278: Is this the power of God? His words became law!

It was a bizarre scene that defied all common physical sense, enough to make Einstein flip open his coffin lid.

The white vortex, which had been on the verge of erupting and whose brightness had already surpassed a supernova, looked just like a scene from a movie where the reverse button had been pressed.

Those violently erupting photons, the torn fragments of space-time, and the anti-matter streams capable of annihilating star systems, were forcibly halted in the void and then flowed backward along an inconceivable trajectory into the center of the vortex.

There was no deafening sound of an explosion, no overflow of energy.

There was only deathly silence and a kind of obedience that made one's soul tremble.

It was as if spilled water had truly been gathered back into the basin; as if a shattered mirror had truly reformed in an instant.

This blatant trampling of the "Law of Entropy Increase" brought a sense of shock ten thousand times more terrifying than a massive explosion!

"Is... is this Causality?"

On the bridge of the expedition, Su Qingying pressed herself tightly against the porthole, her beautiful eyes, once full of reason, now left only with hollow bewilderment.

She watched the tiny figure floating in the vacuum outside the window, feeling as though all the physics she had learned in her life had collapsed into ruins at this moment.

"Entropy reduction... He actually achieved entropy reduction on a macroscopic level? How is this possible? Isn't this just time flowing backward?"

"No, this is not time flowing backward."

Beside her, War Wolf swallowed hard. Although he did not understand profound physics, his intuition as a soldier was much sharper. "That is a command. He is ordering those energies to return, and those energies dare not disobey. It's like... like soldiers hearing the orders of a general."

Exactly, it was a command.

At this moment, Lu Chen was hovering in the void less than a hundred kilometers away from that terrifying vortex.

At this distance, even the strongest gravitational shield should have been torn to shreds, yet not even the hem of his clothes fluttered.

That faint golden light enveloped him; it was the Higher Dimensions projection of the "Seed of Fire," and also his "divine throne" in this three-dimensional universe.

"Still not behaving?"

Lu Chen looked at the genesis engine, which, although forced to swallow back its energy, was still trembling violently and attempting to reorganize its defenses, a trace of impatience flashing in his eyes.

"I said I was going to perform surgery on you. If the patient doesn't cooperate, the doctor will be very troubled."

He slowly raised his right hand, his index finger pointing gently toward the boundless, massive white vortex.

He softly uttered two words: "Freeze."

Hum—!

An invisible wave instantly swept across the entire Galactic Center region.

The next second, everyone saw a scene they would never forget for the rest of their lives.

The accretion disk rotating at the speed of light, the energy core that was frantically churning, and even the surrounding light distorted by gravity, all stopped in that instant!

It was not deceleration; it was absolute stasis!

Even the ceaseless space-time turbulence at the edge of the black hole's event horizon was forcibly "frozen" in place by this overwhelmingly tyrannical power of rules!

At this moment, this starry sky seemed to have turned into a still photograph.

Only Lu Chen was the sole "living thing" in this photograph.

"My god..."

Queen Alia covered her mouth, her wings drooping powerlessly. "Is this the power of a god? Words become law... This is truly words becoming law!"

In her civilization's legends, only the Creator God could accomplish such a thing.

And now, a human, a human who had needed their support not long ago, had actually displayed this god-like authority right before their eyes!

Lu Chen did not pay attention to the shock behind him; he walked toward the frozen white vortex step by step, as if he were taking a stroll in his own backyard.

With every step he took, the aura around him climbed a notch.

When he walked to the center of the vortex, which was the core body of the genesis engine, the golden light on him had become brilliant to the extreme, even overshadowing the black hole behind him!

"I know you are afraid."

Lu Chen reached out his hand, stroking the energy barrier that appeared static but was actually frantically calculating inside, attempting to break through the blockade.

"That virus program—the legacy code of 'Zero'—is telling you that I have come to destroy you. It is frantically modifying your underlying logic, making you self-destruct."

"What a poor fellow, kidnapped by your own creation for billions of years."

A trace of pity flashed in Lu Chen's eyes, which was then replaced by a coldness like a scalpel.

"But it doesn't matter, it won't hurt soon."

"heavenly craft!"

Lu Chen's voice exploded in the mental network.

[Here, Master! The 'Destiny' system is running at full power, and the decompression code is ready!]

"Very good."

Lu Chen's palm exerted force suddenly, his five fingers like hooks, fiercely thrusting into that energy barrier!

"Open for me!!!"

"Crack—"

That was the sound of rules breaking.

Under the forced interference of the Causality weapon, that absolute defense, which was originally indestructible and could even withstand the bombardment of star-destroying cannons, was like a fragile piece of thin paper, torn open with a huge crack by Lu Chen's bare hands!

Boom!!!

Endless streams of data mixed with chaotic logic code spewed out frantically along that crack!

It was not tangible energy, but a pure information storm!

If it were an ordinary person, even just taking one glance at this data would cause their brain to instantly burn out.

But Lu Chen didn't even blink; the golden mark on his forehead shone brightly, like a huge black hole, greedily devouring and analyzing this chaotic information.

"Caught you."

Amidst countless garbled codes and virus programs, Lu Chen finally saw a core code that was pitch black as ink and exuded a foul stench.

That was the root of the Star Devourer civilization, and also the culprit controlling this engine!

"Is this your core defense?"

Lu Chen looked at the black code attempting to erode his consciousness in reverse along the link, a mocking sneer curling at the corner of his mouth.

"After lording it over the lower-dimensional world for so long, do you really think you are invincible?"

"Today, let me show you what a Dimensionality Reduction Strike is!"

"Modify settings!"

Lu Chen's voice was like a great bell, shaking the entire consciousness space.

"Target: Malicious virus code."

"Attribute:"

He paused, then uttered a word that made that virus code despair:

"Invalid."

There was no reason to be spoken, nor was there any logic to be argued.

The moment the two words "Invalid" were locked by Causality, that black code, which was originally hideous and terrifying and was frantically proliferating, suddenly seemed as if its soul had been drained.

Its attacks stopped, its replication stopped, all its functions failed completely!

It turned into a pile of meaningless garbled code, a pile of junk data occupying memory!

"Purge."

Lu Chen waved his hand casually.

That virus, which had plagued the genesis engine for billions of years and destroyed countless civilizations, just dissipated in the golden light, not leaving even a speck of residue behind.

With the virus purged, the originally violent and chaotic white vortex finally calmed down completely.

It no longer rotated, no longer exuded an aura of destruction.

Replacing it was a soft, pure, milky-white light filled with vitality and creativity.

It was like a child who had been lost in heavy rain for a long time, finally returning to a warm home.

[Thank you]

A weak yet grateful consciousness fluctuation came through Lu Chen's palm.

[Inheritor, you did it]

"It's not over yet."

Lu Chen did not withdraw his hand; his gaze looked past the surface layer, toward the deepest part of the engine.

There, a tightly closed door hid the true legacy left by the Six-Dimensional Civilization, which was also the biggest goal of his trip.

"Since the illness is cured, it's time to talk about the reward."

Lu Chen patted the huge ball of light, as if patting an old friend on the shoulder.

"I want to go in."

"I want to see what good things those 'gods' who created you left behind for me."

[As you wish.]

[Permission transferred.]

As this consciousness fell, the tightly closed core door slowly opened.

A path of light leading to an unknown dimension was laid out at Lu Chen's feet.

Lu Chen looked back at the expedition in the distance, and at Su Qingying, who was pressing against the porthole, tears streaming down her face.

He gave her a reassuring smile, then turned around and stepped into that light.

And behind him, the massive white vortex began to shrink rapidly, finally turning into a crystal-clear white gemstone only the size of a fingernail. With a swoosh, it flew into Lu Chen's forehead, perfectly merging with that golden mark.

"Hum—"

The terrifying fluctuation that had suppressed the center of the Milky Way Galaxy for hundreds of millions of years completely disappeared.

The black hole calmed down.

The starry sky became clear.

The forbidden zone that once made all civilizations tremble with fear had, at this moment, become the most solid—backyard of human civilization.

"We won."

War Wolf sat on the ground, gasping for breath, but with a silly smile on his face.

"We actually won!"

"Is this a god?"

Su Qingying watched the figure disappearing into the light, tears unable to stop flowing down.

She knew that when Lu Chen returned again.

He would no longer be a mortal.

He would bring the truth of the entire universe, with power transcending dimensions, to lead human civilization—to ascend!