Chapter 488

That voice again leisurely echoed.

With the voice, above the Miracle Garden, a gigantic human figure made of light and shadow slowly emerged.

He wore a simple white research robe, smiled faintly, and looked like a harmless scholar.

It was Qin Hao.

He curiously sized up the two colossal ninth-level mounts that blotted out the stars.

His eyes held no fear, only the gaze of a doctor examining a patient, full of research value.

"It seems the condition is worse than I imagined."

Qin Hao's phantom nodded solemnly.

"King of the Star Sea, right?"

"Long-term exposure to high-pressure and slaughter-filled environments has caused your rule‑power to reek of necrosis and apoptosis."

"In our diagnosis, this is late‑stage rule‑hardening disease; if untreated, your entire existence will eventually self‑destruct because you can no longer exchange rules normally with the universe."

He then looked toward the scale forged of logic and formulas.

"And you, Truth Tribunal. Your obsessive pursuit of an absolute logical closed loop has driven your will into a dead‑end of cognitive paranoia."

"Your rules look perfect but are actually fragile, because you reject the universe's greatest variable—life. This is logical cleanliness, a sickness that needs… well, needs to be cleared out."

Qin Hao spoke at length, as if he weren't facing two ninth‑level bigwigs capable of destroying the universe,

but rather conducting a… remote consultation.

The entire adjudication fleet fell silent once again.

If the first time they were bewildered,

then this time they were utterly dumbfounded.

This guy is actually diagnosing the condition of two ninth‑level civilization bigwigs?!

Crazy!

This newly emerged variable is absolutely a complete lunatic!

"Shut up!!"

The King of the Star Sea was finally thoroughly enraged.

A will ten times stronger than before erupted with a boom!

"How dare a mere pretender who hasn't even stepped into the ninth level presume to discuss true immortality?!"

"Today I will not only adjudicate your civilization, but also extract your soul, imprison it beneath my throne, and make you suffer eternally for your arrogance!"

The 【Star Throne】 began to emit a violent roar; its main cannon, capable of resetting a supercluster to a singularity, started to charge slowly.

The Truth Tribunal, though silent,

but the 【Logic Scale】 began to tilt, a terrifying force gathering to conceptually outlaw the entire Miracle Garden.

War was imminent.

Yet in the face of this heaven‑shattering might, Qin Hao's face still bore that light‑hearted smile.

Then he uttered three words.

"Have you registered?"

Those few words, light as they were, struck like three hammers of Causality Law laden with endless mockery, smashing hard into the will‑cores of the Star Sea King and the Truth Tribunal.

Silence.

Deathly silence.

Time seemed to stretch into an infinitely thin thread at this moment, every particle in space freezing.

The adjudication fleet's hundreds of millions of soldiers had their thoughts completely crash in that instant.

They had endured the most brutal wars, faced the craziest foes, yet none of their contingency plans covered this situation.

Who are we? Where are we? What are we here to do?

Oh, we are here to carry out the supreme judgment of the universe.

Uh… what is that guy over there saying?

Register?

Register for what?

What ancient term, forgotten in the dust of time, is this?

The wills of the two ninth‑level bigwigs also showed a momentary stagnation.

The Star Sea King's towering form, made of pure starlight, visibly flickered—an expression of will so furious it could no longer hold a stable shape.

How long has he lived? Even he can't remember.

He once wiped out countless civilizations with a single word, and once cast rebellious ninth‑level peers into the depths of the rules.

He is the supreme combat power of the Cosmic Alliance, a walking calamity, the embodiment of cosmic order.

Countless lives lack even the courage to look up before him.

Today, out of nowhere, a pretender who has merely brushed the ninth‑level threshold appeared and asked him…

"Have you registered?"

This is no longer mere provocation.

This is a humiliation he has never experienced, springing from deep within his soul.

A humiliation that drags this god down to the level of ordinary mortals—the ultimate disgrace!

"You……are……looking……for……death!"

Each word, spoken with a pause, felt like the explosion of a supernova.

The Star Sea King's will, no longer an intangible pressure, took substance—black lightning capable of tearing reality, wildly slashing at Qin Hao's phantom.

However, these will‑lightning bolts capable of instantly annihilating a seventh‑level civilization,

At the moment they approached the Miracle Garden, they were easily smoothed over by an invisible gentle force field.

Just like using an iron to press a wrinkled sheet of paper smooth.

The energy conversion matrix of the Miracle Garden flashed happily once more, and even the few potted Soul‑Fire plants in the garden bloomed a few extra flowers.

"You see, you're getting fired up again, aren't you?"

Qin Hao's projection spread his hands, looking helpless.

"As I said, this is a typical complication of rule‑hardening syndrome—willful frenzy."

Intense emotional fluctuations make one easily enraged, unable to effectively control one's power output, causing a large amount of energy to dissipate.

"Friend, if you don't treat this illness, it'll really be too late."

Pfft—

The snail‑spirit Ling from the distant G‑37 branch headquarters, seeing this scene and hearing these words,

She couldn't catch her breath, and her soul core almost shattered on the spot.

She's gone mad.

She's really about to go mad.

What kind of monsters are Qin Hao and the Yanhuang Civilization, exactly!

That's the King of the Star Sea!

He is the alliance's strongest spear, said in legend to have single‑handedly suppressed the Black Star Empire's rebellion.

You… you actually say his energy is dissipating?

And you say his illness is beyond cure?

This isn't just boldness; it's basically lacking the concept of fear altogether!

Very good…

The Star Sea King's raging will, however, suddenly subsided.

He seems to have reached the extreme of anger, surpassing anger itself, entering a state of absolutely icy killing intent.

"It's been a long time since anyone could make me feel this desire—to completely erase a life from all timelines past, present, and future."

He no longer wastes words.

The main cannon of the 【Star Throne】, capable of destroying a super‑star cluster, began to burst forth with ever more brilliant light.

He decided to no longer engage in any meaningless communication with this little bug.

With absolute power, he would turn it, together with the garden it inhabits and the ridiculous civilization behind it, into the most primitive particles of the universe.

However, at the moment he was about to give the order to fire, another cold voice stopped him.

"Wait."

It is the Tribunal of Truth.

His figure, composed of logic and formulas, slowly rose from the 【Logic Scale】,

His gaze, for the first time, truly met Qin Hao's projection.

"This variable is a bit off."