Hiss hiss hiss!

  Irregular shapes of sapphire-blue high-energy plasma arcs, carrying surging and swirling hot energy waves, continuously leaped and exploded across Cadelon's pure white body, which had become a singular entity.

  At first glance, it resembled the constant eruption of solar flares across the surface of the sun.

  Her faintly radiating aura, completely unlike 'calm' pure white, seemed infused with an indescribable dry heat and an overwhelmingly dominant sensation.

  It was as if her very existence was intrinsically designed to shatter worlds and annihilate stars.

  All these manifestations amplified Cadelon's divine and majestic presence.

  "Ogulafata, you are quite commendable."

  Cadelon raised her similarly brilliant, pure white single eye—which perfectly blended with her body's color—and looked towards the distant figure resembling a vast giant, seemingly formed from countless illusory crystal shards, speaking with complete indifference, "You are now worthy of me employing my full power."

  Ogulafata's gaze narrowed, and he stated coldly: "Using your full power?"

  "What you just shattered... was merely my outer shell. However, that armor was not intended to protect me, but rather to shield this fragile cosmic domain."

  Cadelon slightly tilted her head, gazing into the boundless dark void surrounding her, with tens of thousands of stars faintly visible within her eyes:

  "After all, whether it’s a planet, a gas giant, or a white dwarf or neutron star, to me, they are as brittle and weak as the air, capable of being destroyed by the slightest touch."

  She spoke leisurely:

  "Furthermore, the Ether environment outside the galactic core is truly too impoverished; it only manages to nurture one low-level civilization and race after another, all of which can be extinguished with a mere wave of the hand.

  For those worthless entities that cannot even withstand the insignificant temperature of a star's surface, I don't even require a warm-up. With just a glance, I can vaporize countless millions.

  Therefore, under normal circumstances, I fundamentally abstain from revealing my true form, because doing so, beyond consuming more of my energy, is entirely meaningless.

  Simply put, using just that lowest-tier vessel, I am sufficient to engulf the Milky Way, single-handedly wiping out tens of millions of races."

  Concluding her statement, she slightly bowed her head, focusing on the distant Ogulafata, and declared with surging battle intent:

  "However... for this engagement, I have decided to unleash my true might.

  I must employ... Star God Mode!"

  Upon that declaration, Cadelon's body, already scorching and dazzling to the extreme, began to rapidly collapse, contracting furiously towards its central core.

  During this collapse, Cadelon, initially as bright and dazzling as a searing star, suddenly erupted with waves of terrifying heat, measured in hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius, which swept over and enveloped large sectors of the surrounding cosmos.

  Some comets of icy mist, randomly drifting through this space, along with larger, 'bodied' rogue planets, were instantly 'vaporized' by this vast and intimidating surge of heat into even finer, scorching red meteorites, which then stormed away in all four cardinal directions of the cosmos.

  And in the even more distant depths of space, Ogulafata, witnessing his opponent's transformation, also displayed a look of profound suspicion and uncertainty:

  "So this is the might of Star God Mode? Even the prelude to the transformation is this immense."

  Buzz—

  The speed of the transformation was incredibly rapid.

  In an instant, Cadelon, from her original height of several tens of meters, collapsed and shrank to a mere 3 meters tall.

  Her previous brilliant, scorching appearance, like a human-shaped sun, had completely vanished.

  She had transformed from turbulent pure white to a translucent black-blue.

  Cadelon, having successfully transformed, now resembled a cosmic deity seemingly condensed from thousands of dazzling nebulae and the vast, gloomy void itself.

  From apex to base, she exuded boundless, infinite splendor, coupled with supreme and ultimate majesty.

  This was the Yonruk clan's ultimate evolution, metamorphosis to its absolute limit—a leap into a naturally high-energy Ether-Crystalline Nuclear Molecule body.

  "Hmm..."

  She slowly raised her slender, graceful arm, which resembled black jade, opened her hand, and slowly formed a fist.

  Boom!

  A surge of terrifyingly dense, vast energy instantly erupted. Centered on Cadelon's clenched fist, guided by a single thought, it swept across tens of thousands of kilometers at the speed of light.

  Everything within this radius was instantly and utterly vaporized into scattered high-energy particle streams due to the sudden onset of terrifying high temperatures.

  "Ogulafata, I can sense the power contained within your body is only slightly inferior to mine. Therefore..."

  Cadelon looked towards Ogulafata from afar, and chuckled chillingly: "Unleash your true strength then, and let us fight a battle without any reservations."

  "Ah, intriguing."

  The latter replied with a fierce smile, "I originally supposed you were just a brainless battle fanatic, but I did not anticipate your perceptive abilities to be so acute.

  Very well, my true form hasn't been displayed for a hundred thousand years, but since you are so 'sincere,' I shall no longer remain in my composed state."

  Having uttered this, Ogulafata's crystalline body suddenly blurred and became illusory, with hundreds of thousands of dim cracks appearing across its surface.

  Next, these cracks, which were distinctly jet black yet constantly radiated a strange 'dark' light, suddenly erupted with an extremely powerful devouring force.

  Buzz buzz buzz—

  Amidst the twisting and vibrating void, Ogulafata's sturdy physique—his skin, muscles, bones... and his entire being—was suddenly greedily dismembered by thousands of seams and fissures, bizarrely devoured from the outside in, leaving barely any recognizable trace.

  Finally, what remained were those thousands of baseless black fissures, mysteriously suspended in the cosmic air. They appeared somewhat bloated after being 'satiated,' but overall remained relatively slender.

  "What is transpiring?"

  The distant Cadelon was slightly taken aback, "He actually consumed himself..."

  Before she could finish speaking, the thousands of delicate black fissures quickly self-assembled, realigned, and embedded themselves, bizarrely condensing into a jet-black, engraved humanoid figure, resembling a simple stick figure, yet brimming with absurdity and a palpable dangerous aura.

  "Unbelievable."

  Sensing Ogulafata's aura emanating from the merely several-meter-tall engraved humanoid figure, Cadelon chuckled eagerly, "So bizarre and abnormal, worthy of being one of the Cult of the Evil Eye's sole ten Dark Archbishops."

  "Very good, you are worth a vigorous fight!"

  Saying this, she suddenly tore through the reality barrier, fleeing into the Symbolic Domain, and simultaneously accelerated towards Ogulafata at tens of thousands of times the speed of light.

  At the same time, this rapid flight was not entirely confined to the Sentience Realm, but rather a super-frequency jump between physical reality and the Sentience Realm.

  One moment in reality, the next moment within the Sentience Realm.

  The specific sequence revealed Cadelon, trailed by hundreds of thousands of illusory afterimages, traversing a vast expanse of cosmic void in merely one-thousandth of a second, fiercely impacting Ogulafata's skeletal, ink-black chest with a single punch.

  Boom!!!

  Large swathes of dark space, where floating meteorites, comets, and cosmic dust resided, instantly vaporized and disintegrated, transforming into countless high-energy particles scattering and flying in all directions.

  And Ogulafata, struck directly by this frontal blow, simultaneously 'crashed through' the barrier between realms.

  He was forcibly punched by Cadelon straight into the vast Sentience Realm.

  Whoosh—

  Weak and chaotic, dazed and hollowed out.

  In this hazy space-time where the constraints of light speed were greatly relaxed, in just one second, Ogulafata was violently propelled billions of kilometers by this unimaginable punch.

  As he stormed forward at super-light speed, exceeding ten thousand times, his body continuously smashed through and shattered hundreds of thousands of sparse particle clouds (bang bang bang).

  During this period, Cadelon also pursued, following closely at almost the same tens of thousands of times the speed of light. She manipulated the already familiar strong interaction force between her four hands, landing hundreds of thousands of punches per second.

  In just over ten seconds, Ogulafata's body, resembling a skeleton made of dark matter, endured over ten million impacts across its entire form.

  Each of these ten million punches condensed a terrifying force capable of piercing a star and shattering a universe.

  Thus, he was relentlessly beaten back into the vast material universe.

  Boom!!!

  The moment he materialized in space, Ogulafata's body uncontrollably slammed into a hard, scorching carbon-oxygen White Dwarf.

  Clang clang clang!

  Instantly, an enormous, terrifying surge of energy erupted from the point of contact between the two, roaring and howling as it swept into the boundless space in all four directions.

  Simultaneously, Ogulafata had rapidly pierced through all the layers of this White Dwarf, from the exterior to the core, erupting from the opposite side of the planet.

  Cadelon, biting fiercely at his rear, after piercing through that unlucky White Dwarf, fully engaged her energy. Her fingers came together and pointed towards the hazy void ahead.

  "Super - World-Incinerating Death Ray."

  A beam of ink-black light, equivalent to the total energy of hundreds of suns, instantly emitted from her fingertip, shooting straight through the space ahead at 99.99% the speed of light, targeting Ogulafata.

  Whoosh—

  In less than a second, the black light precisely struck his chest.

  But just then, a bizarre event instantly occurred.

  That Super World-Incinerating Death Ray, capable of vaporizing a magnificent sun back and forth dozens or hundreds of times, actually passed directly through Ogulafata's 'skeletal' chest like an illusion, inflicting no damage. It then 'raced' towards the boundless end of the cosmos without deviation.

  "Hmm?"

  Cadelon’s figure paused, and she remarked with slight surprise, "He actually immunized against the attack?"

  It was only at this moment that she noticed that despite enduring so many assaults, the surface of his body showed no sign of injury or even deformation.

  "Do you feel extremely surprised?"

  Ogulafata abruptly shifted from near-light speed to absolute stillness. He looked up at Cadelon and chuckled chillingly, "Actually, those attacks of yours just now, to me, weren't even a tickle."

  "No." His tone turned indifferent, "I should say, those seemingly elaborate and splendid attacks of yours are only effective against ordinary matter.

  But for me, who possesses a dark matter body, if I myself do not wish to move, even if ten thousand stars explode in front of me, they cannot propel me even a millimeter."

  Cadelon's eyes flashed, revealing a rare solemnity:

  "Dark matter body?"

  "Indeed."

  "So-called tangible matter is merely a tiny fraction of the true universe, a negligible drop in the ocean.

  The true majority of the universe is composed of dark matter and dark energy."

  Ogulafata spread his hands, his hazy, empty body seeming to dissolve into the vast, dark universe. "And I represent the 'majority' of the true universe's power!"

  What he possessed was the Body of the Dark Realm, centered on a dark energy framework, meticulously edited and manipulated. It relied on a substantial amount of synchronous Ether-Crystalline dark matter, finally consolidated and formed, rendering it completely unaffected by the electromagnetic force, strong interaction force, or weak interaction force...

  This body was Ogulafata's ultimate trump card.

  Having declared this, he suddenly raised his right arm, his palm held loosely. In his palm, a hazy, indistinct long spear materialized with a hum.

  Dozens of thousands of kilometers away, Cadelon faintly sensed an extremely malicious, turbulent, almost rule-breaking power emanating from that strange long spear.

  Most terrifying was that on the dark spear shaft, hideous, terrifying crimson bulging eyes had opened.

  As soon as these eerily malicious eyes appeared, they rapidly shifted their positions, all staring intently at Cadelon.

  Their gaze was filled with endless malice.

  "This extremely defiled power..."

  She stated in a cold voice, filled with both disgust and apprehension, "It's the power of that Evil God!"

  This malice contained a powerful, twisted mental force, almost capable of 'washing' the souls and consciousness of hundreds of thousands of Milky Way Overlords into blank slates.

  But Cadelon felt that these fiercely staring crimson eyes seemed to be confirming all her intelligence.

  "Spear of Calamity!"

  Ogulafata shouted, and the long spear instantly vanished between his palms.

  At that exact instant, Cadelon, who absolutely did not wish to be contaminated by the Evil God's power, had her slender, black-jade-like body instantly blur and become illusory, abruptly disappearing from the vacuum of space, fleeing deep into the Sentience Realm.

  Upon entering the Symbolic Domain and breaking free from the shackles of light speed, her velocity suddenly surged. In a single second, she traversed tens of billions of kilometers, then breached the barrier between realms to return to the real universe.

  But even with such astonishing speed, she could not escape that strange Spear of Calamity.

  When Cadelon reappeared in cosmic space, that grey spear mysteriously, as if transcending vast distances, materialized behind her in barely half a second.

  Cadelon vanished again, and the Spear of Calamity disappeared simultaneously.

  Swish—

  When she reappeared, she was on the scorching, boiling surface of a Red Giant star billions of kilometers away.

  That spear also appeared at the same instant, and with extreme viciousness, it shot over, accurately striking Cadelon's broad back, which resembled black jade.

  Whoosh—

  In an instant, this extremely colossal Red Giant star was mercilessly pierced by one spear and one person.

  Boom!!!

  This aging star, in an instant, began to violently tremble, and then suddenly collapsed from the inside out in all directions. In a short while, it rushed toward its demise.

  Rumble rumble rumble!!!

  The setting sun looked like blood, the void like ink.

  In the vast explosion, Cadelon only felt that this spear seemed to completely disregard her formidable physical defense, directly 'squeezing' through all obstacles, like passing through empty space, stabbing and wounding her internal organs.

  "Ha ha ha ha ha ha!"

  In the distance, Ogulafata's almost hollowed-out face revealed a somewhat twisted smile. "No matter how strong your body is, it's meaningless, because..."

  "Oh? Fifth fundamental force."

  A clear and supreme voice suddenly manifested around Ogulafata.

  "What should I call this force? It possesses characteristics and effects opposite to gravity, and it resonates with dark matter and dark energy. Hmm, how about 【Vacuum Force】?

  The various dark matter and dark energy abilities you employed earlier were also born from this fundamental cosmic force."

  A clear and supreme voice, filled with profound divinity and arrogant aura, ignored all space-time barriers, and suddenly exploded deep within Ogulafata's soul.

  "Uh... Uh..."

  Ogulafata remained motionless, 'stalled' in the vast universe, maintaining his original posture, utterly rigid.

  Whether it was his ink-black, hazy, carved face, or his silent, empty eye sockets, all were now frantically spewing forth extremely intense emotions to the outside world.

  This overwhelming emotion was fear.

  An intense, deranged terror.

  In fact, after this strange and distant voice appeared, all of Ogulafata's perceptions and emotions within his mind suddenly dissolved, becoming meager and hollow, swaying precariously, almost collapsing.

  From soul to spirit, all his sinister schemes, treacherous plots, warrior's grandeur, and demonic arrogance vanished into thin air in a single instant.

  Everything, absolutely everything, was filled and tightly suppressed by two words.

  That was...

  Fear! Fear! Fear! Fear! Fear! Fear! Fear! Fear! Fear!

  Boundless, profound fear, like gravity itself, grinned and crawled out from the deepest part of space-time, tightly locking onto every single particle of mass constituting his entire being. It deeply permeated him, abruptly displacing the electromagnetic force, and also replacing the Strong and Weak Nuclear Forces, dominantly becoming the fundamental basis for the existence of all particles in his entire life entity.

  Ogulafata vaguely realized that as long as he dared to harbor a trace of defiance toward the unknown being, dared to harbor a trace of indomitable thought toward the unknown being, then he would surely, from the micro to the macro, from soul to flesh, descend into an absolutely massive collapse.

  Inch by inch, his flesh and blood slowly disintegrated, strand by strand, his soul gradually faded.

  This outcome was not inflicted by the unknown being, but by his own complete surrender and the resulting lamentation from body to soul.

  Ogulafata even sensed that the boundless universe surrounding him—whether time or space, whether matter or energy, and even the vast Dirac Sea faintly fading behind the boundless three-dimensional space-time—now all inexplicably entered an extremely terrifying, extremely anomalous, hazy state.

  That state was named terror, and also dread.

  "But... But how can space-time and matter exhibit fear?! This... This defies logic! It makes no sense!" Ogulafata's chaotic thoughts cried out as they collapsed.

  But at this moment, the truth was so bizarre, so far beyond the norm.

  Logic and common sense, as if fearing the arrival of this being, hastily escaped reality, fleeing the boundless Milky Way at super-light speed.

  He could clearly sense the boundless space-time and endless matter's submission to the unknown being, their utmost reverence toward the unknown being.

  Buzz—

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  Suddenly, an enormous eye, so vast that it far exceeded the limits of Ogulafata's spiritual perception, abruptly manifested in the boundless void and slowly gazed toward him.

  "Uh... Uh..."

  Ogulafata looked up in a daze, staring at that colossal eye facing him in the boundless sky above—so immense that it could no longer be accurately described by words or imagination.

  His thoughts and consciousness rapidly dissolved.

  He only felt as if his soul was about to be forcibly torn into detailed and ferocious cracks by the opponent's sheer immensity.

  From these cracks, wisps of profound soul power, capable of easily piercing the earth and vaporizing stars, writhed and screamed as if possessing their own will, escaping in utter despair and perishing.

  Hundreds of thousands of years of arduous cultivation, yet he couldn't even withstand a mere trace of the unknown being's gaze.

  "I... I am actually so weak!"

  Ogulafata's spiritual perception was normally constrained by the shackles of the universe's light speed, covering a range of less than a second's distance. Even utilizing complex and obscure Sentience Realm exploration techniques, it could only extend to a radius of a few billion kilometers.

  But when Seraphine's second-tier body—this Eye of Transcendence, tens of trillions of kilometers across in all directions, larger than a true star system—suddenly and forcibly invaded Ogulafata's spiritual perception range, that immense, superhuman power, that superior wisdom, instantly and irrevocably crushed his powerful soul and consciousness.

  In an instant, Ogulafata tragically embarked on the path of annihilation, both in body and spirit.

  No communication, no dialogue.

  The King of Didrogutin, Dark Archbishop of the Cult of the Evil Eye, the supreme expert of the Orion Arm—Ogulafata's existence deserved nothing more than a cold glance from Seraphine.

  His existence deserved only this treatment.

  But even this single glance, Ogulafata could not endure.

  His last trace of thought before death involuntarily looked upward and asked sorrowfully:

  "Why, why is just one eye so colossal and vast?! Why can the information from such an immense object be transmitted into my eyes countless times faster than the speed of light?! That's fundamentally illogical, this... How do the rules of the universe permit such a thing to occur?!"

  He did not know that within a 1000 light-year radius centered on Seraphine, her will alone reigned supreme, completely independent of the universe's authority.

  Even if the universe did not permit the effective transmission of information faster than light, Seraphine would not care whether the universe sanctioned it or not.

  Of course, Ogulafata, now utterly deceased, would never have the chance to know these things.

  And all his memories, everything he had witnessed over hundreds of thousands of years, a vast trove of information concerning the depths of the galactic halo, along with the various secrets of the Cult of the Evil Eye, and the items he possessed within his warped space—including that mature Void Whale—all fell directly into Seraphine's hands.

  "A minuscule life form, unable to even withstand my full presence. Truly pathetic."

  After Seraphine's serene and cold words, she immediately looked towards Cadelon and Godshell, who were respectfully kneeling several hundred thousand kilometers away in the boundless void, and said coldly:

  "Now I grant you a new mission: go conquer the galactic core region. Whoever resists, eliminate them all.

  Not long from now, when I have assimilated all the Milky Way's spiral arms and every structure, I will naturally traverse the vast universe and descend upon the galactic core.

  I hope by then, across all continents of Sanchegues, there will only be those who kneel in submission, and no one who defiantly raises their head.

  You two, especially Godshell, do not disappoint me."

  "Your command shall be obeyed!" The two accepted the order respectfully.

  Upon hearing this decree, Cadelon immediately knew that this mission would primarily be spearheaded by Godshell.

  Although deeply reluctant, she possessed a clear understanding: given her current strength, she could probably only contend with entities below the Sage tier.

  As for those true high-level members of the six races who had already attained the Sage domain, only a superpower like Godshell, who had long walked the path of a Sage, could effectively challenge them.

  Godshell did not harbor many grand strategic thoughts.

  He was exceedingly confident in his personal power.

  Especially after gradually recovering many fragmented memories of his original self, Saknussim, he thoroughly understood that even within the Sage tier, he was certainly a formidable expert.

  Even though the body he currently inherited was severely damaged, it remained terrifyingly potent.

  Immediately, the pair retrieved the Divine Throne from warped space once more.

  After entering it, they activated the shaped warp field. The hull vaguely shimmered and vanished into the universe, controlled by the two, warping space-time as it swiftly accelerated toward the galactic core.

  And Seraphine redirected her focus to the research concerning the Fifth Fundamental Force.

  ...

  Carbon-based humans dwelling on Earth are astronomically small and 'light' on a cosmic scale.

  Including every chemical reaction inside and outside the human body, as well as metabolism, hand movements, foot movements, and the friction between the feet and the ground—all these are fundamentally governed by the electromagnetic force.

  This force, along with the other three fundamental forces, is generated and differentiated from the unified force spanning the universe's space-time and all types of matter.

  In a sense, they are all governed by a single underlying principle.

  For a long time, Seraphine had always tended to believe there were only four fundamental forces in the universe.

  Beyond that, all other interactions between matter, whether discovered or yet unknown, were branches and derivations of these four forces.

  For instance, the electroweak force, unified from the electromagnetic and weak interaction forces, is a derived force of the original four.

  But earlier, after experiencing Ogulafata's conspiratorial ambush during the "Epoch of World Erasure," she was surprisingly shocked. Perhaps there were not just four fundamental forces in this universe, but more types of forces silently concealed 'behind' the layers of vast space-time and endless matter and energy.

  Even after deep contemplation, Seraphine theorized that it was highly probable that hundreds of billions, or even trillions of light-years away, in that true frontier deep space where the universe's various realms were nearly collapsing, where even the intricate space-time structure and physical parameters of mass and energy were entirely different, the so-called four fundamental forces likely held no sway; they were completely superseded by other extremely unfamiliar forces, viewed from the perspective of beings in the Milky Way, thus replacing the absolute dominant position of the four fundamental forces over diverse space-times and endless matter.

  Even more fascinating is the concept that top-tier technological civilizations capable of observing and assessing cosmic regions beyond every boundary of the observable universe might genuinely believe their location constituted the universe's absolute center, the genesis and terminus of all 'reality.'

  They would be convinced that the principles they explored and mastered over long epochs—such as the three fundamental forces, seven fundamental forces, nine fundamental forces, and so on—represented the ultimate bedrock and verifiable truth of all existence, all power, and all capability in the cosmos.

  Other regions of deep space, lying beyond their own surveyed boundaries, would then be relegated to the status of the 'Frontier Wasteland,' existing outside the definition of 'reality' and 'normality.'

  They might even maintain the conviction that the observable universe, as visible to the beings within the Milky Way, was actually a realm of endlessly bizarre, alien, and super-real space-time—a "Place of Rebellion" operating outside standard rules, a barbaric and perilous domain fundamentally distinct from true external reality.

  But Seraphine knew that, fundamentally, the universe possessed no such dualistic concepts as a 'center' and a 'Frontier Wasteland.'

  Long ago, she had already grasped that the very essence of this universe's space-time was a finite yet borderless, four-dimensional hyper-'sphere.'

  At any point situated upon the 'surface' of this colossal and terrifying sphere, that location was simultaneously inside the universe and at the edge of the universe.

  Between any two points, there existed only a relative spatial relationship, devoid of any absolute primary or secondary designation.

  All entities were 'equal,' and all domains held equal standing.

  Whether they were carbon-based, hydrogen-based, silicon-based, mercury-based, iron-based life forms, or the Six Scourges of the Milky Way and the Six Races of the galactic core—everyone remained a minuscule, low-velocity, three-dimensional ant existing in a localized corner on the surface of that colossal four-dimensional hypersphere.

  Alive or deceased, it held no significance to the vastness of the universe.

  Only Seraphine was different.

  Only she, only the entity that had completely transcended to become a true four-dimensional life form, held a relationship truly equal to and in Hypostasis with this immense universe, whose essence was a four-dimensional hypersphere.

  Indeed.

  The only differentiation between them lay in the scale of space-time and the sheer quantity of mass-energy; there was no other distinction.

  Earlier, after enduring the localized cosmic great tearing attack from the "Epoch of World Erasure," Seraphine, with her profound wisdom, had managed to glimpse the 'aspect' of the Fifth Fundamental Force.

  Even subsequently, Seraphine instantaneously mastered the ability to perform localized cosmic great tearing, an act achievable only through comprehension of the Fifth Fundamental Force.

  Now, after observing from a vast distance and studying Ogulafata’s intricate manipulations of dark matter and dark energy during his fierce confrontation with Cadelon, Seraphine rapidly 'perceived' this Fifth Fundamental Cosmic Force, which differed fundamentally from the four basic forces in both its manifestation and underlying principle.

  Generally speaking, any fundamental cosmic force must employ some type, or multiple types, of particles as its transmission 'medium' to exert its influence across all dimensions of space-time and matter.

  For instance, gravity and electromagnetism—two long-range forces whose intensity inversely follows the square of the distance—are fundamental cosmic forces that propagate their effects across infinite space-time to distant regions of the universe, utilizing massless gravitons and photons as their transmission 'mediums.'

  As for the short-range strong and weak nuclear forces, they are fundamental cosmic forces that exert influence within the sub-atomic, ultra-tiny scale domain, employing massive gluons, and W+, W-, Zo , etc., intermediate bosons as their transmission 'mediums.'

  However, when Ogulafata deployed those various dark matter and dark energy techniques, Seraphine discovered that the 【Fifth Fundamental Force】 actually utilized a type of boson capable of coupling with electrons and protons—the scalar boson—as its 'medium' for transmission. Crucially, its effective range simultaneously spanned the sub-atomic domain and the interstellar horizon-level domain. It was a 'full-spectrum' fundamental cosmic force, capable of being both long-range and short-range.

  Simply miraculous.

  Following this realization, Seraphine further deduced that by fully mastering this fundamental force, and subsequently combining it with Ether's influence and manipulation over various matter types, she could effortlessly achieve free conversion between dark matter and dark energy, thereby experiencing a vastly larger cosmic framework.

  But she also uncovered a terrifying truth pertaining to this fundamental force.

  That is, this 【Fifth Fundamental Force】... was fundamentally a power 'artificially' manufactured with intent.

  Or, perhaps, this force was highly likely a 【False】 fundamental force, engineered by the mysterious entity overseeing Ogulafata, the so-called 'Great Eyes,' using the principle of an unknown Evil God's power to warp cosmic reality.

  But if this 【False】 fundamental force could successfully replicate the effects of the four existing fundamental forces, who could justly label it false?!

  This realization immediately provided Seraphine with an immense revelation.

  "Yes, why restrict ourselves to the definition of the so-called four fundamental forces, why be constrained by the definition of the so-called unified force?"

  Seraphine's eyes flickered with divine light, and she suddenly burst into hearty laughter: "What electromagnetic force, what gravity, what strong nuclear force, what weak nuclear force—whatever force I declare it to be, that is the force it becomes!"

  Buzz—

  The Light of Infinity suddenly shone forth brilliantly.

  In an instant, all space-time and matter within a 1000 light-year radius entered an extremely peculiar state.

  First, the dim backdrop of the entire void instantly transformed into a translucent azure, as if a sapphire-blue sky spanning tens of quadrillions of kilometers had been unveiled.

  Next, within this vast 'firmament,' countless enormous, scaled between tens to hundreds of billions of kilometers, numbering in the millions or tens of millions, suddenly appeared, continuously showering the boundless azure sky with streaks of seven-colored auspicious clouds, exuding the aroma of cream infused with essential oils, the fragrance of chocolate cake, the scent of strawberry mousse, and the flavor of fruit salad yogurt.

  One should not question why light itself could carry various aromas.

  When Seraphine believed it could, it naturally could.

  Even all intelligent life, upon being irradiated by these seven-colored warm lights, could not only perceive various sweet and fragrant aromas entering their nostrils.

  As their deepest desires dictated, within the mouths of intelligent beings bathed in this warm radiance, corresponding perfect desserts—such as ice cream sundaes, cakes, mousses, fruit salads, etc....would spontaneously manifest. They could be enjoyed limitlessly without causing stomach distress or diarrhea, nor would they become tiresome due to excessive sweetness, or even lead to diabetes from dangerously high blood sugar levels.

  "Yaya!"

  "Yaya!"

  As the colossal clouds formed, tens of billions of 'angels' with thousands of wings and bizarre forms, comparable in size to planetary cities, streamed out from within at extreme velocity.

  While fluttering across the vast azure sky, these strangely shaped 'angels' also rhythmically chanted hymns praising Seraphine.

  As the hymns resonated, countless golden musical notes, seemingly solidified, instantaneously flickered across the boundless void.

  Boom boom boom boom!

  Like a divine trumpet commencing the chapter of creation, colossal, brilliant stars, trillions of kilometers in diameter, materialized from sheer nothingness in the boundless firmament, numbering in the thousands and tens of thousands.

  These stars, non-existent a second prior and completely born this very second, were neither rocky planets, nor gaseous giants, nor scorching main-sequence stars.

  They inherently shone, yet they were not excessively hot.

  Everything felt perfectly balanced: warm and comfortable, just right.

  Each of these innumerable stars also possessed a multi-layered structure.

  From the innermost layer to the outermost, there were thousands to tens of thousands of strata.

  The miraculous aspect was that, whether innermost or outermost, every layer occupied exactly the same spatial area.

  It was as if their structural complexity had transcended three-dimensional limitations, achieving a higher echelon incomprehensible to three-dimensional mortal beings.

  Simultaneously, every layer within these brilliant stars was blanketed with tens to hundreds of millions of extremely colossal oceans and continents.

  The distance separating the land layers spanned trillions of miles.

  But such massive creation and accumulation of matter generated no colossal gravitational pull.

  Because under Seraphine's will, all gravitational forces exceeding a certain threshold magically transmuted into warm, pleasing light, which meandered freely between every level of these stars—from inside to out—traveling countless times faster than ordinary real-world light speed, never ceasing its flow.

  These streaks of brilliant light served as both an invisible energy source and a grand synonym for matter itself.

  On each of the colossal stars, countless bewildered sentient beings, in diverse forms, sprang into existence from nothingness across the tens to hundreds of trillions of landmasses and oceans. Upon birth, they instinctively understood how to harness this light, as if by divine endowment.

  They would either reach out and draw a segment of invisible light, instantly transforming it at their whim into real delicacies such as beef steak, roasted lamb, ham, and smoked fish; or they would effortlessly weave the light into threads, crafting various mystical armors and immortal robes imbued with diverse divine powers; or, with a mere thought, they would remotely guide strands of light, arbitrarily shaping them into wind, water, fire, yin, yang, thunder, and magnetism.

  This light, naturally generated from gravity, was effectively akin to the chaotic qi of ancient myths, wielding almost omnipotent effects.

  Swish swish swish!

  Tens of thousands of stars drifted arbitrarily through the void, occasionally grazing against each other.

  What was astonishing was that after such massive stars, controlled at speeds far exceeding light speed, fiercely collided, not a single trace of commotion was produced.

  No explosion, no sound.

  Even these colliding stars behaved like two super-elastic rubber spheres. After emitting a magical 'thwack' sound that reverberated across tens to hundreds of light-years of void, they casually rolled away, each journeying toward the opposite celestial hemisphere.

  Everything felt like a grand farce, utterly abnormal.

  The stars, despite traversing freely, moved with an underlying order amidst the chaos, all orbiting Seraphine's majestic form—seven hundred and seventy-seven trillion kilometers tall—in an ordered formation.

  Yes, it was precisely such a paradox.

  Tens of thousands of stars moving at super-light speed were simultaneously chaotic, displaying no discernible pattern, yet also perfectly neat and orderly as they interacted.

  So bizarre and unpredictable, so contrary to logic.

  But under Seraphine's supreme will, all of this truly and clearly manifested.

  Just as the universe would not cease its infinite proliferation merely because countless beings failed to grasp its operating principles.

  Seraphine, possessing a Hypostasis equal to the vast universe, would likewise not permit the constraints of 【Perception】 and 【Common Sense】—mere inconveniences—to restrict the continuous expansion and qualitative transformation of her power.

  Perhaps even the Universal Sages, who had already stepped onto the final evolutionary path of existence, could not fully comprehend her entire being or demeanor.

  They could only conclude that Seraphine had become utterly bizarre, ineffable.

  But Seraphine never lived for others; she existed only for herself.

  The mere gazes and thoughts of others were like dust to Seraphine.

  No, they were less than dust.

  To achieve supreme power, to evolve, not being human was merely the most basic prerequisite.

  Or perhaps, the very concept of 'human' inherently carried powerful constraints.

  If one's limbs are bound, how can they ever be cast aside?

  As this 'azure firmament,' spanning 1000 light-years in diameter, continuously underwent these various changes, many of Seraphine's three-dimensional unit cells were simultaneously undergoing dramatic transformations.

  The Sanchegues super-giant structure that previously occupied a certain unit cell collapsed and faded, along with its internal colossal black hole, in a single breath.

  After instantaneously transmitting that singularity—which had been painfully exposed when her vision shattered—into a specific four-dimensional unit cell.

  Within that suddenly vacant three-dimensional unit cell, a brilliant star, tens of trillions of kilometers in diameter, spontaneously materialized from nothingness.

  Similar to the external cosmos, this star also possessed a multi-layered structure, featuring tens to hundreds of thousands of strata, each separated by trillions of miles.

  Likewise, every stratum within this star was covered with countless colossal landmasses and vast oceans.

  Between all layers, gravitational forces exceeding a certain threshold naturally converted into brilliant light, which flowed freely between every level of these stars, from the inside out, traveling countless times faster than ordinary real-world light speed, never halting.

  Those nearly ten trillion intelligent beings that previously inhabited the super-giant structure were reborn unharmed across the new super-giant, enjoying new homes and new lives without impediment.

  No one felt disoriented or surprised, nor was anyone indescribably shaken.

  Countless beings inherently revered Seraphine with all their hearts as the supreme mother, the supreme sovereign.

  In their perception:

  The Empress is inherently omnipotent.

  Everything the Empress commands is just and reasonable.

  Therefore, even if the world underwent massive upheaval, what difference did it make? Those whose faith was already absolute felt no shock whatsoever.

  In the azure sky.

  "I have indulged sufficiently."

  Seraphine's Eye of Transcendence flickered with divine light as she swept her gaze over the innumerable stars and myriad illusory colorful clouds in the surrounding cosmos, and she stated calmly, "Be annihilated."

  No sooner had the words left her mouth than it was as if a divine decree.

  In an instant, the translucent azure completely dissipated.

  The vast universe returned to gloom.

  The hundreds of thousands of colorful clouds, the tens of millions of magnificent stars, along with the endless bewildered beings residing within and around the stars, and the hundreds of millions of thousand-eyed, thousand-winged angels flying through the void, all returned to nothingness.

  Everything, absolutely everything, returned to a few minutes prior.

  Everything, everything was as if the initial enthusiasm of the creator had vanished, and the bustling mundane world reverted to quiet stillness.

  And Seraphine, after standing still for a moment, once again took a deliberate step, entering the domain formed by endless dark matter, heading step by step at super-light speed towards the Perseus Arm, which was even larger and longer than the Orion Arm.

  Boom!

  A giant foot, with an area spanning tens of trillions of kilometers, stomped down heavily, stirring up layers of space-time waves, which violently enveloped hundreds of thousands of trillions of kilometers of vast void at a speed many tens of thousands of times faster than light.

  Everything tangible within this range either transformed into pure energy, was swept away by countless twisted space-time torrents towards Seraphine's immense and majestic body, or was mercilessly torn apart into endless fundamental particles, scattering and flying into nothingness.

  Under the might of the Light of Infinity, every step Seraphine took could easily traverse a distance of nearly ten quadrillion kilometers, advancing into the deeper, hazy void of the Milky Way's dark matter realm.

  In fact, starting from the original region of the Milky Way's Orion Arm, dark matter had already begun to reveal its presence, although its mass and scale were minuscule, meaning visible matter still held a dominant position.

  Starting from the peripheral regions at the edge of the spiral arm, the scale and mass of dark matter slightly increased, but still not significantly.

  However, once one left the end of the spiral arm and entered the deeper interstellar region, the proportion of visible matter would rapidly decline.

  Conversely, the total mass of dark matter would surge.

  This surge would accelerate rapidly with distance.

  50%, 60%, 70%, 80%... until it reached 99%.

  At this point, in this vast interstellar region, thousands of light-years away from the end of the spiral arm, dark matter occupied an absolutely dominant position.

  Therefore, this interstellar region represented the dizzying zone within the Milky Way's dark matter.

  Generally speaking, within the vast Dark Matter Halo region, besides a large quantity of unperceivable and untouchable dark matter, comets, planets, and even stars and star systems formed from visible matter also existed.

  However, star systems here were typically extremely sparse and widely scattered.

  Moreover, the vitality of Ether here was generally slightly lower. Non-Ether Ash Zones were interconnected, Low-Ether Sectors were even scarcer, and Sectors of Inner Spirit or higher were essentially non-existent.

  Therefore, in the Dark Matter Halo region, although intelligent races were not entirely extinct, they were exceptionally rare and desolate.

  Because even simply structured life forms were extremely uncommon here; the vast majority were barren and desolate stars.

  But perhaps the vast universe always held surprises, always favoring actions that left observers astonished and awestruck.

  Therefore, even in this region where the total amount of visible matter could be deemed meager, comparable to the Milky Way's desolate zones, there still existed life that could be termed a cosmic miracle.

  For instance, in Ogulafata's memory, he once encountered a species that was perhaps the largest in the Milky Way within the desolate Dark Matter Halo: the Light-Year Dragon.

  This species was a super-celestial level entity, almost impossible to be naturally generated according to celestial mechanics.

  It possessed a colossal, exaggeratedly majestic body, measured in trillions of kilometers.

  Like the Light-Year Dragon that Ogulafata observed many tens of thousands of years ago, it was a gigantic creature, approximately five light-years in length, three light-years in width, and one light-year in height or thickness.

  This was nearly equivalent to a 'living' star system capable of independent movement.

  The Light-Year Dragon's material composition was extremely complex, primarily derived from Ether-Crystalline lithium elements and various compounds, Ether-Crystalline hydrogen elements and various compounds, as well as astonishingly massive gaseous colloids formed from silicon and oxygen elements, combined with a large quantity of Ether-Crystalline dark matter and conventional dark matter.

  It did not collapse into a scorching star or even a neutron star due to its colossal mass. According to Ogulafata's research, he concluded that this was mainly because its overall density was very low, only slightly higher than Earth's atmosphere.

  Suddenly, just as Seraphine was observing Ogulafata's vast memories, an extremely slow-moving colossal creature, moving at only tens of thousands of kilometers per second, entered her perception.

  "Oh?"

  Seraphine turned her head and looked toward the direction the giant beast was swimming, chuckling with a hint of interest, "What a coincidence; I just read about it and now I encounter this giant beast."

  Indeed.

  At this moment, another Light-Year Dragon, seven light-years long, with its long, narrow body, was majestically swimming toward this location.

  However, at its infuriatingly slow speed, for it to swim all the way here, it would probably take thousands or tens of thousands of years to reach Seraphine's position.

  Therefore...

  Buzz—

  Space-time warped, dimensions blurred.

  This Light-Year Dragon, leisurely traversing the boundless Dark Matter Halo 'ocean,' was instantly and forcibly transmitted before Seraphine.

  As soon as this epic giant beast, resembling a dragon-whale, appeared before Seraphine, it was pierced through by her gaze.

  Its colossal body's overall structure, from macro to micro, and then the interaction between this structure and the external dark matter environment's matter and energy, all unfolded before Seraphine's mind.

  "Interesting, this is another cosmic sunfish."

  A sunfish, a giant fish species in Earth's ocean, famously known as the 'ocean's buffet.'

  It is renowned for its extremely unappetizing taste and its completely non-aggressive biological habits.

  Similar to the sunfish.

  Under Seraphine's powerful perception, the Light-Year Dragon's habits were also clearly visible.

  This colossal creature, due to its immense size and low body density, rendered conventional destruction meaningless to it.

  Therefore, the Light-Year Dragon essentially had no natural predators.

  Furthermore, even if some interstellar battleship were to fire a star-piercing cannon at it, firstly, setting aside whether the several-thousand-kilometer destruction range would even register against its tens of trillions of kilometers long body; it would take several years, or even tens of years, just for it to register the sensation of 'Oh, someone's attacking me.'

  Its rudimentary intellect was almost non-existent; it fundamentally couldn't even process the concept of 'Oh, someone's attacking me.'

  However, after Seraphine thoroughly researched its essence and drew inspiration from its body structure, instantly devising several light-year-sized Nebula structure war fortresses, she lost interest in this Light-Year Dragon.

  She was even more surprised that a star system existed within this Dark Matter Halo giant beast's body.

  "Interesting, another low-level civilization parasitic within the Light-Year Dragon's body."

  With a flicker of her gaze, Seraphine suddenly activated a trace of her perception to sink into this Light-Year Dragon's body, flying straight toward that somewhat barren star system.