Chapter 1128 - 512: Sequence 000_2

A trace of pity flashed through Xu Ran’s eyes, but his actions did not hesitate at all.

"Your era has ended, but your power will become the cornerstone of rebirth! In my name, return!"

He extended his hands, seemingly embracing the massive "Heavenly Dao Remnant." At this moment, the empty shell of the "Myriad Dao Furnace" within him was pushed to its extreme. An indescribable suction erupted from his tattered body.

Crack... crack...

The immense "Heavenly Dao Remnant" began to break apart piece by piece. Countless law fragments transformed into streams of light, forcibly absorbed into Xu Ran’s body.

This process was a hundred times more painful than purifying the "Dust of Doomsday." It was akin to forcefully cramming the "skeleton" of an entire world into one person’s body.

Xu Ran’s body cyclically collapsed and reassembled. His skin, flesh, and sinews shattered into powder again and again, only to be forcibly reconstituted by those law fragments.

He could clearly feel a new "spine" slowly taking shape within him. It was no longer a bone of flesh, but a "Dao Bone" forged from billions of law fragments!

As the Dao Bone formed, an unprecedented sense of power began to awaken within him. Though still weak, it was filled with vitality and potential.

"Not enough... Just a spine is not enough!"

Xu Ran’s ambition went far beyond this.

His gaze swept toward the deeper parts of the Cosmos.

"With bone, there must also be flesh... The Cosmos’ flesh is the flowing stars, the chaotic energy that constitutes all things!"

He set his sights on another area—a primordial nebula undergoing "Great Collapse." The matter there was being consumed by a supermassive black hole, space-time twisted to the extreme, countless stars torn apart, reverting to the most primordial chaotic energy.

There, a restricted area of life, was a dread even Immortal Emperors hesitated to tread.

But in Xu Ran’s eyes, it was the best place to reshape the "Sacred Body Flesh."

Yet just as he was about to set out toward that collapsing nebula, his movement suddenly froze.

An unprecedented chill descended without warning, causing his soul to tremble.

This coldness did not come from any corner of this Cosmos. It... came from beyond the Cosmos!

Xu Ran slowly lifted his head, his gaze seeming to pierce the dimensions of time and space, witnessing an indescribable scene.

Beyond the "membrane" of the Cosmos, in that genuinely indefinable "void," a shadow, unimaginably vast, slowly projected inward.

The mere presence of that shadow accelerated the collapse of this dying Cosmos tenfold!

The concentration of "Dust of Doomsday" skyrocketed instantly!

"Finally... have you come?"

Xu Ran’s eyes turned ice-cold in an instant, murderous intent raging.

He had always known there was a mastermind behind the "Ruins of Forgetfulness." It was not an accident, but a long-planned "murder."

And now, the aura of that "murderer" had finally reappeared.

At the same time, a cold, emotionless will traversed the dimensions, directly resonating in his mind.

This will did not use any language; it transmitted "meaning" directly into his consciousness via higher-dimensional information flow.

"...The remaining ’coordinate’... has awakened?"

"Designation: Gengchen Cosmos, ’Guardian’ sample, information pollution self-purification program activation failed..."

"Detected ’coordinate’ engaging in illegal ’aggregation’ behavior... classified as a threat."

A stream of information swiftly enlightened Xu Ran on many things.

Guardian... Sample?

Gengchen Cosmos?

To the other party, he and this entire Cosmos were merely experimental subjects? The so-called "pollution" was just a "program" within an experiment?

An unprecedented fury rose from Xu Ran’s heart, nearly severing his newly born "Dao Bone!"

He was not a Guardian; he was a prisoner of this Cosmos, an "abandoned sample" after an experiment failure! Everything he guarded, the civilization cycles he witnessed, were merely a farce in a petri dish!

"Threat Level: Low."

"Suggestion: Initiate ’Purification’ program."

That cold will delivered its final verdict.

The next moment, a "hand" slowly extended from beyond the Cosmos.

That was not a real hand.

It was composed of pure "annihilation" concept; its appearance rendered surrounding space-time laws into void. Its five fingers represented five distinct "Doomsday" ways, erasing any existence from the causal level with mere touch, as if it had never existed.

This hand was the so-called "Purification program." Its target was Xu Ran, who had just condensed "Dao Bone."

Facing this strike, enough to make any Immortal Emperor despair, Xu Ran showed a strange smile.

"I’ve waited... a long time for you."

He muttered to himself.

The reason he chose to awaken at this point in time, the reason he openly reshaped his Sacred Body was not just for self-preservation.

It was also... to fish!

He wanted to use himself, this "awakening sample," to lure out those hidden "experimenters!"

"Do you think I drew the ’Heavenly Dao Remnant’ into my body just to recast the spine?"

Xu Ran’s smile grew increasingly sinister.

"What I truly wanted was what it carried... the last ’resistance’ and ’resentment’ of a civilization!"

At the moment his words fell, the "Dao Bone" composed of billions of law fragments within him suddenly erupted with endless resentment and dark light!

Those lights were no longer the sacred lights of law but twisted, corrupted, filled with destructive and cursed "Light of the End of the Dharma!"

"With the resentment of civilization, curse the ages!"

"With the hatred of Heavenly Dao, overthrow the heavens!"

Xu Ran unleashed all the negative power he had absorbed from the "Heavenly Dao Remnant" without reservation at that instant!

He did not use this power to attack the "annihilation hand," but channeled it entirely into the depth of his brow, into that speck of eternal, indestructible "golden light!"

What he intended was not to resist, but... "sacrifice!"

He sacrificed the civilization’s last resentment, along with his newly reshaped Dao Bone, to the core of his Origin serving as a "Guardian!"

Buzz—!!!

After absorbing this massive, conceptually negative power, the speck of golden light did not grow stronger; instead, it began to violently contract and collapse!

It was transitioning toward an unknown, deeper "state!"

"Warning! ’Coordinate’ information structure undergoing unknown mutation!"

"’Purification’ program obstructed... Target engaging in hyperdimensional self-disassembly..."

For the first time, the cold will showed a trace of "confused" emotion.

It couldn’t comprehend Xu Ran’s behavior.

In its calculations, Xu Ran should have used this power for resistance and then been easily crushed.

But he hadn’t. He chose self-destruction, a type of self-destruction it couldn’t parse.

Just when the "annihilation hand" was about to touch Xu Ran, the golden light at his brow finally collapsed to the extreme.

Then...

A weak sigh, as if from another time and space, another era, reverberated from the collapsing golden light.

"Alas..."

Only this single sigh caused the massive hand composed of "annihilation" concept to tremble, and cracks appeared on its surface "Doomsday" ways!

For the first time, the cold, aloof will experienced an emotion called "fear."

"...Impossible! How could the ’Zero’ seal... loosen?!"

"Alert! Alert! Primitive causal law weapon detected! This is not a ’Guardian’ sample! This is..."

The voice of the will abruptly ceased.

Because from the collapsed point on Xu Ran’s brow, a finger slowly extended.