When the game shut down, I took my skills with me.

Chapter 59 Two God-Slaying Plans, I Choose the Most Shady One!

"Ugh—this is such a damn hassle."

Lu Yuan's long sigh broke the deathly silence beneath the World Tree.

To Leandera and the surrounding elves, the sigh sounded like a death knell. Their already pale faces instantly lost all color.

Even the all-powerful administrator found it troublesome; it seemed their clan was truly doomed.

Only Fatty Wang came over and whispered, "Brother Yuan, can't handle it? Maybe we should leave. This place smells both good and bad, it's not comfortable to stay here."

Lu Yuan glanced at him, said nothing, and turned to Xiao Ya beside him.

"Power struggles," to put it simply.

He's decided to get involved, but he needs the optimal solution—the one that requires the least effort and best suits his laid-back nature.

"Yes, sir." The data stream in Xiaoya's eyes lit up again. With a wave of her hand, two completely different 3D dynamic models unfolded in the air.

The formatted instruction "Based on existing data, and considering the observer" has two possible solutions.

"Option A: [Permission Hedge]. With your highest administrator privileges, forcibly overwrite the observer's command." Simply put, if he wants to delete something, you order its repair, using your control over the world's essence to engage him in a direct energy confrontation.

Xiaoya's explanation accompanied the demonstration of the model. Inside the model, two energies, one gold and one black, collided wildly, each impact causing the surrounding space model to tremble violently and produce countless cracks.

"Advantages: Simple and direct; once successful, it can instantly eradicate all commands left by the Observer within the World Tree. Disadvantages: Huge cost and extremely high risk. We know nothing about the Observer's reserves of 'World Origin,' and if we get bogged down in a war of attrition, the outcome is unpredictable. This is nothing short of a gamble."

Lu Yuan glanced at the violent energy collision model and curled his lip. A head-on collision? Too stupid, not in line with his style.

"Next."

"Option B: [Rule grafting]." Xiaoya switched to the second model.

In this model, the golden light representing Lu Yuan's authority did not resist the black deletion command. Instead, like the most delicate scalpel, it bypassed it and directly cut into the bottommost rule chain of the World Tree.

Then, the golden light began to weave rapidly, creating a completely new and incredibly complex golden code out of thin air, and cleverly enveloping the black instructions within it.

"Instead of directly combating the formatting command, we'll write a new execution environment for it."

You can think of it as us creating an absolutely closed virtual sandbox for this virus removal process.

"We've changed the 'delete' effect from 'completely erase' to 'transfer to your private data space.' In this way, the 'observer's' command is still executed and not disobeyed. But the result has been completely altered by us."

Xiaoya explained calmly, as if discussing a trivial matter: "Advantages: Low cost, controllable risk, perfectly avoids direct conflict. Disadvantages: Extremely high technical requirements; you'll need to write a 'Heavenly Dao-level' rule patch yourself. Furthermore, this is only a temporary fix and cannot eradicate the 'Observer' threat. However, it will buy you enough time to find a permanent solution."

"Holy crap!" Fatty Wang exclaimed, dumbfounded. "Isn't this just—tricking the system to transfer all the equipment from a deleted account to your own inventory? Brother Yuan, I know this stuff like the back of my hand!"

Lu Yuan ignored Fatty Wang's clamor; his eyes lit up.

This is what GM should be doing.

A security guard goes head-to-head with the players; a true god manipulates the rules.

"This is it." Lu Yuan snapped his fingers, making his decision. "Let's begin."

Leandera and the other elves couldn't understand the complicated vocabulary at all. All they saw was that Lu Yuan's face showed a serious expression for the first time after listening to the report from the mysterious projection.

He actually sat down cross-legged in front of the World Tree.

This posture is exactly the same as the posture of the ancient gods who meditated and attained enlightenment, as recorded in their clan's ancient texts.

"The gods are about to begin repairing the world!" An elderly elven elder trembled with excitement, tears streaming down his face.

Under their devout and reverent gazes, Lu Yuan closed his eyes.

The next second, a virtual interface, composed of countless torrents of code, that only he could see unfolded before him.

"Sir, the Heavenly Dao Patch editor has been launched. Please begin your creation." Xiaoya's voice rang in my ears.

Lu Yuan's mind was more focused than ever before.

His will is the mouse, the keyboard. Every thought he has is transformed into lines of golden commands on the interface, imbued with supreme rules.

[Define a new rule: "Data Recycling"]

[Create a new space: "World Recycling Station"]

[Set trigger condition: When a "formatting" command originating from the "observer" is detected]

[Action executed: Interrupt the original command, completely transfer the target data to the "World Recycle Bin", and mark it as "Pending"]

[Write permissions: Supreme administrator Lu Yuan]

[Priority: Set to absolute, higher than all known instructions]

Lines of code are generated out of thin air and then rapidly combined and nested to form a flawless "rule patch".

From the outside, Lu Yuan began to radiate an increasingly dazzling golden light.

The light no longer simply surged into the World Tree, but transformed into billions of fine, hair-like golden threads. With unimaginable delicacy, these threads bypassed the surging black liquid and pierced directly into the World Tree's trunk, beginning to weave a golden net covering the very foundation of the world at the most microscopic level.

"My God—" Leander covered her mouth, her purple eyes reflecting the miraculous scene, filled with shock. "He wasn't healing, he was—creating! He was rewriting the laws of our world!"

Fatty Wang pulled out a bag of potato chips, crunching away as he mumbled, "Don't get excited, it's basic stuff. My brother Yuan used to exploit bugs to farm materials, and it was way more spectacular than this."

Time passed second by second.

Writing and implanting a "heavenly level" patch was an extremely mentally taxing task, even for Lu Yuan.

Finally, when the last line of code was written and perfectly embedded into the core rules of the World Tree.

Lu Yuan uttered two words softly.

Command: Execute.

A loud hum, as if from the very beginning of the world, resounded throughout the entire space.

The enormous World Tree trembled violently.

Then, something happened that left all the elves speechless.

The thick, black liquid that had been seeping from the cracks seemed to have encountered a natural enemy, and began to flow backward at a speed visible to the naked eye! It was forcibly peeled and pulled from the tree trunk by an invisible force, and then gathered into a stream of black data, which was thrown into a slowly rotating golden vortex that appeared out of nowhere in the center of the tree trunk and disappeared.

Within minutes, all the alarming black cracks were completely "cleared away".

Although the World Tree was still withered, the stench of decay and death that had permeated the air had completely vanished.

It was pulled back from the brink of death!

"We succeeded!" Leander burst into tears of joy, and led all the elves to kneel down deeply in Lu Yuan's direction.

"Thank you for your kindness, great manager!"

Lu Yuan slowly opened his eyes, stood up, and patted the dust off his clothes.

He felt a bit tired, not physically, but mentally.

"Sir," Xiaoya's voice rang out at the right time, "The Heavenly Dao Patch" had been successfully implanted and was running stably.

This operation consumed 7% of the World's Essence. Warning: The Observer's formatting commands have been tampered with; there is a 99.9% probability that the other party has detected your actions.

"I know." Lu Yuan waved his hand dismissively. "We'll have to face each other sooner or later anyway."

He's more concerned about something else now.

"Shouldn't the deal be honored?" He looked at Leandera. "Where is your ancient knowledge base?"

Leander quickly stood up, respectfully walked to the World Tree, placed her hand on the trunk, and chanted an ancient incantation.

On the trunk of the World Tree, the intricate golden patterns slowly lit up, combining to form a radiant doorway.

"Sir Administrator, all the secrets of the Moon Whisper Clan are stored within. From this moment on, it will be completely open to you." Leander's tone was filled with reverence. "Therein lies the only method our clan discovered—the one capable of shielding us from the 'Observer'."