parentshiftbook Chapter 692: Second Dharma Appearance
Chapter 692: Second Dharma Appearance
A sharp alarm instantly swept through the entire border corps.
Inside the headquarters control center, a large number of duty commanders were awakened from their dormant state.
A dozen seconds later, the intelligence verification was completed, and the alert level was immediately raised to the highest level.
The border fleet stationed in the plane has been fully activated.
One by one, the energy cores of the warships switched from standby mode to full power operation, and blue-white propulsion flames illuminated the dark universe. One hundred and twenty seconds later.
The fleet has completed its jump preparations.
The commander stared at the frantically flashing red dot on the main screen and coldly gave the order:
"Coordinates of the entire fleet's jump target."
"No warning needed upon target sighting, open fire immediately!"
Above orbit, hundreds of warships activated the flagship's space jump engine under coordinated operation.
Blue warp light rose and fell among the fleet formations, like a string of cold flames suddenly ignited.
In the next instant, warships disappeared from their original locations, only to re-form near the target coordinates after traversing the void.
Before the ship was fully stabilized, the tentacle trees inside the bridge had already seen the scene ahead.
Then, everyone froze.
Outside the dimensional barrier, a dark golden giant, a thousand meters tall, is digging its hands firmly into the barrier's surface.
With each exertion of force, the arcs of energy bursting from their fingertips grew astonishingly long, even more exaggerated than their largest capital ship.
The arcs of electricity leaped wildly in the void, making the entire starry sky flicker.
The giant's head has a face on the front and a face on the back.
The face in front was handsome and calm, with three golden vertical pupils as smooth as a precision instrument; the face behind had a strong profile, a cold gaze, and an oppressive feeling that seemed to crush everything.
The vertical eyes between the brows of the two faces opened and closed slightly at the same time, and golden beams of light swept straight across the fleet formation, like two probe spears traversing the universe. The bark on the back of the fleet commander suddenly trembled, and a scattering of debris fell to the ground.
There was no need for the warship's detectors to provide feedback; just seeing the giant tear a gap the width of a person in the dimensional barrier with his own strength was enough to explain everything.
As he watched the ever-expanding dimensional barrier crack, fear, like icy vines, instantly entwined around his body.
"Fire! All units, open fire!"
He vibrated the command with almost all his might.
The main guns of hundreds of warships lit up simultaneously.
In the next instant, the energy beam and the electromagnetic cannonball intertwined to form an impenetrable net of fire, tearing through the void, passing through the dimensional barrier, and pouring towards the dark golden giant.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The moment the first salvo penetrated the barrier, dozens of bright white impact spots exploded on the barrier's surface.
The explosion's flames and thick smoke instantly engulfed the field of vision, and even the void itself trembled.
The commander gripped the edge of control tightly, his tentacles straining so hard they almost spasmed.
He didn't even dare to blink.
It wasn't until the observation team's real-time scanning data came in that he felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over his head.
All attacks were steadily intercepted by a blue, semi-transparent shield several kilometers away from the target.
Based on the feedback, all attacks were completely ineffective.
"How is that possible...?"
The commander murmured, his crystalline eyes contracting violently.
A few seconds ago, through his own efforts, Jemin finally tore a one-finger-wide crack in the back barrier.
But at the same time, on the other side of the dimensional barrier, in the pitch-black universe, space experienced visible fluctuations, which distorted the starlight behind it.
Knowing that the other side had discovered his actions, Jemin frowned, looking at the crack in front of him that was too narrow for even his hand to fit through. In this situation, if he wanted to widen the crack further, he would only be able to take a beating.
While other level six wizards simply toughed it out when facing this challenge, Jemin wasn't going to let himself get beaten up for nothing. Fortunately, he did have something that could handle the current situation.
A crack was gently opened in the cave within his body.
The next moment, the nest flew out.
Its initial form resembled a small blue lake, its gelatinous body slowly stretching out in the void.
But in just a moment, it completed the transformation.
The entire lake-like body was stretched into a huge thin film, which "slid" into the crack torn open by Jemin's true form like water. The nest, relying on its slime-like structure, silently passed through the extremely narrow gap and reformed inside the barrier.
When the border fleet's firepower reached the front of the rift, the lair had already firmly blocked the way at the forefront.
It unfolded, transforming into a thin blue shroud that covered the outer edge of the dimensional rift that Jemin had torn open.
As a near-level 7 unit with an extremely high potential, even if the Nest's current combat power has not reached its theoretical peak, as a destructive unit specializing in defense, it is not something that can be easily penetrated by a casual attack.
The energy beam fell upon it, like water droplets falling into dry sand, instantly swallowed up without a trace.
As the electromagnetic projectiles bombarded the surface, the rapidly spinning metal warheads were immediately decomposed into information states upon contact with the gelatinous surface. These information states were then rewoven and integrated into the nest's own structural units.
absorb.
Transformation.
Then they multiply.
The size of the nest began to grow at a visible rate.
Every attack unleashed by the fleet was absorbed into its own nourishment.
The blue cover did not thin out; instead, it became thicker and thicker, with its edges continuing to expand outwards.
After just a few volleys of fire, it grew to a whole size larger than when it first emerged from its internal celestial abode.
As the fleet commander watched the blue target on the probe continue to rise, fear finally overwhelmed his sense of duty in his eyes.
His tentacles trembled as he typed out an emergency communication.
"Calling headquarters, border fleet firepower is completely ineffective... Repeat, completely ineffective!"
"The target has some kind of defensive unit that absorbs energy attacks. Our attack isn't suppressing it... it's feeding it!" There was a moment of silence on the other end of the communication line.
Subsequently, a voice with higher privileges entered the channel.
"Order received. Headquarters is currently..."
Before the other party could finish speaking, a low rumble came through the communication channel.
That's not a communication failure.
Instead, it was the sound of spatial structure tearing coming from the other side of the dimensional barrier.
At the same time, outside the dimensional barrier.
Jemin had already inserted both hands completely into the barrier structure.
He took a deep breath.
Then, mobilize all your strength.
The power of the true body will converge into a massive torrent at the same moment, exerting force on both sides simultaneously.
The crack was suddenly stretched open.
ten meters.
100 meters.
Expand outwards again!
The gap, which was originally only wide enough for a small passage, rapidly widened until it was large enough for a single-file passage of a level 6 black giant hundreds of meters tall. But for a legion of billions, this width was still insufficient.
Jemin didn't stop.
For him, that little crack was just a warm-up.
At this moment, a long-dormant Dharma is slowly awakening.
After reaching the Dao Integration Realm, cultivators' combat power often follows a very consistent path: constantly delving deeper into their own Dao.
Once one's understanding of one's own path reaches a certain level, one can modify the cultivation methods chosen during the Refinement of Emptiness stage multiple times. Jieming's cultivation of the "True Scripture of Self-Mastery" during his Refinement of Emptiness stage followed the Dharma Form path.
At that time, he was less than two meters tall.
Upon reaching the late stage of the Refining Void Realm, the Dharma Image has been completely solidified and merged with the physical body, ultimately transforming into the current thousand-meter-tall true body.
And now.
Having achieved a stable Dao Integration Realm, his understanding of his own path has become sufficiently profound.
He has finally met the conditions to initiate the second "transformation".
To put it simply, it means being able to cultivate Dharma form techniques again based on one's current true form, and develop a new Dharma form.
This is what is known as... [Dual Dharma Form]!
When he first cultivated his Dharma form, his physical body was less than two meters tall, but his Dharma form could reach a height of one thousand meters.
Now, his true form is already a thousand meters tall.
The Dharma form is a projection of the true body, an outward manifestation of power and laws.
Therefore, the size of the Dharma image actually increases proportionally with the size of the true body.
Behind Jemin, a dark golden light began to gather.
Before the Dharma form even manifested, it caused the elements in the void to completely erupt in chaos.
The four elements, the incense and prayers from the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, and even the starlight from the distant Tentacle Tree Mother Star all bent and converged behind him.
Then, the outline began to appear.
First the head.
Next is the neck.
Next came the shoulders, torso, arms...
From a distance, it looked as if another sky was slowly descending behind him.
It was a phantom of a golden giant, spanning over 500 kilometers.
Its outline is not yet fully clear, the details are still gathering, and the boundary between muscles and bones is faintly visible in the translucent golden light.
Even so, that Dharma form was already able to emit a light strong enough to obscure the stars.
Jemin's thousand-meter-tall true form stood in the very center of the Dharma Image's chest, appearing as insignificant as a tiny speck of light embedded in the heart of a giant statue. The Dharma Image's face was exactly the same as the handsome face in front of his true form.
It's just magnified hundreds of times.
Her third eye, located between her brows, opened slightly, less than halfway open, yet the golden light it emitted illuminated most of the void before her as if it were daytime. Within the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, Viola stood atop the control room, arms crossed, gazing up at the sky.
Through the spatial rift, the five-hundred-kilometer-tall golden phantom was so clear it was almost blinding.
Her light green eyes reflected the golden light, she blinked, and a faint, enigmatic smile slowly appeared on her lips.
"sharp!"
She muttered to herself, her tone carrying a rare hint of surprise.
"Junior's achievements after three hundred years of seclusion are truly..."
Halfway through her sentence, she raised her hand and touched the corner of her lips, as if she had suddenly thought of something, and the smile in her eyes deepened.
"Tsk, there'll be a good show when the old man comes out."
Within the dimensional barrier, the fleet commander's bark was trembling more than just.
He stared intently at the energy reading on the detector, which had skyrocketed to an almost distorted level. His tentacles were frozen on the controls, too weak to even tap out commands. The curve on the main screen soared from the high level of level six, almost without pausing.
They climbed faster and higher.
Until it completely exceeds the maximum range of the measuring instrument.
Warning signs flashed wildly at the edge of the screen, the detection device emitted a sharp, piercing screech, and then became completely overloaded.
A wisp of smoke slowly emerged from the gap in the detector's outer shell.
"accelerate·………"
The commander's orders began to come out of control, and the tapping of the tentacles carried a tremor of near collapse.
"Accelerate the ultimate weapon's charge! Now! Immediately!"
"Forget about the safety threshold, skip the third level of cooldown! I'll take full responsibility for the consequences!!"
The remaining warships of the border fleet are still firing in vain.
But when their artillery fire landed on the nest, there were no traces of impact left.
The nest absorbed too much energy, and its size swelled to several times its original size when it first emerged from the cave.
The blue gelatinous surface shimmered with the afterglow of being swallowed, forming an impenetrable blue wall in front of the dimensional rift.
Just then, the dual Dharma images behind Jemin slowly raised their hands.
Those hands were so large that they could not be measured by ordinary standards.
Each hand is like a city in motion.
The elemental turbulence in the void was stirred into a huge vortex at the edge of his palm. The edge of the vortex was pulled by broken arcs of electricity, long enough to stretch from the size of a warship into a thunderous torrent that swallowed half of the fleet.
Then, the two giant hands simultaneously reached into the crack that Jemin had torn open.
boom!!!
The structure of the dimensional barrier was forcibly opened.
The power released by the 500-kilometer-tall Dharma image is no longer simply brute force.
That was the power that Jemin constructed by using laws as leverage, incense and deities as fulcrums, and the system of destiny as navigation.
As each of Faxiang's fingers moves forward an inch, the barrier structure at the point of force application will collapse layer by layer like dominoes.
The cracks are expanding rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
It was a hundred meters just now, but in the blink of an eye it became several hundred meters.
Then, it's several kilometers, tens of kilometers, and hundreds of kilometers.
Irregular gaps were constantly being torn at the fracture, and blue-white spatial arcs of electricity leaped wildly at the edges. Occasionally, a few arcs of light were flung into the black void, and a single flash was enough to illuminate the entire fleet in the distance.
On one side of the Infernal Sulfur Plane, the Black Giant Legion had already formed its ranks.
Billions of black giants were densely packed in the space inside the plane, a dark mass that filled the horizon.
The leader was a level seven black giant named Lava Mountain, whose size far exceeded that of its kind.
His height of over ten thousand meters made him significantly taller than an ordinary level six black giant, and the black liquid metal on his body shimmered with a dark red hue under the light. But at this moment, looking at his master's hundred-kilometer-scale Dharma form, even Lava Mountain felt his own insignificance.
When the crack stretched to a width of hundreds of kilometers, Jemin's dual form finally stopped tearing.
Those enormous hands firmly held the edge of the crack, completely fixing the dimensional breach into its final form.
A steady golden light slowly seeped from the edge of the Dharma Image's palm into the area around the gap in the barrier, reinforcing each node at the edge of the crack and ultimately shaping it into a spatial passage large enough to accommodate billions of legions.
The vertical opening in the chest cavity of the lava mountain suddenly opened.
"roar!!!"
That was a pure elemental shockwave that pierced through the void and swept across the entire legion.
"roar!!!"
The multi-billion dollar giant responded simultaneously.
The earth-shattering battle roars converged into a violent tide, causing even the entire void to tremble slightly.
The next moment, Lava Mountain raised his arm.
The enormous black hand slashed downwards with tremendous force.
The legion of billions of black giants launched its charge.