Chapter 1 The Dyson Sphere

The Dyson Sphere floated in the cosmos, its dark shell, which covered the entire surface of the star, laced with cracks from which a faint light spilled. It outlined the shape of a quietly burning star, making it look like a lava mountain range floating in a dark ocean, with threads of light occasionally flashing to illuminate the surrounding void.

Controlled by Yuan Mie Dao to burn at a stable rate, the star's lifespan would be extremely long. In theory, it would burn continuously for over a trillion years, far longer than the lifespan of any main sequence star.

But today, this star's life was coming to an end.

Centered on what was originally the Third Temporal Prison, vast nebulae rotated and vibrated at both ends of the Dyson Sphere, emitting rumbling thunder. For a time, dazzling lightning crisscrossed the starry sky, even coalescing into a vast river of lightning, shooting out from the vortex and piercing through space-time.

It was as if two black holes were tearing apart everything around them. The nebular vortices were accretion disks, and the torrents of lightning were black hole jets. With Su Zhou and the Ending Instructor at opposite ends, the plates of the Dyson Sphere were collapsing. Large areas of the spirit crystal energy-absorbing structure were shattered into dust in the violent turbulence, revealing the golden-red surface of the star beneath.

But this was not the end. As the Dyson Sphere's energy-absorbing structure collapsed, the star itself lost its protective armor.

Torrents of stellar gas, as if drawn out by a pump, flowed down rapidly. Boundless energy surged towards the two combatants, absorbed and transformed into their own power.

"This, this feeling?!"

Xing Ying, having her body control temporarily borrowed by the Zhuzhou of the chat group once again, and this time even by the group leader, the Primordial Zhuzhou, felt a little tired, but quickly sensed something different from before.

That was, her temporary body was rapidly 'evolving'!

Generally speaking, evolution does not guarantee that a creature will become stronger, at most it can only ensure that the descendants who inherit the genes are more suitable for the current era, so it is considered 'evolution'.

But the Chengdao Dragon Girl could shockingly sense that her Mech God Body, under the control of a soul that had descended from nowhere, was seizing the energy and mass of the Dyson Sphere structure and the star, rapidly undergoing all kinds of reshaping and strengthening, a transformation akin to nirvana rebirth!

Originally forged from 'Eternal Sun Star Crystals', the warship keel of the Chengdao Dragon Body, the Mech God Body's spine, was being rapidly optimized under the vast energy, both in structure and raw materials. The thick and sturdy bones became slightly more balanced, and the solid, ultra-dense structure also changed.

Now, the entire spinal keel was spirally woven from countless extremely fine divine gold threads. They formed numerous sacred triangular structures, supporting and distributing the load, while also leaving room for storing more energy and adding other modules. In an instant, the Mech God Body's mobility and strength were increased several times. And this increase was not the end. As more runes swirled around it like flowing water, this spinal keel seemed to have transformed into a divine weapon, its head and tail piercing through space-time gravity, drawing endless power from the changes in the structure of the universe, able to ignore most gravitational distortions outside the event horizon of a black hole.

And the Chengdao Dragon Body's energy core was directly shattered and reshaped.

The Flying Rainbow used a dual structure of an antimatter core and a subspace psionic core to ensure stable energy output. However, under the blessing of incredible energy, these two cores were directly shattered, and the original modules began to merge and optimize with each other.

In just a moment, a brand-new 'Aether Phase Engine' took shape. This engine could break the barrier between subspace and the real universe, using the enormous energy flow between the two phases to obtain a force akin to 'infinite power'. It was an infinite power source that could be freely used in any universe with subspace!

Even with Xing Ying's strength, she could be shocked to find that the power of this Aether Phase Engine was simply terrifying to an unimaginable degree. If it were completely completed, it would even be enough to shake the galaxy and destroy an entire galaxy with one blow—a Hedao expert not using Hedao armament and borrowing the truth of the great universe to attack would probably be at this level.

"This can be considered an antimatter engine upgrade? When it merges with the subspace engine, it directly becomes a positive and negative universe collision engine?!" The Dragon Girl couldn't help but tremble: "So, the power source I chose casually actually has this kind of potential?!"

In all conscience, she really didn't think much about it!

And besides the spinal keel and the power source, there were too many other modules that were rapidly evolving under Su Zhou's power.

For example, the scales all over her body, which were directly re-condensed by Su Zhou with stardust—now they were all genuine floating cannons, with built-in small-scale space-time transfer arrays. Once destroyed, they would immediately explode, tearing space-time and engulfing the attacker and themselves in the broken space-time turbulence, making them a world-class reactive armor.

Then there was the overall body structure that Su Zhou had adjusted. The original Chengdao Dragon Body was a typical Eastern dragon form, although there were some modifications, it was generally a long strip.

Su Zhou didn't change much. He simply made the dragon horns at the top of this long strip, that is, at the dragon's head, more slender. The sharp dragon horns were as black as ink, drawing the surrounding endless stellar power, like anchors, locking the surrounding space-time, suppressing all space-time changes except for the space-time channel opened by Skir with his own body.

Everything happened in just a few breaths. After the two vortices swallowed the stellar energy and shaped their battle bodies, the originally bright star under the Dyson Sphere had completely dimmed, turning into a listless brown dwarf star.

And the Divine Dragon and the armored giant confronted each other at the two ends of the star. They raised their eyes, gazing at each other, looking at the opponent who had perfected their Mech God Avatar to the best of their ability at this moment.

Su Zhou and the Ending Instructor had reached a certain tacit understanding, not to escalate the situation. Both sides only used the energy of the same star, and only used the Mech God Bodies of Xing Ying and Skir as models for strengthening.

Otherwise, the battle between two powerhouses who surpassed ordinary creation machine gods and possessed Hedao power, a crazy battle all the way, would completely cause the result of Su Zhou's battle with the Void Hierarch, affecting thousands of galaxies—and even more.

That was not what either side wanted.

However, unlike Su Zhou, who only adjusted the modules in his body and didn't change much in his overall image, under the strengthening of the Ending Instructor Helan Di, Skir's Mech God Avatar lived up to its original insect image, but instead transformed into a giant god wearing armor. The original insect carapace immediately became the armor plates of the new armor, and was soaked with a layer of deep, deathly black aura.

In Su Zhou's eyes, at this moment, Helan Di's image was somewhat similar to a certain transforming hero on Earth.

Without any nonsense, at the moment after the eye contact, the Ending Instructor took the lead. He raised his hand, and the many stardust ashes scattered after the destruction of the Dyson Sphere re-condensed in his palm. Thousands of rune arrays were branded into it, interlacing and weaving, condensing into a heavy and solid long sword, with a pitch-black spine and a bright red blade, overflowing with the aura of terminal slaughter.

This terminal aura was not some mysterious adjective, but the real terminal—the Ending Instructor used a super-gravitational field to restrain the star remains, shift the spectrum, and create a circle of 'critical quantum black stars' around the blade. As long as this sword hit the enemy, they would collapse into miniature black holes on the spot.

If this wasn't the end, wasn't slaughter, then what was?

Anyone who came would have to praise its pure aura, with which all methods could be broken with one sword.

As soon as the long sword took shape, it directly cut through the vacuum. In front of the blade that distorted space-time, distance was meaningless.

"As expected of a Hedao powerhouse, this method of condensing Qi into a weapon has entered the essence of the Dao."

And Su Zhou saw through the essence of this sword at a glance, his pupils moved slightly, but he revealed a smile.

Since defeating the Void Hierarch, the entire sealed universe had no enemy worthy of his full strength—even if the Venerable Ones of the Cenosia restored their full strength, the seven Gestalt Wills of the Hegemony Empire condensed their Dominator True Body, and the God-Enlightened Emperor of the Ascended Empire restarted the core star battle body, they would only be Heavenly Venerate peaks, equivalent to the Void Hierarch, and perhaps even slightly inferior.

This sword of the Ending Instructor made the youth feel a sense of danger, the danger of dying if he didn't take it seriously.

Therefore, there was meaning to fight.

The Chengdao Dragon Body rose into the air, its slender dragon body flashing with a cyan-black light, its dragon eyes bright.

He was fearless, and crashed head-on towards the terminal sword that the Ending Instructor had slashed down—but no one would think that Su Zhou was courting death, because as he acted, the surrounding space-time also began to twist violently.

In an instant, a phantom of another world began to emerge in the space-time around the Dyson Sphere remains.

At the center of the giant dragon's horns, the aura of the world surged!

The power of the Chaos Supreme Divine Power, [Embracing World Scales], began to condense. As Su Zhou's mind turned, the space-time barrier of his personal space began to erode the universe barrier of the Battle-Strife Heaven, as if to replace the original will of heaven with his own rules.

[Small universe?!]

For a time, even Helan Di was shocked by this. He had indeed seen the Embracing World Scales inherited in the Dark Abyss Dao, but there was a world of difference between Embracing World Scales. Su Zhou's mastery of his own small world, and his power, were far stronger than those Dark Abyss Dao experts who had only opened up a large storage space or a demiplane. It was so complete that it was unbelievable, and could even erode the rules of a complete universe in reverse.

In terms of potential, this was almost a prototype of a small universe!

But even so, it was impossible to block his terminal sword!

The Ending Instructor's confidence was not blind, but a fact. The volume of Su Zhou's personal space was only an ordinary star field. Although his realm was high, it had not yet expanded. How could it block the black hole sword?

But Su Zhou never intended to use the Embracing World Scales as a shield.

He just regarded it as a 'glove'.

A glove for catching a sword with bare hands!

Everything happened in an instant. In the eyes of other onlookers, the armored giant created something out of nothing, and slashed down with a sword, while the Dragon of Chengdao rose into the air and pounced towards the giant god.

Then, after a moment, there was no dull sound of a sharp sword tearing flesh and blood. What rang out instead was a clear and incomparably loud collision sound like a great bell!

Clang!

Accompanied by a muffled tremor, the Ending Instructor's eyes widened. He saw that the Primordial Zhuzhou's dragon horns were actually like pliers, wrapped in a layer of world barrier, and forcibly clamped the terminal long sword in his hand, preventing it from advancing no matter how much divine power he applied.

[——Why can the dragon's horns be used like this?!] He said in shock: [Isn't this a beetle?!]

But Su Zhou never said that he was a dragon. Strictly speaking, he was now a Zhuzhou of Chengdao.

And everyone who understands the affairs of Zhuzhou knows that it is not worth mentioning that the dragon horns become pliers.

With a crisp sound, the terminal long sword was swung away by Su Zhou with the dragon horn pliers, self-destructing in the vacuum of the universe and turning into small black holes that evaporated and disappeared. The Dragon of Chengdao took advantage of the situation to coil its long tail around the waist of the armored giant.

Bang! The crisp sound of broken spine bones rang out. In just a moment, the Mech God Body's waist of the Ending Instructor was crushed, and the overflowing energy divine light was like snow, scattered in the surrounding universe.

It seemed that Su Zhou's counterattack was successful, taking the lead and grasping the initiative in the next battle.

But at the moment of crushing the opponent's Mech God Avatar spine, a great sense of crisis surged in Su Zhou's heart.

Without any hesitation, he quickly retreated.

This was the correct choice, because in the next instant, centered on the broken waist wound of the Ending Instructor, endless blood light and vitality rapidly expanded, and then erupted, turning into a scarlet and tragic ring-shaped shock wave that tore apart space-time.

This shock wave swept across everything. The remains of the Dyson Sphere were swept by it, directly stirring into dust, and then completely cracked and burned, releasing endless dazzling fission light.

The light was dazzling, even causing a chain reaction. For a time, with the Ending Instructor as the center, almost all matter was ignited by this series of brilliance, spanning hundreds of millions of miles of space-time!

Looking from afar, it was as if a lantern was lit in the deep vacuum.

This divine power was still the [All-Annihilation Breath] that Skir had used before, but its proficiency was far better than him. In the hands of the Ending Instructor, he used his injured body as the source, decaying and releasing energy, directly causing all surrounding matter to fall into a state of near-heat death. As the rapid decay of many substances, incredible energy was released in this way, turning into a shock attacking the enemy.

This power, which was stronger after death than before life, was the most commonly used method of the Ending Dao.

Su Zhou dodged the initial shock, but could not dodge the second strike. Then, as the Ending Instructor unhesitatingly abandoned his already decaying lower body, most of the Mech God Body rushed towards the Chengdao Dragon Body with this force of all things decaying!

He punched out, and the tyrannical punch force stirred space-time, probably enough to shatter stars.

"What!"

This time, it was Su Zhou's turn to widen his eyes. In the past, he relied on surprise to separate his body and fight with the enemy, but he did not expect that the enemy, a Hedao powerhouse, was also good at using this kind of fighting method.

The Divine Dragon and the armored knight collided together, and suddenly the divine light in the void was greatly released, the dark starry sky was lit up, and the blazing brilliance swept across the universe. Wherever it passed, not to mention the original planets in the Dyson Sphere star field, even the dry brown dwarf stars were ignited.

The dragon and the giant were wrestling in this dazzling brilliance. The sparks produced by the collision of their bodies were even comparable to a supernova explosion, causing the surrounding nebula matter to be swept away, creating a vast and boundless large cavity.

And all the planets and dwarf stars that had been ignited before, the overflowing light energy, were absorbed by the two giant gods like vortices, turning into the energy they used to attack and regenerate.

In the fierce entanglement and killing, the collision of dragon tails and divine fists, one could see long horns piercing through the armor's chest, and one could also see the giant god transforming his hand into a knife, piercing through space-time, inserting it into the divine dragon's body, and crushing its spine.

The momentum of such a battle, not to mention inside the small universe of Yuan Mie Dao, could be slightly sensed even across the universe barrier, in the Creation World.

However, within the entire Battle-Strife Heaven, not even a single god was alarmed by this and appeared to check the situation.

It must be said that the Ending Instructor was ultimately a Hedao powerhouse, and was superior to Su Zhou in terms of energy manipulation and combat skills. As time passed, Helan Di's advantage became greater and greater.

However, Su Zhou could not be said to have lost.

His real purpose had already been achieved.

Just as the Chengdao Dragon Body decisively split into nine segments, and forced back the heavily injured, but roughly preserved a complete upper body armored giant with the self-explosion of three of the segments, the young man's loud laughter sounded: "Sure enough, you Yuan Mie Dao are now going all out, and are jointly plotting something at the Beginning Light Heaven of the Creation Dao, right?"

"Let me guess, just like the Perpetual Motion Star God of the Controlling Balance Dao is already coming to an end, your One God Plan should also be nearing the final step?"