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The stars trembled, and a catastrophe struck the universe.

As the light faded and illusion subsided, Buddha Thomoling stood in place, the chanting around him gradually ceasing, his eyes no longer filled with greed, and he said with a sense of relief:

"I lost."

This sword strike is aimed at future cause and effect, not a fatal blow on a physical level. Moreover, as the Harmonious God, the Mother of All Beings, with all people of one mind, any attack on Him will be distributed among billions upon billions of believers in the Asdna system, and He will not be harmed in the slightest.

However, the loss of his future body also means that unless Cheng Cheng actively infects the meme virus and chants the name of the World Honored One, he has lost the possibility of seizing a body for immortality!

Nothing can stop Cheng Cheng from achieving immortality.

not to mention……

'I was essentially stealing Ellef Medici's experimental results, so failure was inevitable.'

Buddha-Thamalim stood with his eyes lowered, showing neither power nor anger, neither sorrow nor joy. It seemed that defeat did not concern Him much, but rather He sighed:

"After this blow, you will have no more reincarnation, no more rebirth, no more return... Isn't that a pity?"

Cheng Cheng remained calm and indifferent.

The immortal crown, immortal and indestructible, supreme for all time.

Having attained the highest Dao fruit and transcended all heavenly causes and effects, why would one need to rely on reincarnation or seek a way out?

At this moment, having severed ties with the past and extinguished the future, stripped of all the shackles of time and cause and effect, He is now nearly unique in time and space, having transcended reincarnation and fate, and is one step closer to perfect immortality.

And this step is the final step for Him to reach that orange-gold pillar of light that pierces the universe!

"Ok?"

Cheng Cheng hesitated for a moment.

Even though the final "self-corpse" has not been severed, but has merely become the only one in time and space, it has already stepped into the end of its "immortal" destiny.

What will be the consequences?

However, the thought vanished in an instant—the moment He stepped into the pillar of light, He was unable to generate any emotion, but simply calmly merged into the gentle pillar of light.

At the same time, a strange sound echoed within the Fate Gate.

law.

Profound.

Heavy and substantial.

Naïve.

It sounds just like... a heartbeat.

"The work of all creation is finished; the day of no doubt has come."

At this moment, the sole spectator, Buddha Thomoling, gazed at the pillar of light reaching the heavens and sighed softly:

"O embryo of philosophy... await your reshaping of the universe for us!!"

Cheng Cheng lowered his head and realized that the heartbeat was coming from his own chest.

That was the first cry of the Holy Infant upon birth, the heartbeat of the newborn god.

The nine fundamental elements and twenty-two paths—the entirety of the Immortal Crown—were elevated to "philosophy" at this moment. He sensed supreme authority converging upon him—and in the infinitely elevated dimensions, only He could perceive the shift in the rules.

From the very beginning, no one has ever stood in heaven, neither humans nor gods.

However, the unbearable vacancy of the throne of heaven has come to an end, and now someone will stand in the heavens!

Looking down, Cheng Cheng saw the myriad beings in the universe, the tragedies and comedies unfolding on planet after planet, and billions upon billions of living beings involuntarily raising their heads to witness this unprecedented coronation ceremony.

He looked up again.

He saw supreme and great beings, the star gods and deities of the universe, who lowered their gazes and transformed into a raging storm, treating the world's civilization as a chessboard.

And now, I am about to step off the chessboard and sit with them... or even in a higher place!

Thump, thump! Thump!

His heartbeat grew stronger, and the concepts of the universe began to converge upon Him.

The next moment, the universe began to expand.

The immortal destiny reappeared at the source of the universe; having lost all humanity and will, He slowly sat upon the supreme eternal throne, standing above all the gods of the universe—

The "Immortal Crown" is forged!

On the path of destiny, the great beings cast their gaze upon Him: "Preservation" remained silent, "Intelligence" was speechless, "Joy" laughed wildly, and "Abstraction" was gratified.

At this moment, from the perspective of the gods, "Cheng Cheng's" physical body disappears and is replaced by supreme divinity in a philosophical sense.

His appearance began to stop distorting and changing, breaking through the dimensional constraints, and finally transforming into a giant star dragon that spanned thousands of galaxies and covered the entire universe!

The dragon's eyes open and close, seeing through eternity and illuminating all the heavens; the dragon's body stretches out, bearing the Great Dao and holding immortality.

An "immortal" star god was born.

The universe trembled, and all things bowed down.

Heaven crumbled, and destiny was suddenly opened high above the heavens. The "immortal" star god was born on the path and descended to earth with awe.

The "immortal" destiny is vast and boundless, encompassing all things. The Star God is not a Nine-Turn God, but merely the philosophical embodiment of his own path and the supreme symbol of his destiny. He wields the supreme power to overturn the universe, yet he is also bound by this destiny throughout his life, unable to transcend it.

Just as "knowledge" is eternally immersed in deduction and calculation, "hunting" is forever pursuing "abundance," "reproduction" only endlessly replicates itself, "destruction" cannot create, and "immortality" cannot tolerate anything in the world even for a moment...

Upon ascending to godhood, they had completely lost their humanity. Though they still possessed "self-will," they could never deviate from their destiny.

Deviation is the moment of downfall!

Therefore, at the very beginning of its birth, the newly born "Immortal" Star God, standing at the pinnacle of destiny, immediately set about creating the world.

What is immortality?

It is eternal, transcends the erosion of time, escapes the forgetting of years, and is not dissolved by reincarnation.

However, matter is not truly immortal—all entities are in a state of change, decay, and disintegration, and as long as they are composed of particles, they will eventually dissipate.

This is also the reason why the original "immortal" star god deliberately perished.

Now, the newly born deities possess the power to rewrite the fundamental laws of the universe, enough to halt the thermal motion of particles, quell the surging probability tides of the quantum sea, and force all things in the universe into eternal silence, until utter stillness reigns—

This is the eternity He sought!

Starting from the narrow passage of fate, His divine realm broke free from the constraints of the speed of light and severed the shackles of cause and effect, spreading rapidly and expanding wantonly in all directions of the universe.

In the land covered by the divine realm, all movement ceases to exist, all transience is solidified into permanence, and the vast world and myriad phenomena of the stars are all sealed in the cold eternity.

Just like the scene when it devoured the Earth and the simulated world "Scepter δ-me2961". In an instant, the divine realm swept across the entire observable universe, causing all colors to fade away, and everything in the world to turn into black and white, like old photographs sealed deep in time, frozen in eternity.

From this point on, the world will face its fourth kind of end—

"immortal".

Chapter 177, God Paints All Things

"Snap—!"

Between the narrow passages of fate, after the end of the universe.

At the origin of everything, endless ice and billions of mirrors appeared out of thin air, engulfing the entire "immortal" destiny!

Whether prosperous or desolate, short-lived or long-lasting... the history of countless worlds melts into my hands, turning into tears that flow from the eyes of the world, freezing into ice, which is "memory".

In the center of this frozen wasteland of memories, a figure silently emerged.

Those are star gods who will be born when the universe comes to an end; they are destinies that reverse cause and effect, and are also invisible heirs.

At the end of the world, He will measure the world with His body, remembering all of this in His heart—and after that, with the memory of the entire universe, He will create a new world once more.

"Memory" Star God, Fu Li!

However, the path to "immortality" is broad enough to include even "memory."

The new world created by the memories of the Star God was quickly enveloped by the realm of "immortality," plunging it into eternal stagnation once more...

And that stagnation became unstable.

"Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!"

A deafening laugh, loud enough to pierce the universe and maniacal enough to tear apart reason, suddenly erupted!

Countless colorful cards, swirling ribbons, exploding colorful balls, and masks with various expressions suddenly engulfed the space. A headless figure, with countless laughing, angry, and cursing masks atop its neck, appeared, dancing absurdly.

"Joy" Star God, Aha!

Pleasure could not bear an eternal world without laughter, and so—

"The universe is like a madman's joke, chaotic and foolish, unknowable," He said. "All work is done—"

"There should be laughter!"

"Congratulations! Your pleasure ##&&&&#@ has triggered a rejection reaction in the spacetime structure, and an 'infinite non-probability' phenomenon is about to occur. Please be prepared! Applause! Spin around three times and then jump!"

When joyful laughter tears apart eternity, all that has become immortal begins to change. Above the narrow passage of fate, a monkey, a monkey, a monkey plays the Sixth Joyful Waltz on the back of a metal elephant, but it instantly turns into a rain of screaming candy. The candy falls to the ground and begins to burn, and the circus rides out of the flames, only to be crushed by a giant's toothbrush.

The fundamental particles that make up matter begin to flee, the mirror reflects the eyes of the next night, then a colorful tide surges forth, a gigantic ship carries frenzied animals on a parade, all things gain life at this moment, the deck opens its eyes and says—

"The infinite non-probability phenomenon has temporarily ended. Have fun playing."

"Immortality" does not include "pleasure," but His destiny is so vast that the harmony of "harmony" can just as well resist the chaos of "pleasure."

But the music suddenly stopped.

The Buddha, Tathagata, stood with his eyes lowered, showing no power, anger, sorrow, or joy. Behind him, countless monks chanted loudly, suppressing the Immortal Star God's attack on Aha!

Even though immortality includes harmony, as the master of harmony and in the context of the immortal star god waging war on three fronts, he is able to suppress it in his own domain!

As the mother of all beings, if the world were to fall into eternity, and countless believers were to fall into eternity as well, the Buddha himself would not be at peace.

Therefore, at this moment, He must fight the Immortal Star God.

In this universe, the star gods are all ships sailing on their destiny's path, and they will never turn back even if they crash into a wall. When their destinies collide and contradict each other, a divine war will inevitably break out until the order of the universe is reshaped!

In fact, countless such battles of the gods have broken out over billions of years, and the thriving cosmic order that nurtures civilization today is the final result of the compromises and competition among the star gods.

The newly created immortal star god froze the universe, which was tantamount to waging war against the vast majority of gods.

The war of the gods has begun.