Uchiha Puppet Master, Starting from One Piece.

Then, the center of the Heavenly King lit up.

It's not the center of that recessed area, nor the interface of the mother flame, but the very center of the entire platform.

That point had remained dark and silent until now, like a core that was still sleeping.

But now it's awake.

A point of light emerged from the center, no bigger than a marble, its color an extreme, pure, and unblemished black.

It's not black light.

Because light cannot be black.

But that thing was indeed black, and it was indeed glowing.

The very existence of this contradiction transcends the realm of human understanding, as futile as attempting to comprehend three-dimensional space with two-dimensional thinking.

The black dot of light was suspended at the center.

Then it begins to expand.

It's not an explosive expansion, nor a shockwave-like spread, but a calm, restrained expansion, like a flower blooming in slow motion.

It grew from the size of a marble to the size of a fist, from the size of a fist to the size of a basketball, from the size of a basketball to the size of a house, and from the size of a house to the size of a mountain.

It still maintains its perfect spherical shape.

It remains that ultimate, pure, and unblemished black.

Then it stopped expanding.

The moment it stopped, the whole world went silent.

It wasn't the calm before the storm, nor the silence before a great battle, but a more thorough, more fundamental quiet, as if the universe itself had held its breath at that moment.

Bai Yu sensed it.

His Rinnegan trembled violently at that moment, not from fear, but because his eyes had finally seen the true nature of the black sphere.

That's not energy.

It is not matter.

It is not any known physical entity.

That was a "crack".

A rift that separates this world from the nothingness beyond it.

Uranus didn't create anything, nor did it launch anything; it merely opened a crack, a crack leading to the "outer" side of the world. And that black sphere was the crack itself, the absolute, utter void revealed after the outermost layer of the world's skin was torn apart, a void where even time and space did not exist.

The pressure difference between that void and this world was so immense that it was unimaginable.

Like a spring compressed to its limit suddenly released, or a container evacuated to a vacuum suddenly opened, that void will surge into this world in an unstoppable manner, into this world filled with matter, energy, time, and space, and then assimilate everything it touches into its own part.

It is destruction.

To completely erase existence itself from the universe, leaving not even atoms, not even energy, not even a trace of time.

Everything swallowed by the void was as if it had never existed in this universe.

Bai Yu realized this.

Today, history is about to repeat itself.

And this time, the Heavenly King's power is even greater than it was eight hundred years ago.

Because 800 years ago, Im had not yet merged with the planet.

Eight hundred years ago, Im was merely a being with immense power, not yet bound to the world's underlying rules, nor yet a part of the planet's life cycle.

But Im is different now.

Eight hundred years of accumulation, eight hundred years of devouring, eight hundred years of assimilation—Im is no longer the simple power holder he was eight hundred years ago. Instead, he has become a part of the planet itself, the convergence point and distributor of all life force on this planet.

The power of the Heavenly King is the power of the entire planet.

And the rift leading to the outside of the world is the wrath of the entire planet.

It's not moving.

It's not a spread.

It wasn't an explosion.

Rather, it is "arrival".

A black beam of light, exactly the same diameter as the black sphere, shot vertically downwards from the bottom of the sphere without any buffer, without any warning, and without any intermediate process.

That's how it came about.

It shot straight down from a height of 500 meters above Pangu City, heading directly towards the center of the red earth continent.

No, it wasn't aimed at.

It means "to pass through".

The black beam of light pierced through Pangu City, through the red earth continent, through the earth's crust, through the mantle, through the earth's core, through the earth's center, and then emerged from the opposite side of the planet, shooting into the sky, into space, and into the endless void.

A black beam of light, over a kilometer in diameter, pierced through the entire planet.

No sound.

There was no vibration.

There was no shockwave.

Because nothing can produce sound, nothing can produce vibration, and nothing can produce shock waves.

Everything touched by the black beam of light—from matter to energy, from space to time—was swallowed up by the void rift and completely erased from the universe, as if they had never existed.

When those things disappeared, they didn't even leave a trace of "disappearance," because a "trace" is itself a form of existence, and that existence has been erased.

So nothing happened.

There was no explosion, no flash, no sound, and no change that could be detected by any of the senses.

But in that absolute silence, Bai Yu saw something left behind where the black beam of light had passed.

nothingness.

It is not darkness, not emptiness, not any state that can be described as "nothingness," but an absolute, thorough "nothingness" in which even the concept of "nothingness" itself does not exist.

In that void, the laws of physics do not hold, causality does not hold, and logic itself does not hold. It is not a place, not a state, not anything that can be grasped by thought. It is simply "non-existence" itself, existing in a self-contradictory way.

And this ethereal, thin line runs through the entire planet.

The world did not perish at that moment.

Destruction requires a process, a trajectory of change from wholeness to fragmentation. But what Uranus erases is not matter, but the very existence of matter. When existence itself is erased, even the state of "fragmentation" cannot occur, because "fragmentation" implies that something still exists in another form.

No, it's not quieter.

Instead, it was so quiet that it was terrifying, eerie, and chilling.

The silence lasted for about three seconds.

Then, the world screamed.

It is a real, physical scream, the simultaneous scream of billions of voices.

The red earth continent is screaming.

The black beam of light pierced through the center of the red earth continent, passing directly from top to bottom, leaving a perfect, smooth, atomically-level circular cavity with a diameter of over a kilometer in the very center of the landmass.

The rock strata surrounding the void lost their support the instant the black pillar of light disappeared, and began to collapse inward. But it was not an ordinary collapse; rather, it was a force that defied the laws of physics, as if an invisible black hole was pulling everything in from the center of the void.

The entire main vein of the red earth continent was trembling.

That thin, invisible line running through the center of the landmass is not just a physical void, but also a “wound” in terms of rules.

The planet's underlying rules were torn apart along that line, much like a syntax error in a computer program's code causing the entire program to crash.

It's not a collapse that spreads outward from the center, but a collapse that occurs simultaneously at every node.

A crack appeared on the eastern side of the red earth continent, extending from the ground to the seabed, with a length of more than a thousand kilometers.

The crack wasn't caused by an earthquake, but rather because the continent's "existence" itself became thinner along that line, much like how a piece of paper becomes fragile when its fibers are soaked in water, tearing at the slightest touch.

A crack also appeared on the west side, wider, deeper, and longer than the one on the east side. That crack stretched from the west coast of the red earth continent all the way to the seabed in the doldrums, tearing the entire continental shelf in half.

Cracks appeared simultaneously on the north and south sides, and the four cracks were distributed symmetrically around the cavity, dividing the red earth continent into four huge landmasses.

Then the ocean intervened.

Seawater surged into the cracks from all directions, into the circular void that pierced the landmass. Trillions of tons of seawater, pulled by gravity, frantically filled the void left by the collapse of the continent. But the seawater did not simply flow into the void; it was sucked in at an incredible speed, because beneath the void was not the earth's crust, nor the mantle, but the void left by the black pillar of light that had pierced through it.

That void passage has no end, no bottom, and no capacity limit.

It is a conduit to "non-existence," and anything that enters it will disappear and be completely erased from the universe.

The seawater was rushing in faster and faster.

It is not the seawater that is moving, but the nothingness that is pulling the seawater. That void channel is like a bottomless pit that can never be filled, dragging the entire ocean toward it.

Sea levels have begun to drop.

It's not rising, it's falling. Because trillions of tons of seawater are disappearing at a rate of millions of cubic meters per second, swallowed by nothingness, and completely erased from the universe.

But this descent lasted for less than ten seconds.

Ten seconds later, something even more terrifying happened.

The void passage was filled.

It's not that it was so full that it couldn't absorb anything more, but rather that it had absorbed far too much seawater, to the point that the disappearance of seawater itself caused a massive imbalance in the planet's underlying rules. The pressure inside the planet was fluctuating wildly; the crust was collapsing due to loss of support; the mantle was surging due to the pressure imbalance; and the core was fluctuating violently due to changes in temperature distribution.

Then, the entire planet began to expand.

It's not an expansion in volume, but an expansion in internal pressure.

The matter and energy swallowed by the void passage did not simply disappear, but were removed from the universe.

However, the universe itself does not allow a vacuum to exist, nor does it allow a region where "there is nothing".

Therefore, when that region appears, the underlying rules of the universe will automatically begin to fill it, using surrounding matter and energy to fill that void.

But the surrounding matter and energy are also being devoured.