Chapter 534: Counterstrike: The Final Move of the Cosmic Will

"So that's how it is… so that's how it is!"

"Soul and matter are two sides of the same coin! They are different projections of information under different dimensions!"

A soul engineer wept with extreme joy.

His consciousness, under the scouring of energy, quickly broke through the bottleneck and reached a brand-new realm.

Meanwhile, Qian Yin greedily devoured the streams of information about the origin of life.

"The gene lock that used to trouble us is nothing but a sheet of window paper before this power! Pierce it! Pierce them all!"

"Wow! So warm… it feels like being soaked in mother's womb…"

A newborn infant, who could not even speak yet, only uttered babbling exclamations.

His soul, as pure as a blank sheet, under the nourishment of this most primal energy, saw its core becoming solid and radiant at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It was as if he had laid the most perfect Dao foundation from birth.

The entire Yanhuang Civilization was immersed in this unprecedented celebration.

This is an infusion of knowledge.

Soul ascension.

Everyone's life level was leaping upward at a terrifying speed.

Qin Hao could clearly feel that the main body of the Civilization's Sword was becoming increasingly solid and powerful.

Upon the sword's body, the flowing five-thousand-year history was coated with a layer of eternal, immortal divine light.

Power was surging exponentially!

"Hahaha! Give me more! Give me more!"

Qin Wu's will roared gleefully.

"I feel that a single thought could destroy a level-nine civilization!"

"Third brother, don't just focus on absorbing energy; carefully comprehend the rules within!"

Qin Si's will promptly reminded him.

"These are the building blocks of the universe! Understanding them, we can truly become the masters of this universe!"

Everything seemed so beautiful.

Victory was already within easy reach.

However, while everyone was immersed in the thrill of rapidly growing stronger, Qin Hao's wariness born of combat instinct did not relax in the slightest.

Something's off.

Too smooth.

Although the Cosmic Instinct Will was trapped and wailing, it was nevertheless the former ruler of this universe.

Would an ancient monster that has lived for untold hundreds of millions of years really submit so easily to slaughter?

Would it willingly make everything it has into a wedding dress for us?

Qin Hao didn't believe it.

After calming down, he did not indulge in absorbing energy like the others.

Thus he dispatched a strand of the purest divine sense, flowing upstream along one of the conceptual siphon tubes.

He cautiously probed toward the center of the energy vortex.

He wanted to see with his own eyes what exactly this old fellow was up to.

The divine sense pierced through the chaotic layers of energy storms and quickly reached the core of the vortex.

Here, Qin Hao saw the remnants of the Cosmic Instinct Will.

Its chaotic fleshball, which served as its brain, had been torn into pieces by its own explosion.

Only some fragmented nerve tissue, still faintly twitching, remained, drifting amid the energy storm.

Its will also grew feeble, like a candle in the wind, ready to sputter out at any moment.

"So… it really can't go on…"

Seeing this, Qin Hao's slight wariness also involuntarily relaxed a bit.

"Could it be that I overthought it?"

In the face of an unreasonable absolute logical paradox, even the Overlord of the universe has only a dead end.

However, just as he was about to withdraw his divine sense.

Qin Hao suddenly noticed a hint of abnormality.

Those fragmented nerve tissues twitched with a very regular rhythm.

That death‑like motion,

resembled the execution of some final program!

What were they doing?

Qin Hao's divine sense instantly focused, exerting all effort to decipher the final information transmitted by those nerve tissues.

Soon he translated the contents within.

Then Qin Hao's mind and spirit felt as if they had plunged into an ice cave!

That was not a plea for mercy.

It was not a curse.

Nor was it some last‑ditch move to take everyone down together.

It was a series of malicious, contaminant‑filled madness…

"Garbage code!"

【Definition: Speed of light = 1 meter/second.】

Definition: Strong interaction force = 0.

Definition: The entropy increase law is reversed, the universe enters a state of entropy decrease, all matter collapses toward order, ultimately converging into a logical singularity.

Definition: The concept of life is permanently bound to pain.

Definition: 1+1=3.

…

One after another absurd, chaotic definitions, capable of completely collapsing the entire universe's physical laws, are being released from these final neural tissues!

It isn't attacking at all,

but is polluting itself!

It is frantically spitting saliva, throwing garbage, and poisoning the energy porridge in its own pot that is about to be drunk dry!

Knowing it cannot survive,

it therefore seeks, before death, to thoroughly scramble the entire universe's underlying database!

"Damn it!"

Qin Hao suddenly realized.

This is its most vicious killing move!

"Stop quickly!"

Qin Hao's thoughts roared wildly at everyone who was reveling.

"Everyone, immediately stop absorbing energy! The energy is poisonous!"

But it's already too late.

At the very moment the warning was issued, the polluted cosmic origins had already flowed, following the conceptual siphon, into the interior of the Sword of Civilization.

The next second, an anomaly suddenly arose!

"Ah—! My head! My head hurts so much!"

A scientist who was contemplating gravity suddenly had his soul clutch his own head, emitting a painful howl.

The perfectly established gravity model was violently overturned by the absurd logic of "1+1=3".

The entire cognitive system is collapsing!

"Help! Help! My body... my soul is disappearing!"

A warrior who was consolidating his soul form suddenly found his body becoming unstable.

Because the definition "strong interaction force = 0" is dismantling the connections between his soul particles.

His existence is being reduced to zero!

"No! I don't want pain! Why must living entail pain!"

A child, whose soul had been forcibly implanted with the vicious curse that life equals pain.

That pure soul was soon devoured by endless darkness.

"Crazy! Crazy!"

"Save me!"

"What the hell is this!"

…

In the blink of an eye, the collective consciousness network of the Yanhuang Civilization, which had been paradise just a second ago, instantly plunged into hell!

Countless people, unable to bear this deepest-level logical pollution, fell into madness, collapse, even self-annihilation!

Just moments ago it was a sea of jubilation; now it has become a pot filled with wails and cries, where everyone struggles in vain in a hellish cauldron!

"Hahaha... hahahaha..."

The faint yet gleeful mad laughter of the cosmic instinctual will echoed in Qin Hao's ears.

【"Let's... go mad together..."】

【"Even if I die... I want you... to bury me with you..."】

【"Welcome to... the mad universe..."】

Its will, after issuing this final declaration, completely dissipated.

But the deadly poison it left behind is now spreading wildly within the Yanhuang Civilization!

"Damn it!"

Qin Hao gazed at this chaotic scene, his eyes about to burst.

It seemed they had won the war, but in the end the enemy poisoned the food in the most despicable way!

Moreover, this poison has no cure!

Because it contaminates the very root of this universe!