Chapter 593

Someone who had reached the pinnacle of the Chaos Law used it to recompile the world entirely.

Xirensheng lowered his head to look at his own hand, he squeezed the playing card in his hand, and even the edge of the card popped out a tiny particle effect, like the glowing border when an item is selected in a game.

"...... This is way too cool." Xirensheng muttered.

Fang Zhiyan lowered his head to look at his own tentacle made of stacked white blocks, and fell silent for a moment.

Then he pushed up his glasses, which had turned into a pixel‑style golden square frame, but the situation seemed not to be developing as he had originally expected.

In his plan, Ying Duo, after merging with the divine fragments, would go mad no matter how scarce the fragments were, begin unconsciously devouring the other fragments in the world, and when his soul returned to another world, he would bring Mutation to that world.

By then, everyone would realize that Mutation was never something they needed to fight enemies; it was the inevitable path of evolution.

Survival of the fittest, elimination of the weak; from the moment humanity, upon becoming Aberrant Species, could retain self‑awareness, the upward ladder was already established.

But now, Ying Duo has not gone mad as he hoped; instead, he faintly shows a trend of mastering this power...

Although saying this might be a bit shameful for a mentor, the possibility of Ying Duo retaining his humanity after the fusion is indeed minuscule.

It seems that as soon as Ying Duo actively rushed toward the fragments, the situation had already slipped out of his control.

Did he miss some interfering factor?

After spending this time together, Fang Zhiyan believed he understood Ying Duo well enough; if Ying Duo's soul did not come from another world, and that world was as beautiful as a fairy tale, they ought to have been kindred spirits.

He chose Ying Duo because of his undead identity, yet precisely because Ying Duo is undead, they will ultimately become enemies.

Therefore, everything Fang Zhiyan does here is aimed at ultimately fusing all the fragments into the experimental subject he has chosen.

When Ying Duo was previously taken away in shackles, he had realized that ordinary restraints were ineffective on him; this time he specially tried again, and although the experimental result surprised him, the brief suppression of Ying Duo's energy still brought the outcome up to expectation.

Lin Xun also perfectly exerted his effect; many of the Church's trump cards were used on him.

Originally, everything proceeded according to his experimental procedure.

But Ying Duo just charged straight in.

It seemed as if all his previous hesitations and worries had vanished, everything from the Old World was cast behind him, and only power remained in his eyes.

If one had to describe Fang Zhiyan's current feeling, it would be like being a hidden boss who had plotted everything out, only to find that before he could make a move, the hero himself ran off to become the demon king.

"...... How is Ying Duo's condition?"

Shen Zexi looked at Ying Duo's status bar in the party system and asked Xie Jingyan beside him about the situation.

Although he persisted, he still managed to follow along, but the current development could be unknown to anyone except Ying Duo himself.

But one thing is certain: Ying Duo's current state is definitely not right.

Although his Blood Bar was healthy enough, he had already seen Ying Duo's name flashing wildly, wavering between the green that signifies 'logged in' and the gray that signifies 'logged off'.

"His life form is very strange......" Xie Jingyan looked at the blocky figure over there; after Ying Duo chose to fuse with that Core, his whole body became data‑fied, his shape flickering like a bad connection, flashing nonstop in place.

Although Ying Duo was already more than human enough, at this moment the energy that had been maintaining his human appearance was also rapidly withdrawing.

"What about his soul's state?"

Xie Jingyan finally chose to give up, but for a problem at the level of the soul, one had to ask Meng Kexin of the Consciousness Law.

"...... Quite stable."

That sentence is a lie.

Meng Kexin watched the scene before her, already doing her utmost to restrain herself from smashing it with a hammer.

Originally, Ying Duo's body was being controlled by Yang Yixie, but just now Yang Yixie withdrew control, and instead another familiar cluster of Ying Guang Lu took over.

This made her unable to avoid suspecting whether those guys had secretly sabotaged them.

But after all, they are Undead; even if the target were Shen Zexi and his group, it would be hard to speak up about such a thing.

Meanwhile, Chi Jinan, upon seeing this scene, grew ever more frenzied and launched an attack on Ying Duo, but Fang Zhiyan's tentacle blocked his approach; Qi Junyi knew Chi Jinan's condition was dire, tried to splash holy water on him, but as he got close, he almost got chopped by Chi Jinan as well.

Oh, there's also someone nearby who loves to watch the drama and doesn't mind stirring up trouble.

"Warning: Player Ying Duo used a cheat, the license dog has come!"

Xirensheng showed no panic at turning into a blocky person; instead he cheerfully shouted out, while Luo Jinyou's gaze at Ying Duo was worried yet still fairly calm.

If that's the case, the situation should still be under control...... right?

Meng Kexin probably never wants to have anything to do with these lunatics who act outside common sense for the rest of her life.

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"First of all, how much of that strategy...... I mean the prophecy, have you deciphered?"

"You mean the strategy given by the riddle deity?"

When faced with his own question, Yang Yixie merely responded with a light counter‑question.

"The premise doesn't match the conclusion; there's no logical connection at all. In a sense, I'm also quite impressed that the Church's holy maiden could rely on this to get to where she is today."

"That's right, after all, the prophecy itself has no order; it merely corresponds to what each person needs to do."

"The roots of life pierce the divine energy core, while planting the seeds of imprisonment, so it is no longer just an empty concept but a genuine entity that can be defeated."

"The chaos infusion paradox reduces it from omniscient to bewildered, causing cracks in the divinity and the beginning of self‑cognition collapse."

These two steps they have not experienced, but because these two steps dismantled the deity's power and reason, that allowed some Mutation to run rampant, leading the Church at that time to doubt their actions, and the Divine Oracle was blamed as a "god‑traitor".

"Then comes time."

"Time scatters the deity's unified existence into countless timelines; each fragment believes itself whole, though its power is trivial, making it forever impossible to be complete, thereby creating conditions for each to be broken."

"The deity was originally the writer of fate, but fate took advantage of its chaos and seized its pen, reducing it to 'an actor destined to die in the play'."

"Even if an individual is strong enough, balance can forcibly drag him down and finish him in the dust."

"In the false bliss created by consciousness, the deity will meet his end."

"Finally, annihilation will guarantee the end of everything."

"Of course, all of the above is a game strategy without player involvement."

"Long before players entered the game, this world had already been completely transformed."

"So the old strategy has long fallen behind the game's version updates; naturally, no one will rigidly follow it."

In the countless flowing Data Stream, in the time gap where time is stagnated, Yang Yixie and the others are talking.