Poison God's Heritage

Beauty in carnage and death. Cruel and lavish brutality, with a hint of divinity in execution. The Blue Sun's brain kept spinning as she watched Shen Bao's massive form ripping the head of a creature several stages above it in cultivation by sheer savage force.

"Savage Divinity."

Those were the only words that could come out of her mouth as the blood spray reached all the way to her robes. She didn't even flinch when she was sprayed with it.

Shen Bao remained standing with blood dripping down the torn head of the Noble Black all over his forearm, further defining his burning pumping muscles. While his entire robe was a mix of dark purple and blue blood.

The rakshasa around him were terrorized as they ran away in every direction, the terror was so much that they even ran right into the range of the Blue Sun where they were eliminated without her even moving her eyes away from Shen Bao as she swatted them away like they were flies.

One of the Heaven Stage cultivators that were close to the Blue Sun, a woman too, nudged her by the elbow, "You're drooling," she teased.

The Blue Sun was finally woken from her stupor and shook her head, she gave a cold glare to her follower but smiled afterward turning her head away in embarrassment. As if a young teenage girl had been caught watching her crush.

The Blue Sun coughed, "I guess there is no point in this small competition," she said.

Shen Bao huffed and puffed as his body began returning to normal, while he said, "W-why, huff, there are still—a lot of rakshasa… left," he said gasping as he tried to regulate his breath and the unbalanced flow of his qi.

Once he removed the Golden Titan's madness, he slumped down on the ground, barely able to stand, he gasped a few times, "Shit, that was taxing…" he said as his heartbeat could be heard from far away, droplets of golden blood slowly seeped out of his nose.

"You overtaxed your body, you're going to have serious internal injuries if you continue on, we'll rest here," she said.

Shen Bao seemed a bit disappointed but the Blue Sun explained to him.

"What you did just now, was impressive, also," this part she said via Divine Sense for his ears only, "What happened for the Raksahsa to have to give up half of its consciousness just to escape your sea of consciousness?"

"I don't know, he was terrified of the second half of my soul," Shen Bao replied.

The Blue Sun didn't understand fully what he meant and wanted to pick his brain for an explanation later.

"Whatever you did, it caused another rakshasa that was about to evolve to immediately cancel out and lose his opportunity to go to the next evolution level. Your soul's second half must have something to do with it.

It was as if it knew that the moment it evolved, it'll become your primary prey and was terrified of the thought, that's only possible if one is at the Sun Stage to cause such terror into the hearts of the Rakshasa, we'll study that part later," she said.

"I don't mind," Shen Bao said as he pulled several pills and began chugging them. He was so exhausted that he couldn't move, and you could see his muscles cringing by themselves,

"I'm switching bodies," Shen Bao said. "It's too much pain and I really can't control this one well, it'll need to be down for maintenance for a few days," he said and soon, a small portal appeared next to him, where the automaton appeared and manifested a seated Shen Mo.

Shen Mo's body woke up, and with it, the original avatar went down to self cultivate. The Automaton grabbed Shen Bao's body and took it back to the Lord of Lords pagoda.

Opening his eyes in Shen Mo's body he looked around and said, "What?"

"You have bodies for spare?" the Blue Sun said.

"Oh, it's not easy to do this though, well it's a compatibility issue." He said.

"I never thought you're someone who possesses bodies," she said. Her tone and expression portrayed some disappointment.

"Oh, I didn't steal this body, it was willingly given, in exchange for a grudge to be satisfied I was given this body. I never coerced the owner, he willingly gave it and you can feel the compatibility yourself."

The Blue Sun scanned the body with her divine sense and said, "Oh, Demonic Energy, and quite weighty too, although barely at the King Stage."

"Yes, I got this body rather late and never focused on its cultivation. But it is better than nothing for now, my original is suffering from muscle damage, now let's get to work."

And he was right, the original purpose of this venture was to clear the bastion and to repossess it.

The cultivators waited a bit as they rested from the aftermath of the combat. The Rakshasa had already dipped and ran away their tails tucked behind their legs.

After a while of resting, the entire group continued marching forward, hunting any stragglers and chasing them down closed corners to eliminate them.

Tao Yang was about to drop a tear but hastily wiped it off, but that didn't skip Shen Bao's notice.

He approached her and said, "There is no shame in defeat, your people did their best with what they had, the difference is that these guys are forged in battle and wouldn't be as caught up as what happened with the Solarous people, it's alright, all is part of life," he said.

She nodded and added, "If only I had a hundred capable warriors, only a hundred… we would have survived," she said.

Shen Bao couldn't find any comfort words for a person who lost their identity and people. So he could only keep her company in silence.

The group continued on for several hours, eliminating any futile attempts at ambushing them all thanks to the constant detections from the Blue Sun's eyes. She wouldn't miss a single Silver Rakshasa in hiding and would instantly give orders for elimination.

After a while they made it to the engine room where several reactors had been fully revived but many more were in need of a complete overhaul and replacement, which Shen Bao had already prepared for.

His puppets in the forge of the Lord of Lords pagoda had been constantly pumping materials for his printer which created several smaller fusion reactors that were ready to replace the damaged ones.

Once they arrived, the Automaton opened up another portal inside the Bastion and began pushing hundreds of reactors forward, Shen Bao with the help of the Blue Sun and several other cultivators knowledgeable in the art of craftsmanship began installing the reactors and fusing them together with the bastion.

The reactors fit in like a glove in their respective slots and all began revving as they went into action charging up the bastion with the energy it desperately needed.

Several sections of the bastion that were inaccessible began opening up, and fallen Soulsteel cubes floated back and fit in their respective slots.

The entire bastion felt as if it was taking a second breath of life as it vibrated loudly and roared as it declared its resurrection.

The energy that the Bastion needed was massive, but with so many reactors, it was more than easy to generate.

"With this much energy… " Tao Yang said and her eyes firmly focused on a small projectile dais.

"Allow me," she said as she placed both arms on the side of the raised dais manifesting the entire ship's holographic design in front of her.

"I'll be reshaping the Bastion, please everyone remain where you are," she said.

The cultivators looked at each other, since most of them didn't know the true identity of Tao Yang, but no one seemed to be able to say anything since the Blue Sun didn't disagree or say anything to stop her.

Soon, the entire bastion rocked and shook, as it began moving by itself internally, massive cubes began moving and displacing themselves, moving like a Rubik's Cube, detaching and re-attaching themselves in several parts, moving like a sliding puzzle game. Reshaping the entire thing, and that wasn't without a purpose.

Tao Yang had a goal in mind and she was using the energy given by the engines to do so.

The entire bastion from the outside was being reconstructed. From a massive long submarine-like shape to a pyramid-like structure. Not only that, Shen Bao noticed something. She was pushing several walls in a specific direction, and each time she would stop and reallocate the same walls, pushing them sideways down or up for a reason only she knew of.

Seeing his confusion, Tao Yang said, "I'm hearding them," she said and that's all he needed to know.

After several hours of shaking and moving, the entire bastion had stopped moving and it finally seemed to have taken its final shape. A floating bipyramid.

"Where are the Rakshasa?" Shen Bao asked. "They're all in the central area, they cannot escape nor move, and we can now take them all down," she said.

She herded every enemy inside the bastion, slowly, pushing them with the bastion's walls for one massive closed area where they couldn't escape or run away, in a small chamber where they can't do anything but wait for the cultivators to come to them. Basically, they're fish in a barrel.

Just as everyone understood that there is only one final battle left, the Blue Sun's eyes widened, "EVERYONE GRAB ONTO SOMETHING!"

The entire bastion was rattled from the air as if struck by a meteor.