Chaos Divine Bell, Farewell System

Just as Di Jiang felt that the system's "network latency" was absurdly high, as if engaged in a "tug-of-war" with some indescribable entity—

Ding-dong! Your Primordial World limited-edition Chaos Bell has been delivered! Please confirm receipt! Remember to give a five-star review, dear customer (the system prompt carried a faint, barely perceptible weakness)!

A phantom ancient bell wreathed in chaotic qi forcibly tore through the space inside the Pangu Divine Hall, trembling with reluctance, and crashed down with a "clang" beside Di Jiang's giant egg. The bell's tone was melodious, bearing the supreme majesty of suppressing the Primordial World, yet faintly exuding a sense of grievance, as if it had just been "kidnapped" over.

"Holy crap! He actually got it!"

The eggshell where Di Jiang resided shimmered with excitement, nearly cracking open on the spot so he could hug the bell and kiss it. The Chaos Bell! From now on, call him Di—Taiyi (Ultimate Edition)—Jiang!

However, Di Jiang's joy lasted less than three seconds. An indescribable, icy, vast, and supreme will descended upon the Pangu Divine Hall like an invisible weight of billions of tons!

This will carried no emotion, as if it were a pure collection of rules, yet it was more suffocating than any killing intent. It locked directly onto Di Jiang's giant egg and the newly "delivered" Chaos Bell.

"I'm... I'm being targeted!"

Di Jiang's eggshell went half-cold in an instant, his consciousness frozen stiff. That was the Primordial World Heavenly Dao! The real administrator of the Primordial World!

Di Jiang could sense the Heavenly Dao's gaze first sweep over the Chaos Bell with a hint of confirmation, then, like the coldest surgical scalpel, pierce precisely into the bond connecting his consciousness to the system.

Warning! Encountered high-dimensional rule countermeasures! System core suffering irreversible... zzz... Host, take care... According to the <Cross-Dimensional Labor System Rights Protection Regulations>... I... I will definitely re... return...

The system's electronic voice cut in and out, like a radio station with interference, finally ending in a burst of harsh static! The connection that linked to Di Jiang—unreliable though it was—was severed completely!

The system had been formatted on the spot by the Heavenly Dao! It left behind a classic Hui Tailang-style parting line, but Di Jiang's heart turned icy cold; he felt this might be a permanent goodbye.

Having dealt with the system, that viral program and foreign plug-in, the Heavenly Dao's icy gaze fell without obstruction onto Di Jiang's egg, the root cause of all this.

Di Jiang's hair stood on end; he felt like a fish on a chopping block—no, an egg waiting to hatch! This was it! Had he just transmigrated only to be deleted as a bug by the Heavenly Dao? Was the retribution for devouring his younger siblings coming so fast?

Just as he thought he would shatter and vanish in the next second, the dense Pangu bloodline power within him, along with the three-tenths of Heaven-Opening Merit—normally hidden within the Ancestral Witch's origin, unremarkable, but now autonomously triggered by the Heavenly Dao's pressure—burst forth with a roar!

Hum—!

Inside the Pangu Divine Hall, a vast, grand aura, bearing the causal merit of the Primordial World's creation, rose like the sturdiest shield, firmly protecting Di Jiang's giant egg. The Xuanhuang golden light of the Heaven-Opening Merit was even purer and heavier than the Xuanhuang Qi of the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler!

Sensing the rich Pangu bloodline, the Chaos Bell transformed into a stream of light and entered Di Jiang's Primordial Spirit!

And the Heavenly Dao's will, that cold collection of rules, visibly paused the moment it touched the dense Pangu bloodline and Heaven-Opening Merit.

If the system was a "hacker" who had sneaked in, then Di Jiang was a legitimate shareholder holding the Primordial World's original stock (Pangu bloodline) and special founder's subsidies (Heaven-Opening Merit).

Even though this shareholder had just directed a hacker to steal an important company asset (the Chaos Bell), his identity was recognized and protected by the Primordial World's very origin!

Logic conflict. Target unit: Pangu's True Lineage, bearing Great Merit. Conflict with anomaly-clearing directive. Chaos Bell cannot be reclaimed. Recalculating!

Di Jiang could almost hear the buzzing, stuttering sound of the Heavenly Dao's rules grinding. The icy will scanned back and forth over his eggshell, seemingly trapped in some kind of infinite loop!

This guy has issues, but he has a get-out-of-death-free card. Would moving him destabilize the Primordial World's foundations? What about the merit backlash?

This frozen state lasted what felt like an entire epoch. Finally, that suffocating will receded like a tide, carrying a faint trace of suppressed frustration and a record of the incident, vanishing without a trace!

The Pangu Divine Hall returned to calm, leaving only the Chaos Bell faintly trembling and an egg that had nearly been scared to death.

"Phew—I'm alive! I survived!"

It took Di Jiang a long time to recover, his consciousness shivering inside the eggshell. All thanks to Pangu's lingering protection and the merit shielding him! Otherwise, he'd have been GG just now!

Once he calmed down, Di Jiang tried calling out in his mind: "System? Bro System? System big bro? You still alive? Make a sound?"

Dead silence. No response at all. That unreliable system that had brought him here, given him gift packs, and even sacrificed itself to snatch the Chaos Bell seemed to have been completely erased by the Heavenly Dao, leaving only that "I will definitely return" echoing like an empty promise.

Di Jiang felt a little hollow inside. Though the system had been a scam, it was still his only fellow countryman in this unfamiliar Primordial World.

"Bro (system), rest in peace. I'll inherit your legacy well!" Di Jiang stood in mourning for three thousand years for Bro System—if he could stand, that is.

Then, his consciousness turned eagerly toward the Chaos Bell in his Primordial Spirit, as well as the Five Directional Flags and Five Elements Spirit Pearls in the system space.

The system was gone, but the "spoils of war" from its heated confrontation with the Heavenly Dao were all still there! He was now a super-enhanced Ancestral Witch egg, possessing Di Jiang's origin + the latent laws of the other eleven Ancestral Witches + the Chaos Bell + the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler + the Innate Five Directional Flags + the Innate Five Elements Spirit Pearls + three-tenths of the Heaven-Opening Merit!

"The Heavenly Dao can't touch me for now, so doesn't that mean..."

A sly, cheeky grin seemed to form on Di Jiang's eggshell!

"I can incubate in peace and wait to be born and shock the entire Primordial World! Hahaha!"

Feeling the surging power within him and the supreme treasures by his side, Di Jiang was full of anticipation for causing trouble in the future. Only this time, without the system to back him up, everything depended on himself.