276: I am your natural disaster

The Law Scalpel in Li Dong's hand had mutated.

Upon its blade, there was no longer the sharpness that could cut through all things, nor the majesty of judging order.

It flowed with a... grayish-green, toxic radiance filled with the implications of blasphemy and corruption.

That was the color of the Devourer.

That was the aura of the Origin of the 'parasitic' Law.

Using the Attunement Law as its bone and Anti-Devour as its edge, Li Dong had perfectly replicated the 'Origin Imprint' that the Devourer relied on for survival, grafting it onto his own power.

He had created a monster.

An ultimate virus that, within the Devourer's logic, was classified as 'self' yet remained absolutely obedient to Li Dong.

'You say you like my "existence"?'

Li Dong took a step, and the flesh dimension beneath his feet emitted an unbearable groan, as if he were stepping on the nerve center of a living planet.

His voice lacked any emotion, yet it made the massive, frantically beating tumor instinctively feel fear.

'Now, I am giving it to you.'

Before the words had even faded, Li Dong surged forward!

He did not choose to maneuver around, nor did he look for openings; instead, he transformed into a straight line that tore through everything, charging directly toward the massive tumor that represented the core of the Devourer!

'Roar—!!'

The Devourer felt an unprecedented threat—not the threat of being attacked, but a deadly crisis of... being contaminated and tampered with!

It was furious!

Hum!!!

The entire grayish-green living dimension instantly solidified, and a terrifying power that could not be described in words erupted from the core of the tumor, enveloping Li Dong.

Existential erasure!

This was not an attack on the physical level, nor was it even annihilation on the energy level.

Li Dong clearly 'felt' that the concept of 'himself' was being forcibly extracted from the long river of time of the Universe!

His childhood memories began to fade.

The scenes of his decisive battle with the 'True Lord' began to shatter.

Sharp pains radiated from the heart of the universe he had just reshaped, as if his connection to it was being severed.

His past was vanishing, his future was collapsing, and his 'present' had become a tottering shell!

This was the erasing power of the Devourer, uprooting a life from the Laws of Karma!

It was at this very moment that the ancient stone slab deep within Li Dong's Divine Soul let out an ancient roar!

It was not a sound, but a concept—the most primitive, the most pure, and the most overbearing.

[Existence]!

The ancient stone slab erupted with unprecedented light, like an absolute coordinate in terms of concept, firmly anchoring the very existence of 'Li Dong'!

No matter how the external erasure storm battered it, it remained unmoved, forcibly pinning Li Dong's crumbling sense of existence firmly to the reality dimension!

'Now is the time!'

Enduring the excruciating pain of having his Divine Soul torn apart, a cold flash of lightning crossed Li Dong's eyes.

The ancient stone slab had bought him a split second of respite!

'Observer! Its core veins!'

'Host... coordinates... three points in a line... the weakest Law node... is there!'

The Observer's colorful data stream had already burned to ashes, and its logic core emitted a wail on the verge of collapse under the overloaded calculations, yet it still precisely marked that fatal coordinate for Li Dong!

Enough!

Li Dong poured his entire will into the 'poison blade' in his hand and stabbed fiercely at the marked node!

'Taste... your own flavor!'

Pfft—!

The Law Scalpel, wrapped in the 'Origin Imprint,' met no resistance.

It was perfectly identified as 'one of their own' by the Devourer's core defense System.

Then, it drove straight in, accurately and without error, planting itself into the heart of that massive tumor!

Surgery, complete.

Time stood still for a moment at this instant.

The tumor heart, which was still beating frantically, suddenly stiffened.

The next second.

Chaos, began.

What Li Dong had implanted was not a destructive force, but a 'definition.'

A tampered-with definition of 'self'!

This definition began to spread crazily like a virus, reverse-infecting the Devourer's own parasitic Law.

The Devourer's Law began to 'parasitize' itself!

'Roar...?'

A roar filled with confusion and pain came from deep within the core of the tumor.

On the surface of the tumor, a flesh bud suddenly grew uncontrollably and then fiercely stabbed into another piece of flesh nearby, frantically devouring and assimilating it!

This was just the beginning.

Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!

Thousands of parasitic tentacles stabbed toward their own parent body from all directions!

Those 'parasites' wandering in the dimension also instantly lost their target, their logic falling into unprecedented disorder.

'Who' am I?

Who is the 'enemy'?

When the entire world was marked as 'self,' their only instinct, 'devour,' was aimed at the nearest kin beside them!

A bloody internal civil war that affected the entire foreign dimension erupted without warning!

The massive living labyrinth began to attack itself; flesh collapsed, energy flowed backward, and the grayish-green Law chains snapped one by one, only to be randomly grafted back together, creating even more deformed and chaotic monsters.

The Devourer had gone mad.

Within the 'digestive System' it had crafted with its own hands, it began to frantically digest itself.

With the chaos inside it, the massive Void Realm crack at the edge of the Universe also twisted violently.

Massive amounts of out-of-control foreign dimension energy gushed out like a bursting flood, without any pattern, corroding the surrounding Star Domain until it was riddled with holes.

Under Li Dong's will, the Void Furnace seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; the dark sea of nothingness spun wildly, devouring and converting all this overflowing energy, actually forming an even stronger Void Realm barrier around the perimeter of the crack, temporarily curbing the spread of the pollution.

In the distance, those Hand of Order judges who had just escaped were once again bewildered by the scene before them.

Their logic cores were completely unable to process this situation.

'The enemy... is committing suicide?'

They could not distinguish between friend and foe, nor could they understand the source of this chaos; they could only rigidly execute their lowest-level 'cleanup' commands, futilely purifying the dissipating energy on the periphery.

Li Dong had long since retreated from the chaotic core storm zone.

He hovered above the flesh dimension, calmly overlooking the grand feast of 'self-destruction' below, his eyes looking as if he were observing a perfect biochemical experiment.

His 'cancer cells' had taken effect.

But, it was too slow.

The Devourer's scale was too immense; even if it had fallen into a logic loop of self-attack, it would still take a long time to completely disintegrate itself.

Li Dong's gaze pierced through the layers of chaotic flesh, piercing through the heart of that tumor that was struggling in pain.

He saw a... thread.

An extremely faint, yet incredibly tough conceptual umbilical cord, connecting to the tumor core and extending into the deeper darkness of the foreign dimension.

This Devourer was not an isolated individual.

It was just a vanguard, a scout.

Behind it, in the depths of that endless Void Realm, existed something even more massive, even more terrifying...

'Void Mother Nest!'

Li Dong spat out the word.

And at the very moment he realized the truth, the Observer's extremely weak warning exploded in his Divine Soul.

'Warning! Host! The Mother Nest... the Void Mother Nest has sensed the anomaly of the vanguard!'

'According to current data projections... at most... at most there are three Universe hours left, and a more powerful interference force will descend!'

'We... have no time left!'