Chapter 543: Qin Hao, Treated as Rations

Everyone, take your positions and familiarize yourselves with your new power.

Qin Hao's will swept over this newborn spacetime, and ten billion stars trembled at his thought.

Qin Zheng, guard the gate. No matter what comes from outside, there are only two choices: the guests we want, or dead people.

Understood.

Qin Zheng didn't even have extra nonsense.

He raised his hand and waved; the spatial nodes of tens of thousands of star systems instantly shifted, and at the cosmic rift torn open by Qin Hao, a layered dimensional labyrinth was constructed.

This is the Yanhuang Civilization's current foundation.

Having arranged everything at home, Qin Hao delayed no further.

His will, from the grand perspective encompassing the entire universe, turned into an extremely concealed information stream, slipping out along that dimensional rift.

……

This is nothing.

There is no up, down, left, or right; time does not flow; even a vacuum does not exist.

Only an external concept exists.

As soon as he emerged, Qin Hao felt an intense oppression.

If he does not constantly maintain the integrity of his own information, staying here for even a second will cause his consciousness to be assimilated by this endless void and completely vanish.

This place is the Cosmic Sea.

In his sight, countless light spheres floated.

They varied in size and color, suspended in this absolute void like isolated islands.

Qin Hao carefully controlled his fluctuations and approached the nearest light sphere.

It was a withered universe.

It was very small, about a hundred million light-years across.

Qin Hao's will encountered no resistance whatsoever, directly piercing that pitifully thin crystal wall.

Inside lay a dead zone.

All stars had extinguished, matter ceased motion, and even atomic nuclei were decaying.

There were no signs of life.

This was merely a corpse drifting in the sea.

If the previous possession attempt had failed, this would also be the fate of the Yanhuang Civilization.

Qin Hao withdrew his probe and continued drifting deeper.

Soon, a colossal entity blocked his path.

It was a gigantic universe emitting blinding white light, its volume dozens of times that of Qin Hao's homeland.

Its crystal wall was terrifyingly thick, its surface flowing with extremely complex rule runes.

Qin Hao released a weak detection signal.

Hum!

As the signal touched the opponent's shell, a violent logical counterattack surged along the line.

【Warning: Illegal scan!】

【Countermeasure activated—Logic Annihilation!】

Qin Hao reacted instantly, severing that thread of divine sense.

That counterforce exploded in the void, even stirring the surrounding nothingness into turmoil.

Damn! What fierce aggression.

Qin Hao silently marked those coordinates as high-risk in his mind, choosing not to clash head-on and instead detouring around it.

As he continued forward, Qin Hao discovered a strange phenomenon.

These cosmic bubbles were moving.

Although they appeared stationary in three-dimensional view, in higher dimensions they drifted at a constant speed toward the same direction.

One could even say they were… fleeing.

What were they afraid of?

Qin Hao extended his perception to the utmost in the opposite direction of their movement.

There, it seemed to be the edge of the Cosmic Sea, beyond which lay a mist.

An indescribable black surge was advancing.

It was neither matter nor energy.

It was chaos.

It was the collapse and recombination of all laws.

Countless weak cosmic bubbles, once caught in this surge, would burst like soap bubbles.

The civilizations within could not even send a desperate plea for help, directly reverting to the most primitive information gibberish.

Qin Hao's heart jolted.

Reset to zero.

This is the so-called Cosmic Grand Reset.

But this is certainly not a natural death due to the universe's lifespan reaching its end.

This is a tsunami!

A periodic mechanism that cleanses the garbage universes—those weak, aged, and unable to withstand the waves!

The original old universe, being too frail, couldn't even withstand the prelude to this cleansing surge and was on the brink of collapse.

And those powerful universes were desperately migrating toward the depths, seeking a harbor.

Where is the cage that only the Logic Administrator is watching?

This is a sea of death filled with natural and man-made disasters.

Qin Hao's newly gained sense of superiority vanished completely.

In this sea, the newly born Yanhuang Universe was nothing more than a small sampan that had just been launched.

Even if one possessed divine authority, facing a tsunami of this magnitude, they might not escape unscathed.

Suddenly.

A violent surge of rules came from the side.

Qin Hao was very familiar with that kind of fluctuation.

That was the sound of the universe's crystal wall shattering.

He immediately adjusted his viewpoint and looked over.

The next second, Qin Hao froze for an instant from shock.

"This is...? Two universes are touching?"

"No, it feels like we're eating."

A medium-sized universe glowing with a faint blue light extended millions of tentacles made of solidified rules from within.

Those tentacles were thick and ferocious, deeply piercing into the nearby pale-gold universe.

The pale-gold universe convulsed violently, its crystal wall riddled with holes.

Qin Hao could clearly see countless golden points of light—the opponent universe's core origin rules—being frantically drawn along those tentacles and injected into the blue universe.

One could even 'hear' the desperate cries of countless beings within that universe before their extinction.

The entire structure of the universe was collapsing.

Gravity failed, stars disintegrated, and civilization turned to ash.

Meanwhile, the blue universe was growing.

Its originally dim light, after devouring its neighbor, became brilliant and full at a visible speed.

This was evolution by consuming its own kind.

Or perhaps it was to accumulate enough power to resist the impending zero-return tsunami in the distance.

"The law of survival in the Cosmic Sea? Big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp."

Compared to this blue universe, the so-called body snatching was as gentle as charity.

They were devouring it alive and stripping it bare.

"Too brutal..."

Qin Hao's consciousness fluctuated violently.

This scene before his eyes was even more direct and bloody than the oppression brought by the earlier High-Dimensional Administrator.

At the edge of the view, that gruesome feast was nearing its end.

The golden universe had ceased its struggle.

Its crystal wall system had completely disintegrated, and the once brilliant internal galaxy now lay dark and lightless.

Hundreds of millions of rule chains snapped, like the husk of a body drained of marrow, withered and floating in the void.

As the last thread of origin energy was drawn away along those millions of azure-blue tentacles,

that universe… died.

Not only was it the extinction of civilization,

but also the death of all rules.

The internal laws of thermodynamics failed, the spatial structure collapsed, and all matter turned into meaningless ash at that moment.

Meanwhile, the azure-blue universe, as the predator, visibly expanded in size.

Its surrounding rule symbols, originally somewhat obscure, now surged with blue light—this was the energy overflow after being overfilled.