211: Higher Dimensions Arrival

The time weaver rotated silently, its tail gleaming with iridescent light, silently maintaining that fragile conscious defense network that spanned countless timelines.

The faint light of the beacons of the myriad worlds flickered on the level of cognition; though it could not provide substantial power, it brought a sliver of cold comfort—they were not fighting alone.

Han Li (Mo Yuan) was immersed in a peculiar state.

On one hand, his body was extremely weak from overexertion, and his connection to the remnant of the all-knowing eye was intermittent due to the continuous extraction by the [eternal calamity protocol]; on the other hand, through the subtle resonance of the time weaver, he could vaguely perceive the ignorant yet firm will of resistance coming from those distant spacetime nodes. This kept his cold consciousness core in a highly active state of deduction, constantly analyzing the potential operational loopholes of the "World Engine."

However, he had underestimated the keenness of the "Observer" and the systemic reaction triggered by the gathering of "variables."

The sparks he had sown and the network he had woven might temporarily deceive the basic scanning programs, but to the "high-dimensional beings" truly paying attention to this place, it was like lighting too many campfires in a dark forest—even if each cluster was very weak, the gathered light was enough to attract the deadliest of hunters.

On this day, in the dead of night.

Han Li was holding the little green bottle, absorbing the meager essence of moonlight, attempting to restore a sliver of Origin Qi.

The time weaver in his palm suddenly emitted an extremely subtle yet abnormally urgent tremor!

It was not the discovery of a new timeline, nor the successful connection to a node, but... a top-level alert!

[Warning! Ultra-high dimensional energy focus detected!]

[Source point locked: Core area of this experimental site (Detection-9071) (Spirit Realm)!]

[Energy level: Exceeds cognitive limits! Nature: Absolute purification/reset to zero!]

[Target: Eradicate large-scale abnormal variable clusters (consciousness defense matrix nodes)!]

[Judgment: World Engine cleanup protocol—highest priority execution unit activated!]

Billions of instances of extreme fear and despair, coming from different timelines and transmitted through the consciousness defense matrix, surged in like a tsunami along the connection of the time weaver!

Han Li (Mo Yuan) spat out a mouthful of blood, his vision went black, and his consciousness was almost scattered by this collective premonition of doomsday!

He forcibly steadied his mind, his consciousness recklessly following the extremely unstable connection between the time weaver and the main timeline, casting itself once again toward that ruin of the Spirit Realm a million years in the future!

He "saw"—

That dead, dim yellow sky, like fragile glass, began to silently... shatter from the very center!

It was not cracking, but a complete, structural collapse!

The firmament seemed to be wiped away by an invisible giant hand, revealing what lay behind—an indescribable, higher-dimensional "reality" churning with pure data and cold logic!

Immediately after, a "hand" slowly reached in from behind the shattered sky.

It was impossible to describe its size, because the moment it appeared, it seemed to fill the entire field of vision, covering the firmament of the entire Spirit Realm!

It was impossible to describe its material; it was not flesh and blood, nor pure metal or energy, but an entity closer to a "concept"—cold, smooth, and radiating a silver-gray luster of absolute rationality that froze the Soul.

Flowing over it were countless infinitely dense, constantly appearing and disappearing strange runes, each one containing terrifying power capable of easily tearing apart stars.

This silver-gray metal giant hand, with a programmed, precise, and extremely indifferent posture, slightly curled its five fingers and—towards a certain area of the Spirit Realm's land, an area that happened to be the projection zone of several of the brightest nodes in the consciousness defense matrix—gently... pinched.

There was no sound, no burst of light, no energy impact.

Everything within the coverage of that giant hand—whether it was the remnant sequence metal from the war a million years ago, the glazed ground, or the long-meaningless remnants of the node civilizations' imprints in the Spirit Realm—was in an instant...

Decomposed.

Not shattered, not annihilated, but a more thorough, structural... disintegration at the level of the most basic particles.

It was as if it had been directly "deleted" with the highest authority, completely turning into nothingness, not even a speck of dust remained.

That area instantly became a terrifying, absolutely smooth, absolutely flat, and absolutely "void" blank space.

The Spirit Realm, this once vast and boundless world, had a large chunk directly erased!

It was like a painting with a crucial piece of color erased by an eraser!

[Experimental site cleanup program initiated]!

This was not targeted at any individual, but a systemic elimination of "abnormal variable clusters"!

Han Li (Mo Yuan)'s consciousness trembled violently before this terrifying sight that transcended understanding; a fear stemming from the most instinctual part of life, in the face of an absolute natural predator, seized everything within him.

However, the movements of the metal giant hand did not stop.

Its cold fingers seemed to brush casually and lightly through the air.

The next moment—

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

In Han Li (Mo Yuan)'s perception, through the consciousness defense matrix, he "saw":

That Alpha-772 plane that had developed a rock elemental civilization; its massive celestial body, like a clay pellet being crushed, instantly collapsed and vanished!

That Beta-109 shelter struggling in the wasteland, along with the entire tectonic plate it was located on, was directly gouged out of the Universe by an invisible force!

That Gamma-558 spirit plant race that lived in symbiosis with plants; their massive collective consciousness network was extinguished in an instant like a snuffed-out candle flame!

One by one, the "beacons" he had lit, one by one, the civilizations that had just begun to rise with a consciousness of resistance, were easily... erased under that casual brush of the giant hand, like chalk drawings on a blackboard.

Within the consciousness defense matrix, countless wails of fear and despair came to an abrupt end.

Dead silence.

Complete dead silence.

The metal giant hand floated silently above the shattered firmament of the Spirit Realm, subtle streams of data light flickering at its fingertips, as if evaluating the cleanup results, or perhaps... scanning for the next target.

Its "gaze" seemed to pierce through time and space, pierce through dimensions, and slowly... move toward the direction the time weaver was connected to, moving toward the spacetime node where Han Li (Mo Yuan) was located, the... starting point of everything.

The cold, absolute, and irresistible death gaze crossed eternal spacetime and descended suddenly!

Thump!

Han Li (Mo Yuan) fell directly from the straw mat to the ground; his entire skeleton seemed to be creaking under the pressure of that invisible gaze, and even breathing became incredibly difficult!

The time weaver in his hand let out a mournful cry, its rotation almost coming to a halt!

The light of the little green bottle dimmed sharply!

The high-dimensional being had not descended in person.

But the cleanup program it had dispatched had already cast its gaze.

The struggle of ants seemed to have aroused a negligible sliver of... "interest" from the shepherd.

And this "interest" would bring about a devastating catastrophe.

[High-Dimensional Arrival] had declared its existence in the coldest, most absolute manner.

Resistance seemed to have had its ending destined from the very beginning.