First Battle: Definition Against Negation

The Nullifier's tide of negation was forcibly driven back.

The spear in Lin Ye's hand finished condensing. He did not throw it; he simply let go. The spear flew toward the Nullifier's face on its own, tracing three hundred and seventy million lines of connection definitions and drawing a "net" across the Star Sea that covered the entire battlefield.

The spearhead pierced the rift.

The Nullifier let out its first roar—a collapse at the level of definition. Negating power erupted from the rift. It was no longer an attack, but "loss of control." For the first time, it could not control its own power.

Lin Ye stood amid the collapsing negating power, his multicolored pupils calm. "This is the first lesson. You aren't afraid of me. You're afraid of them."

Behind him, the stars of three hundred and seventy million civilizations lit up at once.

After roaring for three seconds, the Nullifier forcibly stabilized its form. The rift did not heal, but it was wrapped in negating power. It had learned—it could not directly negate the "network of connection definitions," but it could negate individual nodes.

The first wave of precise strikes began. Negating power condensed into tens of thousands of "Negation Needles," accurately stabbing toward nodes in the network. The mechanical civilization's "Gear Pact" was struck; its gears stopped, and all machinery lost the definition of "operation." The psychic civilization's "Soul Chain" snapped, plunging its collective consciousness into blankness. The data civilization's "Mirror Backup" faded. More than ten thousand civilizations dropped out within a second.

"Tuner! It's dismantling our network!"

Lin Ye did not panic. The Nullifier's attack paths had been precisely captured—though the Negation Needles were accurate, each needle could only negate one node, while there were hundreds of millions of nodes.

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