168: The battle of laws! Use your thunder to forge my divine body!

“This... how is this possible...”

On the Bridge, Old Ghost stared at the silver mech bathed in golden-blue lightning, devouring the planetary thunderstorm on the holographic screen. He was completely dumbfounded.

He felt as though his worldview, which he had relied on for decades, was today utterly crushed into the most insignificant cosmic dust by an incomprehensible, brutal force.

On his throne, Lin Mo watched the “Thunder Dragon” undergoing a sacred metamorphosis, watching the woman who had cast aside Life and death just to prove herself. A genuine smile, filled with relief and pride, finally curved his lips.

He had made the right gamble.

Gu Zhixia’s potential was far vaster than she herself imagined.

What she lacked was never Talent or effort, but a stage grand enough to allow her to break free, a stage where she could wager her Life and honor.

At this moment, this forbidden zone of the gods was the most magnificent stage, created solely for her coronation!

Buzz—

After devouring a massive amount of thunderous energy, the wings on the “Thunder Dragon’s” back, made of pure electric light, suddenly flapped!

Boom!!!

That golden lightning net, enough to make any fleet despair, was forcefully torn open by it with absolute violence, creating a monstrous gap tens of thousands of kilometers long!

The “Thunder Dragon” transformed into a golden-blue comet and shot through the gap.

It did not immediately return but, like a loyal knight, hovered steadily in front of the Natural Selection, using its newly forged thunderous divine body to carve out an absolutely safe royal path for the mothership.

“Done.”

Gu Zhixia’s voice, with a hint of heavy breathing yet full of endless pride and confidence, resounded through the communication channel.

The Natural Selection smoothly passed through the death lightning zone.

The sight before them suddenly opened up.

They had finally broken through the eternal storm enveloping the planet and reached the legendary Eye of the Storm.

This was a relatively calm, vast, empty region.

It was like the deep, tranquil pupil of a cosmic beast.

Without the destructive storms and lightning from outside, slow-moving, magnificently colored cyclones flowed around them, like shimmering nebulae, filled with sacred and serene beauty.

And in the center of that nebula, an object radiating endless majesty and terrifying energy floated quietly.

It was a giant sphere, even more dazzling than a star!

It was entirely composed of pure, solidified golden lightning!

It was the “thunderstorm core”!

It was the source of all the planet’s power, the manifestation of the “Thunder” law walking among the world!

Just gazing at it invoked an urge from the deepest part of one’s genes to prostrate oneself in worship.

“Finally... found it...”

Inside the “Thunder Dragon’s” cockpit, Gu Zhixia gazed at the long-sought core, muttering to herself, an uncontrollable craving burning in her phoenix eyes, which glowed with fire.

However, just then...

“Wait... what the hell is that?”

Old Ghost’s mechanical prosthetic eye suddenly glowed bright red, emitting a piercing alarm as it locked onto the area below the “thunderstorm core”!

Around the giant golden lightning sphere, coils of deeper, dark-purple lightning, like chains, seemed to swallow all light.

Those dark-purple lightning bolts appeared quiet and restrained.

But the aura they emitted was ten thousand times more terrifying than the raging golden thunderstorm outside!

It was an aura of stillness, coldness, representing ultimate end and nothingness, an aura that did not belong to the living universe!

Roar—!!!

A roar, without warning, erupted not through the air, but directly in the depths of everyone’s souls!

The roar was unlike anything any known creature could produce, filled with supreme, inviolable majesty from primordial antiquity!

Accompanying this roar, the dark-purple lightning coiling around the core began to furiously gather, writhe, and take shape!

An incredibly vast, monstrous outline, beyond the limits of all living imagination, slowly emerged from the deepest darkness of the Eye of the Storm.

It was a dragon.

A colossal thunderous dragon, entirely composed of the purest, most primordial dark-purple Nirvana Divine Thunder, so immense it could eclipse stars!

It had no physical form; its entire body was made of constantly flowing, appearing and disappearing dark-purple lightning.

A pair of dragon eyes, as deep as black holes, slowly opened.

It coldly locked onto the “Thunder Dragon” and the Natural Selection, two tiny ants daring to intrude upon the sleeping place of a god.

It was the guardian mentioned in the intelligence!

“Oh my god...”

Old Ghost’s legs gave out, and he collapsed onto the cold deck, his face ashen, his eyes filled only with utter, lightless despair.

That was not a creature.

That was the “guardian god” manifested by the “law will” of this planet!

It was the god of this thunderous domain!

However, facing this true god of thunder, there was not a trace of fear on Gu Zhixia’s face.

She simply stared at the giant dragon, and in her phoenix eyes, which had just burned with golden lightning, a brighter, crazier flame named “conquest” ignited once more.

She remembered what Lin Mo had said.

“Yanluo” was his trump card to overturn the chessboard.

Then her “Thunder Dragon” must become the sharp sword capable of piercing the heart of a god!

“Lin Mo.”

She slowly raised the “Thunder Dragon’s” arm, still flickering with golden-blue lightning, and pointed it distantly at the thunderous giant dragon that towered between heaven and earth.

Her voice, clear through the communication channel, reached everyone on the Bridge.

There was no arrogance or ignorance in her voice, only an undeniable, absolute confidence from the depths of her soul, after having clearly identified her prey.

“Your whetstone, I’ll take it.”

“Today, I will use this false god to sharpen my ‘Thunder Dragon’!”

The giant dragon, composed of pure Nirvana Divine Thunder, seemed to understand the provocation of this tiny ant.

Its dragon eyes, like black holes swallowing all light, slowly turned, finally locking their emotionless gaze completely onto the small yet unyielding silver-blue mech.

A “god” does not need to explain its anger to mortals.

It merely slowly raised one of its front claws.

That colossal claw, woven from countless dark-purple lightning bolts, appearing and disappearing, seemed ethereal, yet the moment it was raised, it caused a resonance of laws throughout the entire core region of the Eye of the Storm.

Zzzzz—!

A dark-purple divine thunderbolt, a hundred times thicker than any previous golden lightning, like a spear of judgment cleaving through chaos, ignored the distance of space and instantly appeared before the “Thunder Dragon”!

Too fast!

Too fast for thought to even grasp, too fast for light to escape!

This strike was not a physical attack.

It contained the most primordial law power of this planet, representing “end” and “Nirvana.”

Any matter, any energy, in its presence, had only one outcome—to return to nothingness.

“Careful—!”

Old Ghost’s desperate scream had not yet escaped his throat.

Just as the Nirvana Divine Thunder was about to hit the “Thunder Dragon.”

A gentle, yet inviolable, emerald-green light barrier, radiating a vast Life aura, unfolded out of thin air in front of the “Thunder Dragon” mech without warning.

Upon the light barrier, countless ancient Life runes seemed to flow.

Vaguely, a sacred and vast phantom of a World Tree, connecting heaven and earth, flickered within the light barrier, exuding an eternal will.

Boom—!!!

The Nirvana Divine Thunder, powerful enough to completely erase a fleet from existence, slammed into the thin, emerald-green light barrier!

There was no earth-shattering explosion.

Only a chilling, law-level clash of furious annihilation and opposition!

The dark-purple power of “Nirvana,” like the most virulent poison, furiously corroded the green “Life” barrier, seeking to drag all existence into eternal stillness.

But the phantom of the World Tree, with an even more resilient and enduring posture, bloomed with endless vitality, continuously repairing the corroded barrier, firmly blocking the destructive force from entering.

Life and death, creation and destruction.

Two diametrically opposed supreme cosmic laws, at this moment, collided head-on in their most primitive and purest form!