342 Brave Takeover (1/2)

”What the hell is this thing?”

Wang Lu looked at the black sphere under his feet in consternation. However, before he could think of anything, with a 'whizz', the sphere flew up with a ferocious momentum, and the sudden large gravitational field change nearly pulled Wang Lu into the air.

In a flash, the black sphere had already suspended in mid-air, pausing for a moment. Then, it began to tremble violently, as if something inside fervently wanted to be released after being imprisoned for years. The black sphere rotated crazily in the air, but after a while, it just rushed madly to a certain direction, and sometimes, it returned with the same high speed, like a helplessly trapped beast.

At the same time, the gravitational pull from the black sphere became unstable, sometimes strong and sometimes weak. Gradually, Wang Lu found out that the black sphere was aiming the gravity in a certain direction, seemingly pulling something over. However after it tossed about for a long time, in addition to causing landslides on both sides of the canyon, it did not seem to have achieved the desired result.

”What's this guy doing?” Wang Lu asked Autumn Beam, ”Can you understand it?”

Autumn Beam has been concentrating her attention on the black sphere. After a long time, she sighed with emotion. ”What a fierce spiritual object. Although its spirit has been scattered, the traces of the existence of the spirit has been deeply engraved on its body. It still retained its spirit lifetime's obsession.”

Wang Lu tried to understand. ”In other words, what we are now seeing is something akin to the sudden movement of the corpse?”

”... If you want to say it like that, then yes.” Autumn Beam attempted to explain further to Wang Lu, ”This black sphere should be an energy core of astonishing level, which can provide inexhaustible supply of energy for puppets, cloud wave boat, and other things. Its grade is very high, and in accordance with the standard of Nine Regions, it almost reaches the level of immortal treasure. In addition to being an energy provider, it can also become the central core of a huge implement, responsible for assisting or substituting the users, which better display the function of the implement. For example, the modified version of the cloud wave boat of Ten Thousand Arts Sect, normally, it needed over a hundred Xudan Stage cultivators to control it, but because it has a spiritual treasure-level central core, quite possibly it only needs one or two people to drive it.”

”I see.” After hearing the explanation, Wang Lu finally could understand. ”So this thing should be the central core of something that has been seriously damaged a long time ago. The initially complete thing became torn apart, its fragments scattered in various places and it is unfortunately buried in a valley. Being seriously injured, its spirit eventually died, but before dying, it thought of using the great gravity to restore its broken body. Unfortunately, as the core black sphere was buried in the ground, the strong gravity instead made the soil and the rock into its prison, until after many years I finally dug it out.”

With that, Wang Lu watched that thing move in the air, as if it was a demented black sphere. He couldn't help but smile. ”Then let's see if it's thousands of years of wait is worth it.”

While speaking, that black sphere finally seemed to catch on something. Its body startled, then it began to violently swing back and forth. The black sphere stirred the air, sending a terrifying burst of muffled sound in the valley. Then, from afar, there was a landslide, a moment later, a glittering giant bell-like part covered in soil was pulled by the gravitational force of the black sphere. It flew up and moved towards the black sphere and covered it.

Although the black sphere has been covered by that thick giant bell, its gravitational force has instead become stronger. From the opening of the bell, it released an extremely strong gravitational pull, which distorted the entire valley and even destabilized Wang Lu's footing. He hurriedly launched his Non-Phase Method to isolate the outside pulling force, but just barely.

However, this was just the periphery of the gravitational pull. The direction of the gravitational pull was obliquely pointed upward towards the sky.

Soon, an oval disk came through the clouds in the sky and then floated underneath the large bell.

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After that, one after another, the black sphere attracted its body parts through gravitational pull. There were many scars that have been accumulated over the years on these parts, some even survived only a little. However, when they converged and slowly moved around the black sphere, these scars faded away and they gradually restored their original shape.

This was an armored vehicle that could repair itself. Although it was physically shaped like an armored vehicle, it did not have thick wheels nor a sharp impact angle. At first glance, it looked like a tower with a large oval chassis that has a pad with a slightly convex surface at the bottom. It slowly spun horizontally. Above the chassis was the black sphere which functioned as the core that was hidden underneath the bell canopy; it was wrapped by a thick shield from the bottom and continued upward until eventually, it shaped like a pointed cone. There were also openings on the surface of its tower-like body for people to enter and leave. Its internal space, even without considering space expansion spell and other things, could accommodate four or five people.

At the same time, that smooth line, the eye-catching appearance, especially its glorious golden light, was enough to let Wang Lu determine its identity.

”... It must be Golden King's. With how flashy this looks, if it's not Golden King's, I will eat it all.” Wang Lu looked at the fully recovered Golden Vehicle that quietly floated in mid-air and could not help but laugh. Although it was completely different than the one painted on the mural, Wang Lu was not going to fuss over the details. No matter how exotic this vehicle look, it was, after all, infinitely better than his Flying Pigeon and Everlasting. There was no doubt that this was a high-grade vehicle; Golden King obviously disdained to build a low grade one.

However, it was also only Golden King who could casually throw aside such a luxurious thing in the sea of clouds. Initially, when he went out to explore, Wang Lu didn't dare to hope that he would pick up a complete vehicle. He just hoped that he could assemble some broken parts which could allow them to survive the rest of the journey. However, his luck was good enough that he could step in the footsteps of Golden King.