This is really not mechanical ascension
Chapter 868 - 449: There’s Someone Inside!

Chapter 868: Chapter 449: There’s Someone Inside!

"Damn!"

Li Ming cursed inwardly, but his reaction was quick. However, when he finally made a move, he realized something was wrong.

The surrounding space changed dramatically in an instant, solidifying to an unbelievable degree.

The entire area seemed to have turned into a gigantic, incredibly hard solid.

Even the tiniest particles appeared to be tightly bound by an immense force, with no gaps or leeway, no longer wandering or drifting.

Li Ming felt as if he was in a swamp, every movement was sluggish and sticky. With his current strength, shattering shallow space was like smashing glass, but now, every action was difficult.

Moreover, he clearly perceived that the speed of light propagation nearby seemed greatly hindered, becoming sluggish and distorted, while everything around appeared static and rigid.

Time flow was also slowing down; it wasn’t just space being stagnant.

"Is this a space-time lock?" Li Ming thought rapidly in his mind. This locking method not only parameter locks the space but also disrupts time, the two combined complementing each other.

The intensity of this space-time lock had reached a top-tier level, even an X Level Life Form would find it challenging to escape.

"So that thing was a countdown." Li Ming now understood.

This stone was not just a sort of inheritor equipment; it’s also a damn bomb, with the chosen inheritor acting as the code.

The first incorrect input directly activated the self-destruction program, continuously counting down.

The second trial error thus directly set off the explosion.

"Only a female life form can inherit it? Damn..." Li Ming ground his teeth secretly, as purple energy particles slowly emerged from his hand, slowed down many times over.

"Even the hammer’s ability has been affected; the space-time flow rate slowed by at least twentyfold." Li Ming sensed, feeling increasingly heavy-hearted, as even the hammer’s level was impacted, indicating the high specifications of this thing.

His thoughts weren’t affected, perhaps because possessing Tank Guard was no longer an entity concept.

Meanwhile, the black-red spherical object at the center kept expanding.

Li Ming now realized it was far from a stone but a mass of black symbols stacked layer upon layer, covering an object with a red core inside.

Like a star compressed to the extreme, its surface crimson, occasionally rippling.

Li Ming felt an incomparable threat from it, its energy intensity far exceeding a conventional star.

Filled with ferocity and uncertainty, perhaps in the next moment, it would erupt with an energy torrent capable of devouring everything, turning everything around into nothingness.

"Boom!"

Silently and invisibly, a full-strength peak hammer was fiercely smashed out.

However, the motion seemed slowed by countless times, every minute movement of Tank Guard was infinitely elongated.

With the hammer’s strike, ripples visible to the naked eye appeared in space, spreading outward, each ripple containing a chilling power, yet the speed was exceedingly slow.

Until it expanded to a certain limit, like accumulated power suddenly exploded, ripples abruptly blasted open, surging outward like roaring waves, causing the void to tremble.

Boom! The small base shattered, with metal debris scattered everywhere.

"Ten meters range..." Li Ming looked heavy-hearted, but under such a space-time lock, ten meters were like a chasm.

He attempted to switch Controlled Objects, the Control System was similarly unaffected.

But any space-jumping Controlled Objects couldn’t exert any power; the level was too low and couldn’t break through the space-time lock.

The black symbols expanded rapidly, having already enveloped him.

Yet, Li Ming, who was focused from the first moment, didn’t feel any harm; the black symbols continued to expand.

"Hmm?" Li Ming was puzzled, glancing at the central red core, rising and falling like breathing, seemingly affected by the space-time lock.

Until the boundary of the black symbols expanded beyond ten meters, forming a black light shield.

Without warning, the red core first collapsed inward fiercely, as if tightly clenched by an invisible giant hand.

The core instantly compressed to an extremely small point, and the space surrounding it solidified countless times became severely distorted due to this extreme compression.

Immediately thereafter, it exploded, unleashing an energy described as world-destroying, spraying madly in all directions with overwhelming force.

The light was dazzling beyond being looked at directly, filling the entire space with this blinding brilliance as if to burn everything to nothingness.

The stone-like space was fragile like thin paper, rapidly disintegrating under the erosion of energy, reduced to nothing.

In the interstellar space dimension model theory, the universe space is divided into five layers: shallow space, which is the basis for material world existence.

After being shattered, there is the domain flowing with void storm.

Generally speaking, involving X Energy Level grants the ability to shatter shallow space.

Beneath the Void Domain is the Dimension World, shattering the Void Domain isn’t that simple, thus connecting to Dimension World can only be achieved through special methods.

Beneath the Dimension World is the Deep Dimension World, followed by the Eternal Abyss.

Interstellar space is an abstract concept; its actual existence structure certainly wouldn’t be like a burger.

But now, Li Ming was watching the red core penetrated shallow space, Void Domain, Dimension World, even to Deep Dimension, directly reaching a void.

The distortion and fracture of space formed dark cracks likened to entrances to an endless abyss, emanating a spine-chilling aura.