Chapter 570

The moment the barrier shattered, everyone thought victory was in sight.

The cheers had just begun when Ma Ding's expression changed.

"No!"

He lunged forward, the power of a Tier 8 wizard erupting with a boom.

But that power, the moment it touched the gap in the barrier, disappeared without a trace, like a clay ox entering the sea.

At the gap, a piece of eerie nothingness was spreading.

Gao Jie Ming stood in the center of the gap, the smile on his face frozen.

The next second, he disappeared.

Just as if he had been erased from the real world.

"We've been tricked!"

Ma Ding's expression was terrifyingly gloomy.

The high-tier wizards around also changed color simultaneously.

Everyone present was a high-tier wizard who had experienced countless wars and immediately understood that the opponent grabbing Gao Jie Ming away at this time must be to achieve some goal.

No matter what the opponent's ultimate goal is, it must not be allowed to be completed!

Ma Ding raised his head and looked at the gap Gao Jie Ming had torn open.

At the gap, that piece of eerie nothingness was spreading, trying to re-seal the entire plane.

Ma Ding raised his right hand.

Gray flames condensed in his palm.

"Everyone, listen to my command."

His voice resounded through heaven and earth.

"Attack with full force."

"At any cost."

"Save that kid!"

As soon as the words fell, more than a dozen Tier 7 wizards attacked simultaneously.

Hundreds of Tier 6 wizards leading millions of expeditionary forces followed closely behind.

Massive amounts of cannon fodder creatures surged toward that gap like a tide.

Gray flames, twisted information, violent elements, chaotic laws...

All attacks poured down on that nothingness like a rainstorm.

Gao Jie Ming opened his eyes and found himself standing in a piece of nothingness.

No up, no down, no left, no right, no light, no dark, no matter, no energy.

Even the concept of "space" itself did not exist—he only "felt" that he was standing here, but in reality, there was no "here" at all.

"This is..."

Gao Jie Ming's pupils shrank slightly.

He wanted to mobilize his mental power, but found that his mental sea was like it had been frozen, motionless.

At this time, a grand voice rang out.

"All things eventually return to silence."

Gao Jie Ming was shaken all over.

That voice did not come from any direction, but rang directly in his mind, echoing in the depths of his soul.

That voice had no emotional fluctuations, only the calm of absolute dead silence.

That voice continued, every word like a great mountain pressing on his soul.

"Your struggle is meaningless."

"Your chaos will eventually subside."

"Your expansion will eventually stagnate."

"It is better to integrate into this perfect entropy reduction cycle."

The Nascent Soul in the depths of Gao Jie Ming's soul let out an unbearable wail.

That is the core of the cultivation system, the essence he had condensed over a thousand years.

At this moment, under the oppression of that grand voice, it was trembling and cracking, seemingly about to collapse at any time.

At the same time, the Ring of Truth within his body also began to tremble violently.

Those precisely arranged runes were flashing frantically, as if they would disintegrate at any time.

"This is..."

Gao Jie Ming gritted his teeth and persisted, his thoughts running frantically in his mind.

Without a doubt, the one communicating with him should be the "Highest Consensus Algorithm" produced by the information-based living being race.

It is not an individual, not a group, but a collection of the consciousness of the entire civilization.

No matter how powerful those information-based living beings were before, they were only executors of this algorithm.

And now, this algorithm has taken action itself.

Gao Jie Ming also understood because of this that he had been dragged into a "virtual space" composed purely of information.

That grand voice rang out again.

"The analysis and plunder you are good at are useless in the face of more powerful chaos."

"The instinct for expansion you are proud of is not worth mentioning in the face of absolute order."

"The knowledge and truth you pursue are just illusions in the face of eternal silence."

Gao Jie Ming was silent for a second.

Then he smiled.

Not because he was happy, but because—the opponent was right.

What is the essence of a wizard?

It is exploration, it is analysis, it is expansion.

From apprentice to official wizard, from Tier 1 to Tier 9, every step is the conquest of the unknown and the control of rules.

This instinct for expansion is itself a kind of entropy increase.

And entropy increase will naturally succumb to stronger entropy increase; in the face of more powerful power, wizards will naturally submit... if there really is power of this level.

At the same time, feeling the information flow constantly trying to drill into his mind, Gao Jie Ming also understood the opponent's plan.

In the battle with wizards, these information-based living beings had already figured out some underlying rules of wizard civilization through their control of information—for example, the absolute protection of individual knowledge.

That is one of the core contracts of wizard civilization.

Every wizard, when stepping into the system, will be branded with this rule: any act of peeking, stealing, or tampering with others' knowledge without permission will be met with the most severe punishment.

Now, these information-based living beings want to use this point.

They intend to "acquire" all of Gao Jie Ming's knowledge and then transmit it to the minds of every expeditionary wizard.

As long as the knowledge is transmitted to the entire expeditionary force while Gao Jie Ming is still alive, the contract will judge: countless wizards have "stolen" Gao Jie Ming's knowledge simultaneously.

At that time, the ruling from the Star Track Arbitration Tribunal will descend.

At that time, those wizards in the expeditionary force will lose their lives in an instant.

Even if the high-tier wizards in the expeditionary force have resurrection means, it is useless, because this is power from a Tier 9 wizard!

Gao Jie Ming took a deep breath.

He knew that the possibility of the opponent's plan succeeding was high.

After all, the protection of knowledge is the most basic foundation of the entire wizard civilization; in order not to let "clever" wizards have any loopholes to exploit, this rule is extremely rigid and extremely strict.

But precisely because it is extremely rigid, once it is exploited, it becomes very troublesome.

The surrounding power is infiltrating every inch of his soul, trying to read, copy, and archive all his information.

His consciousness began to blur.

His memories began to be chaotic.

His self-cognition began to waver.

Just at this moment...

Gao Jie Ming suddenly laughed in a low voice.

That laughter echoed in the dead silence of the void, the sound becoming louder and louder, harsh, arrogant, and unscrupulous.

"Hehehehe... Hahahahahaha..."

The grand voice paused for an instant, seemingly confused.

Gao Jie Ming raised his head, the corners of his mouth splitting into a mocking smile.

"You have a good plan."

"Using the contract backlash can indeed wipe everyone out."

"But unfortunately..."

Between his brows, a point of golden light suddenly lit up.

That point of golden light flickered frantically under the suppression of silence, and could be extinguished at any time.

But it did not extinguish; instead, it became brighter and brighter, more and more blinding.

"You calculated one thing wrong."

Gao Jie Ming's voice became calm.

"I am not just a wizard."

Gao Jie Ming did not say this sentence; he just silently mobilized the destiny system and the Incense God Dao.

The golden light between his brows surged.

At that moment, he no longer resisted the surrounding silence, but actively opened his cave heaven within his body.

Inside the cave heaven, hundreds of Black Giant Priests raised their heads simultaneously.

In the Purgatory Sulfur plane, billions of Black Giant tribes stopped what they were doing at the same time.

Countless thoughts, countless consciousnesses, countless information, poured into the destiny system at the same moment.

That is not computing power.

That is "existence" itself.

The torrent of thoughts of billions of living beings poured into Gao Jie Ming's consciousness like a monstrous wave.

Every thought is independent, every thought is chaotic, every thought is "existing" in its own way. If the opponent wants to infiltrate his consciousness, it must first pierce through these billions of thoughts.

But it cannot do it.

Because even this Highest Consensus Algorithm cannot instantly wipe out billions of independent "selves."

The pressure on Gao Jie Ming's body suddenly lightened, and he finally was able to have other feelings.

He could feel that his "Body Tempering Technique" was operating frantically.

This body tempering technique from the cultivation world now displayed its most terrifying characteristic—adaptive evolution.

Under the oppression of the Highest Consensus Algorithm, his body, his soul, every inch of his existence, were desperately evolving resistance to information. Facing an enemy of this level, even the Body Tempering Technique could not fully adapt in a short time.

But Gao Jie Ming did not need to "counterattack."

He only needed to delay.

Just delay for a long enough time.