I can receive unlimited protection; my parents handed me over to the state.

Lu Yuan roared madly, and the Creation Furnace within his body was operating at an unprecedented speed.

Abyssal fire, life ice, Gaia power... all the power he had devoured and mastered was used as fuel without reservation at this moment, in an attempt to refine this chaos.

However, what happened next horrified him.

His invincible abyssal fire, upon contact with chaos, had its very concept of flame "deconstructed." It was no longer high temperature, no longer burning, but had become a meaningless, chaotic energy fluctuation.

His life ice attempted to freeze chaos, but the concept of "freezing" itself was reduced by chaos to the two most primitive possibilities of "stillness" and "movement." The ice melted instantly and turned into nothingness.

"Damn it...we've gone too far..."

Lu Yuan's heart sank. For the first time, he felt a true sense of powerlessness. All his methods, all the power of rules he was so proud of, seemed so laughable in the face of this most primordial chaos.

His body is being rapidly "erased," starting from his feet and disappearing down to his knees.

"Mortal...this is...the price...for...you...challenging...chaos..."

The sound of the end, carrying a hint of pleasure, echoed deep within Lu Yuan's soul.

"Pay the price, you motherfucker!"

Lu Yuan roared, a resolute madness flashing in his eyes.

He knew that if things continued like this, he would be completely "reduced" to zero by chaos in less than ten seconds, leaving not even a trace of his existence.

"Since we can't refine it... then... let's die together!"

He abandoned the idea of ​​"refining" and instead made an even more insane decision.

He wanted to forcefully "stuff" this chaos into his own divine seed, the "singularity" located at the very core of the Creation Furnace!

He wants to use the core of his existence to have the most direct and savage collision with chaos!

Either his divine seed is burst by the chaos, and he is completely finished.

Alternatively, his divine seed could contain this chaos and make it a part of himself!

This is a high-stakes gamble with a probability infinitely close to zero!

"Get in here!"

Lu Yuan roared and voluntarily opened the core of his divine seed, frantically sucking into the chaotic sea that was devouring him!

"boom--!"

A deafening roar, beyond description, exploded in the deepest part of Lu Yuan's soul.

His consciousness was instantly engulfed by endless chaos.

……

on the ground.

The highest command center in the heavens.

"Warning! Warning! The rate of global core collapse has stopped!"

"Report! The energy fluctuations inside the Earth's core... have disappeared!"

"What?!"

Su Lie and Qian Sen jumped up from their seats, their faces filled with shock.

"Disappeared? What do you mean? Did Lu Yuan succeed?!" Su Lie asked anxiously.

Qian Sen stared intently at the lifeless data on the screen, his eyes bloodshot behind his glasses. His voice trembled violently with excitement: "No...it hasn't disappeared...it's...it's been blocked! A force we can't understand, can't detect, has enveloped the entire Earth's core! All our detectors...have failed!"

Just when everyone thought the crisis was temporarily over and was ready to breathe a sigh of relief.

"Warning! Warning! Dramatic and disorderly changes have been detected in the laws of space on a global scale!"

"Report! The surface of the East China Sea is... is turning solid! No, not ice! It's an unanalyzable crystal!"

"Report! The Himalayas are... are liquefying! The entire mountain range is turning into flowing magma!"

"Report! Atmospheric structure collapses! Ozone layer disappears, high-energy cosmic rays are indiscriminately bombarding the Earth's surface!"

Reports that sent chills down the spines of everyone flooded the command center like snowflakes.

Everyone was stunned.

They stared at the bizarre, apocalyptic scene on the screen, their minds blank.

"What...what's going on..." A young staff officer slumped to the ground, muttering to himself, "Wasn't the crisis at the Earth's core resolved? Why...why is the surface...?"

"It's not a cure..." Qian Sen's face was even more ashen than a corpse's. He stared at the chaotic data graphs on the screen, his voice filled with despair, "It's...it's spread!"

"That force we can't comprehend...that force from the Earth's core...it's reshaping the entire world! It's...erasing everything we know! The laws of physics, the laws of chemistry, life forms...everything is being forcibly 'reset to zero,' and then...reconstructed into chaos!"

Qian Sen suddenly looked up, his eyes filled with unprecedented fear.

"The end of the world... the real end of the world... has come!"

over the Pacific Ocean.

Flame Princess hovered in the air, staring blankly down below.

The once azure ocean has now transformed into a vibrant, ever-writhing crystal jungle. These crystals, as if possessing life, grow wildly, completely enveloping the massive body of the Xuanwu.

The sky was no longer blue, but a hazy, deathly chaos. There was no sun, no clouds, only a depressing emptiness.

"Lu Yuan..."

Yan Ji felt that the last faint connection between herself and Lu Yuan had been completely severed just now.

She felt a pang of pain in her heart, as if something of utmost importance had been brutally ripped away.

"No...you'll be alright...you bastard, you're a menace, you'll be alright!" She bit her lip, forcing herself to calm down.

Attention everyone!

Gu Tianye's roar came from below. His giant beast form was struggling violently, trying to break free from the crystal's restraints. "These damned things are draining our energy!"

Xiang Batian wielded a giant axe and frantically chopped at the crystals, but the shattered crystals instantly reformed and even became stronger.

"It's no use!" Lin Ziling's voice trembled with a sob. "These things... they don't belong to any known substance! My spells are completely ineffective against them!"

The entire "League of Gods," the most elite fighting force in China, felt a sense of helplessness and despair for the first time when facing this world reshaped by chaos.

Just then.

"Buzz—"

The gray chaos in the sky suddenly began to churn violently.

One enormous vortex after another formed in the chaos.

From that vortex, strange and indescribable creatures slowly crawled out.

Some of them resembled mountains of flesh composed of countless eyeballs and tentacles, others looked like skeletal behemoths flowing with magma, and still others were simply a pure shadow that constantly shifted in shape.

They exude a nauseating aura of "disorder" that originates from the same source as this chaotic world.

"Chaotic...creatures..."

Qian Sen, far away in the heavens, watched the last images transmitted back by the satellite and closed his eyes in despair.

He knew that when these things arrived, humanity... would have no hope left.

A gigantic, chaotic creature composed of countless eyeballs, all of which rotated simultaneously, locked onto Yan Ji, who was suspended in mid-air.

A chaotic, insane mental shock, filled with a destructive desire, instantly bombarded Yan Ji's mind.

Yan Ji let out a muffled groan, feeling as if her soul was about to be torn apart.

Looking at the overwhelming Chaos Legion, at her teammates trapped and in despair below, and at this world that had become completely unfamiliar, an unprecedented sense of powerlessness and sorrow welled up in her heart.

"Lu Yuan...you big liar..."

She closed her eyes, and a tear slid down her cheek.

"You said... you'd handle it..."

"Everyone, perk up!"

Yan Ji suddenly opened her eyes. In her beautiful phoenix eyes, sadness was forcibly suppressed and replaced by an indomitable and frenzied fighting spirit.

She knew that now was not the time to be sad.

Even if Lu Yuan really... really can't come back, she will fight to the very last moment!

She wanted to protect the world that this man had given his life to safeguard!

"The Phoenix Cries!"

A clear, melodious cry echoed across the sky, and the divine sword in Yan Ji's hand erupted with an unprecedentedly scorching light. The newly ascended deity burned her divinity without reservation, golden flames soaring into the sky, attempting to burn a hole in the gray, chaotic heavens.

"Even if we die, we will die on the road to victory!"

Yan Ji transformed into a phoenix reborn from the ashes and took the initiative to face the chaotic mountain of flesh composed of countless eyeballs.

"roar!"

Inspired by Yan Ji's fighting spirit, Gu Tianye let out a deafening roar. He stopped trying to break free from the crystals' restraints and instead opened his blood-red maw, frantically devouring the crystals.

"Snap! Snap!"

A piercing cracking sound rang out, and those seemingly indestructible crystals were actually bitten to pieces by him and then swallowed.

"Since you're absorbing my energy, then I'll eat you up!"

Gu Tianye's beastly eyes flashed with a wild light, and his body began to undergo strange changes after consuming the crystals. Strange crystal-like patterns began to appear on his scales, and a chaotic yet powerful force surged within him.

"That's right! Damn it, let's fight them!"

Xiang Batian roared, abandoning his axe blade and instead swinging the [Heaven-Opening] battle axe, using the back of the axe and brute force to smash the crystals again and again.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Pure power, primal violence, produced an unexpected effect at this moment. The crystals containing chaotic rules were shattered to pieces before Xiang Batian's irrational and immense strength.

"kill!"

Ye Cang's figure was like a ghost, and the blood-red killing intent on the [Asura] demonic blade in his hand was condensed to the extreme. He no longer tried to understand the structure of these chaotic creatures, but followed his purest killing instinct, slashing each strike at the place he felt was most "fatal".

Mu Bingli, Lin Ziling, Tang Long...

Every member of the "League of Gods" unleashed power beyond their limits at this moment. They knew this might be their last battle.

However, the number of chaotic creatures was simply too great.

They poured out of the vortex in the sky in an endless stream, like an endless swarm of locusts, rushing towards the last light on this land.

Although Yan Ji's Phoenix Cry divine sword is powerful, with each slaying of a chaotic creature, she can feel her divinity being polluted and eroded by the "disorder" rules of the other party. Her flames are becoming increasingly unstable.

Although Gu Tianye was able to devour crystals to enhance his power, the chaotic power was also constantly eroding his sanity. His eyes grew increasingly red, and his attacks became more and more frantic, almost injuring his teammates several times.

Xiang Batian's physical strength was being rapidly depleted; every time he swung his giant axe, he needed to exert many times more force than before.

From the very beginning, the battle was at a complete disadvantage.

"puff!"

Yan Ji was caught off guard and was struck by one of the tentacles of the Chaos Flesh Mountain. She was sent flying backward like a kite with a broken string, spitting out a mouthful of golden divine blood.

The chaotic rules clinging to those tentacles, like maggots clinging to bones, surged wildly into her body, attempting to dismantle her divine form.

"team leader!"

Mu Bingli exclaimed in surprise and rushed forward without thinking, trying to catch Yan Ji.

She played the guqin, and extreme frost power surged forth, attempting to freeze the chaotic rules that had invaded Yan Ji's body.

However, her frost power dissipated the moment it came into contact with the rules of chaos, just like ice and snow melting away.

"It's useless..." Flame Princess coughed up blood, letting out a bitter laugh, "These things... completely suppress all our power..."

Just then, all the eyes of that chaotic mountain of flesh turned towards them once again.

A mental shock several times stronger than before suddenly descended.

"not good!"

Yan Ji and Mu Bingli's expressions changed drastically. They knew that in their current state, they were simply no match for this attack.

At this critical moment.

An invisible mental barrier suddenly appeared in front of them, firmly blocking the violent mental impact.

It's Lin Ziling!

Her face was as pale as paper, and blood was flowing from all seven orifices, but her eyes were unusually firm.

"I am the 'brain' of the team... mental defense... is my duty..." she said through gritted teeth.

As a pure support character, her own combat power is almost zero, but she uses her fragile mental strength to support the team's most crucial line of defense.

"Ziling!" Yan Ji cried out in a mix of anxiety and anger, "Back off! You'll die!"

"Captain..." Lin Ziling gave a bitter smile, her body already trembling violently, "I might... not be able to hold on much longer... You... go quickly..."

"Go? Where can we go?"

A bitter laugh filled with despair rang out.

It was Tang Long. He held the [Soul Suppressor] spear, his body covered in blood. On the ground beside him lay the corpses of more than a dozen enormous chaotic creatures. But even more chaotic creatures were surrounding him.

His Soul-Suppressing Spear possessed the power to suppress souls, which should have been incredibly effective against these chaotic creatures. However, chaotic creatures had no concept of "soul"; they were purely chaotic aggregates. Every attack Tang Long made was like hitting cotton, yielding minimal results.

The entire battlefield has been completely plunged into a quagmire of despair.

The top of the world, the command center.

Su Lie clenched his fists tightly, his knuckles turning white from the force. He watched the bloodied figures on the screen, watching them being engulfed by endless chaotic creatures, his tiger-like eyes filled with tears.

"Qian Sen..." he said hoarsely, "Is there... any other way?"

Qian Sen didn't answer. He just stared blankly at the screen, muttering to himself, "Chaos...disorder...zeroing...reconstruction...this doesn't conform to the law of conservation of energy...it doesn't make sense...why...?"

He was like a believer whose faith had collapsed, falling into deep self-doubt.

"I'm asking you a question!" Su Lie grabbed his collar and roared, "Tell me, is there no other way?!"

Startled by his shout, Qian Sen pushed up his glasses, a hint of madness flashing in his eyes.

"There is...there is another way..."

"What can we do?!" Su Lie asked, as if grasping at the last straw.

"Project 'Divine Retribution'," Qian Sen said, emphasizing each word.

Su Lie was stunned.

The "Divine Retribution" plan is humanity's last trump card, and also its most taboo plan.

That wasn't a weapon, but a... "mutual destruction" program.

Its principle is to detonate the "singularity bombs" buried in the weakest nodes of all the Earth's crustal plates around the world, forcibly tearing apart the "existence" foundation of the Earth, dragging the entire planet, along with everything on it, into subspace for complete exile.

This is the final solution that will only be activated when it is determined that civilization cannot continue, in order to prevent Earth from falling into the hands of external enemies or being contaminated by an even more terrifying entity.

"Are you insane?!" Su Lie roared. "Activating 'Divine Punishment' is no different from being swallowed by chaos now!!"

"There's a difference!" Qian Sen's eyes burned with a crazed flame. "When we're swallowed by chaos, we completely 'disappear,' leaving no trace of our existence! But by activating 'Divine Punishment,' we banish the 'information' of our entire civilization to an unknown subspace! Perhaps... billions of years later, there's still... a possibility of starting over!"

"This...this is the last spark of our civilization!"

Su Lie remained silent.

He looked at the screen and saw that Lin Ziling's mental barrier had shattered, and she collapsed limply to the ground.

He watched as Gu Tianye was being held captive by several chaotic creatures, his massive body being torn apart into a bloody mess.

He watched as Yan Ji and Mu Bingli were driven into a desperate situation by the Chaos Mountain of Flesh, and could perish at any moment.

His heart was bleeding.

These people are the future of China and the hope of humanity.

But now, they are about to die right in front of them.

"I...can't...just watch them die..." Su Lie closed his eyes in anguish.

He knew that Qian Sen was right.

Rather than being humiliated and meaninglessly "erased" by chaos, it is better to retain the last bit of dignity and leave a faint "possibility" for human civilization.

His hands trembled as he picked up the red phone that connected directly to the highest levels of authority.

"I am Su Lie, Commander-in-Chief of the Northern War Zone of China..." His voice had never been so heavy.

"In the name of the guardians of human civilization, we request... the activation of Project 'Divine Retribution'."