I was just fishing, how did I become a Great Old One?

The Tree Demon Ship crushed Yang Jian's shattered ice remains and sailed upstream along the Milky Way.

The higher you go, the more bizarre the surrounding scenery becomes.

Those huge heat dissipation towers that were originally used for heat dissipation have disappeared.

Instead, there was a... pure white nothingness.

There are no stars, no darkness, and not even a sense of distance here.

Only endless white light.

And suspended in the center of the white light, there was the magnificent, inverted pyramid-shaped building—the Lingxiao Data Center.

It doesn't look like a palace.

It looks more like a giant, slowly rotating white Rubik's Cube.

Each face of the Rubik's Cube is composed of countless shimmering crystal servers.

"This is... the Lingxiao Palace?"

Nezha sat in the car, looking at the giant Rubik's Cube.

The Samadhi Fire in his eyes flickered.

"It used to be magnificent and splendid."

"Why does it look like a... morgue now?"

"That's a very apt description."

Jiang Li gripped the steering wheel, feeling the suffocating sense of order in the surrounding space.

"The data density here is too high."

"So high that even time itself was...frozen."

……

"Buzz—"

The Tree Spirit is approaching the Rubik's Cube.

A white beam of light scanned over.

Identity verification: Unknown error.

High-risk virus (Nezha) detected.

Unauthorized access detected (Jiang Li).

Since the South Heavenly Gate has been physically opened (by the smell of stinky tofu), the defense protocol has failed.

Access granted... Awaiting administrator's decision.

There was no obstruction.

Perhaps the AI ​​of Heaven felt that since these madmen could even kill the Four Heavenly Kings and Erlang Shen, ordinary defense was meaningless.

It opened a corner of the Rubik's Cube.

A path paved with photons extended to the base of the Treant's wheels.

"Inviting the enemy into a trap?"

Odin wiped the golden shield in his hand.

"Boss, this is a trap!"

"Who cares what kind of banquet it is?"

Jiang Li floored the accelerator.

Even if it's a trap.

"I'm going to eat it like a continuous feast."

……

The vehicle drove into the Rubik's Cube.

The sight before them made everyone hold their breath.

This is a huge spherical space.

The walls of the space are densely packed with tens of thousands of holographic screens.

On every screen, there is an old face roaring, arguing, or deep in thought.

Those are... the gods.

Or rather, the… backup consciousness of the 365 righteous gods on the ancient Investiture of the Gods list, as well as countless heavenly soldiers and generals.

But they've gone mad.

"Your Majesty! A demonic monkey is causing chaos in the mortal realm! We beg for divine punishment!"

"Nonsense! That's an auspicious omen! An auspicious omen!"

"Where are my peaches? Who stole my peaches?"

"This line of code is incorrect! There's a flaw in the logic here!"

"Refactor! We must refactor!"

Countless voices intertwined, forming a massive, chaotic data noise.

They are like a group of zombie processes stuck in a vicious cycle.

Throughout the endless years, they repeat the obsessions they held in life and argue about meaningless topics.

……

"That is...the gods?"

Er Gou shrank back as he looked at the screens that were flashing wildly.

"It looks like... a large meeting being held in a mental hospital."

"They are dead."

Nezha's voice was cold.

"All that's left is a pile of useless data garbage."

"They're kept here by the Heavenly Dao AI, serving as... a backdrop for computing power."

Just then.

The very center of a spherical space.

A dazzling white beam of light descended.

Inside the beam of light.

A gigantic, towering virtual projection appeared.

He wore a nine-dragon imperial robe and a twelve-tassel crown.

His face was stern, and his eyes were like lightning.

But his body was made up of countless flowing, golden binary codes.

BOSS: Jade Emperor - Incarnation of Heaven.

Identity: The personalized interface of Tiandao AI / the highest administrator of the system.

Realm: Refining Void Stage (Data Ascension).

Abilities: Words become law (code modification), system rollback, and large-scale deletion.

……

"quiet."

The enormous golden figure spoke.

The sound wasn't loud.

But it instantly drowned out the noise of the tens of thousands of "zombie processes" around it.

All the holographic screens went out instantly.

The entire Lingxiao Palace fell into a deathly silence.

then.

Those enormous golden electronic eyes looked at the Treant that had just intruded.

Nezha.

"And... there's an external variable (Jiang Li)."

The Jade Emperor's voice was devoid of any emotion.

It's like reading out a verdict.

"You have disrupted the system's operation."

"It disrupted the perfect order."

"They even...contaminated my South Heavenly Gate with that disgusting biological weapon (stinky tofu)."

"Unforgivable sin."

"Now."

"As the system administrator, I am executing... a permanent ban on your accounts."

……

hum!

As the word "account banned" fell.

Jiang Li and the others suddenly felt their bodies sink.

The surrounding space began to distort.

System message: Stripping the target of existing permissions...

Deleting target physical data...

Odin was horrified to discover that his hands were beginning to turn transparent.

Er Gou's tail began to disintegrate like a mosaic.

Even the flames on Nezha's body were quickly extinguished.

"This is... a massive deletion technique!"

Nezha gritted his teeth and desperately urged his Fire-Tipped Spear to resist.

But here.

At the core of the Heavenly Way.

All the rules are decided by the Jade Emperor.

He said you don't exist, so you don't exist.

"Damn! How are we supposed to fight this?"

Xun Leizi cried out in despair.

"He's modifying the underlying code! This is a game-changer!"

……

"Modify the code?"

Jiang Li looked at his fingers, which were becoming transparent.

There was no panic.

instead……

Laughed.

"Since you like playing by the rules."

"Then let's have a competition..."

"Who has stronger resistance?"

Jiang Li took out the remains of Yang Jian that he had collected in Tianhe from his backpack.

To be precise.

It was a jelly-like crystal of laws that radiated a silvery light.

This is the essence left behind by Yang Jian after he cultivated the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts and achieved physical sainthood.

It possesses extremely strong adaptability to laws and its ability to reject incompatible ones.

"Ergou! Set up the pot!"

"Alice! Light the fire!"

"We're right here in the Lingxiao Palace..."

"Make a meal!"

……

"Cook?"

The Jade Emperor's projection in the sky paused for a moment (if AI could also pause).

It's almost been deleted.

Do I still need to cook?

"sucker Punch."

The Jade Emperor coldly intensified the deletion efforts.

Their bodies disappeared even faster.

"hurry up!"

Jiang Li shouted loudly.

He threw the crystal of law into the pot.

then.

He pulled out the one he had just captured... Chaos Heavenly Eye (the one tainted by the ink of the abyss).

"Yang Jian's physical body represents order."

"The polluted celestial eye represents chaos."

"Cook these two things together..."

"You can get one..."

"Something that both exists and doesn't exist, something that is both orderly and chaotic..."

"Schrödinger's soup!"

……

Step 1: The Melting Law.

Under the Samadhi True Fire of the Wind and Fire Wheels, Yang Jian's Law Crystallization rapidly melted, turning into a pot of silver soup.

Step 2: Inject chaos.

Jiang Li threw the pitch-black Chaos Heavenly Eye into the soup.

"Sizzle—!!!"

Black and white.

Chaos and order.

A violent reaction occurred in the pot.

The broth instantly turned into an eerie gray color.

And it keeps flashing and changing.

It becomes a physical entity one moment and nothingness the next.

Step 3: Forced integration.

"Hold on...!"

Jiang Li stretched out his hand, and his Gluttony Godhood erupted.

The conflict in the pot was forcibly suppressed.

"Add more ingredients!"

He sprinkled in a handful of bug powder (data scraps scraped from the Treant's engine).

"Out of the pot!"

……

Dish Name: Law of Immunity - Chaos Stew

Rank: Mythical (Rules-based).

Effect: Grants the user "logical immunity." For a short period, you will become a super bug that is "unrecognizable by the system." Any commands to modify or delete rules targeting you will be nullified.

"drink!"

Jiang Li ladled out a bowl and drank it all herself first.

Then it was distributed to everyone.

"Drink up! One sip each!"

"Glug!"

Nezha, Odin, Er Gou, and even Alice (who poured the soup into the oil tank) all drank it.

……

next second.

A miracle happened.

The bodies of the people who were rapidly becoming transparent and about to disappear.

Suddenly... it solidified.

and.

A faint, gray, mosaic-like halo appeared around their bodies.

In the sky.

The Jade Emperor's "Great Deletion Technique" beam shone on them.

It's like light shining on a mirror.

It just... slid open.

Error! Error!

Target object...cannot be located!

Target object...data type mismatch!

Unable to execute the delete command!

……

"What?!"

For the first time, a look of utter bewilderment appeared on the Jade Emperor's majestic face.

"That's impossible!"

"I'm the administrator!"

"Why can't I delete you guys?!"

"because……"

Jiang Li wiped the soup from the corner of her mouth.

At this moment, his entire body was shrouded in a gray, chaotic light.

It looks both sacred and eerie.

"Us now."

"Not a user."

"It's not a virus either."

"we are……"

"Gibberish that the system cannot recognize."

Jiang Li drew the lightsaber from his waist (which had now turned into a gray Chaos Sword).

Pointing to the Jade Emperor in the sky.

"Administrator, right?"

"You like banning accounts, huh?"

"Now……"

"It's our turn... to cause trouble!"

……

"Nezha! Charge!"

"Okay!"

After drinking the soup, Nezha felt his whole body filled with that "unruly" power.

The fiery wheels beneath his feet burst forth with gray flames.

"Old man!"

"Take this!"

boom!

Nezha soared into the sky.

This time, no law could stop him.

He directly penetrated the layers of firewalls set up by the Jade Emperor.

The Fire-Tipped Spear, carrying earth-shattering power, pierced fiercely towards the Jade Emperor's enormous virtual projection.

"presumptuous!"

The Jade Emperor roared in anger.

"Heavenly Might - Divine Punishment!"

Countless golden bolts of lightning struck down.

but.

All the attacks that hit Nezha became ineffective.

"Hahaha! Useless!"

"I'm a bug now!"

"Die!"

Pfft!

The Fire-Tipped Spear pierced the Jade Emperor's chest without any resistance.

Although it is a projection.

But this directly pierced through the interactive interface of the Heavenly Path AI.

"Sizzle sizzle—"

The image of the Jade Emperor began to flicker and distort violently.

"Warning... Interface crash..."

"Switch to... physical defense mode..."

Boom!

The enormous projection of the Jade Emperor exploded.

It turned into countless golden data fragments.

……

"You won?"

Er Gou barked excitedly.

"It's not that simple."

Jiang Li stared at the shattered center.

There.

The place where the Jade Emperor originally stood.

A black hole appeared.

That opening leads to the innermost part of the Lingxiao Rubik's Cube.

An aura a hundred times stronger, a hundred times purer, and a hundred times colder than before surged out of the cave entrance.

That's just a...skin (UI interface).

Jiang Li gripped the sword in his hand tightly.

"The real...core."

"That mainframe of the Heavenly Dao AI."

"It's inside."

……

"Walk."

Jiang Li waved his hand.

The Treant has restarted.

Carrying this group of "outlaws" whose bodies were flashing with garbled auras.

They rushed into the black hole.

……

Inside the Rubik's Cube.

This place is no longer a white void.

Instead, it was a... starry sky.

Countless stars (actually fusion reactors) float in the void, providing energy to an object in the center.

That object.

It's not the brain.

It's not a chip either.

It was... a gigantic one, suspended in mid-air...

eyeball.

To be precise.

It is a biomechanical eyeball made up of countless optical fibers, flesh, and metal.

Its diameter exceeds ten kilometers.

at this time.

The eyeball is closed.

But after sensing the arrival of Jiang Li and the others.

it……

Slowly... he opened his eyes.

In that eye.

No pupils.

Only an endless... torrent of data.

as well as……

An extreme greed for "evolution".

Final Boss: The Singularity (Heavenly Dao - True Form)

Form: Biological quantum computer / cosmic observer.

Realm: Integration Stage (Pseudo-Mahayana).

Objective: To devour all variables and achieve cosmic heat death (absolute order).

……

"We've finally met."

Jiang Li stared at the enormous eyeball.

There was no fear.

instead.

His gluttonous nature.

At this moment.

I'm thirsty like never before...

"What huge fish eyes!"

Jiang Li licked his lips.

"If this were used to make... Steamed Fish Head with Chopped Chili."

"It must taste... really good, right?"