Chapter 474: Can we talk properly now?

That was an indescribable upheaval that overturned the fundamental logic of the universe.

The final Causality Law Chain that had been flying toward Qin Hao, attempting to completely imprison his thoughts, suddenly stalled in midair.

Immediately, the rules of termination and stillness engraved on it were forcibly erased by a more mysterious power.

Then it was rewritten with a new definition.

Termination became origin.

Stillness became boiling.

That chain was no longer a prison, but turned into a blessing.

An Inspiration Halo that boosts mental activity a hundredfold!

After merging into Qin Hao's body, he felt his thoughts become unprecedentedly clear, as countless sparks of inspiration about soul technology and rule technology collided and erupted in his mind.

"Hmm, this feeling is not bad."

Qin Hao nodded in satisfaction.

But this was only the beginning.

Outside the temple, in the vast expanse of starry sky, true disaster struck.

The Inspector's fleet, together with the fleets of other civilizations tasked with escorting, totaling over a million warships representing the technological crystallizations of seventh‑level high‑stage to eighth‑level civilizations,

At the same moment, an unimaginable change occurred.

"Here, all faster‑than‑light travel is forbidden."

This was the Inspector's previous decree.

But now it has become—"Here, the operating efficiency of all faster‑than‑light engines is doubled!"

Inside the bridge of an Iron Fist Civilization battleship, the captain stared in horror as his own fleet was enveloped by that terrifying Causality Law Chain.

"Quick! Shut down the engines! We've been locked onto by the rules!"

He bellowed hoarsely.

His order had just been issued when the operator replied:

"Captain! We can't shut it down! The engine is out of control! Its energy output…… is surging exponentially! It's already over ten times the critical value!"

Boom!!!

Before the captain could react, the massive engine, unable to bear the doubled efficiency, instantly overloaded,

exploding from within into a blinding fireball that engulfed the entire warship.

The same scene played out at every corner of the fleet.

"Here, the use of all energy weapons is prohibited."

Now it has become—"Here, the charging efficiency of all energy weapons is doubled, and they are forced into maximum‑power firing mode!"

The Inspector's vessel, the Chronology Ark forged from time crystals, had a hidden main cannon inside—a eighth‑level weapon capable of directly annihilating causality.

At this moment, it was forcibly activated under the new rules.

Endless energy surged madly into the barrel, its efficiency twice the design limit!

"Alarm! Alarm! Main gun core overloaded! Cannot stop! The Causality Stabilizer is about to collapse!"

"Sir! Our ship…… is going to blow up!"

Amid the piercing alarms, this ship representing the pinnacle of eighth‑level civilization, like a balloon inflated to its limit, burst explosively!

That terrifying causality‑annihilating force, freed from its bonds, erupted at the fleet's center, dragging tens of thousands of surrounding warships into it and utterly erasing them from existence!

"Here, the deployment of all dimensional technologies is forbidden."

Now it has become—"Here, the energy conversion efficiency of all dimensional shields is doubled!"

A Dimensional Blade warship, its four‑dimensional shield frantically converting vacuum energy into shield strength, was operating at twice normal efficiency.

However, the energy conversion was not without cost; the immense entropy it generated also doubled!

"The shield cooling system has failed! Hull temperature exceeds three hundred million billion degrees! We…… we are being roasted by our own shield!"

Warship after warship, their shields shifted from transparent to blinding white‑hot, eventually melting and vaporizing in the extreme heat.

All this took less than thirty seconds.

The massive fleet the Inspector had brought—large enough to make any seventh‑level civilization despair—under this series of doubled‑efficiency blessings,

brought about its own destruction, the entire force wiped out.

There was not a single cannon shot, nor any exchange of fire.

They merely carried out the Inspector's decree faithfully, only doing so at doubled efficiency.

In the end, the whole starry expanse held nothing but the debris of countless exploded warships, and those Causality Law Chains still faithfully executing the doubled‑efficiency blessing.

Inside the temple, deathly silence.

Woxi Ling and the four representatives from different council civilizations behind her were all turned to stone.

Their thoughts and senses were completely overwhelmed by that silent destruction feast just now.

What was that?

That was the Inspector of the Universal Alliance Headquarters!

It was the fleet of the Chronology Observers Civilization, an eighth‑level civilization!

A terrifying being capable of speaking law into reality and mastering causality!

And just like that… it's gone?

Blown apart by his own power?

Woxi Ling's mind went blank; she could not even process the information before her.

She merely stared blankly toward the throne, at the white‑dressed girl who had yawned and still seemed half‑asleep,

feeling her worldview being hammered into dust, blow by blow.

Who am I? Where am I?

What did I just see?

These three philosophical questions were frantically swirling in her mind.

And that invincible Inspector stood frozen in place.

The body cloaked in a gray robe showed a noticeable tremor for the first time.

The blurred face undulated violently, revealing the tumultuous waves within.

Defeated?

No, this cannot even be called a defeat.

Defeat is when both sides compete under the same rules and one is inferior in skill.

But what just happened was that the opponent directly overturned the chessboard, then pointed at him and said: "You're not playing chess."

His own Causality Law, before this girl, was like a child's doodle casually wiped away,

and then replaced with completely opposite content.

"Logic Tampering..."

In the Inspector's consciousness, he uttered these words, filled with endless bitterness and fear.

If one were to say his Causality Law was writing a period at the end of a story, signifying the story's conclusion,

then the opponent's Logic Tampering was directly changing the word 'story' to 'accident' at the very beginning of the text.

This is an even more overbearing power.

Even the top-tier Level-8 civilizations at Headquarters are still exploring this technological field!

How could this remote, backward Level-7 civilization possibly master such technology and power?!

"Dad, I've taken care of it, I'm going back to sleep now."

Qin Si rubbed her eyes, turned, and was about to leave.

To her, wiping out a Level-8 civilization's fleet was no different than casually swatting a mosquito.

"Wait."

Qin Hao spoke.

He rose from the throne, walked to Qin Si's side, and reached out to tidy her slightly messy hair.

"How many times have I told you, young ladies shouldn't be so rough."

Qin Hao's voice was not loud, yet it clearly reached the ears of the Inspector and Wo Xi Ling and the others.

Wo Xi Ling and the others staggered, almost losing their footing.

Rough?

Good heavens! Is this considered rough?

One sentence annihilated a Level-8 civilization's fleet, and in your view, that's just rough?

Then what would be considered gentle?!

They felt their brains were completely inadequate.

Qin Hao ignored those few background figures who were nearly scared silly, and continued speaking to Qin Si:

"Look at you, you've made a mess outside, like fireworks filling the sky, and you still need to have your brother send people to clean up. Next time, keep the commotion down, understand?"

"Oh..."

Qin Si replied unwillingly, muttering softly, "I know, I know, who let him start shouting as soon as he showed up, making my head ache..."

Qin Hao smiled, patted her head: "Go on, go back to sleep."

"Mm!"

Qin Si's figure vanished into thin air just as she had appeared, as if she had never existed.

The entire hall fell silent once again.

But this time, the atmosphere was completely different from before.

If before it was a confrontation between the judger and the judged,

then now,

it is... mortals gazing up at the divine.

Qin Hao turned around and looked again at the Inspector, who remained frozen in place.

The smile on his face had faded.

All of this had been arranged in advance.

"Now, can we have a proper talk?"

Qin Hao's voice was very calm.