Chapter 31: Transcendent Master Gune!

Shenghaijia'er.

At the edge of the Shuefeng Desert battlefield.

Within a desert ruin.

Gune slowly opened his eyes.

What met his eyes was the endless desolate desert.

A wind carrying source force blew, kicking up sand that clattered against the mechanical angel battle armor on Gune.

Gune rose into the air, gazed across the vast, boundless desert, then frowned slightly.

"Hard to determine the direction. If I fly randomly and end up in the center of the desert battlefield, at best I won't get out for months; at worst, I'll be caught and killed by those free mercenary warriors or warriors from the two divine kingdoms."

The Shuefeng Desert battlefield was enormous, thousands or even tens of thousands of times larger than the entire Oya Transcendent World.

Yet, in Shenghaijia'er, the Shuefeng Desert battlefield was merely an obscure minor battlefield.

Shenghaijia'er was simply too vast.

Just as he was pondering which direction to choose,

"Hm?" Gune suddenly looked into the distance.

"A battle? Doesn't seem too intense. Maybe I can find someone to ask for directions."

With that thought, Gune activated the mechanical angel and flew over.

Even with three Holy Shadow runes condensed, Gune's own speed was still relatively slow.

After activating the mechanical angel, the speed became considerable.

With the roar of the source force furnace mechanical engine, Gune flew rapidly toward the direction of the battle.

A few minutes later,

At the edge of a huge desert basin, Gune saw the two sides of the battle.

The combatants were three experts at the eighth level of Transcendence.

One was a foreign man in white armor, tall and sturdy, about two meters twenty or thirty, but extremely thin, with dark brown skin, wielding a magic sword.

His realm was early eighth level of Transcendence, and each strike contained a strong Wind Essence, combined with the magic sword's power, making his attacks quite formidable.

What surprised Gune was that the foreign man in white armor carried a [Furnace Demon Weapon Box] on his back.

Fighting against him were two other mechanical angels like Gune.

However, Gune's mechanical angel was silver-gray.

While these two were blood-red.

The aura emanating from these two was at the late and peak eighth level.

At this moment, the three were locked in a fierce stalemate.

Two had mechanical angels, and their realms were late eighth and peak eighth level of Transcendence.

Yet the one without a mechanical angel, an early eighth-level Transcendent, could fight them to a standstill.

"Impressive strength." Gune's gaze swept over the man in white armor at early eighth level, and he thought to himself.

As soon as Gune approached, the three combatants noticed his presence.

"Friend, come help us kill this damned 'Source Sword Clan' Transcendent! This man is guilty of heinous crimes, has killed countless, and used the [Furnace Demon Weapon Box] to refine countless living beings!"

One of the blood-red mechanical angels immediately roared.

A whirlpool of fate flashed briefly in Gune's eyes.

In the common tongue of Shenghaijia'er, Gune said softly,

"I don't see any evil sin on him, but I do see plenty of detestable auras on you two."

"I think the truly guilty ones are you two."

With that, Gune suddenly struck.

"Zzzt!"

From over five hundred meters away, the Great Thunderflame Curse instantly struck the late eighth-level blood-red mechanical angel.

The Great Thunderflame Curse was directly transmitted onto the blood-red mechanical angel.

He had no room to dodge.

After advancing to the seventh level of Transcendence, the abilities of a domain caster combined with being a darling of world essence.

This gave Gune the unique ability to instantly transmit curses within a thousand-meter range.

That is, within this thousand meters, Gune could instantly transmit the Great or Lesser Thunderflame Curse onto his target, leaving them no way to evade—more terrifying than locking on.

The Great Thunderflame Curse, already at level nine, was immensely powerful.

Even a late eighth-level Transcendent could not withstand it.

A muffled groan of pain came from within the blood-red mechanical angel's armor.

"Kid, you're asking for death!"

The late eighth-level mechanical angel roared, lunged forward, shook off the early eighth-level Transcendent, and charged at Gune.

He was fast, but Gune's casting was clearly faster.

While retreating, Gune rained down Great Thunderflame Curses one after another.

After advancing to Transcendent Master, Gune's single-second stacking efficiency had sharply increased to forty-five curses per second.

But for a Transcendent Master, one second of combat time was long enough to allow ample evasion.

The saturation bombardment of curses that worked below the Transcendent Master level was somewhat ineffective at the Transcendent Master tier.

Instead, it was replaced by exchanges of various special techniques.

Nevertheless, the rate of forty-five curses per second still gave Gune a great advantage.

Zzzzt, zzzzt...

Each strike landed solidly on the eighth-level mechanical angel.

As the power penetrated, his soul and body suffered devastating blows.

Enduring Gune's curses like this, not even a ninth-level Transcendent could withstand it.

The Great Thunderflame Curse, leveled up to nine, was no joke in its terrifying power.

After seven or eight consecutive curses,

His aura rapidly weakened, and his speed plummeted.

Following the principle of striking while the iron was hot, Gune unleashed another five curses in quick succession.

This fellow, unaware of Gune's true strength, had recklessly charged straight in while enduring the curses, and was killed on the spot by Gune.

After killing this blood-red angel, Gune willed it and stored the blood-red mechanical angel into his system space.

Not to mention anything else, the blood-red mechanical angel armor alone was valuable, and they also carried a fair amount of Shenghaijia'er's common currency.

In Shenghaijia'er, without common currency, one could hardly move an inch.

Seeing Gune kill his companion so quickly, the peak eighth-level mechanical angel, who had been suppressed while fighting the man, had no will to continue.

He lunged, creating distance to flee.

But the early eighth-level foreign man would not let him escape.

As a Wind Essence Transcendent, he was considerably faster than the other.

He chased after him and continued to engage him in combat.

Watching the two fight, Gune narrowed his eyes.

"Even after advancing to Transcendent Master, the combat styles between Transcendents differ."

"Warriors and Shadows still excel in their own ways: warriors are durable and good at close combat, practicing various melee combat essence texts."

"Shadows are elusive, with devastating killing moves."

"Castors have ranged output, and their curses are devastating."

"Other Transcendent professions with their own characteristics also amplify their advantages in their areas of expertise."

"My Starry Sequence, the Blood Source Curse Master's Blood Sea ability, is also quite formidable—no worse than my essence texts."

"It's just... no one has forced me to use my full capabilities."

"I hope that this time, where I'm headed, I'll encounter a strong enough opponent to push me."

"Speaking of which, my Starry Sequence Blood Source Curse Master's third awakening should be coming soon, right?"

"My Blood Source Sea Divine Codex is almost at the sixth level. I feel that at level seven, or at most level eight, I can undergo the third awakening."

"I hope I can awaken a bizarre supernatural ability." Gune thought to himself.

As Gune pondered, the battle between the two was gradually coming to an end.