Fuck the rules, fuck the impossibilities, fuck the threats!

The moment he decided to break it all, what he felt was an unprecedented sense of freedom.

"Hey, hahaha, hahahahaha..."

He couldn't hold back, laughing in self-mockery, almost bending over backwards: "I didn't expect that I would be the one vacillating."

Having already chosen to compete and fight, why still care about rules?

When did the beasts of the wild ever regard honor?

Since when have I been bound by these invisible shackles?

In a daze, he seemed to see, the soaring flames, the sky reddened by fire, and in between the disturbance of darkness and neon lights, the shadow of a White Deer gazing down at this place.

Cold indifference, everlasting calmness, that is the eternal and lofty freedom.

But soon, that distant mirage silently vanished.

In the dead silence, Lei Yaoxing regretfully retracted his gaze, turned around, and asked for the last time, "Do I need to repeat the order I just gave?"

"I, I'll go right away."

The old man, drenched in sweat, bowed his head, no longer questioning.

So, the shackles were from this moment utterly undone.

Not just here, and not only for Chen Xingzhou.

Northern Mountain, Dragon Sea, South Mountain, West River...

At this moment, following Lei Yaoxing's command, the last of the rules were broken, and the hungry Fierce beasts ran amok, devouring greedily, enjoying the blood and their prey, without any more concerns.

Blood and fire rose with the bright moon from the darkness.

Through this endless long night that seemed without end, overshadowing everything...

...

Under the same night sky, in a cliffside villa at the edge of Cliff City, the lights were brightly on.

Unlike the pervasive stench of blood and life-and-death struggles that filled Cliff City these days, under the warm light, there was almost a sense of peaceful years.

Just as Ji Jue was checking the signal tower and server signals again, the sound of water in the bathroom gradually stopped.

Soon, a T-shirt and shorts-clad Xiao An shuffled out, wiping his wet hair with a towel, "Brother Ji Jue, I'm done washing."

"Oh, okay."

Ji Jue yawned, stood up and walked toward the bathroom, only to stop abruptly as they brushed past each other, turning back with a puzzled look, sniffing slightly.

It was a scent different from what he remembered.

Xiao An looked over in confusion, and for a moment, Ji Jue really wanted to ask: Did you change your body wash, bro? You smell so good...

Brother, your hands look so small...

Brother, bro...

Smack!

He didn't hesitate to raise his hand and smack himself in the face.

He didn't know how many times in recent days he had reminded himself—We're all men, men who have peed together in the Crack Realm! Ji Jue, you can't go on like this!

Yet the puzzled face drew closer, gazing blankly.

"What's wrong, Brother Ji Jue?" Xiao An said, "It feels kind of weird."

Ji Jue was silent, stiffening, holding his breath.

Desperately, he shifted a bit backward, then a bit more.

He suddenly felt that he had come upon a life crisis like never before, as if standing on the edge of a cliff, about to take a misstep...

"Big brother is about to come out!!!"

On the window ledge outside the window, Gloria, like a metallic hummingbird, suddenly flew up, shouting at him.

Ji Jue's face turned pale with fright, frantically waving his hands: "I'm not! What nonsense are you saying, kid!"

"There is! There is something huge about to come out!!!"

In panic, Gloria flapped her wings, screaming, "Xiao Jiu saw it, something big! Something very big is coming out!

It's not good, it's terrible, it's danger—"

Her flustered shouts were all over the place, yet unable to describe exactly what was happening. But before that, catching her moment of panic, Ji Jue had already raised his hand without a second thought.

—[Mechanical Descent]!

The resonance began, the empathy ignited!

The visual signal from Gloria instantly appeared in Ji Jue's mind, nearly bursting his head.

Unknown what preset modules were triggered, or what kind of tough jobs the Prophet had crammed into her tiny body, what used to be just simple light perception was now skyrocketing at a terrifying speed.

The clarity endlessly amplified, distance, size, length, weight, materials—all fell into view, then material penetration, infrared spectrum, the trajectory of spiritual flow, and lastly what appeared before his eyes was a vast, empty net!

That inexplicable power and disturbance turned into a fine and complex grid in his vision, covering the sky, the earth, and the whole world.

But at this moment, in the villa's courtyard, the originally calm network was mysteriously rising, undulating continuously, and becoming sharper...

As if something in the void behind the grid was slowly exerting force, tearing at this area's grid, about to break through!

Around the "bulge," the numbers representing various changes had already turned blood red.

And right in the center was the familiar Superior Emblem that Ji Jue knew all too well.

In that instant, Ji Jue drew in a sharp breath, arriving at a horrifying realization.

He finally understood what this was...

This was an observation of the Power of Superior, or to be more precise, it was a monitoring device Mercury had completed in the past to achieve his own goals—an instrument that translated changes imperceptible to normal human senses into visual information—and its subject of observation was none other than the Superior Eternal Gate, the overseer of the magnificent powers of time and space!!!

Once the absurd conjecture [following Chen Xingzhou's death in the future, Chen Yubo would fall into darkness, growing evil beyond redemption, becoming the Great Demon King who brings calamity to the world, with the people's grievances loud and their suffering untold, at which point the rebels would use a time machine to send a Mechanical Warrior back to eliminate the chief culprit] was dismissed, only one possibility remained—

—[Someone was about to smash the portal right in their faces]!!!

In an instant, the piercing alarm sounded throughout the villa, jolting everyone awake from their serene and peaceful dreamland, looking around in confusion, unsure of what had happened.

"The attack is imminent!"

Ji Jue's voice came from the broadcast: "Everyone, get ready! The enemy is about to transport here—"

Before he could finish, an unprecedentedly loud explosion erupted, enveloping the entire Cliff City, shaking the sea.

Gravity seemed to vanish for a moment.

In the grand and majestic courtyard, all of its former beauty was crushed to dust in an instant, an Invisible maw bit down, sketching a perfect circle from the void.

Then, from within the twisted 'grid,' a cross-shaped Crack Realm appeared in the center, opening on all sides!

One figure after another stepped out.

"Kill them all."

The gaunt old man lifted his eyes, shooting fierce light from his pure white pupils: "Leave none alive!"

The doors burst open, and from the darkness beyond, a horde of beasts surged forth!

Sweeping in—

Then stepped on a landmine.

Ding—

At Jici Hospital, the hospital ward's lobby was still busy late at night, and the elevator doors slowly opened.

"Excuse me, pardon me, thank you."

Old Lin, carrying the night snacks, squeezed into the crowded elevator, nodding amiably at the patients and their families in hospital gowns.

Under the pallid lights, everything seemed withered and cold, even the most spirited eyes dimmed to exhaustion and numbness by the scent of disinfectant.

But in the moment when the elevator doors closed, within the cramped space, pair after pair of eyes turned blood red.

Darkness surged like a tide.

Swallowing everything.

In the hospital ward, on the sixteenth floor, the door to the intensive care unit slowly closed.

The nurse, still pushing the cart, came before the bed, looking down at the patient who was at death's door, pale-faced, with a faint and troubled breath barely continuing.

A colorless liquid was drawn into a syringe; amidst the light, the nurse flicked the needle, expelled the air from it, then rolled up Chen Xingzhou's sleeve and located the IV catheter.

The steady needle tip slowly advanced toward the IV.

But then, it came to an abrupt halt.

The patient's hand grasped her wrist firmly, gripping it with iron-like strength.

Under the oxygen mask, Chen Xingzhou's eyes struggled to open a sliver, gazing at the assassin before him with neither panic nor trepidation, so calm.

Tightly gripping her wrist, he held his life in his own hands.

Until the 'nurse' let out a helpless sigh.

And let go.

"Isn't it better to find peace in dreams?"

She shook her head slowly, "I had wanted to give you a quick end..."

The Dagger beneath the white coat was drawn.

It plunged mercilessly into his abdomen, blood spurting.

Drip—!!!

The corner equipment suddenly sounded an alarm, alerting the Guardians outside, but then, sounds of struggle and combat rose behind the thick doors.

Beyond the door, the world remained calm.

Within the echo of the alarm, only the faint sound of blood dripping on the floor could be heard.

The nurse expressionlessly pulled out the blade and stabbed again.

One strike, then another!

Blood flowed, illuminated by the flickering pallid light.

Outside the window, the long night stretched on.

Suddenly, a firelight rose, followed by another.

The world plunged into chaos.

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