At the lowest level of the Logic Data Center lay a void where even the concept of time did not exist. Chu Qing strode inside. Around him, the flowing digital code had vanished, replaced by a quietly suspended cluster of light, a strange and pure purple gold.
This cluster of light was the true source of "Simplification," the Progenitor power with which he had swept across All Heavens and crushed everything through dimensional reduction. It was no spiritual treasure born of heaven and earth, but an initial fragment of code abandoned by the evolutionary history of the Real Realm—a primordial source that had existed even before creation itself, representing "underlying logic."
"So that's how it is." Chu Qing gazed at the tranquil light, a glimmer of understanding flashing through his eyes. "People pursue the so-called Great Dao, seeking causality, reincarnation, and immortality. Yet they have no idea that before any order was born, the Real Realm was actually a blank sheet of paper."
The instant he reached out to touch that fragment of code, a heavy tremor suddenly shook the void. The seven "Maintainers" had already fused into a [Logic Gatekeeper] towering a hundred thousand feet high. His entire body was forged from chains of laws, and in his hand he held a stone stele radiating boundless majesty—the [Status Suppression Stele].
"Chu Qing, you dare pry into the forbidden source!" the Gatekeeper roared deafeningly. "This code is the initial configuration of the Real Realm. Only supreme beings who have transcended this realm may touch it. If you forcibly merge with it, your flesh will be torn apart by billions of laws and reduced to a speck of dust in this ocean of logic!"
The Gatekeeper swung the heavy stele, bringing it crashing down from above. What was engraved upon it