308: God-level death, the origin of heaven!

Inside the main control room, time felt as if it had been stretched into thick syrup.

In the eyes of Fatty Zhang, Zhao Linger, and the others, Lin Fan's figure was becoming blurred and transparent.

No, it wasn't transparency.

Rather, it was a state even more eerie.

Within their minds, the memories, perceptions, and even emotions regarding "Lin Fan" were being forcibly tampered with and extracted by an invisible force.

"Who... who is... this person?"

Fatty Zhang rubbed his eyes, looking at the familiar yet strange figure ahead with a face full of bewilderment.

Who is he?

Why is he here?

Why... are we so nervous?

The same feeling appeared in the hearts of Zhao Linger, Li Hanyue, and the others.

They only felt that the presence of the person before them was being "erased" bit by bit from their world in an incomprehensible way.

This was "Conceptual Deletion."

Denying a person's existence from the very root.

However, as the target of the deletion, Lin Fan's feelings were entirely different.

He felt no pain.

He felt no fear.

What he felt was an unprecedented "sense of detachment."

His Divine Soul, his true spirit, and every trace of his existence in this Universe were being parsed into basic information by a higher-dimensional "rule," then marked as "invalid" and prepared for archival deletion.

[Warning! Warning! Warning!]

[Host's conceptual existence is being erased! The "Indestructible" trait is being forcibly suppressed!]

[The "Indestructible" brand is in high-intensity conflict with an unknown command! Underlying logic conflict!]

[Parsing initiated... Parsing failed...]

[Reconstructing parsing model... Model collapse...]

The System's notification sound had turned into chaotic static, and red warning codes flooded his vision like a waterfall.

Yet amidst that red representing destruction, strands of brilliant golden data streams lit up tenaciously like fireflies in the dark.

They were the products reverse-compiled by the "Indestructible" trait while parsing that "deletion command"!

Just like a virus, while being scanned and killed by antivirus software, it starts parsing the antivirus software's source code in reverse!

"So that's how it is..."

At the threshold between "existence" and "non-existence," Lin Fan's consciousness captured that fleeting flash of inspiration.

"The essence of 'killing a virus' isn't destruction, but definition."

"As long as I define your 'deletion' as my 'Rebirth'..."

Boom—!!!

His consciousness completely returned to a state of pure "nothingness."

[Ding! You have successfully died from "true spirit · Conceptual Deletion"...]

[Death Quality Evaluation: Divine-Grade!]

[...Calculating rewards...]

[Warning! Rewards exceed the System's current quantifiable limit! Attempting cross-tier evaluation...]

[Evaluation complete!]

[Congratulations Host, you have obtained the ultimate reward—Heavenly Dao Origin (Incalculable)!]

The next instant.

Within the deathly silent void, a golden torrent billions of times more brilliant than a star erupted!

It was an ocean of energy composed of the purest, most primitive Universe Origin. Ignoring the distance of space and time, it surged frantically into Lin Fan's true spirit spark, which had just begun to coalesce!

Refreshing!

An unprecedented sense of comfort!

Lin Fan felt as if his Divine Soul was soaking in a warm mother river, with every thought being cleansed and sublimated by this supreme power!

But this extreme comfort lasted for less than a second.

Crack.

A crisp sound of shattering from the depths of his Soul jolted him awake.

It was too much!

This Heavenly Dao Origin was simply too vast!

It was like trying to use a cup to hold an entire ocean!

While his Divine Soul Origin was being frantically strengthened, it was also being pushed to the brink of shattering by this unbearable power!

If this continued, he would become the first person in history to be bloated to death by a System reward!

In the moment of crisis, Lin Fan's thoughts accelerated to the extreme.

If it couldn't be absorbed, then... transfer it!

His mind instantly sank into the depths of his Sea of Consciousness, connecting to the Small World linked to his very life, named the "Immortal World"!

"Swallow it for me!"

Lin Fan made a crazy decision.

He opened his Divine Soul and, without any resistance, guided the entire golden torrent that was about to burst him toward the Immortal World!

Rumble—!!!

The Immortal World, which was originally only a hundred miles in radius and completely barren, welcomed the most terrifying "tonic" since its creation at this moment!

The golden Heavenly Dao Origin, like the Nine Heavens' Milky Way pouring down, swept through the entire world!

The earth roared!

The spatial barriers of the entire Small World expanded outward frantically at a speed that defied the Laws of physics!

A thousand miles!

Ten thousand miles!

A hundred thousand miles! A million miles!

New continents were generated out of thin air under the wash of energy, rising from the ground!

Huge canyons split open on the parched ground, with golden Origin power flowing through them, turning into surging rivers, lakes, and seas!

Above the world's dome, a "sun" emitting a soft glow slowly took shape, shining upon the land!

Following that was a bright "moon" and a sky full of "stars"!

A complete, real mini-Universe with a sun, moon, stars, mountains, and rivers took shape within just a few breaths!

...Meanwhile, in the main control room of the Qingmu Star base.

The waterfall-like data stream that covered the entire light screen began to recede slowly like an ebbing tide after erasing the target "Lin Fan."

The spirit plant that had been halfway "pixelated" also stopped collapsing.

Everything seemed to be returning to normal.

"Is it over?"

Fatty Zhang shook his groggy head and let out a long sigh of relief as he watched the star map gradually clear up.

Zhao Linger, Li Hanyue, and the others were also shaken, yet they felt a strange sense of emptiness in their hearts.

It was as if... they had forgotten something important.

Just then.

A calm voice sounded from behind them.

"Who said it's over?"

Everyone whipped their heads around.

Only to see Lin Fan standing there intact, though no one knew when he had appeared. His eyes were as deep as the starry sky, and his aura was more than a hundred times stronger than before.

The blank space in the minds of Zhao Linger and the others was instantly filled!

"Lin Fan!"

"Boss!"

Faces filled with the wild joy of surviving a disaster.

But Lin Fan ignored their excitement; his gaze was fixed coldly on the retreating data calamity on the light screen.

"You want to leave after eating a free meal?"

"There's no such good deal in this world."

Under everyone's terrified gaze, Lin Fan reached out and made a grasping motion toward the dissipating data stream.

"Come forth, my world!"

Buzz—!

The space in front of him suddenly collapsed, forming a spinning miniature black hole that emitted an endless suction!

That wasn't a real black hole.

That was the world-mouth of the "Immortal World"!

An overwhelming world-force originating from a real Universe descended with a crash!

The retreating data calamity suddenly stalled!

Like an insect flying into a spiderweb, it was locked down by that terrifying suction, unable to move a single inch!

Inside the data stream, the "Purification" mark representing absolute order showed violent fluctuations similar to "panic" for the first time!

It wanted to flee!

But it was too late.

"Devour!" Lin Fan spat out two cold words.

The world-mouth of the Immortal World suddenly expanded like a waking cosmic beast, opening a maw that could swallow heaven and earth, and bit down hard on the data calamity!

Sizzle—!

A large chunk of the data stream was forcibly torn from the main body and swallowed into the Immortal World.

At the moment of being swallowed, Lin Fan had a thought.

[Law Simulation!]

[Divine Blood Pollution] + [Origin of Misfortune] + [Newly Parsed data calamity Code]!

Three distinct powers were forcibly fused by him into an imperceptible gray mark filled with malice and chaos.

With a flick of his finger, he precisely launched this "backdoor program" into the main body of the data calamity.

Only after finishing all this did he retract the power of the Immortal World.

The data calamity, severely damaged and reduced in size by nearly a third, fled into the depths of the Universe as if granted a great pardon.

The main control room was deathly silent.

Fatty Zhang, Zhao Linger, and the others looked at the man who had casually "eaten" part of a calamity with near-stagnant gazes, as if they were seeing a deity.

Right then.

A solemn and grand tolling of a bell, unlike any previous alarm, sounded in Lin Fan's mind.

[Ding!]

[Detected that the Host has absorbed a sufficient amount of "Heavenly Dao Origin" and "high-dimensional data samples"...]

[System 2.0 upgrade conditions met!]

[The System is about to enter an update. Countdown: 23:59:59...]

[New function "Reality Interference" is about to go online!]