Chapter 343 Golden Core Blazing Sun

Above the Guanghan base. A two-kilometer vacuum zone.

"Click—click!"

A piercing metallic distorting sound exploded on the public communications channel.

On the left wing edge, a Foundation Establishment cultivator codenamed "Hound-07" was uncontrollably folding backward in mid-air.

It's not leaning back.

It is a fold in the spine that violates the limits of ergonomics.

The Black Tortoise heavy exoskeleton he wore, capable of withstanding a hundred-ton hydraulic press, was having its internal locking mechanisms blaring wildly. Sparks were shooting out from the gaps in the armor's joints.

The hydraulic system was desperately fighting against the invisible force from the "shadow," bearing the immense pressure that threatened to shatter the cultivator.

"Captain Chen! I can't control my armor! Something is twisting my spine!"

Hound-07 let out a painful howl. On his mask, the gray-white eye that opened from his own shadow stared coldly at him.

boom!

Chen Ge's heavy armor hurtled towards them with a blinding trail of flame.

Without any hesitation, Chen Ge gripped the Star Iron Ship-Slaying Blade tightly with both hands, poured in his violent true essence, and slashed fiercely at the distorted dark shadow on the Hound-07's mask.

"Get out here!"

The ship-slaying blade, carrying the lingering flames of extreme heat, pierced through the shadow without hindrance and slammed into the titanium steel shoulder armor of Hound-07, sending up a large burst of sparks.

Cut empty.

There was no physical impact. There was no ash from the evaporation of matter.

The extreme Yang True Fire burst into flames on the mask, but it couldn't burn the grayish-white eye at all.

It was as if it were just a "shadow of light".

Physical attacks cannot sever the concept of nothingness, and even the extreme Yang True Fire cannot burn through a massless reflection.

"Warning! The driver's thoracic spine is under pressure exceeding the critical limit! The hydraulic limiter is about to break!"

The armored AI emitted a completely emotionless, mechanical voice.

"Captain Chen... cut off my head! Don't let this thing spread through my shadow!" Hound-07 spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva in the channel, his eyes revealing a fierce look.

Since the monster cannot be killed, then kill yourself to cut off the source of pollution; this is the bottom line of the defense force's code of conduct.

"Shut up! I'm not dead yet, it's not your place to kill yourself!"

Chen Ge's eyes were bloodshot, and his brain was working frantically under extreme overload pressure.

Physical attacks are ineffective. Array patterns are ineffective.

Chen Ge stared intently at the eye hidden in the shadows. This was no ordinary monster attack; it was an extremely disgusting form of cognitive pollution, or rather, a "strange tale of rules" forcibly descended by higher-dimensional forces in this vacuum.

The monster has no physical form; it uses its "shadow" as a means of killing.

As long as you have a shadow in this area, as long as you notice it, this murder logic will be closed.

But Chen Ge is a soldier, a top commander trained under Earth's heavy industry cultivation system.

He doesn't believe in God, let alone any unsolvable strange tales.

Since the rules are based on "shadows," there must be physical triggering conditions. The existence of a shadow requires a unidirectional light source and an obstruction!

"No need to call base! The base's location must not be revealed!"

Chen Ge let out a roar over the communication channel.

"All Golden Core cultivators! Step forward!"

Swish! ! !

Within the defensive line, twelve Golden Core stage sword cultivators suddenly rose from the ground and hovered high in the vacuum.

"Put away your greatsword! We don't need that junk!"

Chen Ge's voice was filled with an arrogant coldness and determination.

"The elixir fire departs from the body! Illuminate this entire space!"

"Create a 'shadowless theater'!"

A cultivator who has entered the Golden Core stage possesses a true essence within their dantian and qi sea that is essentially a human-shaped nuclear reactor.

The twelve Golden Core cultivators instantly understood Chen Ge's tactical intentions.

Without any hesitation, they threw their heavy swords into deep space.

"Formation! Sunshine!"

The twelve people were scattered in different parts of the defensive line, their hands forming a mudra.

boom--!

The twelve golden cores circulated wildly within their bodies, unleashing a terrifying spiritual pressure.

They forced the pure, extreme Yang True Fire out of their bodies without reservation. This time, the True Fire was not used for burning, nor to cause an explosion.

Rather, it is the ultimate "glowing".

On the silent far side of the moon, twelve dazzling golden suns rise simultaneously in the vacuum.

The true essence radiance of a Golden Core cultivator is purer and more intense than any heavy industrial searchlight.

Light!

A pure white light, radiating destructive spiritual pressure and leaving no blind spots, swept across the entire two-kilometer defensive line area like a tsunami.

Photons, traveling at 300,000 kilometers per second, brutally penetrated every gap in the armor. Twelve all-around absolute light sources intertwined, causing light to collide and refract wildly between the defenders' armor.

This is no longer a one-way propeller exhaust light source.

This is a massive, shadowless cultivation environment, forcibly created using the pure cultivation power of a Golden Core cultivator.

In this region, which was completely saturated with photons, the physical conditions for the formation of "shadows" were forcibly destroyed by the absolute intensity of light.

midair.

The eerie shadow on the Hound-07 armored mask rippled violently at a microscopic level the moment the twelve "Golden Suns" shone upon it.

There were no screams, no explosions.

The shadow disappeared.

The dark areas on the armor surface were completely washed away by the strong light.

The grayish-white eye, having lost its physical medium of existence, instantly collapsed into nothingness amidst extreme distortion.

"Click..."

The terrifying force that forcibly folded the spine vanished into thin air.

Hound-07 was panting heavily as the hydraulic system quickly returned to center, saving him from the brink of collapse.

Chen Ge was suspended in the blinding white light, his chest heaving violently.

"All personnel on the front line! Remain vigilant!"

Chen Ge's voice echoed in the light, revealing extreme arrogance.

"If it wants to play by the rules of ghost stories, we'll physically flip its table!"

"As long as there are no shadows in this area, its rules are a joke!"

Five hundred renovation workers were bathed in the blinding golden light, and not one of them retreated.

They used the purest photon saturation attack and the formidable cultivation of Golden Core cultivators to forcefully suppress this bizarre rule within the basic common sense of physics.

......

Earth. Kyoto Joint Control Room.

Inside the command center, all the experts and generals were staring intently at the large screen.

The twelve light sources that shone in the vacuum of the far side of the moon were dazzling, but because their spiritual pressure was extremely compressed within the defensive line, they perfectly avoided direct illumination of the Guanghan base below and did not trigger any counter-array.

The base remains safely hidden in the darkness.

"The laws of physics have forcibly superseded the rules of cognition..."

Lin Feng pushed up his glasses, his eyes gleaming with fanaticism. His hands flew across the keyboard, creating a new tactical model.

"Professor Wang! Chen Ge and his team have found a way to break rule-based attacks!"

"The rules of ghost stories are not unsolvable! As long as the 'physical medium' that triggers the rules is destroyed, the rules will immediately become invalid!"

"The monster used its shadow as a weapon, so our cultivators simply wiped away the darkness!"

Wang Mingyuan looked at the screen, took a deep breath, and his previously tense shoulders finally relaxed slightly.

These are Earth's soldiers, warriors forged by the heavy industry cultivation system.

Do not blindly believe in the mysteries of magic, nor fear the bizarre unknown. Use pure logic, quality, and cultivation to overturn anything that dares to offend common sense.

"Write it down." Wang Mingyuan's voice was as steady as a mountain, exuding absolute confidence.

"Once this thing realized that physical blind landings couldn't break through our heavy sword defenses, it started playing with concepts and rules."

"But it got one thing wrong."

"The underlying logic of the universe is ultimately matter and energy."

Wang Mingyuan turned to look at the military representative.

"Immediately incorporate Chen Ge's breakthrough tactic into the 'Anti-High-Dimensional Cognition Combat Manual'."

"Since the enemy likes to play 'rule-of-fact tricks,' then our tactical guiding principle is only one—"

"Physical horizontal sweep".

Lin Feng quickly took notes, then looked up and added, "We need to adjust our logistical support strategy immediately. Although Golden Core cultivators can act as tactical light sources with no blind spots, we need to develop specialized 'energy storage artifacts' for others to ensure that this 'shadowless field' can be maintained for a long time to deal with possible shadow attacks later."

"Go ahead and do it." Wang Mingyuan nodded. "Tell the staff of the three major war zones to stop using traditional thinking to predict the battle situation. From now on, we must integrate physics, optics, traditional metaphysics, and even thermodynamics into the cultivation-based combat methods."

......

The Moon. The defensive line above the Guanghan Base.

The "Shadowless Theater" is still in operation.

Twelve Golden Core cultivators hovered in mid-air, like twelve burning gods. Their true essence was greatly depleted, but with the continuous supply of recovery fluids and pills from the logistics engineers, the defensive line remained as solid as a mountain.

Not a single drop of black water fell again.

No more eerie shadows appeared.

The entity behind the black gate seems to have fallen into a long silence after humanity ruthlessly crushed this "test of the rules" with photons.

Chen Ge gripped the ship-slaying sword, coldly gazing down into the abyss.

He knew this was only a temporary respite.

The monster was merely assessing, contemplating, and preparing for an even more twisted and illogical dimensional reduction attack.

But humanity has also grasped the knife to break the deadlock.

No matter what indescribable fear you have, no matter what bizarre rules you set.

As long as you dare to reach into this three-dimensional universe.

You must abide by the rules here.

Chen Ge raised his head and looked in the direction of Earth. That blue planet silently rotated in the sea of ​​stars; it was the endless heavy industry assembly line behind them, their boundless confidence.

"bring it on."

Chen Ge's voice came through the communication channel in a low voice.

"Let's see how many tricks you have up your sleeve."