Fueling It with Their Lives

"Unable to establish an effective analysis model." Li Jing's voice was colder than usual. "The target area lacks a foundational protocol framework, and its information entropy is too high. Recommendation: stay away."

Fa Xu's halo shifted violently, countless geometric patterns forming and vanishing within it without pause, yet never producing a stable deduction.

"Chaos naturally repels protocols."

For once, Fa Xu's voice carried a trace of almost human-like disgust.

"Its underlying logic is completely opposed to the order principles of the Crystal Lattice Universe. Forcible analysis may result in core contamination."

He Yin nodded slightly.

In truth, he already knew.

The Primordial Wilderness before him was not fundamentally superior or inferior to the Crystal Lattice Universe.

The nine great universes had always stood on equal footing.

None was nobler than another, and none was more primordial than another.

They were merely nine different facets born from "nothing," like nine jade slips carved from the same raw stone—identical in material, different in grain.

But knowing was one thing.

Feeling was another.

The Crystal Lattice Universe had chosen order, bringing everything under protocols and calculations—precise, efficient, controllable.

That was the path they had always revered.

The Primordial Wilderness Universe, meanwhile, had chosen Chaos, nurturing infinite possibilities amid creation.

In their eyes, such a choice was nothing but disorderly, inefficient, and unpredictable.

It was everything they rejected.

For a moment, deep within the cores of He Yin and the other two, the underlying logic shaped by countless Kalpas of Mana under the "Order Protocol" was frantically rejecting everything before them.

Too chaotic.

Too filthy.

Too... primitive.

It was like someone accustomed to a sterile laboratory suddenly being thrown into an undeveloped primeval forest.

Wild vines spreading unchecked, rotting fallen leaves, beasts charging about without restraint.

Everywhere challenged the limits of his understanding.

"This