plumnovel Chapter 701: Capture
Chapter 701: Capture
Chapter 701: Capture
The energy aftershocks in the cosmos had yet to fully subside when Jie Ming rallied once more.
In the starfield torn apart by the shockwaves, fragments of shattered asteroids continued tumbling. The chaotic energy turbulence interwoven with dark gold and deep gray spread slowly through the darkness like unhealed wounds.
At the center of this chaos, the Second Layer Dharma Form that had been blasted apart once again condensed.
Boom…
Dark-golden light erupted violently from within the Dharma Form, like a divine sun rising from the depths of the void.
As another round of evolution from the Body Forging Method concluded, radiance surged outward along the Dharma Form’s silhouette, illuminating the darkness for hundreds of thousands of kilometers around it. The Dharma Form’s shoulders were broad, its arms hanging low. The cold, stern face on its back slowly lifted, and its three golden vertical eyes opened simultaneously. Its gaze was sharp as blades, locking firmly onto the planetary behemoth ahead.
The previous punch would have been enough to obliterate an entire fleet of an ordinary civilization.
But for Jie Ming, who had already taken countless such blows, it posed no real threat at all.
Jie Ming flexed the Dharma Form’s shoulders. Golden light flowed gently at the joints, coiling around both arms as if attempting to form some sort of phenomenon.
Unfortunately, Jie Ming’s current law comprehension was insufficient, and the pressure from the opponent had begun to weaken, preventing the phenomenon from taking shape.
On the opposite side, the planetary behemoth that had been knocked back by Jie Ming stabilized its form once more.
Although Jie Ming’s attacks were far from weak, they had not caused significant damage to it.
After all, it was simply too massive.
Its tens-of-thousands-of-kilometers-tall silhouette spanned the void like an ancient demon god born at the dawn of the world.
The planet’s crust, mantle, and core had been forcibly reassembled into its body. Fractured continental plates covered its surface like layers of crude, ferocious armor.
The oceans had been flung onto its back, forming a churning, boiling deep-blue water curtain.
Mountain ranges were embedded in its shoulders and spine, continuously cracking under high temperatures.
The Divine Armament itself continuously emitted a special power, condensing these seemingly ordinary materials into entities with hardness far beyond reason. Its “head” was a massive lava sphere covered in cracks, with magma flowing slowly through the fissures.
At the center of the sphere, a dark-red fissure slowly opened — the energy core of the Divine Armament.
Dark-red light shone through from the depths of the mantle, resembling the pupil of some ancient ferocious beast awakening.
The next instant, the planetary behemoth raised its fist.
The giant fist, condensed from continental plates, liquid iron-nickel, and high-density core material, smashed down violently.
Before the fist even drew close, space began to collapse under the terrifying force. Visible ripples were pressed into the void along its path. Asteroid fragments floating thousands of kilometers away were swept by the ripples and instantly reduced to fine powder.
This time, Jie Ming did not meet it head-on. The Dharma Form abruptly shifted sideways.
Boom!
The five-hundred-kilometer-tall golden figure moved laterally with agility completely inconsistent with its size, its motions fluid to the point of being eerie.
The giant fist grazed past the Dharma Form’s shoulder. Spatial turbulence scraped a brief dark mark across its surface as golden light shook violently.
Seizing the opportunity, the Dharma Form’s hand reached out and gripped the planetary behemoth’s forearm.
Dark-golden fingers sank deeply into the crustal layer. Large swathes of rock strata shattered instantly upon contact.
Jie Ming exerted force violently, yanking the tens-of-thousands-of-kilometers-long arm downward.
Crack!!
Supported by the special power provided by the Divine Armament, the arm was not torn off.
But the sudden force caused the planetary behemoth’s center of gravity to shift. Its massive body tilted forward.
This was exactly what Jie Ming had been waiting for. The Dharma Form’s other fist had already smashed forward.
Bang!!!
The dark-golden fist struck the chest dead center. The impact force instantly pierced through the entire planetary behemoth.
The point of impact exploded into a crater hundreds of kilometers in diameter. Large amounts of crust and liquid metal sprayed outward like blood, while fractured continental plates tumbled into the void.
The planetary behemoth staggered backward from the punch.
Yet mere seconds later, the shattered crater was refilled. Liquid mantle surged to cover the gap, and broken rock layers re-fused. This thing had no concept of “injury,” because its body was itself a restructured planet.
Every piece of matter was merely a component. As long as the core remained, it could endlessly repair itself.
Jie Ming frowned slightly, having realized the same issue.
But the Dharma Form did not stop.
In the following dozens of seconds, the dark-golden giant shadow completely transformed into a high-speed afterimage.
Although both sides appeared to be super-large entities, Jie Ming’s Dharma Form would not slow down due to its size.
Years of honed combat techniques were unleashed one after another. The Dharma Form’s attacks grew faster and faster with each round, blasting open new cracks across the planetary behemoth’s surface with every contact.
Continents were torn apart, core metals were ripped apart, and entire mountain ranges were forcibly lifted and flung away like cloth.
At the same time, the Fate Subsystem was operating at full capacity. Countless data streams flashed rapidly through Jie Ming’s spiritual sea.
Mass distribution, energy flow rates, core output frequencies, reconstruction delays, material recovery trajectories… and most importantly, that continuous special power that absorbed life from the outside world.
With every clash, the Dharma Form recorded new information.
The longer they fought, the deeper the analysis became.
Yet the longer they fought, the more Jie Ming felt something was off.
Because this thing’s attack patterns… were too monotonous.
Punching.
Smashing.
Ramming.
Occasionally forming iron-nickel spikes from its body surface.
Beyond that, there were no other variations… This thing didn’t even have any decent long-range firepower.
It possessed a massive body capable of destroying planets, yet it only knew the most primitive mass-based strikes.
Of course, this did not mean the planetary behemoth was weak.
On the contrary, relying purely on planetary mass for impacts was already terrifying to the extreme.
A punch like the earlier one, if landed on an ordinary planet, would have been enough to pierce straight from the crust to the core.
But the problem was… a Divine Armament should not be limited to only this level.
The structural designs, shield interfaces, and weapon mounting points in those research documents all indicated that this suit of armor originally possessed far more complex functions. What it was displaying now was completely inconsistent with its original design.
Was there a problem with the activation method?
Or… had he overlooked something?
Boom!
The Dharma Form chopped down with its palm. The planetary behemoth’s entire left arm was severed on the spot.
The arm formed of continental plates tumbled into the void, only to be pulled back by the core’s gravity and begin slowly returning to the main body.
Jie Ming seized the instant its arm was severed and closed in fiercely. Both hands clamped onto the lava sphere head.
Then, he pressed down hard!
Rumble!!!
The lava sphere was directly pushed into the chest cavity.
Boiling molten lava sprayed wildly between the Dharma Form’s palms, only to be evaporated into particle streams by the dark-golden divine light.
At that very instant, the planetary behemoth’s chest and abdomen split open violently. Dozens of spikes condensed from high-density core iron-nickel shot out explosively! The Dharma Form twisted sharply to evade. Most of the spikes missed, but two still pierced fiercely into its waist.
Buzz…
The Dharma Form shook violently. Jie Ming’s true body inside the Dharma Form’s chest swayed slightly.
His powerful physique immediately filtered and absorbed the impact, but the heavy shock was still clearly transmitted.
“Decent power, but if this is your final trump card…” Jie Ming’s eyes turned completely cold.
Enough. Probing time was over!
Having confirmed that the opponent had no more cards left, Jie Ming decided to end the battle and use his own methods to uncover the secrets hidden within this thing!
His true body flew out from the Dharma Form’s chest cavity, while the original Dharma Form gradually dissipated into particles of light.
The thousand-meter-tall dark-golden figure was as insignificant as a speck of dust before the five-hundred-kilometer Dharma Form.
Yet that speck of dust… was glowing!
Boom!!!
The Trigram Fire Annihilation Divine Light erupted completely. Jie Ming’s flesh instantly transformed into light.
The Return to Ruins Armor became the core framework maintaining energy stability, converting his entire body into a pure high-energy light state.
In that moment, it was as if a miniature star had suddenly appeared in the void.
This was the Light God Transformation — a technique he had not used since refining his true body!
Although his true body already carried some characteristics of Light God Transformation, the greatly improved law control after reaching the Dao Integration Realm allowed Jie Ming to further refine this skill.
The Great Void Step propelled his energy-state body into true lightspeed.
The entire world slowed dramatically in his perception. Every energy pathway within the planetary behemoth became clearly visible.
Every pulse of the core, every cycle of energy — nothing could hide.
Then… Jie Ming moved.
A straight dark-golden light trail instantly pierced through the void.
Boom!!!
In his Light God Transformation state, he smashed directly into the planetary behemoth’s chest.
The instant of contact, temperature exceeded the critical point.
Trigram Fire Annihilation Divine Light spread wildly along the contact surface. All matter it touched — whether rock layers, oceans, or the already heat-resistant iron-nickel core and liquid metal — was decomposed into fundamental particles.
Then even the particles themselves were further annihilated, turning into the most basic elements.
A massive hole instantly exploded open in the planetary behemoth’s chest, and that cavity continued expanding at geometric speed.
Jie Ming pierced through from the front, tearing apart everything in his path, then burst out from the back.
The next instant, he turned and came again.
The second penetration.
The third.
The fourth…
Dark-golden light trails shuttled madly through the massive body like countless spears of light, riddling the entire planetary behemoth.
Each penetration precisely struck the operating energy pathways within, severing the Divine Armament’s control over the planetary matter.
Finally, the planetary behemoth began to collapse.
Having lost unified coordination, the forcibly fused matter fell into complete disarray.
Continental plates shattered in all directions under Jie Ming’s impacts. Liquid oceans were flung away by inertia. Core metals fractured and scattered under gravitational forces. The entire tens-of-thousands-of-kilometers-tall giant body began disintegrating comprehensively from within.
At the center of the total collapse, the Divine Armament was finally exposed.
It was a bare spherical core space, surrounded by remnants of core material.
At the very center, the dark-gray war armor floated silently.
The biological blood patterns on its outer shell had been almost completely absorbed, leaving only a few dark-red traces still flickering faintly.
The energy core pulsed weakly, like a dying heart.
Jie Ming abruptly stopped before it.
His light state contracted once more, and dark gold reconverged into physical form.
The surface of the Return to Ruins Armor flowed with the residual energy glow of the entire planet. The edges of the armor still glowed faintly.
He reached out. His five fingers gripped the Divine Armament’s shoulder armor.
Buzz!!!
The war armor shook violently. Its core pulsed frantically, as if struggling.
But before Jie Ming’s immovable giant hand, all light eventually extinguished unwillingly. The entire suit of armor fell back into deathly silence.
In the void, only a slowly expanding planetary debris belt remained.
The former homeworld of the Tentacle Tree Civilization was now nothing more than countless floating remnants, slowly cooling in the cold darkness.
Jie Ming gripped the Divine Armament tightly and turned, flying out of the debris belt.