The system is four years ahead of schedule, but Weird is still a cub.

"Once it reaches 100%, the global dimensional barrier will be as fragile as an eggshell, and whatever wants to get in will no longer need to expend any power."

"boom!"

Yu Tiexiong slammed his fist against the wall beside him, his eyes filled with rage: "These beasts! They treat living human brains like CPUs!"

He strode toward the floating control console in the center of the hall.

Just as he was about to get close, a huge holographic beam of light suddenly lit up above the main control panel.

"Since it's a control panel used to calculate 'homology,' let's smash it completely!"

In the core area of ​​the Arctic underground base, Yu Tiexiong let out a deafening roar.

His entire body's "symbiotic armor" muscle fibers suddenly bulged, and the red light of energy accumulated in the grotesque arm armor almost illuminated the entire circular hall.

"boom--!"

The punch, imbued with the full power of the strange energy, slammed heavily onto the central floating control panel.

The precision instruments made of unknown alloys shattered and deformed instantly, countless sparks exploded like fireworks, and the virtual projection of the data stream flickered twice before going out completely.

"Done!" Yu Tiexiong shook the sparks off his hand and said in a deep voice.

however.

The anticipated scene of the alarm being lifted and the base being paralyzed did not materialize.

Instead, a chilling buzzing sound replaced the previous mechanical hum, emanating from deep within the rows of neatly arranged server racks beneath our feet…

No, it came from deeper underground.

“No…something’s not right!” Li Xiang stared at the data screen in his hand, which was still jumping wildly even though the main control panel was damaged, his face turning pale.

"Captain Yu, this isn't a shutdown... it's an 'overload'!"

“All the ‘units’... are being squeezed dry!”

As Li Xiang screamed in terror, the thousands of glass jars containing human beings and bizarre brains all around suddenly began to boil.

The originally pale yellow nutrient solution instantly turned into a murky black.

Within that liquid, the brains that were once trembling rhythmically seemed to have all their life essence instantly drained away, rapidly withering and collapsing at a visible speed, eventually turning into clumps of grayish-black, shriveled waste.

The computing power and vitality of tens of thousands of brains were "sacrificed" in that instant, just to activate a greater existence.

"Crack... Rumble—"

The entire secret base, built beneath millennia-old ice, began to collapse violently, and huge ice cracks tore open the thick dome.

"Get back! This place is about to collapse!"

The captains unleashed their full power in their super armor and charged towards the ground with Li Xiang in tow.

However, when they returned to the surface, the sight they saw left everyone speechless.

The Arctic ice sheet beneath my feet has cracked open.

No, to be more precise, it is something even larger than a mountain that is slowly rising from the depths of the sea, breaking through a layer of ice thousands of meters thick!

It was a giant brain, over thirty kilometers in diameter, large enough to block out half the sky!
Its entire body is a deathly grayish-white color, and its surface is covered with twisted wrinkles like deep abyss ravines, with a materialized eerie blue energy flowing in each ravine!
And below that brain, where it connects to the spinal cord, millions of thick nerve bundles have long since become completely distorted.

They transformed into translucent tentacles that flickered with eerie electric light, each tentacle ending in a tightly closed eyeball, like a swarm of some indescribable luminous jellyfish in the deep sea.

Just as it fully emerged from the sea.

The eyes at the tips of those millions of tentacles opened simultaneously!

An invisible, eerie energy storm spread outwards from it, reaching the entire Northern Hemisphere!
"Ughhhhh!!" Even with the protection of the sixth-generation symbiotic armor, Yu Tiexiong still let out a shrill scream in an instant.

In his view, the world had collapsed.

His prized armor, and even his own body, were rapidly melting, turning into pools of boiling molten metal.
Meanwhile, Yoona, standing nearby, was horrified to discover that her hands were disintegrating into flesh and blood.
Fang Mingyue and the other team leaders were also in dire straits. Including the resolute Li Xiang, everyone was on the verge of emotional collapse.

Suddenly, an extremely powerful, eerie energy formed an invisible barrier in the sky, enveloping everyone.

Shen Ge stepped forward and stood in front of them.

The "immortal" power within him was fully unleashed, and the gray, eerie domain suddenly expanded outwards from him.

Yu Tiexiong and the others suddenly came to their senses and found that they had not melted or turned into flesh and blood. They were just soaked in cold sweat and kneeling on the ice, panting heavily.

"Stay calm and don't look at its eyes." Shen Ge didn't turn around; his gaze was fixed on the huge brain floating in mid-air, his expression more solemn than ever before.

“This thing… is completely different from that skeleton that acted solely on instinct before.”

Shen Ge flashed forward, attempting to use his speed to directly rush to the core of the brain and decapitate it.

However, as soon as he moved, the surrounding space changed.

Along his attack route, the previously empty air suddenly and abruptly reorganized and solidified, transforming into invisible force field walls.

This isn't about quick reaction time, but rather... anticipation.

By calculating Shen Ge's subtle muscle movements, the flow of his strange energy, and even the trend of his thought fluctuations, that brain had already "calculated" his trajectory 0.01 seconds before he made his move, and directly modified the physical rules of that area.

Shen Ge shattered the force field wall with a punch, but his brain had already drifted backward hundreds of meters with the help of the recoil. At the same time, countless mental tendrils wove together a huge electric net, completely covering the spot where Shen Ge had just been.

"Not only can it think, but it can also rewrite the rules of reality in real time to defend and counterattack..." Shen Ge frowned. This was no longer a simple battle; it was a game of computing power.

Just as the two sides were locked in a stalemate, and Shen Ge was preparing to forcefully activate his full-specialty Ghost Domain to break through the rules and charge in—

"Crack!"

The aurora borealis that never fades over the Arctic sky was suddenly shattered from the outside, like a giant mirror.

A massive spatial rift, hundreds of kilometers long and shimmering with crimson light, suddenly tore open above the "Progenitor Brain" without warning!
A black, eerie energy, filled with filth, assimilation, and greed, poured down from the crack like a waterfall.

Then, a massive, despairing shadow began to writhe inward from the other side of the crack, its surface covered with frantically writhing, lumpy tissue…

It's the "heart"!
The monstrous heart that "escaped" in the Amazon rainforest sensed the awakening of the "brain" and crossed the barriers of dimensions and space to "merge" with it!

Once these two things are fused together, and given their control over the rules, the resurrected entity, even without a physical body, would be enough to instantly destroy the Earth.

Beneath the abyss, the progenitor's brain emitted a low-frequency tremor of pleasure.

Its millions of nerve tendrils stretched rapidly toward the sky, beginning to weave and build, attempting to construct a flesh-and-blood bridge connecting heaven and earth to guide the heart's arrival.

With the resonance of these two components, the previously suppressed balance of supernatural energy worldwide collapsed instantly!

The scene suddenly shifts.

Above the East Sea lies the land of cherry blossoms.

Since the cherry blossom curse, this island has been designated as a high-risk restricted area.

At that moment, the once lifeless volcano on Sakura Island suddenly erupted with a towering plume of black blood.

The earth is groaning, and the tectonic plates are breaking apart.

The entire long and narrow island territory actually "stood up" slowly during the tectonic movement!

The soil peeled away, revealing the writhing, bright red flesh beneath.

The city collapsed, becoming like festering sores on the skin.

The entire island nation, amidst this global resonance, has been transformed into a colossal object floating on the sea...

A sarcoma of the head!

On that distorted face made up of countless ruins and corpses, a gigantic mouth large enough to devour mountains slowly opened.

That was a bizarre fusion born after being completely corrupted and assimilated by the New God Cult!

The Great Celestial Empire, East China Sea Frontline Defense Zone.

More than half of the Special Operations Department's naval combat force was gathered here, with several aircraft carrier groups lined up in a fan shape, and countless dark cannon muzzles pointing directly at the turbulent deep sea.

However, the enemy did not emerge from the sea.

"Warning! The space structure directly above is undergoing extreme collapse! The values ​​cannot be determined!"

The piercing alarm blared along the entire coastline.

The midday sun was instantly swallowed up by some indescribable shadow. The sky wasn't just covered by dark clouds; it had simply... vanished.

"Tear it apart——"

With a deafening roar like cloth being torn apart, a massive spatial rift spanning the entire East China Sea suddenly opened up in the sky.

Immediately afterwards, a colossal black creature, large enough to blot out the sun and moon, slowly "swam" out from the crack.

It was a gigantic creature, over 500 kilometers long, its entire body covered in writhing flesh. Its appearance closely resembled the legendary "Kunpeng," but it was surrounded by a visible storm of strange energy. Each breath it took caused small-scale spatial tremors in the surrounding area.

The monstrous whale that Shen Ge once shattered has returned, and its return is—

A whale that devours the heavens!

"What...what kind of monster is this...?"

Even Deng Yuqi, a veteran of countless battles, couldn't help but tremble slightly as she stood on the deck of the flagship "Kunlun" and looked up at the imposing behemoth overhead.

Just then, the giant whale let out a long, distant, and terrifying cry.

Where the sound waves passed, a hundred-meter-high wave instantly rose on the sea surface.

Its enormous eyes, like two blood moons, shifted and locked onto the ruins of the Cherry Blossom Country on the eastern sea, which had just mutated into a giant "human head tumor" due to "global synchronization".

Amidst the horrified gazes of everyone, the Devouring Whale opened its enormous, abyss-like maw.

An unimaginable suction force suddenly appeared out of nowhere!

The giant "head" that was transformed from an island nation emitted the desperate cries of tens of millions of people overlapping each other.

But faced with this absolute power, it was powerless to resist. Like a planktonic organism swallowed by a giant whale, along with all the strange things and buildings left on it, it was sucked into that bottomless maw in an instant!

The chilling sounds of chewing and swallowing echoed throughout the land.

After swallowing the entire human-headed tumor on Sakura Island, the flesh and blood on the Devouring Whale's body instantly erupted with a blinding red light. Its energy core received a massive replenishment, and its terrifying aura surged once more!
Immediately afterwards, the thousands upon thousands of barnacle-like holes on its abdomen suddenly opened.

Various terrifying parasitic creatures, like swarms of black locusts, surged out of its body, overwhelming the Great Heavenly Dynasty's East China Sea defense line below...

Dive down!

"Fire!!! Free fire! Use up all the ammunition! We cannot let them break through the lines and enter the interior!!"

Deng Yuqi suddenly came to her senses and roared angrily into the communicator.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

In an instant, the fleet on the sea unleashed a barrage of cannon fire.

Countless high-energy laser beams and cryptic missiles, like a rain of light flowing against the current, crashed violently into the black "swarm of locusts".

However, the number is simply too large.

Despite the impenetrable human firepower, with hundreds or even thousands of monsters being blasted to pieces every second, many more monsters, braving the artillery fire, grinned as they broke through the defensive perimeter and landed on the decks or even in coastal cities.

"The A3 defense line has been breached! We need reinforcements!"

"This monster's force field is too thick; our main guns can't penetrate it at all!"

A sense of despair spread like a plague through the communication channels.

Seeing that the defense line was about to collapse completely, Deng Yuqi gripped the high-frequency vibrating knife in her hand, preparing to personally engage in the final hand-to-hand combat.

at this time.

"Beep beep-"

The radar operator suddenly exclaimed, "Commander Deng! We've detected dozens of extremely high-intensity cyber energy signals behind the defensive line! They're moving incredibly fast and are heading this way!"

"The rear?" Deng Yuqi felt a chill in her heart.

"Being attacked from both sides? It's over..."

However, the next second.

Those rapidly approaching red dots broke through the clouds, but did not attack the human fleet.

Instead, they were like dozens of sharp knives, piercing directly from the flanks into the countless strange flying creatures in the sky!
"Boom!!"

The sixth-tier heavy armored monster, which was charging at the forefront and was as big as a small mountain, was hit head-on by an even bigger black shadow before it could even let out a scream.

The dark figure was ten meters tall, with four ferocious heads and eight thick, pillar-like arms, its muscles bulging like rocks.

It seized the sixth-tier monster, and with all eight arms exerting force simultaneously, it tore it in two, letting out a deafening roar amidst the sky full of black blood.

【The Twelve Zodiac Monsters - Ox】

Immediately afterward, a cyan gale, almost invisible to the naked eye, swept across the battlefield, slicing hundreds upon hundreds of low-level flying monsters into pieces with its invisible wind blades. At the eye of the storm, a man clad in tiger-striped bio-armor wielded twin blades, his eyes as fierce as a tiger's.

【The Twelve Zodiac Animals - Tiger】

There's also the serpent that manipulates poisonous mist, and the dragon that controls lightning...

This team of only a few dozen people was like a pack of hungry wolves that had invaded a flock of sheep, instantly tearing a huge gap in the seemingly endless and bizarre tide!

And in the highest part of the battlefield.

A figure with black wings behind it blocked out the sunlight, surrounded by countless cawing, eerie crows, and slowly landed on the top of the flagship mast where Deng Yuqi was.

That was the leader of the freak organization "Zodiac," a former mortal enemy of the Special Operations Department—

"crow".

She looked down at Deng Yuqi, who was full of vigilance, and a mocking smile appeared on her pale yet alluring face.

"Don't look at me like that, you woman from the Special Operations Department."

With a casual wave of his hand, the crows pecked away at the several flying monsters that had rushed towards him: "Shen Ge isn't here. If I wanted to kill you, I wouldn't have waited until now."

"Why?" Deng Yuqi did not put down the knife in her hand.

The crow raised its head and looked at the huge, swallowing whale in the sky. The mockery in its eyes turned into deep disgust: "We just don't want that disgusting big guy to destroy our 'ranch'."

Listen, humans.

The crow's cry echoed across the entire battlefield, carrying the madness and arrogance unique to freaks.

"We may be weirdos who will stop at nothing to evolve, but we are not the madmen like the Heavenly Stems and the New Gods."

"They want 'mechanical ascension,' they want some bullshit 'new god' to descend, to turn this world into a breeding ground for these disgusting monsters..."

"But this is my world!"

The crow suddenly spread its wings, and countless black feathers transformed into sharp blades, annihilating a wave of eerie creatures that tried to approach: "What we want is to live comfortably in this world until the moment we die! We can be criminals, we can be tyrants, but we will never be fodder for this kind of thing!"

"What god? A new god?"

"joke!"

Crow pointed to himself, then to the twelve squad leaders fighting bloody battles behind him.

"Here, we are our own gods!"

"No one can disrupt our lives, not even that fathead fish in the sky!"

This declaration, filled with "egoism" yet fervent passion, brought a brief silence to the battlefield.

Deng Yuqi looked at the strange woman laughing wildly on the mast, and finally slowly lowered the knife in her hand halfway.

Although their ideas differ and their positions are opposed.

But at this moment, faced with the crisis of extinction, the enemy of my enemy is my ally.

"All ships, listen to my command!"

Deng Yuqi whirled around and roared into the communicator, "Adjust the fire coverage! Use the 'Twelfth Division's' assault route as a guide to clear a path for them!"

“To survive!!”

"Boom boom boom——!!!"

Humanity's most advanced technological firepower, at this moment, no longer served a defensive purpose, but instead transformed into the sharpest spears, shattering the shields protecting the monsters in the sky.

Under the cover of firelight, the monster captains of the twelve zodiacs and the magical mecha warriors of the Special Operations Department, like tireless war gods, carved a bloody path through the eerie tide, leading straight to the belly of the Devouring Whale.

This is a collaboration that transcends race and hatred.

Even if it's just temporary.

In the sky, the swallowing whale, which seemed to have sensed the resistance of the ants below, was finally enraged.

It stopped hatching soldiers, and its massive abdominal core began to glow with a destructive red light. An energy cannon, powerful enough to evaporate the entire East China Sea, was rapidly gathering in that giant mouth.

And below it.

The human fleet roared, and the monsters howled.

The outcome of the ground war will be decided in this battle.

……

Arctic ice sheet, storm center.

The temperature here is no longer just tens of degrees below zero; the space is filled with tangible computational turbulence, and ordinary physical laws become fragmented here.

"Damn it! This is never going to end!"

Yu Tiexiong roared, his sixth-generation symbiotic armor already riddled with cracks, but he still stood firmly at the forefront.

The barrel of the heavy paranormal machine gun in his hand was already red-hot, and in front of him were endless "Executioner" mechs constantly surging out from under the ice.

These half-flesh, half-machine monsters, directly controlled by the progenitor's brain, each possess nearly sixth-tier combat power, and their perfect coordination is despair-inducing.

"Li Xiang! Are you done yet? We can't hold on much longer!" Yoona's figure blurred as she weaved through the mechs, reaping kills, but more mechs were filling the gaps.

Surrounded in the middle, Li Xiang was kneeling on the cracking ice, frantically pounding on the modified equipment with his hands, blood seeping from his nostrils and ears.

"There's nothing I can do... the interference is too strong! That 'brain' has a black hole of computing power! It not only locked down physical signals, but it even encrypted the energy waveband! I can't cut through that spatial rift!"

Everyone looked up in despair.

In the very center of the battlefield, the gigantic, grayish-white brain, tens of kilometers in diameter, hovered and didn't even glance at them.

It merely exuded that suffocating "thought field," with millions of mental tendrils weaving a vast net in the air, gradually tearing the sky apart. Even with Li Xiang's desperate attempts to interfere, he could only slightly slow down its summoning of the "heart."

On the other side of the main battlefield, Shen Ge's situation was equally difficult.

Shen Ge activated his entire Ghost Domain, forcibly locking his physical state. Then, he transformed into a gray stream of destructive light, crashing heavily into the outer shield of the Progenitor's brain.

A punch powerful enough to pierce the earth's crust suddenly stopped a fraction of a second before it made contact with the brain's surface.

It wasn't blocked.

Instead, Shen Ge felt that the "distance" in front of his fist had been modified into "infinity" by some kind of rule in that instant.

Although they are only an inch apart, they seem like an insurmountable chasm.

[Warning: Spatial coefficients have been tampered with... Attack detection invalid.]

A system alert sounded in my mind.

"Is this the power of 'wisdom'...?" Shen Ge retreated rapidly, dodging the strangulation of dozens of mental tentacles, his brows furrowed.

"It's not simply about overwhelming force, but about rewriting the rules of reality in real time through terrifying computational power."

No matter what move Shen Ge makes, the opponent can calculate the optimal solution within 0.0001 seconds and modify the rules to invalidate his attack.

This is an unfair game.

Shen Ge is strong, but his strength is "violent"; faced with this kind of "cheating"-like suppression of computing power, he is like a barbarian trying to chop down mathematical formulas with an axe, powerless to do anything about it.

“Computational complexity…” Shen Ge glanced at the enormous brain above him, a ruthless glint in his eyes, “As long as we can break your computational logic, even for a second…”

at this time.

"Click——!!!"

Above the Arctic, the spatial rift that Li Xiang had been struggling to suppress suddenly seemed to be torn open from the outside, instantly expanding tenfold!
A gigantic, all-encompassing metallic hand tore open the edge of a spatial rift.

Immediately afterwards, a mechanical behemoth, whose size was no less than that of the progenitor's brain and whose entire body was composed of intricate gears, circuits, and writhing fleshy tentacles, slowly squeezed into the real world.

"It's over..."

Looking at that enormous object, Li Xiang dropped the instrument in his hand onto the ice with a "thud," his face ashen.

One progenitor brain was already too much to fight, and now there's a mechanical evil god reigning supreme in the fragmented world.

Two against one?

Humanity has no hope left.

The progenitor's brain seemed to sense this being of the same level as it. Its millions of tentacles paused slightly, as if it were adjusting its thinking with a questioning look, seemingly calculating whether this "variable" was friend or foe.

However, at the very moment when the entire audience fell into despair and deathly silence.

The twelve colossal phase thrusters behind the newly arrived mechanical evil god Omnissiah suddenly ignited.

However, instead of a destructive plasma beam, what was ejected was...

"puff--"

A huge plume of pink, eerie smoke, which even condensed into a heart shape in the air, instantly filled the entire Arctic sky.

"???"

Li Xiang's mouth dropped open.

Shen Ge's eye twitched suddenly.

In that instant, the primordial brain's intricate computational logic encountered an unsolvable "logical deadlock."

next second.

The mechanical behemoth suddenly turned around, its giant hand that had been gripping the crack clenched into a fist, and under the cover of the pink smoke, it actually delivered a solid punch to the progenitor's brain!
"Boom——!!!"

The unsuspecting progenitor's brain trembled violently from the punch, and its originally perfect calculation field shattered instantly, with tens of thousands of mental tendrils being directly broken!
At the same time, a synthesized voice that Shen Ge was extremely familiar with rang out from all the broadcast devices on Omnisia's body:

"High heart rate detected, adrenaline surge..."

"Master, do you miss me?"

Upon hearing this voice, Shen Ge was stunned.

"Little...Little Seven?"

That voice was clearly that of Xiao Qi, the strongest artificial intelligence that had been separated from him in the fragmented world and torn apart by the energy storm while protecting him!
"Master, it's been a long time!"

The colossal mechanical giant thrust its hands into the mental barrier of the progenitor's brain, tearing it apart like bread.

"I drifted at sea for a long time, but luckily I was pulled up by 'Iron Heart'."

Amidst the intense energy collision, Xiaoqi quickly reported.

It turns out that after Xiao Qi was shattered, it drifted on the sea. Later, when Shen Ge returned to "reality," it was accidentally salvaged by "Iron Heart."

The once-genius mechanic Hephaestus and the bio-computer Hermes worked together to repair it and fuse it with the power of dreams from that realm.

But when the real Omnissiah tears open the rift, attempting to devour the "Iron Heart" and descend into reality...

Xiao Qi, who possesses the [Characteristic: Endless], has infiltrated the underlying logic of the Mechanical Evil God.

It not only killed Omnisiah's consciousness, but also usurped the body of this ninth-tier Ghost King!
The Omnissiah of today is no longer the evil god who sought to turn the entire world into a machine, but rather Shen Ge's most loyal...

[The Ultimate Individual Soldier Support System!]
"Master! Don't just stand there!"

Xiaoqi controlled Omnisiah, shooting countless data cables from its chest, which tightly bound the progenitor's brain as it tried to fight back.

"Its computing power is blocked by my garbage data stream! It's an idiot now! Its brain—is yours!"

[High-dimensional computational interference detected... Target defense rules have failed!]

Shen Ge's system also issued a notification.

opportunity!

The only chance to win!

"Good job!"

The [Primordial Bizarre Cells] within Shen Ge's body instantly surged, and with a flash, this time without any hindrance, he teleported directly to the top of that giant brain.

The complete form of Devouring Ghost Realm unfolds without reservation!

"Since all you use your brain for is scheming..."

"Then don't use it, I'll keep it for you!"

"Swallow it!"

Without the barrier of rule rewriting, the brain's fragile physical defenses are utterly vulnerable to the [Devour] property.

That enormous brain, tens of kilometers in diameter and as massive as a mountain, began to twist and stretch rapidly, like a jelly being sucked into a drain, irresistibly drawn into Shen Ge's dark vortex!
"Gulu..."

That was the sound of some kind of rule being swallowed.

A few minutes later.

The storm over the Arctic has stopped.

That enormous brain has vanished.

System completeness: 95%...98%!

[Successfully plundered: Progenitor Brain.]

……

Above the East Sea, the heavens are dead.

The "Sky-Devouring Whale," which had swelled to an unimaginable size after swallowing an entire island nation, did not continue its attack on the Special Operations Department's defenses.

It did something that sent chills down everyone's spine.

It turned its massive, continent-plate-like head around, ignoring the frenzied bombardment of the human fleet, and let out a mournful cry that could shatter the earth's crust. Then... it crashed violently into the sea below, or rather, into the core of this planet!

The black seawater simply could not support its weight. Its body, covered with endless carapaces and fleshy growths, melted the lithosphere the moment it touched the seabed and burrowed wildly into the depths of the earth!

"Hahaha! Too late! It's all too late!"

A voice instantly resounded throughout the East China Sea theater and even spread across the globe via satellite.

Above the ruins of the battlefield, a monster a hundred meters tall, composed entirely of countless twisted tentacles and rotting flesh, slowly rose into the air.

That was the archbishop of the New God Church. In order to welcome the descent of the gods, he had already sacrificed his human form and transformed into a complete monster.

"God has returned to His rightful place!"

The archbishop brandished thousands of tentacles, and at his feet, countless New God cult followers dressed in black robes and high-ranking monsters belonging to the "Heavenly Stems" organization surged out like a tide, frantically reaping the remaining lives of the human defense line.

"This world will become the cradle of new gods! And you... will be the first nourishment! Rejoice! Praise..."

"puff."

The archbishop's fanatical roar abruptly ceased.

There are no signs.

The northern sky suddenly seemed like a mirror that had been shattered.

A streak of light, carrying an unparalleled pressure, instantly traversed thousands of kilometers and descended upon the East China Sea battlefield.

Before anyone could even see what it was, a giant metal hand, composed entirely of machinery and divinity, pierced through the archbishop's entire defensive field as easily as swatting a fly, and grabbed the disgusting tentacle monster in its palm.

Then, he clenched his fist tightly.

It's like squeezing a rotten tomato.

The archbishop, who had just been arrogant and whose strength was at least at the peak of the seventh rank, didn't even have time to leave a last word before he turned into a foul-smelling rain of blood, splashing across the sky.

"It's noisy."

A cold voice echoed between heaven and earth.

Shen Ge stood on the shoulder of "Omnisiah," his eyes coldly surveying the battlefield below. The moment he appeared, the "Heavenly Stems" monsters, who were still frantically attacking, all froze in their tracks.

"That's... Shen Ge? He's back?"

On the remaining command ship of the Special Operations Department, the commanders, their faces covered in blood, looked at that towering figure and tears welled up in their eyes.

Shen Ge's gaze swept across the battlefield.

The next second, he raised an eyebrow slightly.

Because he witnessed an unbelievable scene. At the forefront of the Special Operations Department's crumbling defenses, instead of human mechs, came a group of grotesque-looking, ferocious-looking... monsters.

A gigantic monster with four heads and eight arms, standing tens of meters tall, is tearing apart the eerie creature; a half-orc clad in tiger skin is transforming into a blue storm to annihilate the enemy; and the female monster "Raven," who has fought him many times and has black wings on her back, is controlling a sky full of black feathers to shield the human fleet from a deadly bombardment of strange energy.

"The twelve branches..."

Shen Ge muttered to herself.

Although it was unexpected, he didn't say much.

In those deep eyes that had just devoured the "Progenitor's Brain," the boundaries between good and evil, and between factions, had become blurred; only the calculations of "survival" and "destruction" were running at breakneck speed.

But as the dead archbishop said, it seems... it really was too late.

"Rumble, rumble—"

The earth began to tremble violently.

The "Sky-Swallowing Whale" that had burrowed into the ground let out a long, mournful cry.

Its massive body then melted completely deep within the mantle, transforming into a black pollutant that seeped into every vein of magma on the planet.

Integration complete.

Then, a scene that plunged everyone into despair unfolded.

"Look...look at the sea!!"

Someone screamed in terror.

The once deep blue seawater had become viscous and turbid, emitting a nauseating fishy stench, as if... blood had mixed with a huge amount of amniotic fluid, or other bodily fluids.

On land, the originally hard rocks and soil began to soften, and countless fine buds and blood vessels "grew" on the surface.

The towering mountains rose up, turning into sharp, white thorns;
The earth cracked open, revealing enormous, chaotically rotating eyeballs peering out from deep within!

Even the atmosphere was replaced by layers of thick, eerie black mist, obscuring the starry sky.

Earth is alive.

This blue planet that gave birth to humankind was, at this moment, completely eroded by the eerie remnants of the progenitor, turning into a planet suspended in space...

Hugely bizarre!

[System Warning: Planetary-level life form awakening detected...]

[Target Determination: End of the World - Earth (Aberration)]

Headquarters of Dajing, Command Center.

Watching the satellite transmit images of the entire world turning into a bloody hell, Long Zhenguo slumped into his chair, the thermos cup in his hand falling to the ground.

Dead end.

This is an unsolvable deadlock.

If we want to eliminate the supernatural, we must destroy the planet itself—that would mean the extinction of humanity.

If nothing is done, humanity will be wiped out by the countless strange entities that have emerged on the planet's surface as an "immune system"—and that will also lead to extinction.

“Shen Ge…” Deng Yuqi’s voice came through the communication channel, tinged with a trembling despair.

"what should we do?"

On Omnisiah's shoulder.

Shen Ge looked at the world beneath his feet, a world that was both familiar and strange. There was no despair in his eyes, only a calm as deep as an abyss.

After devouring the "brain," his thinking speed surpassed that of ordinary people, and in that instant, he calculated the only solution.

"The heart of the Earth is malfunctioning, so I'll go and perform a 'bypass surgery' on it." Shen Ge's voice, transmitted clearly through Xiao Qi's broadcast, reached the ears of every survivor around the world.

"Leave the problems inside the Earth to me."

Shen Ge slowly raised his hand and pointed to the completely bizarre ground beneath his feet: "But these opportunistic insects on the ground... are yours."

"listen!"

"All the captains in the Special Operations Department who can still move, even those with missing limbs, as long as they're not dead, are to take their place!"

"Defend the last refuge! It is humanity's last spark!"

"This is the last line of defense!"

"Little Qi, let's go!"

"Copy that, Master!"

The colossal mechanical deity Omnesia inverted in mid-air, its thrusters unleashing bursts of light powerful enough to tear through the void.

It was like a meteorite flying in reverse, carrying Shen Ge as it crashed violently into the ground below, which had already turned into a bloody wasteland!

As Shen Ge left, the war on the ground did not die down; on the contrary, it burned even more fiercely because of this final order!
"Did you hear what Captain Shen said?!"

Covered in blood, Yu Tiexiong let out a roar like a wounded beast.

He ripped apart the already damaged armor shell on his body and pressed a red button on the back of the neck of the psychic armor helmet.

"Crypto-energy circuit... Overload mode, full activation!!!"

boom!
His body instantly swelled to twice its size, and crimson steam spewed from every pore. This tough guy, known for his defense, completely abandoned it at this moment, charging single-handedly into a group of sixth-tier monsters attempting to breach the shelter's gates, like a rampaging human bulldozer!

In the sky.

"Attention all aircraft! This is Yang Yuxin, the captain of the 'Peregrine Falcon' squad!"

Piloting her specially designed fighter jet, Yang Yuxin looked ahead at the colossal flying beast that blotted out the sky and was spewing poisonous mist at the city.

Her fighter jets have already run out of missiles.

"For the sake of the Great Celestial Empire... crash it!"

Instead of pulling the ejection handle, she pushed the throttle to the floor. The fighter jet transformed into a sharp sword, carrying her final, resolute determination, and precisely pierced the only eye of that bizarre behemoth!
"Boom!"

The bizarre behemoth fell with a scream.

After Yang Yuxin was ejected, the supernatural armor attached itself to her entire body in mid-air. Then, a huge figure flew over, grabbed her hand, and flung her toward another strange giant hand.

"I'll beat you up!" Lin Yin roared.

"Thanks, Captain Lin!" Yang Yuxin landed on the back of the strange behemoth, switched to her ghostly battle blade, and pierced its flesh.

And on the other side of the battlefield.

"I never imagined that in the end I would die alongside you 'partners of justice'."

The "Ugly Ox" of the Twelve Zodiacs wiped the blood from his face and looked at the Special Operations Department mecha pilot beside him who was piloting the mecha to block a beam of strange energy for him.

"Stop talking nonsense!" Tu Doupi didn't even bother to look at him.

The ugly ox grinned, and all four heads simultaneously let out a wild laugh.

"Then let's see who kills more!"

With his eight pillar-like arms exerting force simultaneously, in conjunction with the Special Operations Department's firepower, he brutally smashed the three high-ranking members of the Heavenly Stems Organization who attempted a sneak attack into a pulp!

Around the world, whether they are elites of the Special Operations Department, eccentrics of the Zodiacs, or ordinary soldiers, at this moment, there are no stances, no good or evil.

Only for the continuation of the race...

The last stand!
Just then, a spatial rift suddenly opened on the sea surface, but this time it was not the strange creature that squeezed in, but the "Iron Heart" which was as huge as Omnisea.

In addition, there is the "Ark"!
One after another, warships, perfectly blending flesh and machine, which once struggled for survival in the vast ocean, have now crossed the barriers of dimensions and descended upon Earth.

On the flagship, Hephaestus, the chief engineer who was once obsessed with mechanical ascension, stood on the command platform, looking down at the ravaged Earth, and fiercely pulled down the firing gates: "Blast these scum to dust! All fleet, fire! For... the 'Commander's' homeland!"

“Boom, boom, boom, boom—!!!”

The sky was filled with strange energy beams, like a meteor shower of judgment, instantly covering every inch of the battlefield.

Those bizarre tides that were about to engulf the defense line were evaporated in large swathes under this round of bombardment, which was like a dimensional reduction attack.

“That is…” On the ground, Deng Yuqi and the blood-soaked crow looked up at the fleet full of otherworldly style, their eyes igniting with the last spark of hope.

Reinforcements have arrived.

……

Meanwhile, deep within the Earth.

Omnisiah's steel body reached its limit just before it touched the Earth's core.

The surrounding pressure is no longer just physical compression, but also "assimilation" and "dissolution" at the level of rules.

"Master, I can't get past this point." Xiao Qi's voice carried a hint of regret: "The rules here are too restrictive."

"It's okay, this is my home turf."

Surrounded by an aura of immortality, Shen Ge transformed into a sharp arrow, piercing through the last layer of mantle composed of dense "source matter" and rushing into the very core of the planet.

This is no longer a place of scorching, churning lava.

This is a huge cavity with only a dark red light.

In the very center of the cavity, there is no core in the conventional sense. Instead, there is a heart with a diameter of over a thousand kilometers, its surface covered with countless large blood vessels, beating slowly and powerfully!
On that enormous heart, there seemed to be a mass of "human-shaped flesh and blood".

"Long...time...away." A familiar voice came from the heart of the tumor.

Shen Lin.

The person who should have been blown to pieces by Shen Ge.

"You really didn't die." Shen Ge looked at him without much surprise, as if she had expected this scene.

"That giant whale was your pet, the layout of the Amazon was your doing, and even this heart was bait you laid out."

Shen Lin's voice was hoarse, as if even speaking had become difficult, and he said intermittently, "Don't put it so harshly. Death? That's just the end for lower-dimensional beings. Once I understood the essence of the power of dreams, death for me was nothing more than a restart."

“Look at this world, Shen Ge. It’s rotten to the core.” Shen Lin’s voice carried an almost divine compassion.

"Rules riddled with flaws, a fragile civilization. Since those fools in the heavens want to gamble with it, why can't I use it as fuel?"

"Fuel?" Shen Ge narrowed his eyes.

"Yes, fuel."

Shen Lin pointed to the heart that was undergoing mutation at his feet: "The power of dreams in the real world is the purest. As long as I completely assimilate this planet and offer all its life and rules as sacrifices... I can obtain the power to reshape all worlds."

"I want to revive my world." A hint of obsessive madness flashed in Shen Lin's eyes.

"That world, submerged by the sea and filled with regret. Isn't it worthwhile to sacrifice this 'reality,' which was destined for destruction, for the sake of that goal?"

"To save a group of dead people, kill a group of living people." Shen Ge nodded, his tone flat: "That logic makes sense, like a madman."

"Looks like we have nothing to talk about."

"There has never been anything to talk about."

The moment the words left his mouth, the two of them moved simultaneously.

"boom!!!"

Without any fancy prelude, two demon kings, both approaching the tenth rank and possessing partial "divine" authority, collided violently at the heart of Earth.

The point where the two fists collided did not explode, but instead silently created a dark void.

Space peels away like a shattered mirror, a direct collision with the rules of "annihilation".

Shen Lin had the home-field advantage. With a wave of his hand, thousands of scarlet chains of rules shot out from the ancestral heart beneath his feet, attempting to bind Shen Ge.
Shen Ge, relying entirely on his perfect [Devouring] and [Immortality], forcibly tore a path through the ocean of rules, each punch carrying a weight enough to shatter the world, slamming into Shen Lin's defensive barrier.

The entire Earth's core trembled violently as the two fought, and each shockwave caused a major earthquake of magnitude 9 or higher on the Earth's surface.

But that makes no sense.

"Hahaha! Useless! Shen Ge!"

Shen Lin's body was shattered in half after the collision, but it instantly regenerated thanks to his heart's energy supply. He laughed wildly, "I am now one with the Earth! As long as this planet exists, I possess infinite energy! You cannot kill me, and your physical strength, even with the 'immortality' lock, will eventually be exhausted!"

"If this continues, the Earth will collapse on its own before I even have to lift a finger!"

Shen Ge stopped moving, hovering in mid-air, breathing slightly heavily.

Indeed, as Shen Lin said, this is a dead end.

He couldn't kill Shen Lin without destroying the Earth.

Looking at the space around him that was heading towards destruction, a sudden realization flashed in Shen Ge's dark eyes.

"Shen Lin, you're right."

Shen Ge suddenly laughed, a laugh that seemed rather inexplicable, causing Shen Lin, who was opposite her, to jump in surprise.

"This world is already rotten to the core; there's no point in trying to fix it."

Shen Ge slowly opened his arms, and the [Immortal] lock that had been maintained on his body to protect his physical body from collapsing was suddenly released by him.

"Since you want to reshape the world, why not... go all out?"

"Although I find the actions of the Tiangan people disgusting, their core idea—'betting the future on the next civilization'—now seems to make some sense."

"System, full permissions granted."

"Remove all security thresholds."

[WARNING! This action will increase the risk of the host's physical body disintegrating to 100%...]

"implement!"

With a roar from Shen Ge, the [Primordial Bizarre Cells] within his body were completely unrestrained and went berserk!
A surge of erosion energy surpassing the ninth rank erupted from Shen Ge's body!

Shen Ge floated in the air, opened his hand, and held a white light in his palm: "You once wanted to cultivate Omnisiah to tear apart the fragmented world, but you didn't expect it to become my means to deal with you, did you? I have to thank Xiao Qi for this, for bringing me the dream power that Omnisiah devoured!"

[Full Attribute Unlocked - Ultimate Devour]

He no longer targeted Shen Lin alone.

He wants to devour the Earth's core!
Devour this heart!

Devour the entire mutated Earth!
Even... following the dimensional rift, he swallowed all those thousands upon thousands of shattered fragment worlds into his own body!

"Are you crazy?"

Shen Lin, who had been confident of victory, finally revealed a horrified and distorted expression at this moment.

"What are you doing? You're just a mortal! Even if you have a system, you can't possibly bear the mass of a universe! You'll die! You'll be annihilated!"

"What's the point of doing all this? The world is gone, and all the people you care about—your woman, your brothers—will disappear with you!"

"It doesn't matter anymore."

Shen Ge's body had begun to disintegrate inch by inch in that endless light, turning into the purest lines of regularity, but he was still smiling.

"If you were to reshape the world, the people I care about would cease to exist, wouldn't they?"

"Rather than passively accepting destruction..."

"Why don't I define this new life myself!"

“Ahhhh——!!”

A terrifying, engulfing black hole instantly covered the entire Earth's core.

Shen Lin let out a desperate scream. His body was instantly erased like a sand painting in the face of this irresistible supreme rule.

His unwilling soul tried to escape, but was grabbed by a large hand made of rules, like a chick being caught.

Shen Ge's smooth, large hand squeezed hard.

"You are merely nourishment for me."

"puff."

Shen Lin's soul and spirit were directly crushed, turning into a ball of the purest primordial energy, which Shen Ge forcefully pressed into the violently trembling, monstrous heart!

The threshold of the tenth level shattered at that moment!

Deep within the earth, the space that was originally filled with dark red, destructive light has now become indescribable.

With Shen Lin's spirit completely crushed, the ancestral heart, which served as the fulcrum of Earth's "monstrous transformation," finally went completely out of control.

Without the restraint of will, the massive source of pollution, large enough to distort reality, erupted instantly. The earth's crust began to crack like a biscuit, large sections of space peeled away, revealing the chaotic void turbulence behind it.

The collapse of the world is a foregone conclusion.

"Is this the end...?"

Shen Ge floated in the center of the destruction, watching everything around her head toward annihilation.

On his retina, the system panel that had accompanied him throughout his life was no longer a cold stream of data. The progress bar that had been stuck at "99%" finally completed its final beat with the last tenth-order devour.

System completeness: 100%

[Promoted to: ??? (Transcendence/True God)]

At this moment, Shen Ge felt his consciousness rising infinitely.

He was no longer this physical body called "Shen Ge"; he had become the rules themselves, the will that transcended this world.

Shen Ge slowly raised his arms, and his voice did not travel through the air, but resounded directly into the depths of the souls of every survivor.

“Then I will forge a new one for you.”

His gaze pierced through thousands of kilometers of rock, reaching the human settlements shivering in the apocalyptic storm, and his comrades, covered in blood, still desperately guarding the shelter gates.

Shen Ge's hands were loosely clenched, but instead of launching a destructive attack, he unleashed his absolute defense—one of all the properties he possessed.

[Without Leaving the Realm of Ghosts - Final Form: Absolute Protection]

In that instant, a white, absolute barrier appeared around the surviving humans around the world!

"Swallow."

Darkness descends.

……

Reinvention.

He combined the remnants of Earth with the essence of thousands of fragmented worlds.

The land was stretched out, and continental plates several times wider than before rose up in the sea;

The ocean was filled in, its black sludge removed, and it was restored to its pure blue color;
The atmosphere was rewoven, filtering out deadly radiation.

A new, primitive Earth, incredibly rich in resources and having completely severed the "mysterious source," slowly took shape in this chaos.

Looking at this new world, Shen Ge felt an unprecedented exhaustion.

That's a sign that you've reached your limit.

The price he had to pay for bearing this power of creation was himself.

“Go on…” Shen Ge looked at the flames enveloped in the “protective orbs of light” and a relieved smile appeared on his lips.

That power that transcended dimensions began to dissipate, transforming along with his physical body into the first and last golden rain of light that nourished this new world.

Inside the shelter, all everyone could see was their vision being swallowed up by an endless white light, a warm light that made people want to cry.

Then, the world fell into a long silence.

……

I do not know how long it has been.

"Wind... there's the sound of wind?"

Fang Mingyue suddenly opened her eyes and sprang up from the ground. She instinctively tried to activate the Ghost Energy Armor, only to find that her equipment had already shut down due to the depletion of Ghost Energy.

But she was quickly stunned.

Not only her, but also Deng Yuqi, Li Xiang, Lin Yin, Yoona... hundreds of millions of survivors stood blankly on the vast wilderness.

There were no ruins, no burning cities, and no howling monsters of flesh.

There was no gloomy, oppressive sky either.

Beneath our feet lies fertile, oil-rich black soil, while in the distance stretches a lush, endless primeval forest, and a clear river shimmers in the sunlight.

Above my head, there was the long-lost, dazzling blue sky and bright sunshine.

Although the skyscrapers are gone, and the facilities of modern civilization have been wiped out in an instant, everyone is standing empty-handed in the wilderness.

But after a brief silence, a heart-wrenching cheer erupted from the crowd.

Then, the second, the third...

The cheers of hundreds of millions of people converged into a wave, resounding through the sky.

"We...are still alive!"

The knowledge in my mind is still there, the organizational structure of the Special Operations Department is still there, and those powerful warriors are still there.

Humanity's flame was preserved in this new Garden of Eden.

……

……

Ten years later.

The tenth year of the Gregorian calendar.

【City of Hope】is a human main city built on the foundation of the survivor base of the former Rong City Special Operations Department.

Ten years is both a long and a short time for a civilization that has rebuilt itself from ruins.

There are no towering skyscrapers here, but it is full of a unique aesthetic that perfectly combines steampunk and high-tech supernatural technology.

Using the "new energy" that is no longer polluting left by Shen Ge, and with the help of the "Ark" and the "Iron Heart," plus the technology tree that scientists like Li Xiang have worked so hard to preserve, humanity has not regressed to the Stone Age, but has instead leapfrogged to establish a highly ordered new civilization.

A suspended light rail, powered by electricity and net energy, shuttles above the massive stone city; in the farmland outside the city, improved high-yield crops sway in the breeze.

In the central square, a group of children were chasing and playing. They stopped in front of a huge statue cast from black living alloy.

Everyone who looks up can feel that sense of security and comfort.

That was the man revered by the new world as the "savior" and "creator".

……

The highest administrative center of the base, the top-floor office.

The afterglow of the setting sun shone through the floor-to-ceiling windows and onto the large mahogany desk.

The current Chief Executive of the Global United Parliament, Deng Yuqi, and Cheng Shengnan, the Minister of Logistics and Resources who controls the global lifeline, are sitting opposite each other across their desks.

Both of them had neat short haircuts, and their demeanor was more composed and dignified than it had been ten years ago.

"I have approved the application for the 'Twelve Branches' special operations team."

Deng Yuqi pushed a document over: "In this new world, some mutated beasts are quite troublesome. It's just right to let Ya and the others handle them. After all, in this world, we must learn to coexist."

“Okay, I’ll arrange the resource allocation.” Cheng Shengnan took the document with efficient movements.

Deng Yuqi then asked, "How is the situation on the observation team's side?"

Cheng Shengnan flipped through the report and said, "According to the 'Ark' global exploration report, the size of the 'New Earth'... should be one hundred times the original. However, 'Iron Heart' detected a spatial rift reaction in the central East China Sea."

"A spatial rift?" Deng Yuqi frowned.

Cheng Shengnan continued, "According to the observations of the 'Iron Heart,' that spatial rift is currently safe. Hephaestus speculates that, in order to ensure our safety during creation, he rubbed all the fragmented worlds together, leaving the 'good' ones on our side and throwing the 'bad' ones to the other side."

Deng Yuqi sighed, "So now the 'bad' things are coming?"

"Not necessarily." Cheng Shengnan shook his head.

She still remembered the warm white light that held her as Shen Ge "made his last arrangements" when he disappeared, or rather, "went into a deep sleep."

Since the supernatural energy could not be eradicated, and it could cause non-human creatures to become mutated, he simply threw all the supernatural energy with corrosive power aside.

To prevent some kind of tenth-tier ghost king from popping up again, he deliberately left a backup plan and arranged for someone to guard the door over there.

"Shen Ge said we would definitely be safe. As for why the spatial rift appeared, Hephaestus is still investigating. We should have news soon."

"Okay." Deng Yuqi nodded.

After the business was finished, the office fell into a brief silence.

Deng Yuqi put down her pen, picked up her coffee, and involuntarily looked out the window at the huge statue of a figure in the square.

"Sheng Nan".

Her voice suddenly softened, carrying a hint of concern that hadn't changed in the past ten years.

"How is Shen Ge doing lately?"

Cheng Shengnan, who was organizing documents, paused slightly before resuming her work. She looked up, a gentle light flashing in her eyes.

"This is the morning news that Li Xiang just sent," Cheng Shengnan said softly.

"Brainwave activity and cell activity have reached their highest peak in the past decade. Vital signs are very stable and are even slowly rising."

"She should... wake up soon, right?" Deng Yuqi murmured.

Cheng Shengnan turned her head and looked towards the deepest part of the base, a direction known only to a very few people. A hopeful smile appeared on her lips.

"Maybe."

"After all... we've waited ten years."

……

【City of Hope】1000 meters underground, S-level core restricted area—the "Spark" Research Institute. The security level here is outrageously high; even the air circulation system is independent.

Inside the laboratory, countless indicator lights flashed, and numerous instruments representing the pinnacle of human ingenuity operated silently.

Li Xiang was carefully checking a series of complex data.

"This data... it's so perfect it doesn't seem like a living thing..." Li Xiang muttered as he took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes.

Directly in front of him, at the very center of the laboratory.

A transparent life support and incubation chamber, ten meters tall and full of futuristic appeal, stands tall.

The cabin was filled with liquid energy that emitted a faint golden glow; it was the purest energy that the Special Operations Department had collected over the past ten years.

And within that golden liquid.

A man with a perfect physique is floating silently with his eyes closed.

Time seemed to have left no trace on his face; he looked exactly the same as he did ten years ago, as if he were just a young idol in a deep slumber.

This is Shen Ge, who was found ten years ago by the search and rescue team at the "initial landing point" of the new world, which is the very center of this land. He had exhausted all his strength and was in a deep hibernation.

Late at night.

Li Xiang yawned, glanced at Shen Ge's data panel as usual, and after confirming that everything was correct, turned off the main light in the laboratory, leaving only a few dim ambient lights on.

Goodnight, Lao Shen. I hope to see you open your eyes tomorrow.

Li Xiang muttered something and turned to leave the laboratory.

As the heavy alloy door slowly closed, silence returned to the laboratory.

The only sounds were the rhythmic ticking of the instruments and the soft murmur of the liquid flowing inside the culture chamber.

Quiet, peaceful.

It's as if the storm has long since passed, and the world has finally ushered in a long-awaited peace.

however.

In that quiet, deserted place.

The camera slowly zooms in, passing through thick bulletproof glass and golden energy liquid, finally settling on Shen Ge's right hand hanging by his side.

Sudden.

No alarms sounded, and there was no indication of a surge in energy.

That long, strong index finger was in the golden liquid.

It stirred gently... (End of Chapter)