"Herrscher of Finality Divine Core"

Night had fallen deep, and it was nearing dawn, yet the streets remained brightly lit.

As one of the two most prosperous major cities in the Balak Kingdom, Suotuo City had never imposed a curfew.

Qin Moyu strolled leisurely toward the city outskirts, holding more than a dozen skewers of grilled meat that still steamed in his hand.

As he walked along a deserted street, a woman's shrill cry for help tore through the night...

"Help! Someone's molesting me!!"

The piercing cry cut through the night. Qin Moyu paused for a moment, but he was not drawn over. He continued eating the grilled meat in his hand as he headed out of the city.

Almost the instant he turned away, the cries from the alley stopped abruptly, replaced by two ambiguous yet exasperated whispers.

"Damn it, we failed to trick another one! Are you screwing with me on purpose? You got all the fun every single time!"

"Don't rush, don't rush. Let's wait for the next person. We can continue discussing philosophy..."

The flirtatious, entangled whispers carried out clearly...

Qin Moyu paid no heed to such tricks. No matter the era, rather than being excessively kindhearted, it was better to be a little selfish.

I wasn't the one who hit them, so there was naturally no need for me to help them up...

Before long, Qin Moyu passed a dilapidated temple and pushed open its cobweb-covered wooden door.

"Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo will still come looking..."

He murmured softly, "But now, Crimson King's warning has vanished."

As soon as he spoke, the scarlet demonic eye between Qin Moyu's brows suddenly closed, and Epitaph's passive effect disappeared.

Epitaph's ability was extremely powerful. So long as something capable of endangering him existed within a day, it would issue a warning.

In the first future vision replayed by Epitaph, he had encountered Spirit Hall's two Titled Douluo at the Rose Hotel, and some unpleasant events had occurred.

He had seen himself restrained by the Two Extremes Stillness Domain, then taken away by Ghost Douluo and placed in Spirit Hall's carriage, heading toward Spirit City.

Qin Moyu had then used his third soul skill, Crimson King, to erase that future timeline.

After changing his location and arriving at this ruined temple, the second future immediately vanished. The danger had been lifted, but how it had been resolved would perhaps soon come to light.

The diary recording had long since ended. Holding the diary in his hand, Qin Moyu faintly formed a guess...

[ Ding! Congratulations, Host, for completing the second day's diary entry. You have used the image recording function for the first time and received one diary reward.]

[Congratulations, you have received the following rewards: Herrscher of Finality Divine Core, Six-Character Battle Armor, god-tier mecha!]

"Herrscher of Finality Divine Core."

Named after Finality, its essential power represented ultimate destruction—the end of all order!

Qin Moyu vaguely remembered the setting of this Divine Core. When the scientists developed Dark Plane Herrschers, the Herrscher of Finality Divine Core should never have come into existence.

Yet strangely, when they merged the original fourteen Herrscher Authorities together, the fifteenth Dark Plane Authority, "Finality," had naturally been born.

The birth of the Herrscher of Finality Divine Core seemed predestined...

"Herrscher of Reason!"

A cold gleam flashed through his eyes as he shouted in a deep voice, "Analyze the Dark Plane Authority, 'Finality'!"

At this moment, Qin Moyu finally understood why Epitaph's warning had stopped here...

If it was the Herrscher of Finality Divine Core, then even a tiny trace of its power would render the so-called Two Extremes Stillness Domain nothing to fear!

"The Herrscher of Understanding Core is functioning normally across all systems!"

"I grant you wisdom, granting insight into the workings of all things, omniscience and omnipotence—the King of Truth!"

"Dark Plane anchored successfully. Target locked: 'Finality'!"

The next instant, Qin Moyu's figure abruptly vanished, warping into a boundless, pitch-black Dark Plane.

The Dark Plane remained as it had always been: multicolored darkness, with fluid-like dark matter swirling around it...

At the edge of his vision, a deep-purple technological creation shaped like a silkworm cocoon appeared before him.

"Herrscher of Finality Divine Core."

It was not a martial soul, but a genuine four-dimensional technological creation!

"Although it does not possess the Herrscher of Finality's overwhelming conceptual power, its requirements for the host are also far lower..."

Qin Moyu calmed his mind and carefully recalled the settings of the Finality Divine Core.

The prerequisite for fusing with the Herrscher of Finality Divine Core was not the Three Questions of Finality, but gathering all fourteen preceding Dark Plane Herrscher Divine Cores.

Yet its title of "Finality" was no empty claim. It inherently possessed abilities similar to those of the Herrscher of Finality.

First was matter collapse: releasing a large-scale dimensional field that disintegrated all physical entities at the molecular level.

Second was the integration of all Herrscher Authorities. Like an administrator of Herrschers, the Herrscher of Finality Divine Core could freely draw upon the powers of every Dark Plane Herrscher, including lightning, ice and snow, space, domination, death, understanding, and more.

Third was dominion over the laws of space-time. As a technological creation corresponding to the fourth dimension—the time dimension—the Herrscher of Finality Divine Core could create an independent domain, cross timelines, and draw upon its own power from the past, present, and future!

And this was the crowning work of the Dark Plane Herrscher system: the Herrscher of Finality Divine Core.

There was only one way to destroy this Divine Core: use an even stronger dimensional power to crush it dimensionally.

And only technological creations born from the sixth dimension—the dimension of causality—could achieve that.

This was why, although the Herrscher of Finality Divine Core could draw upon future power to strengthen itself, it could not become as powerful as the Herrscher of Finality.

The Divine Cores developed by the Dark Plane Herrscher system could not invoke Authorities beyond the fourth dimension—the time dimension. Once they crossed the limits of the fourth dimension, they would fail completely.

"As expected, the complete Herrscher of Finality Divine Core cannot be fused at all..."

Qin Moyu attempted to fuse with the Divine Core, but unsurprisingly, he failed.

More precisely, if the system had not forcibly transformed the Herrscher of Reason Divine Core into a martial soul, Qin Moyu himself could never have obtained the Authority of Understanding.

The sole criterion for fusing with a Divine Core was knowledge.

Once one's grasp of Dark Plane dimensional knowledge reached a certain threshold, water would overflow once the vessel was full, and breaking through that threshold would allow one to fuse with the Divine Core.

Fusing with the Herrscher of Finality Divine Core required even more Dark Plane dimensional knowledge. He had to fully master every Divine Core in the preceding positions.

Qin Moyu was not discouraged by this. Instead, he was filled with joy.

What was the hardest part of developing technology? Finding the right direction.

Choice mattered more than effort. Countless scientists spent their entire lives researching, only to become trapped in dead ends and waste half their lives. Once the path was wrong, no amount of effort would matter.

But he was different.

With the Finality Divine Core in hand, Qin Moyu was effectively standing directly at the end of the road.

He only needed to continuously analyze the Authority of Finality, and he could gradually unravel every Dark Plane Herrscher Divine Core.

Who knew how many generations' worth of detours this spared him...