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Inside the control room of "Singularity," it was so silent you could hear your own heartbeat.

The gatekeeper stood frozen before the central control console, his eyes fixed on the main screen. The interface that had once represented the will of the "Matrix," with countless streams of data flowing like a waterfall, was now completely blank. No, not blank, but a kind of… pure “nothingness.”

The spiritual bond that connected him to the "Mother," the bridge built of endless pain and madness, was severed gently yet decisively in that instant. There was no struggle, no resistance; like a deity who had slept for a thousand years, he passed away peacefully in a beautiful dream.

Instead, he felt an unprecedented, ethereal, and warm stirring. That stirring originated from the core of the "singularity," and even through layers of space and barriers, he could still feel that newborn tranquility and joy.

"No...this is impossible..." The gatekeeper's lips moved, his bloodshot eyes filled with disbelief.

His life's work, the ultimate power he pursued, the faith he dedicated everything to... were just... "purified" like that?

The "Matrix" was neither defeated nor destroyed; instead, it chose to give up. It chose a path it had never anticipated—liberation. In its final moments, it betrayed its most loyal servant, betraying their shared ambition.

"It...abandoned me..."

This thought, like a black lightning bolt, instantly shattered the dam of his reason. Endless rage and resentment at betrayal erupted from the depths of his soul. It wasn't mere anger, but a madness born of a collapsed faith and a complete denial of the meaning of existence.

"Aaaaaaahh ...

The gatekeeper let out a roar that was not human, and black flames surged wildly from his eyes. The air around him began to distort, and wisps of visible black energy hissed from his body like living venomous snakes.

"It was you...you did it!" He turned around abruptly, his gaze seemingly piercing through countless walls, locking onto the room located at the very core of the "Singularity," and onto the man who had just ended everything for him.

"I paved the way for you, I cleared all the obstacles for you! I even used you as the 'key' to my plan, giving you the opportunity to grow! You unfilial grandson! How dare you! How dare you destroy everything I've made!"

Before he could finish speaking, he had already transformed into a twisted black shadow, forcibly disappearing from the control room in a way that tore through space. The metal walls in front of him were ripped apart like paper, and a straight passage made of pure destructive energy was blasted open.

……

Inside the core computer room, Li Haotian floated silently in the air.

He felt the dazzling white light emanating from that enormous heart, and sensed the gentle yet resolute will within it, belonging to Lin Mo. Sadness and the urge to fight intertwined in his chest, yet they did not shake him in the slightest. He knew this was the path she had chosen, and the path he had to walk.

The self-destruct program has been initiated, and the energy fluctuations are becoming increasingly violent, causing the entire "singularity" space to groan under immense pressure. In just a few minutes, everything here will be reduced to pure light, completely erasing all traces of the "Matrix's" existence from this universe.

His mission was to protect them until the very last moment.

However, just as this purifying white light was about to fill the entire space, an extreme, ominous blackness, like ink dripping into clear water, suddenly spread out at the entrance of the room.

Click—!

The energy barrier enveloping the core server room, a defense that even Su Wan's saturation bombardment had failed to completely destroy, was suddenly covered in spiderweb-like cracks. Then, with a deafening crack, the barrier shattered!

The black energy surged in like a burst dam, engulfing everything in its path. Wherever it passed, dazzling white light was swallowed and corrupted, and the warm life force turned cold and malevolent.

A figure slowly emerged from the darkness. He wore a crisp uniform and had a refined appearance, but at this moment, his face was contorted with rage and madness. Black flames burned in his eyes, and a terrifying aura surrounded him, enough to make the very space tremble.

He is the gatekeeper.

he came.

Li Haotian's icy gaze met the gatekeeper's crazed stare in mid-air, like two invisible swords clashing fiercely.

"You wicked grandson! You ruined everything I had!"

The gatekeeper's voice was hoarse and shrill, every word dripping with venomous hatred. He pointed at Li Haotian before him, then at the golden heart emitting white light, his expression one of madness: "I've planned for a hundred years! I was about to touch the threshold of eternity! You! You and that worthless woman, you destroyed my god! You destroyed everything I had!"

"She's not an ignorant woman." Li Haotian's voice was eerily calm. "She did something you could never do—she gave 'it' peace."

"Peace? I don't need peace! I need power! I need evolution! I need to become the sole will of this world!" The gatekeeper laughed maniacally, his laughter filled with sorrow and self-mockery. "I gave you a chance, to make you the founder of a new era, but you chose to become a casualty of the old era alongside these mortals! Since that's the case... then you will perish with me for my ambition!"

The moment the words left his mouth, the gatekeeper no longer held back any of his power.

"roar--!"

A superhuman roar erupted from the depths of his throat, and his body began to mutate at a visible speed. The crackling sounds of bones shattering and reforming were incessant, and the blood vessels beneath his skin throbbed wildly like black worms, eventually bursting through his flesh and transforming into streams of black energy that shot skyward.

His flesh and blood were melting away, his form was disintegrating. In just a few seconds, the refined man vanished completely, replaced by a gigantic, churning, and twisting pure black shadow.

The shadow had no fixed shape; sometimes it transformed into a roaring behemoth, sometimes into a dripping blade, and sometimes it coalesced into a gigantic eye that blotted out the sky. It devoured all the surrounding light, dragging the entire core server room into a pitch-black darkness, with only the golden heart stubbornly emitting a last glimmer of white light in the darkness.

This is the most primitive and purest form of his bloodline power—a huge shadow symbolizing devouring and ending.

"Be devoured, my...rebellious grandson."

From the shadows came the gatekeeper's voice, a mixture of resentment and a hint of pleasure. The enormous shadow suddenly contracted, transforming into a black tide that swept across the battlefield, engulfing Li Haotian with a clear objective—to completely and forever devour and obliterate him, along with the last vestige of his indomitable will!

Darkness instantly engulfed Li Haotian.