Chapter 569

Half a month later.

Gao Jie Ming stood in the center of the experimental area, surrounded by high-tier wizards.

A huge light screen floated in front of him, displaying the technical summary of the past half-month in dense detail.

Every line of data, every parameter, every deduction was recorded clearly.

"Finally finished..."

Gao Jie Ming muttered to himself, his tone carrying a hint of emotion.

What he originally thought could be done in a few days was dragged out for half a month.

The reason is simple—the essence of Light Godhood is energy filled with "order" as the commander.

And Ma Ding's Ash Fire is a proper "heat death," the ultimate chaos.

The two are functionally opposite in essence.

Trying to integrate them was ten times more difficult than expected.

Fortunately, there were plenty of high-tier wizards around.

Over the past half-month, more than a dozen Tier 7 wizards took turns to help deduce parameters, adjust models, and optimize structures.

And Ma Ding even directly contributed his own data model for controlling the Ash Fire.

Even if it was just a portion of the data model specifically used to manipulate the power of heat death, it was still the core achievement he had accumulated over tens of thousands of years, something that would never be passed on under normal circumstances.

With this, the most difficult hurdle was finally overcome.

Gao Jie Ming looked at the technical summary, his eyelids twitching.

One can only say that the research power of high-tier wizards is still too exaggerated; although it started from his own Light Godhood technology, this thing... except for the basic principles which are the same as his Light Godhood, everything else has basically been changed into a new shell.

"Stop being emotional."

A Tier 7 wizard nearby urged: "Try it quickly; if it doesn't work, we'll have to keep modifying it!"

"Yes, yes, yes, let us see the effect!"

Others joined in the clamor, their eyes flashing with bright light.

Gao Jie Ming took a deep breath to relieve the tension in his heart and nodded.

He closed his eyes, and golden light flickered between his brows.

The destiny system operated at full power, and the gate to the cave heaven within his body opened with a boom.

The Tier 7 large elemental pool of the Purgatory Sulfur plane output energy frantically, and through the cross-space energy transmission system of the Incense God Dao, it poured into his body continuously from the spatial connection of his lower dantian.

Then, he activated Light Godhood.

Five Aggregates Transformation Rainbow Mirror—informationization.

Ash Fire—energy filling.

Return to Ruins Armor, heat death power cycle maintenance sequence—steady-state maintenance.

Causality Tracing Technique, destiny system—information manipulation.

Grand Void Step, energy recovery cycle model—energy information resonance.

All five steps operated simultaneously.

Gao Jie Ming's body began to change.

A layer of gray-white flames surged from within his body, instantly engulfing his entire body.

Those flames had no temperature, no light, only a kind of "dead silence" that made one's heart palpitate—anything touched by them would return to nothingness. His form began to twist.

Originally, when filled with Li Fire Extinction Divine Light, Light Godhood, under the control of fluid energy manipulation technology, would present a dark golden metallic condensed texture, like a finely carved statue.

But at this moment, those gray-white flames could not condense into a fixed form at all, only barely maintaining a humanoid outline.

And that outline was constantly fluctuating, with the edges occasionally disintegrating into fine sparks, then re-condensing.

It looked like a flame ghost that could dissipate at any time.

However, even if it was just barely maintaining such a basic state, it was already enough.

"Success!"

A cheer erupted all around.

Gao Jie Ming did not respond.

He lowered his head, looking at his palms made of gray-white flames, his eyes full of shock.

This power...

Too terrifying!

He could feel that every inch of his "body" at this moment was composed of the fire of extreme chaotic entropy increase.

Anything he touched would be forcibly decomposed into the most primitive energy particles.

Any power attacking him would be eroded and annihilated by the Ash Fire in reverse.

Even just standing here, the various elements wandering in the laboratory floor and atmosphere around him began to disintegrate into the most basic four elements, but the price was also extremely obvious.

The consumption was too great.

In the cave heaven within his body, the altar connecting to the Tier 7 large elemental pool of the Purgatory Sulfur plane was outputting energy frantically.

The Incense God Dao of the Purgatory Sulfur plane operated at full power, sending energy over continuously through the cross-space energy transmission system.

Even so, Gao Jie Ming still felt a sense of crisis of "energy exhaustion."

The gray flames on his body were clearly not hot, nor were they moving violently, but there was still an illusion of being hollowed out. What was even more terrifying was the computing power consumption.

The load rate of the destiny system, which had been running smoothly all along, had surged to 91%, and it was still climbing.

Every second, a massive amount of calculation tasks poured in—maintaining body stability, controlling the Ash Fire, coordinating the five-step architecture, countering external interference... It is no exaggeration to say that without the assistance of the destiny system, he could not even complete the most basic transformation.

And now, even with the destiny system supporting him, his mental power and heart power were being consumed at a visible speed.

"This thing..."

Gao Jie Ming spoke hoarsely, his voice carrying the crackling sound of burning flames.

"I'm afraid it won't last long."

The people around nodded one after another.

No one was surprised.

Ash Fire is proper Tier 8 wizard-level power; it would be strange if such power could be used casually. "Give it a name." Ma Ding's voice came.

Gao Jie Ming thought for a moment and spoke slowly.

"Light Godhood; Heat Death Form."

After speaking, he raised his head and looked at the pitch-black absolute zero barrier in the distance.

"Coincidentally, let's just test the effect."

He stepped forward.

The gray-white flame humanoid walked in the void; with every step taken, a trail of burning flames would be left under his feet.

Those trails stayed in the air for a few seconds, then slowly extinguished, turning into nothingness.

And in the area where the burning flame trails disappeared, all matter and energy were also completely decomposed into pure wandering elements. After using the Ash Fire, Gao Jie Ming's Light Godhood lost the ability to move at the speed of light, but the movement speed was not slow either.

Soon, he arrived in front of the barrier.

That pitch-black wall stood quietly in front, still not revealing any fluctuations or aura, as if a Wall of Sighs isolating everything. Gao Jie Ming raised his right hand.

Gray-white flames condensed in his palm, the color becoming increasingly gray and defeated, but the power becoming increasingly intense.

Then, he reached out and pressed it on.

The moment of contact, Gao Jie Ming felt that extreme contradiction.

His right hand was pushing forward, but everything he could perceive—temperature, energy, information, even the sense of time... were completely frozen the moment they touched the barrier.

All detected particles would be frozen, so there was no feedback.

He did not know how far he had pushed, did not know how thick the barrier was, did not know what was on the other side.

All detection means failed in the face of this absolute stillness.

This is why wizards did not dare to directly use strong attacks to pierce through the barrier:

You do not know its thickness, do not know its strength.

If the destructive power is too small, it is useless; if the destructive power is too large, it might directly pierce through the entire plane, destroying all those precious entropy brains and resources on the other side.

After all, the absolute zero barrier is completely different from other barriers.

Once it collapses, it will not leak only the excess power that it could not block after shattering like a normal barrier.

It will directly release all the imprisoned energy, forming a devastating energy storm.

But Gao Jie Ming's current state just happened to hit a loophole.

He himself is currently a source that continuously emits power.

Ash Fire is constantly generated within his body, constantly escaping outward.

Even if the barrier collapses, those escaping energies are part of him and can be re-absorbed and controlled by him.

More importantly, he has Ash Fire to protect him.

"Want to freeze me?"

Feeling the continuous power trying to freeze him, Gao Jie Ming sneered:

"Then let's see whether entropy reduction is more extreme, or entropy increase is more violent."

The golden light between Gao Jie Ming's brows shone blindingly, as if another golden eye had grown on the forehead of the gray-white flame humanoid.

Destiny system—full power!

Cross-space energy transmission system—full power!

The Tier 7 large elemental pool in the Purgatory Sulfur plane trembled frantically, and massive amounts of energy surged out like a breached flood, entering Gao Jie Ming's body through the cross-space transmission system, and then were instantly converted into Ash Fire by him.

His hand was pushing forward.

Very slowly.

So slowly that the movement was almost imperceptible.

But that pitch-black barrier began to change.

Centered on the point where Gao Jie Ming's palm touched, countless fine cracks were spreading, as if it were an ice surface about to shatter.

Inside the barrier, those information-based living beings sensed danger.

The computing power of the entire plane began to gather frantically.

Countless information-based living beings output simultaneously, integrating their computing power into the barrier, trying to maintain that absolute stillness, trying to freeze this gray-white flame. Gao Jie Ming felt that pressure.

The surrounding stillness power increased suddenly, as if an invisible giant hand was desperately pressing down on him, wanting to nail him to the spot.

His flames were fluctuating violently, the edges constantly being frozen into fine ashes, and then re-igniting under the impact of subsequent energy. Entropy increase versus entropy reduction.

Chaos versus order.

Heat death versus absolute zero.

Gao Jie Ming gritted his teeth and pushed forward desperately.

The energy reserves in his cave heaven were being consumed at a terrifying speed, the load rate of the destiny system had surged to 99.7%, and his mental power poured out like a breached flood...

But he did not stop.

Because the crack on the barrier was expanding.

From as thin as a hair, to as thick as a finger, then to as wide as an arm...

Finally, a silent roar that seemed to ring directly from the soul came.

That absolute zero barrier, which had stood for more than half a month, opened with a boom under Gao Jie Ming's palm.

The gray-white flames cut through like a hot knife through butter, piercing through without any obstruction.

Behind the barrier was an endless light sea.

It was those information-based living beings retreating in panic.

Gao Jie Ming stood at the opening, gray-white flames burning around his body.

Looking at the scene before him, the gray-white flame monster revealed a grim smile.