312: Devouring and Transforming

Nothingness.

The concepts of time and space were crumpled into a ball of waste paper here.

Li Dong used his body as a black hole, the Anti-Devour Law transforming into boundless darkness, taking a bite toward that star-sized ultimate core of balance.

Meanwhile, The Chess Player's guard, betting everything on its Dimensional Ruin, transformed into a beam of absolute gray light, precisely nailing toward his heart.

There was no earth-shattering roar.

There wasn't even a shred of flame or light.

The collision of the two forces brought about an ultimate "nothingness."

The entire Abyssal Demon Cave, along with the sub-space it resided in, was like a chalk drawing wiped away by an invisible hand, its sense of existence rapidly erased.

Li Dong's consciousness was being crushed.

That gray beam of Dimensional Ruin was not energy, nor was it a physical attack; it was a form of ultimate "negation."

It was telling Li Dong: You should not exist.

Your "Variable," your "dynamic," are all erroneous encodings of the Universe; now, executing deletion command.

On Li Dong's Divine Soul, that ancient stone tablet mark trembled crazily, cracks spreading across its surface like a spiderweb, emitting a groan of being unable to bear the load.

"Still not enough..."

In the final instant before Li Dong's thoughts froze into eternal ice crystals, he squeezed out three words.

The Anti-Devour black hole bit tightly onto the ultimate core of balance but could not truly swallow it.

The guard's Absolute Stasis Law, like billions of the toughest spider threads, wrapped around the core layer by layer, and the two sides fell into the most primitive, most barbaric conceptual tug-of-war.

Li Dong's existence was being worn down and thinned out.

Just at this moment.

Hum!

A resonance originating from the deepest part of the Soul erupted from within the tightly wrapped ultimate core of balance!

Those were the billions of dead Souls imprisoned for eternity!

They were not mindless energy blocks; they were once-living beings, the lamentations and unwillingness of countless worlds!

They had been silent in the cage of Absolute Equilibrium for too long, having long forgotten what hope was.

But Li Dong's Dynamic Equilibrium Law, like a ray of light, shone into this endless darkness.

"Live on..."

"I want to... see the sun..."

"My child... is still waiting for me to go home..."

Billions of weak yet firm thoughts converged into a torrent that could not be suppressed by "Stasis."

Desire!

The most primitive yearning for "life"!

This yearning turned into the sharpest blade, stabbing fiercely from the inside of the ultimate core of balance toward the Absolute Stasis Law that wrapped around it!

Crack! Crack! Crack!

The spiderweb of the Law began to crumble from the inside!

"Roar!"

The Chess Player's guard, its body composed of geometric lines, twisted violently.

For the first time, it felt "loss of control"!

Into its core logic of absolute rationality, a trace of a virus named "despair" was injected!

Just at this moment, another completely different force crossed endless dimensions and injected into the chaotic Sanctuary of Variables behind Li Dong.

It was Mo Chen!

On the scroll of Newborn Town, one stroke after another of color symbolizing "hope" was blooming.

A baby's first cry.

The embrace of lovers reunited.

A field of golden wheat swaying in the wind.

These most simple, most warm "Variables" turned into the purest concept of "evolution," like the most violent catalyst, fiercely injected into the battlefield!

An attack from inside and out!

"Now is the time!"

Li Dong seized this fleeting opening.

He ignored the gray beam of light behind him capable of ruining dimensions, his eyes fixed only on that black core beginning to collapse from within!

Blade of Judgment!

Hum!

An illusory blade light flashed by.

What it severed was not matter, but the connection.

It was the most fundamental conceptual umbilical cord between The Chess Player's guard and the ultimate core of balance!

"No!"

The guard let out a silent roar; its source of power had been severed!

Its figure began to flicker, the runes composing its body dimmed, and its power receded like a tide.

Opportunity!

Li Dong pushed Anti-Devour to an unprecedented limit.

His body completely etherealized, turning into a conceptual mouth that devoured all things, and he bit fiercely toward the ultimate core of balance that had lost most of its defenses!

Rumble!

This time, it was not silent annihilation.

It was a loud sound originating from the Origin of the world that the entire Demon Suppression Realm could hear!

The extreme "Stasis" concept, like the most potent poison, flooded into Li Dong's body.

But meeting it was the already prepared Attunement Law!

"Your 'Absolute'..."

Li Dong's cold voice echoed on a conceptual level.

"...is my nourishment!"

The Attunement Law transformed into the most precise analyzer, forcibly dismantling, twisting, parsing, and reconstructing that incredibly overbearing "Stasis" concept!

Li Dong was "eating" it!

Moreover, he was understanding it, learning it, and finally... transcending it!

This process was painful enough to make any high-dimensional existence collapse completely.

But Li Dong's will had already been polished to be tougher than a Universe singularity through countless games.

His Divine Soul was being torn apart, then reorganized in an instant.

His Laws were collapsing, then being reborn in the next second in a more perfect form.

This was a process of metamorphosis.

A metamorphosis from "user" to "definer"!

The Chess Player's guard, having lost its core, watched this scene in despair.

Its geometric lines broke inch by inch, and the cold runes dissipated like smoke and dust.

Finally, it turned into the purest "Stasis" Origin, which was also swallowed in one gulp by the Sanctuary of Variables opened by Li Dong, becoming the final puzzle piece of the new Law.

I don't know how long passed.

When everything in the Abyssal Demon Cave returned to calm.

The location where the ultimate core of balance originally resided was empty.

No.

It was not empty.

Inside Li Dong, at the core of his Divine Soul, a brand new "singularity" was born.

It was no longer the black representing death.

It was a micro-vortex constantly rotating and changing into billions of colors.

It contained both the stability of "Stasis" and the infinite possibilities of "Variable."

It was self-evolving, self-correcting, and self-growing.

Dynamic Equilibrium Singularity!

With the stabilization of this singularity, a force that could not be resisted erupted from within Li Dong!

The remaining Devilish Qi inside the Abyssal Demon Cave was swept away.

The dried and cracked earth was instantly covered by Spiritual Qi and life force so dense it could not be dissipated.

Emerald green shoots broke through the soil, growing into towering trees in the span of a breath.

The billions of imprisoned dead Souls turned into light spots dancing across the sky; they surrounded Li Dong, emitting soft groans of liberation and gratitude, then returned to the world and entered a new Reincarnation.

The entire Demon Suppression Realm, at this moment, let out a deafening cheer!

The earth was trembling, not because of fear, but because of joy!

Spiritual Qi gushed out from every inch of land like a fountain!

All suppressed living beings, whether human, beast, or flowers and trees, felt a sense of relief and freedom from having shed the shackles of eternity!

The Origin of the world was shouting loudly for its liberator!

"You did it, Li Dong."

The voice of The Chess Player rang out in Li Dong's mind, carrying an unprecedented admiration.

"You not only defeated The Chess Player's guard but also converted its core into your own power. Your Dao of 'Dynamic Equilibrium' is no longer a simple Law; it has the rudimentary form of a Universe-level 'Dao'."

Li Dong felt the constantly evolving singularity within him and calmly responded: "This is just the beginning."

"That's right."

The tone of The Chess Player suddenly became extremely serious.

"But you must also know that what you just destroyed was only a 'firewall program' that 'Absolute Equilibrium' deployed in this small chessboard of the Demon Suppression Realm."

"The true 'ultimate Absolute Equilibrium' is the underlying rule of the entire Universe chessboard; its volume is billions of times larger than the core you just devoured."

"It..."

"...has already sensed you."

The moment the words fell.

An extremely cold, extremely grand will that could not be described by any words seemed to awaken from the end of the Universe.

It crossed infinite dimensions and penetrated the endless Void Realm.

Precisely and accurately.

Locked onto Li Dong.