Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 393 - 37: The Beginning and the End of the Ninth Martial God

Chapter 393: Chapter 37: The Beginning and the End of the Ninth Martial God

The Ninth Martial God was a specialized Xiang Shan with exceptional expressive abilities.

At the beginning, the one who wasn’t yet the Ninth Martial God was said to be a singer residing in a punk band called Guīdo Mista, performing underground on Mars. It was rumored he covered some well-known songs from the old era and had a few good original songs, but they have all disappeared—the government also erased such things.

However, it seemed that the Scientific Knight Order had a taste for such things, so similar occurrences occasionally surfaced on Mars. If nobody reported it, nobody cared.

In the recorded history, the one time the original identity of the Ninth Martial God took the stage was to sing a song called "My Way."

Then the King of Godspeed descended, and within a second, slaughtered everyone present.

It was said that on that day, there was someone who had visited the memory labyrinth of the Martial Ancestor and didn’t know how to conceal it.

But for some reason, the Ninth Martial God somehow survived. Maybe the King of Godspeed was simply too fast and didn’t check whether he had truly destroyed all the biological brains. Perhaps the original fans of the Ninth Martial God lent him a hand; regardless, the Ninth Martial God survived.

But he was left without any bandmates.

Some said that it was the rebellious young man himself who wanted to show off his rebelliousness by visiting the memory labyrinth of Xiang Shan.

Of course, some believed that the musician simply wanted to obtain the "music" within the memories of the Martial Ancestor.

But no matter what, the truth was no longer discoverable.

So the young man disappeared for a while.

When he reappeared, he had already become "Xiang Shan."

The ability of the original Ninth Martial God seemed to have been passed on to the Ninth Martial God. He possessed the insight and diplomacy of the Martial Ancestor Xiang Shan, but with even greater expressive abilities. His "expressiveness" was no longer confined to music; he could use his gestures to express his will to ordinary people and use his own words to articulate his thoughts.

And he was still singing—singing the songs of those 20th-century rebels.

Thus, within the Solar System, fires of rebellion ignited.

It was the tenth year after the Eighth Martial God’s sacrifice.

The only unfortunate aspect for the Ninth Martial God was that the Jianghu power depleted by the Seventh Martial God had not fully recovered. No one had yet replaced the fallen masters; the urban residents of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune reformed the White Fleet Prosthetics Followers, but lacked combat strength.

Even "Turing" was missing at that time.

Eventually, the Ninth Martial God persuaded the best fighters of the era to form an elite squad, bypass King Aqini’s defense circle and approach Yawgmoth’s throne directly.

So, the Ninth Martial God was defeated, and it was a harrowing defeat.

He was even captured alive.

Even TX-0 lamented, "At that time, Hartman was still hunting her mentor; she couldn’t intervene. The mentor often said if she could trust the Ninth Martial God a little more, perhaps this opportunity could have been seized..."

The Ninth Martial God was then suspended in Paradox City, with his biological brain even installed in the prosthetic body he had used to ascend the throne, surrounded by warrior drones of his own Military Martial Battle Formation.

It seemed that there were inner strength restrictions that prevented the Ninth Martial God from controlling the prosthetic body.

Some, therefore, speculate that the Ninth Martial God was a Pseudo-personality Mask, inherently restricted by inner strength, which led to his defeat.

The government’s treatment of the Ninth Martial God was also quite interesting.

Above Paradox City was a disruptive magnetic field that severed internal and external wireless communications. Then, they allowed anyone to converse with the Ninth Martial God and even read his data. But after the conversation, those government officials would execute in front of the Ninth Martial God any Hero who dared to step forward.

This was a truly inescapable predicament.

It wasn’t that no one had tried to rescue the Ninth Martial God historically. For instance, the Tenth Martial God had once struck at Paradox City. However, it was clear that the Tenth Martial God didn’t receive the same treatment as the Ninth Martial God; he was intercepted outside the city.

King Aqini’s inner strength constantly suppressed him. Furthermore, many Lords and countless armies stood against him.

And with the news of the King of Godspeed’s imminent arrival on the battlefield, the Tenth Martial God was forced to abandon the rescue attempt.

It was rumored that the Ninth Martial God’s prosthetic eye was closed during the entire process.

No, not just then, the Ninth Martial God habitually kept his prosthetic eye closed, as if he no longer wanted to see anyone else sacrifice themselves.

Only when a Hero was executed did his senses get forcibly activated.

And a Protector would repeat to the Ninth Martial God, "They were all sacrificed for your ideals."

These were the things Xiang Shan found online. Although there was no content about this on civilian networks, it was easy to find on the blockchain where Heroes shared intelligence.

Of course, in contrast, there were rows of "rescue plans."

Naturally, these were all failed plans.

Xiang Shan wanted to rescue this person.

TX-0 expressed doubt immediately, "This doesn’t seem right, does it? The Tenth Martial God back then was a powerful figure from another realm, not on the same level as you now. Even he failed..."

"That’s because by that time, he was already a Martial God. In the eyes of others, ’The Twelfth Martial God’ has not yet been born." Xiang Shan tapped his head, "I could go in like a regular Hero. But the problem lies in getting out."

Paradox City had few civilians; nearly the whole city was densely populated by protective Protector warriors and armies.

A small number of non-Protectors lived in the suburbs in a parasitic manner.

He would have to cut through a hundred thousand troops and even more drones to get out.

Xiang Shan said, "My martial arts are high. If there’s a force that could respond from the outside, I have a chance to break out from the inside."

TX-0 was silent for a moment, then said, "It’s not safe. I think you do not have absolute confidence in persuading the Ninth Martial God to rally, right? Forgive me for being frank, but after decades of torment, the spirit of the Ninth Martial God... is probably broken."

Xiang Shan nodded, "I don’t know what state the Tenth Martial God was in. But I have a secret technique."

The Eighth Martial God had researched for a long time the technology of "transcribing information within a biological brain to a Pseudo-personality Mask", which could complete this process quickly.

If the Ninth Martial God was a True Personality Mask with a biological brain, then direct information collection was possible.

If he was a Pseudo-personality Mask, that would be even better; transferring the data and escaping would be enough.

How the Ninth Martial God himself felt was not important.

The important thing was that he was the last non-Protector high-rank individual in history to have seen Yawgmoth.

Xiang Shan wanted to know what state Yawgmoth was in now.

And whether he was killable or not.