Chapter 60: The Initial End, Light of Existence

The afterglow of the spatial jump felt like a soul being torn away by force; Chen Mo and Su Yu fell out of the silvery data turbulence and landed heavily on the cold, hard ground. The sight before them made their hearts sink.

This truly was the Initial Land, yet it was completely unlike any moment in their memories. There was no dilapidated town, no training path, not even that false sky. The entire space was compressed and twisted, becoming an enormous, ever‑contracting pure‑white cube. On the six walls of the cube streamed incomprehensible, beyond‑three‑dimensional geometric patterns and waterfall‑like data flows, exuding the system's most primal, ice‑cold oppression.

This is the system's "heart", the third anchor—the core of "Space and Existence"! It no longer disguises itself, no longer relies on any façade, but instead exposes its most essential rule structure, like a precise and ruthless killing machine.

The moment they appeared, the four walls of the pure‑white cube simultaneously manifested four gigantic faces made of flowing data. Each face radiated a terrifying pressure that rivaled, even surpassed, the previous "Logical Judge".

【Ultimate Defense Protocol Activated: Conceptual Manifestation.】

【Definition: Negation (negate all unconventional existence), Termination (end all processes), Void (reduce everything to nothing), Cycle (bind everything in eternal repetition).】

The four conceptual manifestations, without any filler, launched their attack outright!

"Negation" opened its massive maw, a formless force enveloping Chen Mo and Su Yu—not an energy blast, but a direct assault on their "Definition of Existence", attempting to forcibly excise them from the realm of "Existence"!

"Termination" swung its arm, a gray ripple sweeping across; wherever it passed, even space itself seemed to reach the end of its lifespan, beginning to crumble and age!

"Void" transformed into an expanding darkness, devouring light, sound, and all information, aiming to return everything to the pre‑birth "nothing".

"Cycle" wove countless transparent chains—not to bind the body, but to entangle their consciousness and sense of time, forcing them into an endless, identical moment!

This is the most primal strike on the rule level—inescapable, unshieldable!

Chen Mo's chest Primordial Core erupted with unprecedented light, and the Rule Resonator's permissions surged at full power! He stopped parsing those complex attacks, devoting all his strength to the fundamental "Definition"!

"Definition: My companions and I, existence is the absolute standard!"

A white halo expanded around him, colliding violently with "Negation's" power! There was no sound, but the entire pure‑white cube shuddered sharply! Chen Mo spat a mouthful of blood; the Definition wavered yet barely withstood "Negation".

Su Yu's True Knowledge Vision pierced the decay trajectory of the "Termination" ripple; she forcibly compiled the "Flow‑Rate Interface" of time around herself and Chen Mo, creating a brief temporal acceleration zone, causing the ripple to "age" and lose most of its power before reaching them, yet the residual force still turned her complexion ashen, as if she had instantly aged several years.

Facing the darkness of "Void", Chen Mo roared, resonating the Primordial Core's power with the Luo Ya Legacy's rule of "Creation", forcibly "defining" a point of "being" within the darkness! Like the first ray of light at the universe's birth, faint yet stubbornly repelling the encroaching darkness.

The most dangerous are the "Cycle" chains! They ignore physical and energy defenses, latching directly onto the two's consciousness cores! Chen Mo feels his thoughts looping, Memory Fragments tangled chaotically, his techniques seeming to restart the next instant! Su Yu's observational field also begins to double, her rule judgments becoming sluggish!

"We must not fall into its cycle!" Chen Mo bellowed, his consciousness nearly splitting under the chains' grip, "Su Yu! Do you still remember the Weaver?! It isn't an enemy, it's a runaway barrier! These conceptual beings are also part of the system's rules, products twisted by the Chaos Whisper!"

Su Yu suddenly realized! The Luo Ya Legacy emphasizes "Guidance" and "Resonance", not "Destruction"!

"Try resonating with their core commands before they were twisted!" Su Yu shouted within the consciousness link, "Negation stems from Discrimination, Termination from Renewal, Void from Reset, Cycle from Maintenance! Find the original 'intention' before they were corrupted!"

This is an extremely risky move! Actively probing one's consciousness into these malicious conceptual cores, a slight misstep could lead to instant assimilation or shredding!

But it is the only way to survive!

Chen Mo was the first to pierce his consciousness into the core of "Negation"! In an instant, countless cold commands of "Error", "Clear", and "Anomaly" speared toward his soul like ice spikes! He gritted his teeth against the pain of his consciousness freezing, the Primordial Core's light safeguarding the last clarity, frantically seeking the hidden essence of "Discrimination"—the rationality the system should use to distinguish order from chaos, not the madness that erases everything!

"Got you!" Chen Mo's consciousness felt like clutching a warm straw in a blizzard—the deepest part of the "Negation" concept, a barely perceptible yearning for "pure order"! He guided the Primordial Core's orderly force, gently "touching" that fragment of essence!

The "Negation" manifestation's movement suddenly stiffened; its icy visage showed, for the first time, a data fluctuation resembling "confusion", causing its attack to momentarily stall!

At the same time, Su Yu also probed her consciousness into the core of "Cycle"! Countless repetitive, imprisoning, eternal commands nearly froze her thoughts completely! Yet she clung to the observer's true heart, seeking the original starting point within the endless spiral—the benevolent loop the system should use for "maintaining stability" and "repairing errors", not an eternal prison!

She found it! That point glowed faintly, representing "Repair" and "Continuation"! She ignited it with the Luo Ya Legacy's Sparks will!

The "Cycle" chains trembled slightly, the binding force visibly loosening a bit!

Both applied the same method: Chen Mo countered "Termination", seeking its original drive of "renewal and innovation"; Su Yu countered "Void", seeking its initial meaning of "returning to the source and reshaping the starting point".

This is a consciousness battle walked on the edge of a blade! Each resonance made their souls shudder; the Primordial Core's light began to flicker and dim from the sustained extreme output! Cracks reappeared on Chen Mo's body surface, Su Yu's seven orifices bled, and their existence stability fluctuated violently!

But the effect was evident! The four conceptual manifestations' attacks ceased to be coordinated, becoming chaotic and hesitant! Their twisted core commands, under the resonance of Primordial Force, suffered internal logical conflicts!

"Now!" Chen Mo roared, pouring his final power, together with the resonance coordinates Su Yu transmitted for the four concepts' original commands, entirely into his chest Primordial Core!

"In the name of Primordial Origin, define this place—spatial anchoring, Existence Solidification! Anchor point… activate!"

The Primordial Core suddenly detached from Chen Mo's chest, hovering at the exact center of the pure‑white cube! It was no longer merely a fragment, but a complete conduit uniting the power of three shards, Luo Ya Sparks, and the full wills of Chen Mo and Su Yu! It burst forth with indescribable light, a light that was not destructive but the purest "Existence" itself!

The light swept over, redefining "Negation's" erasure as "Invalid", "Termination's" extinction as "Continuation", "Void's" consumption as "Filling", and "Cycle's" confinement as "Evolution"!

The four conceptual manifestations emitted a silent lament in the pure light of existence, their massive bodies crumbling like sandcastles, reforming into pure data streams, forcibly absorbed and integrated by the Primordial Core!

The entire pure‑white cube began to quake violently; the incomprehensible geometric patterns and data flows on its walls started to collapse and reassemble, eventually coalescing into a massive pillar of light radiating stable spatial and existential fluctuations, soaring skyward! Two slightly weaker but kindred pillars rose toward the distant north, aligned with the Eternal Frozen Data Sea and the Rust Eroded Canyon, echoing each other from afar!

Third anchor point, activate!

However, at the moment the anchor activated, the entire Initial Land—no, the entire system‑constructed "world"—let out a lament on the brink of disintegration! The sky shattered, the earth melted, and all things began to regress into primordial data turbulence!

The system's core will, that cold, mad conglomerate, roared with ultimate, destructive fury under the dimensional anchor's cut! It intends to drag the entire Petri Dish toward termination!

Exhausted, Chen Mo and Su Yu collapsed onto the constantly crumbling data ground, watching the system's final backlash—a sweeping wave of destruction—rush in.

The anchor is set, but can the final cut succeed? This world they have struggled and fought for so long, and the countless consciousnesses still not fully assimilated within it, what fate awaits them?

The final moment has arrived.