Under the stunned gaze of the bald, burly man and the bewildered stares of all the surrounding guards, the giant, pale sphere, standing dozens of miles from the Machina Citadel in the vast Gobi Desert, suddenly cracked into millions of tiny, narrow fissures.
Then, the entire white sphere began to rapidly disintegrate and collapse.
Next, as all the pale bone shells completely broke apart and shattered, with pieces, chunks, and particles falling away, a blurry giant, enveloped in boiling steam, slowly unfurled from a squatting, curled position and stood upright.
Finally, it stood on two feet on the vast Gobi Desert, its image reflected in the pupils of everyone who witnessed it from the Machina Citadel.
After fully rising, the giant roared, shaking off all the hazy steam around it, revealing its true form and appearance.
It was a majestic giant with three heads, four arms, and nine eyes, thousands or even tens of thousands of feet tall, its body composed of large patches of crimson and dark blue 'fluid', and a complex, heavy skeleton vaguely visible beneath its translucent skin.
From afar, it looked like a divine mountain.
In reality, this giant, several times taller than Mount Everest, was Li Hai's Martial Dao Gundam, created using his Divine Ability, 'Steel Thorn Bone Spike,' to generate countless Divine Weapon-Grade skeletons to encase himself.
Then, he used the 'Mirage Dragon Evil Method' to produce immeasurable fire and cold Qi as flesh to fill the skeletons, ultimately creating this Martial Dao Gundam.
Because their attributes are diametrically opposed, the countless fire and cold Qi inside this enormous body constantly counteract each other, leading to intense consumption.
This produced an operational effect similar to a steam engine, thereby continuously generating immense power, ultimately enabling the entire Martial Dao Gundam to move and attack.
Subsequently, Li Hai, seated in the core 'cockpit,' piloted the entire Martial Dao Gundam, stepping slowly towards the distant mechanical city—the Machina Citadel.
Boom!
As the Martial Dao Gundam's foot landed, the entire ground seemed to be stomped by an ancient Titan.
In an instant, terrifying shockwaves, like raging seas, surged and swept in all directions with an overwhelming force.
Amidst this earth-shattering tremor, the city guards of the distant Machina Citadel, that colossal mechanical city, activated the city's defensive facilities—laser cannon arrays, kinetic cannon arrays, and electromagnetic cannon arrays—in extreme fear and shock.
Immediately, countless cannon barrels roared in unison, spewing thousands of crimson dazzling lights and kinetic shells, which, like an overturned celestial river, instantly traversed dozens or even hundreds of miles to bombard the Martial Dao Gundam.
Thus, amidst continuous, earth-shattering roars, the Martial Dao Gundam piloted by Li Hai was enveloped by countless dazzling explosions.
However, even such intense cannon fire could not stop the giant's advance.
This Gundam, as if a deity had descended, endured the bombardment of countless cannons, stepping hundreds of miles one step at a time, and finally reached the colossal mechanical city, the Machina Citadel.
And when the Martial Dao Gundam truly stood before the Machina Citadel, its towering, magnificent body, thousands of feet tall like a mountain, immediately obscured the vast sky and the brilliant sun, plunging the entire city into darkness.
The Machina Citadel, gripped by suffocating fear, immediately sent out its only three Peak Legend-Grade experts, clad in mechanical armor and wielding Divine Weapons, who roared and swiftly slashed towards the giant's head, located tens of thousands of feet in the sky.
But these three did not know that the three heads of this Martial Dao Gundam were not mere decorations but true weapons of war.
In an instant, the main head of the Gundam, facing the three Peaks of the Machina Citadel, immediately opened its three giant eyes, which continuously flashed with intense lightning.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
As soon as the three eyes opened, they hummed and shot out three azure lightning pillars, as thick as buildings, directly blasting the three Peak Legends from thousands of feet in the sky down to the ground, and in an extremely brutal instant, plowed them across the earth, pushing them a hundred miles away.
Finally, while leaving three long, thick scorch marks on the ground, the three lightning pillars shot from the Martial Dao Gundam incinerated the three powerful individuals into ashes.
Then, the Gundam giant extended its four colossal arms, which, like four pillars supporting heaven and earth, tightly embraced the entire mechanical city.
Next, this Martial Dao Gundam vibrated with a hum, and while erupting with vast amounts of gray-white steam, it lifted the entire mechanical city, then suddenly leaped high, soaring tens of thousands of feet higher into the distant sky.
Then, as it reached the Peak of its leap and was about to fall, with its four arms tightly clutching the entire mechanical city, its right leg swiftly rose and suddenly slammed its knee with immense force into the massive base below, which was covered with hundreds of treads.
Boom!!!
In an instant, within a thousand-mile radius, the heavens shook and the earth quaked, and countless clouds exploded and dispersed.
And the Machina Citadel, the mechanical city, under this incredibly terrifying knee strike, instantly and loudly broke apart from its middle, like a huge and fragile plastic model, exploding into countless electric sparks and architectural debris, scattering and flying like a doomsday meteor shower, impacting the surrounding hundreds to thousands of miles of land.
As for the city's broken remnants, severed into two large sections by the Martial Dao Gundam's knee strike, they collapsed and rapidly disintegrated in a chain reaction, like toppled dominoes, even before hitting the ground from high altitude, mixing with continuous violent explosions, swiftly shattering into thousands of pieces, roaring and scattering across the thousand-mile area to the east, west, south, and north.
At this point, the Machina Citadel was completely annihilated, and so thoroughly that Li Hai, even after exhaustively searching for a thousand miles afterward, could not find a single complete corpse.
Evidently, all the sect members and Disciples of this faction had been turned into endless dust by that earth-shattering knee strike.
Only a few top Thousand Army Grade Martial Artists, whose physical strength was robust enough, were fortunate enough to leave behind a few scattered bone fragments.
Perhaps it was fate, for even though the Machina Citadel was so completely destroyed, Li Hai still found some valuable items—two thick books titled 'Divine Weapon Crafting Compendium' and 'Profound Divine Engineering Scroll.'
The former recorded various technical information about mechanical armor and high-energy weapons, which was quite complex and thus will not be elaborated upon.
The latter recorded knowledge about the forging of various Divine Weapons and Sharp Weapons.
The value of this book was immense, and it was precisely what Li Hai needed most at the moment.
He wanted to refine Xue Cangqiong's head and spine into a Divine Weapon for his own use.
In fact, after formally stepping into the Tyrant Level Realm, Li Hai's original pair of crimson steel whips were no longer suitable for use.
He feared that with just a little force, he would break and ruin the steel whips that had accompanied him through countless battles.
With Xue Cangqiong's Tyrant Level head and spine as Materials, he would surely be able to refine an excellent Divine Weapon.