The Heart of Truth, The Imprisoned "Bug"

Light and shadow shifted.

When Lin Mu's feet touched solid ground again, the clamorous battlefield was gone.

In its place was a pure white space of absolute silence.

There was no up, down, left, or right here.

Only countless flowing streams of data formed a staircase leading into the void.

At the end of the staircase, floated an enormous white heart composed of pure logical runes.

The core of the Celestial Pivot Divine Domain.

The Heart of Truth.

And embedded in the center of that heart was an irregular pitch-black fragment.

Like a drop of ink falling into pure milk.

Lin Mu adjusted his collar.

He looked at the heart, an elegant smile curling over his lips.

"The door is open."

"Now it's time to pick up the delivery."

The pure white space faded from his retinas, replaced by a suffocating sense of oppression.

There was no sacred radiance here, nor the solemn majesty of truth.

Before them stood a spherical prison woven from countless thick chains of logic, over a thousand kilometers in diameter, suspended at the end of the void. Deep crimson error codes flowed across every chain, and the chaotic aura they emitted was a hundred times more intense than that of the previous non-logical forbidden zone.

This was the heart of the Celestial Pivot Divine Domain.

Or rather, its trash can.

The Black Stone necklace on Lin Mu's chest gave off an unprecedented hum. Its scorching heat burned through his clothes and seared his skin. The signal source of the seventeenth fragment lay at the very center of this prison, so intense it was practically screaming.

Four silver giants, each ten thousand meters tall, towered at the prison's four sides.

They had no facial features; their faces were smooth mirrors, while their bodies were manifestations of