272: Chapter 272 Are we saving this for the New Year?

Su Xiaoxiao's long purple-silver hair danced wildly in the turbulent energy currents, her cold eyes filled with shock and worry at this moment.

She could clearly perceive that what was gestating between Chen Xi's hands was a terrifying singularity that even [The Void] could not bear!

"If I don't melt it down, should I keep it for New Year's?!"

Chen Xi's hands had already been lacerated to the point of bleeding by the violent laws attached to the Divine Spark fragment, his exposed white bones appearing particularly gruesome under the reflection of the nine-colored divine radiance.

Blood was streaming from his seven orifices, but his eyes were terrifyingly bright, like two supernovae rapidly collapsing:

"That hand... the thing behind that rift is not a life form at all! It is the universe's 'Immune Scavenger,' it is pure [Nothingness]! Conventional magic, physical armor, and even the high-dimensional laws we were once so proud of are worth nothing more than waste paper in front of it!"

Chen Xi gritted his teeth tightly, driving the highest authority of the [civilization seed editor] within his body to a 120% extreme overload state:

"To plug a 'Void Black Hole' that devours everything, the only way is to forcibly seal it with a 'physical stopper' that has greater mass and harder rules than it!"

"Give it to me—melt!!!"

Following Chen Xi's roar, his [Miracle: Sublimation] talent transformed into countless golden chains of rules, frantically wrapping around the gray high-dimensional Divine Spark fragment, attempting to forcibly dismantle, shatter, and then reshape it into the world origin of the [Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain].

However, just as Chen Xi was racing against time to perform this "creation card-making" that would be recorded in the annals of cosmic history.

Outside the porthole, that indescribable "black giant hand" that had reached out from the black rift moved again.

"Hum—"

There was no earth-shattering sonic boom, nor any brilliant light or shadow effects. That giant hand, composed purely of darkness, just extremely slowly and casually gave the right flank of the [Earth Expeditionary Force] fleet a gentle "swipe."

"Sshhh!"

It was as if a painter had gently wiped a pitch-black eraser across a canvas.

The entire three heavy magic-guided cruiser fleets located on the right flank of the fleet, totaling one hundred and twenty interstellar warships thousands of meters long, as well as thirty thousand fully armed elite soldiers of the Southern Region inside the warships...

In this one second, without even being able to let out a scream, they just... vanished into thin air!

There was no explosion of fire, no twisted metal wreckage, and even the spatial coordinates where they had existed were completely "erased" in that instant, turning into a zone of absolute vacuum and death!

"My soldiers, ahhhhhhh!!!!"

Commander-in-Chief Lei Zhentian's eyes were splitting with rage; watching his own subordinates have their existence erased without even a drop of blood remaining, this iron-blooded veteran's heart was bleeding. He frantically pounded the paralyzed command console in front of him, his hair standing on end with fury:

"All troops, listen up! Open fire for me! All planet-annihilating cannons, all main cannons, aim them all at that black hand! Fire! Hit it hard!!!"

"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!!!"

The thousands of surviving warships simultaneously let out a roar of grief and indignation. Countless thick plasma beams, antimatter missiles, and [Forbidden Curse]s released by high-ranking mages combined, like a meteor shower flowing in reverse, poured down upon the black giant hand, covering the sky and earth.

However, a despairing scene occurred.

That terrifying firepower, enough to easily tear apart a planet, the moment it touched the hundred-kilometer radius around the black giant hand, was like a drop of water falling into an endless desert; it didn't even stir up a ripple before it was directly assimilated and devoured by that "void"!

"It's useless... physical and energy attacks are fundamentally ineffective against the concept of 'non-existence'..."

Li Zhenhai's face was ashen, and the battle blade in his hand hung powerlessly. Faced with this ultimate natural disaster of dimensionality-reduction strikes, the military force humanity was so proud of was as ridiculous as a baby's toy.

"No... it's not over yet!"

Just at this moment when the entire army was about to fall into complete despair, a dark golden light that seemed capable of suppressing eternity suddenly shot up from the deck of the flagship!

It was Lin Shan!

This man, who had already developed the [Absolute Martyr] class to its extreme, had stood up once again!

"I don't care if you are some void or natural disaster! As long as you dare to touch the brothers behind me, you have to ask my bones if they agree first!!!"

Lin Shan's muscles bulged high, and the dark golden [Indestructible Blood Core] in his chest emitted a frantic roar like a war drum. He carried no shield, because he knew that any physical shield was meaningless in front of the void.

He wanted to use his own [Law of Causality] rules to hard-counter this void!

"[Ultimate Technique: Causality Deprivation: Wall of Sighs of Life]!!!"

Lin Shan roared, his arms suddenly spreading outward. He actually ignited his own life origin directly, turning his own "concept of existence" into a dark red law-of-causality shield stretching tens of thousands of kilometers in front of the fleet!

"Sizzzzzzz—"

The black giant hand slowly pressed down, making contact with Lin Shan's law-of-causality shield.

In an instant, blood began to spray frantically from every pore on Lin Shan's body, and his indestructible dark golden bones actually emitted the cracking sounds of being unable to bear the weight. The void was frantically trying to erase this shield, while Lin Shan was using his constantly regenerating vitality to fill the conceptual gap being erased!

"Urgh, ahhhhhhh! Captain! I can only hold on for ten seconds at most!!!" Lin Shan was bleeding from his seven orifices, his voice completely hoarse, but his legs were like they were rooted in the cosmic vacuum, fighting to the death without retreating!

"Ten seconds... is enough!"

Li Murou's eyes were filled with hot tears; she suddenly sat cross-legged in the void, her ten fingers pulling countless afterimages across the [harp of time reversal]. Blood stained the strings, but she seemed as if she couldn't feel the pain.

"[Time Reversal: Chrono-Freeze: Area Lockdown]!"

Golden time gears frantically shrouded the outer layer of Lin Shan's law-of-causality shield, attempting to forcibly slow down the flow of time around that black giant hand. Even if it could only slow it down by 0.1 seconds, that was still fighting for a chance of survival for all of humanity!

"All spirits, heed my command! In the name of the Goddess, Soul Resonance!"

Ye Fei's brow shone with intense golden light; she actually forcibly gathered all the lingering souls from the remains of the fierce beasts in the surrounding starry sky, transforming them into a soul storm, recklessly charging toward the black giant hand, attempting to use the massive mental distractions to interfere with the void's operation.

Everyone was fighting for their lives! Everyone was using their lives to buy that last glimmer of hope for Chen Xi!

And at this moment, Chen Xi's eyes were already streaming with two shocking trails of blood and tears due to extreme mental exhaustion.

"Too slow... the fusion speed is still too slow! The rule resistance of the high-dimensional Divine Spark is too strong; with my current mental power, I still need at least thirty seconds to completely shatter its firewall!"

Chen Xi looked at the card in his hand with the fusion progress stuck at 99%, his heart burning with anxiety. Ten seconds! Lin Shan absolutely couldn't hold on for thirty seconds! Once the shield shattered, the entire army would be wiped out!

"Beep... Warning... System detects that the Supreme Administrator's vital signs are on the verge of collapse..."