Before entering the Version Fragment, Lu Yan had no intention of openly attacking Intelligent Machinery City.
Indeed, Lu Yan possessed the Unchanging trait, allowing him to be free from the constraints of the version's core rules, but how could Intelligent Machinery City, which had been managing the Version Fragment for tens of thousands of years, not have a backup plan?
While the War Fortress of Intelligent Machinery City was renowned in the Great Destruction Realm, it did not mean that Intelligent Machinery City had only this one type of war weapon.
According to the information retained in the main brain of the War Fortress, the fortress is not the strongest mechanical creation of Intelligent Machinery City. Within the Version Fragment, there exist many mechanical creations deemed forbidden, each not inferior to the War Fortress.
However, most of these forbidden mechanical creations are tailored to the rules of the Intelligent Machinery version and can only exist within the Version Fragment. Whether they could function normally if taken into any realm outside the Version Fragment without the Intelligent Machinery version rules remains unknown; even if they could function with difficulty, they would likely not exhibit their intended powers.
For this reason, these forbidden mechanical creations can only be kept within the Version Fragment as the strongest trump card of Intelligent Machinery City.
Lu Yan's initial goal was just to attack Chain Hub City as a feint to draw the attention of Intelligent Machinery City, then to sneak into the Version Fragment to search for the algorithm related to the War Fortress' main brain.
If everything went smoothly, he could even rob a wave of rule-level resource libraries to elevate the Supreme Divine Techniques Seed.
However, what Lu Yan did not expect was that upon stepping into the Version Fragment, he would attract the suppression of the Ninefold Shackles of the version's core rules.
While Lu Yan could indeed remain unaffected by relying on the Unchanging trait, able even to actively break the Ninefold Shackles,
the impact of shaking the core rules affected the entire Version Fragment, and such significant commotion had already drawn the attention of Intelligent Machinery City.
Sneaking in was certainly not working, and Lu Yan knew he could not confront Intelligent Machinery City head-on, so he entertained thoughts of actively withdrawing.
On the edge of the rule fragments, tapping the core rules and actively resisting the Ninefold Shackles, he could break through the core rules and plunder part of the Version Fragment to enhance the Supreme Divine Techniques Seed, which was greatly beneficial to Lu Yan.
Just as Lu Yan was prepared to implement his plan before Intelligent Machinery City could react, an unforeseen factor broke into Lu Yan's sight, which was the version update interface.
[Current Version: Intelligent Machinery Version
Version Update Progress: 18% (?%）]
Strictly speaking, the version Lu Yan was in was still the Great Destruction Version. The display of the Intelligent Machinery Version on the interface was merely because Lu Yan was in a Version Fragment of the Intelligent Machinery Version; the environment and rules of the Fragment had led to an erroneous judgment in the version update interface.
Once Lu Yan leaves the Version Fragment, this minor bug would naturally dissipate into nothingness.
But the key issue was that Lu Yan saw two version update progress bars on this interface.
The first version update progress bar represented the progress accumulated during Lu Yan's one-month stay in the entire Great Destruction Version.
An update progress of 18% was far from prompting another version update, considering the version affecting the entire Great Destruction Realm.
However, if the scope was narrowed down to the Intelligent Machinery Version Fragment, the 18% version update progress would be enough to complete several version updates for the entire Intelligent Machinery Version Fragment.
And that peculiar ?% number pertained to the progress of updates to the Version Fragment.
Realizing this, Lu Yan instantly understood that he held an unprecedented deadly weapon within the Great Destruction Version!
Why were Version Fragments the last line of defense for these major forces? Why, though the Great Destruction Version lasted for tens of thousands of years, were only a few versions truly annihilated?
All of this was due to the protection by the core rules within the Version Fragment, which could suppress external enemies and enhance oneself, ensuring that even if a force collapsed, it would have infinite opportunities to reemerge as long as it wasn't obliterated decisively outside of the Version Fragment.
Now, with the Unchanging trait and wielding the deadly weapon of the version update, Lu Yan could carry out version updates within the Version Fragment, which could utterly destroy the core rule advantage of the version forces.
If Lu Yan could indeed leverage this 18% version update progress to complete the update, with existing rules collapsing, Lu Yan, armed with the Unchanging trait, would become the greatest winner.
Even if this was just a loophole in the version update interface and the 18% version update progress failed to complete the update, Lu Yan could still temporarily shake the core rules through the version update, disabling most of Intelligent Machinery City's forbidden mechanical creations.
Having acquired the means to initiate a version update, Lu Yan would stand in an invincible position.
This unexpected factor led Lu Yan to abandon the initial plan of tapping some resources and then leaving, instead opting to confront the colossal entity of Intelligent Machinery City head-on. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝⟡𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕥⟡𝕟𝕖𝕥
And the outcome now proved that everything unfolded exactly as Lu Yan had imagined.
Intelligent Machinery City laid out all its cards, and the forbidden mechanical creations, in cooperation with the core rules, could easily annihilate the Great True Monarch at the peak of the Nascent Soul.
Yet, amidst the grand momentum of version updates, everything appeared so insignificant.
Human Emperor's Qi rapidly spread over the entire Version Fragment. Six thousand Yin Soldiers wielding Soul Hooks enacted countless transformations of array patterns, while six hundred Yin Soldiers rode warhorses to form the array's core. Five significant ghostly deities manifested ghostly appearances, and the massive Human Emperor's Qi converged to form the vast Yellow Springs Array in an instant.
Then, the surging Yellow Springs seemed to gush forth from deep within the earth, as the Yin Soldiers and Ghost Generals, treading on the Water of the Underworld, charged towards that magnificent Intelligent Machinery City.
Inside the Round Table Council Hall of Intelligent Machinery City, all the present Mechanical Senators stared blankly at the scene before their eyes.