F-class thief? Sorry, I can steal anything.

"A person outside the boundary."

The figure spoke.

The moment the voice fell, the golden chain wrapped around Chen Yifan's neck tightened abruptly.

The bones were being squeezed, producing a piercing groan.

He raised his hand, his palm revealing gold dust that had turned into gold dust after the first chain was stolen.

The "Chen Yifan" opposite them was perfectly replicated, from the torn hem of his clothes to the bloodstains on his shoulders, and even the dark pattern of the sealed well bone mark on his chest.

The only difference.

There is no cause and effect on the other party.

No place of origin, no place of return.

It is itself a living, breathing piece of evidence for conviction, generated by the World Engine.

Chen Yifan tugged at the chains, his voice hoarse from the pressure.

"Who are you?"

Shadow Chen Yifan raised his hand.

The entire golden field surged and receded to both sides.

Countless wheat-like lifelines were broken by an invisible force, revealing the towering pillars that supported the Hall of Judgment below.

The ground was still golden, but now it was covered with dense, bone-like patterns.

With each step, a crisp sound of souls being torn apart echoed beneath my feet.

The hall was filled with faceless and nameless judges.

They all bowed their heads, repeating the same phrase over and over again, monotonously and coldly.

"Those who are not born of the Blue Star shall not steal the heart of the Blue Star."

"Those who are not born of the Blue Star shall not steal the heart of the Blue Star."

"Those who are not born of the Blue Star shall not steal the heart of the Blue Star."

The sounds layered upon each other, transforming into a tangible, oppressive weight.

All eleven cores vibrated violently at the same time.

Chen Yifan felt a tightness in his chest, and the gray-white patterns on the edge of the sealed well bone seal were showing signs of disintegration due to the golden light.

The engine's verdict appeared before his eyes.

[Illegal lifeline.]

[No native destiny path.]

[Well No. 11 refused.]

A huge golden scythe hung down from the roof of the palace.

The blade did not strike Chen Yifan, but instead aimed at the eleven cores in his ring space.

Bai Zhi's voice came from a distant reality, distorted and fragmented.

"Chen Yifan... Well Eleven... the rejection reaction is escalating... don't let it... complete the retrial..."

Shenhou's angry curses also became unclear.

"That headless dog... what kind of hellish thing is he doing now..."

Communications were completely drowned out by the incessant sounds of judgment from within the palace.

Shadow Chen Yifan took a step forward.

"Do you want to know where you came from?"

Chen Yifan looked up at it.

"Those who want to reunite with their relatives, please line up at the back."

The shadow did not pause, the voice was flat and emotionless, simply stating established facts.

"You are not an ordinary time traveler."

All the faceless judges in the hall froze at that moment.

The golden scythe that had been hovering above the eleven cores also stopped.

Shadow Chen Yifan raised his hand and pressed it against his chest.

There, there is no heartbeat.

"The people of the previous era discovered the truth about the Divine Farm."

"They smashed engines, sealed cracks, killed divine messengers, and tried to find the stronghold of the divine court."

"But as long as the roots of destiny remain in the engine, all resistance will ultimately be counted as farm output, becoming a string of numbers on the ledger."

Chen Yifan remained silent.

The shadow continued its narration.

"So they changed their approach."

"Don't try to make a living from within the farm."

"They looked outside the farm."

"The rebels of the previous era sent out the last mark of the old well. It passed through the void rift that even the divine court could not monitor, and pulled back a special life seed from the 'outside world'."

"Unlocked Life Seeds"

"It has no native destiny."

"It has no end to its hierarchy."

"It... will never be completely bound by the underlying rules of the world engine."

Golden light surged within the hall!

The faceless judges spoke in unison again, their voices now more urgent.

"illegal."

"illegal."

"illegal."

The eleven cores trembled even more violently.

The Blood Rain Well roars with resentment.

The remnants of Leigujing's army raised their weapons again.

The human anchor point of Qingyan Well was tightly bound by countless golden chains, and the gray-blue flame was compressed to the size of a grain of rice.

Shadow Chen Yifan raised his eyes, his gaze seemingly piercing through Chen Yifan.

"Your appearance is the only variable left to this era by the previous era."

"It is also the mistake that the Divine Court most wants to erase."

"That's why the Holy Lord fears you."

"Therefore, the world engine must eliminate you."

The golden scythe finally fell.

The first strike landed on the outer layer of the Blood Rain Well, and the blood-red patterns exploded on the spot!

The second strike was aimed at Thunder Bone Well, severing the towering lightning in one blow!

The third stab went straight for the Green Smoke Well, and Chen Yifan felt a sudden, sharp pain in his chest!

It's not a physical injury.

Instead, it was those names in the Green Smoke Well that he had just memorized that were torn apart by this one strike!

But just then, a lamp lit up in a corner of the courtroom.

The lights were dim yet warm.

An old wooden table, half a bowl of pork rib soup.

Wang Shufen pushed the bowl in front of him, muttering to herself.

"Stop fighting all the time, the food's getting cold, it's bad for your stomach."

The scene changes.

Chen Xue sat on the edge of the bed, her fingertips stroking an old Braille book.

She seemed to hear the door open, looked up, and gave a clean smile towards the doorway.

"Brother, you're back?"

The golden scythe is stuck.

Deep within the Green Smoke Well, that human anchor point, suppressed to the extreme, suddenly erupted!

The gray-blue flames transformed into a raging torrent, instantly covering the entire sealed well bone seal, forcefully pressing the eleven nearly out-of-control heart cores back into their original positions!

Chen Yifan looked down at his still-painfully cracking chest.

The powerful force of the rules that was trying to separate him from Earth was forcefully suppressed.

Shadow Chen Yifan looked at him.

"You do not have a Blue Star destiny orbit."

Chen Yifan raised his hand and gripped the thickest golden chain around his neck.

"My mom used to serve me rice."

He ripped the chains off.

Click!

All the faceless judges in the hall looked up in unison.

"Illegal lifeline!"

"You must not steal my heart!"

"You must not steal my heart!"

Chen Yifan walked forward.

Countless golden chains rushed in from all directions, tightly binding his shoulders, waist, and legs, trying to drag him back to the judgment seat in the center of the hall.

He didn't use any skills.

The sealed well bone seal pressed down on eleven heart cores.

The ring on his right finger was scalding hot from being rubbed by the power of the rules.

Chen Yifan, the shadow, stood at the end of the judge's bench.

"Are you going to refute the World Engine?"

"What do you have to say in your rebuttal?"

Chen Yifan stopped three zhang away and pointed to the sacredness and majesty of the entire hall.

"You bunch of farm tools, you've got so many problems."

The faceless judges paused for a moment.

Chen Yifan's voice wasn't loud, but it was exceptionally clear in the empty hall.

"Whether I was born on Earth or not is none of your business to decide, you bunch of iron lumps."

"I've eaten on Earth, shed blood, and killed those bastards who tried to take it over."

"Whether Well Eleven recognizes me or not doesn't depend on where I came from."

"Watch which side I'm on."

The golden scythe was raised once more.

This time, the blade was aimed directly at Chen Yifan's heart.

Shadow Chen Yifan also raised his hand, and in his palm appeared a completely transparent, headless and tailless destiny trajectory.

"The World Engine holds the foundation for judging all 'extraterrestrial destinies'."

"All your resistance will be defined as illegal and erased."

Chen Yifan smiled.

"The foundation of the trial?"

He suddenly spread his five fingers wide on his right hand.

The ring burned his skin until it was smoking.

"Are you using this to convict me?"

"Then I'll uproot you!"

Steal everything!

launch!

The goal—the foundation of the "Extraterritorial Fate Track" of the World Engine Judgment!

boom!

The entire courtroom suddenly tilted to one side.

The pillars of the palace were cracked in large patches.

The faceless ones, who had been sitting high on the judge's bench, slid off one after another like dumplings.

The pronouncements they made were completely incoherent.

"Not born on Earth..."

"Fate's trajectory... is missing..."

"Belonging...belonging..."

"Convicted...foundation...taken away..."

The golden scythe was in mid-air when its blade began to curl inwards inch by inch, disintegrating.

For the first time, Chen Yifan, the shadow, stopped reading.

"You dare steal this?"

Chen Yifan took a step forward and made a grasping motion with his right hand.

"You are using my origins as evidence against me."

"Then I'll use this evidence as a knife to cut you down."

That transparent path of fate was forcibly pulled out of the shadow's palm, bit by bit.

The world engine was thoroughly enraged.

The roof of the palace suddenly cracked open, and hundreds of golden beams of light bearing the light of punishment crashed down.

Large patches of blood instantly erupted from Chen Yifan's body.

But all eleven cores vibrated simultaneously!

The blood patterns from the Blood Rain Well burst forth from the bone imprint, taking the brunt of the punishment for him!

Lightning shot into the sky from the Thunder Bone Well, instantly knocking another execution pillar askew!

The human anchor at the Green Smoke Well ignited an inextinguishable gray-blue flame, fiercely protecting his vital heart!

As Chen Yifan watched this scene, his voice finally lost its flatness.

"Eleven Wells... I acknowledge you."

Chen Yifan ignored it and continued to pull back forcefully with his right hand.

Every inch that transparent lifeline was pulled out, a section of the Hall of Judgment collapsed.

The faceless judges began attacking each other, crumbling into one another.

Some were deemed "illegal".

Some were convicted of "perjury".

Others were directly swallowed by the reversing golden scythe, turning into a meaningless mass of shattered light.

The pronouncements in the palace were completely in disarray.

[The foundation for criminal judgment outside the established order has been destroyed.]

The previous judgment is hereby nullified.

[The rejection procedure for Well No. 11...failed.]

[Unlocked Fate... Anchor Point Stable.]

Chen Yifan pulled suddenly!

The transparent trajectory of fate was completely grasped in his grasp!

At the same moment, the golden scythe that had been hanging above the eleven cores shattered instantly!

Countless golden fragments fell, but before they could even touch the core, they were all swallowed up by the gray-white vortex opened by the Sealed Well Bone Seal!

The courtroom shook violently, and the shadowy figure of Chen Yifan began to become illusory.

Chen Yifan looked at it.

"What exactly are you?"

The shadow looked down at its fading hand.

"The engine... generated a trial mimicry based on your origins."

"It could also be... a fragment of an echo left over from the previous era."

"It doesn't matter anymore."

Chen Yifan frowned.

"That's a huge difference."

A faint smile appeared on the shadow's face, which was exactly the same as his.

very short.

"But... nothing has changed..."

Chen Yifan's heart skipped a beat.

Do you know me?

The shadow did not answer.

Its body shattered completely into countless gray-white specks of light.

These points of light did not dissipate in the engine; instead, they transformed into a streak of light that shot straight toward Chen Yifan's chest.

The sealing well bone imprint automatically opened a gap, accepting them all.

Eleven cores simultaneously create an extremely narrow pathway for it.

The shadow's voice echoed in Chen Yifan's mind for the last time, deep and distant.

"The twelfth heart... is not the heart core."

Chen Yifan immediately pressed for details.

"What is that?"

The shadow paused for a moment.

"It's the final... determination of ownership of Earth."

The last syllable fell.

All the gray and white light spots merged into the deepest part of the sealed well bone seal.

boom!

The courtroom before Chen Yifan collapsed completely.

The golden fields were torn apart.

The fates of billions of people scattered to both sides.

At the very bottom of the engine, a huge, pulsating blue-white star appeared.

It was tightly bound by countless golden chains, suspended in the void.

Each chain bears the mark of certification from the Supreme Divine Court.

The blue and white star heart is still beating.

very slow.

With each jump, the fate of every professional on the entire planet Blue Star is further compressed by that invisible reaping force.

Chen Yifan took a step forward.

The last empty space in the center of the sealed well bone imprint on his chest began to heat up.

Bai Zhi's intermittent voice finally made its way in.

"Chen Yifan...did you see...the twelfth heart?"

Chen Yifan stared at the blue and white star.

"I saw it."

Shenhou immediately roared on the other end.

"Can I steal it?!"

Chen Yifan raised his right hand.

A fine crack had appeared on that mysteriously made ring.

"Give it a try."

His fingertips had not yet touched the first golden chain.

Behind the blue and white star, a writhing, dark green remnant soul suddenly appeared.

The remnant soul raised its empty, broken neck.

A real severed head slowly turned out from behind countless chains.

The Holy Lord's face was marked with golden lines, and his smile was more painful than a cry.

"Thank you for breaking down the doors of the courtroom for me."

"Now, this twelfth heart, representing the ownership of Blue Star..."

"Including your eleven keys, they are all mine now."