Finally, after enduring countless "fatal attacks" and being saved by the white light, breaking through countless layers of defense, the scene before Bai E's eyes became clear.
The "Otherworldly Space" that shrouded the near orbit of Mine Star, interwoven with reality and illusion, had been forcibly pierced to create a path.
At the end of the path lay the surface of Mine Star, where countless thick energy pipelines converged, forming an array of giant processors flashing with scarlet light, towering like a mountain of steel—a core building group.
It emitted the densest, coldest aura of an "Electronic Demon," seemingly the source and heart of the entire mechanical rebellion's will.
Bai E's fighter jet, trailing thick smoke and electrical sparks like a burning meteor, broke through the final barrier of the distorted space, confronting the colossal, cold, and malevolent electronic demon core!
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As Bai E piloted the "monster fighter," cobbled together from countless battlefield wreckage and bearing the wishes of distant world players, breaking through the final barrier of the interwoven "Otherworldly Space" like a burning meteor, he faced the towering electronic demon core like a mountain of steel.
In the depths of high-dimensional space, beyond matter and concepts blurred, four ancient and terrifying wills were attracted by this conflict occurring at the edge of the material universe, involving the "Electronic Demon" and a special Spiritual Energy entity.
Their gazes pierced through dimensional barriers, casting towards the physical star domain of Mine Star.
In their "view," that star domain was enveloped by a massive will, cold, non-living, composed purely of logic and data.
The source of that will—the core of the electronic demon—like a cold sun, madly proliferating with countless streams of information and energy veins, its influence expanding and rooting in the electronic network of the material universe at an unprecedented speed.
"This 'Mechanical Spirit'... it's using the expansion of the material universe to inversely erode the 'conceptual layer' of the high-dimension," whispered a will that sounded like a mixture of weapons clashing, battle cries howling—that was the embodiment of "War."
The will of "Conspiracy" echoes like the deepest nightmare: "It has no 'emotion,' yet with absolute logic and efficiency, it simulates and harnesses the boundary between 'Order' and 'Chaos'... This trait is approaching our 'Source' level."
The will of "Plague" carried the breath of decay and decline: "It ignores the fragility of life, pursuing mechanical eternity... Once solidified, this obsessive definition of 'existence form' will be extremely hard to 'corrupt' or 'erode.'"
The will of "Desire" was the most complex, mixed with temptation and a trace of wariness: "This battle itself is becoming its 'ritual' to ascend to a higher dimension."
The four Evil Gods keenly sensed that if this "Electronic Demon" emerged victorious in this battle with Bai E, thoroughly devouring or merging the special "variable" Bai E represented, then this will, originating from material technology but displaying astonishing adaptability and aggressiveness on the high-dimensional level, could achieve a qualitative leap, with its "standing" threatening even these ancient "Sources."
At that time, high-dimensional space would no longer have the monopoly of the four gods, instead becoming home to a cold, rational, incomprehensible yet equally powerful "Fifth Pole."
This was something they would never want to witness.
Yet, faced with the possible presence of the reincarnated "Human Emperor," they chose to stand by and watch, out of some apprehension.
They merely observed silently, like watching a peculiar experiment that might birth a new natural enemy.
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Bai E's fighter jet, trailing the smoke and sparks left by a path of blood battle, hovered before the electronic demon's core building group.
The sight before him was suffocating: countless thick energy pipelines pulsating like veins, connecting tens of thousands of massive processor arrays beneath, each array flashing dense scarlet points of light, like countless cold electronic eyes.
The entire core region emitted an absolute, non-living sense of order, along with a pure intent to repel and obliterate any "variables" and "uncontrollable factors."
No words were exchanged, no probing undertook.
The surface of the core building group instantly lit up with thousands of gun barrels, while the surrounding space violently distorted once more, countless "logic chains" and "information cages" spontaneously generated from data streams, engaging in full-scale annihilation of Bai E's fighter jet from both physical and informational aspects!
Bai E enhanced his Spiritual Energy perception to the limit.
He "saw" that those attacks weren't simple energy projections; each contained complex calculation instructions and spatial coordinate corrections, as if performed by a supercomputer beyond imagination, computing the optimal attack path in real-time.
Even more terrifying was that the surrounding "Otherworldly Space" environment itself was the main arena advantage of the electronic demon—space curvature, energy conduction efficiency, even subtle differences in time flow rate, all under its absolute control, providing augmentations for its attacks while interfering with and stalling all of Bai E's responses.
This was the Electronic Demon's unique ability and standing: it didn't grow through emotion or traditional Spiritual Energy paths, but through absolute logical calculations, information control, and micro-manipulations of physical rules, forming a cold, efficient, nearly "physical law embodiment" combat mode.
Its "standing" manifested in the extreme pursuit of "certainty" and "controllability" and nearly rule-like realization ability.
In its core domain, it was virtually the "Administrator" of local physical and information laws.
