Chapter 589: The Old God Falls, Myriad Paths Return to the Ruins

That crack was like the final straw that broke the camel's back.

After it appeared, it never stopped.

"Crack… crack-crack-crack..."

The crisp shattering sound began to become increasingly dense.

Centering on that crack, countless new cracks rapidly spread to every corner of the Mirror of Truth.

The myriad law chains reflected on the mirror surface began to violently tremble and snap.

The world of Principle constructed by the Primordial was beginning to collapse from its foundations.

"No! No——!"

The Primordial let out a roar filled with reluctance and fear.

His body also became covered with the same cracks as the mirror shattered.

Streams of golden liquid representing the primordial rules continuously seeped out from those cracks.

He was no longer the lofty god who controlled everything.

He had reverted to a powerful but vulnerable lifeform that could be injured and die.

Along with the shattering of the Mirror of Truth, the perfect foes created by it also lost their source of power. 1

They won!

They won in this seemingly hopeless battle!

"Kill!"

Qin Wu's eyes flickered with the flames of vengeance.

Without the slightest hesitation, he turned into a golden streak and rushed toward the ever-weakening Primordial.

The Primordial felt a deadly threat.

He wanted to flee, to repair his body and the Mirror of Truth.

But he discovered he was locked onto by an invisible force.

That was Qin Hao's 'Dao'.

That aura, filled with infinite possibilities, was like an invisible great net enveloping this spacetime, cutting off all his retreat routes.

"You worms! Do you know what you've done?"

The Primordial roared in terror.

"The Mirror of Truth is the lock of the cosmic sea! You shattered it, you opened the gate to true despair!"

Qin Wu's battle blade was already within reach.

"That's also our business, none of your concern!"

In despair, the Primordial could only mobilize his remaining strength to parry.

But just then, Qin Hao's voice echoed in the minds of all Yan and Huang people.

"Everyone."

"Time to eat."

This simple sentence ignited the yearning in everyone's hearts.

They gazed at the old god continuously leaking primordial rule liquid, like a crowd of gluttons starved for a hundred million years, seeing the most abundant feast.

That is the fundamental principle constituting this cosmic sea!

That is the ultimate power countless civilizations dream of!

"Hahaha! Mine! The unbreakable rules are mine!"

Qin Wu laughed loudly, split the Primordial's defense with a single blow, opened his mouth wide, and fiercely bit off a chunk of rule fragments flashing with solid definitions.

"Spatial origin, now mine!"

Qin Zheng followed closely, his hands turning into a vast spatial net that scooped up a fragment of law representing absolute coordinates.

Qin Si, transformed into a data torrent, swept over and bundled away the portion of the Primordial's core algorithm concerning logical deduction.

Qin An carefully collected the fragments representing emotional definitions.

Not only them.

Countless Yan and Huang people surged forward at this moment.

They divided the fallen god bit by bit until nothing remained.

Each Yan and Huang person, according to the attributes of their inner universe, sought to devour the portion of principle most suited to them.

Their auras began a frenzied surge at this moment.

Their inner universes, initially just rudimentary, began to rapidly perfect and expand after absorbing these top-tier rule-building materials.

Nebulae were born, star systems formed.

Life, and even began to spontaneously evolve within the inner universes of some individuals.

This was a collective ascension of an entire civilization!

The Primordial's consciousness grew increasingly hazy in this frenzied division.

He could feel his power, his very existence, being nibbled away bit by bit by those creatures he once regarded as worms.

This was a humiliating death he had never imagined.

Finally,

His body remained only as a core imprint emitting a faint light.

It recorded his origin, recorded his original intention in creating the system, and recorded all secrets concerning the Mirror of Truth and that Gate.

Qin Hao stepped forward.

He did not participate in this division.

Because he knew, these fragments of principle were already meaningless to him.

What he sought was a cause transcending all this.

He reached out and gently grasped that core seal in his hand.

Yuan Chu's last lingering consciousness, within the seal, emitted a venomous curse: "You will regret it…… Qin Hao…… when you see them…… you will deeply miss this cage I built……"

Qin Hao ignored his curse.

He pressed that core seal toward his own brow.

It was not to devour Yuan Chu's power, but to read everything of his, understand everything of his, and finally surpass everything of his.

"Boom——"

A torrent of information spanning countless ages surged into Qin Hao's mind.

He saw a group of things that could not be understood, could not be described, coming from outside the Gate.

Yuan Chu, or rather the first-generation system, was how, in fear, he created the Mirror of Truth, sealed the entire Cosmic Sea, and established this great prison known as the Incubation Field.

The so-called unity, cultivating gu,

were merely to screen out the strongest warriors, to have them resist the terror beyond that gate for him.

When Qin Hao opened his eyes again, the chaos in his vision had vanished.

"Indeed, it's like this—outside is another prison, an endless cycle?"

He whispered softly.

But just then……

"Rumble——"

The entire Cosmic Sea began to violently tremble.

That was a deeper-level collapse.

The Mirror of Truth was the "lock" Yuan Chu used to seal the entire Cosmic Sea.

It defined the boundaries of all things and stipulated how the laws operate.

Now this lock has shattered.

The things imprisoned in the cage have lost their restraint.

"Alarm! Large-scale rule disruption detected!"

Qin Si's thought echoed in everyone's souls.

"The underlying logic of the Cosmic Sea is failing!"

Everyone looked up.

They saw the originally stable void begin to churn like boiling water.

Streams of laws, like broken chains, lashed wildly in the void.

One universe underwent the full process from birth to destruction within a ten-thousandth of a second, because the definition of time had lost its meaning at this moment.

Countless remnants of civilizations, resentments, and erased mad rules from the universes imprisoned by Yuan Chu in the mirror,

now have been released as the mirror shatters.

They spread like an invisible plague throughout the Cosmic Sea.

"Damn it!"

Qin Zheng's expression changed; he reached out and slashed forward.

A barrier formed.

But the next second, a black fragment of rule imbued with the concept of "termination" struck it.

The barrier silently vanished.

That fragment continued forward, striking a civilization that had just survived the tsunami.

The cosmic bubble containing that civilization, together with all its living beings, lost all attributes of existence and became a void.