All Chapters of Ashbone: The Record of Burning Heaven: Chapter 261
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Chapter 261: The Great Migration
The world outside the Great Zhou Greenhouse had become a graveyard of stagnant air.Under the influence of the Planetary Processing Hub, the atmosphere was no longer the sky of a cultivation world. It was a sterile, argon-filled laboratory. Without oxygen, the fires of the common people went out. Without the natural flow of Qi, the low-level cultivators felt their lungs burning with every breath of inert gas.Thousands were dying in the silence of the grey fog. But on the horizon, a single beacon cut through the gloom: the pulsating blue glow of the Iron-Abacus Industrial Dome.Lin Jin stood on the reinforced battlements of the dome’s southern airlock. His golden armor was dull with the frost of the argon atmosphere. Beside him, Sect Master Ren looked through a high-powered telescope, his face pale behind a lead-glass respirator."They're coming, Elder," Ren whispered. "By the thousands. It’s not just the commoners anymore. Look."Through the fog, a massive caravan appeared. It was a
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Chapter 262: The Hammer of God
The sky didn't flash; it screamed.The kinetic rod—a twenty-foot cylinder of hyper-dense tungsten—hit the upper atmosphere at Mach 20. It carried no explosives. It didn't need them. Its weapon was pure Mass and Velocity."Physics Lesson 302," Lin Jin’s voice surged through the dome’s PA system, overriding the panic of ten thousand refugees."Kinetic Energy."Last Updated : 2026-02-27Read more
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Chapter 263: Harvesting the Void
The Spider-Slayer didn't move like a machine; it moved like a glitch in reality. Its eight spindly legs were tipped with monomolecular blades that vibrated so fast they hissed through the argon fog.[Target: Biological Irregularity.][Priority: Eradicate.]The drone lunged. It was a blur of white ceramic and red optical sensors."Physics Lesson 304," Lin Jin’s voice crackled i
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Chapter 264: The Sealed Door
The black surface at the bottom of the pit didn't just resist the steam drills; it absorbed the vibration. It was Federation Stealth-Plating, designed to be invisible to both radar and the prying eyes of orbital scanners.Lin Jin knelt in the mud of the excavation site. His mechanical fingers traced the cold, matte-finish of the hull. He found what he was looking for—a recessed hexagonal port, crusted with five thousand years of mineral deposits."Physics Lesson 307," Lin Jin’s voice was a low hum, transmitted to the workers standing on the edge of the pit.
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Chapter 265: The Underground Labyrinth
The surface was a sea of glass.Above the five-hundred-foot line, the Great Zhou Capital had ceased to exist. The solar strike had fused the cobblestones into obsidian and turned the majestic palace into a scorched crater. But beneath the black plating of Bunker 09, the air was a steady, filtered 22°C.Lin Jin stood at the threshold of the bunker’s main corridor. Behind him, the survivors—cultivators, soldiers, and peasants—were huddled in the darkness, their breaths coming in shallow gasps of terror."Physics Less
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Chapter 266: The Mantle Driller
The decision was made. Staying in the bunker was a slow death; the "Janitors" would eventually find the frequency of the Federation shields and peel the earth away like an orange."Physics Lesson 314," Lin Jin’s voice echoed through the newly lit corridors of Sector 1."Thermal Expansion.""The deeper we go, the higher the pressure. The higher the pressure, the hotter the rock. At the mantle, the earth behaves like a liquid. We aren't just digging; we are Navigating."The Aegis AI projected a path. To reach the Planetary Control Spire on the other side of the world, they couldn't fly—the sky was a cage of fire. They had to go under.In the center of the bunker's dry-dock sat a relic of the Federation’s deep-core mining era: The [S-01 'Mole' Sub-Terrean Frigate].It was a cylinder of reinforced tungsten, three hundred feet long. Instead of a prow, it had a massive, triple-tiered Plasma-Drill Head."Su Qing! Power up the Geothermal Heat-Exchangers!" Lin Jin commanded.Su Qing was strapp
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Chapter 267: The Boiling Dogfight
The mantle was not a silent sea; it was a screaming furnace of kinetic pressure.Behind the Mole, the five remaining Sub-Terrean Harvesters fanned out. Their metallic bodies, forged from heat-resistant white ceramics, flickered like ghosts in the orange magma. They didn't use propellers; they pulsed with MHD (Magnetohydrodynamic) Drives, accelerating by manipulating the ions in the molten rock itself."Physics Lesson 318," Lin Jin’s voice hummed through the ship’s internal vibrations."Fluid Resistance.""In this density, every movement costs energy. If you turn too sharp, the friction melts your hull. If you go too slow, the pressure crushes your lungs. We are flying in a liquid mountain."Zero was strapped into the gunner’s sphere, her hands gripping the dual railgun yokes. These weren't standard projectiles. They fired Depleted Uranium Bolts coated in a layer of Solid-CO2 (Dry Ice)."Papa, the eels are getting close!" Zero shouted. "They’re trying to bite the tail!""Wait for the c
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Chapter 268: The Core-Access Port
The United Federation of Earth didn't just build bunkers on the surface; they built anchors in the deep.The Core-Access Port 01 loomed out of the orange magma like a titanic rib of black obsidian. It was a ring-shaped station, three miles in diameter, encircling a vertical shaft that descended straight into the planet’s liquid iron core. The mantle currents broke against its hull, creating massive plumes of white-hot turbulence.[Biological Signature Detected: Major Lin Jin.][Atmospheric Equalization: Initiated.]The Mole didn't have to drill. A massive circular iris in the station’s side hissed open, sucking the ship into a pressurized docking bay. As the magma was pumped out and replaced with nitrogen-chilled air, the outer hull of the Mole groaned, the metal contracting as it cooled from 4000°C to a "comfortable" 50°C."Physics Lesson 321," Lin Jin’s voice echoed as the Mole’s hatch hissed open."Thermal Stress.""If you cool a hot metal too fast, it becomes brittle. If you do it
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Chapter 269: Zero-G Duel
The Core-Access Port was situated at the gravitational null-point between the planet’s mantle and its liquid iron heart. As the Federation Peacekeeper fired its second volley, the station’s artificial gravity generators flickered and died, damaged by the "Director's" remote override.Suddenly, the floor was no longer the floor.Lin Jin drifted upward, his heavy golden chassis rotating slowly in the air. Around him, shattered pieces of the command dais and cooling-pipes floated like metallic asteroids.[Warning: Gravitational Stabilization Offline.][Switching to Thruster-Navigation.]"Physics Lesson 324," Lin Jin’s voice was a calm, digitized rasp over the comms."Conservation of Momentum.""In a vacuum or zero-G environment, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. If you fire a gun, you move backward. If you swing a sword, you spin."The Peacekeeper mech, a sleek Model X-2 "Seraph," didn't struggle with the loss of gravity. It extended four stabilizer fins from its back, col
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Chapter 270: The Geodynamo
The shaft beneath the Core-Access Port was a straight drop into the mouth of a sun.As the Mole decoupled from the docking ring, the station’s artificial gravity was replaced by the crushing, chaotic pull of the planet’s shifting mass. They were no longer in the mantle; they had reached the Outer Core.The view through the reinforced tungsten ports was no longer orange magma. It was a blinding, shimmering ocean of liquid iron and nickel, swirling at temperatures exceeding 5,000°C."Physics Lesson 328," Lin Jin’s voice hummed through the ship’s hull, vibrating in the marrow of the terrified refugees."The Geodynamo.""We are entering a river of liquid metal. Because the iron is conductive and the planet is spinning, this motion creates an electric current. That current creates the magnetic field that protects this world. We are literally inside the Planetary Engine."The Mole groaned. The external pressure had reached 3.5 million atmospheres. The hull plates, made of Federation-grade S
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