortal gods guarding the Ancestral God Tomb had no time to react before the onslaught was upon them.

Deep within a certain hall nestled in the mountains, an immortal god sensed the approaching violent energy fluctuations and his face paled with terror.

Before he could make any defensive move, the energy wave generated by the joint effort of over one hundred thousand mechas slammed fiercely into the hall.

Without a sound, the entire hall, along with the ground beneath it, was instantly vaporized.

A colossal, bottomless void spanning tens of kilometers in diameter appeared upon the earth.

Only after the blinding light vanished did a sound akin to the cracking of heaven and earth explode forth.

Boom!

The earth shook violently, and even the mountain peaks collapsed by half.

A single round of coordinated strikes—six immortal gods, denied even the chance to react, were directly erased from this universe.

The moment the attack struck, more than twenty immortal gods shot up into the sky from various directions.

Though the sensory range of powerhouses was severely suppressed on this planet, such a terrifying commotion, even across tens of millions of kilometers, still caused these immortal gods to tremble.

Moreover, the nature of such technological weaponry was a sign unmistakable to the indigenous people of Planet Veska.

Outlanders had descended upon their world once again!

The moment the twenty-odd immortal gods appeared, they immediately discovered that their comrades had perished in the recent assault. Their eyes instantly turned bloodred, and rage surged within them.

It was at this exact moment that Jiang Chen piloted the Void Dragon Mecha, descending slowly from the upper stratosphere.

"Jarvis, aside from the units directly linked to my mental energy, transfer the command of the rest of the mechanical legion entirely to you."

With Jiang Chen's command, the control over the mechanical legion shifted instantly.

Roughly twenty thousand mechanical units remained under the direct, real-time control of Jiang Chen's primary body and avatars through spiritual telekinesis.

The remainder of the mechanical legion was handed over entirely to Jarvis.

Controlling ten thousand mechanical units per avatar was the absolute limit Jiang Chen could manage after his spiritual telekinesis had undergone "digitization."

Naturally, as Jiang Chen's strength grew or as he acquired new traits, this number would continue to rise.

For now, however, this was the maximum number of units that could enjoy the enhancement of "Mechanical Affinity."

"Commence battle!"

With a thought from Jiang Chen, the immortal puppets struck first, each charging to engage an enemy.

Twenty-six immortal puppets, aided by the Gundam mechas, were fully capable of holding down twenty-six immortal gods.

As for the remaining three, Jiang Chen manipulated the Void Dragon Mecha to take them on single-handedly.

The Void Dragon was inherently a powerful lifeform of the starry behemoth lineage, naturally possessing a gene level ten times that of an ordinary human.

After being modified by Jiang Chen into a semi-mechanical unit and further blessed with mechanical affinity, its attributes skyrocketed by over five hundred times, making it equivalent to an immortal with a "five-thousandfold gene level."

Naturally, this was merely its baseline attributes.

In actual combat, laws and secret techniques were also crucial components.

In this regard, Jiang Chen was somewhat at a disadvantage.

Yet, relying on the formidable base attributes of the Void Dragon Mecha, Jiang Chen was still able to suppress three immortal gods single-handedly.

Jarvis controlled the mechanical legion to continuously unleash coordinated strikes.

The joint attack of over ten thousand Gundam mechas posed a severe threat to immortals.

The joint attack of one hundred thousand mechas could easily kill an immortal god with a hundredfold gene level.

With over half a million mechas in total, the threat to the immortal guards of the Ancestral God Tomb was utterly fatal.

Soon, waves of joint attacks erupted, and another five immortal gods were vaporized by the combined onslaught of the mechanical legion.

During these coordinated strikes, Jarvis made no effort to avoid the mechanical units controlled directly by Jiang Chen.

The moment the attack was unleashed, the Gundam mechas blessed with "Mechanical Affinity" would activate [Mechanical Overload], desperately lunging forward to entangle the enemy.

Meanwhile, the immortal puppets would retreat just in time to avoid the blast radius.

Following that, the mechanical legion's joint strike would obliterate the enemy along with the Gundam mechas entangling them.

Trading a dozen Gundam mechas for the life of an immortal god was an exchange far too cost-effective.

The "liberated" immortal puppets then rejoined the fray, surrounding and attacking other immortal gods.

Repeating this tactic, after just a few rounds of joint strikes, fewer than a dozen living immortal gods remained.

"That's enough, Jarvis," Jiang Chen timely halted Jarvis's continued deployment of mechanical legion joint attacks. "The remaining ones can be dealt with in standard combat mode. Try to preserve as many intact corpses as possible; don't waste them."

Of the thirty-five immortal gods guarding the Ancestral God Tomb, twenty-four had fallen within mere seconds of the battle's commencement.

The remaining eleven immortal gods were no longer sufficient to pose a significant threat to the mechanical legion.

Naturally, Jiang Chen wanted to attempt to preserve their intact corpses in order to further strengthen his own forces.

"Bastards!"

"Damn it! How can the outlanders' weapons be this powerful?!"

Every single surviving immortal god was filled with rage, grievance, and fear.

Watching their companions of long years die before their eyes with virtually no ability to resist—such psychological impact was extremely difficult for immortal gods who had lived long lives on an indigenous planet without witnessing the cruelty of the universe to accept.

To put it bluntly, these immortals had been "protected" far too well.

Although the upper echelons of the Virtual Universe Company treated this planet as a "prison" to prevent Veska's natives from contacting the universe at large, and even periodically "harvested" the planet by slaying immortal gods to extract "Blood God Fruits" from their corpses...

Compared to the true cruelty of the universe, these natives of Planet Veska had experienced far too little.

Aside from the occasional descent of the Virtual Universe Company, they lived as supreme gods high above the planet, with practically no one threatening their rule.

Naturally, their willpower and mental fortitude fell far short of immortals forged in the wider universe.

However, they were still immortal gods after all; no matter how poor their psychological resilience, they wouldn't simply lose their fighting spirit in the heat of battle.

The anger, sorrow, and terror brought by the death of their comrades only solidified their resolve to slay the "outlanders."

Even if they couldn't win, they refused to let their corpses become weapons used by the outlanders!

They had long since realized that those immortal puppets were crafted from the remains left behind by fallen immortal gods of their own planet.

Through the memories of some of the immortals they recognized, they discovered that these immortal puppets even exhibited combat prowess that surpassed the strength those gods possessed in life.

Though the increase wasn't massive, it was still startling.

Their own corpses being forged into weapons by outlanders to fight against their homeland?

Such humiliation was something no one was willing to accept!

Boom!

An immortal god, battered under the joint assault of several immortal puppets, suffered grievous injuries.

Knowing he had no hope of escape, he directly chose to self-destruct.

Even though Jiang Chen reacted instantly by commanding the immortal puppets to retreat in an attempt to dodge the shockwave of the self-destruction, the powerful explosion still inflicted heavy damage upon two immortal puppets of the baseline gene level.

Fortunately, they weren't entirely destroyed and could be repaired for future use—a stroke of misfortune amidst the disaster.

Yet, such a loss still provoked a flicker of anger in Jiang Chen's heart.

"Would it hurt to just die quietly? Why must you struggle!"

A cold glare flashed in Jiang Chen's eyes as his spiritual telekinesis instantly linked with the [Warp Arbiter] hovering on the periphery of the battlefield, pushing its attributes to their absolute peak.

"Static Field!"

The next instant, a violent spatial fluctuation swept outward.

The space across the entire battlefield fell completely into a state of stagnation.

Immortal gods, immortal puppets, Gundam mechas...

Even a beam of laser fire discharged from a gun barrel froze mid-air, unable to budge even a fraction.

This was a wide-area control skill that did not differentiate between friend and foe.

Under spatial freezing, all beings were equal.

Unless one's power was great enough to shatter space itself or one had mastered deep spatial laws, anyone caught within this region would be completely bound by the formidable spatial forces.

External attacks could not penetrate it either.

However, since Jiang Chen had deployed this move, he naturally possessed a way to bypass these "side effects."

The wings of the Void Dragon Mecha trembled once, activating its innate secret technique [Phase Shift], instantly shuttling into sub-space.

The next moment, the Void Dragon Mecha crossed a distance of dozens of kilometers in a flash and re-emerged back into the primary space.

Its dragon wings swept horizontally toward an immortal god, the razor-sharp edges cleanly severing the immortal's head.

A spatial ripple swept past once more; Jiang Chen directly retrieved the immortal's divine body, and the massive form of the Void Dragon Mecha vanished once again.

When it reappeared, it was already beside another immortal god.

Under the Static Field, space was entirely frozen; only the Void Dragon Mecha, having mastered [Phase Shift], could move freely.

One by one, the immortal gods completely lost the ability to resist, reduced to lambs waiting for Jiang Chen's slaughter.

In just a matter of seconds, the heads of the ten surviving immortal gods were severed, their divine bodies directly plundered by Jiang Chen and tossed into containers lined with sealing secret runes, severing the connection between those divine bodies and their master consciousnesses.

"Pity that the spatial binding of the Static Field isn't strong enough. If the number of enemies bound simultaneously is too large, there is a high probability they could break free."

Jiang Chen felt a trace of regret inwardly.

If the potency of the Static Field were slightly higher, Jiang Chen wouldn't even need to rely on coordinated mecha legion strikes to eliminate the immortal gods one by one.

Activating the Static Field directly and letting the Void Dragon Mecha continuously shuttle through space to kill them would have sufficed.

Unfortunately, with Jiang Chen's current technological level, he couldn't reinforce the Static Field to that degree yet.

Handling around ten ordinary immortals simultaneously was already his absolute limit.

Spatial ripples flickered once more, the Static Field dissipated, and the spatial binding vanished.

The coordinated strike of the mecha legion launched right on cue. The moment the spatial binding lifted, a powerful barrage swept across the heads of the ten immortal gods, thoroughly extinguishing their consciousnesses.

Inspecting the sealed containers to ensure the "primary consciousnesses" of these immortal gods had indeed dissipated along with the destruction of their heads, Jiang Chen's mind settled. He issued the final order: "Jarvis, go extract the corpses and other valuable treasures from within the Ancestral God Tombs, and then we pull out!"