367: The Earth Federation has encountered new problems.

*Sizzle sizzle*

Lingxiao Heavenly Court, Central Control Room.

The originally magnificent hall now looked like a boiler room that had just shut down.

The smell of burning was everywhere.

It was the scent of quantum circuits burning out after operating under extreme overload.

"Was... was it delivered?"

Ye Qingcang sat slumped on the floor. His mighty "Xingtian" battle armor had been disarmed, revealing a shirt soaked through with sweat.

The Old General's hands were shaking; he couldn't even hold a cigarette steadily.

"It was delivered."

In the center of the hall, the phantom of "heavenly craft," the avatar of the Heavenly Dao, was now so dim it was almost transparent.

Her voice held extreme weakness, yet it carried an unconcealable sense of relief.

"Father received it."

"That sword strike was very strong."

"Strong enough to directly sever the causality lines of that dimension."

*Phew*

Hearing this, the high-ranking Federation officials collapsed across the hall all let out a collective sigh of relief.

Wang Peng's substitute robot (while his main body had left with Lu Chen, he left a double to handle business) directly malfunctioned, emitting a puff of blue smoke.

"It was worth it!"

Ye Qingcang grinned, revealing a row of white teeth.

"As long as Commander Lu can win, it's worth it even if we have to pawn our own underwear!"

However...

The smile hadn't even blossomed on the Old General's face for two seconds.

"Beep—!!!"

An extremely shrill black alert exploded without any warning!

The lights of the entire Lingxiao Hall instantly turned a desperate, ghastly red.

"What's going on?!"

Ye Qingcang sprang up and instinctively reached for the blade on his back, only to grasp at air.

All the energy in the blade had just been sent away.

"Warning! Warning!"

heavenly craft's voice suddenly became sharp.

"Detected 'Void Backflow' phenomenon!"

"Because the power of the energy transmission just now was too high, we've punched a hole through the barrier of the Multiverse!"

"A hole?"

Ye Qingcang's eyes widened. "How big?"

heavenly craft waved her hand.

A holographic star map unfolded.

Directly above the "Pangu Continent," where the passage should have been, a massive, pitch-black, and continuously expanding vortex appeared.

That was no ordinary black hole.

That was—[Absolute Nothingness].

"That hole connects to the 'Dimensional Crevice'."

heavenly craft spoke rapidly. "The matter density there is zero, but it is filled with 'Conceptual Predators'."

"Just now, our radar captured large-scale life reactions."

"They've come following the scent."

"What scent?"

A childish yet exceptionally steady voice rang out.

Lu Xinghe.

This "New Pilot," who appeared to be only three years old, was currently sitting on the throne that belonged to his father.

His short little legs couldn't reach the floor, dangling in mid-air.

But his eyes were as calm as an old monster who had lived for ten thousand years.

"The scent of weakness."

After Lu Chen left, Lu Xinghe seemed to have grown up overnight.

He held the golden ball of light symbolizing authority in his hand, his gaze fixed intently on the black hole on the star map.

"We just drained our entire family fortune."

"The current Earth Federation is like a piece of fat meat without a shell."

"And..."

Lu Xinghe pointed at the edge of the black hole, where countless red dots were moving rapidly.

"These things aren't ordinary beasts."

"They are Void Whales."

"Void Whales?!"

Hearing this name, the faces of several knowledgeable old scientists present instantly turned pale.

"Those are the legendary monsters that specifically devour 'Rules'!"

"They don't eat meat or drink water; they specifically eat 'Laws of Physics'!"

"In the places they swim through, gravity fails, the speed of light drops to zero, and all matter disintegrates into primordial soup!"

"It's over..."

A staff officer slumped to the ground in despair. "Our defense system's energy is less than 1%! What do we fight with? Do we ram them with our heads?"

Fear spread like a plague.

Without Lu Chen, without energy, facing this legendary natural disaster, the Earth Federation seemed to have been instantly stripped back to its original form.

"What's the panic!"

A childish shout of anger made the hall hum and vibrate.

Lu Xinghe jumped down from the throne.

He walked step by step to the command console on his short little legs.

Though he only reached Ye Qingcang's knees, the aura he erupted with at that moment actually caused the battle-hardened veteran to subconsciously straighten his back.

"Papa entrusted the home to me."

"Not so I could lead you in mourning."

Lu Xinghe looked up. Though the chaotic divine light was gone from the eyes he inherited from Lu Chen, they burned with an unyielding stubbornness.

"Out of energy?"

"Then fill the gap with lives!"

"Old Ye!"

"Present!" Ye Qingcang roared subconsciously.

"Pull out all the reserves of the Divine Mechanism Guards!"

"If there are no light spears, use alloy blades!"

"If there are no shields, use armor to tank!"

"Behind us is Earth, the Myriad Realms, and the empire Papa fought with his life to build!"

"If anyone dares to take a step back..."

Lu Xinghe slammed the table. Within his palm, the golden flame of authority erupted!

"I will, on behalf of Papa..."

"Enforce family law!"

"Yes!!!"

Ye Qingcang's blood boiled.

Looking at the tiny figure before him, he momentarily seemed to see the man from back then, standing on the ruins and raising a middle finger to the gods and buddhas in the sky.

So similar.

This ruthlessness was practically carved from the same mold!

"Sister heavenly craft."

Lu Xinghe turned, his tone becoming slightly softer.

"Calculate the weaknesses of the Void Whales."

"Since they eat rules, we'll feed them something they can't digest."

"Something they can't digest?" heavenly craft was stunned.

"Correct."

The corners of Lu Xinghe's mouth curled up, revealing a mischievous smile filled with bad ideas, exactly like his father's.

"Take all those 'high-dimensional trash' items that won't sell in Uncle Fatty's warehouse, plus all those toxic 'industrial wastes,' and pack them all up!"

"Turn them into bombs!"

"Don't they love to eat?"

Lu Xinghe's small hand swept fiercely toward the black hole.

"Then let them..."

"Eat their fill!"

"Stuff those bastards to death!"

Above the void.

At the edge of the black hole.

Tens of thousands of translucent behemoths, as massive as mountains, were greedily sucking up rule fragments leaking from the hole.

They had no physical forms, appearing like groups of swimming shadows.

Wherever they passed, starlight was extinguished and all things withered.

However.

Just as they were preparing to rush into this rich universe to feast...

"Whoosh—!"

A massive black metal sphere painted with a skull flew out from the black hole.

It smashed directly into the densest part of the beast swarm.

It was a dirty bomb compressed from tens of thousands of tons of "Abyssal Poison."

A dirty bomb.

"Boom—!!!"

Green toxic mist exploded in the void.

The Void Whales that originally fed on rules began to violently rot and dissipate as soon as they touched even a tiny bit, letting out shrill screams.

Immediately following.

Countless Earth warships, though worn, were brimming with killing intent as they charged out of the black hole.

On the flagship.

Three-year-old Lu Xinghe, wearing a custom-made mini battle armor, held a megaphone and let out the first war roar of his life at the group of cosmic disasters:

"No thoroughfare here!"

"Earth Federation..."

"Declines visitors!"