The Possession Demon Monarch thrashed futilely within Alice's restraints, shrieking curses and threats in the Abyssal Sage King's name, hoping to intimidate the group.
Its bluster was met only with indifference.
Everyone present knew the truth: should the Abyssal Sage King dare manifest his true form on Douluo Continent, plane suppression would reduce his power to that of a mere second-tier god.
Even wielding the super-divine tool Heavenly Sacred Splitting Abyss Halberd, he'd struggle against Tang Hao—who commanded the plane's authority. Against Gu La, whose profound foundations and boundless techniques defied reckoning? The sovereign's threats were hollow.
Gu La no longer spared the doomed insect a glance. He focused entirely on the task before him.
Raising his hand, he summoned the creation that had consumed thirteen years of his life—a fusion of rare resources and interdimensional wisdom—now suspended in midair.
This was no ordinary mecha, nor a pure Pokémon. It was the vessel he'd prepared for his third martial soul.
Its prototype was Zygarde—the guardian of nature's order in the Pokémon world, the God of Natural Order!
But the form Gu La had exchanged for at immense cost from the system wasn't the original Z-shaped core and cell assembly.
It came from an alternate timeline—a world where nature had been utterly ravaged, ecosystems collapsed, and even Zygarde failed to restore balance. Humanity descended into desperate, isolated survival.
Even the villainous Team Plasma, fighting for existence, turned their research toward Zygarde's cells. Combining them with controlled nuclear fusion technology, they birthed the Order Guardian · Mechanical Zygarde!
Mechanical absolutism perfectly embodied Zygarde's divine domain of "order," allowing it to rebirth as a perfected Pokémon in a new, mightier form.
It drew power from all acts—biological and non-biological—that established or shattered order! With Flying and Steel attributes, it commanded weather-altering, force-field-generating, environment-reshaping destruction and defense beyond measure.
Beyond retaining core skills like Core Enforcer, Land's Wrath, and Thousand Waves, it had birthed four terrifying new signature techniques of unfathomable power.
Now, Gu La would fuse this Mechanical Zygarde with his Heavenly Refined metal mecha—powered by a Pulse Engine—to complete his ultimate form!
Not by loading a Pokémon into a mecha—but by making Mechanical Zygarde the core, absorbing and assimilating the divine mecha.
The mecha's intricate framework would become its new, more powerful body. Its chest and abdomen would house dual energy cores: a controlled nuclear fusion reactor from alien technology, and the system-provided divine Pulse Engine. Twin power sources would unleash energy far beyond mortal limits!
Upon its head rested a Mechanical Crown symbolizing absolute dominion. More than mere equipment granting constant all-around enhancement, it possessed a world-defying trait—when struck by any of the eight attributes it resisted, Mechanical Zygarde would not only take no damage but gain attack power!
"Begin."
Gu La's voice was calm yet resolute. Celebi's space-time energy surged around him, warping reality and conceptual boundaries, preparing to transform this impossible entity into part of his very being—his true third martial soul.
The avatars nodded in unison. The vast life energy they'd refined and purified flowed as radiant torrents into Gu La and the floating fusion core.
Alice glanced at the utterly immobilized Possession Demon Sovereign. Lunar and solar illusions flickered in her eyes. Divine power imbued with yin-yang creation surged—pop!
The sovereign and all its clones dissolved into pure abyssal energy. Along with it, the plane core essence it commanded as sovereign erupted forth.
Abyssal Monarch fallen!
The entire "Layer of Illusions" plane groaned under unbearable strain. The sky fractured; the earth melted. Laws collapsed rapidly. The plane entered its destruction countdown.
The avatars accelerated their efforts. As the plane disintegrated, even more potent, purer life energy flooded out—harnessed, transformed, and funneled into Gu La like rivers to the sea, fueling this final, crucial step.
Gu La had studied Wang Dong'er and Huo Yuhao's third martial soul formations—divine fragments of gods' will made manifest.
But he would fuse a corporeal, highly self-aware mechanical lifeform with his soul and laws—fully.
Fortunately, Mechanical Zygarde retained the collective consciousness of countless cells. Under Gu La's guidance and the torrent of life energy, that consciousness abandoned its independent form, choosing instead to merge completely with Gu La—becoming an inseparable part of him!
Buzzz—!!!!
A resonance echoed from the depths of cosmic law.
The suspended silver-white fusion of mecha and Pokémon grew translucent, its existence morphing under Gu La's expenditure of vast life energy and time-space power.
No longer an external object—it merged conceptually with Gu La's bloodline, soul, and the laws he commanded.
A new, boundless power—embodiment of absolute order and natural judgment—awoke from his soul's core, flooding his limbs.
Third Martial Soul—Complete!
Order God—Enthroned!
Gu La descended slowly from midair, his feet touching the disintegrating ground.
He felt this new power within him—commanding mountains and rivers, decreeing laws. His gaze swept the dying abyssal plane. He nodded almost imperceptibly, as if listening to something. He murmured:
"I hear it… nature's plea for rescue."
In his perception, this wasn't merely the Abyss's erosion of Douluo Planet. It was Douluo Planet itself crying out—its core destabilized by human soul masters' reckless development, environmental destruction, near-extinct soul beasts shattering ecological chains. These wounds manifested as unstable secret realms appearing across the continent.
Now, as Order God, Gu La clearly sensed himself drawing power from this "imbalance of order" and "nature's lament."
If he released his Mechanical Zygarde martial soul now, paired with his four-word Battle Armor, his base combat power would rival a second-tier god.
And against those who caused severe environmental destruction—his martial soul's nature would instantly escalate his base power to first-tier god level!
Once he broke through to the hundred-level divine realm, this third martial soul's order authority would immediately possess God-King tier power!
Gu La took a deep breath. But it wasn't just the third martial soul—he felt his original "Child of Nature" status had fundamentally transformed.
Once merely Douluo's blessing, now that he commanded the authority of order, he sensed the ability to directly intervene in—even guide—the plane's core energies.
His gaze seemed to pierce dimensional layers, seeing Tang Hao and Ah Yin anxiously monitoring the Abyss from the plane's core.
Yet he set aside certain thoughts for now.
"The priority now is strengthening the avatars' bloodlines and spirit souls," Gu La said, turning to his avatars, who remained composed amid the plane's collapse. "Our strength must rise as one."
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