Da Qin: Conquer all heavens and all realms

"Ancestor of Nothingness, it's time to wake up from your dream."

"I'm back."

This "Voice of the Great Dao" was silent, yet more shocking than any divine thunder of creation. It was like two invisible giant hammers, one smashing into the real universe, while the other fiercely chiseled through the wall of "dreams" that enveloped everything.

All living beings in the heavens and the world, whether they are gods, demons, immortals, Buddhas, or mortals and ants, at this moment, this declaration echoed in the depths of their souls.

It was a throbbing that came from the origin of life, as if the world, which had been sleeping for billions of years, finally heard the first alarm clock.

The Kingdom of Law, the Palace of Nine Skies.

The jade slip in Li Si's hand shattered with a "snap" sound. He looked up suddenly, his eyes flashing with brilliance and filled with tears.

He felt that familiar yet completely different will, more vast and profound than before, as if the universe itself was breathing.

"Yes, Your Majesty! Your Majesty, he...he succeeded!" Li Si's voice trembled with excitement.

Meng Tian's clenched fists slowly loosened. He felt the pressure that swept across the heavens. Instead of feeling fear, he felt an unprecedented fighting spirit and pride.

He knelt on one knee, facing the void, and shouted in a deep voice: "Welcome Your Majesty, the King of the Heavens!"

Wang Jian closed his eyes and concentrated, sensing the "order" and "truth" contained in that will. He murmured to himself, "This is no longer the will of the emperor... This is... 'Tao.' Your Majesty, he has transcended the emperor and become the ancestor of all laws."

And at the other end of the universe, there is the Buddha's Pure Land.

The ancient Buddha sitting cross-legged under the Bodhi tree suddenly shook his body, and billions of leaves of the Bodhi tree turned from withered yellow to emerald green at the same moment, and then turned into dazzling gold.

He slowly opened his eyes, and there was no longer compassion in his eyes, but a "great enlightenment" that saw through the ultimate truth of the universe.

"Well done, well done." The ancient Buddha sighed. "So, the other side of 'reality' isn't Nirvana, but 'Reunion'. The Qin Emperor... no, he should be called the 'Ancestor of Taoism.' He used himself as fuel to ignite the fire of the universe, burning away illusions and achieving eternity."

In the Frost Temple, the eternal spear "Gungnir" in the hands of the Valkyrie Volsung was humming incessantly, and the tip of the spear was pointing in the direction where Ying Zheng was returning.

She felt the power contained in that will, a power that was older and more fundamental than the "fate" she believed in.

That is the power of "existence" itself.

"So... so-called destiny is but a thread in this grand dream," the Valkyrie muttered, her eyes filled with awe and relief. "True freedom lies not in resisting fate, but in becoming fate itself. Emperor Qin, he did it."

The central council of the Free Alliance was in dead silence.

All screens, all detectors, displayed the same incomprehensible data—the universe's "background radiation" was undergoing a fundamental change. It was a reshaping of the laws of nature, more dramatic than the Big Bang.

"What...what is this?" A white-haired scientist stared at the frantically jumping data in his hand, his face ashen. "Our laws of physics...are being rewritten! No, not rewritten, but 'corrected'! They're returning to their most original, most perfect state!"

The Alliance Speaker slumped in his chair, looking out the window. Those nebulae that they once considered "free" and chaotic were now slowly flowing in an incredible and harmonious rhythm, like a magnificent cosmic symphony.

"We were wrong..." the Speaker said dejectedly. "What we always thought was 'tyranny' was actually 'salvation.' The 'freedom' we always defended was nothing more than shackles bestowed by 'dreams'... We are the true fools."

However, not everyone succumbed to this new will.

At the moment when Ying Zheng's declaration resounded through the heavens, the entire universe, no, the entire "dream", let out a painful groan.

The omnipresent will of the "Observer" that was like a background curtain suddenly became violent, angry, and fearful!

“Buzz——!!!”

A force of pure "nothingness" that cannot be described in words suddenly erupted from every corner of the universe, from the depths of every living being's subconscious, and from the cracks in every physical law!

This force has no form and no energy fluctuations; it acts directly on "existence" itself.

The golden light of the Kingdom of Law began to be eroded by large areas of gray. The light spots representing "submission" were extinguished one after another, and were replaced by black representing "chaos."

Cracks began to appear in the golden world of Buddha's Pure Land, and within the cracks was pure "nothingness" that could swallow up all light.

The eternal ice of the Frost God's Palace began to melt from the inside. It was not heat, but the foundation of its "existence" was being shattered.

The galaxies of the Free Alliance began to fall apart, the stars turned to nothingness, and space itself wrinkled and disappeared.

"This is... the counterattack of the Ancestor of Nothingness!" Li Si's face turned pale. He felt that his soul was being pulled out by a cold force, and he was about to turn himself back into a mindless "observer".

"Protect the core of the kingdom of God! Use your Majesty's will as a shield and hold on!" Meng Tian roared, and a brilliant imperial aura burst out from his body, colliding violently with the force of nothingness.

"boom!"

Meng Tian was struck by lightning, blood spurted from his mouth, and he flew backwards.

He found that his own strength was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot in the face of this "nothingness".

This wasn't a confrontation of strength, but a crushing of concepts. The Originator of Nothingness was the dream itself, and they were merely characters within it. How could a character defeat the creator of the dream?

Just when the entire universe was about to be completely devoured by this violent force of nothingness, and all living beings were about to be reduced to their original forms, becoming soulless "playthings" again -

In that absolute nothingness, Ying Zheng's "Tao fetus" moved.

He slowly stood up from the chaos.

He has no body, for he is a collection of beings. His form changes constantly according to the perception of all beings.

In Li Si's eyes, he is still the majestic and domineering emperor of all ages sitting in the Nine Heavens Cloud Palace.

In the eyes of ancient Buddhas, he is an almighty enlightened being with majestic appearance and illuminating all directions.

In the eyes of the Valkyries, he is a supreme god who holds the spear of destiny and judges everything.

In the eyes of scientists, he is a perfect, all-encompassing ultimate formula.

He is the "truth", he is the "order", he is the "Tao" of this new universe!

He raised his hand and waved lightly.

This wave of the hand did not make any earth-shattering sound, but it seemed to have brushed away the dust covering the mirror.

"Falsehood should be destroyed."

With his plain words, the power of nothingness that swept across the heavens began to melt at a speed visible to the naked eye, like ice and snow under the sun.

Not defeated, not suppressed, but "denied".

Ying Zheng's very existence is the most fundamental negation of "nothingness." He is like a "1," while the Originator of Nothingness's dream is a myriad of "0s." No matter how many "0s" there are, as long as "1" exists, its value is no longer nothingness.

"Do not--!!!"

An unimaginably large consciousness, formed by the fear, confusion, and despair of countless living beings, appeared at the core of the universe.

It has no fixed shape, sometimes like a huge vortex, sometimes like a distorted human face, and sometimes like an endless gray curtain.

This is the true form of the "Ancestor of Nothingness", or in other words, its projection in this "dream".