Lord of Balance!

[The situation has basically stabilized.]

"Can it be stable?"

[You've asked the wrong question. It's inherently unstable, so the concept of stability doesn't even exist.]

"So what you mean is?"

Its unstable state is the most stable; if it were to become stable, that would be the real danger.

"Okay, I don't want to know that. What I want to know is, can it be used to our advantage now?"

Of course, but the rule of equivalence of matter remains unchanged.

Now that we possess the body of a seventh-tier high-level god, achieving this should not be difficult.

The difficulty is that once you cross that line, there may be no turning back.

At the edge of the universe, on a primitive and wild planet, there is no life, but there is a temple on the planet.

At the deepest part of the temple, there is an empty pool.

The pool is round, like a swimming pool.

A mechanical construct and a humanoid creature with dragon-like features stand here.

Indeed, those were the vanished Otto and the Dragon God.

The Dragon God held a stone in his hand, the shape of which was constantly changing, from square to round, then to triangle and starfish shape, with endless variations.

The dragon god's other hand was dragging a corpse.

A sword was still stuck in the body; it had been slashed directly from the left shoulder into the heart, killing the victim instantly.

The Dragon God threw the stone into the empty pool. The stone shattered in the next second, and endless blood gushed out of the empty pool!

As the blood pool gradually filled up, the Dragon God threw the corpse beside him into it.

Thump!

Blood splattered, and the corpse vanished quickly. Seeing this, the Dragon God also stepped into the blood pool.

Otto, meanwhile, was operating various instruments nearby, seemingly analyzing something.

The corpse belonged to a seventh-tier high god named Seth, who was the Lord of Balance and the master of the Balance Chapter.

The Carbon-based Life that rebelled in the Mechanical Era were also the instigators of the Mechanical Era's collapse.

Otto and Elon merged into one, and together they embarked on a journey to find the Balance Chapter, following the message left by Chen Ye before his death.

Even with the intelligence Elon possessed, finding a balance was still not an easy process for them.

Finally, with the help of others, they were able to find the current Lord of Balance, Seth.

The name Seth is very old, dating back to the era of Elon.

Long, long ago, a group of Carbon-based Life discovered the Balance Chapter within their planet and inadvertently uncovered the secrets of matter transformation.

From that moment on, the carbon-based life form began to ascend to the pinnacle of the universe at an extraordinary speed!

Star Destroyer Cannon, God-Slaying Weapon, Void Energy, Cosmic Alloy —they forged an era of unparalleled technological advancement.

It also enabled the entire nation to achieve Technological Ascension.

They stored their consciousness in Void Unit, achieving eternal life. They merged their consciousness into one, possessing absolute rationality, and everything operated like a machine.

Relying on the power of the Balance Chapter, they virtually dominated the entire starry sea.

However, as the saying goes, when material things reach their limit, when civilization reaches its zenith, when they can go no further, that is when decline begins.

This turning point came with Seth, an independent consciousness who had managed to break free from the collective will and secretly cloned himself into a bionic body.

He inserted his own consciousness unit into the clone, something that should have been impossible.

However, it happened.

As if it were preordained, he, as the Will of the Head of State, took away the Balance Chapter with his Supreme Directive.

The collapse began from that moment.

Without any hesitation, Seth used the Balance Chapter to transform the surrounding matter, creating for himself a Cosmic Alloy spaceship equipped with Void Engine, capable of Hyperspace Jump.

He fled the Origin Planet at top speed, but the moment he broke away from the collective consciousness, he was already wanted.

The pursuing fleet and the Oblivion 14, capable of destroying one-ninth of the universe, were both brought out.

They must spare no effort to reclaim the Balance Chapter, but Seth has a virus in his body that can be called the Mechanical Virus.

As for what this thing actually is, nobody knows.

It could just be a chain reaction caused by a programming error.

But none of that matters. What matters is that this chain reaction allows Seth to think independently, detached from the collective consciousness.

The collective consciousness cannot perceive his thoughts, but he can still read the collective thoughts, and this virus is also highly contagious.

Seth speculated that this might be related to the Void Core.

The Void Core is a supernatural material core that they transformed from the matter of the Balance Chapter by sacrificing one-tenth of the universe.

Its material level has surpassed the seventh order, reaching a height that is impossible for this world to achieve, namely the Eighth Order.

It showed the collective consciousness the possibility of further advancement.

But the truth is quite different; everything the Void Core brought them became the very thing that destroyed them.

Seth was the first infected person. Because he was corrupted by the Void, he was separated from the collective consciousness and was able to spread the virus.

So when others surrounded and chased him, he completely unleashed the virus, infecting nearly 40% of the collective consciousness.

The virus of the void, like a plague, penetrated the collective consciousness and instantly caused widespread infection.

The infected worshipped Seth as their new supreme will, broke away from the collective consciousness, and erupted into the largest civil war in history.

In this war, Seth and his companions seized the Void Core and merged with it to become the Lord of the Void.

The war ended in the defeat of Seth, the Lord of the Void.

Seth escaped, the Void Army was shattered, and the collective consciousness had reached its end.

In the final moments, the Supreme Consciousness issued a command.

Having exhausted their remaining resources, they created Iron to restore Balance Chapter, rebuild and even revive their great Mechanical Empire, and reignite the flame once more.

However, before Elon could even be activated, their civilization was once again annihilated.

The Lord of Evolution led his army of Ascended to rise quietly and annihilated the old overlord of the Balance Chapter in one fell swoop.

Of course, this Lord of Evolution is not Chen Ye.

After all, this event happened so anciently that even Lu Cun, who traveled back a hundred billion years, couldn't catch up with it.

The Lord of Evolution ruled over the subsequent eras after the end of the Mechanical Era.

He endlessly created powerful ascendants, to the point that the forces in the universe gradually lost their original balance.

Until the Lord of Evolution discovered that the power of evolution has its limits.

When he reached the pinnacle of evolution, there was nowhere left to go. But when he looked back, the very creatures he had created pushed him out of there.

At that moment, the Lord of Evolution advanced to the Eighth Order and was directly crushed into dust by the universe.

Then, the creations of the Lord of Evolution began to fight each other for the Evolution Chapter, killing one another and vying for them.

Until finally, another historic great decline.

The Old King declines, and New King rises to power.

The same scene repeats itself again and again in history. Although the people who dominate the universe are different each time, they all inevitably end up with the same fate.

Destroy.