I Arrived At Wizard World While Cultivating Immortality Chapter 700: Striking at the Heart and 0-001

With a slight surge of power, the Trigram Fire Annihilation Divine Light was unleashed. A dark-golden beam shot forth from his palm, carving a direct path through the black cosmos that spanned his entire field of vision. The moment the primary warship encountered the divine light, its integrated shield instantly crumbled. The energy matrix that formed the shield began to break down at the most basic particle level upon contact with the light. Following that, the armor, the bridge, the engine rooms, and the energy core… the entire warship vanished without a sound, as if it had been erased with a simple swipe. Yet, the Trigram Fire Annihilation Divine Light persisted.

Upon reaching the Dao Integration Realm, Jie Ming's command over his spiritual power escalated dramatically, and his comprehension of various spiritual Qi and elemental forces rapidly expanded. The present Jie Ming could now sustain the release of the Trigram Fire Annihilation Divine Light for prolonged durations. The dark-golden beam of light functioned like a scorching blade slicing through butter, cleaving directly through the heart of the assembled fleet. Millions of warships were utterly obliterated before they could even detonate, leaving behind only a lengthy, dark-golden scar in the void. With a casual sweep of his hand, the still-emanating dark-golden divine light arced sideways like a cosmic sword cut. Consequently, the remaining fleet was also engulfed.

Due to the attack's energy being excessively dispersed this time, the warships "finally" had the opportunity to explode. Brilliant conflagrations ignited one after another, but these explosions were fleeting, lasting only an instant before being consumed by the Trigram Fire Annihilation Divine Light, along with the flames themselves. A short while later, as the fiery glow subsided, only a vast expanse of incompletely dispersed particle dust remained in the orbit of the homeworld. Jie Ming navigated through the slowly expanding debris cloud and proceeded directly into the atmosphere.

The atmosphere of the homeworld was more tranquil than he had anticipated. His exceptionally swift descent caused the air currents to part automatically around him, with layers of clouds rushing past below his feet. A visible shockwave dissipated as Jie Ming came to an abrupt halt. He remained suspended high in the sky, while the golden vertical eye situated between his brows slowly opened, surveying the entirety of the continent. Prosperous. Vastly more prosperous than imagined. Urban sprawls extended from the coastline deep into the inland mountains. Transportation networks crisscrossed the land like intricate webs, and tens of thousands of colossal metropolises were interconnected. However… it was excessively quiet. There were no airborne vehicles in the sky, no transport vessels on the railways, and not even a moving figure could be observed on the streets. It was not an exaggeration to declare that the entire planet was as silent as a tomb!

Suddenly, lights flickered on. All public displays, city projection towers, the exteriors of administrative structures, orbital advertising matrices… every device capable of displaying visuals activated in unison. The stark contrast even created the illusion for Jie Ming that the entire planet had illuminated simultaneously. An ancient figure materialized at the center of the multitude of screens. It was an extraordinarily ancient Tentacle Tree. Its bark was almost completely black, the extremities of its tentacles bore a heavy, iron-gray hue, yet its eight crystalline eyes gleamed with startling intensity. Its canopy was fully unfurled in a frenzied posture.

"Invader." A low-frequency vibration emanated across the entire planet via the global broadcast. "I am the Homeworld Governor, a lifelong academician of the Highest Academy, and the chief individual responsible for special weapons development. You may refer to me as Furnace Core." As he uttered this, his tone even conveyed a peculiar sense of exhilaration. Jie Ming observed the projection silently.

"You are exceptionally powerful." Furnace Core slowly extended his tentacles. "So powerful that our main fleet could not endure for even a few minutes against you. Fortunately, I never intended from the outset to expend our ultimate trump card on the fleet." His tentacles whipped backward with force, and the scene transitioned to a colossal cavity located deep within the planet's core. Suspended at the center of this cavity was a dark-gray war armor exceeding five hundred meters in height. The armor's external plating was entirely stained crimson with blood. Countless biological fluids of various colors flowed ceaselessly along the armor's seams and were gradually absorbed. The energy core within its chest pulsed erratically like a beating heart. With each pulsation, the entire monitoring image trembled.

"Divine Armament. Designation 0-001." Furnace Core's voice gradually intensified into fanaticism. "We dedicated ten entire generations in an attempt to activate it. Genes, frequencies, protocols, spiritual energy… we exhausted all possibilities. But all attempts ended in failure! However, we later uncovered a crucial detail." His crystalline eyes widened progressively. "When it comes into contact with a sufficient quantity of biological life force, it begins… to awaken on its own."

The viewpoint shifted back to Furnace Core. Every single tentacle attached to its canopy had now fully extended, resembling a sudden bloom of dark thorns.

“And so… in order to eliminate you, I have unleashed a neurotoxin across our entire homeworld! Every city, every village, all civilians and military personnel… every single one of our people will serve as the activation energy for 0-001.”

“As for you…” Furnace Core fixed its gaze intently on the camera, as if piercing directly through it to confront Jie Ming, “Invader. The very planet you stand upon will become your tomb!”

The projected image abruptly vanished, plunging the screen into darkness.

In the very next instant, the entirety of the world began to tremble violently.

Jie Ming distinctly felt that it was the planet itself that was in motion.

Continents inverted, oceans churned and spilled, and vast mountain ranges were ripped from their foundations as if by colossal, unseen hands.

From the vantage point of space, the planet, once a familiar sphere of blue and green, was undergoing a rapid and drastic deformation.

The planet’s crust first buckled and collapsed, then reformed and restructured itself. Countless plates of the continental surface were inexpertly manipulated together, much like wet clay.

Deep within the planet’s molten core, 0-001 was operating at its absolute maximum capacity.

It was voraciously consuming all available biomass and energy from the entire planet. Even the incapacitated corpses of the Tentacle Trees, felled by the neurotoxin, were relentlessly squeezed for their residual life force, their very existence extracted as fuel for the formidable Divine Armament.

A previously steady internal perception suddenly flared with an urgent alarm, causing Jie Ming’s pupils to constrict involuntarily.

The very next moment…

Boom!!!

An overwhelming torrent of destructive energy erupted from the planet’s interior, striking his chest with tremendous force.

While the Return to Ruins Armor skillfully absorbed the vast majority of this energy, the sheer physical momentum propelled him backward uncontrollably. Jie Ming’s body breached the atmosphere and continued its trajectory into the vacuum of space, only managing to stabilize his position after being flung tens of thousands of kilometers away.

He peered downward.

What he saw could no longer be referred to as a “planet.”

A colossal humanoid silhouette, stretching tens of thousands of kilometers high, was slowly ascending from the void. It appeared as a divine effigy crudely assembled from the entirety of the planet. The former oceans had been compressed into a massive, spherical mass of water now embedded in its chest cavity. Mountain ranges and molten mantle material ceaselessly flowed across its surface, desperately seeking new structural integrity, while all traces of former cities had utterly vanished.

Jie Ming’s three eyes simultaneously focused on the planet’s core.

There, 0-001 was ablaze.

Upon witnessing this horrifying spectacle, Jie Ming immediately comprehended that this Divine Armament was far more than a mere instrument of war.

It was, in fact, an anti-civilization annihilation unit!

Once a civilization fell, it possessed the capability to transmute the entire planet, along with its entire populace, into a final, devastating weapon. It was designed to leave the enemy with absolutely no resources, ensuring that no spoils of war could be claimed, leaving only a rampaging behemoth of pure destruction.

“How… intriguing…” A peculiar glint flickered within Jie Ming’s eyes.

Given this Divine Armament's unique destructive capability, it implied that the Tentacle Tree Civilization’s prior assumptions regarding the origin of these Divine Armaments might have been fundamentally flawed! However, this was not the opportune moment for contemplation. After all, once this colossal entity was activated, it would relentlessly assault all living beings in its vicinity. With the entire planet having been irrevocably sacrificed, he was now its sole remaining target.

Jie Ming slowly released a breath.

Then, a violent eruption of dark-golden light surged forth as his thousand-meter true form unfurled within the void.

The dark-golden colossus, possessing the powerful physique of a tiger’s back and a bear’s waist, advanced. His vital Qi and blood surged through his colossal frame like a roaring furnace, and both of his faces simultaneously opened their three resplendent golden vertical eyes. Immediately thereafter—

The Second Layer Dharma Form descended!

A luminous golden phantom, standing at an awe-inspiring five hundred kilometers in height, slowly materialized behind him. Even in the mere span of a few days, Jie Ming’s Dharma Form had demonstrated remarkable advancement. It was significantly more condensed and vastly larger than during their previous encounter. The areas that had previously appeared indistinct at the edges of the Dharma Form’s silhouette had now receded, shrinking by almost half.

As those three golden Dharma Eyes slowly opened, the entire surrounding star region seemed to momentarily plunge into darkness.

Meanwhile, the planetary behemoth, meticulously reconstructed from the entirety of the homeworld, had finally achieved complete stabilization of its formidable form.

It leisurely raised an appendage—a terrifyingly immense hand constructed from fused continental plates, flowing liquid mantle, and the planet’s metallic core.

Then… it unleashed a devastating downward smash with its fist!

Even before the colossal fist could fully approach, the very fabric of space began to fracture and shatter. Countless layers of spatial ripples radiated outwards with uncontrolled ferocity. Small asteroids and the drifting wreckage of fleets unfortunate enough to be in its path were instantly pulverized into fine dust.

Jie Ming, however, did not falter or retreat. His Second Layer Dharma Form met the oncoming onslaught head-on, without a shred of hesitation. The five-hundred-kilometer-tall Dharma Form appeared astonishingly insignificant, akin to a mere speck of dust, when juxtaposed against the tens-of-thousands-of-kilometers-tall planetary behemoth.

Boom!!!

Fists collided.

The entire void convulsed violently. Intertwined rings of impact, one a dark gold and the other a deep gray, swept across the star region at velocities approaching the speed of light. The nearby asteroid belt was instantly annihilated, chaotic elemental turbulence was forcefully suppressed, and even the starlight illuminating the scene visibly distorted under the sheer magnitude of this cataclysmic clash.

Both Jie Ming and his Dharma Form were propelled backward violently.

His momentum didn't cease until he had crashed through a dwarf planet situated at the very fringe of their home star system.

The dwarf planet erupted into pieces behind him, scattering a multitude of fragments far and wide.

Emerging from amidst the shattered celestial remnants, he slowly lifted his gaze. The six golden eyes, distributed across his two faces, flickered in unison.

Remarkably, he himself had sustained no significant injuries. The Return to Ruins Armor, coupled with the Second Layer Dharma Form, had effectively nullified and absorbed the majority of the force from that formidable punch.

However…

“What a devastating punch!”

Ever since achieving the Dao Integration Realm and perfecting the Second Layer Dharma Form, no entity had ever managed to repel him forcibly in a direct confrontation.

A slow grin spread across Jie Ming’s lips, his eyes gleaming with increasing intensity.

In the following moment, the colossal Dharma Form, towering five hundred kilometers, coalesced behind him once more.

The Body Forging Method had integrated the adverse repercussions from the recent exchange of blows, undergoing a process of adaptive evolution.

Mirrored within Jie Ming’s Dharma Form, it now shone with an amplified radiance and possessed a weight far exceeding its previous state.

He advanced a single step. The residual energy from the earlier collision, still in flux beneath him, detonated with explosive force.

Traversing the roiling spatial turbulence, he launched himself once more towards the colossal planetary entity, which comprised the entirety of the star system.