41: Chapter 41 The Will of Heaven is worthless, break it!

The System's voice became exceptionally urgent, its data stream in disarray, as if it were on the verge of crashing at any moment.

Shen Xiao stood at the entrance of the Kunlun Ruins, where the wind was howling. Inside his Sea of Consciousness, it felt as if a hundred overloaded blowers had been shoved in, stirring his Soul until it ached.

Beside his ears, Lin Yun's arrogant laughter, accompanied by thunderous pressure, pressed down layer upon layer, making the air as heavy as if it were filled with lead.

"System, stop the nonsense, give me a solution," Shen Xiao coldly shouted in his heart.

He wiped away the blood seeping from the corner of his eye; that streak of scarlet made his smile appear exceptionally ferocious. "The Heavenly Dao wants to delete my account? Did it ever ask for my opinion?"

[Ding... System calculating... The only feasible solution: Inject a heterogeneous information stream to inversely interfere with the Heavenly Dao's logic. Detected that the host's Soul carries high-dimensional information from a non-native plane. Success rate: 0.003%...]

"That's enough."

Shen Xiao's gaze hardened as he reached back and grabbed Xia Lengbai's cold hand.

Because he was using too much force, his knuckles turned slightly white.

"Lengbai, pour all of your Spiritual Qi into me without reservation." Shen Xiao's voice was low and hoarse, carrying a kind of irresistible madness. "Even if every one of my Meridians bursts, do not stop. Do you trust me?"

Xia Lengbai's eyes, deep as ancient pools, trembled violently.

Seeing the miserable state of Shen Xiao, with blood seeping from his seven orifices, the morbid possessiveness in her heart was like a flame doused in gasoline, flaring up three zhang high in an instant.

"My Brother Shen..." She reached out her other hand, obsessively stroking the warm blood on Shen Xiao's face. Her fingertips trembled, but her tone was chillingly gentle. "Except for me, no one can make you end up like this. Not even the Heavenly Dao."

A surge of extremely cold yet pure Spiritual Qi poured into him like a flood through their joined palms.

Shen Xiao let out a muffled groan, feeling half of his body instantly frozen, followed immediately by the excruciating pain of a thousand needles piercing his heart.

He took a deep breath and simply severed most of his sensory connection with the System, sinking all his consciousness into the deepest part of his Soul.

"Heavenly Dao? Rules? They are nothing but hard-coded lines of code."

Shen Xiao closed his eyes and began to frantically visualize the scenes from his past life that were completely incompatible with this world.

There were elevated bridges where torrents of steel converged, neon-flickering skyscrapers that never went dark; there was cyberspace where hundreds of millions of pieces of information surged through optical cables, and the logical annihilation released at the instant of a nuclear explosion.

The order of this world pursued "Dao," "Perfection," and "Balance."

But what Shen Xiao threw out at this moment was "Chaos," "Entropy Increase," and the grandeur and clamor belonging to another civilization.

When the phantoms of high-rise buildings flashing with the light of code crashed wildly within his Sea of Consciousness, that invisible and aloof will of the Heavenly Dao was clearly stunned.

It was like a precision lithography machine that had been running for ten thousand years, suddenly being forced to accept an antique floppy disk full of viruses and garbled code.

"Argh!"

Shen Xiao suddenly threw his head back and spat out a mouthful of dark red blood.

His Sea of Consciousness had now turned into the most tragic battlefield. The golden chains of the Heavenly Dao attempted to crush those "heterogeneous information" streams, while Shen Xiao, like a madman, actively guided the power of the Heavenly Dao to crash into the System's core [Plunder] module!

This feeling was like guiding high-voltage electricity to pierce through a rusted fuse—either it would reboot, or it would be reduced to ashes.

At this moment, Lin Yun in the distance had already stepped into mid-air. His entire body was bathed in blinding golden light; it was a battle suit personally draped over him by the Heavenly Dao.

"I, Lin Yun, am the true master of these Nine Heavens!" Feeling the endless influx of insights into the Law within his body, Lin Yun couldn't help but laugh wantonly.

He turned his head, contemptuously scanning Shen Xiao and Xia Lengbai, who were "struggling on the verge of death" not far away.

In his eyes, Shen Xiao's miserable appearance now was clearly due to a backlash of Luck, and his Physical Body was about to collapse.

"Shen Xiao, even Heaven wants to kill you; what do you have to compete with me..."

Before Lin Yun could finish his sentence, his expression suddenly changed.

He felt that the "Source of Ten Thousand Laws" infusion, which had originally been as smooth as flowing water, had suddenly developed an imperceptible stutter.

It was as if a lump of viscous black mud had suddenly fallen into a clear spring, disgusting and difficult to purge.

"What is going on?" Lin Yun looked up at the sky in astonishment.

Meanwhile, Xia Lengbai, watching Shen Xiao's body tremble violently as he was about to collapse, felt the obsession in her heart called "Madness" erupt completely.

She felt it. Something called "Fate" was trying to erase Shen Xiao from her arms.

"You want to take my things?"

A strange flush appeared on Xia Lengbai's exquisitely beautiful face; she actually forced out a large mouthful of her lifeblood essence, and her originally rosy lips instantly turned pale.

"Nine Nether Ice Soul, with blood as the medium. Protect!"

Instead of retreating, she advanced, clutching Shen Xiao tightly as her fingertips, stained with lifeblood, rapidly traced in the Void Realm.

Layers of dark red ice crystal barriers rose from the ground, each layer containing the Luck she had suppressed for so long as the original heroine of the book.

That resolute, twisted, and powerful emotional force actually resonated with the "garbled code" in Shen Xiao's Sea of Consciousness at this moment.

Shen Xiao felt as if he had grasped a warm straw in the endless darkness.

[Ding! Detected external high-intensity Luck neutralization, logic chain repair successful!]

[Core function—Heavenly Destiny Plunder module, forced reboot!]

[Current System status: Overload mode.]

[Ding! Detected that the Heavenly Dao's will interference has weakened by 70%! Host's Soul Origin and Xia Lengbai's Luck have formed a temporary "Pseudo-Domain"!]

[Within this area, you are the rules.]

The System's originally mechanical and cold voice actually carried a trace of relieved tremor at this moment.

Shen Xiao slowly opened his eyes.

Blood was still seeping from his eye sockets, but deep within his pupils danced an ambition capable of making the world tremble.

The suffocating feeling that was originally going to crush him had disappeared, replaced by an unprecedented sense of control.

He looked at Xia Lengbai and found that this crazy woman was smiling at him while spitting blood, her eyes full of the fanaticism of "Brother Shen, you are finally mine."

"Lengbai, well done." Shen Xiao reached out and patted her shoulder; although the movement was very light, it made Xia Lengbai squint her eyes in comfort.

Subsequently, he turned his head, his gaze piercing through layers of the Void Realm, locking onto Lin Yun in the distance who was still trying to "reboot" the infusion process.

"Lin Yun, this cheat feels pretty good, right?"

Shen Xiao's voice was not loud, but under the blessing of the "Pseudo-Domain" after the System reboot, it exploded in the sky above the Kunlun Ruins like a thunderclap.

Lin Yun was shaken by this sound, his Qi and blood surging. His golden pupils suddenly contracted: "You... you actually didn't die?!"

Not only did he not die, but Shen Xiao's aura had now become extremely strange.

Standing there, he seemed to form a world of his own; even the violent Spiritual Qi vortexes around him became as docile as cats when they approached within three feet of him.

"Die?"

Shen Xiao licked the blood from his lips, his figure swaying slightly, and his entire person transformed into an afterimage, dragging a deep trench in the snow as he instantly crossed a distance of a hundred zhang.

"The things your Heavenly Dao daddy gave you are too heavy; I'm afraid your little frame can't hold them."

Shen Xiao's palm suddenly reached out, his five fingers splayed in the air, and a pitch-black vortex vaguely appeared in his palm.

"Since you can't hold them, then give them to me!"

[Ding! Detected 'Source of Ten Thousand Laws' core point, plunder probability: 100%!]

With a boom, the golden beam of light that had originally been pouring toward Lin Yun abruptly took a sharp turn in the Void Realm, as if it had seen its own father, and frantically poured toward the top of Shen Xiao's head!

The arrogance on Lin Yun's face instantly froze, replaced by a kind of despair as if he had seen a ghost in broad daylight.

He felt that the power which should have belonged to him, the power that could have allowed him to ascend to the heavens in one step, was being forcibly ripped out inch by inch from his Meridians and his Soul by an irresistible brute force!

"Shen Xiao!!!" Lin Yun let out a heart-wrenching wail.

Shen Xiao stood in the center of the light, feeling that power, capable of rewriting the lifeline of the continent, surging within his body.

He looked at Lin Yun's twisted face, a sinister and extremely joyful smile spreading across the corners of his mouth.

"Why are you screaming so loudly? For a villain to intercept the protagonist's fortune, isn't that only natural?"