Chapter 1383 - 659: Sword Sect Ruins (Part 3)

Chapter 1383: Chapter 659: Sword Sect Ruins (Part 3)

And what they were wearing was as luxurious as the Immortal Palace, with embroidered robes, yet oddly out of place, as if designed specifically for COSPLAY, a grand attire for scenic photo memorabilia. However, most of their bodies and limbs were unashamedly revealed, clearly visible, and assembled from mechanized parts!

The most striking was the person steering the ship, who had rolled up the left sleeve to the elbow, revealing beneath the wide robe a shoulder-to-arm mechanical arm, exquisitely crafted, adorned densely with runes, and intricate mechanisms. The metal bones were also interlaced with Spirit Silk Line Diagram, akin to a meridian array diagram.

The mechanical man steering the ship inserted his left arm into the slot on the vessel, letting the arm bones transform, connecting with countless gears and levers. Amidst the crisp sounds of ’ka-ka, cha-cha,’ it seamlessly integrated with the ship’s body, conveying information through the flashing light of those talisman lines, controlling the Flying Boat to glide like a spirit fish, navigating freely through the Stone Forest.

However, while resembling company machinery, the principles behind the mechanical beings were vastly different. Tie Dan noticed that most of these mechanical beings had some exceptionally special, intricate core components in their chest, heart, and wrist positions. The whole body’s meridians converged on this central mechanism, and one could clearly perceive pulses of energy, like a heartbeat, transmitting energy throughout the mechanical being’s body, even resonating with the operated mechanical ship, evidently their energy source.

Upon moving closer, Tie Dan noticed hexagonal grooves, their inner walls with screw-like threads, housing cricket cage-like constructs, but naturally, not containing crickets, rather some kind of shimmering Spirit Stone crystals, emanating a warm blue-white glow and emitting familiar energy ripples...

Dao Breath! No! It’s Heavenly Breath!

As soon as Tie Dan saw this, he immediately understood.

Yes, indeed, it’s ’Heavenly Breath’! Taiji divides, heaven and earth forms, the Pure Qi ascends, transforming into Heavenly Breath! The Nine Luminaries Unification of Taiji Heaven, the purest True Qi! Innate Breath of Taiji!

Surprisingly, these mechanical beings are not powered by batteries! Not even by nuclear energy or radiation, not by Netherworld Spring either! They are powered by Qi Power!

And not just any ’Qi Body’ but ’crystal’!

This Otherworld civilization, through some special craft or technology, transformed ’Qi’ into a denser and more stable energy crystal, to power these mechanical beings!

Intriguing, clearly constructed on a science and engineering model, yet fundamentally rooted in cultivation principles. Instead of calling them robots, they’re more like magic treasures...

And with the energy source derived from the crystallization of Taiji Heaven’s ’Heavenly Breath,’ these mechanical beings can naturally perform Daoist Skill directly in Taiji Heaven. With a wave of their hands, they employ Qi Manipulation, manifesting Divine Body Dharma Form, shifting mountains and moving rocks, clearing the collapsed peaks and debris. The exerted Qi Movement inadvertently reached the Divinity Transformation Realm!

Alas, in these times, Nascent Souls are as common as dogs, and Divinity Transformations roam everywhere...

Yet with these divine mechanical beings working, they swiftly excavate the collapsed ruins of the Taoist Palace from beneath the rubble, finding fragments of rock wall carved with Sword Scripture.

Indeed, it’s the Nine Luminaries Divine Sword Sword Scripture.

Once inscribed by Tie Dan on the wall of Nine Yin Mountain, it endured five centuries of wind and frost, buried with the landslides and quakes, until today, excavated like archaeological souvenirs by these mechanical beings touring for sightseeing...

For a moment, Tie Dan lost interest in further studying those mechanical beings, scarcely caring about the Sword Scripture fragments, simply gazing forlornly at the ruins of the collapsed Taoist Palace, at the countless remnants buried under the ruins, at the shattered relics of Xuan Nu. He caressed the plaque embossed with Nine Heavens Sword Pavilion scattered on the ground, immersed in boundless recollection and lamenting... Hm?

Tie Dan wiped away some dust, took a closer look at the four big characters ’Nine Heavens Sword Pavilion,’ paused momentarily, and suddenly lifted a smooth, cool wordless stone tablet from beneath the corpses. Illuminated by Divine Light, the tablet revealed nine large characters: ’Nine Yin Mountain Nine Heavens Carefree Sword Sect’...

What the heck, which Sword Sect is this???