Master of Science and Technology - Chapter 55

Translator: Fan | Editor: Darling

Sun Li did not address Zhou Ming as Senior, but Antecessor.

It was clear that he was trying to cut off any ties Zhou Ming had with Wu Zhu Sect. And though his speech sounded like he was trying to persuade the Jin Guang Sect, it really let to show his helplessness.

You see, this is a madman who will kill at the hint of confrontation.

I can’t do anything about it. So, everyone is a victim. If you want to blame someone, blame this madman who won’t listen to logic. Please don’t blame Wu Zhu Sect.

Zhou Ming could care less about the hidden meanings in Sun Li’s speech. After all, a few Refining State cultivators were not enough to do much. 

Looking at the Jin Guang Sect, he said: “If anyone questions my sincerity, please. Do me the honor of stepping out.”

Xiang Hong laid on the ground, his blood not yet cooled. Who would dare speak out at this time? The students of the Jin Guang Sect uniformly took two steps back. Looking at each other, one stood forth, his face full of shame, saying: “What orders does Antecessor Zhou have for us?”

“Hm, wouldn’t it be better if you had done this at the beginning?” Zhou Ming coldly chuckled, raising his hand to retrieve his sword, droning on: “Now, take out everything you’ve stolen from me.” If he was going to treat himself as the Master of the Closed Realm, then everything Jin Guang Sect had acquired, all the spiritual grasses and treasures, would obviously be his possessions.

The students of Jin Guang Sect were a little muffled by this statement. One of them even asked: What does Antecessor Zhou mean? When did we ever steal anything of yours?”

“Antecessor Zhou means the spiritual grasses you’ve dug.” Sun Li hurriedly reminded them. He did not wish to see Zhou Ming kill another person. The more Jin Guang Sect students Zhou Ming killed, the harder it would be for Wu Zhu Sect to give Jin Guang Sect an explanation.

Having been reminded by Sun Li, the Jin Guang Sect students finally understood what Zhou Ming meant. But from the gazes Sun Li received, they did not accept his kindness. In their eyes, Sun Li and the rest of the Wh Zhu Sect students were a bunch of dirtbags destined for demolition.

Sun Li noticed this, but could only give a helpless smirk.

The Jin Guang Sect gave up everything they had recovered. They didn’t have treasures like the Hundred Treasure Space, so all they had received were clear to the eyes. However, due to Ye Zan’s intervention, their receivings were pitifully small.

Zhou Ming took a look at the collection and suspiciously asked: “Only these?”

“Only these! On our way here, there were many destinations that were marked but excavated. We don’t know who it was, but this was all that was left.” The students of the Jin Guang Sect expressionlessly answered him. Originally, they had wondered who would have done such things, but now, seeing Zhou Ming, they had formed their own answer.

Zhou Ming had been trapped in here for a long time. His brain had dulled. He had heard Jin Guang Sect’s explanation but didn’t further press for who had first gotten these treasures. In his eyes, even if the Five Sects united in power, as long as the treasures didn’t make it out of the Realm, he would be able to get them back.

So, like this, Zhou Ming had unconsciously taken a blow for Ye Zan.

Zhou Ming took out the Hundred Treasure Pouch, executing a spell, and putting the Jin Guang Sect’s things into it. With a swoop of his arm, he brought the students of the Two Sects with him as they moved straight for the region of the Qing Yue Sword Sect.

At this time, within the Secret Realm, the battle between Ye Zan and the Mechanical Puppets seemed to be coming to a close. The wooden puppets had almost all been demolished, their broken parts lining the ground. There were only the four Bronze Terracotta Soldiers left, with Ye Zan taking two on his own, and the other two being dealt with by the numerous Mechanical Spiders.

However, at this time, the Bronze Terracotta Soldier that had been surrounded by Mechanical Spiders suddenly lit up its sword in a flash of light; its glow as bright as a flashlight in the night.

Immediately after, the Bronze Terracotta Soldiers swiped their flashing swords at the Mechanical Spiders. The flashes burst forth, forming lines in the shapes of crescent moons, and carving deep scars on the surface of the earth. Where the flashes had passed, the Mechanical Spiders had been cut like tofu. Split into halves, the cuts sparked, smooth and effortless.

“They can use Sword Flashes?” Ye Zan was startled.

Sword Flashes or one could call them Blade Essence. If one were using a sword, you could call them Sword Essence. Like the pressurized weapons of the technological world, they were used as high-energy attacks, the result of large amounts of energy pressurized into a single blow. However, in technological, these pressurizations were the results of technical methods and devices. In this world, they depended on the user’s knowledge of blade and sword techniques.

You could see the power of those Sword Flashes from the damage done to the Mechanical Spiders. Although the spiders were not made from some impenetrable metal, they were still considerably durable. At least, they could take full-on blows from Refining State cultivators without any damage, not to say be sliced open like tofu. 

They all said that the difference between Refining State and Foundation State cultivators were as vast as that between heaven and earth. But, if a Refining State cultivator could utilize Sword Flashes, then they might be able to put up a considerable fight against Foundation State cultivators. There were some Secular Warriors that could stand on equal grounds with Foundation State Warriors with this technique.

However, Ye Zan was not startled by the force of the Sword Flashes, but by the fact that these Bronze Terracotta Soldiers could produce these Sword FLashes. This meant that the intelligence of these Puppets, at least in martial areas, were not as low as Ye Zan had estimated.

Actually, to work to this step, they didn’t even need to view the sword techniques. The most important point was “Will”. Sure, maybe the Bronze Terracotta Soldiers looked clumsy in their moves, perhaps not even amounting to those of a Refining State cultivators’.

But they had incorporated “Blade’s Will”. Sure, you could say that you could control the Puppet’s sword technique from technical programming. But, to incorporate “Will”, they would need to have individual consciousness and knowledge of martial techniques. That blow from the Bronze Terracotta Soldier seemed to give its comrades a reminder. The two Soldiers sparring with Ye Zan drew their swords with a flash, directing a Sword Flash in the shape of a cross, and sending it directly towards him.

A shield appeared before Ye Zan’s armor. The two blows were blocked, smashing onto the armor. With a loud crash, the shield let out a blinding flash. Debris flew everywhere. Even Ye Zan was pushed out some ten/twenty meters. Before him, there appeared a deep scar in the earth in the shape of a crescent moon.

Immediately after, two figures burst forth from the fog, raising their heavy swords and slicing towards Ye Zan’s head. Seeing the light from the blades, Ye Zan didn’t dare take the blow head-on. He shot out the projection devices beneath his armor and backed a step.

At the same time, explosives burst forth from the shoulder panels of the armor. The missiles, like a colony of wasps, aimed straight for the two Bronze Terracotta Soldiers. The coming explosion filled the air with a sounding whistle. Even the ground was moved to a tremble. Clouds of sparks soon swallowed the two Bronze Terracotta Soldiers. 

Now, according to the movies, Ye Zan should have lowered his guards to his opponent; who seemed to have been killed by the explosion, allowing them to courageously burst forth from the damage and kill him unexpectedly. 

However, Ye Zan, although he had stopped his retreat, did not throw down his guard. Through the high-definition observation lens on the armor, he could see the state of the two Bronze Terracotta Soldiers post-explosion.

Although they were still trembling from the shock of the explosion, it seemed that the symbols on their bodies had blocked the force of the explosion. As expected, the two Bronze Terracotta Soldiers soon burst forth from the sparks of the explosion.