I Contracted All Ancient Divine Artifacts

Chapter 318: Chapter 217: Precepts: Shadows of the Past, Glory Reborn!

Buried Sword City, central area.

What was once the place where the Abnormal Skeleton Spirit Sword stood has completely transformed into an open expanse.

As Elder Bing arrived here.

The Mechanical Sect’s Strategic Cruise Ship in the sky had just completed its virtual-real conversion, becoming a tangible presence.

Above the hull, the silver-white round cannon finished charging, and pale blue quantum energy light burst forth, pouring down from the muzzle.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The cannon fire struck the defense shield of Buried Sword City, causing the entire shield to flicker, ripples spreading.

Elder Bing held the Ruler tightly in his hand, yet he did not immediately attack the Strategic Cruise Ship.

”The defense shield of Buried Sword City can withstand several waves of cannon fire from the Strategic Cruise Ship.”

”Each Strategic Cruise Ship requires immense energy to complete the virtual-real conversion. The Mechanical Sect acts fearlessly, confident that others have no way to attack the virtual state particles.”

Elder Bing hesitated for a moment but ultimately gave up on the idea of applying precepts on the virtual state.

The difficulty was too high, and it was not only hard to accomplish but could also lead to unforeseen complications.

After much consideration, Elder Bing finally decided to wield the Ruler three inches in front of his chest.

He took a deep breath.

Then slowly spoke: ”Precept: No-Flying Zone!”

As soon as he said it, the entire Ruler emanated a blinding white light, instantly covering the entire central area.

Including the sky above.

In an instant, the kinetic system of that Strategic Cruise Ship, seemingly affected by an irresistible force, abruptly ceased operation.

The four massive hover gravity turbines on all sides jammed one after another.

The quantum energy reactor straightforwardly shut down, completely stopping its functions.

No-Flying, the derivative meaning is, all capabilities or energies that support taking to the sky.

This no-flying zone costs less compared to being indestructible or immune to artillery, offering a higher cost-performance ratio!

Indeed, under the influence of the precept, this Strategic Cruise Ship completely lost power, plummeting straight into the defense shield of Buried Sword City.

After the defense shield completed its collision interception, it became fireworks in the sky.

Within the area enveloped by the precept, there were two more Strategic Cruise Ships that hadn’t fully transitioned from virtual to real.

Their kinetic devices hadn’t fully solidified, and as the white light swept past, large swaths of electronic components began falling from the sky.

Compared to other battle sites, the style of combat here for Elder Bing appeared quite simple and unadorned.

The Mechanical Sect was dead set on using Virtual-Real Technology to directly seize Buried Sword City.

The precepts were extraordinarily effective against this Intelligent Mechanic Army.

However, the range that precepts could cover was limited, and each use of the precepts was a massive burden on him personally.

The Strategic Cruise Ships are massive, and just against one of them, applying a precept consumes a big portion of the spiritual power within him.

The Mechanical Sect could afford the cost, but Elder Bing could not!

During the time Elder Bing was enacting the precepts, the Mechanical Sect hadn’t ceased the quantum energy barrage on the defense shield of Buried Sword City.

Finally, with a crisp sound, the defense shield of Buried Sword City was shattered.

The next second, without any pause.

The overflowing quantum energy fell towards Elder Bing.

In the Intelligent Mechanism’s calculation formula, Elder Bing was the core threat of this region.

Faced with this sudden situation, Elder Bing had already anticipated a response in his heart.

”Precept: Quantum Energy Dissipation here!”

As soon as the words left his mouth, the quantum energy attacking Elder Bing scattered into blue dark energy particles.

But just as it dissipated, the silver bullet encapsulated within unexpectedly appeared.

In the location of his heart, a flower stained red with fresh blood bloomed.

”Exercising precepts requires spiritual power support.”

”Because of spiritual power consumption, there’s a ninety-five percent chance to choose a precept plan that is low in spiritual power consumption and high in cost-performance.”

”Such as imposing precepts on quantum energy to diminish its attack effectiveness.”

”Conclusion: By integrating two modes of attack, the success probability of assault and annihilation is higher!”

In a very short time, the Mechanical Sect, through calculating and massive deductions, analyzed Elder Bing’s possible reactions to quantum energy and crafted a corresponding follow-up move.

It succeeded.

With his heart pierced, Elder Bing’s body swayed, and he clutched his chest, barely managing to keep himself standing.

Fortunately, before heading to the battlefield, Chen Zui let Elder Bing drink a fair amount of buff-stacking wine, which included the Heart Shifting Wine.

The Heart Shifting Wine has just one relatively useless ability, which is to swap the left and right positions of the heart.

Such a seemingly useless ability turned out to be the key factor in disrupting the results against the Mechanical Sect’s reliance on rigid calculations.

However, Elder Bing’s condition was still far from optimistic.

My spiritual power is mainly used to enact the no-flying precept, to eliminate those threats in the sky.

But now, with Buried Sword City’s defense shield breached, the Mechanical Sect has more means to threaten my being.

On one hand, I need to maneuver within the Mechanical Sect’s torrential assault to preserve my life; on the other hand, I must enact the no-flying precept to continue destroying those strategic cruise ships arriving on the battlefield.

While Elder Bing was deep in thought, the spiritual power within him wildly drained away, like floodwaters pouring out of a sluice gate.

In addition, the Mechanical Sect’s remarkable computational capability still left him with quite a few scars.

”Give up, you are not my match.”

From the mechanical debris falling from the sky, the broken electronic eyes’ red failure lights flickered, and from the connected speaker, a voice of the Mechanical Sect’s Celestial Net echoed.

”I still have a hundred Strategic Cruise Ships that can provide support. According to your spiritual power consumption calculations, to take down one Strategic Cruise Ship, you need at least twelve percent of your spiritual power.”

”Even if you exhaust all your spiritual power, you cannot take down even ten Strategic Cruise Ships.”

”Conclusion: Your persistence is meaningless.”

Hearing the last statement, Elder Bing, who had his eyelids drooping, suddenly reopened his eyes with clarity.

Meaningless?

Then let’s make it more meaningful!

Elder Bing clutched the Ruler tight in his hand.

”Precept!”

”Let all former shadows here, resplendently reappear!”

The powerful declaration resonated, and this time, the light the Ruler emitted was entirely different, more dazzling, blinding like a glorious sun.

Within a single breath, all spiritual power inside Elder Bing was sucked dry.

His body began visibly withering, lifeless as if it were utterly drained, appearing emaciated.

He neither spoke nor moved, allowing the Ruler to absorb all of him, paying the price for it.

At the center of Buried Sword City, the long-disappeared Abnormal Skeleton Spirit Sword, as the longest-residing ”former shadow” here, under the guidance of precepts, resplendently reappeared!

This move was also Elder Bing’s strongest one, choosing the central area as the battlefield, leaving the enemy a final mutual destruction!

The Abnormal Skeleton Spirit Sword sensed the threat from above.

Sword Qi surged back, traversing against the flow to strike the heavens!