The analysis of the "Cleaner" sample proceeded under the strictest secrecy. Li Wuyang and several grandmasters worked day and night, immersing themselves in those cold, complex, and unnatural structures of extraterrestrial laws.
The process was far more difficult than imagined. The Cleaner's internal structure was not static, but constantly underwent minute adaptive changes, as though it possessed life. The fluctuation pattern of its energy core—the "Annihilation Core"—was incomparably intricate, filled with inhuman, absolute rationality. Simulating its signal was like asking a human to perfectly imitate an infinitely long piece of randomly generated chaotic code.
Several attempts ended in failure. The simulated fluctuations were either quickly rejected by the internal structure or triggered energy disturbances, nearly causing the sample to self-destruct. The grandmasters were exhausted in body and mind, nearly ready to give up.
"Perhaps... we're heading in the wrong direction." Li Wuyang sat cross-legged before the sample, his brow tightly furrowed. He cast aside all deliberate attempts at simulation and simply circulated the Chaos Nirvana Domain in silence, completely relaxing his mind. Like mercury flowing across the ground, he naturally embraced and sensed everything about the Cleaner.
The Chaos Dao embraced all rivers and encompassed all things. Nirvana intent saw rebirth within annihilation and understood reincarnation within endings.
He no longer tried to "understand" or "replicate" those cold structures. Instead, he tried to "feel" the "state" of its existence, to experience the tamed essence of "deathly silence" contained within the Annihilation Core.
Gradually, he entered an ineffable state of enlightenment. Within his sea of consciousness, visions of Chaos Birth and Death and Star Dome Nirvana emerged. In his "eyes," the Cleaner's cold internal structure was no longer a disorderly maze, but an alternative manifestation of extraordinarily efficient "order"—the ultimate application of the laws of "annihilation," turned into a tool and