Bang!!!

  The moment this divine light materialized, Godshell's colossal, mountain-like, majestic form, directly facing Cadelon, became faintly ethereal, abruptly vanishing into the boundless expanse of the universe.

  He made a swift decision, instantly breaching the barrier between realms and plunging deep into the Symbolic Domain within the Sentience Realm.

  Then, utilizing the Symbolic Domain as a launchpad, Godshell retreated with an insane burst of speed—over a thousand times the speed of light—traversing countless kilometers in a mere second.

  Whoosh—

  In actuality, due to the Symbolic Domain's bizarre spatial curvature, when Godshell reappeared in the real universe, he had already materialized 80 million kilometers to Cadelon's right, amidst the chaotic, roaring atmospheric clouds of a gas giant planet.

  What might seem peculiar is that Cadelon's World-Ending Cannon, which she had just condensed and fired with her four clasped hands, seemed to possess a conscious trajectory. The instant Godshell vanished, it pursued him relentlessly into the Symbolic Domain. Its speed similarly surged to a thousand times the speed of light, traversing 80 million kilometers in a second. Precisely at the same moment Godshell rematerialized, it fiercely struck his chest.

  Boom!!!

  Within the gas giant's thick, purplish-black atmosphere, it was as if an enraged, furiously roaring sun had just been born.

  With a thunderous roar, it unleashed an unimaginably vast and blazing energy, instantly vaporizing and annihilating nearly half of the gas giant's 3,000-kilometer-thick, dark atmosphere. This starkly exposed its liquid hydrogen ocean, similarly boiling and gushing for hundreds of thousands of miles due to the divine light's power, to the vast starry sky.

  And Godshell, who bore 99% of the divine light's impact, had already crashed through the immense liquid hydrogen ocean, the solid hydrogen 'underground,' and the blazing metallic core.

  He then swiftly emerged from the other side of the gas giant, his trajectory faintly illuminated by the divine light, accelerating as he spontaneously shifted back and forth between reality and the Sentience Realm. Then, in an instant, he rapidly traversed tens of millions of kilometers, brutally colliding with a rocky planet.

  Boom!

  While utterly collapsing the planet's continent and piercing clean through its crust, mantle, and core, Godshell once again passed through the star, both inside and out. In a second, he traversed countless kilometers, swiftly striking beyond the distant universe...

  Striking the only star within this 'crowded' artificial sector with an unnaturally high planetary density.

  Rumble rumble rumble!

  The blazing, turbulent, infinite sea of light on the star's surface was instantly struck by a concentrated beam of brilliant light, forming a crater a hundred kilometers in diameter.

  And in the deepest part of this infinitely recessed, shimmering light-crater, Godshell, bound by the divine light and thus rendered immobile, violently pierced through the star's atmosphere, corona, chromosphere, photosphere... a total journey of several hundred thousand kilometers, directly impacting the densest and hottest region of the star's core.

  When he reached that precise spot, the divine light suddenly froze.

  Then, like a mad porcupine, it explosively shot out hundreds of thousands of pure light spikes. From both inside and out, in an instant, it pierced through all levels of this million-kilometer-diameter star's structure, radiating outwards from its several tens of millions of degrees Celsius core in every direction.

  Next, the giant star suddenly vibrated. While fiercely spewing out hundreds of thousands of blazing coronal rays, it rumbled and violently imploded, shrinking to the size of Jupiter.

  The countless tons of high-temperature matter also converted into pure destructive energy, which was violently absorbed by the millions of spikes embedded within and outside the star, transmitting it into the divine light at the star's core.

  Finally, the divine light, along with Godshell, who was bound by it, exploded with a mighty roar.

  Boom!!!

  In the endless, dark void, the intensely hot star, somewhat 'contracted,' located in the very center, 'surrounded' by thousands of distant planets, saw its magnetic field and thermal energy movements suddenly become abnormally chaotic.

  Then, it began to vibrate violently once more.

  During this, accompanied by severe imbalances throughout all layers of the celestial body's internal framework, massive energy and matter erupted chaotically, surging wildly outwards into the vast vacuum, ultimately forcefully shattering the overall structure of this colossal star.

  Thus, large chunks of brilliant white, high-temperature matter, thousands of tens of thousands of miles across like immense star fragments, rapidly shot out from the star's outer layers into the surrounding vacuum.

  Amidst the violent eruption, the collapsing star also expanded, scattering outwards, finally meeting its irreversible fate of annihilation.

  At the same time, some of the nearest orbital celestial bodies disastrously disintegrated.

  Smaller forms were instantly swallowed and vaporized by concentric waves of stellar matter, turning into ash.

  Larger planets saw their structures collapse, forcefully baked into an irregular molten state by the terrifying energy released from the exploding star, becoming almost literal hellscapes.

  Suddenly, the star, which had completely disintegrated and was slowly dispersing outwards, violently vibrated again. A crimson figure rapidly flew out from within.

  It was Godshell.

  He looked at Cadelon, who was flying towards him from a distant part of the universe, and said with an air of indifference: "Is that all? Truly uninspired."

  Tens of thousands of miles away, Cadelon saw his completely unharmed appearance and, unsurprised, let out a loud laugh:

  "Seeing you have no reaction at all, it seems that move just now wasn't quite potent enough, huh."

  Upon hearing this, Godshell, uncharacteristically, chuckled:

  "Indeed, that move didn't even make me feel pain, so we can finally conclude our warm-up and proceed to the actual techniques."

  Cadelon also smirked and said, "Good, then wait for me a moment. I want to switch to my true combat state."

  Godshell nodded in agreement.

  Indeed, that battle just now, which obliterated hundreds of planets and even a star, for these two, could only be considered a mere warm-up.

  One watched as Cadelon's outer body, that super-state alloy mechanical armor which even a planetary explosion could not leave a single scratch on its surface, suddenly fractured again in a highly regular manner. It transmuted into countless pieces of swirling armor, rapidly shrinking as they flew, and finally entered a folded space that abruptly appeared in Cadelon's open palm, disappearing into her mouth.

  And Cadelon, having shed all her armor, now revealed a dazzling appearance like a humanoid sun of blazing light.

  Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!

  Streaks of purplish-blue plasma light, radiating hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius and crackling with electrical arcs, suddenly burst forth from her brilliant, blazing form. They instantly pulverized into countless dust particles any meteor fragments that happened to streak by.

  "I usually wear armor not for my own protection."

  Cadelon, suspended in the void, slowly declared, "It's to... safeguard this fragile world."

  "So?"

  Godshell responded in a deep, resonant voice, "Are you now stripping naked to flaunt your newly emerged, vibrant flesh to me?"

  "Hahahaha! Such spirited pre-battle banter, you and I are perfectly matched!"

  Unperturbed by Godshell's sarcasm, Cadelon threw her head back and let out a booming laugh. "Yes, precisely! Absolutely!

  In my tens of thousands of years of existence, I have never pursued pleasure, nor have I sought eternal life.

  My sole pursuit is battle!

  My only desire... is to be consumed by battle, to perish in battle!"

  Having delivered this impassioned speech, Cadelon's colossal body, several thousand meters tall, abruptly began to contract.

  In just one second, she condensed back to her previous form, merely thirty meters in height.

  "That gargantuan form earlier was simply an intimidation display, typically reserved for annihilating trivial races and low-tier civilizations.

  But now, this is my normal state: streamlined, agile, with unparalleled speed.

  Of course, to contend with you... this state is still inadequate, far from it.

  Therefore, I have resolved to draw all my energy back into my core, without a single trace of leakage, to activate the 【Cosmic Deity】 mode."

  "Cosmic Deity? Boldly claiming godhood!"

  Godshell remarked with an indifferent tone, crossing his arms. "I'm eager to witness how powerful you become once you've transformed into a 'god'."

  "Haha, don't be so impatient."

  Cadelon smiled serenely. "Normally, I shroud my body in immense plasma energy, because, strictly speaking, the Aether environment outside the galactic core simply cannot sustain my naturally stable nuclear particle body. My energy consumption would be astronomically vast, and this rate of expenditure would accelerate the decline of my lifespan with every passing second.

  But for you, Godshell, I am willing to unleash my full power!"

  With that declaration, Cadelon's body, which had been brilliant and dazzling enough to blind mortal eyes, underwent an instantaneous transformation.

  In a fierce, almost collapsing and disintegrating manner, it furiously crackled and condensed towards its center at extreme velocity.

  Accompanying this immense contraction, Cadelon's abruptly shrunken body suddenly erupted with layers upon layers of pure light and heat, forming a colossal tide that swept clean hundreds of thousands of miles around in a single second.

  Yet Godshell, enveloped and thoroughly immersed in the endless, terrifying thermal energy, remained utterly motionless, completely unaffected.

  This was because the fiercely surging energy tide, to him, felt hardly stronger than a gentle breeze.

  However, several celestial corpses, which were quite close to the two and had just been shattered and deformed by the exploding star, suffered severe repercussions.

  They were all utterly obliterated by the immense energy tide generated by Cadelon's transformation, turning into smaller, molten meteors, flying wildly in all directions.

  These hot, semi-molten meteors, once formed, rapidly hurtled towards the boundless universe, vanishing into the dimness without a trace as they sped away.

  One of these meteors, ten kilometers in diameter, after being propelled by the energy tide created by Cadelon's transformation and traveling several million kilometers, violently struck a rocky planet over ten thousand kilometers in diameter.

  Amidst the massive explosion, this colliding meteor, while instigating violent, global-scale tectonic plate movements on the planet, also left a colossal impact crater on its pale blue surface, exceeding two hundred kilometers in diameter—an even larger scar than the Chicxulub crater that famously led to the extinction of Earth's dinosaurs.

  However, this cataclysmic event, which was absolutely world-shaking for this planet, was utterly unable to attract even a tiny bit of attention from the two intensely battle-crazed, thriving beings in the universe.

  In their eyes, there was now only each other.

  It was at this moment that Cadelon's transformation finally concluded.

  After her transformation, she dramatically shrank from her previous height of thirty meters to a mere three meters.

  Her former brilliant, sun-like exterior was now completely gone.

  Cadelon, now appearing before Godshell, still possessed four arms, two legs, and a single eye, just as before.

  However, her skin now displayed a color and hue somewhere between black jade and blue crystal.

  Furthermore, through her faintly translucent body, one could vaguely perceive streams of strange, brilliant matter, like miniature galaxies, slowly flowing within her.

  In an instant, Cadelon was imbued with extreme beauty, splendor, and boundless, mysterious majesty.

  She was akin to a Cosmic Deity, condensed from the boundless, deep void dotted with millions of brilliant stars, manifesting herself in the cosmic starry expanse.

  "I was born into the Yonruk race. At birth, I was already a Transcendent-level life form. Upon reaching adulthood, I achieved the Overlord level, and thereafter, I swept across the Milky Way, engaging in a hundred battles and never once suffering defeat."

  Cadelon spread her four arms. Her black-crystal-like, semi-translucent body seemed to seamlessly blend into the equally dark universe.

  She opened her single eye, which radiated brilliant light, and quietly looked towards the heavily armored giant far away, who was countless times taller than herself, and said with an air of indifference:

  "I want to thank you, Godshell. Because in that fight just now, I, in an ethereal state... recalled a fragment of my past memories, memories concerning the realm above Overlord."

  Godshell laughed heartily: "Above Overlord... are you suggesting you've broken through the limits of a Milky Way Overlord?"

  "No, I haven't broken through yet."

  Cadelon said slowly, "But I'm close. I can clearly perceive that threshold, and have already pushed open the door, stepping one foot through."

  She slowly raised an arm, which seemed to possess the perfect curves of the golden ratio, and opened her palm, which had seven slender fingers and resembled the night sky dotted with brilliant stars.

  "Do you know, all things in the universe exist because of the four fundamental forces. If one possesses power exceeding 1000 stars, and can then completely control one of the universe's fundamental forces, then one can ascend to the Sage level, dominating the cosmic galaxies.

  And as a Yonruk born within a Nebula, I am naturally exceptionally close to the strong nuclear force, which is contained at the most fundamental level of matter.

  And during this process of fighting with you, I truly touched that power, touched that power... capable of obliterating all things in the universe."

  Having said that, she clenched her fist:

  "In the battle process just now, I have only ever utilized the power of one star. But after activating the spiritual mode, there are now over 900 stars' worth of power condensing and flowing within my body."

  Cadelon, pointing a finger from afar towards Godshell, declared:

  "So, don't expire too quickly."

  "Annihilate all realms to oblivion!!"

  Whoosh!!!

  A beam of black-gold light, equivalent to the total energy of fifty suns, suddenly shot out from between her fingers.

  And once this black light appeared, its trajectory was not entirely straight; instead, it intermittently zigzagged, undergoing high-frequency transit between reality and the Sentience Realm. In an instant, at tens of thousands of times the speed of light, it traversed countless kilometers and violently struck Godshell's chest.

  Boom!!!

  The moment he was struck, the barrier between Godshell's surrounding reality and the Sentience Realm was brutally shattered, and he was violently propelled into the Symbolic Domain.

  Next, within a single second, Godshell was incinerated and propelled by the black light.

  During his flight, along the way, countless sparse clouds of matter floating in the Symbolic Domain were pierced and obliterated by him, transforming into innumerable high-energy particles scattering and flying away.

  Meanwhile, in reality, the star where Godshell previously existed, which had already entered a state of destruction, was once again violently shattered by the energy dispersed by the black light.

  Its collapse speed suddenly accelerated tens of thousands of times, eventually exploding into hundreds of thousands of incandescent fragments, roaring and screaming as they engulfed vast areas of the surrounding universe.

  And those planets that had not been completely annihilated in the previous wave of attacks could not escape this time.

  They were rapidly covered and crushed by the rumbling stellar debris, vaporizing into absolute nothingness.

  At this moment, Cadelon had already vanished from the real universe, entering the Symbolic Domain at tens of thousands of times the speed of light, chasing after Godshell at extreme velocity.

  Throughout the entire pursuit, her speed continuously escalated.

  Thus, in merely two seconds, Cadelon caught up to Godshell. She then channeled the strong nuclear force into her fists and began an extreme barrage of continuous strikes against Godshell.

  Over a million punches per second.

  Although the force of each of these million punches was not individually great – translated into the material world, it could at most obliterate a rocky planet, equivalent to Earth, at an atomic level.

  But the strong nuclear force contained within it, capable of annihilating the fundamental structure of matter, was continuously shattering and disintegrating Godshell's robust surrounding armor.

  Furthermore, the speed of this destruction was increasing, barely keeping pace with the repair speed of Godshell's armor.

  Meanwhile, outside the cyclical space of this star system, Seraphine also acquired this partial memory in the instant Cadelon awakened a portion of her past.

  "As expected, intense emotional arousal combined with 【Innate Surge】 can allow Cadelon to retrieve some memories from her own body and mind consciousness."

  Indeed, just now, after Cadelon developed intense battle intent towards Godshell, Seraphine, through that faint, false Spirituality hidden deep within Cadelon's soul, sensed and captured the loosening 'key link' sign in her memory's main body.

  Thus, Seraphine immediately realized and deduced that if the naturally battle-loving Cadelon were to engage in a grand battle with Godshell, it might activate a small portion of Cadelon's memories.

  So, she seized the opportunity, creating a supremely challenging battlefield on the spot for the two to fight.

  As expected, Cadelon showed signs of a breakthrough in battle and 'awakened,' releasing some memory fragments.

  Seraphine did not hesitate; she immediately, through that thread of false Spirituality, unlocked a small portion of the wisdom spark resources stored in her Ocean of Knowledge for her, allowing her to potentially break through successfully.

  During this process, Cadelon, with ample wisdom spark supply, rapidly uncovered the mysteries of the strong nuclear force and took a crucial step towards a higher realm.

  And from the more numerous memory fragments that emerged from Cadelon, Seraphine finally 'saw' what the so-called level above Overlord truly was.

  Universal Sage.

  Which was, in her memory, the realm of the 'old geezers' in her clan.

  "If controlling one fundamental force and possessing power exceeding 1000 stars is akin to stepping into the Universal Sage level," Seraphine mused. "Then I, who command all four fundamental forces, fusing them to sublimate into a grand unified force, and wield power exceeding 26.4 million stars... What class should I be considered? Am I in the so-called Sage class... perhaps its latter half?"

  She didn't believe she had truly surpassed this somewhat unfamiliar Sage realm, because upon learning the definition of the Universal Sage class, Chaos Calculation autonomously ran and provided an answer.

  She was, indeed, within the Sage level.

  It's just that due to insufficient information, Seraphine was also unsure which specific stage of the Sage class she belonged to. She merely felt intuitively that, even within this class that utterly transcended the Milky Way Overlord, she was definitely not at the initial stage.

  "Hmm, interesting," Seraphine smiled. "I originally thought Overlord Stage Ten was the ultimate peak; I never imagined this Milky Way harbored higher-ranked existences."

  She calmly turned her head, looking towards the distant, boundless, brilliant galaxy, and with a divine light in her eyes, said:

  "From the information fragments scattered from Cadelon's memory core, the so-called 'old geezers' in Yonruk Civilization's lore... are Universal Sages.

  So, do Universal Sages also exist among the Ponret, who stand alongside the Yonruk as one of the six galactic core races, and among the other four unknown races?"

  Chaos Calculation operated briefly, then provided an answer:

  [Universal Sage-level life forms inevitably exist within each of the six major galactic core races]

  Seraphine nodded thoughtfully: "Indeed, if only the Yonruk possessed Sage-level life forms, then there would only be a galactic core Royal Race, not six distinct races."

  Having concluded her thoughts, she once again 'looked' towards the vast artificial star system, a billion kilometers away.

  There, Godshell's armor lay shattered beyond repair, yet he was still locked in battle with Cadelon, oblivious to everything else.

  Their fierce, close-quarters combat was not confined to a single planet or a specific area of space.

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  Their battlefield spanned the entire twenty-billion-kilometer star system.

  Boom!

  A gas giant planet, no smaller than Jupiter, instantly collapsed, transforming into hundreds of thousands of blazing meteorites that explosively engulfed the vast surrounding starry sky.

  In this terrifying celestial explosion, two brilliant light phantoms, one large and one small, flashed and vanished.

  Rumble rumble rumble!!

  A second later, they reappeared, already 81 billion kilometers away.

  After obliterating a large asteroid belt spanning hundreds of thousands of kilometers, the two again vanished, shifting their relentless battlefield.

  Their superluminal combat was not a static confrontation within a fixed area.

  Instead, they continuously vanished and reappeared, engaging in grand battles across various parts of the vast star system.

  After increasing their speed to 100,000 times the speed of light in the Symbolic Domain, Cadelon and Godshell could often traverse 30 billion kilometers with a single stomp. However, due to the anomalous curvature within the Symbolic Domain, they transformed into real, interdimensional demons within this star system. They would appear unpredictably anywhere within the star system, and then proceed to destroy that particular location.

  In this twenty-billion-kilometer-diameter void, planets larger than Earth were constantly being caught in the fierce battle between the two, and subsequently obliterated into nothingness.

  If a stellar civilization truly existed here, even if that civilization possessed 10,000 or even a million Star Destroyers, at this moment, it could only despairingly await annihilation.

  Because even super-weapons capable of obliterating stars—a single shot at these two would at most gain their attention, not cause them harm.

  For at this moment, the space swirling intimately around them could be described as a chaotic, interdimensional rupture, even more terrifying than the explosive focal point of a supernova.

  Whether it was a colossal red giant, a blazing white dwarf, or even the densest neutron star, none would survive for more than a second in their immediate vicinity.

  Within a single second, they would be utterly annihilated and torn apart by the fierce aftershock energy generated during their monumental clash, transforming into countless high-energy particles, or pure light and heat.

  Suddenly, Godshell's helmet was struck by one of Cadelon's devastating punches, completely shattering it into oblivion.

  And his hideously disfigured, inhuman face was laid bare to the entire universe.

  Thus, in Cadelon's eyes, the entire universe... blurred.

  A desolate and mournful ancient life essence, seemingly originating from the Cosmic Era preceding the birth of all civilizations, suddenly surged forth from Godshell's gradually awakening body. It abruptly pierced through the barrier between the Sentience Realm and reality, far exceeding the speed of light, and rumbled, sweeping clean the entire vast, dark starry expanse.

  Boom!!!

  It was as if the Big Bang of the universe was replaying.

  Everything instantly ignited, boiled, and vaporized.

  Within a tens of billions of miles spacetime radius, all molecules, atoms, high-energy radiation, shattered meteorites, and even numerous rocky planets and gas giants, along with an even greater number of celestial corpses, and even Cadelon's own body—which was originally far harder than a neutron star and further solidified through strong nuclear force—all rapidly fell into a state of collapsing and fading away.

  "This is... What kind of power is this?!"

  In an instant, Cadelon, whose body was more than half vaporized and faded due to the immense destruction caused by Godshell's exposed, incomplete head, instantly escaped into the Sentience Realm in shock, retreating over ten billion kilometers in one breath.

  Only after she broke through the barrier between realms and returned to reality did she realize with chilling horror.

  Far away in the universe, after those endless trillions of matter were completely annihilated into pure energy by Godshell, they surprisingly and instantly 'sank' into the mysterious Dirac Sea 'behind' the endless void, which Cadelon could barely perceive.

  "This is... This is the interplay and relationship between the strong and weak fundamental forces of the universe on matter. And... and there's also the shadow of electromagnetism twisting the vacuum field!"

  Cadelon's single eye, where the pain below her chest had vanished, widened. She shouted in disbelief, "You actually... control three fundamental forces?! And with such refined depth! Are you... a Sage?!"

  As soon as her voice escaped, she also felt a spiritual force, surpassing the current three-dimensional spacetime, enveloping the vast region of the universe where she stood.

  Buzz—

  Far away.

  Godshell opened his hands.

  The surrounding void suddenly manifested far more high-energy particles than the total mass of the matter annihilated just moments ago.

  These particles gathered into buzzing bundles, swirling around him, instantly condensing into thousands upon thousands of super-gravitational vortices powerful enough to tear apart stars.

  From the energy waves emitted by these kilometer-diameter vortex clusters, Cadelon could faintly sense the existence of some incredibly tiny, yet extremely massive, hazy substance within them.

  The surrounding spacetime constantly collapsed around the matter, seemingly about to plunge into another ultimate dangerous region that human intellect could not perceive or even comprehend.

  Cadelon stated blankly:

  "This is... a black hole! You even control gravity! All four fundamental forces are complete! And you possess the means to create matter from vacuum! You, what on earth are you...?"

  "Hmm—"

  Far away, Godshell suddenly opened his sole remaining eye, gazing impassively at Cadelon. His mental waves vibrated through spacetime, conveying:

  "Just as you stated, the armor you wear is not to shield yourself, but to safeguard this fragile world.

  Similarly, the armor I don, serves not myself, but to prevent harming fragile, minuscule beings such as you."

  Cadelon: "......"

  Godshell raised a single finger, slowly extending it forward.

  With this deliberate motion, the thousands of black holes suspended in the vast surrounding void, each possessing a mass no less than that of the sun, suddenly surged with renewed vigor. They swirled around him in a sinuous, almost celebratory dance.

  As these cosmic behemoths twisted and writhed, the terrifying tidal effects they generated instantly tore apart any meteorites and massive celestial bodies that traversed their path. Simultaneously, they churned the surrounding spacetime into an incomprehensibly tangled mess, erupting with torrents of blazing particle jets powerful enough to penetrate and vaporize stars.

  Next, Godshell simply pointed his hand towards the endless void.

  In an instant, space rippled with tumultuous waves, and streaks of searing energy beams also shot forth from the apparent nothingness.

  At the epicenter of the endless, brilliant, phantom light, space crazily twisted and spun, vaguely coalescing into a spherical entity.

  Meanwhile, far away in the universe, Cadelon, barely recovering from her profound shock, suddenly noticed the surrounding spacetime beginning to twist with extreme violence.

  Buzz—

  Directly before her, a black sphere, roughly the size of a towering mountain, its boundary shimmering with brilliant starlight, abruptly materialized.

  It was a Wormhole!

  "Piercing spacetime, creating a Wormhole!"

  Cadelon was indescribably astonished, "You... You can even interfere with space and dimensions! Conjuring Wormholes from sheer nothingness!"

  Godshell offered no reply; he merely waved his hand, gesturing towards the Wormhole before him.

  Swoosh—

  Suddenly, thousands upon tens of thousands of terrifying black holes, capable of interring entire civilizations and devouring suns, under his guiding motion, rumbled and streamed into the Wormhole, one after another.

  Almost at that very same instant.

  The colossal Wormhole before Cadelon, akin to an automated cannon, began furiously spewing out swarms of black holes, like ravenous cosmic piranhas, indiscriminately engulfing her.

  For a moment, this vast void instantly plunged into endless spatial-temporal chaos.

  And just before her consciousness completely vanished, Cadelon raised her rapidly collapsing and fading pupil, looking far away at Godshell, who stood majestically in the universe like a Creator God, faintly sighing:

  "So I am truly so weak; merely glimpsing your true strength for an instant led to such a tragic defeat."

  Then, without any trace of regret, she smiled heartily:

  "However... to be able to contend with an irresistible powerhouse, and then perish in battle, isn't this the ultimate end to life that I truly yearn for?

  Hahaha, ah ah ah ah!"

  Filled with immense satisfaction, Cadelon's consciousness gradually faded, sinking into eternal silence.

  But in that very instant.

  Buzz—

  All things froze.

  Time, space, matter, energy, information... everything quickly fell silent.

  Then, it reversed and flowed backward.

  The thousands upon tens of thousands of black holes, swirling ferociously like interdimensional fiends and dismembering Cadelon in the surrounding void, suddenly ground to a halt. Then, they spun crazily, visibly shrinking smaller and smaller, eventually vanishing into nothingness.

  And Cadelon, who had long since been annihilated into dust, suddenly reappeared out of nothingness, floating in the boundless universe with a bewildered expression.

  She dumbfoundedly raised her four slender arms and looked, finding that she had actually been restored to her previous normal state: thirty meters tall, with her armor fully attached.

  That power, which controlled and manipulated the fundamental aspects of matter—the strong nuclear force—existed normally and flowed gently within her powerful body.

  "This is... Master's previously mentioned time reversal?!"

  Cadelon looked in astonishment at Godshell, who was hovering silently tens of thousands of miles away, also restored to his previous form. She spoke, barely containing the shock in her mind:

  "Master... can actually genuinely reverse time back to the past!

  This... this is even more incredible than controlling the four fundamental forces!"

  She had previously thought Seraphine was merely joking about someone deliberately controlling time reversal.

  After all, her memories before birth were too vague, so Cadelon had some doubts about the claim that she had returned from the past.

  She had always suspected she might have been created through a method similar to cloning or replication.

  Controlling time and time reversal, after all... was simply too terrifying to even contemplate.

  Therefore, she had fought Godshell with a resolute determination to face death.

  Victory or defeat, it truly mattered not.

  She sought only the sheer joy of a truly exhilarating battle.

  But now, after personally experiencing the entire process of being restored from the past, Cadelon was suddenly overwhelmed by immense shock, and her will to fight utterly vanished.

  Because in the hazy memory fragments that flashed in her mind, such a terrifying ability to genuinely reverse time had never existed, even among the myriad powerhouses in the galactic core.

  Even among those 'old geezers' in her clan, Cadelon vaguely felt that none of them could possibly possess such an ability.

  "The battle is over."

  A voice suddenly reached her ears, and Cadelon quickly looked over.

  Indeed, it was Godshell.

  He looked quietly at Cadelon and suddenly smiled: "Actually, you are very strong, exceptionally strong. It's just that this corpse, which gave birth to my soul consciousness, is outrageously powerful."

  "Oh?" Cadelon tilted her head and said curiously, "How so?"

  Buzz—

  Godshell swiftly flew over from a distance, the space around him continuously twisting and folding, causing his three-thousand-meter-tall body to shrink non-stop.

  By the time he reached Cadelon, he had also become thirty meters tall.

  "This battle not only benefited you considerably, but I also gained no small amount."

  Godshell slowly said, with his hands clasped behind his back, "Each time you struck me, or each time I struck you, this body would generate fragmented information that streamed into my soul.

  This information included a lot of combat-related data.

  Including what abilities the body contains, how to utilize these abilities, how they should be applied..."

  Godshell looked at Cadelon, "All of it is there."

  "So..." The latter sighed with a hint of loss, "You merely by excavating a portion of your own potential, utterly defeated me until my form and spirit were destroyed, leaving me completely helpless."

  "Yes," Godshell nodded, "You could say that."

  "Hoo—"

  Cadelon sighed, a high-temperature Plasma breath escaping her. She twirled and smiled: "Very good, to have found such a perfect opponent as you in my life is truly my good fortune."

  Seeing her composed, Godshell then praised: "You possess neither shame-induced anger nor decadent negativity. I, Godshell, approve of your strong demeanor!"

  "Well said."

  Seraphine suddenly appeared before the two, "I concur."

  Godshell and Cadelon immediately knelt on one knee, saying loudly: "Master!"

  "Mm—"

  Seraphine's gaze swept over this star system, which had been completely shattered by the two. Her eyes flickered slightly.

  Buzz—

  Suddenly, this super-standard star system, with a diameter spanning twenty billion kilometers and encompassing thousands of planets along with countless scorching celestial corpses, silently vanished into the vast universe, as if it had never been born.

  Facing such immense power, akin to the primordial act of rending the heavens and creating the earth, Cadelon and Godshell couldn't help but widen their eyes, utterly stunned.

  'Master's power... is truly boundless and infinite!' the two mused to themselves.

  After clearing the 'battlefield,' Seraphine looked at her two subordinates and commanded:

  "Since the battle is over, execute your missions as swiftly as possible. I shall await your return here.

  Remember, you have three days."

  Cadelon and Godshell, upon hearing this, immediately bowed respectfully, responding, "As you command!"

  The two slowly rose, exchanged a swift glance, then their figures blurred, transforming into streaks of phantom light, soaring at extreme speed in opposite directions.

  Observing their departure, Seraphine gently closed her eyes, sitting upright in the void, preparing to condense her Full-Dimensional Body.

  "To become a Full-Dimensional body, first, one must..."

  She murmured softly, "Shatter the Divinitas Frame."

  With that thought, Seraphine's Frame, which was even more resilient than Cadelon's body, shattered instantly.

  Boom—

  In an instant, a tide of energy, immense and terrifying in both its scale and density, suddenly erupted outwards from Seraphine, whose form was gradually dissipating at the epicenter. With the force to rupture the great cosmos itself, it swiftly surged towards the boundless starry sky.

  Before this colossal tide, which 'roared' outwards at light speed into the vast universe, even the desolate, dark three-dimensional spacetime underwent severe, large-scale distortions, abruptly revealing vast swathes of pure energy super-structured geometric blocks covering hundreds of thousands of miles.

  These geometric blocks, so utterly bizarre that they defied full containment by three-dimensional space, once manifested, resembled deep-space behemoths roaring and furiously expanding outwards in all directions.

  Fortunately, this was the Dark Void Battlefield.

  Fortunately, it was a sprawling, uninhabited expanse measured in trillions of kilometers.

  Otherwise, if this all-encompassing, all-directional surge had appeared in more prosperous sectors, it would undoubtedly bury countless stars, innumerable lives, and even entire civilizations.

  And at the very heart of this surging and erupting tide, at its point of origin, Seraphine's body had completely shattered into hundreds of trillions of tiny, sun-like cells, each flashing with brilliant light.

  Though the cells were minuscule, each one contained terrifying power capable of easily piercing through a planet's crust and mantle, and subsequently destroying its core.

  These cells continuously shifted and jumped in the void.

  One moment appearing in the tangible universe, another moment piercing the barrier between realms and leaping deep into the Sentience Realm, and yet another twisting spacetime to traverse countless light-years.

  With such formidable mobility, if Seraphine desired to exterminate all hundreds of civilizations in the Golden Bough, she could effortlessly achieve it by simply deploying cells of this nature.

  Of course, such a task wouldn't pique her interest.

  Buzz—

  After a short while, Seraphine finally optimized all her cellular states.

  Thereafter, she began to fragment even further.

  After once again generating an immense tide of power capable of easily obliterating a vast Sector, the hundreds of trillions of brilliant cells once again disintegrated.

  They all disintegrated into endless trillions of molecules and macromolecules.

  But this disintegration, which initially appeared to be self-destruction, did not cease there; on the contrary, it became increasingly profound.

  Within the microscopic world, which was as vast and dark as the outer cosmos, these countless, explosively numerous molecules, whose energy level was also explosively strong, continuously collapsed and disintegrated, separating into individual atoms, each flickering with a mysterious, illusory light.

  Next, this endless ocean of flickering atoms continued to collapse and separate into even larger and more numerous, indeed gargantuan, particles that could no longer be accurately calculated: protons, neutrons, electrons.

  All these particles converged and unified, condensing into a vague humanoid form.

  Simultaneously with its disintegration, this 'densely woven' humanoid particle ocean continuously emitted unimaginable amounts of heat.

  Millions of degrees Celsius, tens of millions of degrees Celsius, hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius, billions of degrees Celsius...

  In just a brief period, the temperature of this purplish-gray particle ocean had already soared to a terrifying five trillion degrees Celsius.

  During this ceaselessly and rapidly escalating thermal process, this cluster of super-high-energy particles—known in the boundless universe as 'Seraphine,' composed of countless atomic nuclei—was slowly collapsing and disintegrating. At the same time, it was scattering outwards into the dark void hundreds of thousands of times, emitting super-high-energy linear beam waves that dwarfed even gamma-ray bursts.

  Throughout this entire disintegration, Seraphine's 'body,' whose visual form had become completely indistinct, was, with every passing blink, furiously gushing forth and releasing energy equivalent to the total output of several thousand or even tens of thousands of suns, from their stellar birth to their eventual destruction billions of years later.

  In every single instant, this immense and unimaginably vast energy was being poured and emitted into the boundless universe in the form of optical radiation.

  And each super-high-energy photon that constituted these endless super-high-energy rays possessed an energy value exceeding ten quintillion electron Volts.

  They would traverse the universe for hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of years, or even longer, until, at some unforeseen moment, they "struck" a colossal celestial body, were absorbed, and converted into thermal energy, only then concluding their prodigious journey.

  Of course, a minute fraction of these photons, after traveling countless light-years, might coincidentally be captured by the retina of some child gazing up at the cosmos, becoming the fundamental physical entity behind that child's exclaimed wonder on that night: "What a bright star!"

  After observing the star, the child would naturally head home, no longer pondering the matter.

  Because it was merely an insignificant moment in their 'long' childhood.

  But the child would not know.

  The brilliant starlight she witnessed that night was a genuine record of a true deity's ascension to a higher dimension, emanating from a distant, ancient corner of the universe.

  The child also would not know that this brilliant starlight, having traversed countless eons of the universe, had always existed in a superimposed state of 【Wave】 and 【Particle】.

  Only after she unintentionally looked up and saw it, this starlight, having spanned countless light-years, had, from the very moment of its genesis, propelled itself through innumerable ages without ever having its state confirmed (wave or particle), until it was finally determined.

  It was a particle, not a wave.

  From the moment Seraphine began to condense her Full-Dimensional Body until countless years later when it was captured by the retina of a bewildered child.

  Throughout this singular, long, and 'narrow' historical timeline, this photon would irrevocably remain a particle.

  【Cause】 does not necessarily exist in the past, nor does 【Effect】 exclusively reside in the future.

  A child, positioned downstream on the timeline, through an unintentional act of 'measurement,' dictated a historical alteration at a distant point in the past.

  Although, this involved merely the history of a tiny photon.

  Yet, because of this singular photon, the entire vast universe, spanning trillions or even tens of trillions of light-years, immediately branched once more at that precise moment in time.

  One branch witnessed the child perceiving the starlight, causing its wave function to collapse into a particle that journeyed through the cosmos for countless ages.

  The other branch saw the child not observing the starlight, allowing the starlight to maintain its superimposed state, continuing its flight towards an even more remote part of the universe.

  And how many photons did Seraphine emit while condensing her Body? How many of these photons, traveling in disparate directions, across varying distances, and into diverse futures, were observed by countless life forms, leading to their wave functions collapsing and their states being determined?

  Ten thousand?

  A million?

  Ten million?

  No one truly knows; the number must be astronomical.

  The terrifying implication is that behind this astronomical figure also lies the genesis of innumerable timelines.

  Moreover, each of these countless timelines, birthed every instant, constitutes a real, expansive universe.

  Each real universe, containing innumerable galaxies and immeasurable life, will, in every fleeting instant during the flow of time, once again split into branching timelines due to a myriad of factors, both grand and minute.

  And these represent astronomical numbers of such divisions.

  This is the Grand Universe.

  This is the River of Time.

  Boundless, infinite.

  Beyond human intellect, beyond comprehension.

  Whoosh whoosh whoosh—

  Within the immense expanse of the Dark Void Battlefield.

  As endless streams of extremely high-energy light rays erupted in all eight directions.

  This cluster of super-high-energy particles, designated 'Seraphine,' which was intensely hot, had now 'dissolved' into an even greater, perhaps incalculable, multitude of protons, neutrons, and electrons.

  Time flowed onward, and the temperature continuously escalated.

  When the temperature finally reached a staggering five trillion degrees Celsius, these trillions of protons, neutrons, and electrons also began to rapidly 'fragment' and break down.

  During this process of 'self-sacrificial' life-form metamorphosis, Seraphine's Immortal Primordial Soul—existing within but simultaneously transcending the material plane—consistently and stably modulated the temperature and energy density, striving to preserve her 'reality' and overall structural integrity to the utmost extent possible.

  During this time, the Infinite Attributes system, like an opened floodgate, continuously maintained an abyss-like ebb and flow of immense energy and power, causing Seraphine's temperature to solely escalate, never diminish.

  Another protracted period of time elapsed.

  At this moment, Seraphine had transformed into a colossal mass of super-hot plasma, primarily composed of quarks and gluons.

  This state is precisely what is referred to as quark-gluon "soup."

  Indeed.

  The isolated quarks—entities that could only exist for a fleeting moment after the universe's Big Bang, over 13 billion years ago, before rapidly receding into atomic nuclei due to the cosmos' cooling—at this very instant, under the immense "melting" and "baking" heat of five trillion degrees Celsius, underwent a deconfinement phase transition. This process weakened and disintegrated the strong interaction binding the quarks, ultimately completely breaching quark confinement and allowing them to reappear in the world.

  Within the boundless Dark Void Battlefield, Seraphine’s "self-destruction" manifested as an unimaginably hot, humanoid cluster of light. Not even Cadelon and Godshell could approach its vicinity. It now contained an explosively numerous, almost infinitely countable quantity of up quarks, down quarks, charm quarks, strange quarks, top quarks, and bottom quarks, their numbers calculable only in units of 10^90.

  Each of these quarks, possessing various internal degrees of freedom, had now fully achieved a quasi-free state, becoming truly relatively independent particles.

  Furthermore, within this super-super-super-high-energy particle cluster—no larger than a human but embodying the power of several tens of millions of suns—besides the six quarks participating in the strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force, and electromagnetic interaction, there also surged and flowed countless electrons, muons, tau particles, and their corresponding neutrinos (which engage in weak nuclear force and electromagnetic interaction but not the strong nuclear force); as well as gluons (involved in the strong nuclear force), photons (involved in electromagnetic interaction), W and Z bosons (involved in the weak nuclear force), gravitons (involved in gravitational interaction); and even Higgs particles—Higgs bosons—which utilize spontaneous symmetry breaking to bestow mass upon fundamental particles.

  These fundamental particles, which constitute the endless matter spanning trillions of light-years, now resembled countless dazzling stars, continuously circulating, purifying, and swirling within Seraphine's dimly "corporeal" form. Existing at five trillion degrees Celsius, this environment mirrored the terrifying conditions present at the very creation of the universe.

  Simultaneously, under the effect of these incredibly high-temperature particle currents, every subtle undulation on Seraphine's dazzling surface radiated innumerable torrents of Celestial Arcana, imbued with the power of grand unification, surging into the boundless void. This phenomenon concurrently caused countless diverse tangible objects to manifest continuously within a radius of 30 billion kilometers.

  In one instant, an inexplicable profusion of carbon-based, mercury-based, hydrogen-based, iron-based, silicon-based, and sulfur-based intelligent organisms, each varying immensely in size and appearance, materialized in the void—some were eating, some exercising, some sleeping, some arguing, some fighting, some laughing.

  In the very next instant, these countless lives vaporized, transforming into hundreds of thousands of ferocious giant beasts, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of meters tall.

  And in the instant after that, the endless giant beasts also converted into immeasurable thermal energy, dissipating into nothingness. The vast emptiness was then populated by countless abruptly appearing starships, mechs, and fighters, each displaying a wide array of shapes, functions, and sizes.

  In the subsequent moment, these starships and fighters expanded in form, shifting from ephemeral existence into innumerable meteors, comets, rocky planets, gas giants, main sequence stars, red giants, white dwarfs, neutron stars, and even black holes and wormholes.

  Thus, creation and destruction coexisted, and existence and non-existence walked hand in hand.

  Seraphine, seated regally in the universe, was at every given moment simultaneously creating and nurturing herself, while also bringing forth all things and all beings in the vast cosmos.

  She was almost like a Creator God, a figure existing only in ancient myths.

  A very, very long span of time passed.

  So long, in fact, that a full day had quietly elapsed.

  By now, the logic-defying 【Infinite Attributes】 system once again activated.

  It completely disregarded the fact that Seraphine's Physical Strength had long since 'self-destructed' into a mass of blazing fundamental particles. It proceeded to once again amplify the 'strength' of these countless, volumeless fundamental particles, thereby truly achieving the miraculous effect of doubling her Physical Strength attribute.

  【Host: Seraphine】

  【Physical Strength: 52.8 million Star】

  【Soul: 52.8 million Star】

  At this very moment, Seraphine's Immortal Primordial Soul, situated deep within this fundamental particle body yet subtly detached from the material world, slowly opened her eyes, radiating an aura of divine wisdom;

  "God and form unite, matter and spirit return to one!"

  Buzz—

  In an instant.

  All fundamental particles, which had been slightly agitated by the doubling of 'strength,' quickly settled into a profound stillness, resembling a boundless, infinite, tranquil 'ocean'.

  Next, within this humanoid particle 'ocean' — an existence 333,333 times hotter than the sun's core — a glistening 'entity' emerged. Appearing both vast and minute, continuously contracting and expanding like a primordial universe, this four-dimensional self-space slowly protruded and began to spread outwards, accompanied by the surging, high-energy ripples around Seraphine's body.

  After rapidly expanding and spreading to completely encompass and engulf Seraphine's blazing particle body, the four-dimensional self-space abruptly replaced its material exterior, manifesting itself as a towering presence within the vast outer universe.

  "Four-dimensional self-space opens, Full-Dimensional condenses."

  As Seraphine's calm voice, vibrating with quantum fluctuations, propagated outwards into the hundreds of millions of miles of void, this four-dimensional self-space — which appeared to be only a few meters in size yet spontaneously changed its form — suddenly burst with brilliant light. Like an exploding cosmic bomb, it rapidly spread outwards into the surrounding universe, its expansion speed being... 300,000 kilometers per second.

  Even more terrifying and bizarre was that with every passing second, the expansion speed of this four-dimensional self-space would accelerate further.

  In the previous second, it expanded 350,000 kilometers per 'size'; in the next second, it would reach 400,000 kilometers; and in the second after that, it would expand to 500,000 kilometers.

  In a mere few seconds, the four-dimensional self-space expanded to occupy millions of kilometers of interstellar space, and it was still rapidly growing.

  And in this continuous, incredibly rapid expansion, the specific shape and appearance of this four-dimensional self-space, which seemed to be formed from glistening, diamond-like material, was fully revealed.

  This was an entity that already occupied roughly 3 million kilometers in three-dimensional actual spacetime and was still rapidly expanding. It manifested as a constantly rotating aggregate of points and lines, appearing at strange angles and proportional relationships.

  In its relentless expansion, growing 'inches' and surging every second, all matter in its path—from cosmic dust to massive meteorites—was instantly sliced and torn into countless fundamental particles. This process simultaneously released vast quantities of light and heat, which were then mercilessly devoured and absorbed by the entity itself.

  It's evident that three-dimensional objects are fundamentally incapable of resisting such a dimensional-level transformation.

  To describe it colloquially, this is a form of dimension-reducing strike.

  In fact, the rotation and transformation of this four-dimensional self-space are entirely dictated by Seraphine's thoughts.

  A single thought can both disperse and superimpose its form.

  Furthermore, the true appearance of this four-dimensional self-space she deployed can only be fully and clearly perceived with four-dimensional vision, requiring a four-dimensional brain to completely understand and comprehend its complexity.

  This is because it manifests as a four-dimensional hypercube, composed of eight regular hexahedra, possessing sixteen vertices, thirty-two edges, and twenty-four faces.

  Its peculiarity lies in the fact that two faces of each of the eight regular hexahedra are interconnected, with every face being shared by two cubes oriented towards each other.

  Life in three-dimensional space would inherently struggle to comprehend how eight cubes can be arranged such that each face is shared by two.

  Unless one intellectually forces an understanding of the hypercube, one can only vaguely imagine its projection into three-dimensional space according to a particular posture and angle.

  And when two of the hypercube's cubic cells are precisely 'parallel' to three-dimensional living space, it will appear as two standard cubes existing simultaneously.

  That is, one larger cube encompassing a smaller one within.

  The remaining six cubes would then be manifested as truncated pyramids and edges.

  Of course, in the three-dimensional world, these few cubic cells would appear extremely distorted.

  But in the four-dimensional world, these eight cubic cells are all perfectly standard cubes.

  However, should the hypercube's posture and angle shift even slightly, to three-dimensional beings, its appearance would become utterly indescribable, potentially even leading to profound mental fatigue or spiritual damage.

  Furthermore, if a three-dimensional intelligent being were to accidentally enter one of the 【Faces】 (cubic cells) of Seraphine's four-dimensional self-space, they would discover a terrifying truth:

  Within this immense and boundless cube, there are clearly 'doorways' on all six gigantic walls (up, down, left, right, front, back), but no matter how one attempts to traverse it, they will never be able to exit this 'Interdimensional Space'.

  (The specific situation can be likened to the Tesseract in the movie 《Cube 2: Hypercube》)

  And after more than ten seconds, the four-dimensional self-space had expanded to encompass a range of countless kilometers.

  Having attained such a colossal 'size,' the cavernous entity suddenly vibrated slightly, abruptly and at super speed splitting into another similarly colossal hypercubic cell, also reaching countless kilometers in 'size'.

  In an instant, Seraphine's four-dimensional self-space evolved into a twin-celled four-dimensional hypercube, beginning to expand even more wildly towards the surrounding void.

  And in the even more distant deep void.

  Cadelon had already entered the Driphor Sector.