Chapter 677: The Times Have Changed
At the smooth, precise incision, innumerable circuits within the driver's body were exposed, occasionally sparking with short circuits.
"Good thing I was smart enough to use a robot under remote control, sending it to take those lunatics to the Rebirth Plant in my stead. Otherwise, I would have been sliced in half."
Although Holy Progenitors, before reaching the limit of their soul's lifespan, could constantly regenerate their bodies with the help of the God Body network, and thus generally viewed life and death with relative ease, being brutally slaughtered even once was by no means a pleasant experience.
The pain of a knife cutting into flesh, tearing through muscles and tendons, extracting nerves; the dizziness and weakness from massive blood loss; the extreme discomfort of suffocation and oxygen deprivation—the torment one had to experience before dying, not a single one of these would be spared.
The only difference from true death was that after dying, one's eyes would close and never open again, whereas after a nightmare, one could still wake up and rise.
At this moment, the driver, whose true body was hidden under the covers, was confidently bragging to his colleagues online.
The Holy Progenitors' army was filled with numerous robots, and the operators controlling these robots would generally hide in relatively safe positions.
When it came to actual combat, unless all their substitute robots were destroyed, they rarely personally took up arms and entered the fray.
The living soldiers could all be considered squad leaders.
"W-what happened to me?"
Ming Qi, waking from her coma, was astonished to find herself transformed back into a little girl!
She looked exactly as she had at six years old!
Heavy with apprehension, after she was teleported into the Rebirth Plant, seeing the boundless Spirit Energy flames within the facility, she initially thought she had arrived inside a crematorium's incinerator.
After observing more closely, she finally understood that she had arrived in a demiplane almost entirely composed of Spirit Energy.
The so-called military Rebirth Plant was, in fact, connected to a small world!
Of course, just one second later, a Spirit Energy electromagnetic storm, somewhat resembling a sunspot, erupted behind Ming Qi.
She instinctively activated her defenses to resist the super explosion behind her.
Alas, her resistance was futile, for the power was simply not on the same order of magnitude, nor on the same scale.
Macroscopic defenses were completely incapable of blocking strikes from the microscopic level.
Ming Qi soon discovered that the molecules composing her body were being torn apart one by one by electromagnetic force, scattering into atomic clouds floating in mid-air.
As a transcendent who had reached the pinnacle of Six Tiers, she already possessed the ability, without relying on machines, to glimpse a sliver of the molecular world.
However, the more she knew, the more she understood the terror of the electromagnetic storm behind her.
Her hands and feet had turned into a pot of atomic soup, leaving only her torso. At this moment, she felt as if she had touched the door to a higher level—complete Elementization!
Faintly, she wasn't sure if she was hallucinating sounds, but something like a profound Daoist sound uttered the words "Celestial Immortal."
That must be the path to further ascension!
Her accumulation was already sufficient, but for some unknown reason, the Main God Temple had always restricted any Reincarnator under its command from advancing, which was why Ming Qi had always remained stuck.
Everyone like her had a premonition that once they broke through, something terrifying would inevitably occur.
......
Watching her body continuously vanish, Ming Qi desperately tried to keep her eyes open, despite the overwhelming urge to sleep, wanting to hold on for just one more second.
After a scream, her consciousness ultimately sank into darkness.
It wasn't until she woke again that she found herself transformed into a little girl.
What was even stranger was that she didn't have a single stitch of clothing on!
"Why is the air so viscous..."
Little Ming Qi attempted to move her body but found the resistance terrifyingly strong, as if she were underwater.
As for the clothing, she didn't pay it much mind. Having experienced so much life and death in the Main God Temple world, she was a person who had crawled out from piles of bones.
Let alone just being unclothed; when she was weak, to evade demonic beasts, she had even experienced smearing herself head-to-toe with demonic beast feces.
Shame? What's that? Can it be eaten?
......
"Have I turned into a human specimen floating in a large glass tank?"
After meticulously studying her surroundings for a good half-minute, she finally managed to comprehend her current environment.
The glass was one-way permeable to light; from the inside, she could see virtually nothing, only a pitch-black expanse, whereas from the outside looking in, it was completely transparent.
Of course, she wasn't aware of this fact; she only felt that this dark, gloomy place was quite unsettling.
Especially now, the muscular female warrior Ming Qi had been transformed into a powerless little girl who couldn't even bind a chicken, and all her equipment from the Main God Temple world was lost, truly starting from scratch.
Ming Qi's new body had actually been placed into an artificial womb factory relocated by the Land of White to Water Blue Star.
Unlike Ai Li, she was a test subject Bai Mo was particularly focused on.
The path to Celestial Immortal, and the method to brave the Reincarnation Tribulation, still needed to be continuously refined. Therefore, Ming Qi, who happened to be at the perfected stage of Six Tiers, was undoubtedly the ideal test subject.
Moreover, there were too few Six-Tier individuals willing to cooperate voluntarily (?). The Manghuang Realm once had a batch of them, but as for the Federation side, their perception of Bai Mo was too poor, making voluntary cooperation virtually impossible. And forcibly capturing them was of little significance. Now, it was finally a struggle to find a new 'sucker'...
"I have given you an opportunity to glimpse the higher realms and fulfilled your wish for freedom. In return, you must serve the Land of White for five hundred years."
A cold voice resonated directly within Ming Qi's mind. She recognized it as the tone of that alien god.
"Where are my sisters?"
"They are the same as you."
"Five hundred years..." Ming Qi found the number hard to grasp. She had entered the Main God Temple world merely twenty years ago, and through plundering various worlds and exchanges at the Main God Temple, she had grown from an ordinary person to her current level.
However, this was a rapidly achieved product fostered by the unique environment of the Main God Temple world; everything was merely a game item bestowed by the Main God Temple.
"Given your aptitude, it's estimated it will take a hundred years for your cultivation to recover, plus fifty years to advance to Celestial Immortal, totaling one hundred and fifty years."
"How could it possibly take me a hundred years?" Ming Qi didn't believe Bai Mo's words. The path she had completed in twenty years at the Main God Temple would certainly not require a hundred years to traverse again.
"The times have changed."
Achieving perfected Six Tiers in twenty years, in the eyes of Bai Mo, who had reached perfected Six Tiers in ten years, was actually not that astonishing.
However, he was a "Congenital Lifeform" who had directly faced the "Spirit River Autumn," and those ten years were also the best of times, with natural treasures everywhere. There was simply no comparison to the present, a hundred years later.
What's more, the power of Reincarnators was essentially still something bestowed by the Main God Temple..
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