From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

In order to see clearly the spatial barrier of the Naru ascended civilization, Lu Heng flew along the edge, trying to find the boundary.

However, after flying for several days, they still couldn't find the boundary of the space barrier.

This spatial barrier stretching across the Chaos Sea seems boundless and endless.

Lu Heng wasn't sure if this was the infinite breadth of the laws or the limit of the scale.

In either case, it demonstrates that this spatial barrier is unusual.

How vast must the civilization behind the space barrier be?

What is the black box that the abyss is about to open?
All the questions were hidden behind this spatial barrier.

After flying along the spatial barrier for seven days, Lu Heng encountered a ball of light, which resembled a giant glowing sea urchin and contained the aura of laws.

In fact, this was not the first time Lu Heng had encountered this glowing sea urchin. He had sensed similar auras of law several times while probing the spatial barrier.

However, the two did not meet and then left separately.

This time, the glowing sea urchin appeared directly in front of them, clearly wanting to talk.

The bioluminescent sea urchin is very large, with a beam of light exceeding one kilometer in width. It floats in the chaotic sea like a bright star.

Lu Heng took the initiative to speak: "Hello, were you also recruited?"

Glowing sea urchin: "Yes."

Lu Heng: "My name is Lu Heng, I come from the human world. What should I call you?"

Glowing sea urchin: "Radiant."

Lu Heng: "We should have passed each other a few times in the past few days, but we didn't see each other."

Glowing sea urchin: "Yes, from a rules perspective, there is a strong competitive relationship between gods."

Upon seeing other god-level beings, Lu Heng naturally wanted to obtain more information. After exchanging pleasantries, he began to inquire about the questions that concerned him most:
"How many times have you been conscripted? Do you know the secrets of the Naaru Ascension Civilization?"

Glowing sea urchin: "More times than you know."

Lu Heng raised an eyebrow and pressed on, "Then do you know what the Naru Ascension Civilization is? Why hasn't this civilization responded?"

Glowing sea urchin: "The reason is unknown, but the Naru Ascended Civilization has never responded. To be precise, no information has been transmitted from behind this spatial barrier for tens of thousands of years. It's as if the Naru Ascended Civilization has vanished."

Lu Heng frowned and pressed, "Why is this happening? Our recruitment mission was clearly to help them."

Glowing sea urchin: "Have you ever considered another possibility? Perhaps the Naaru Ascended Civilization really has disappeared."

Lu Heng was taken aback for a moment, but then he thought about it again and realized that such a possibility did exist, except...

"If the Naaru Ascension Civilization has truly disappeared, why are we still being recruited to drive away the Abyss Demons?"

Glowing Sea Urchin: "You should be able to sense that the summoning of wills is more like a pre-programmed sequence, constantly running according to its instructions. As for what changes have occurred in the astral plane, or whether the rules still apply, the sequence cannot determine."

Lu Heng did indeed feel that the mobilization of wills was like some kind of program.

If this conjecture is correct, any program may develop bugs after running for a long time or after the environment changes.

If the program is written by humans, it needs to be maintained and bugs fixed every once in a while.

If no one maintains it, the program will keep running until it encounters an error and completely freezes.

The process of summoning wills is clearly not a normal program and is not so easy to freeze, but it is not completely free of bugs.

In fact, to cause a bug in the will to be summoned, all that is needed is for certain extreme situations to occur.

For example, if all intelligent civilizations in the astral plane were swallowed by the abyss, and the summoned will could not find a target to summon, the program would inevitably malfunction.

In this situation, the will to summon will will most likely remain stuck in the cycle of searching for a summoner until its energy is exhausted, or it may continue indefinitely.

Lu Heng understood what the glowing sea urchin meant and pressed further, "You mean, there's a bug in the summoning of the will of conscription in the Naru ascending civilization?"

Glowing Sea Urchin: "This battlefield of demons in the chaotic sea has been looped too many times. Do you think it's a bug?"

To be honest, this kind of continuous loop does have the characteristics of a bug, but it's not necessarily a bug.

Lu Heng then thought of another key point and said, "What about the Abyss? Isn't the Abyss also going through the same cycle?"

The reason why the Demon God Battlefield keeps appearing is that the Abyss continuously issues missions to recruit Abyss Demon Gods to attack this spatial barrier.

The summoning of wills was initiated only after the attack by the Abyss Demon God occurred.

If we trace it back to its source, we will find that the cycle of the Demon God Battlefield is actually caused by the Abyss.

Glowing sea urchin: "Yes, the Abyss keeps repeating the same things, without even adjusting its behavioral logic."

Lu Heng was taken aback for a moment, then asked, "You mean the pattern of the Abyss guiding the Abyss Demons to attack this spatial barrier has never changed?"

Glowing Sea Urchin: "Yes, you heard right. Whenever the number and combat power of the demons appearing in the Abyss faction reach a certain level, the Demon Battlefield here will appear."

"The Demon God Battlefield will last for a period of time, or it will end when the number of Abyss Demon Gods or their combat power rating falls below a certain threshold."

"Afterwards, once the number of demons in the Abyss faction recovers to a certain critical value, they will launch another attack on this spatial barrier. This cycle has continued until now; I know it has lasted for tens of thousands of years, but I don't have precise information on when it actually began."

Lu Heng took a deep breath, feeling that the secret of the abyss was hidden ahead, but he couldn't quite grasp it.

It seems that the secrets of the abyss and the will to summon have finally converged at one point, and all the secrets lie behind this spatial barrier.

Lu Heng pressed further, "Has this spatial barrier never been opened? Not even once?"

Glowing sea urchin: "From what I know, it has never happened. And the gods who have attacked this spatial barrier have all been judged as traitors, either killed or hiding."

Just as Lu Heng was processing this information, the task panel changed.

The original Demon God Battlefield mission was only one: to drive away the Abyss Demon God.

A new task has been added: "Eliminate the Traitors".

Lu Heng's expression suddenly changed, and he looked at the glowing sea urchin with vigilance.

The two sides, separated by tens of thousands of meters, communicated using their mental abilities.

This distance isn't short, but it's not far for a god-level being either.

The glowing sea urchin seemed to sense the change in Lu Heng's expression and asked, "You've been given the mission to eliminate the traitors?"

Lu Heng had already guessed the reason. He slowly clenched his right hand and asked directly, "Are you a traitor?"

The glowing sea urchin remained silent for a few seconds before answering, "Yes, I am the traitor who attacked the spatial barrier and then hid."

Lu Heng had indeed heard other god-level beings say that attacking the spatial barrier of the Naru ascended civilization would be considered treason and subject to attack by the gods.

However, there is a point of ambiguity here.

It's probably true that attacking this spatial barrier will be considered treason.

However, this does not mean that all traitors are those who attacked spatial barriers.

They may have become traitors for other reasons.

Therefore, we cannot believe everything the glowing sea urchin says just because of a few words, after all, he is now a traitor.

The glowing sea urchin clearly guessed Lu Heng's thoughts and continued, "I understand your vigilance. It's alright. We need to remain wary of each other because I'm also afraid you'll take action to eliminate the traitors."

Lu Heng remained vigilant, nor did he delve further into the topic. Instead, he said:
“I am willing to believe you, and I also hope to learn more about the secrets of the Abyss and the Will of Conscription. We can maintain this way of communication.”

The glowing sea urchin replied, "Sure, my purpose is also to explore these secrets."

Lu Heng then asked, "Do you know what the black box is? Where exactly is the black box that the Abyss needs to open? What exactly is it?"

Glowing sea urchin: "I don't know. All the information about the black box comes from the mission that the Abyss Demon God received."

Lu Heng: "So you've never seen the black box?"

Glowing sea urchin: "I've never seen one, and I've never heard of anyone seeing one."

Lu Heng pondered for a moment before continuing to ask, "What's behind that spatial barrier? You said you attacked it, but what happened? Did you break through it?"

This time, the glowing sea urchin fell silent for a long time.

Lu Heng urged him once before the glowing sea urchin finally answered.

Glowing sea urchin: "That was an attack I had been preparing for a long time, and it did break through the spatial barrier."

Lu Heng quickly pressed, "What did you see?"

Glowing sea urchin: "Nothingness... endless nothingness..."

Lu Heng: "Didn't you see the Naru ascend to civilization?"

Glowing Sea Urchin: "No, not even the slightest feedback from civilization. Moreover, the spatial barrier only broke open for a moment before closing again. After that, I was pursued by other powerful gods and had to go into hiding."

Lu Heng discerned the truthfulness of this information and pressed on again, "Didn't you see the black box either?"

Glowing sea urchin: "No, there is only endless nothingness on the other side of the spatial barrier. I'm not sure if the attack was in the wrong place, which caused the different information to be seen, or if the other side of the spatial barrier is the so-called black box."

Lu Heng fell into deep thought. If the other side of the spatial barrier was truly endless nothingness, then why did the abyss break through the spatial barrier in the first place?
"There are many inconsistencies in the information you've provided. If there is truly endless nothingness behind this spatial barrier, why would the Abyss open it in the first place? Is endless nothingness what the Abyss desires?"

Glowing sea urchin: "That's what puzzles me too. I've investigated for a long time, trying to figure out why the Abyss opened the spatial barrier, but I still don't have an answer."

As the two were talking, the glowing sea urchin suddenly retreated and then quickly disappeared.

Before long, Lu Heng noticed that other powerful gods were approaching.

Then, a tree root extended from the chaos beside him, conveying the palm's message.

Palm received a mission to eliminate the traitors, so it came this way.

Clearly, Lu Heng wasn't the only one tasked with eliminating traitors; it's possible that all the summoned god-level beings received this mission. (End of Chapter)