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Chapter 542 The Cage is Broken!

Chapter 550

It's like an incredibly sophisticated program being programmed with a paradoxical instruction that it can't understand and that might even overturn its underlying logic!
"...Error...Information cannot be recognized..."

"...'Root cause' level information pollution has been detected..."

"...Start self-test program..."

For the first time, the will of the Holy Arbiter γ-7 experienced a true, fatal lag!
Its power stems from its "absolute correctness".

Its existence is shaken when its "correctness" itself is questioned by older, more fundamental information.
"It's now!"

A glint flashed in Xu Ran's eyes; this was the opportunity he had been waiting for!
He neither took the opportunity to escape nor launched a fierce attack.

He made a move that surprised everyone.

He opened his arms and actually gave up all defense, letting the power of cause and effect of the "Civil Code of Heavenly Principles" envelop him!
But he did not submit to execution!

"The Cycle of Reincarnation reverses cause and effect, devouring all laws!"

At this moment, Xu Ran's body seemed to transform into a true, endless black hole of reincarnation!

The Möbius strip flew out from his chest, swelled in the wind, and transformed into a gigantic millstone that blotted out the sky!

The millstone, one representing chaos and the other deathly ashes, slowly rotated, emanating a terrifying aura that threatened to pull all the heavens and myriad worlds into it, obliterating and regenerating them!
"Aren't you going to judge my cause and effect?"

"Alright! I will give you all the karma I have accumulated!"

"My life, my death, my path, my law, my past, my future!"

"But...can you swallow it?!"

Xu Ran's figure voluntarily plunged into that enormous millstone of reincarnation, completely merging with his own Dao!

Rumble!
The enormous millstone of reincarnation crashed violently into the still "Civil Code of Heavenly Principles"!
This is not a clash of laws, but the ultimate devouring of two "worldviews"!

According to the "Civil Code of Heavenly Principles," Xu Ran's cause and effect should be defined as "nothing."

Xu Ran's Reincarnation Millstone, on the other hand, aims to pull the so-called "absolute principle" of the "Civil Code of Heavenly Principles" into the cycle of "change," grinding it into resources for his own Great Dao!

Click!Click!
The silver pages, crushed inch by inch by the millstone of reincarnation, began to crumble and disintegrate!

Those lofty and unquestionable "principles" were ground into the most fundamental fragments of the Dao, and then greedily devoured by the millstone of reincarnation!

"...Warning! Foundation damaged! Foundation damaged!"

"...Unintelligible variables! Uncontrollable causality!"

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

The cold intent of the Holy Arbiter γ-7 finally carried a hint of... fear!
It discovered that Xu Ran's cause and effect was actually a trap!
Inside, there is not only his own life and death, but also the tragic song of the Divine Court civilization, the end of the Lord of the Ruins, and even a trace of poison from the mysterious bone finger, which even the "Heavenly Principle" fears, from the "Root"!

It wanted to swallow Xu Ran, but instead, these things choked it and caused its belly to burst!

"Trying to ask for help now? Too late!"

Xu Ran's voice came from the core of the Samsara Grinding Wheel, full of domineering power and determination!

"I take the myriad paths as fuel to ignite my true fire! I take the principles of Heaven as sustenance to forge myself into the Dao Lord!"

"Give it to me...break it!"

boom! ! ! !

The rotation speed of the millstone reached its maximum!
The "Civil Code of Heavenly Principles," which symbolized absolute order, finally gave way and exploded with a mournful cry of despair!
The endless, purest, and most unadulterated source of "principle" was swallowed whole by the millstone of reincarnation, like a bursting dam of a galaxy!
At this moment, Xu Ran's aura broke through the final barrier!

His soul, his body, everything about him, was undergoing an ultimate transformation under the influence of this immense primordial power!
Originally just a "Dao Lord" level Reincarnation Dao Domain, at this moment, it began to solidify and began to possess the supreme power to define a space-time!

The birth and death of stars within his sight are all within his control!
Wherever his will leads, the rules of time and space are distorted and altered!
Taojun!

After devouring a Saint Arbiter who was "above the Dao Lord", Xu Ran finally broke free of his shackles and, in a way that was unprecedented and unparalleled, defied the heavens to prove his Dao and achieved the position of "Reincarnation Dao Lord"!
An aura far more terrifying than ever before surged from his body, sweeping across the entire Prison Starfield!

The deathly gray sky was torn open by this force, revealing a deeper and colder true universe outside!
The cage... is broken!
"It's a success... Our lord... he's a success!"

On the Pioneer, Zhenshan and the others were initially deathly silent, then erupted in earth-shattering cheers! They had witnessed a miracle! An ultimate myth of the weak defeating the strong, defying the heavens and conquering the Dao!
In the starry sky, Xu Ran slowly put away the Reincarnation Millstone and transformed back into human form.

He floated quietly, feeling the surging, new power within his body.

This is the realm of the Dao Lord!
My words are law, my heart is the heart of Heaven!
However, there wasn't much joy on his face.

He looked up at the rift he had torn open, leading to the outside world.

Even in the final moment before being devoured, the Holy Arbiter γ-7 managed to send out a lingering thought.

"...The variable 'Xu Ran' has already proven himself to be a Dao Lord...The source of pollution is suspected to be the 'Primordial One'..."

"...Activate the final contingency plan..."

“...Awaken...the guardian of the 'graveyard'…”

Cemetery guardian?
Xu Ran's eyes became incredibly deep.

This metal cemetery, this cage-like star field, turned out to be just a "graveyard".

The Cleaners and the Judges are merely cleaners on the perimeter of the cemetery.

The real terror lies in the guardians slumbering deep within the cemetery!
He won, but it seems he also stirred up an even bigger hornet's nest.

“Thief…the fruit of the end…the road home…the primordial spark…the guardian of the graveyard…” One mystery after another swirled in his mind.

He felt as if he had only lifted a small corner of a vast epic scroll, the whole scroll filled with unimaginable bloodshed and horror.

"No matter what lies ahead, my path is only to move forward."

Xu Ran withdrew his gaze and looked at the battered Pioneer, and at his subordinates who held him in boundless reverence and fervor.

He was no longer alone.

He has found his own "path" and also the "people" he needs to protect.

He took a step forward and instantly appeared on the bridge of the Pioneer.

"The Azure Stone guards the mountain."

"Your subordinates are here!" The two knelt down on one knee excitedly.

"Pass on my orders." Xu Ran's voice was calm, yet contained an undeniable authority. "Repair the Pioneer and inventory all resources. Our enemy is no longer just a mere Heavenly Principle Sequence."

He paused, his gaze piercing through the ship, looking towards the torn open, leading to the endless, unknown dark universe.

"Our journey is to the stars and the sea. Our goal is to find the so-called 'path home' and expose the ultimate deception of this universe!"

"From this day forward, we are no longer the remnants of the ruins."

Xu Ran's voice resonated in everyone's soul.

"We are called the 'Hall of Reincarnation'!"

"I will use my cycle of reincarnation to reshape the order of the heavens and usher in a new era of eternity!"

A fierce battle has just ended, but a brand new force, one that will shake the heavens and the myriad worlds, has quietly announced its birth in this desolate graveyard of civilizations.

Xu Ran's path to becoming a Dao Lord has only just begun. In the darkness ahead lies even greater terror, but also, naturally, greater opportunities and... the truth of the world.

Xu Ran's path to becoming a Dao Lord has only just begun. In the darkness ahead lies even greater terror, but also, naturally, greater opportunities and... the truth of the world.

The starry sky was boundless. The enormous rift in the heavens, torn open by Xu Ran's power as the Dao Lord of Reincarnation, resembled a grotesque and profound scar on the universe. Beyond the rift lay an even purer darkness, with occasional glimpses of distant starlight, yet they appeared so small and desolate, like another, even more expansive and colder graveyard.

Xu Ran stood on the bridge of the Pioneer, his aura as a newly promoted Dao Lord already restrained, yet an unparalleled majesty flowed around him, his words carrying the weight of the law and his heart being the will of Heaven. He remained silent, yet Zhenshan, Cangshi, and the others even breathed cautiously, knowing that their lord had stepped into a completely new realm that they could only look up to.

“Daojun…” Xu Ran closed his eyes, his divine sense sinking into himself, and looking inward at his own Dao.

His body was no longer made of flesh and blood. Every cell seemed to have transformed into a tiny reincarnation rune, undergoing a subtle cycle between birth and death. His soul had even transformed into a Daoist Dharma image sitting cross-legged in the center of his sea of ​​consciousness. The Dharma image's face was identical to his own, with one eye opening and closing in chaos, and the other in deathly ashes. The Möbius strip-like reincarnation Dao seal hung behind the Dharma image's head, slowly rotating. With each rotation, it seemed as if a vast world was being born and destroyed within it.

This is the realm of the Dao Lord! He has completely imprinted his own Dao into the world, and from then on, wherever he is becomes his Daoist temple!

"Daojun System update complete..."

[Access Unlocked: Dao Principle Deduction (Advanced), Causality Observation (Basic), True Realm Coordinate Positioning (Incomplete)]

[Current Realm: Reincarnation Dao Lord - First Heaven]

"Reincarnation Domain: Completeness 28.7% (Has absorbed a portion of the 'Absolute Order' origin, completing the logical loop)"

[Holding power: life and death, reincarnation, correction (pseudo), partial cause and effect]

In his sea of ​​consciousness, cold data flowed by, yet it stirred a ripple in Xu Ran's heart. Having devoured the Saint Arbiter γ-7, the completeness of his Cycle of Reincarnation leaped from 17.3% to 28.7%, a qualitative leap rather than a quantitative one. His Dao had completed the "order" link, no longer pure chaos and destruction, but possessing the possibility of establishing a new order after destruction. Between life and death, a bridge called "order" had been added, making his Cycle of Reincarnation more stable and more domineering.

“Causality observation…” Xu Ran murmured to himself, and with a thought, the basic causality observation permission was activated.

In an instant, the whole world changed once again in his eyes.

He saw a golden, battle-ready causal thread wrapped around Zhenshan's body. One end of this thread connected to him, while the other pointed to a distant, extinct coordinate in the depths of the starry sky—the homeland of the Divine Court civilization. He also saw Cangshi, this learned sage, woven with countless threads of knowledge and information, the thickest of which was also connected to him.

He could even see that deep within the hull of this ancient warship called "The Pioneer," slumbering heroic spirits lay restless, their obsessions transformed into karma, inextricably linked to the ship, waiting for the day they could return to their homeland and rebuild the divine court.

As for himself, Xu Ran, the threads of cause and effect on his body were like a tangled mess, incredibly vast. The thickest one was the gray-white reincarnation line that ran through his body, on which were stained a strand of silver from the Holy Arbiter, a strand of gold from the Divine Court, and even a strand that made his heart tremble, from that black bone finger, so deep that it seemed to devour all light... pitch black.

This dark causal link points to an unknown place that even the Dao Lord system cannot analyze.

"So that's how it is, Dao Lord, so this is the beginning of manipulating cause and effect..." Xu Ran slowly opened his eyes, his gaze as deep as an abyss. "The Heavenly Principles Sequence judges me with cause and effect, but little does it know that my cause and effect has already become entangled with a terror that even it fears."

At this moment, a sudden change occurred!
Suddenly, a violent spatial fluctuation emanated from the torn cosmic rift. Immediately afterward, several menacing warships, exuding an aura of plunder and bloodshed, surged into the dark universe outside the rift like sharks attracted by the scent of blood!

These warships were entirely black, with huge skulls carved on their prows, covered in marks from being hacked and chopped, and even bearing the skeletons of some enormous star beasts, exuding an aura of savagery and violence.

"Hahaha! There really is a big fish! Such a powerful fluctuation of Dao principles must mean that a great treasure has been born, or that the ruins of some ancient civilization have been opened!"

A wild and unrestrained divine thought swept across the entire star field, filled with greed and undisguised malice.

"Hmm? A wrecked ship from the Divine Court? And a bunch of remnants of the Ruins of Return?" A mocking thought came from the lead giant skeleton warship. "Perfect, capture them to be 'blood slaves.' Divine Court generals are excellent materials for alchemy!"

On the Pioneer, Zhenshan and the others' expressions instantly turned extremely ugly.

“It’s the ‘Black Skull Star Pirates’!” Cang Shi said in a deep voice. “A group of hyenas that roam various broken star fields, they are ferocious by nature. Their leader, the ‘Blood Slaughter Dao Lord,’ is said to be at the peak of the Dao Lord realm, with one foot already in the threshold of the Dao Monarch realm. He has a fearsome reputation!”

Having just escaped the shadow of the Holy Arbiter, they were now facing the infamous space pirates. Zhenshan and the others gripped their weapons tightly, their expressions grave. Although they had absolute faith in their newly ascended Dao Lord, their opponents outnumbered them and were all ruthless characters who had lived on the edge of death.

However, there was not a trace of tension on Xu Ran's face.

He didn't even turn his head, but simply uttered two words.

"Noisy."

(End of this chapter)