Curse Reply: I'm going to fight the Myriad Corpse Immortal, the highest level one!

The final battlefield of the 62nd century is within the universe, yet Xia Jie finds neither starlight nor the passage of time here.

Everything is bathed in ignorance.

A voice told Xia Jie, "This is not the future you are meant to reach."

Seeing that the punishment of causality did not arrive immediately, Xia Jie guessed that the owner of the voice was preventing the law of causality. Ignoring the voice's words, she asked herself:

"Are you human?"

I think I am.

The voice said.

"Whether in appearance or genes, cognition or nature, you have now completely deviated from the definition of a human being."

As both are living universes, Xia Jie is not convinced that the owner of the voice is human, because this consciousness that permeates the universe has almost lost all desires of being human.

All that remains is the cold rationality that allows it to think and the supreme command that drives its actions—survival, survival by any means necessary.

It does not desire to survive; it merely executes the commands for survival. It does not desire to think; it uses thinking only as a tool to complete the commands.

This is the "human" of the 62nd century, whose only difference from the desireless and unambitious mountain rocks is that it can think.

Based on the memories of the present universe retrieved through the memory technique, Xia Jie concludes that the future is dead.

It's not an exaggeration, it's the literal meaning.

In an attempt to defy the law of causality, humanity has killed its own future.

In 6159 AD, humanity merged its consciousness into one and imprinted it on the quantum field of the vacuum, ascending to become the "unified consciousness of civilization," that is, the "scientific God" who controls quantum fluctuations.

The good news is that humanity has now gained control over all phenomena in the universe, becoming a great deity in the scientific sphere.

The bad news is that humanity has lost its humanity, and the law of causality doesn't like this future without "humanity."

In order to avoid being erased by the law of causality and becoming a failed future subject to iterations, humanity brought the universe into heat death countless years in advance, a heat death that is almost eternal and unchanging.

The law of causality no longer changes or has any meaning here, and the universe and spacetime that have lost human witness are greatly weakened.

The causal laws of the "technological god" and the "integration" have been engaged in a long and even eternal struggle, which is powerless to erase.

The meaning of time is established by the change of things; in a world where change ceases, time no longer has meaning.

Even if there is still "time" objectively, there is no longer any need to record it.

Therefore, there will be no more Gregorian calendar years, and humanity's future will forever remain in the 61st millennium, that is, the 62nd century.

"As you said, I am no longer human..."

The sound stopped abruptly.

The next instant, the causal punishment, which had evolved once again, engulfed Xia Jie.

Because of his arrival, the law of causality gained a slight strength, having the testimony of him and everyone inside the cosmic bubble.

The fragile balance was broken, causality began to take over, and the extra power was used to completely destroy the balance.

In other words, the unified entity never actually protected Xia Jie; it was just that the law of causality temporarily ignored him.

"This is bad; it seems like the law of causality has developed a brain."

Xia Jie, who sensed that the unified consciousness had disappeared from the quantum level, made a sarcastic remark.

Perhaps it was his and the metaverse's provocations that made the law of cause and effect, which learns from mistakes, gradually develop a little bit of intelligence.

The current situation is that even if the operation is still incredibly sweet, the causal law of the operation still directly and instantly kills the civilization integration that has no will to survive, and although it has intelligence, it basically has no intention of using it.

Before Xia Jie appeared, the Unified Entity had to think, fight, and survive for the sake of "human survival".

But when Xia Jie appeared in human form, the obligation to continue was shared.

After Xia Jie denied the "human" identity of the unified entity, the obligation to continue was considered to have been transferred to Xia Jie.

It gave up the struggle and died without resistance, like a stone.

Xia Jie decided to lick the bag.

"I made a wish, and it is reasonable that the unified civilization that sees me as the one who bears the obligation transferred all the technology of the 62nd century to me a second ago."

The wish was granted, and the past facts underwent a small but crucial change, with Xia Jie's soul gaining many times more knowledge than the civilization of Bhikkhu.

Next comes the punishment.

In order to completely eliminate Xia Jie, the nature of the punishment based on causality has undergone a new change.

The punishment of erasure, which was originally composed of the "power of elimination," has now become the punishment of immediate death, which combines "annihilation," "elimination," and "death."

This punishment targets matter, causal resistance, and life simultaneously, making it undeniably powerful.

Fortunately, in terms of resources, Xia Jie has 10 billion spare bodies as a supplement, and the forbidden power of these 10 billion standard creation star maps further weakens the power of the punishment to half.

But this is only for these few seconds, since the law of causality can increase its output at any time.

In terms of causal resistance, Xia Jie's resistance has long been transformed into universal resistance, greatly weakening the specificity of the penalty.

When it comes to death, neither the resistance of the legendary, resilient Xia Jie nor the causeless, effectless outer body makes him afraid of dying.

"I wish that I would adapt to punishment more quickly."

Click!

"I wish that my understanding of 62nd-century knowledge would accelerate."

Click!

"I make a wish..."

Seeing that Xia Jie was not only unafraid of punishment but also enjoying the process, the power of the causal punishment became even stronger.

This is a classic example of the law of cause and effect, using force to overcome skill.

Although it cannot overcome all other techniques with sheer force, as long as it can overcome even one technique with ten other techniques, it will not lose.

"Did you know that, in the history of the supernatural world, there was once a person who awakened a completely useless supernatural power—Death Extraction?"

A voice, calm yet tinged with mockery, shattered the tranquility of the heat-dead universe.

Bathed in the surging, silent power of punishment, Xia Jie spoke to the Law of Cause and Effect, whose intelligence had surpassed that of the Corpse Immortal of Ten Thousand Industries and was even approaching the level of a great talent for longevity.

"Because it desires to touch the metaphysical entity of death, which is formless and intangible, the supernatural power of death extraction was born out of longing."

The mana required to activate this supernatural power is enough to instantly drain the primordial spirit of a top-tier supernatural power user, and the mana required increases exponentially every second thereafter.

Even with near-limitless magical power, this supernatural ability is still unusable.

Because the extraction standards are so stringent that a life would die completely a hundred trillion times without actually dying.

Therefore, failing to confront the reality of death became this person's lifelong regret.

Xia Jie's fingertips gradually condensed into a substance that was both pitch black and ethereal.

Unseen, unimaginable.

It is difficult to describe, difficult to express.

It was neither darkness nor nothingness; it was something that transcended the limits of human cognition, something far more distant than eternity.

That is the "thing-in-itself" of death.

"What a coincidence! Your death instant, my resistance and magic power, all these rare and precious conditions have come together to make my 'concept of death' in my soul reach complete saturation."

With a mere flick of his divine power, he could extract the pure essence of death.

A chaotic, unseen substance flowed from Xia Jie's fingertips, gathering into tiny droplets.

Even the already dead and gloomy universe became even more silent under this death.

It's like a pure black void appearing in a completely gray night sky.

Around that "water droplet," spacetime decayed, collapsed, and returned to a deeper and quieter nothingness.

An indestructible thing that is not dead may still die, and a dead thing that is already dead may still die.

The "water droplet" passed through the wormhole created by Xia Jie under the interference of resistance, and dripped towards the original starting point of the universe - "the 'meta-moment' when the Big Bang occurred".

It dripped onto the "first cause" of the creation of all things!

"Take it, this one-seventh of a gram of death."

"No……"

The law of cause and effect uttered its first word since its birth.

The chess player, who had always disguised himself as a chessboard, felt a human tension, much like Sukuna in the Shinjuku showdown.