Chapter 566: Formless Appears on Earth!

[Jin Ding Zhenren was speaking when he realized you had disappeared.]

[The college girl who had been discussing academic topics with you covered her mouth in surprise.]

“Where did he go?”

[Jin Ding Zhenren waved his horsetail whisk.]

“Uh... A person vanishing into thin air! This is the show he prepared for you. Wasn’t it amazing?”

[By now, you were already soaring into the clouds, racing toward the United States.]

[All around you circled the Five Regions Sacred Pill, Ten Thousand Souls Banner, Demon Refining Pot, Immortal-Binding Rope, Heavenly Dragon Blade... and a whole heap of other sentient treasures.]

[Some had come with you from the human world, while others were the surviving spoils Venom had seized from various places that year.]

“We’ll reach the battlefield in about three minutes! Everyone, sound off! Any ideas on how to deal with Formless, this huge headache?”

[The treasures began tossing out ideas, all talking over one another.]

“Formless is incredibly troublesome. It exists somewhere between life and nonlife. It’s the weirdest thing in the entire universe!”

“Even if it’s a pain to deal with, we still have to take care of it! Otherwise, next time Chen Yi needs to power a Star Ship, he’ll definitely have no choice but to use those who can’t come up with any ideas!”

“Exactly! Get those brains working!”

“I’ve got an idea! If we can’t attack it, then seal it away!”

“No way! If you seal Formless, it’ll learn your sealing method. It might even turn around and seal you instead!”

“Holy crap! That’s so unfair! Fine, then I won’t attack it or seal it. I love it! I love it~ It loves me~ Formless and I are so sweet together~”

[Three minutes passed in the blink of an eye.]

[The United States’ West Coast was already in sight, but you and the group of treasures still hadn’t come up with even a theoretical way to handle Formless.]

[Just then, one of the big fellows spoke up timidly.]

“After hearing all your ideas, I think I might have one...”

[You turned to look. The speaker was a bridge.]

[You remembered that Venom had snatched this bridge from the royal family’s treasury in the Ares Immortal Kingdom. It was called the Immortal-Crossing Bridge.]

[It might look plain and ordinary, and it was quite cumbersome, but this thing was a primal spiritual treasure, and a top-grade one at that!]

[There were two types of items in the Real Realm: magical artifacts and Spiritual Treasures.]

[Magical artifacts were a dime a dozen. They were for ordinary people and players who spent only a little.]

[Spiritual Treasures were the favorites of players who spent moderately or heavily.]

[Spiritual Treasures were divided into two types: acquired Spiritual Treasures and primal spiritual treasures.]

[Acquired Spiritual Treasures had four grades: Common, Rare, Epic, and Legendary.]

[Primal spiritual treasures also had four grades: Low-grade, Mid-grade, High-grade, and Top-grade.]

[Generally speaking, primal spiritual treasures were stronger than acquired Spiritual Treasures. Acquired Spiritual Treasures were man-made, while most primal spiritual treasures had evolved from the power of the universe and were more naturally formed.]

[However, most of the primal spiritual treasures you had encountered so far were made from naturally occurring precious materials. They had been given a simple man-made shape without damaging their original structure.]

[After all, getting the universe to naturally evolve a bridge was honestly pretty difficult.]

[The Immortal-Crossing Bridge was a Top-grade primal spiritual treasure!]

[What made it top-grade?]

[Was it indestructible? No.]

[Was it impervious to all attacks? Also no.]

[It had only one ability: infinite extension.]

[Its idea for dealing with Formless was related to this very ability.]

“I see that this planet has a moon. If I keep extending myself all the way there, Boss, you could lure Formless along me to the moon. Then we could come back and leave Formless stranded there. It shouldn’t be able to threaten the living things on this planet anymore, right?”

[The contrarian Ten Thousand Souls Banner immediately objected.]

“No way! Formless can already fly after those Yanks beat it up. It doesn’t care about the vacuum, either. Send it to the moon, and it’ll just fly right back!”

[You refuted Ten Thousand Souls Banner’s rebuttal.]

“You’re wrong. The Immortal-Crossing Bridge’s plan can work!

“Although Formless can fly now, it’s only imitating how fighter jets fly within the atmosphere. It can’t fly through space. So, if we want to lure it to the moon, we need a road connecting to the moon!

“Once we send it to the moon, it won’t come up with the idea of attacking Earth, either.

“This thing doesn’t have thoughts at all. As long as nobody provokes it, it won’t actively react to anything.”

[In other words, if you sent Formless to the uninhabited, barren moon, it would stay there indefinitely!]

[It wasn’t the best plan, but it was the best solution you could manage for now.]

[Of course, you could send it to Mars, or even farther away, but your divine power couldn’t sustain you over such a vast distance in space.]

[As you finalized the plan, you also arrived at the battlefield.]

“Rat-a-tat-tat-tat!!!”

“Boom! Boom! Rumble!!!”

“Fire! Fire! Fire! Go, go, go!”

“Incoming!!!”

[The sounds of the United States military exchanging fire with Formless rang in your ears.]

[You shot into the battle like a meteor and stood between Formless and the United States military.]

“Stop!!!”

[You gestured for the United States forces to stop attacking.]

[The way Formless looked now, after those idiots had beaten on it, it was practically a Transformer. Most of its body had evolved into mechanical structures, with all kinds of weapons covering it from head to toe.]

[And it was evolving from a chaotic form toward an orderly one. It was gradually developing rough features like a head and limbs.]

[This might have something to do with the fact that its attackers were “human.” It was imitating not only the attacks it suffered, but also the source of those attacks.]

[The soldiers were stunned to see you flying.]

“Oh! God! It’s Superman? Chinese Superman?”

“Yes, Chinese Superman, AKA, CS!”

“CS, go! Kick its ass!”

[Thankfully, you’d passed the College English Test Band Four back in college, so you could more or less understand what the soldiers were saying.]

[To make sure they understood what you were going to do, you exhausted your entire English vocabulary telling them:]

“Stop attacking. The more you attack this monster, the stronger it gets. Leave it to me. I’ll take it away from Earth!”

[After a brief discussion, the officer in charge on the scene agreed to your plan.]

[The United States military began to withdraw.]

[But Formless was chasing after them.]

[You had no choice but to bring out the Immortal-Binding Rope and other restraining methods to stop Formless from pursuing them and draw its attacks toward yourself.]

[Formless really did imitate and counter everything. The moment the Immortal-Binding Rope stopped it, a mass of writhing, grasping ropes sprang out of its body.]

“Hey, Formless! Come with me!”

[You did your best to use Spiritual Treasures to lure the enemy from a distance, keeping your own power from directly touching Formless in case it learned to copy it.]

[One end of the Immortal-Crossing Bridge rested on the ruins of a city in the United States. The other end extended furiously, broke through the atmosphere, and entered space, stretching all the way toward the moon.]

[You ran along the Immortal-Crossing Bridge, with Formless chasing after you.]

[You ran faster and faster, progressing from spells to Divine Art.]

[Formless chased after you faster and faster, too!]