Chapter 581 - 242: A Heaven-Shattering Punch, The Fourth Stage

Under the pressure of that irresistible, incomprehensible, and indescribable fist, the perfect body he was so proud of was stripped away and annihilated, layer by layer, starting from its most fundamental particles!

The sheer pressure of the fist alone was enough to make him disintegrate completely!

In the blink of an eye, Noah’s massive body had vanished without a trace.

All that remained was a black heart, still beating wildly and perfectly integrated with the Fire Seed Source, suspended in mid-air.

But in the next instant,

Lin Ye’s fist truly and fully struck.

Shattered!

Dissipated!

The heart that carried the final hope of the Sigma Civilization shattered and was annihilated the moment before the fist even made contact.

Not a single trace was left behind!

However, the second after the heart shattered, a flash of ethereal blue light appeared out of thin air.

The constantly shifting cube reappeared completely unscathed, then vanished again as if it had never been affected at all.

At that very moment,

the roar of machinery, the howl of energy, the churning of magma...

All sound vanished.

Time seemed to freeze.

In the eyes of all onlookers, the entire world lost its color, fading into a deathly silent gray.

In the command center, hundreds of people stood with their mouths agape and eyes bulging. They couldn’t make a sound, like a flock of ducks all being strangled at once.

Meanwhile, in the Earth Core Space, Yin Liulan’s pupils contracted violently amidst the absolute silence, and she retreated backward with no hesitation!

The next moment,

the silence and stillness were instantly shattered!

BOOM—!!!

A terrifying, indescribable boom finally arrived!

Centered on Lin Ye’s fist, everything in a fan-shaped area directly in front of him was completely cleared out!

An absolute vacuum zone, over ten kilometers in diameter, formed in an instant!

The transparent viewports, as massive as skyscrapers, didn’t even last a second under this force before turning into fine dust that filled the air.

Beyond the viewports, the dwarf planet’s core of churning, dark-red magma was struck head-on by the aftershock of the Fist Force. A terrifyingly deep, bottomless hole was punched straight through it in an instant!

A massive amount of mantle and core material was first thrust aside by the terrifying kinetic energy, forming a circular impact mountain range. Then, pulled by the planet’s own gravity, it began to pour back into the vast Earth Core Space like a flood from a broken dam!

And the aftershock didn’t stop there!

It pierced through the planet’s core, triggering an unprecedented magnitude-10 earthquake.

If someone had been watching this dead dwarf planet from space,

they would have seen the entire planet seem to shudder.

Its rotational orbit was even knocked off course by several centimeters!

Lin Ye slowly lowered his arm, his body drenched in sweat. His chest heaved violently as he gasped for air.

That feeling of omniscience and omnipotence was rapidly fading.

But a great weight had finally been lifted from his heart.

Noah, the strongest Intelligent Mechanism in the Sigma Ruins, had been reduced to ash.

It was as if he had been completely erased from the level of causality itself.

...

"He... he punched through the planet’s core!"

"No, the data we’re receiving shows..."

"He... he knocked the planet’s rotational orbit... off course!"

In the command center, someone finally found their voice, but it was filled with a dreamlike sense of unreality.

An instant kill!

A single punch had instantly killed Noah on the spot.

And then, the aftershock from that punch had bored through the core of a dwarf planet!

Is that really something a human can do?!

Yin Liulan hovered at the edge of the torrent of lava, her gaze fixed on the figure gasping for breath in the distance and the terrifying wound that pierced the entire planet. Her expression was indescribably complex.

Shock. Horror.

And even... a hint of jealousy she herself hadn’t noticed.

’It’s not like *I’m* not a genius, too,’ she thought.

Ever since her debut, she, Yin Liulan, had been hailed as a once-in-a-century prodigy of the military.

But she had to admit that if time were turned back ten years, the person she was back then wouldn’t have even been worthy of a second glance from the Lin Ye before her now.

’As for the Lin Ye of ten years from now...’

She didn’t dare to imagine it.

Lin Ye caught his breath slightly. The duration of his Chaos Battle Body hadn’t ended yet.

Without a moment’s hesitation, his figure flashed, and he plunged directly into the scorching lava below—a torrent hot enough to melt steel.

He hadn’t forgotten the requirements for his Phase 4 mission.

Empowered by the Chaos Battle Body, the searing lava and terrifying pressure couldn’t harm him in the slightest.

Amidst the chaos and scalding heat, Lin Ye soon spotted the central control console, already half-submerged in lava.

Just then, a series of belated system notifications finally chimed in his mind.

[You have slain the Fallen Will of Sigma, "Noah" (LV. 75)!]

[Killing a higher-level enemy has triggered an additional experience bonus. Experience gain increased by 100%!]

[You have gained 5,600,000 experience points!]

[Your level has increased to LV. 50!]

[Realm level restricted. Excess experience points have been stored. Please break through your realm to unlock the level cap!]

[Mechanic: Devouring Heaven and Earth has been triggered!]

[You have obtained 26,470 Life Energy!]

[Your racial trait, Intelligent Mechanization Transformation, has absorbed enough energy of the same origin and has completed its final evolution!]

[This racial trait has been changed to: Intelligent Mechanism Dominator (Sigma Faction)!]

[You have mastered new abilities: Spatial Warp, Affinity for the Fire Source]

Lin Ye’s figure passed through the lava and landed on the dilapidated control console.

He looked at the recess that had previously held the Fire Seed Source and simply held out his hand.

WHIR—

The compartment door opened automatically, and the Fire Seed Source cube that had just vanished reappeared of its own accord, landing in Lin Ye’s palm without any resistance.

The next moment, the Fire Seed Source dissolved into a stream of data, flowing into Lin Ye’s body and disappearing from sight.

And the instant it was fully integrated,

the cold voice of the system notification sounded once more.

[Phased Mission: Legacy of the Intelligent Mechanisms has been completed!]

[Congratulations, Host. You have successfully unlocked Phase Four!]

[Experience +2,000,000, Skill Points +40!]