Chapter 310: Hongjun's

The other end of the Star Sea.

That golden ocean, built from absolute laws and ultimate order, is now raising a torrent unseen in billions of years!

This is the core of the Source of Ten Thousand Paths.

It is Hongjun's domain, his divine kingdom, and the concrete embodiment of his ice‑frozen Dao Heart.

In former days, everything here was like the most precise instrument, each law rune's trajectory flawless beyond reproach.

But now…

Everything's in chaos!

Clumps of murky, viscous, gray sludge exuding an Irrational aura have spontaneously appeared in this golden sea!

They spread like ink dropped into clear water, quickly contaminating everything around!

Worse, they keep self‑replicating and proliferating!

A figure clad in an antiquated Dao robe floats silently at the sea's center.

Hongjun.

His face, unchanged for billions of years, is now so gloomy it could drip water!

He 'looks' at his proud Heavenly Dao system, that flawless Order Sky‑Net,

which now seems splashed with bucket after bucket of dirty water, full of BUGs he cannot comprehend nor tolerate!

Hundreds, even thousands!

Each BUG crazily drains his Primordial Source computing power, mocking his so‑called 'Absolute Order'!

"Sun... Wu... Kong!"

The three words squeezed out one by one from Hongjun's teeth.

That voice, devoid of any worldly flavor, instantly froze the entire golden sea of laws!

Shock!

Anger!

A feeling he has never experienced, called 'humiliation', like the most venomous curse,

for the first time wildly sprouts in his ancient, still Dao Heart!

He imagined Sun Wukong would resist.

He imagined Sun Wukong would wield that damned staff to challenge his Heavenly Dao authority.

He even speculated what stance he would take to crush that ignorant monkey,

together with his laughable Way of the Equal Heaven, grinding them both to ash!

But he never expected!

That monkey, that beast he deemed only fit to be solved with brute force…

Actually…

actually chose not to clash head‑on with him!

He employed such despicable, low, unrefined tactics!

He didn't attack his body; instead, he undermined his Great Dao from the rule's foundation, from the root of thought!

This is no longer a battle!

This is humiliation!

It is the utmost contempt for the Order he represents!

"You think…"

"With this petty cleverness, you think you can defeat me?"

Hongjun, enraged, sneers.

He slowly raises his hand.

In an instant, the laws of the Source of Ten Thousand Paths, as if under the harshest military command, begin to rearrange at a frantic speed!

The Order Sky‑Net that blankets the entire Multiverse shines brilliantly at this moment!

Hongjun's cold, ruthless will transforms into a line of brand‑new 'code', forcibly imprinted into the underlying logic of the Heavenly Dao!

—Anyone tainted by a 'variable' aura, regardless of shape! Regardless of form!

—All defined as 'Chaos'!

—All who are defined as 'Chaos'!

—Rule! Kill! No! Debate!

He must urgently apply a 'Patch'!

He must forcibly alter the judgment rules!

Since he can't distinguish gray, he'll simply treat everything not pure white as black!

Better to mistakenly kill ten thousand than let a single one slip!

Boom—!!!

At his command!

The gray purifying storm that just dissipated begins to coalesce again!

But this time, it is no longer gray!

Instead… pure, light‑devouring blackness!

If the previous storm still bore a hint of 'purification',

then now, this pure black storm contains only the purest, unadorned… destruction!

The storm's scale is more than ten times larger than before!

The annihilating will it contains has become a hundred times more ferocious!

It no longer makes "judgments", no longer makes "analyses".

It has only one target!

— Eradicate those "Gray Civilization" that dare to challenge the authority of the Heavenly Dao, together with the star regions they occupy, completely from this Universe!

"Sun Wukong! Look!"

Yao's voice was filled with terror.

She pointed at the starry sky once again shrouded in darkness, that Black Storm,

like the gaping mouth of a gigantic beast, bearing a suffocating pressure, sweeping toward those newly reborn worlds!

"It… it's back! And it's scarier than before!"

However.

Sun Wukong merely glanced, and at the corner of his mouth a playful Smile appeared.

"Don't panic."

"The good show has only just begun, hasn't it?"

He was like a director who had seen through every script, leisurely crossing his arms, watching Hongjun's frantic performance with keen interest.

I saw it coming!

He had seen it coming long ago!

A relic like Hongjun, whose controlling desire overflows, when he finds himself unable to steer the situation, only makes the simplest, most foolish response.

— Increase the intensity!

But he didn't know.

What Sun Wukong prepared for him was not a simple multiple‑choice question.

Damn it, it's an entire chain of logic‑in‑logic, bug‑in‑bug, a cascading trap!

At the moment that the world‑shattering Black Storm was about to touch the first Gray Civilization!

Mutation! Sudden emergence!

The "Thought Steel Seal" that Sun Wukong personally implanted was as if it received a command, instantly triggering the second stage!

Buzz—!

The technological civilization that had once exhibited absolute order underwent another earth‑shaking transformation in its social structure!

They were no longer a single "Collective Machine".

Instead, they instantly split, evolving into a more complex, more bizarre, "Nested" social structure!

A massive "Supreme Council" representing absolute order, controlling all resources and military power of the civilization.

Beneath the council, tens of thousands of independent, free‑thinking "Freedom Council" emerged!

The council handles "Survival".

The Freedom Council handles "Thought".

Linking the two is an entirely new, even more outrageous set of rules.

【Every order of the council must be approved by at least half of the Freedom Council through a 'philosophical' debate before it can be executed!】

What the hell!

What is this?!

When Hongjun's raging Black Storm once again contacts this civilization.

His Heavenly Dao system once again emitted a sharp, near‑collapsing wail!

【Alert! Target "Matryoshka Civilization" detected!】

【Analyzing its social structure…】

【Analysis result: The target consists of one "Absolutely Ordered" mother body and ten thousand "Absolutely Chaotic" child bodies!】

【Applying 'Patch' rules…】

【Judging…】

【Child body, chaotic, must be eliminated!】

【Mother body, ordered, must be retained!】

【But the mother body is controlled by the child bodies; to kill the child bodies, one must first overthrow the mother body, yet the mother body is supposed to be retained…】

【Damn! What the hell should be killed and what should be retained?!】

【Error! Error! Logic has fallen into an infinite loop again! Requesting programmer… No! Requesting the Dao Ancestor to fix it personally!】

Hongjun's 'Patch' became ineffective in less than one ten‑thousandth of a second after activation.

It spectacularly failed!

And, compared with the first time, it collapsed even more completely!

Because this bug directly contaminated the "Core Code" he newly wrote!

That raging Black Storm was like a robot fed contradictory commands,

in front of the Matryoshka Civilization it convulsed wildly, sometimes trying to pounce and tear it apart, other times retreating to protect it.

Finally.

"Boom" with a single blast!

The Black Storm, caught in self‑contradiction, directly… exploded!

Countless black law Debris scattered like brilliant fireworks.

And this is only the beginning!

In other places swept by the storm.

In that orc world, a War God Council and countless Glory Clans evolved,

If they want to fight, they first hold a meeting to debate for three days and three nights whether "this battle is glorious".

In that elf kingdom, an Ancient Tree Elders Council and countless Magical Schools evolved,

If they wish to cast spells, they first submit to the Elders Council an eight‑hundred‑page report titled "Whether this magic would disrupt the natural Balance".

…

Hundreds of Gray Civilizations, in hundreds of different Star Regions.

At the same time, they evolved into hundreds of 'Super Nesting Dolls' that make Hongjun spit out three liters of blood!

Puff!

Puff!

Puff!

That black Storm that swept across the entire Multiverse was like a long string of ignited firecrackers,

One after another, in self‑contradiction, it exploded into Debris filling the sky!

The entire Order Heaven Net was battered by these incomprehensible bugs, leaving it riddled with countless holes and choked with foul smoke!

Far away at the Source of Ten Thousand Paths, Hongjun's body jolted sharply!

On his law‑crafted, ice‑frozen face.

"Crack" sounded.

Unexpectedly, a clear fissure appeared!

He was like a clumsy, frantic programmer, utterly helpless against a top‑tier hacker's virus attack!

He watched helplessly as his own perfectly built system was turned into a mess by the opponent using a method he could neither comprehend nor defend against!

And at that moment.

A lazy, endlessly mocking voice, like a phantom, crossed the boundless spacetime and resonated directly within his Dao Heart.

"Hey, old man."

"Is the Patch finished?"

"Want… to try rebooting again?"