The Heavenly Martial Empress Returns: An OP Xianxia Returnee LitRPG

Chapter 171: Against Mechanicus

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Although Mechanicus showed complete confidence on the outside, deep inside he was beginning to question what he was seeing.

“Did this woman just tank my attack? Capable of splitting a continent in half? Not even Galaxy Man could take it head-on; he was severely exhausted for a minute or two!”

However, unlike Galaxy Man, Bing Xue wasn’t exhausted; in fact, she seemed completely fine; even her clothes were fine!

Even when she tanked an attack hyper charged with electromagnetic energies of the highest power, which could only be unleashed by Mechanicus and his gigantic Silver Star.

“My Silver Star is capable of destroying entire planets or wiping out all life from them,” he thought. “I’ve used it to easily mine any planet that I find has enough materials for my ever-growing empire. But without my Empire here, the only thing I can rely on is my one and only Silver Star! Yet she tanked…?!”

“What’s wrong? You look worried!” said Bing Xue as she unsheathed her blade. “Maybe this will make you feel better.”

“She saw through my façade?!” Mechanicus panicked, gritting his teeth as he quickly conjured a gigantic shield made of electromagnetic fields, capable of tanking multiple nukes. “You think a mere sword can pierce through my-”

“{Yin and Yang Harmonious Blade Arts}: {Endless Cycle of Harmony}”

FLAAASH!

For a moment, Mechanicus saw the convergence between light and darkness, Yin and Yang, life and death, the sun and the moon.

His mechanical eyes widened in utter disbelief as he saw a gigantic black and white-colored lotus blossom in front of him.

And then…

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

Hundreds of slashing attacks engulfed his shield, destroying it and shattering it into countless tiny pieces within mere seconds.

“W-Wha…?! I-Impossible!” Mechanicus screamed. “My Hundred-Layered Electromagnetic Photon Field Shield! I-It shouldn’t break; it never breaks!”

“Anything that is matter can break before the blade of my Soul.”

Bing Xue’s word manifested to reality as she swung her empty hand against Mechanicus; a giant sword made of crimson flames manifested.

She continued attacking without even giving him time to rest!

“{Primordial Heaven Soul Blade}: {Red Heaven Inferno}”

FLUOOOSH!

Suddenly, it felt as if he had been engulfed by an endless inferno of flames and a crimson sky, flames surging from every angle as they cut through his mechanical body and melted him.

“UUAAAGGH! NOOOO!!! S-SILVER STAR!!!”

With a desperate scream, a gigantic azure-colored portal opened in front of him, blocking Bing Xue’s sword attacks as a massive, titanic star made entirely out of metal emerged.

With thousands of mechanical tentacles equipped with gigantic claws and dozens of azure-colored eyes charging energy.

“So this is the secret of your power, huh?”

Bing Xue instantly clashed against thousands of mechanical tentacles at once, slicing through them all with incredible precision. Each time they were to reach her, they were sliced apart and then exploded into pieces.

SLASH! BOOM!

SLASH! BOOM!

SLASH! BOOM!

SLASH! BOOM!

This pattern continued endlessly as Mechanicus could only watch in utter disbelief as his Silver Star’s attacks were being rapidly overcome by Bing Xue.

To make things worse, Ra and Merneith weren’t just watching! They flew around him and reached him from the rear, pointing their blazing spear at him.

“You’ll pay for what you did to my Ra!”

Merneith was furious, thrusting her spear against Mechanicus, who desperately used Silver Star’s mechanical limbs to protect himself.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

Yet Ra’s spear blazed with the power of the sun’s plasma itself, easily piercing all the metallic alloys in which Mechanicus creations were made, melting them and blowing them up into pieces.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

“W-What are these beings?! This universe…! It is way too powerful! I must escape!”

Mechanicus quickly panicked as he opened an azure portal where the dimension where Silver Star was stored! However, the moment he rushed inside to hide while Silver Star distracted Bing Xue…

“Where do you think you’re going?!”

With a furious roar, a third figure appeared from the skies, descending like a meteor of silver light, taking the form of a giant werewolf made of such light.

“Huh?!”

Mechanicus was unable to do a single thing before the one that descended tore his body apart with the force of his descending body alone.

BOOOMMM!!!

As Mechanicus died, the portal storing Silver Star started to malfunction, glitching and beginning to make his creation go insane.

“W-Wha…?! You’re awake already?!”

Bing Xue gasped, noticing the young man from the future with powers similar to hers having already appeared.

“Did you think your little trick would work on me for longer than an hour?!” he asked angrily. “I’ve adapted to it; it won’t work anymore either!”

“I-I didn’t intend to seal you forever anyways!” said Bing Xue. “And that’s good; I’m glad you’ve adapted and become better against Soul Attacks, son!”

“Don’t call me your son!” He screamed angrily, his aura erupting tremendously.

“B-Bing Xue, what’s going on?!” Merneith panicked, glancing at Bing Xue from afar. “Who is he?! Y-You said your son?!”

“Long story short, he’s my son from a future timeline where I… where I died,” Bing Xue explained, only making things even more confusing.

“E-Eh?!” Merneith gasped. “But that’s…!”

TRUUUM!

Before they could continue talking, however, the Silver Star suddenly started charging with electromagnetic energy, as its entire surface changed.

Suddenly, its giant eyes glanced around as a huge mouth materialized.

“Did you think you killed me?! The Silver Star is me, and I am the Silver Star, hahahaha! I have countless bodies. Do you truly believe you can destroy me?”

“Yes, I do!”

Bing Xue ignored her son for a moment as she unleashed a powerful technique, an evolution of the Endless Cycle of Harmony that she infused with the power of the Sun and the Moon itself.

“{Yin And Yang Harmonious Blade Arts}: {Endless Cycle Of Harmony Echo}”

FLAAASH!

The same illusory domain was manifested around the Silver Star, as Mechanicus quickly tried to destroy it by firing hundreds of beams from the Silver Star, which resulted to also be his secondary body.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The Illusory Domain started distorting and breaking apart into glass-like pieces, only for it to come back together almost instantly.

“W-What?!”

The alien supervillain of the parallel timeline world where superheroes and supervillains existed together was utterly flabbergasted. Even more when Bing Xue wasn’t even done using her technique.

Even when he had fought Galaxy Man, the sentinel of the galaxy, and many other mighty foes, even powerful wizards and genetically modified beings, or even descendants of ancient gods, he had never fought someone quite like Bing Xue before!

Her very technique and her very words simply twisted reality around her... Her powers, her abilities, they controlled space...

And even time!

Yin and Yang converged, then exploded, generating an endless chaos.

“{Endless Destruction of Harmony: Chaos Unleashed}”

Mechanicus watched the endless chaos rushing towards him and consuming him entirely… the imagery of a withering lotus flower imprinted into his mind.

“T-This is… a true Goddess?”

SLAAASH!

A gigantic slashing attack consumed Mechanicus and his Silver Star, splitting the titanic machine apart and then disintegrating both halves with a gigantic explosion.

BOOOMMM!!!

Nothing was left of him, not even ashes.

“Hahh…”

Bing Xue’s Illusory Domain dissipated, revealing no damage to the outside world. She had learned to apply the power of Divine Domains to her own techniques, trapping foes within small, temporary pseudo-domains to negate any damage she could cause in the outside world.

She sheathed her sword and then finally glanced at her son, who was looking at her while squinting his eyes.

“You’ve grown stronger after we fought… How ironic,” he laughed. “It seems that I might truly be changing the future…”

“Come with me,” Bing Xue said. “Let’s change the future together! I know we can… If you’re with me, my son… I-”

“No,” the young man said, completely rejecting her offer. “I don’t need you to change the future. This power… which I acquired and which I could never use to change anything, This time, for sure, I’ll save this world. Without you.”

“That’s…” Bing Xue sighed. “If I help you, then wouldn’t it be easier then?”

“I said I don’t care anymore about you!” He angrily said. “I… I’m done.”

As he turned his back on Bing Xue and was about to leave…

Suddenly.

“Wait!”

A voice he could recognize echoed behind him.

The young man was paralyzed, his eyes widening.

“Please wait a moment… Bing Xue told me about you!”

“…”

The young man slowly turned his face, instantly recognizing the face of the mother that raised him for his first six years of life.

Before she died protecting him…

“Mo… ther?”

It was Urbosa, her golden eyes, her long gray hair, her pale colored fur, and her small, fluffy hands, which always held him so carefully.

Despite him not being quite like her, she loved him with all her soul and with all her heart.

“You haven’t even been born here… But I’m so happy to see you’ve grown to be such an incredible young man…” Urbosa smiled tenderly, shedding a tear.

Bing Xue was able to realize who was his mother based on his elements. While Merkite mastered the Wind Element, her sister, Urbosa, used lightning.

And this young man used lightning elements the most, while wind was completely absent from his techniques or skills.

“Could you come talk with us? Please?”

“…”

The man, for a moment, hesitated as he glanced at Urbosa and ended up shedding tears with each passing second.

“No…”

“But…”

“The path I must walk is one where you cannot come with me, mother. Sorry. I have to go. Someone else… Someone else is waiting for me too.”

“…”

Urbosa glanced at the young man flying away.

At the very least, he didn’t seem as aggressive anymore; if anything, he had finally calmed down after seeing her.

“So it was indeed our son.” Bing Xue nodded. “Hahh… It’s alright.”

Urbosa hugged Bing Xue tightly as she cried.

Even though this was the first time she met him, she instantly felt a connection with him.

Similarly to how she felt always connected to Hekita.

“Maybe if we had let him see Hekita, maybe he would have…!”

“It’s already clear he wants to walk a lonely path, Urbosa.”

“But he’s our son!”

“I know… But forcing him… is not the right thing to do either.”

“Ahh… Just what did he go through in that world… His eyes were so full of hopelessness… I have never seen… Someone with a heart so wounded as him.”

“Me neither…”

Bing Xue had picked up her family and wives on the way to the airport, who were waiting for her inside her Inner Realm.

However, in this moment, she tried to let her son from the future see Urbosa and see if this could make him melt down.

At the end, it didn’t work as she hoped.

“Wow, okay, so a lot happened…” Merneith said, walking to their side. “Um, I would like to learn more context? If possible…”

“Ah, of course, sorry about that, Merneith; a lot has happened, as you can see,” Bing Xue nodded. “Shall we go somewhere safer? Let me fix this place first… Thankfully, nobody died.”

“Sure, take your time…” Merneith nodded, although she felt a bit jealous of Urbosa, who was hugging Bing Xue all she wanted.

“I want to hug you too, you know?” She thought, pouting and blushing a bit.

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FLASH!

He flew across the skies, defeating any troublemaking monster or foe he found. There were several strange “villains” that appeared; every single one of them that posed a threat was swiftly eliminated.

Only the smartest ones that hid managed to survive his surveillance. And once he was done, he moved forward, reaching the outskirts of New York.

He soared across the skies faster, and faster, and faster, encompassing his body with Spiritual Energy and Mana, and then his Primordial Venerable Ki.

FLUOSH!

Until suddenly, it felt as if his body passed through a thin, light membrane, reaching “somewhere else” entirely.

A world of twisted colors, darkness, light, and floating ruins of ancient civilizations, graveyards, destroyed churches, and enormous empires.

All fallen, stored here…

“The Graveyard of History… The Spiritual Plane, made out of Earth’s Collective Consciousness and the Decayed History of Humanity and Life,” he said, glancing around. “This is where you were hiding, right? And where I hid… and where you trained me. For many years.”

He flew across this infinitely larger place than Earth itself, a place that was there, and that wasn’t there at the same time.

If one was unable to become purely Spiritual, made of Spirit Energy, it was impossible to enter or even detect this place.

“There it is.”

A distortion within this desolated area was found by his bright rainbow wolf-like eyes, noticing a giant nest made out of the ruins of ancient civilizations covered by white spiderwebs.

He reached its entrance, walking inside without caring about triggering any traps.

Instantly after entering, he sensed hundreds of presences—mutated people turned half-spider, arachnoids.

“Who dares enter our Queen’s Lair?!”

They pointed their spears and weapons against him.

Instead of feeling anger, he felt nostalgic, though.

“Ah, you guys are still here, huh? I’m glad to see you’re doing fine.”

“H-Huh?”

“What is this guy talking about?”

“Ah, our Queen!”

They gasped as they saw an incredibly powerful presence descend, materializing above him, half human-like and half spider-like.

“Who are you?! How were you able to enter my Lair?”

The young man smiled warmly, seeing her beautiful upper body, her slender figure, her pale white skin, combined with her long purple hair.

Her long spider-like legs, so elegant and beautiful; her big crimson eyes above her forehead; and her sharp purple eyes, which glowed with a red glint sometimes.

Her body was covered by a dark purple exoskeleton, yet it showed a beautiful and slender humanoid figure.

“You’re as beautiful as the day I lost you.”

His words, somewhat, resonated within her heart and her soul.

“W-What?!”

For a moment, the cruel and cunning primal spider goddess blushed, as she felt flattered by this young man’s ethereal charm.

However, she quickly lost her temper, gritting her mandibles angrily!

“Y-You dare flirt with me?! Capture him!”

Without even fighting back, he let them cover him with spiderwebs and drag him away.

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