Am I going to be controlled by the players too?

Knowledge is a sin born of human desire; ignorance and the unknown are the true nature of this world.

The unknown demon, "Nameless Mist" Neog Sohip, has revealed his true form!

Sylvia and Freya immediately prepared to attack, their divine techniques ready to strike, poised to join forces and kill him...

"and many more."

Mu Yuan stepped forward and raised her hand to stop the two of them.

She gazed calmly at the nameless mist and slowly spoke: "Other primordial demons could be killed by force... but Neog Sohip represents the concept of 'the unknown.' You cannot kill something you cannot know at all."

"what do you mean……"

“Let me do it.” Mu Yuan stepped forward. “The analysis of the First Cause is only the first step… Since the world is a simulated world composed of mathematics, then the ‘unknown’ is an unsolvable bug inherent in this world. To kill it, we must thoroughly analyze it!”

"Can you...do it?"

“I might not be enough on my own.” After a slight pause, Mu Yuan smiled gently, “But the necromancy I learned from the Third Seat (Li Xianyu) can come in handy now.”

After saying that, she slowly raised her hands and began chanting a necromancy incantation.

The entire group of tombstones of the sages beneath my feet suddenly trembled violently, the tombstones shimmered with spiritual light, and countless transparent and clear phantoms of souls slowly rose from the tombstones and floated in mid-air.

The spirits of thousands of sages who devoted their lives to seeking the origin of the world, such as Aristotle, Newton, Descartes, Hume, Hegel, Heidegger, Einstein, and Bohr, have all awakened and stand quietly in the sea of ​​mist.

Their gazes were clear and bright as they looked at the massive black monument in the center and at Mu Yuan, their eyes filled with approval and relief.

At this moment, the eternal losers are no longer merely witnesses to the truth—they will join forces with future generations, using intellect as their weapon, to charge into the unknown!

"The unknown demon, Neog Sohip!"

"I want you to know: Human beings are the measure of all things. All the sages and great men of the past were human beings... They performed divine deeds as mortals, analyzed the world, and yet made you realize how insignificant the gods are!"

Mu Yuan raised her eyes, her right arm held high. Her clear and resolute voice merged with the oaths of the sages, piercing through the unknown fog, declaring war on Neog Sohip:

"Now, we will demonstrate the framework by which the world works!"

Chapter 173, Light is the Meaning of Everything (To be continued)

What Cheng Cheng saw was a column of flame, emanating from a sickly green, like a volcano erupting from the depths of the earth; the flames could not cast any shadows, and were filled with a toxic smell like saltpeter and verdigris. The flames burned fiercely, but had no heat at all, only spreading decay, death and desolation.

But he knew that the flames were merely His projection in the three-dimensional universe. His true form was a composite of countless pale gray hemispheres, metallic glitter flakes, and extradimensional columnar structures. His structure was extremely hyperdimensional, and the naked eye could only vaguely observe countless wandering eyes. Human reason would collapse instantly if it looked directly at Him.

This is the beautiful, dark demon, the "Primordial Darkness" Tulzscha.

The Supreme Lord, the Exceptional Azure Flame, the Azure Flame Dancer of the Court of Azathoth, Tura-Cha...

Humans have exhausted countless words in an attempt to depict His entirety, yet what they can perceive is only a fraction of Him.

When the ancient ancestors lit the first campfire in the cave, they naively believed that the firelight could dispel all the darkness in their hearts... But the darkness never went away; it lurked deep in the soul of every human being.

Especially after all the other primordial demons had perished.

As the primordial chaos was replaced by Mu Zimi, and the nameless mist was analyzed by Mu Yuan… the fear of all living beings towards the origin of the abyss poured out and converged upon Tuerzcha. His status expanded wildly through the fear of the masses, and he was no longer the primordial demon born from the abyss—

Now, He is the abyss itself.

What Cheng Cheng faced was all the malice accumulated by the abyss through countless reincarnations!

Stillness, deathly silence, nothingness.

All colors, sounds, temperatures, traces of existence, and even the miracles bestowed by Cheng Cheng were erased, slowly dissolving and assimilating into the darkness itself.

"call……"

Being able to share the attributes of Sylvia, Freya, and Mu Zimi, her combat power was comparable to the other two, which is why she chose to face the darkness alone—but in the end, she still dragged things out.

Even with all his might, he could only wear down the outer shell of darkness, like trimming the skin off a giant's feet... If the giant were a beautiful girl, Cheng Cheng could naturally lick every inch of her feet clean, but against darkness, he had no such high output, and all his attacks were like stones sinking into the sea.

"We can only... wait for Sylvia and the others to come and help."

While Cheng Cheng urged his powers of domination and harmony to suppress the outward expansion of darkness, he waited for reinforcements.

Fortunately, he didn't have to wait long.

"Hahaha! I've already finished fighting, why haven't you started yet?"

Ji Yushen, carrying a demon's head in one hand and a bunch of blasphemous tokens in the other, with Li Xianyu beside him, kicked open the Dark God Kingdom and strode into this lightless realm.

Cheng Cheng looked at the gilded coin held between the demon's teeth with a puzzled expression: "This is... [Kingdom] Source Material?"

“That’s right!” Himeko proudly raised her head. “Let me tell you, this Primal Hunger is indeed very strong, enough to swallow the sun, moon and stars, but it’s not even one ten-thousandth as strong as me! I just used the ten-times Kaioken to beat it... What are you staring at me for?”

"It's nothing." Cheng Cheng looked away. "I just didn't expect you to be the first one to arrive... You really didn't have Li Xianyu substitute?"

"Hey!" Himeko exclaimed anxiously.

That's even stranger... Could it be that she really isn't from the district?

"In short, you should see the difference by now, right?" Ji Yushen winked at him, tiptoed forward, and patted Cheng Cheng's shoulder. "I am the strongest being in the world. If you were sharing my power instead of Sylvia and the other two, you would have crushed this darkness to dust by now!"

"If you ask me, once you wear the immortal crown, only I can assist you in ruling the harem... If the two of us join forces, we will surely usher in an eternal golden age, even more prosperous than my elven empire of yesteryear!"

Cheng Cheng: "I haven't heard the story of Himegami's Golden Age for thirty minutes."

Ji Yushen raised his head: "I really can't do anything with you. Sit up straight—that was when I first ascended to godhood. An imperial soldier sent me a message saying that the 100 years since my ascension were the best 100 years of his service. In those 100 years, he became an imperial general, devoting all his energy to the abyss war in the imperial dungeons, recapturing five times the number of dungeons. Monsters are everywhere, made into decorations, and any kind of demon can be wiped out in a week. After the battle, he checked his communicator and saw that Peng Longteng had just been appointed Grand General by His Majesty Ji Yushen! The day before yesterday, while patrolling the imperial streets, everyone suddenly stopped what they were doing and hugged and cheered. He said he was very happy, and had the illusion of a golden age for humanity..."

Li Xianyu spoke up at the opportune moment: "Since Your Majesty is so powerful, why not personally eliminate this demon?"

"What's so difficult about that!" Ji Yushen exclaimed confidently, hands on her hips, "Power! Wisdom! Life! Pleasure!"

Four primordial angels manifested from the void, and the gates of the Hall of Heroes behind them burst open with a roar. Hundreds of millions of heroes, wielding divine weapons, surged out like a tidal wave!

On that day, Ji Yushen entered the half-step immortal realm again!

"Follow me on this expedition and annihilate this scoundrel!"

"Victory! Victory! Victory!"

Billions of heroic spirits shouted in unison, forming an invincible divine army that charged headlong into the boundless primordial darkness!

"Just watch! My army is here, and soon it will be able to..."

"You can..."

"can……"

Watching the divine army rush into the primordial darkness and never return, without even causing a ripple, Ji Yushen was somewhat bewildered: "Wait, where did they go? How did they all disappear all of a sudden?"

The Hall of Heroes can receive the spirits of heroes from the past and present and imprint them on the Throne of Heroes. No matter how many times the summoned spirits die, they can be resurrected in the Hall of Heroes and put back into battle. Even the divine weapons she summons can be recycled and reused at will.

Just now, when she was fighting the Hungry Demon, Himegami used this very technique to forcefully burst it apart!

But why this time...?

"All colors, sounds, temperatures, and traces of existence in this world will be slowly dissolved and assimilated into darkness itself... That's why I've never been able to kill Him." Cheng Cheng looked at Ji Yushen silently, as if he were a fool. "Your Majesty, you don't know?"

Who gave you the courage to send troops in to their deaths?

"I...I...I... Waaah..."

Hime Yushin's lips trembled, her body shook, and a wave of grievance washed over her.

Why! Why does it always turn out like this whenever I try to look cool!

My money! My army! My divine soldiers!

Why do I feel like crying whenever I encounter a setback after the first time?

Thinking about it carefully, it's all Cheng Cheng's fault!

He's always there when I'm in trouble! Is he my nemesis?!

"Waaaaah..."

Unable to contain her grievances, tears welled up on the spot.

"Well..." Li Xianyu couldn't stand it anymore, "Your Majesty, why don't we wait for Sylvia and the others?"

"Waaaaah... Even you think I'm inferior to them?!"

Li Xianyu turned away in silence, offering no reply.

Himeko cried even more aggrievedly.

At that very moment, the entire world trembled violently, and the sound of the Great Dao echoed throughout the path of destiny. Within the entire Earth-Moon System, all living beings suddenly felt that their thinking had never been so agile, and their minds were rapidly elevated. Problems that had puzzled them in the past were now as simple and easy to understand as a child stacking building blocks.

At the same time, Cheng Cheng and others felt the same way.

Li Xianyu instantly mastered dozens of divine-level necromancy spells that had been honed over hundreds of years, as if she had practiced them thousands of times; Cheng Cheng glanced at Ji Yushen beside him and instantly became the first person on the entire internet to calculate her body measurements:

Height 149cm, weight 39kg, chest 76cm, waist 58cm, hip 82cm, leg 86cm, shoulder width 34cm, upper arm circumference 22cm, thigh circumference 45cm, calf circumference 29cm, ankle circumference 18cm...

Yes, Your Majesty may be a little short, but your body proportions are still perfect.

The two were completely immersed in the strange pleasure of their heightened senses, and it was difficult for them to come back to their senses for a while.

Ji Yushen wiped away her tears, looked at Cheng Cheng, then at Li Xianyu, scratching her head in confusion: "What happened?"

"No, it's nothing..." Cheng Cheng shook his head. "Being able to tell what happened is already a big improvement... Go have fun."

"Oh."

After shooing Ji Yushen aside, Cheng Cheng's doubts remained unanswered—why had his intelligence suddenly increased?

Until a clear voice came from the void, answering everyone's questions:

"Because it was after I ascended to godhood that I triggered a divine miracle in heaven and earth."

Cheng Cheng looked up and saw that the Dark God Kingdom passage had reopened. Four figures walked in slowly. The one in the lead raised her chin, her eyes full of smugness. It was Mu Yuan.

"You...have ascended to godhood?"

“She deciphered the unknown demon and learned the truth of the world. I helped reverse the power, turning the ‘unknown’ into ‘knowledge’.” Sylvia stepped forward to explain. “Things are a bit complicated and shocking… It’s still being broadcast live, let’s talk about it later.”

"Ah."

Cheng Cheng nodded and returned to the main topic: "The primary enemy at present is still the primordial darkness. Its status and power have expanded hundreds of times compared to when we first met, and all our attacks have had no effect on it."

"This is the final trial set by the abyss, and the ultimate purpose of this world experiment."

Mu Yuan glanced at the Primordial Darkness and then explained the reason through divine authority: "After all eight Primordial Demons perished, the last one remaining will receive the blessing of the Abyss and will be equal to the Abyss itself... Only when the eight gods who control the source matter and the twenty-two paths are integrated into one, and the power of the entire world's will is superimposed, can it be completely defeated."