520: Chapter 164 Hartman Once Said 520: Chapter 164 Hartman Once Said In the mind of Iron Heart Dharma King, the mysterious master’s Inner Strength suddenly transformed into several streams of water, flowing wildly across the “impression of the land”.

This land, in reality, was his imagined “network”.

In his intuitive concept, the “network” materialized in this manner.

And after that “flood”, the face of the land had changed.

This unfamiliar Internal Strength Master was modifying data.

—How is this possible…

Iron Heart Dharma King thought rapidly.

The Hermit of Heavenly Machine’s final report had mentioned that he thought this enemy’s Inner Strength was not below that of Iron Heart Dharma King.

Iron Heart Dharma King had indeed made prepared correspondingly.

But now it seemed…

—What do you mean “not below me”…

This person is clearly slightly superior to me!

Iron Heart Dharma King desperately tried to fix the traces left behind by that “torrent”, while tenaciously clinging to the other’s consciousness, continually tracking.

He at least could not “lose” him!

Before King Aqini finished resting and came out of seclusion, he must keep a hold on this guy.

For one, it would be something to report to King Aqini.

For another, if he did not keep a hold on this guy, and failed to modify his traces in time, the Six Dragons Sect would be in danger.

But in this critical moment, Iron Heart Dharma King couldn’t help but harbor some doubt.

—What kind of master is this, suddenly popping up from nowhere…

Inner Strength is not like external strength.

Internal masters need to connect to the network for various meditation training activities to strengthen their brain’s ability to process data streams.

This ability must be trained bit by bit; there’s no possibility of taking shortcuts.

Every Internal Strength Master must be nurtured by supercomputers and the network.

No Internal Master can appear out of thin air.

And now, there’s an Internal Strength Master mysteriously appearing on Earth?

—No…

Iron Heart Dharma King suddenly remembered something from eighty years ago.

Over eighty years ago, the King required more rest time.

At that time, he had encountered an Internal master who meditated on the network.

Back then, the plans of the Six Dragons Sect were still in preparation, and their way of doing things was somewhat different.

Iron Heart Dharma King had merely sponsored that Internal master, hoping to win him over.

And the result of that story is now known to everyone in Jianghu.

The Eighth Martial God emerged, breaking the legend that “after the Seventh Martial God, there shall be no more Martial Gods born”.

However, few knew the story behind that.

The Eighth Martial God progressed to higher levels in an extremely short period, eluding the surveillance methods of Iron Heart Dharma King and King Aqini, finally causing a groundbreaking incident on Mars.

If the King had not been better engaged in exchanges with the Scientific Knight Order at that time, perhaps the hands of the Eighth Martial God would not have been discovered.

Iron Heart Dharma King thought carefully.

This Internal Strength Master’s Inner Strength had a “personalized style” that was distinctly different from that of the Eighth Martial God.

Yet there were also more similarities.

—A disciple?

The unique skill of the Eighth Martial God…

Their consciousness, like two meteors, chased each other through the network.

As the mysterious master caused havoc with Inner Strength attacks wherever he went, a variety of personally styled firewalls were triggered and breached in succession.

In a minute’s time, all the experts of the Mechanical Realm within the Earth-Moon system had noticed this scene.

After a few minutes, the Protectors from Venus and Mars were alarmed.

Even more attention was now focused on the Earth-Moon system.

But Xiang Shan was not flustered.

Mars and Venus were hundreds of light seconds away from Earth, and apart from borrowing the brains of others, no Internal Strength Master could cross such a divide.

What he needed to face was only Hartman and his gang.

Before Hartman went online, the Iron Heart Dharma King had no choice but to cover his tracks for him.

Ordinary Internal Strength Masters could only sense the massive flow of information streaming from Earth and the Moon toward the battlefield.

In their view, these two Internal Strength Masters were engaged in combat.

They would never imagine that Mr.

Feheart, a trusted aide of King Aqini, was recklessly editing records.

Iron Heart Dharma King could feel that more and more devices had backdoors planted by that mysterious master, and he didn’t know what kind of backdoors they were.

At the same time, he noticed something else.

The data downloaded by the adversary was somewhat massive.

Additionally, the records showed that many of the rewritten satellites were sending back larger packets of data.

It seemed he used many commands, trying to download and find something from the satellite network.

—What is he doing?

Iron Heart Dharma King couldn’t help but ponder.

At this instant, a third force barged into the battlefield.

In the mental image of Iron Heart Dharma King, the sky suddenly became clear and then collapsed.

Countless stars fell.

Numerous data packets surged out.

King Aqini, with the formidable assistance provided by the Moon’s supercomputers, swept toward the battlefield in a grand manner.

Iron Heart Dharma King was very familiar with King Aqini’s Inner Strength.

He instantly switched his combat mode, focusing all his efforts on attacking that mysterious master.

[Eliminate…] King Aqini murmured with his will; [Eliminate!]

But in that instant, the opponent suddenly changed…

No…

Something wasn’t quite right.

It was “the land”…

It was the underlying layer of the network, “cheering” for him…

No, it also felt like the enemy suddenly grasped the mythic “magic of walking through the soil”…

—Why…

[This method…] There was a hint of anger in King Aqini’s mechanical tone, [Are you…

an apprentice of that madman, Zhu Xinyu!]

But the enemy disappeared in an instant.

On the ground, Xiang Shan opened his eyes.

There should have been a smile in his eyes.

He quickly stood up, then, reversing his hand, said, “Quick, quick, quick, Cain, blow this place up!

Jader, run for your life!

Fast!

Fast!”

Cain had already set up the explosives.

He pressed a button, and the explosives near the mainframe detonated, destroying any parts that might have recorded data.

The Solo Kill King grabbed onto Burrow Dragon and said, “How did it go?

Smoothly?”

He was becoming somewhat familiar with Xiang Shan.

Xiang Shan nodded: “Incredibly smoothly.”

Many years ago, a man named Hartman had told him something— for a small hacker, it’s easier and more efficient to follow in the footsteps of a great hacker during an intrusion.

Even the strongest hacker at the time could make a name for themselves by studying their peers.

No matter how Xiang Shan elevated his privileges or planted Trojans, they could be removed by Hartman.

So, this time, his choice was to “follow the footsteps of other hackers” and “find backdoors already placed by other hackers”.

The malicious data he planted in the satellites was nothing but a decoy on the surface.

What Xiang Shan was really looking for was the “invasion route left by Zhu Xinyu”.

The Personalized Internal Skills Preference of the Eighth Martial God and Zhu Xinyu were almost identical.

They could even have “the same and connected dreams” about the same piece of data, unlike Xiang Shan and Iron Heart Dharma King, who would have two “different but related dreams” about the same data.

The massive packet of back data was his perception.