Chapter 346 What’s going on?
With the naked eye, what was embedded in the iron claw was nothing more than a broken sword blade about one foot and two inches long.

The sword shines like water, chillingly so, and the blade patterns are intricate, winding and layered.

Good enough to be called a good sword.

But what the chosen one sees through his spiritual perception is no longer the outline of matter, but the violent torrent released from it!
For example, volcanoes erupt and natural disasters occur.

Pure scarlet and ethereal darkness intertwined with each other, turning into an endlessly expanding vortex.

The moment it was unsheathed, all the witnesses were horrified, dizzy, trembling with fear and unable to control themselves. It was as if their lives and souls were about to be swallowed by the whirlpool…

The most evil of all evil, the most evil of all evil!
This is the third of the nine forms of the Elephant Sword: Pan Ying.

Among the nine types of sword inheritance, this is the easiest and the most difficult to learn, has the highest and the lowest success rate, and is also the most dangerous inheritance that has killed the most craftsmen.

Compared with other prototypes, the casting of Pan Ying’s sword blank is extremely simple. It is nothing more than piling up materials. The technical content and difficulty are really not high.

Although there is a chain sequence consisting of seven blessings, spanning the three series of Ascension, White Deer and Large Group, you only need to have one to start, and you can gradually temper and add more as progress is made.

The entire casting process takes as short as three days to complete, and the subsequent quenching is gradually completed.

Well, it’s just that many practitioners often don’t live long enough to fully master it, nor do they see the day when it is completely completed.

Before this, basically, nine and a half out of ten people would die, and the remaining half might not even live to see the day they walk out of the ICU alive…

Just like the broken sword in the calf’s hand at this moment.

It’s just a semi-finished sword blank. It has not undergone tempering and quenching, so it can’t be called a weapon at all… It’s just a mobile source of evil radiation!
As long as it exists, it will continuously release whirlpools, plundering all life and spiritual essence, devouring everything with its insatiable greed.

Moreover, there is no distinction between friend and foe!
The method of sharpening and training is also straightforward, just like most fierce soldiers – sacrifice! sacrifice! sacrifice! sacrifice!

I’m so fucking excited!
The more you kill, the stronger you will be. The more you sacrifice, the more powerful you will be!
When it came out of the furnace, it was only one foot and one inch, far from the three-foot perfection. Every time the sacrificed spirit was full, it needed to be tempered and recast, growing one inch, just like a fierce beast being reborn.

Every inch you cast will make it three points worse and three points more evil!

To reach perfection, you need to temper the fire nineteen times.

The further you progress, the easier it is to lose control and cause the furnace to explode, taking with it both the swordsmith and the user.

With each additional tempering, the ferocity increases dramatically, and the control required from the maker and user becomes higher… Even if it starts out as simple and easy as a spring outing, eventually, even the lowest starting point will swell into an astronomical figure of despair.

If you give up, all your previous efforts will be wasted, and all your investments will be destroyed, which can be called a heroic act.

If you don’t give up, it will be like walking on a tightrope, gambling with your life.

And in the end, there is often no good ending.

In the article “Talking about Swords”, the record of its dangers and many cases of failure is so detailed that it can be described as blood and tears, and the words are full of dissuasion.

Call it “the most vicious and violent, the most evil and the most perverse.”

If the evil spirit and brutality can be completely subdued in the subsequent tempering and creation, and return to the right path, then the ‘Pan Ying’ after the brutality has faded can be called ‘Victory over Evil’, and it will then be an absolute masterpiece of nature and a tool of the kingly way.

only……

In Ji Jue’s opinion, it seems that this is not necessary?
Anyway, swords are used to kill people. Weapons are destined to cause casualties when they are created. Why bother looking back?

Even if the harm is great, the consequences are severe, and the backlash is terrible…

Just don’t use it on yourself!
You say so, little calf?

“–Roar!!!”

At this moment, behind Ji Jue, the huge steel beast roared loudly. The sharp and high-pitched horn sound of the past now seemed to be mixed with the wailing and screaming of millions of people, and blood was rising all over its body.

Even the thick smoke billowing out of the exhaust pipe turned into a sticky red, like a bloody smoke signal, rising into the sky!

In the blink of an eye, he had already rushed out.

A steel body over several meters long stood up, and its two thick legs with reverse-jointed structures that resembled those of a wild beast trampled the ground, causing countless muds to fly out.

The long tail swung and the chain saw-like structure spun wildly.

Among the four arms that were stretched out, one held a giant axe, one held a hammer, and one was equipped with a close-range armor-piercing anchor cannon specially designed for power armor. As for the last hand, which was infused with dragon blood, Pan Ying shook violently, and the blood color on the remaining blade surged, like a scarlet sword more than several meters long, swinging around at will.

Not afraid of impact and slashing, ignoring the control and suppression of gravity, and not even being deceived by illusions, Pan Ying’s incomparable thirst for life and spiritual essence will guide the direction.

Rush and kill violently!

Thunder shook, lightning galloped, and it fell from the sky, turning into a torrent that instantly swallowed up the calf and horse. But in the dissipated light, the monster shrouded in blood was still violent, but traces of dissolution appeared on the outer armor plate.

The Entropy Chosen One didn’t even have time to be dazed before the steel beast face was already within reach.

The bloody sword wailed as it chopped down!

From the top of the head to the crotch, it was evenly split into two halves. Before the corpse even hit the ground, it had lost all its blood and spiritual essence, turning into shriveled remains.

On the sword blade, the blood light became even more intense!
After years of battle and tempering his sword, he is indeed a good partner for the blood sacrifice soldiers. Not to mention that Ji Jue also spent money to buy the blessing of the way of advancement [Single-mindedness] from the association, which further fueled Zhang Panying’s brutality and improved the efficiency and stability of the blood sacrifice.

The main material used in the construction of the sword blank is the stone marrow sent by Sister Wen. In addition, it also contains Ji Jue’s own blood, the dragon blood of the calf and horse, many evil-transformed auxiliary materials looted from Quancheng, and even the corpse of the Ether Old Deng on the cruise ship.

In addition, Ji Jue was afraid that the campus was not violent enough, so he added some fierce materials and mixed in some tricks of evil alchemy that he learned from the elder Deng…

The shape of the vicious soldier Pan Ying was created in this way!

Ji Jue broke all the taboos mentioned in “Talking about Swords”, such as “act within one’s ability” and “don’t be too aggressive”.

As a result, Pan Ying has been constantly changing and deforming since the moment it was born, attacking the craftsman in the furnace and the user after it was taken out of the furnace…

It’s a pity that it can’t bite either of them.

One is Ji Jue, who has a full resistance to evil in his hand, and the other is a mutated evil creature that is a pure combination of dragon blood and mechanical deity, a double-double.

With the calf as its sheath, Pan Ying in the dragon blood seal could not stir up any waves at all. It could only sharpen itself with the dragon blood in the calf’s body, nourishing its evil spirit while refining the dragon blood in turn.

The calf horse that only has dragon blood but is unable to make use of it, and Pan Ying that has ferocity but is weak at all, these two are paired together, the fierceness counteracts the fierceness, and negatives add up to positives, it’s simply a match made in heaven!
Under Ji Jue’s adjustment and interference, a strange symbiotic state was formed between the car and the sword. Even the life and spiritual essence extracted from the blood sacrifice were half of one person.

Well, after taking out the bulk of the tribute given to Ji Jue… Brother Ji Jue contributed the most, Brother Ji Jue worked the hardest, so of course Brother Ji Jue should take it first.

boom! ! !
The calf ignored the blockade of the solidified air, turned around suddenly, put the anchor gun against the chest of the ruins, pulled the trigger, and with a loud bang, the light of iron and stone dissipated, and then Pan Ying swept past!

Before the corpse even hit the ground, the giant axe and the hammer came down in an alternating pattern, directly smashing the sluggish Mirror Chosen One into a pool of mud…

massacre!

The combination of the dragon blood monster and Pan Ying was simply cutting melons and vegetables when facing this group of Chosen Ones who were only at the Transformation level. In the desperate slaughter, it was not that no one wanted to attack the craftsman Ji Jue who seemed to be the most vulnerable.

But in the midst of the heavy rain, Ji Jue, who was leisurely holding an umbrella, simply took out a bell from his pocket. After shaking it a few times, a monster reshaped by the residual soul was immediately reborn from the wriggling mercury.

Not to mention the animated machine guns and the bomb spiders with legs rushing in. Within ten steps, even if it was just a momentary delay, the invisible spiritual hands and dissociation spells were enough to crush these miscellaneous Chosen Ones who had fallen into the wilderness to plunder into pieces.

Not to mention the extra blue bar blessing provided by the Doomsday Train’s fuel depot.

No difficulty.

When Lao Lin and his men finally arrived, all they saw was Ji Jue holding an umbrella amidst the mess on the ground.

It seems like nothing happened.

There wasn’t even a body in sight.

There was no hell as expected, only thick blood energy and cracks.

“Where are the people?” Lao Lin was stunned.

“Well, everyone went on a group spring outing.”

Ji Jue shrugged and told him, “I’ve gone to a very far place and won’t be back for a while. Please tell your relatives and friends not to worry about me.”

hum-

In his hand, the scarlet broken sword trembled violently, the blood squirmed, stretched upwards in strands, and eagerly plundered and devoured. But no matter how the blood entangled and eroded, it could not break through the spiritual isolation layer and touch the flesh and blood that was so close.

Ji Jue lowered his eyes, expressionless.

“Be a dog and act like a dog.”

He reminded softly, “Do you understand?”

Obviously, there was no movement, and even the dissociation technique was not used, but the hungry chirping suddenly stopped, as if recalling some horrible haze. The broken sword body shook slightly, as if trembling, and a faint whimpering sound was emitted.

So tame.

“very good.”

Ji Jue nodded with satisfaction and threw the horrifying broken sword into the iron hand that stretched out from the armored vehicle. Layers of mercury flowed through it and sealed it, and it returned to the sheath.

The aura of brutality and madness disappeared, as if it were an illusion.

“Have you packed it up?”

Ji Jue turned around and asked, telling them: “Everyone needs to move faster, there is still a long way to go.”

Although they were still smiling, this time, the large group was no longer as lax as before. They immediately held their heads high and responded solemnly. Without any further delay, they left the spoils that they had no time to deal with to the team behind that was collecting them, and then regrouped.

From the midst of the storm, a silent and strange convoy once again rushed towards a new target.

Then the next one, and the next one, and the next one…

Under the scouring of rain, the remains of the body were buried in the mud, and the blood dissipated from the river.

After a long night, the clouds dispersed and the rain stopped. When the sun illuminated the earth again, the wilderness of Haizhou had never been so peaceful.

Dead silence.

No news, no report, no response.

In just a few hours, all the personnel secretly dispatched to Haizhou by the four military-industrial alliances seemed to have evaporated and disappeared without a trace.

It was not until another force was sent to Haizhou that traces of the past were discerned among the unrecognizable ruins and remains.

Even the last remnant…

When the message reached Shang Tongwen, he had just finished a meeting with the Dongcheng City Hall.

The subordinate stood at the door with a serious expression and knocked. He was stunned for a moment, interrupted the conversation on the other end of the phone, and took the folder.

After opening it, there was only one photo taken from the scene.

In the ruined settlement that had been burned to ashes and then turned into a quagmire in the rainstorm, the men and subordinates he had sent out could no longer be seen. Amid the devastation, there were only the carefully arranged gifts in the empty square.

The broken and shattered bones were piled up in a disorderly manner, crisscrossing each other, and with this tragic shape, they conveyed greetings and invitations to the peepers on the other side of the photo:
They say:
——【HELLO】!
This is just the initial greeting.

That afternoon, four companies, Huisheng, Xinyuan, Tiancheng and Beijing, received urgent reports from Haizhou, which were so dense that they looked like snowflakes falling from the sky.

The two mines and nonferrous metal smelters recently invested by the Northern Group received notices of indefinite suspension of operations for rectification due to pollution issues; two fully loaded cargo ships of Tiancheng Industry that had just arrived at Gangya City were seized and fined by the customs for carrying undeclared items; the car company under Xinyuan Power broke out in huge scandals such as cutting corners and falsifying data, and the general manager of Huisheng Technology Chaocheng was formally arrested on charges of bribery, intentional homicide and stock market manipulation…

In just a few hours, all industrial chains in Haizhou suffered an unexpected blow, and even the operations and production of companies outside Haizhou were impacted.

Just when the Coast Group was on the verge of collapse under a wave of blows, Mr. Xu Chao’s death was unknown, and Lv Yingyue was far away in Central City and unable to take charge of the overall situation, the Tong family changed their low-key style of the past, stepped out from behind the scenes, and took over the situation. Then… the wind direction in Chaocheng, the only central city in Haizhou, suddenly changed.

Just when the Governor of Chaocheng was deeply involved in a corruption investigation and had no time to take care of other things, the Lou family, who had a cold relationship with the Tong family in the past, suddenly jumped out and took sides!
It was not just the close coordination and cooperation in pace. At 4:30 p.m. that day, when the market was about to close, Tong Shengnian, CEO of Tianya Investment, and Lou Guan, executive director of Guangji Industrial, simultaneously appeared at their own impromptu press conference. During the live broadcast on TV, they announced to everyone present: In order to revitalize the local industry, boost the economy, increase the employment rate, and create more value for society… under the auspices of both parties, they would merge and restructure Yacheng’s Coast Group and Chaocheng’s Luoshi Group, change their appearance, get rid of their ills, and regain new life!
At that time, the newly reorganized group will receive joint investment and control from both parties, while inheriting the seat of Luoshi Group in Universal Heavy Industry Union and the military-industrial qualification of Coast Group.

At the end of the press conference, both parties jointly announced the name of the new group after the reorganization and reconstruction…

——Haichao Industry!
As the news came out, it was like a huge rock thrown into muddy water, causing huge waves and making the stagnant water surge again.

From the mud and sand, who knows how many fish in the pond have seen their fate undergo earth-shaking changes, and who knows how many life-and-death disputes will be born.

At this moment, everyone’s eyes were focused on Zhongcheng and the woman who was about to be granted the official position of garrison commander of Haizhou.

Amidst the noisy meeting of the House of Representatives, Lu Yingyue sat between the two parties, smiling as usual, as if nothing had happened. At this critical juncture, this madman actually increased the stakes!
Without even waiting for the market to open the next day, the Federal Trade Commission proposed an antitrust investigation bill into the merger of Coast and Rockwell, which immediately created a new stir in the House of Representatives.

At the same time, the chaos in Haizhou is intensifying again, and a new storm has emerged around the coast and Luoshi.

At the same time, in the open and covert confrontation, the four major military industries in the south, led by Huisheng, Xinyuan, Beijing and Tiancheng Group, also had some minor problems…

Specifically, it was like seeing a ghost.

Not only the four holding or related automobile companies, but also all the friendly competitors that once launched attacks on Coast Automotive have fallen into a state of panic, with scandals and lawsuits breaking out one after another.

Starting from the 30th, all manufacturers gradually discovered that for some unknown reason, the defective rate of products produced on their production lines began to rise like a rocket and became more and more serious.

But no problem could be found. Even after disassembling all the equipment and checking and repairing them step by step, no problem could be found. In addition, either the voltage caused the die-casting machine to be damaged, or the parameters of the precision parts were wrong, or the engine seal was wrong or the motor system had poor contact…

Even after going through numerous screenings and finally leaving the factory and being delivered, the vehicle may inexplicably break down after ten kilometers due to various messy and stupid accidents.

There don’t even need to be too many of these problems. Even if there is a problem with one out of twenty vehicles, the adverse impact will cause heavy losses to the company and manufacturer.

So much so that, along with the reconstruction of the Coast Automobile Plant, the entire market began to show a strange sluggishness and turbulence.

In this regard, Director Ji of the Coast Automobile Factory, who had just finished a long journey and returned to the factory to drink tea and watch the fun, made a relevant and sharp comment:

——This is so strange! What’s going on?
It can’t be that he is being punished for doing too many bad things, right?

(End of this chapter)