199: Chapter 199 The Primordial Mechanical Temple! The Curse of Higher-Dimensional Entropy Increase? System Reverse Catalysis!

East Pole Myriad Star Abyss, core forbidden zone.

When the nine dragon star-destroyer ship completely passed through a turbulent dark matter nebula, the view ahead suddenly opened up.

However, the scene displayed outside the holographic viewport made everyone in the control room gasp in unison.

It was not a palace structure in the traditional sense at all.

Instead, it was a colossal Mechanical Dyson Sphere, comparable in size to hundreds of star Systems, forged entirely from dark gray primordial metal!

Countless mechanical arms, tens of thousands of miles thick, extended from the Dyson Sphere's surface like the tentacles of ancient gods and demons, firmly locking onto the surrounding white dwarfs and frantically extracting their stellar core energy.

The surface of the Dyson Sphere was covered with dense gears, pipelines, and high-dimensional array patterns, exuding a cold, precise, and oppressive aura of a silicon-based civilization.

This was the most dangerous and richest ancient ruin in the East Pole Myriad Star Abyss—the Taichu Mechanical Temple.

"My Lord, although the energy barrier on the periphery of the Divine Hall shattered a hundred thousand years ago, the remaining defensive mechanisms are still deadly."

The guide, Gu Chen, pointed at the gray, hazy Void Realm ahead, his tone extremely solemn:

"Look at that layer of gray mist; it's not ordinary meteorite dust, but the **[Entropy Increase Field]** left over from the Great Explosion Era."

"Entropy increase?"

Lin Que sat on his throne, his gaze slightly shifting.

"Yes! This is an irreversible Law of cosmic decay."

Gu Chen explained:

"Any substance, whether Magic Treasure, Physical Body, or True Essence, will be forcibly accelerated in aging as long as it enters that gray mist."

"An ordinary Void Returning Realm Cultivator who enters will have their Physical Body decay into mud within three breaths, and their Magic Treasures will rust and weather."

"Even a Dao Integration Realm mighty figure would have to burn massive amounts of Origin to resist this erosion of time!"

The絕地 of the Great Universe never talks about Divine Ability duels; it can easily obliterate countless living beings with the most basic physical Laws.

Lin Que looked through the viewport, his vast Divine Sense sweeping across the expansive entropy-increasing gray mist zone.

Sure enough.

On the periphery of this deadly ruin, he sensed several extremely powerful and concealed auras.

On a broken mechanical arm tens of thousands of miles away from the star destroyer.

A group of a dozen Cultivators, dressed in silver streamlined battle armor, similar in appearance to humans but with metallic skin, were struggling to traverse the gray mist.

Above their heads, a high-dimensional energy stone emitting a brilliant blue light hovered, supporting a light barrier that fiercely resisted the erosion of the surrounding gray mist.

But even so, the edges of their battle armor were constantly rusting and peeling off.

"Your Highness, the erosion speed of this Entropy Increase Field is twice as fast as when it was last activated! Our 'Absolute Stillness Shield' is about to give out; we can only advance another five hundred miles at most!"

A guard gritted his teeth as he reported to the young man walking at the front.

A rhomboid silver crystal was embedded between the young man's eyebrows, and his cultivation had clearly reached the fifth layer of the Dao Integration Realm.

He was Silver Pupil, the Saint of the local super overlord, the Silver Blood Royal Family, in the East Pole Myriad Star Abyss.

"Useless! The origin of taiyi gold is in the Divine Hall's core; we absolutely cannot let those lunatics from Xifan and Nanhuang get there first this time!"

Saint Silver Pupil's face was ashen, and he was extremely anxious as he watched the cracks on the shield continuously increase.

In the face of the Universe's natural Law of decay, individual cultivation seemed too insignificant.

Suddenly, the corner of his eye caught sight of the nine dragon star-destroyer ship slowly approaching in the distant starry sky.

"Hmm? Is that... an outdated warship from Heavenly God Heavy Industry in the Central Star Sea?"

Saint Silver Pupil was stunned at first, then let out a cold laugh filled with superiority:

"Those pigs in a greenhouse from the Central Star Sea actually dare to come to the Myriad Star Abyss to join the fun? They truly don't know what's good for them."

"Your Highness, they are heading towards our navigation path. Should we blast them with a cannon?"

A murderous glint flashed in the guard's eyes.

"Don't waste energy."

A sinister calculation flashed in Saint Silver Pupil's eyes:

"There's a hidden 'High-Dimensional Entropy Increase Storm' trigger point on the navigation path ahead. We were just worried about not having cannon fodder to clear the mines. Since these bugs from the greenhouse are delivering themselves, let's give them a little incentive and lead them over."

Saint Silver Pupil flicked his finger, and a hidden energy ripple shot out, silently striking a huge mechanical wreckage in the distance.

"Rumble!"

The wreckage tumbled, directly triggering the trap buried beneath the navigation path.

In an instant, a gray storm, a hundred times denser than the surroundings, roared towards the center of the navigation path like a awakened gray Dragon, perfectly blocking the nine dragon star-destroyer ship's advance route.

"No! It's an Entropy Increase Storm!"

Gu Chen exclaimed in horror in the main control room:

"My Lord, the decay Law in that storm can instantly drain a planet's lifespan! The warship's shield absolutely cannot withstand it; we must retreat immediately!"

Retreat?

Lin Que sat on his throne, his gaze cold as he swept over the Silver Blood Royal Family members hiding behind their shields, watching the show.

His vision had long seen through their little tricks.

"These natives of the Great Universe are quite scheming. Using me as cannon fodder to clear mines?"

Lin Que slowly stood up, his large red cloak falling neatly behind him.

He did not order the warship's main cannons to fire back, nor did he choose to go around.

For him, with his three hundred million jin of physical extremity, all the flashy environmental obstacles only required the most primitive brute force.

"You all stay on the ship; don't let this dust dirty the deck."

Before his words finished, Lin Que stepped out of the cabin, alone, directly exposing himself to the deathly Entropy Increase gray mist.

"Hahaha! That white-robed idiot actually walked out of the warship's shield himself!"

On the distant mechanical arm, the guards of the Silver Blood Royal Family burst into laughter:

"Without True Essence to protect his body, not even wearing battle armor, does he think he's a mechanical god? In less than three seconds, he'll weather into a pile of..."

The guard's scoffing stopped abruptly.

Because they watched in horror.

That young man in white stood casually in the center of the gray storm.

The violent Entropy Increase Law transformed into countless gray blades, frantically cutting at his body, attempting to strip away his lifespan and decay his flesh and blood.

But not even a single white mark was left on Lin Que's skin.

Beneath his skin, the terrifying physical mass of three hundred million jin firmly anchored all the cells, blood, and True Essence within his body at an absolute density threshold.

So-called entropy increase is the disintegration of matter from order to disorder.

But Lin Que's Physical Body density was too high, so high that even the Universe's Law of decay could not shake the physical structure of his body in the slightest!

"A gentle breeze, nothing more."

Lin Que felt the power of the rules around him that sought to age him.

Since the other party had given such a grand welcoming gift, it would be rude not to return the favor.

Lin Que calmly summoned the System in his mind.

"System."

"The primordial metal dust mixed in this storm is perfect for solidifying the Foundation of my inner heaven and earth. I'll take it all with the Blood Scripture."

"As for these disgusting side effects of 'lifespan stripping, Physical Body decay, and Magic Treasure rusting'..."

Lin Que turned his head, his heterochromatic pupils seemingly piercing through the gray mist, directly aiming at the Silver Blood Royal Family members hiding under the blue shield.

"Package it all up! Precisely guided!"

"Since they like watching things rot so much, let them rot thoroughly first!"

"Reverse ripen them for me!"

[Ding! side effect transfer system activated with highest priority!]

[Detecting high-dimensional environment DeBuff: Absolute Entropy Increase Curse (irreversible material decay, rapid lifespan loss, physical disintegration and weathering).]

[Locking transfer target: Trap triggerer—Saint Silver Pupil and his personal guard squad!]

[Logic reconstruction complete! Ignoring spatial and shield isolation! Karma lines perfectly reversed and bound!]

[Reverse weathering mode, bombardment begins!!]

Buzz----!!!

Under the System's dimensionality reduction strike, which defied all physical thermodynamic Laws.

The gray storm swirling around Lin Que instantly lost all its corrosive lethality.

The gray mist transformed into wisps of the purest Primordial Metal Origin, swallowed by Lin Que's million-mile Inner Universe.

The branches and leaves of the World Tree emitted crisp metallic clangs, and the Laws of the inner heaven and earth became even more profound and indestructible.

And at the same time.

Tens of thousands of miles away on the mechanical arm.

"How is this possible?! He actually ignored the Entropy Increase Storm?!"

Saint Silver Pupil's eyes widened, as if he had seen a ghost.

But he no longer had time to be surprised.

"Crack... crash!"

Without any warning!

The Absolute Stillness Shield, which originally emitted a brilliant blue light and was said to resist all erosion of time, suddenly exploded from within above Saint Silver Pupil's head!

In less than a second, the blue gem became covered in reddish-brown rust, then turned into a pile of powder and scattered with the wind.

"No!! How did the shield disintegrate from within?!"

Immediately after, the most terrifying nightmare descended.

The "Absolute Entropy Increase Curse" that the System had packaged and transferred, like a persistent gangrene, exploded within Saint Silver Pupil and his dozen personal guards, even deep within their Souls!

"Ahhh! My battle armor! My hand!!!"

A personal guard screamed in terror.

His priceless primordial alloy battle armor peeled off in large chunks, like rotten wood weathered for ten thousand years.

After the battle armor peeled off, his originally lustrous metallic skin quickly became covered with corpse spots.

Muscles atrophied, bones became brittle.

"Bang!"

He merely took half a step back, and his entire right leg instantly turned into a pile of grayish-white powder. He fell onto the mechanical arm, and then his upper body, like a sand sculpture, completely dissipated with the wind.

Instant kill!

Not even his Divine Soul could escape this conceptual decay!

"Backlash?! What kind of evil art is this?!"

Saint Silver Pupil watched his personal guards turn into ashes in an instant, terrified out of his wits.

He frantically burned the Origin True Essence of his fifth-layer Dao Integration Realm, attempting to resist the decay within his body. But he was horrified to discover that the speed at which he burned True Essence simply could not keep up with the rate of his lifespan loss!

All his silver hair fell out in half an instant, his smooth face became covered with deep ravines, and his Dao Integration Foundation within his body collapsed like rotten pillars.

"No... I am the Saint of the Silver Blood Royal Family... I cannot die here..."

Saint Silver Pupil desperately stretched out his shriveled hand, which had already turned to skin and bones, towards the depths of the Divine Hall.

"Pfft."

A faint cosmic breeze blew past.

A supreme Prodigy of the outer domain, at the fifth layer of the Dao Integration Realm, thus turned into a handful of ashes scattered by the wind in silent despair, forever remaining on that cold mechanical arm.

He who sows evil reaps evil.

If they played dirty in the Great Universe, Lin Que could use the System to make them unrecognizable even to their eighteenth generation ancestors.

In the distant space.

Lin Que absorbed the last trace of Primordial Metal Origin into his body, letting out a satisfied burp.

His three hundred million jin physical extremity, nourished by this Origin, became as unshakable as an ancient star.

He didn't even glance at the Silver Blood Royal Family members who had turned to ashes. With the worldfall heavy blade, weighing tens of millions of jin, in one hand, he walked leisurely, stepping on the mechanical wreckage that could be fatal to mighty figures, moving step by step towards the depths of the Taichu Mechanical Temple.

"This environment in the Myriad Star Abyss is indeed a natural Cultivation ground."

A wild, conquest-filled smile curved Lin Que's lips.

"Let's go."

"Let's go inside and see what that Origin Cornerstone, which can upgrade the Inner Universe, looks like."