After Su Yu left, Xie Yitian began to "clean up the battlefield" as instructed by Su Yu.
This so-called cleaning up the battlefield was actually... to completely wipe out the residual believers of Heavenly Punishment!
These madmen were notorious, their hands stained with blood, responsible for the destruction of numerous human settlements.
Leaving such characters behind would only bring disaster.
Now that Su Yu’s ritual is complete and they are no longer needed, he left their cleanup to Xie Yitian.
Xie Yitian wanted to ascend to eight-star, requiring a sufficient number of flesh and blood carriers, and these believers of Heavenly Punishment were just right for the job.
None of these guys should think about surviving.
However, saying it’s a complete wipeout, it’s not actually that gory.
Xie Yitian activated his ability, fully unleashing the power of the Data Ghost, swiftly invading the brains of those believers of Heavenly Punishment.
With his ability, he could complete the invasion instantly, making their deaths silent and undetected.
Currently, in the City of Heavenly Punishment, there are still hundreds of thousands of surviving believers.
After all, it’s a big city with nearly a million population; although the previous battle caused heavy casualties among the believers, it was far from complete annihilation.
Xie Yitian swiftly invaded the brains of these believers, borrowing their brains to boost his computational power.
Ten thousand, twenty thousand, a hundred thousand...
As the number of carriers he invaded grew, Xie Yitian felt his computational power increasing.
For a [Data Ghost], computational power is strength, so his Spiritual Energy was continuously enhancing.
Finally, as Xie Yitian’s computational power broke through a certain limit.
He felt as if he were about to open up a data space, a data domain of his own in the subspace!
"Is this the subspace domain of eight-star..."
Xie Yitian understood that this was a sign of breaking through to eight-star.
As long as this subspace data domain is truly established, he will break through to eight-star.
Xie Yitian felt excited and pushed his power even harder, wanting to invade all of the believers of Heavenly Punishment.
For a powerful Data Ghost, invading hundreds of thousands of people wasn’t too difficult.
Those few six-star "Heavenly Punishment Admirals" attempted to resist, but only caused him to expend a bit more effort, without posing a real hindrance.
The power of the Data Ghost is quite adept at "destroying weaklings".
The power of data is formless and shapeless; without being at least seven-star, there’s practically no way to resist it.
These believers of Heavenly Punishment, though numerous, had no power to resist at all.
Such efficient slaughter, Su Yu without his powerful Brutal Battle Armor, might not even surpass it.
Su Yu indeed chose the right person to clean up the battlefield.
Very soon, among the hundreds of thousands of believers in the City of Heavenly Punishment, there was only the will of Xie Yitian.
Despite possessing hundreds of thousands of carriers, his subspace data domain was not truly completed.
Naturally, he had not advanced to eight-star.
"It seems the number of carriers is still insufficient..."
His ritual required at least a million carriers.
Now these hundreds of thousands of believers of Heavenly Punishment barely completed half of it, leaving a large gap.
"Alas, finding so many carriers again won’t be easy..."
Xie Yitian sighed in his heart.
His ritual required the slaughter of a large number of humans.
And according to Xie Yitian’s conscience, these humans must be utterly sinful for him to invade and slaughter without guilt.
If he brutally slaughtered ordinary people, he would inevitably become psychologically twisted, driven to madness, and breaking through then would be meaningless.
And these believers of Heavenly Punishment were simply the perfect carriers.
Now that the believers were gone, Xie Yitian truly did not know where to find another tens of thousands to fill the gap.
"Never mind, as long as I stick with Mr. Su Yu, there’ll be a way sooner or later."
Xie Yitian didn’t dwell on it too much.
Anyway, Mr. Su Yu is vastly capable, perhaps he’ll solve this issue within a few weeks.
Following the "big boss" is truly a relief.
After dealing with these believers of Heavenly Punishment, Xie Yitian controlled a carrier and walked towards the combat personnel of the Mechanical City.
At this time, those combat personnel in the Mechanical City had already heard Su Yu’s ceasefire order and were unsure about what to do next.
Because Su Yu only informed them that the battle was over, then there was nothing more.
Battle over, and then?
Are they going back to the Mechanical City, or what?
At this time, they saw a few believers of Heavenly Punishment approaching and immediately became tense.
Although Su Yu said the battle was over, these lunatics of the City of Heavenly Punishment wouldn’t follow Su Yu’s orders!
And Xie Yitian, controlling the carrier, spoke to the crowd: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am Xie Yitian, an ally of Mr. Su Yu."
"Now all these believers of Heavenly Punishment have been controlled by me and pose no danger anymore."
"The earlier battle was a ritual by Mr. Su Yu, and now that the ritual is complete, there’s no need for further combat."
"Mr. Su Yu’s order is that you will now garrison in the City of Heavenly Punishment, occupy this city, and transform it into the second Mechanical City."
"There are still some residents in the City of Heavenly Punishment; you can subdue them and integrate them into the Mechanical City..."
"If there is anything you need, feel free to ask for my help..."
Xie Yitian explained Su Yu’s plan in detail to everyone present.
Since they had already taken the City of Heavenly Punishment, it shouldn’t be wasted. Therefore, these ten thousand combat personnel would station here to develop and transform it.
"What? All hundreds of thousands of them were controlled?"
The people from the Mechanical City were startled upon hearing Xie Yitian’s words, hurriedly looking towards those believers of Heavenly Punishment.