306: Towards a multidimensional universe!

"No passage outside the Novice Village."

Eight words.

Cold and playful, filled with high-and-mighty mockery.

It was like an invisible slap across the faces of a hundred thousand warships and tens of billions of soldiers.

The fleet, which had been boiling with blood and ready to swing their blades at gods just a moment ago, was now as deathly silent as a cold graveyard.

That unstoppable momentum shattered the moment it hit this "Wall of Rules."

Completely and utterly shattered.

"What... what the hell does this mean?!"

Ye Qingcang's flushed face turned pale. He stared fixedly at that line, his eyes nearly bulging out as if he wanted to swallow those words whole.

"Novice Village... We unified the Milky Way Galaxy and crushed a Fourth-level civilization, and you call this a Novice Village?!"

"I... I don't quite understand."

Wang Peng (Fatty) slumped into his command chair and muttered to himself, "Brother Chen, does this mean... after all our efforts, we haven't even finished the novice quest?"

"It's worse."

Su Qingying's voice was calm, but her trembling fingertips betrayed the turmoil in her heart.

She pointed at the data analysis model: "This wall... it doesn't belong to any known physical laws. It's not energy, nor is it matter. It's... it's just a 'setting'."

A cold setting written into the universe's program.

Just like in a game, if you haven't reached the required level, you can never take a step out of the Novice Village.

No matter how good your equipment or how high your combat power, it's all meaningless.

"A setting?"

Ye Qingcang roared like a lion whose tail had been stepped on, "I don't give a damn about your bullshit settings!"

"All fleet, hear my command!"

"Charge the main cannons! Blast this piece of junk sign into cosmic dust!!"

"Yes, sir!"

The suppressed rage found an outlet.

At the bow of the flagship spaceship name, the "dragon gall" Star Destroyer Cannon—capable of vaporizing a star in a single shot—began to gather terrifying, heart-pounding energy.

Eerie blue electric arcs jumped wildly, and the space around the muzzle began to warp due to the extreme energy density.

"Fire!"

BOOM—!!!

A beam of light more brilliant than the core of a sun, carrying violent power enough to rewrite physical laws, slammed into that invisible wall!

This was the strongest strike of the Earth Federation!

This was the angry roar of human civilization!

However.

A bizarre scene unfolded.

The moment that world-destroying beam touched the barrier, it was like a clay ox entering the sea; it vanished without a trace, without even causing a ripple.

Immediately after.

Two even more mocking words slowly appeared on the barrier.

[Immune]

"Pfft—"

Ye Qingcang almost spat out a mouthful of blood.

Every soldier in the entire fleet felt a bone-chilling cold.

It was a deep sense of powerlessness stemming from being absolutely suppressed by a higher level of existence.

When your strongest weapon isn't even considered a scratch in the eyes of the enemy, what do you have left to fight with?

Despair began to spread through the fleet like a virus... "Everyone, calm down!"

Just then, a cold voice, like a stabilizing pillar, instantly suppressed all the commotion.

Lu Chen.

He slowly stood up from his throne, his face showing no anger, no despair, not even a hint of emotion.

There was only a profound, absolute indifference.

He walked to the front of the bridge and looked up at the humiliating words and the [Immune] label.

"Interesting."

Lu Chen softly uttered those two words.

Instead of being discouraged, a more crazed and intense fire ignited within those chaos-colored eyes.

"Brother Chen, this..." Wang Peng's lips were dry.

"They are telling us that 'players' should act like 'players' and not try to challenge the GM."

A dangerous arc curled at the corner of Lu Chen's mouth.

"What a pity..."

"I've never been one for rules since I was a child."

"They think they can stop me with a single 'rule'?"

"They forgot that I hold the... backdoor key to the entire server."

Before he finished speaking.

Lu Chen's body slowly floated up.

He closed his eyes and spread his arms.

In that moment, he was no longer a person, but had transformed into an unimaginably massive aggregate of data!

Buzz—!

With him as the center, countless invisible golden data streams surged wildly from his body!

That was the "Causality" belonging to Earth Civilization itself after merging with the "pangu archive"!

"They set a 'wall'."

Lu Chen's voice echoed directly in everyone's minds.

"Then I shall..."

"Carve a 'door' into that 'wall' for them!"

"heavenly craft! Inject the 'Logic Lock'!"

"Yes, Father!"

In the next second, that golden data torrent, like a siege python that had found its target, slammed hard into the Wall of Rules!

There was no earth-shattering explosion.

Only the harsh, crackling sound of garbled code!

Everyone watched in horror.

The indestructible rule barrier, which even the Star Destroyer Cannon couldn't budge, actually began to... flicker violently the moment it touched the golden data stream!

[Warning! Illegal data intrusion detected!]

[Warning! Underlying protocols have been tampered with!]

[Permission conflict...]

Lines of red warning text scrolled frantically across the barrier!

"Open. For. Me!"

Lu Chen snapped his eyes open, the divine light in his chaos-colored eyes surging as he let out a roar that shook the higher dimensions!

Crack—!!!

It was as if something at the very root of the universe had been forcibly snapped!

The wall that read "No passage outside the Novice Village" twisted and flickered violently like a screen burned out by an electrical overload, finally turning into a shower of information fragments with a soft "pfft"!

The wall was broken!

"Holy crap..."

"It's... broken? Just like that?!"

"God Lu is freaking awesome!!! (Voice cracking)"

After a brief silence, the fleet erupted into cheers more frenzied than ever before!

This was no simple victory!

This was a blatant provocation and a slap in the face to the higher-level civilization!

It was as if an NPC had stormed into the GM's office and hacked the server while they were at it!

Lu Chen slowly landed, his face somewhat pale, but his eyes were terrifyingly bright.

"Pass down my command."

His voice carried a hint of hoarseness from exhaustion, yet it was filled with unquestionable majesty.

"All forces... *cough cough*"

Before he could finish, Su Qingying suddenly grabbed his arm, pointing ahead with a pale face.

"Lu Chen, you... look, what is that?"

Lu Chen was stunned and looked in the direction she was pointing.

Behind the shattered barrier, in that true higher-dimensional space, it wasn't the battlefield they imagined, nor was it Supervisor's lair.

Instead, it was a broader, more complex new world filled with countless bizarre and fantastical sights.

Countless "universe bubbles" like their own floated, rose, and vanished in that space like soap bubbles.

And in the very center of those countless bubbles floated an unimaginably massive... "Main City"?

Just as they were watching all this in shock...

A gentle, neutral thought, carrying a hint of curiosity, suddenly crossed dimensions and was transmitted directly to the bridge of the spaceship name.

That thought held no malice; it was more like a system announcement.

"Eh?"

"Detected that a 'player' in Novice Village No. 9832 has autonomously broken through the rule barrier."

"Identity verification in progress..."

"Verification passed."

"Welcome, new 'Ascendant'."

"Friendly reminder: Internal fighting is prohibited within the 'Main God Space.' If you need to resolve personal grievances, please head to the 'Samsara Arena'."

"Wish you... a pleasant game."