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Chapter 539 For His Majesty's sake, kill!

Chapter 547

"Error... Error... Logic... Collapse..."

"Detected...a higher-level...law..."

"Requesting...main sequence...support..."

Intermittent thoughts emanated from the cleaner's body.

But Xu Ran wouldn't give it any chance.

"Support? In this graveyard, I am the very essence of justice!"

Xu Ran unleashed his divine power, and the Samsara Dao Seal shone brightly!
Boom!

With a loud bang, the giant blue crystal eye of the Celestial Cleanser shattered!
Countless blue fragments of the law scattered and flew in all directions like fireworks.

Having lost control of its core, the massive metal body of the Celestial Cleanser crashed to the ground, all its light quickly dimming, turning it into a cold, useless piece of scrap metal.

A terrifying war machine with strength comparable to the peak of a God-King, wielding the "Elimination" law, was thus directly suppressed and killed by Xu Ran!

Xu Ran slowly descended from the air and reached out a hand.

A rhombus-shaped core, made entirely of blue crystal and seemingly containing a star-studded algorithm, flew out from the shattered wreckage and landed in his hand.

The core of heavenly principles!

This stuff is even more precious than Chaos Immortal Gold! It's not only a top-tier material for repairing the Pioneer, but also the best key Xu Ran could use to analyze the essence of the "Heavenly Principle Sequence"!
Feeling the surging divine power within his body due to the initial creation of the "Path of Reincarnation," and the Heavenly Principle Core in his hand containing endless mysteries, Xu Ran's eyes shone with an unprecedented light.

The exhilarating feeling of upgrading and the sense of accomplishment of being in complete control filled his heart.

From weak to strong, it is not only the accumulation of power, but also the understanding of "Tao", from imitation to insight, and then to... creation!
He knew that he had found the true path to survive and become stronger in this desolate place!

However, at this moment.

The entire metal cemetery, and indeed this confined star field, trembled violently.

An indescribable, supreme, cold and indifferent will, as if awakened from slumber, slowly swept across this "execution ground."

This will is billions of times stronger than the previous "Heavenly Cleaner." If the Cleaner was a drop of water, then this will is an entire boundless ocean!

It did not lock onto Xu Ran, nor did it lock onto the Pioneer spacecraft.

It just swept across.

But the moment that will swept over, the "Heavenly Principle Core" in Xu Ran's hand cracked open from the inside with a snap, turning into countless points of light and completely dissipating.

It was remotely "formatted" by the "master sequence" from the root.

At the same time, a cold, grand, and unquestionable voice resounded directly in Xu Ran's mind.

"A 'variable' has been discovered."

"The fix process has been initiated."

"The new 'scavengers' have been deployed."

"Estimated arrival time... thirty star days."

The sound disappeared, and so did that supreme will, as if it had never existed.

The entire star field returned to deathly silence.

But Xu Ran's expression was more solemn than ever before.

He slowly raised his head and looked up at the gray sky.

He knew that his previous guess was half right and half wrong.

The "cleaning" of the Heavenly Principles sequence does indeed follow a pattern.

But this pattern can be broken.

When a "variable" that is significant enough to warrant its attention appears, it will not hesitate to initiate a "correction procedure".

He killed a jailer, but attracted... an even more powerful "executioner" who came specifically for him!
Thirty star-days!

This is the Heavenly Order, their final countdown!
The crisis has escalated once again.

But in Xu Ran's eyes, there was no fear, only a fierce battle raging.

"Thirty days..."

He muttered to himself, a challenging smile playing on his lips.

"There's enough time!"

He turned around and looked in the direction of the Pioneer.

He not only had to repair the Shenzhou within these thirty days, but also had to allow his "Path of Reincarnation" to undergo a true...transformation and sublimation on this graveyard that buried the Divine Court fleet!

"The sequence of natural law... your 'truth' is not the only one."

"When I emerge from seclusion, I will show you what... reincarnation truly is!"

His figure transformed into a streak of light and disappeared into the depths of the metal cemetery.

A race against time, a desperate breakthrough in dire straits, has begun! The road ahead is an abyss, but also... a stairway to becoming the supreme Dao Lord!
The road ahead is an abyss, but also... a stairway to becoming the Supreme Dao Lord!
When Xu Ran's figure, like a shooting star moving against the current, broke the silence once again and landed on the battered bridge of the Pioneer, all eyes turned to him.

Zhenshan, Cangshi, the ten king generals, and the remaining Guixu warriors all sensed an unprecedented change emanating from Xu Ran. It was no longer simply the death and end of the Lord of Guixu, but rather an indescribable aura of "life," as if capable of creating heaven and earth and reshaping the universe.

It is a unity of contradictions, a meeting of endings and beginnings, a rebirth after ruin!
"My Lord!" Zhenshan strode forward, his voice booming, his eyes filled with undisguised fervor and worship.

Xu Ran nodded slightly, his gaze sweeping over everyone. Without exchanging pleasantries, he went straight to the point: "No need to be happy, we're in trouble."

He succinctly recounted everything that had just happened, including the killing of the Heavenly Purifier and the arrival and declaration of the Supreme Will.

When they heard the words "new cleaners have been deployed" and "thirty star days," the high fighting spirit that had just risen because of Xu Ran's breakthrough was instantly doused with a bucket of ice water and chilled them to the bone.

If a mere cleaner is this terrifying, requiring our Lord to create the Supreme Dao to suppress it, then how powerful must the Executioner, personally deployed by the "Main Sequence" specifically to "correct" our Lord as a "variable," be?

Thirty days!
This star field, this cage, only gave them thirty days to eke out a living!
Despair, like a maggot clinging to bones, once again tried to climb into everyone's hearts.

“Thirty days is enough.” Xu Ran’s voice was resolute, as if it contained some kind of magic, instantly dispelling the chill of despair. “But the premise is that from now on, every one of us, every bit of our strength, must be used to the fullest!” His gaze finally fell on Cang Shi, whose hair and beard were all white, but whose eyes shone with an astonishing brightness.

"Azure Stone".

"Your subordinate is here!" Cang Shi bowed.

"I require you to complete the Dao Amplification Array within twenty days." Xu Ran's tone left no room for doubt. "Using the Pioneer as the array's core and the Chaos Immortal Gold as its hub, activate the 'Dao' and 'Dharma' of the entire Metal Cemetery for my use!"

“Twenty days…” Cang Shi’s brows furrowed. This was not a technical problem, but a problem of sheer scale. “My lord, with our current manpower and resources, even if we go all out, it will take at least forty days. And that’s assuming a sufficient energy supply.”

“Energy is not a problem.” A deep light flashed in Xu Ran’s eyes as he pointed to the boundless metal graveyard outside the window. “This cemetery buries a fleet from the Divine Court era. Although the divine energy cores within their ships have long since perished, the remaining imprints of laws are themselves a higher level of ‘energy’.”

He paused, then said, word by word, "The Dao-Unraveling Array is not just about analysis, but also... devouring! What I want you to set up is not an observation platform, but a gluttonous maw! I want to use it to devour everything in this graveyard! Devour the order of the Divine Court, devour the resentment of the losers, and even devour the 'erasure' remnants left by the Heavenly Principle Sequence!"

"Use the myriad paths as fuel to ignite my true fire!"

Cang Shi shuddered, and he suddenly raised his head, his eyes flashing with an unprecedented light.

He understood! His lord was about to perform a heaven-defying act, turning the remnants of an era and the lament of a civilization into resources for his own advancement! What audacity, what tyranny!

"Understood!" Cang Shi no longer had any doubts. It was as if a raging fire was burning within his aged body. "Rest assured, my lord! Twenty days! No, eighteen days! Within eighteen days, I will risk my old life to ignite this 'Myriad Dao Furnace' for you!"

"Alright!" Xu Ran nodded emphatically. "Suppress the mountain!"

"The general is here!"

"You will lead all the warriors as guardians of the magic array, and you will also be among the first beneficiaries. When the magic array is in operation, I will extract the purest divine fighting spirit and protective laws and infuse them into your bodies. How much you can comprehend and how much you can improve depends on your own destiny."

"Thank you, my lord!" Zhenshan and the others knelt on one knee in unison, their voices resounding throughout the universe.

With the order given, the entire Pioneer, this dilapidated ship that had been silent for countless years, roared into action once again, like a primordial beast awakening.

Under Cang Shi's command, countless autonomous machines flew out of the ship's cabins, like worker bees, and began to inscribe intricate array patterns on the massive hull of the Pioneer. Each array pattern seemed to contain the ultimate truth of the universe, profound and mysterious.

Zhenshan led his generals to lay pieces of special alloy, still shimmering with immortal divinity, salvaged from the wreckage of the warship, onto the metal ground according to Cangshi's blueprints, forming huge energy pathways connecting the Pioneer.

The entire metal cemetery became part of this unprecedented "furnace of ten thousand furnaces".

Xu Ran, on the other hand, went alone to the deepest part of the Pioneer, the power furnace room that would soon become the core of the formation.

The place was empty and silent, with only the piece of Chaos Immortal Gold the size of a human head floating in mid-air, exuding a calm and ancient aura.

Xu Ran sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, but his mind extended infinitely outward, merging with the entire great formation that was being constructed.

His Eyes of Return to Nothingness were no longer looking outward, but examining inward.

Examine the “cycle of reincarnation” that he has just created.

It began with the Divine Court and ended with the Ruins of Return.

With a single thought, all things come into being; this is the way of "existence".

When a single thought ceases, all things fall silent; this is the way of "the end".

"No...it's not enough..." Xu Ran muttered to himself.

Although his path of reincarnation successfully broke the Cleaner's "erasure" law, it merely utilized the opposition of the law. Just as water can extinguish fire and light can dispel darkness, this is a "technique" of mutual generation and restraint, rather than a true "Tao" that transcends it.

True reincarnation is not a simple superposition of "beginning" and "end," but a continuous, eternal cycle from "beginning" to "end" and then from "end" back to "beginning."

This process is the true meaning of "reincarnation"!

"The sequence of natural law defines 'truth' and eliminates 'falsehood'. Its way is static, absolute, and an endless straight line."

"But my path must be fluid, ever-changing, a circle without beginning or end!"

Xu Ran's mind was immersed in a profound enlightenment. His aura was sometimes like that of a divine emperor, majestic and vast, constructing countless orders; at other times, it was like that of the Lord of the Void, deathly silent and profound, guiding all to their ultimate demise.

Two completely opposite temperaments alternated constantly in him, faster and faster, and more and more harmoniously.

Time passed day by day amidst this tense yet orderly preparation.

On the first day, the basic runes of the magic array were engraved.

On the third day, the energy pathway was completed.

On the seventh day, the Chaos Immortal Gold was successfully embedded into the core node of the power furnace, and the framework of the entire array was successfully built.

On the thirteenth day, Cang Shi, his eyes bloodshot from staying up all night, finally completed the calibration of the last core array pattern.

On the morning of the eighteenth day.

When the first ray of grayish-white light, appearing from nowhere, illuminated this metal cemetery, Cangshi's voice, filled with endless weariness yet boundless excitement, resounded throughout the entire internal communications of the Pioneer.

"My lord! The Myriad Furnaces... have successfully completed their mission!"

Xu Ran, who was sitting cross-legged in the core furnace chamber, suddenly opened his eyes.

In his left eye, dazzling golden divine runes appeared and disappeared, like a universe being created.

In his right eye, a deathly gray vortex was spinning, like a collapsing black hole.

"Activate... the furnace!"

Xu Ran's voice was transmitted to every corner through the array.

boom--! ! !
With his command, the metal earth within a radius of tens of thousands of miles centered on the Pioneer suddenly trembled!
Immediately afterwards, the massive array patterns laid out from the azure stone lit up one after another, emitting a dazzling light. The light extended from the earth, like billions of giant dragons, converging into the hull of the Pioneer, and finally surging towards the Chaos Immortal Gold at its core!
Buzz!
The Chaos Immortal Gold trembled violently, as if it had transformed into a bottomless black hole, frantically pulling and extracting the "things" that had accumulated over countless years in this graveyard.

That is not matter, not energy, but a higher level... the echo of the "Tao"!

In an instant, the wind and clouds changed color, and ghosts wailed and gods howled!

The entire metal cemetery seemed to come alive.

Above the countless shattered wreckages of warships, blurred, resentful phantoms emerged. These were the Divine Court soldiers who had perished here in battle; their dissipated souls, their last vestiges of will, were forcibly pulled from the river of history by the great formation!

"The Divine Court endures forever, and order will never perish!"

"Those who offend my divine authority, though far away, shall be punished!"

"For His Majesty's sake! Kill!"

(End of this chapter)