385: Chapter 372 Heavenly Dao VS Human Dao: A Clash of Rules

Lin Feng watched his own palm as it began to disappear, but he did not panic.

If it were the him from before, facing this kind of dimensionality-reduction strike, he would likely have been wiped out in an instant.

But now...

"System, activate the firewall! Counter-hack for me!"

[Command confirmed.]

[Initiating 'Pangu Core'.]

[Rewriting underlying logic...]

[Logic anchor locked: I think, therefore I am.]

"Hum!"

Lin Feng, who had already become semi-transparent, suddenly saw his body solidify once more.

Countless golden runes appeared on the surface of the God-Slaying Armor he wore. These runes combined to form an impenetrable data barrier, forcibly blocking Dao Ancestor Hongjun's erasure command from the outside.

"Dao Ancestor Hongjun, you want to play programmer? Did you ask this super hacker first?"

Lin Feng stood up, flicked away his cigarette butt, and punched toward Dao Ancestor Hongjun on the high platform.

"You say I'm a virus?"

"Then let me show you today what a Blue Screen of Death is!"

Lin Feng's fist, carrying the power to split the heavens and earth, slammed heavily against the three-foot Qi wall in front of Dao Ancestor Hongjun.

"Crack!"

That Heavenly Dao Qi wall, which claimed to be an absolute defense, actually showed a crack.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun's expression, which had remained unchanged for eons, finally shifted slightly.

"Good."

Dao Ancestor Hongjun stood up slowly, his grey Daoist robe fluttering without any wind.

"Since you want to play with rules, then this Daoist will play along with you."

With his movement, the entire Zixiao Palace vanished.

In its place was a boundless sea of stars, and countless interwoven lines of Law.

The final boss battle officially began.

High-dimensional Law space.

This was no longer the material world.

Lin Feng and Dao Ancestor Hongjun floated amidst countless bizarre lines. Each of these lines represented a truth of the Universe: Gravity, Time, Space, Karma, Five Elements, Entropy increase...

This was a battle at the level of a Saint, or even the Heavenly Dao. It was no longer about whose fireball was bigger or whose Sword Qi was longer; it was about who had a deeper understanding of the "Dao" and who held higher authority.

This was a top-tier contest between a programmer and a hacker.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun stood with his hands behind his back, his figure infinitely tall, like a Creator God.

He looked at Lin Feng and calmly spat out three words:

"Let there be light."

Words Become Law.

Following Dao Ancestor Hongjun's voice, endless light erupted instantly. This was not ordinary light, but the "Light of Purification." It generated no heat, yet it could decompose all material structures. Wherever the light passed, the armor on Lin Feng began to melt as if ice and snow had met a scorching sun; even the data streams were disintegrating.

This was a forcibly set rule: within this Domain, light was the Dominator of all things, and darkness (Lin Feng) would inevitably be dissolved.

Lin Feng narrowed his eyes, feeling the excruciating pain on his skin.

"Trying to play the mystic with me?"

Lin Feng curled his lips and frantically input commands into his mind.

"System, modify the environmental parameters for me!"

"You say 'let there be light'? I'm going to pull the power switch on you!"

[Command executed: Rule overwrite.]

[Setting: Perfect Black Body. Photons stop moving, all radiant energy is absorbed.]

"Click!"

It was as if someone had turned off the master switch of the Universe.

The endless light, capable of melting all things, suddenly extinguished in that instant.

The entire space plunged into absolute darkness where one could not see their own hand. Those lights did not harm Lin Feng; instead, they were forcibly absorbed by his System and converted into energy.

"Hmm?" Dao Ancestor Hongjun frowned slightly. He discovered that he had actually lost control over the light elements.

"Gravity, one hundred million times." Dao Ancestor Hongjun spoke again.

Boom!

Lin Feng felt as if one hundred million Mount Sumerus had instantly pressed down on his body. His bones emitted cracking sounds, his internal organs ruptured instantly, and his whole body plummeted uncontrollably, his speed so fast it was on the verge of tearing him apart.

"Anti-gravity! Float for me!" Lin Feng roared, blood streaming from his seven orifices.

[Command executed: Gravitational constant G adjusted to a negative value.]

Whoosh!

Lin Feng not only stopped his descent but, utilizing this repulsive force, shot upward at an even faster speed, delivering a knee strike that slammed heavily toward Dao Ancestor Hongjun's chin.

"Time, stop." Dao Ancestor Hongjun pointed a finger.

Lin Feng's figure instantly froze in mid-air, maintaining the posture of the knee strike; even his flying hair and the splattered blood stopped in place.

"Time, accelerate! Play at double speed!"

[Command executed: Local time flow rate overwritten.]

"Bang!"

Time resumed its flow, and because of the acceleration, the speed of Lin Feng's strike became extreme, completely exceeding Dao Ancestor Hongjun's reaction nerves.

A muffled sound.

Lin Feng's knee collided solidly with Dao Ancestor Hongjun's chin.

Although a layer of Law shield blocked it, Dao Ancestor Hongjun was still knocked backward. His previously meticulous hair bun came undone, and even a few whiskers drifted down.

"You..." Dao Ancestor Hongjun touched his somewhat swollen chin, the speed of the Taiji Diagram in his eyes spinning frantically.

At this moment, he was truly enraged.

It was not just because he had been hit, but because he had been toyed with.

This was akin to him playing a game he had developed himself, only for the opponent to use a super cheat, not only locking their HP and aim, but also freely modifying the game parameters.

"Good, good, good."

Dao Ancestor Hongjun's voice became bone-chillingly cold. "Since I cannot beat you by modifying parameters, then I will solve the problem at the source."

Dao Ancestor Hongjun raised both hands, and that incomplete jade plate of creation flew above his head.

"Heavenly Dao: Historical Retrospection."

"This Daoist will return to the moment you Transmigrated, and strangle your Soul directly within the River of Time!"

This was a killing blow!

Not fighting you now; I'll go kill the past you!

A vast and mighty river appeared out of thin air. What flowed in the river was not water, but countless fragments of scenes. Dao Ancestor Hongjun's Divine Thought transformed into a massive hand that blotted out the sky, surging upstream to grab the Lin Feng downstream who had just Transmigrated, looked completely bewildered, and had not yet bound the System.

"What the f*ck! Playing dirty, are you?!"

Lin Feng was greatly alarmed. If his past self died, his current self would also vanish instantly. That was true erasure; even the System could not save him.

[Warning! Law of Karma erasure detected!]

[System cannot interfere with past space-time! Cannot defend!]

"Then what do I do?!" Lin Feng panicked, cold sweat pouring down.

[Host, use Human Dao!]

[Heavenly Dao governs the past and future, and governs Reincarnation. But Human Dao... only cares about the present!]

[Living in the present is the most powerful strength of humanity!]

Lin Feng had a flash of inspiration.

He closed his eyes, no longer paying attention to the massive hand reaching toward the past, and instead focused all his Mental Energy on the present, on this very moment.

"That Luck given to me by Goddess Nuwa..."

"Every member of the Human Race, the breathing in this instant, the heartbeat in this instant..."

Lin Feng opened his eyes abruptly, golden light erupting from them as he roared:

"My fate is determined by me, not by Heaven!"

"The past cannot be changed, the future cannot be known; only the present is real and true!"

"For me—freeze!"