I Arrived At Wizard World While Cultivating Immortality Chapter 701: Capture

Even as the cosmic aftershocks from the immense power release continued to ripple, Jie Ming gathered his resolve, preparing for another surge.

Amidst the starfield fractured by the cataclysmic waves, shattered asteroid fragments continued their aimless drift. The turbulent, chaotic energies, a swirling mix of dark gold and deep gray, spread like festering wounds through the inky blackness.

At the epicenter of this maelstrom, the Second Layer Dharma Form, previously Ripped asunder, began to coalesce once more.

Boom…

A violent eruption of dark-golden light burst forth from the Dharma Form’s core, akin to a divine sun ascending from the deepest void.

With the conclusion of another evolutionary cycle of the Body Forging Method, effulgence radiated outward, tracing the silhouette of the Dharma Form and bathing the surrounding hundreds of thousands of kilometers in light. Its shoulders were broad, its arms hanging loosely. The stoic, stern countenance on its back slowly tilted upward, and its three luminous golden vertical eyes snapped open in unison. Their gaze, sharp as sharpened blades, fixed immovably upon the colossal planetary entity looming before it.

A single blow akin to the one just delivered would have been sufficient to annihilate an entire fleet belonging to any ordinary civilization.

However, for Jie Ming, who had endured countless impacts of such magnitude, it presented no genuine peril.

Jie Ming caused the Dharma Form’s shoulders to flex.

A gentle flow of golden light pulsed at the joints, winding around both arms as if endeavoring to manifest some extraordinary phenomenon.

Alas, Jie Ming’s current grasp of the laws governing this realm was inadequate, and the existential pressure exerted by his adversary was beginning to wane, thereby preventing the desired phenomenon from fully materializing.

On the opposing side, the colossal planetary being, repelled by Jie Ming’s earlier assault, managed to regain its equilibrium.

Though Jie Ming’s offensive maneuvers were far from feeble, they had failed to inflict any substantial damage upon the gargantuan entity.

The sheer immensity of its scale rendered it exceptionally resilient.

Its silhouette, stretching tens of thousands of kilometers tall, sprawled across the void like an primordial demon god born at the universe’s inception.

The planet’s terrestrial crust, mantle, and core had been forcibly ripped apart and reassembled to form its very physique. Jagged continental plates, scattered across its surface, served as crude yet formidable layers of armor.

The vast oceans had been hurled onto its massive back, creating a turbulent, churning curtain of deep blue water.

Mountain ranges were plunged into its shoulders and spine, enduring constant fracturing under the intense terrestrial heat.

The Divine Armament itself continuously emanated a unique power, solidifying these seemingly mundane celestial materials into constructs possessing an otherworldly, unyielding hardness. Its “head” was a colossal sphere of molten lava, riddled with fissures through which magma flowed sluggishly.

At the heart of this fiery sphere, a dark-red aperture slowly dilated – the central energy core of the Divine Armament.

A crimson luminescence emanated from the depths of its mantle, resembling the awakening pupil of some ancient, ravenous beast.

In the subsequent moment, the planetary behemoth raised its titanic fist.

The monstrous fist, forged from compacted continental plates, molten iron-nickel, and dense core material, descended with crushing force.

Even before the fist made contact, the very fabric of space began to buckle under the immense power. Visible distortions rippled through the void in its wake. Asteroid fragments, drifting harmlessly kilometers away, were caught in these spatial distortions and instantly disintegrated into fine dust.

This time, Jie Ming eschewed a direct confrontation. The Dharma Form executed an abrupt lateral maneuver.

Boom!

The five-hundred-kilometer-tall golden figure shifted sideways with an agility utterly incongruous with its colossal size, its movements unfolding with an eerie, liquid grace.

The gargantuan fist narrowly grazed the Dharma Form’s shoulder. The ensuing spatial turbulence etched a fleeting dark scar across its form, causing the golden light to shudder violently.

Seizing the fleeting opportunity, the Dharma Form’s hand shot out, clamping onto the planetary behemoth’s forearm.

Fingers of dark-gold luminescence burrowed deep into the crustal layer. Vast expanses of rock strata crumbled to dust upon mere contact.

Jie Ming applied immense force, wrenching the tens-of-thousands-of-kilometers-long appendage downward.

Crack!!

Bolstered by the special energies emanating from the Divine Armament, the arm resisted being torn asunder.

However, the sudden application of force caused the planetary behemoth’s center of gravity to shift precariously. Its immense form lurched forward.

This was precisely the opening Jie Ming had anticipated. The Dharma Form’s other fist had already surged forward.

Bang!!!

The dark-golden fist impacted the very center of its chest. The kinetic energy of the collision effortlessly penetrated the entirety of the planetary entity.

The point of impact detonated, creating a crater hundreds of kilometers wide. Enormous quantities of crustal matter and molten metal erupted outward like celestial ichor, while shattered continental fragments tumbled into the void.

The planetary behemoth reeled backward from the colossal impact.

Yet, mere seconds later, the fractured chasm began to seal itself. Molten mantle surged to fill the void, and the fragmented rock layers reintegrated. This entity possessed no true concept of “injury,” for its very essence was a reconfigured planet.

Each constituent particle was merely a component. So long as its core remained intact, it possessed the capacity for infinite self-repair.

Jie Ming's brow furrowed slightly, recognizing the same predicament.

However, the Dharma Form pressed onward without pause.

Over the next several dozen seconds, the colossal dark-golden shadow morphed entirely into a blur of high-speed motion.

Despite the appearance of two gigantic entities locked in combat, Jie Ming's Dharma Form maintained its agility, undeterred by its immense size.

Years of rigorously trained combat techniques were unleashed in rapid succession. The Dharma Form's assaults grew progressively swifter with each exchange, tearing new fissures across the planetary behemoth's exterior with every connection.

Continents fractured, essential core metals were ripped asunder, and entire mountain ranges were violently uprooted and tossed aside as if they were mere scraps of fabric.

Concurrently, the Fate Subsystem operated at its absolute peak. An unending torrent of data streams cascaded through Jie Ming's spiritual consciousness.

Mass distribution, energy flow rates, central output frequencies, reconstruction timelines, material recovery vectors… and crucially, that persistent, anomalous power siphoning life from the external environment.

With every single impact, the Dharma Form assimilated novel information.

The prolonged duration of the engagement led to an increasingly profound level of analysis.

Yet, with each passing moment, Jie Ming detected an unsettling anomaly.

The core reason was that the adversary's attack patterns were exceedingly rudimentary.

Simple punching.

Brute smashing.

Forceful ramming.

Occasionally, the formation of spike-like protrusions composed of iron and nickel from its surface.

Beyond these basic maneuvers, there were no discernible variations… This entity seemed entirely devoid of any sophisticated long-range offensive capabilities.

It commanded a gargantuan physique capable of planetary annihilation, yet resorted solely to the most primitive, mass-driven impacts.

This is not to say the planetary behemoth lacked formidable power.

Quite the opposite; leveraging planetary-scale mass for kinetic transference was an inherently terrifying prospect.

A single blow, akin to the one delivered previously, would have been sufficient to obliterate an ordinary planet, punching clean through its crust and reaching the very core.

The crucial issue, however, was that a Divine Armament should theoretically possess capabilities extending far beyond such basic applications.

The structural blueprints, the shield interface schematics, and the designated weapon hardpoints detailed in the research documentation all suggested that this armor was originally designed with vastly more intricate functionalities. What it was currently exhibiting stood in stark contradiction to its intended design.

Was there an issue with the activation sequence?

Or perhaps… had he overlooked a critical element?

Boom!

The Dharma Form brought its palm down decisively. The planetary behemoth's entire left arm was severed instantaneously.

The detached limb, constructed from continental plates, tumbled into the void, only to be recaptured by the gravitational pull of the main body's core, beginning a slow, inexorable drift back towards its origin.

Jie Ming seized the critical moment of the arm's severance, surging forward with intense ferocity. Both his hands locked onto the fiery sphere comprising the head.

Then, he applied immense downward pressure!

Rumble!!!

The incandescent lava sphere was forcibly shoved into the chest cavity.

Seething molten lava erupted violently from between the Dharma Form's palms, yet was instantly vaporized into streams of particulate matter by the radiant dark-golden divine light.

In that precise instant, the planetary behemoth's chest and abdomen violently ruptured. A multitude of dense spikes, forged from high-concentration core iron-nickel, erupted outward in a devastating barrage! The Dharma Form executed a sharp, evasive twist. The majority of these projectiles missed their mark, but two managed to penetrate deeply into its waist.

Buzz…

The Dharma Form shuddered violently. Inside its chest cavity, Jie Ming's true body swayed precariously.

His exceptionally robust physique immediately processed and absorbed the brunt of the impact, yet the sheer force of the shockwaves was undeniably transmitted.

“A commendable display of power, but if this constitutes your ultimate gambit…” Jie Ming’s gaze turned icily resolute.

Enough. The reconnaissance phase was concluded!

Having definitively ascertained that the adversary had exhausted its available strategies, Jie Ming resolved to terminate the engagement and employ his own unique methods to unravel the profound secrets concealed within this entity!

His true body detached and emerged from the Dharma Form's chest cavity, while the original Dharma Form began to progressively disintegrate into scintillating particles of light.

The thousand-meter-tall, dark-golden figure appeared as inconsequential as a mote of dust adjacent to the five-hundred-kilometer-scale Dharma Form.

Yet, that solitary speck of dust… was incandescent!

Boom!!!

The Trigram Fire Annihilation Divine Light was unleashed in its entirety. Jie Ming’s physical form instantaneously transmuted into pure light.

The Return to Ruins Armor became the foundational structure, stabilizing the immense energy release, thereby converting his entire being into a state of pure, high-energy luminescence.

At that juncture, it was as though a miniature star had spontaneously materialized within the desolate expanse of the void.

This was the Light God Transformation — a formidable technique he had abstained from employing since the refinement of his true body!

Although his physical form already bore certain inherent characteristics of the Light God Transformation, the substantially enhanced control over universal laws, achieved subsequent to attaining the Dao Integration Realm, empowered Jie Ming to refine this skill to an even greater degree.

The Great Void Step propelled his energy-infused form to velocities approximating true light speed.

The entirety of the surrounding world dramatically decelerated within his perceptual field. Every singular energy conduit within the planetary behemoth became vividly apparent.

Each pulse emanating from the core, every flow cycle of energy — nothing remained concealed.

Then… Jie Ming initiated his movement.

Piercing through the emptiness, a streak of brilliant dark-golden light shot forth instantaneously.

Boom!!!

Engulfed in his Light God Transformation, he slammed directly into the colossal planetary structure's chest.

The moment of impact pushed the temperature far beyond its limit.

The Trigram Fire Annihilation Divine Light erupted outward from the point of contact, disintegrating all matter it encountered. From rocky layers and vast oceans to the already heat-resistant iron-nickel core and liquid metal, everything was reduced to its most fundamental particles.

These particles were then further annihilated, transforming into the most basic elements.

A colossal rupture tore open instantly within the planet-sized behemoth's chest, and this chasm continued to expand at an exponential rate.

Jie Ming plunged straight through, obliterating all in his path before emerging from the other side.

In the subsequent moment, he pivoted and advanced once more.

The second penetration.

The third.

The fourth…

Like countless luminous lances, dark-golden beams of light darted ferociously through the immense body, perforating the entire planetary behemoth.

Each piercing strike precisely targeted and severed the intricate energy conduits within, thereby dismantling the Divine Armament's control over the planetary mass.

Ultimately, the planetary behemoth began to crumble.

Deprived of its unified command, the artificially merged materials descended into utter chaos.

Continental plates fragmented and scattered in all directions due to Jie Ming's relentless impacts. The oceans were expelled outward by sheer inertia. Core metals fractured and dispersed under the immense gravitational forces. The gargantuan body, standing tens of thousands of kilometers tall, commenced a comprehensive disintegration from its very core.

At the epicenter of this total collapse, the Divine Armament was finally revealed.

It manifested as a bare, spherical core space, encircled by the shattered remnants of its foundational materials.

Floating silently at the heart of it all was the dark-gray war armor.

The vibrant, biological blood patterns adorning its exterior had been almost entirely consumed, leaving behind only faint, flickering traces of dark-red.

The energy core pulsed with a diminishing rhythm, akin to a failing heart.

Jie Ming halted abruptly before it.

His luminous form retracted, coalescing once more into a physical shape, now imbued with dark gold radiance.

The surface of the Return to Ruins Armor shimmered with the dying radiance of the planet's residual energy. The armor's edges emitted a faint, residual glow.

He extended his hand. His five fingers closed around the shoulder plate of the Divine Armament.

Buzz!!!

The war armor convulsed violently. Its core pulsed in a frenzied rhythm, as though in a desperate struggle.

Yet, against the unyielding grip of Jie Ming's colossal hand, all defiance was ultimately extinguished, and the entire suit of armor succumbed to a profound silence.

In the desolate void, only a slowly expanding belt of planetary debris remained.

The former homeworld of the Tentacle Tree Civilization was now reduced to countless drifting fragments, gradually losing their heat in the frigid darkness.

Gripping the Divine Armament firmly, Jie Ming turned and ascended, flying out of the encircling debris field.