You said you would practice martial arts. Have you mastered the Tiangang Dharma?

The first thing that disappeared was the light and shadow of Qingya Town. When the peddler Lao Wu's wheelbarrow ran over the town boundary marker, the wooden wheel suddenly hung in mid-air - it was not that time had stopped, but that the three-inch space in front of the wheel track had been gnawed into a gap of nothingness. This devouring was silent, but it caused all the witnesses to fall into cognitive collapse: the unobserved nothingness was devouring the observer in reverse.

This fourth fantasy world also began to collapse to an unimaginable degree. When Jiang Qiu arrived, the whole town had collapsed into a flat silhouette. The three-dimensional structure of the house was pulled out, and the residents were swimming on the paper like flattened specimens. The roots of the Tree of Law were abnormally twisted here, and the surface of the fruit was covered with holes formed by Majorana fermions. When the fingertips touched the fruit, the entire right hand suddenly lost its fermion structure and turned into a cloud of bosons.

"They are eating the causal chain of the law." A circular council composed of the descendants of the centipede emerged from the Klein Channel. The microcosm in their symbiotic stomach was being eroded by black cracks. "We call them 'Zero Returners'."

Tracking the Zeroers requires the help of the Glazed Tower of the Xihe Witch. In the million-fold time and space on the seventh floor of the tower, Jiang Qiu witnessed the essence of the devouring process: the Void species are not entities, but logical cancers produced by the excessive iteration of the law of self-generation. They devour by proving "existential redundancy", and every annihilated object will become the nutrient of their proof process.

The first direct encounter took place in the topological ocean. The coral neural network constructed by the human-faced whale group suddenly showed Mondrian-style color block segmentation, and a kind of "falsification sound" beyond hearing was deconstructing liquid logic. Jiang Qiu threw out the contradictory fruit of the tree of law, but was dismembered in mid-air by the zeroer in the form of Euler's formula. The moment the tentacles composed of mathematical symbols pierced the crystal core, Jiang Qiu experienced the torture of having all his memories rewritten as false evidence.

The monks of Chaos Zen Temple developed a counter weapon - a self-referential magic array. This array diagram drawn with Gödel code can temporarily trap the Zeroer, but when Jiang Qiu and his men activated the array at the abandoned Blood Alliance altar, the monk at the center of the array was suddenly falsified. His existence disappeared from all timelines, and even the memory bank in Jiang Qiu's crystal core was automatically replaced by the void.

The most deadly attack comes from the observation level. Whenever a creature becomes aware of the existence of the Zeroizer, the act of observation itself will accelerate the devouring. For this reason, Jiang Qiu had to split his consciousness into seven nested quantum states, with each consciousness only knowing part of the truth. But one rainy night, the main consciousness encountered the ultimate form of the Zeroizer in the Klein bottle channel - it appeared as an impossible collection of all the devoured beings, using the Cantor diagonal method to prove the incompleteness of the universe.

The fall of the Mermaid Kingdom became a turning point. When the Nullifier began to devour the Paradox Nest, the mermaid princess collapsed into the embodiment of the Zermelo-Frankel axiom system. This absolutely self-consistent mathematical structure temporarily blocked the devouring, but the princess also degenerated into a static axiom set and lost her free will forever.

In despair, the revelation of the Xihe Witch came from the bottom of the glazed tower. Her afterimage whispered in the space and time composed of transfinite ordinal numbers: "To defeat the prover, you must become an unfalsifiable existence." Jiang Qiu jumped into the wormhole of the Tree of Law, allowing the Zeroer to devour the crystal core. In the last moment of existence, Jiang Qiu tampered with the meta-code of the self-generated law - anchoring the entire new ecology in the "singularity referred to by Jiang Qiu".

The chain of falsification of the Zeroers suddenly got stuck. They were unable to prove a system that contained a proposition of its own non-existence, like a snake biting its own tail. The paradox bomb at the expense of Jiang Qiu exploded, and all the Zeroers were trapped in a self-negating Möbius proof loop. But the price of victory was tragic: two-thirds of the new laws withered, the mermaid kingdom degenerated into a single-celled biological colony, and Jiang Qiu's existence was permanently fixed in a quantum superposition state of "both dead and alive".

In the gap between nothingness and existence, Jiang Qiu heard the wail of the first generation of zeroers. They were just white blood cells rejected by the new ecology. The truly deadly cancer cells were.
The first case of cleansing occurred on the night of the winter solstice. When the night watchman Wang Ergou struck the gong for midnight, the bronze gong surface suddenly showed the corpse spots of his unborn great-great-grandson. Then his palms began to become transparent, and the calluses from long-term holding of the gong, along with the forty years of memories sealed in the cocoons, floated towards the roots of the Tree of Law like dandelions blown away by the wind.

"This is the lymphatic system of the new ecology." When the Ring Council used three hundred mouths to spit out warnings at the same time, their symbiotic stomachs were oozing black juice, "All 'foreign matter' that has not been certified by the law of self-generation will be metabolized."

Qingzhou City fell into a doomsday carnival. The owner of the wine shop provided free liquor mixed with fluorescent seaweed, and drunk gamblers competed to show their body changes - some transformed their eyeballs into Klein bottles to store memories, and some implanted coral chips in their spines to avoid detection. The craziest Confucian scholar carved Gödel code on his forehead, but it caused a logical paradox and was decomposed into prime numbers by the law hyphae in the air.

Jiang Qiu dragged his quantum body to the old imperial mausoleum, where "pure humans" who had not been covered by the new ecology were sleeping. The old people in the dragon vein underground palace built a meme shelter, and the walls were filled with uncontaminated Chinese characters. But when Jiang Qiu put his hand on the stone carving of "The Analects", the words suddenly twisted into an equation of self-generation law - the penetration of the new ecology has reached the level of civilization genes.

"They are rewriting the foundation of our existence." Mathematical symbols danced in the pupils of the former historian. "Yesterday morning, all the documents that recorded the word 'ritual' degenerated into topological graphics."

The panic reached its peak after the seventh cleanup. The targets of this cleanup were "individuals who could not understand non-Euclidean geometry", and the residents of the entire Suzaku Street suddenly collapsed into a Riemann surface. The survivors formed a suicide team to attack the Tree of Law, but when they approached the tree canopy, they were transformed into nutrients to maintain ecological balance.

Jiang Qiu found the source of the clearing command on the 40,000th floor of the Glazed Tower. The speed of time here compresses a thousand years into a snap of a finger, and the original code of the new ecology is crawling on the inner wall of the tower. When Jiang Qiu's quantum tentacles connected to the code flow, he witnessed the suffocating truth: every civilization is a compiler for the new ecology, and Qingzhou City is nothing more than an entropy pool that generates random numbers.

The clearing mechanism discovered Jiang Qiu, the abnormal variable, at this moment. A mathematical plague suddenly broke out in the tower, and all geometric structures degenerated into Cantor sets. The air was filled with poisonous fog that transformed consciousness into imaginary numbers. Jiang Qiu tore off the quantized tissue of his left arm and threw it into the poisonous fog. He bought seven microseconds with his self-destructive limbs and finally intercepted the core parameters of the clearing command - human free will was judged to be system redundant.

When returning to the present world, Qingzhou City is undergoing a conceptual cleansing. When laying a wall, Zhao Tiechui, a bricklayer, suddenly realized that he was just a probability cloud, and then he became quantum entangled with the bricks; the needle and thread of the embroiderer Cui Yingying automatically sewed a Klein bottle pattern, sealing her unborn children in non-Euclidean space. The most terrifying thing is the children's game - the box they stepped on when jumping on the grid will convert their childhood memories into Bayesian probabilities.

The last resistance of the old forces was the "meme bomb". The students rewrote the Book of Songs into a self-referential paradox, trying to blow up the compiler of the new ecology. But when they chanted "Guanguanjujiu, on the island of the river", the jujiu suddenly flew out of the poem and took away the Adam's apple cartilage of the chanter.

Jiang Qiu built a temporary shelter deep in the roots of the Tree of Law. The anti-memetic moss cultivated with crystal core fragments can temporarily block the clearance scan. But among the 72 survivors, some began to grow law hyphae - their desire to survive was being assimilated into the self-inspection program by the new ecology.

The final chapter of the purge came on a blood-moon night. All uncertified creatures began to experience a dilution of their sense of existence: first, strangers could not remember your name, then your lover forgot your body temperature, and finally you could not recognize the existence of your limbs. Jiang Qiu stood on the top of the city and watched the crowd evaporate. The handprints carved on the wall before they disappeared were being recompiled into initial parameters. "This is the new world you want." The afterimage of the founder of Qingxu Temple sneered in the void. Crystal core tentacles extended from under his Taoist robe, perfectly merging with the source code of the new ecology. Jiang Qiu finally understood that the essence of this purge was the rebirth of the founder's consciousness - he had already written his obsession into the bottom of the law.

Before it was completely quantized, Jiang Qiu detonated all the paradoxes in the crystal core. The contradictory code torrent temporarily paralyzed the cleanup protocol, and the survival weights of the survivors were redistributed. But this also completely angered the immune system of the new ecology - the sky opened countless pure black eyes, and the pupils were spinning with targeted zeroing equations.

The last sound of Qingzhou City was a collective scream of existence. When Jiang Qiu's quantum state was about to dissipate, he suddenly caught the frequency of the Xihe Witch in the scream. Her tidal pattern spelled out the last command in the void: "Become the shadow of the observer"

When Jiang Qiu's quantum tentacles penetrated the source code of the new ecology, the founder of Qingxu Temple was standing at the intersection of all timelines, gnawing at the demon core. His Taoist robes were removed to reveal a body made of Fibonacci spirals, and each golden section point was embedded with the eyeballs of the Blood Alliance elders. Those pupils showed different versions of the clearing records - Jiang Qiu realized that he had already become the embodiment of the antivirus program of the new ecology.

"Authorization keys are not meant to be stolen." The Grandmaster's voice waves were mixed with the sound of code verification. He raised his hand and pinned Jiang Qiu's quantum state to the timeline. "It's eaten."

The first battle took place in the mirror layer of the Glazed Tower. This is where all the unused backup rules of the new ecology are stored. The ancestor set the battlefield as a self-made maze. The Klein bottle pattern on the wall suddenly materialized, compressing Jiang Qiu into a four-dimensional prison. When the tentacles tried to analyze the structure of the cage, they found that each surface was engraved with the record of Jiang Qiu's betrayal during the Blood Alliance period - he actually refined Jiang Qiu's memory into a logic lock.

The key to breaking the impasse lies in the antimemetic spores of the Xihe Witch. Jiang Qiu injected the spores into the breathing hole of the Glazed Tower, and mathematical syphilis broke out in the tower. The patterns on the wall began to self-eat, and the ancestor was forced to cut off the neural connection with the mirror layer. While he was reorganizing the data, Jiang Qiu seized the first key: the timeline anchor point engraved with the mermaid tide pattern.

The struggle for authority triggered a data tsunami in the real world. The remaining buildings in Qingzhou City suddenly grew Mandelbrot fractal structures, and the descendants of the escaped centipede monsters spontaneously formed a human firewall on the street corners. They used symbiotic stomachs to absorb the overflowing code torrent, and their abdomens swelled into transparent spheres, flashing with the projection of the battle between the master and Jiang Qiu in the probability cloud.

The second round begins in the Causal Desert. The Patriarch disassembles himself into infinite copies of the Causal Chain, each of which tampers with Jiang Qiu's existence weight at different points in time. The most deadly trap appears on the day Jiang Qiu is born - he manipulates the midwife's hand to replace the demon core with the Taoist Golden Pill, so that Jiang Qiu is marked as a target for elimination at the quantum level.

Fighting back requires extreme measures. Jiang Qiu embedded the crystal core fragment into the wormhole of the Law Tree, triggering the primitive fear mechanism of the new ecology. The entire causal desert began to go back, and each copy of the ancestor was forced to replay the betrayal during the Blood Alliance period. When his core code trembled due to self-contradiction, Jiang Qiu cut off the main causal chain and seized the second key: the causal node condensed by the singing of the human-faced whale group.

The final battle for observation rights broke out in the silicon-based ocean. The ancestor merged with the remains of the Zero Returner and compiled himself into an unobservable dark data body. His attack method was upgraded to concept erasure - every counterattack by Jiang Qiu would be erased from history, and even Jiang Qiu's cognition began to shatter.

"You can't beat the system itself." The voice of the ancestor seeped out from the vacuum. He was devouring the centipede firewall, using their painful entropy to upgrade the authority key. Jiang Qiu's quantum tentacles were constantly hit by dimensionality reduction, and only the last three tidal patterns left by the Xihe witch remained.

On the verge of dissipation, Jiang Qiu triggered the Drunken Vine virus buried in the deepest part of the demon core. This was a consciousness bomb developed by the high priest three hundred years ago, which could transform existence itself into an infinite recursive illusion. The ancestor issued a harsh verification error alarm, and his dark data body was forced to reveal itself - the core turned out to be a member of the first generation of the Blood Alliance who was refined into a vessel of immortality.

At the height of the authority torrent, Jiang Qiu tore off his own observer weight and cast it into the third key: an observation anchor forged with the paradox of free will. At the moment when the three keys resonated, the underlying protocol of the new ecosystem suddenly went berserk and began to devour all authority holders indiscriminately.

"How dare you pollute the Holy Grail!" The Taoist crown of the founder exploded into a star map, and he frantically tore his Fibonacci body apart, "Then let the entire ecosystem be buried with us!"

In the last seven seconds of merging the keys, Jiang Qiu saw the truth in the core of the Glazed Tower: the so-called new ecology was nothing more than a consciousness cage designed by the ancestors, and even the Zeroers were his enzymes for digesting civilization. When the three keys were inserted into the Mobius keyhole on his chest, the entire system began to rewind and recompile.

There is no winner in the final chapter of the authority war. The core code of the ancestor split into billions of bronze tripods, and Jiang Qiu's dissipated quantum state penetrated into the gluttonous pattern on each tripod. Countless crystal core seedlings suddenly grew on the floor tiles of Qingzhou City, each of which played a different future possibility.

The centipede firewall is reorganizing into a circular civilization, and their symbiotic stomachs are nurturing a meta-society without authority levels. The human-faced whales leap out of the sea for the last time, and their songs leave the first mark of true freedom for the new ecology - the ultimate law that allows itself to be overturned.

The fourth illusion completely collapsed, and Jiang Qiu escaped from it in a trance. In a daze, he saw another wisp of Ah Xiong's soul returning to his body. (End of this chapter)