The words of the hooded figure left Gao Xin speechless.
"Get it without being noticed, and you can take it?" Indeed, on this island, that’s really the rule.
This is a lawless place, at most people talk about relationships, backgrounds, strength, but there’s absolutely no law.
They saved him and just wanted to borrow his sword to play around, so he had nothing to pursue.
However, he really needed his own territory in the future.
Gao Xin has stayed in others’ hos twice, once when Kerry secretly took his Radiation material, and once when the hooded figure stole his Demon Blade.
Good heavens, true to Cri Prison Island, average residents are criminals, and at the very least, they’re unclean.
Once he rescued Luo Yan and they fled together, it was essential to settle down in a safe nest.
Gao Xin steadied his mind and suddenly laughed, "Hahaha, this blade is indeed precious, priceless. You saved , and if you want to borrow it to play around, just say it, no need to sneak around."
"I’m just curious, what exactly is Cangyue Material? Could you show it to ?"
Gao Xin said, probing.
The hooded figure was stunned for a mont and laughed, "You don’t think I took the Cangyue Material from the blade, do you? Hahaha!"
"You’re mistaken, on this island, no one can extract Cangyue Material."
"I don’t even know what it is."
Gao Xin noncommittally said, "Oh? The one you had before was just used as a weapon?"
The hooded figure chuckled, "Isn’t that what everyone’s doing? Not everyone is qualified to study the Demon Blade."
"Everyone dreams of unlocking the secrets of unbeatable power from it..."
"But if everyone could obtain the power of Cangyue, I’m afraid the sky... would be turned upside down."
Gao Xin was taken aback. Secrets of unbeatable power from Cangyue?
Good heavens, the implications were that huge?
He couldn’t help but ask, "Unbeatable power? That number one vile criminal in the world? How is he unbeatable? Could he truly resist the military forces all by himself?"
The hooded figure chuckled, "Who knows? I don’t know how strong Cangyue really is, I’ve never seen him after all."
"Among those captured on the island, many are his subordinates, but they deify Cangyue as omnipotent, which is definitely embellished."
"However, so of his dreadful achievents are real and acknowledged by so higher-ups in the navy."
"Like how he single-handedly destroyed the army’s front-line headquarters, wiping out the entire high command, five high generals, ten lieutenant generals, twenty major generals... all killed by him."
"And, surrounded by ten thousand ’Omnipotent Authority Angels’, twenty thousand ’Destructive Energy Angels’, and as many as two hundred thousand ’Combat Power Angels’, he escaped unscathed and even heavily damaged the Smart chanical Army."
"That’s a true story. The battle left the army weakened, and they’re still in a defensive stance to this day, with the navy now mainly handling the campaign against the extremist army."
Gao Xin was dumbfounded. Is this still human?
He exclaid in shock, "Really? No wonder he’s the number one vile criminal; he nearly wiped out the entire army high command by himself."
"The most terrifying thing is, how did he withstand those Smart chanical Armies?"
Although he didn’t know how formidable these Authority Angels, Energy Angels, Power Angels really were.
From the S-class nanosuit exchange list in the Silver Tower, one could infer that AIs were capable of creating Dragon-level robot warriors.
Even if costly, it shouldn’t be a problem to produce tens of thousands of sets.
How strong must Cangyue be to not fear the siege of these chanical beings?
The hooded figure shook his head, "I don’t know, don’t ask . In fact, after confirming this incident, all the major powers on the island felt there was sothing fishy about it."
"They believe the main reason for the military’s humiliating defeat is internal political struggles."
"From the outco, it fits the narrative. After all, the navy has now fully taken over the task of combating the extremist army."
"Moreover, so say that the biggest ’traitor’ is within the military, or perhaps the top twenty giant corporations feared the AI-controlled military power was too vast, so to doom the AI troops, they set a large trap, and Cangyue was put forward to take the bla."
"There are various theories, but it is generally agreed that half of Cangyue’s invincibility is exaggerated."
Gao Xin realized, "Oh? It’s a man-made disaster? Fostering the enemy for one’s own gain?"
The hooded figure casually said, "Of course, how could a human possibly stand against machinery?"
Gao Xin’s brows furrowed slightly, "Who says it’s impossible? The potential of life is infinite."
The hooded figure chuckled, "Sure, people always like to believe in ’man can conquer nature’. Who wants to admit they’re just an insignificant speck in the universe?"
Gao Xin curled his lip, "We’re not specks, we’re the sacred spirits of the universe."
"..." The hooded figure was a bit speechless.
"Alright, alright, whatever you say is fine.""
"Actually, about the leader of this extremist army, everyone secretly thinks that he might just be a public enemy deliberately established by the giant corporations, and so even speculate that he’s from the Guanghao Group, the illegitimate son of ’Guang,’ the creator of small reactors."
"Otherwise, there’s no explaining why, as the officially declared number one criminal, he has yet to be eradicated?"
"Could it be that they can’t eradicate him? Impossible, how vast is the military’s power?"
"No matter how strong Radiation is, he can’t stand against the military’s countless war machines."
"You might say that the potential of life is infinite, and perhaps Radiants are indeed the most advantageous path against machinery," he mused.
"Fine, even if that’s true, don’t forget. The organization with the most Radiants in the world is also the official army, isn’t it?"
"Sixty percent of SR and SSR ranks have joined the military, thirty percent are on Cri Prison Island, and just ten percent are scattered around the world."
"And of that ten percent scattered about, only half are in the Extre Intent Army."
Gao Xin’s expression turned grave, indeed, there was no power on earth that could withstand the official governnt forces, with their grip on all the world’s resources, manpower, and scientific prowess.
Radiants, Cybergs, Smart chanical Army, strategic weapons... The military’s combat value was truly multidinsional, an all-encompassing hexagon...
And the Army had been crippled by Cangyue alone? Were they kidding? That was utterly ludicrous.
To this day, the Extre Intent Army still existed; the most likely reason was that the military self-perpetuated the threat to justify defense spending, afraid that without an opponent, the budget would be cut, even resulting in downsizing to rely only on the salariless Smart chanical Army, and thus they deliberately let them be.
Gao Xin asked, "If this matter is full of uncertainties, just how strong is Cangyue’s actual strength?"
The man in the black robe said solemnly, "There is no doubt that he remains the strongest in the world."
"Even if his battle achievents are exaggerated, he is still the strongest Radiant, without peer."
"At least within the human community, he is invincible under the heavens."
"He has many unique abilities, such as Energy Absorption and Energy Projection. Even the Demon Blade he forged from his own body can withstand a plasma main battle cannon of zettajoule level."
"Not only can it absorb all the energy and store it, but it can also instantly project that energy back out with a slash of the blade. This combat thod is his most commonly used signature move, known as the ’Magic Energy Slash’."
"And since the military’s most powerful weapons are mostly energy-based, even if it’s said that there’s sothing fishy about his capabilities, only half of it might be inflated; his ability indeed counters many high-energy weapons."
Gao Xin drew in a sharp breath. A zettajoule level plasma main battle cannon was equivalent to the power of two Hiroshima atomic bombs combined.
A single shot from it could obliterate a city, leaving behind a lake glowing with blue-white plasma.
And it was absorbed using a Demon Blade? Was this the strength of the original Demon Blade?
And this object, he crafted it using his own body? Wouldn’t that an he was virtually immune to energy attacks? That any energy directed at him would be like charging his batteries?
"Is there any exaggeration in this ability?" asked Gao Xin.
The man in the black robe smiled, "Regardless of how much exaggeration there might be, this ability genuinely exists. All imitation Demon Blades require fragnts of the original as their main ingredient."
"Even the Silver Tower, up to this point, does not offer this ability for exchange, leaving us to wonder whether the AI fails to extract it or simply doesn’t wish to offer it to everyone."
"But no matter the case, it’s a superpower that everyone desires."
"On this island, many top fighters have refrained from using ’Gene Integration’ just to save their spot for this module."
"The module also has a resounding na, terd the ’Devotion High Energy’ module!"
"It ans that all high-energy strikes are but offerings to the Demon King, Cangyue."
Gao Xin nodded, "I see, so everyone wants to integrate Cangyue’s genes to acquire his module."
"As the world’s strongest Radiant, even if they don’t get the ’Devotion High Energy’, acquiring any of his other modules would be a boon."
"Moreover, the top powers could monopolize enough imitation Demon Blades to achieve victory through sheer numbers."
"If one person isn’t enough, then ten people should try. If that’s still insufficient, then they would persist, continuously collecting Demon Blades and repeatedly integrating them until soone captures the ’Devotion High Energy’ module."
"If many people possessed the ’Devotion High Energy’, the value of AI’s various super energy weapons would significantly diminish. If one Cangyue is formidable, an army of them could indeed turn the heavens upside down."
At last, he understood why limited-edition Demon Blades sold out as soon as they hit the shelves.
But Gao Xin then asked curiously, "But has no one really integrated it even until now?"
He rembered the man in the black robe saying earlier that no one had obtained this secret, and to date, no one had succeeded.
"No," said the man in the black robe, "once such an ability erges, it would inevitably shake the whole island."
"If soone did acquire it but is hiding it, afraid to use it, what’s the difference between that and not having it at all?"
Curiously, Gao Xin asked, "Then that’s truly strange. Since it’s known that Cangyue’s genes are in the blade, even if they can’t be extracted, why not just eat the blade whole?"
"Digest all impurities, and what remains is Cangyue’s genes. Even if they aren’t discoverable, they must be inside the body, so why not activate integration to capture them?"
The man in the black robe explained, "Indeed, what you’ve described has been attempted before, to no avail."
"We’re not talking about ’Devotion High Energy’ – any other module has failed to be obtained, not even organ overclocking; they just integrated loneliness."
"Besides, if it were possible to integrate, the military would have certainly been the first to accomplish it."
"The Silver Tower selling various Demon Blades might also be hoping that soone on Cri Prison Island will uncover their secret."
"Now many suspect that the so-called Cangyue Material does not contain his genes, but is rely a substance that replicates the effect... otherwise, why not simply call it Cangyue Cells?"
"It is very likely that it is sothing manufactured by his body, akin to equipnt."
Gao Xin nodded; indeed, it must be so novel substance.
Although it was born from his body, it did not necessarily contain his genes.
It might be akin to an Exoskeleton Armor, so kind of biological factory capability that can produce a microscopic super-material, or even a device.
In that case, the greatest use of that substance would indeed be to create weapons or armor, which is precisely what Cangyue himself did.
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