Martial Ascent to Divinity-Chapter 726 - 705: Interwoven

Scene after scene, flashing before Zhou Leng.

After setting the traps, the battle on the Myriad Core Battlefield officially commenced.

Humans, Demon Spirit Masters, Steel Dwarves, and Tree-men formed the Humanoid Alliance.

Demons, Sea Sirens, Beastmen, and giant insects formed the Demon Alliance.

Relying on their absolute numerical advantage, the Demon Alliance charged at the Humanoid Alliance’s positions.

A massive wave of Demons in the Qi Blood Realm and Innate Realm approached like a tsunami.

Boom, boom, boom, boom...

Humans of the technological era are not weak.

A dense barrage of rockets rained down, distant missiles striking first, even deploying nuclear weapons.

High above, the Demigods of the demons intervened, blocking all nuclear weapons from afar.

As the demons got closer, the cannons roared.

Shells exploded among the demons like raindrops.

Groups of demons in the Qi Blood Realm and Innate Realm fell to the ground, flesh and blood flying.

When they approached, on the battlefield, heavy machine guns roared, and a continuous stream of bullets shredded all enemies.

Remote attacking demons had no chance, sniped one by one in advance.

Closer still, the sound of rifles rang out.

Occasionally, when a Grandmaster approached, individual rocket launchers flew out, in coordination with large-caliber sniper rifles, forcing the Grandmasters to retreat.

Within the positions, Demon Spirit Masters assisted attacks, dealing with any that slipped through.

If any demons approached by luck, dense underground roots were enough to trap them.

Under the absolute advantage of hot weapons, demons below Grandmaster level, no matter how many came, all perished.

But unlike the past, this time, there were far more demons, far beyond the imagination of the Humanoid Alliance.

As ammunition dwindled, the Humanoid Alliance began to retreat.

Until the humans ran out of ammunition, demons continued to pour in.

"Fix bayonets!"

The various factions of the Humanoid Alliance huddled together, orderly retreating.

While retreating, they fought fiercely with the demons.

Massive numbers of demons continued to deplete the strength of the Humanoid Alliance.

Without hot weapons, one fearless warrior after another remained forever on the battlefield.

Finally, the Humanoid Alliance army withdrew to the predetermined location, with only one in ten surviving.

The entire Demon Alliance army advanced, the demigods pressed forward.

Over a thousand demigod demons presented a formidable force, but soon, an even more despairing scene appeared before everyone.

Behind the demon camp, one demigod after another rose.

Finally, over ten thousand demigods hung in the sky, overlooking the battlefield.

The morale of the Humanoid Alliance instantly collapsed.

The twenty-three elders looked at the myriad gods suspended in the sky, and all smiled.

The timing, was right.

The goal of this battle was never the billions of ordinary demons, but the myriad gods.

Without warning, countless nuclear weapons simultaneously detonated.

Ten thousand small suns shone, under the power of the demon spirit formation, their powers fused, overlapped, enhanced.

An unimaginably large sun rose from the ground.

A hemispherical divine light instantly expanded dozens of kilometers, swallowing everything.

A terrifying white shockwave pushed outward, raged and surged.

The light subsided, an ultra-large mushroom cloud rose into the sky.

The earth cracked, divine light soared into the sky.

The clouds dispersed, the blue sky seemed to tear.

Brilliant light illuminated the world, all beings dissolved.

Though merely a spectator, Zhou Leng could feel death descending.

The whole person seemed immersed in an enormous shock wave, with strong wind blowing, dust and sand swirling.

Within the gigantic mushroom cloud, all was reduced to ashes.

Under the mushroom cloud, the light persisted.

A grand, unimaginable ancient river hovered within, more magnificent than the Milky Way.

The translucent images of twenty-three giants, etched in the ancient river, as enduring as heaven and earth.

Like holding up the great sun.

Yu Zhimin slowly said, "I see someone in the future watching us."

The twenty-three elders turned, smiling, looking at Zhou Leng.

"Do not fear, walk boldly, towards a future with humans."

With that, the scene dissolved, silence returned to the world.

Zhou Leng opened his eyes, returning to the Myriad Core Battlefield.

The emotions accumulated on the long path of enlightenment and at the Battle of Shangangling merged with the Myriad Core’s spectacle, flowing through his eyes.

"A future with humans..."

Zhou Leng murmured softly.

After a long time, a metallic clink rang out.

Turning his head, he saw the Star Refining Furnace expand from its original football size to the size of a dining table.

Its surface shone brightly, Divine Text swirling.

The Divine Text on it, Zhou Leng had memorized through daily study, was second nature.

This meant, with just a bit more effort, the Star Refining Furnace could be opened.

But...

That bit more effort might take several months.

Zhou Leng turned to look at the colorful light pool on the ground.

This object was likely some kind of peculiar star power condensation.

A core of a celestial body.

The power of this core was enough to activate the Star Refining Furnace.

A lightning bolt flashed through Zhou Leng’s mind, his eyes widened as he looked incredulously at the brightly colored lake.

More than forty years ago, humans set off a nuclear explosion here, triggering the colorful lake.

More than forty years later...

In his mind, the voice of Master Wu echoed.

"Your achievements in the future will far surpass others, but..."

"It won’t be long before you fall far behind those two."

"Their lack of understanding in Divine Texts is a weakness, but their abilities and talents can quickly make up for it."

"You might not accept it, but some people can reach heights in certain fields that others can never attain."

"You must remember, remember with your life, the future of your civilization rests on the shoulders of those two."

"The life and death of those two people determine whether your civilization can step out into the stars."

"Perhaps, many years later, you will realize that the greatest or even the only meaning of your life is to understand Divine Texts, and from here, build the Ascension Divinity Ladder for those two."

The baton of humanity was passed into Zhou Leng’s hands by the twenty-three elders and the heroes of the nuclear battlefield, spanning more than forty years.

Zhou Leng, relying on the Star Refining Furnace and Divine Texts, held the baton of humanity firmly in hand.

Next, as long as he cultivates the Divine Essence Pill to dispel the divine power from Zhang Xinglie and then refines the pill for flesh rebirth, Zhang Xinglie can be restored to his original state, or even further.

The centuries-old heritage of the Ancient River Sect, the millennia-old civilization of the Dragon Country, and that future of humanity intertwined here.

Gathering upon Zhou Leng.

Zhou Leng looked at the colorful lake, smiling.

"Together, we will step into that future where humans exist."

Zhou Leng picked up the enlarged Star Refining Furnace and plunged it into the colorful lake.

Boom!

The terrifying destructive Star Power exploded, and Zhou Leng retreated while watching closely.

The Star Refining Furnace, like a drought-stricken land, madly devoured the power of the colorful lake.

Power enough to destroy a Void God poured into the Star Refining Furnace.

The Star Refining Furnace continued to elevate and expand.

When the last of the lake water was absorbed, the Star Refining Furnace was already a hundred meters high.

Like a small stove-shaped mountain, standing before him.

The black furnace shone with seven-color divinity, surrounded by drifting white auspicious clouds.

On the furnace body were carved thirty-six unique cosmic divine beasts.

A golden Divine Text appeared, slowly rotating around the Star Refining Furnace.

Zhou Leng had long read the "extracurricular book" of Crystal Sky Dust, a set of High-Level Civilization’s "Star Pill Encyclopedia."

After reading it a dozen times, he understood the Divine Text on the pill furnace.

Ordinary Grandmasters or even Martial Saints could not drive the pill furnace.

But Zhou Leng possessed true power of the stars, enabling him to drive it.

Looking at the huge Star Refining Furnace, Zhou Leng was filled with emotions.

The Star Refining Furnace was the reward Zhang Xinglie received from the Ancient River Sect trial in Hundred Peaks Valley; he couldn’t use it or understand the Divine Text, so he directly gave it to Zhou Leng.

On the Great Battlefield, both he and Zhang Xinglie were severely injured, and he lost all True Qi, forcing him to practice the true power of the stars.

Today, however, with the true power of the stars, he could drive the Star Refining Furnace given by Zhang Xinglie to refine the Little Star Pill for Zhang Xinglie.

Zhou Leng, who had initially been skeptical of Master Wu’s words, now fully believed them.

How could the world have such coincidental things?

"Zhang Xinglie is probably the legendary child of fortune, the child of the world."

Zhou Leng felt envious, but not jealous.

Helping a brother is only right.

"Then let’s simply refine the pills here, deliver them directly to you after leaving! Then, we’ll head into a future where humans exist together."

Overwhelmed with joy, Zhou Leng patted the alchemy furnace with his right hand, chanting the Divine Text.

A melodious yet strange sound arose, causing the alchemy furnace to gradually shrink until it was half-human height.

He took a large number of herbs from the star space bag, classifying and organizing them properly.

The true Star Pill is extremely time-consuming to refine.

But the Divine Essence Pill belongs to the Little Star Pill, which can be refined quickly.

"However... there are only five portions of Little Star Pill herbs, and with my skill level, the success rate is not high, so as the Sect Leader Sister suggested, let’s first refine the simplest Little Star Pill to gain experience... um... no, first refine Martial Arts pills to familiarize with the Star Refining Furnace."

The light from the Demon Brain projected like an eye in front of Zhou Leng, and subsequently, it listed a large number of pill recipes.

"Materials for Martial Saint pills are too scarce..."

"Innate Pills are too easy, and even if refined, it doesn’t have much significance..."

Finally, Zhou Leng looked towards the "Dragon and Tiger Pill."

The Dragon and Tiger Pill is a standard Grandmaster-level pill, extremely versatile. For others, the materials are precious, but he recently killed so many demons that the materials in their magic spirit bags are super abundant.

So, Zhou Leng first found the materials for ten Dragon and Tiger Pills and began refining according to the methods of the Star Refining Furnace.

He chanted the Art of the Magical Tool, and the furnace lid slowly rose, hovering at the mouth of the furnace.

A strange fragrance wafted out.

The fragrance was very faint, but its strange essence immediately penetrated the void, gathering all the scent together.

With a grab, the scent condensed into a small thumb-sized white mist.

The white mist slowly condensed, forming a pill.

Delighted, Zhou Leng carefully wrapped it and placed it into the star space bag.

When ascending to sainthood or divinity, he could rely on this mysterious pill.

He threw the materials for the Dragon and Tiger Pill inside, pointed his finger, and the furnace lid descended.

With a click, it sealed.

Then, Zhou Leng chanted different Divine Texts sequentially, formally beginning the alchemy.

First, he chanted the Herb Cleaning Art, the inside of the Star Refining Furnace softly roared, star light flashed, and in the blink of an eye, it stopped moving, thoroughly cleaning the herbs and eliminating impurities.

Then, chanting the Herb Fragmentation Art, the Star Refining Furnace roared again, divine light flashed, and in the blink of an eye, all the herbs had turned into fine powder.

Then, successively conducted impurity removal, refining, nurturing, nine refinements, spirit infusion, star illumination...

Until the final step, star gathering.

A few of the steps required special power he couldn’t perform, so he simply skipped them. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

When the Star Refining Furnace stopped, Zhou Leng reached out and touched the Star Refining Furnace.