Dimensional Codex System: I'm really not a cultist!

Chapter 1426: Chapter 1425: The Sword of Four!

The battle between the two sides had reached a boiling point.

It was like a reenactment of the previous battle, whether it was Fang Zheng or the Chaos Knight, each of their strikes would split the sky, tear the earth, and all creatures caught in it, whether Chaos Beasts or Swarms, would be mercilessly torn to shreds by that unbelievably powerful force in an instant.

By now, everyone else had retreated to a safe distance, watching the battle on the horizon with tension-filled eyes. Fang Zheng had no intention of letting them come and assist, even Nanoha and Fate. In such circumstances, he was able to channel even greater power alone, without the distraction of worrying about the safety of others.

”Clang! Clang! Clang!”

The black and white blades crossed each other, Fang Zheng’s Pitch Black Greatsword was no ordinary weapon, and the white Longsword in the hands of the opposing Chaos Knight seemed noteworthy as well, each time Fang Zheng attempted to utilize the ”Vampire” effect of the Pitch Black Greatsword, he would feel the Power of Existence flowing into the opponent’s blade but not immediately taking effect, instead dissipating completely as if being broken down. Moreover, this sword seemed to carry its own Magic Immunity effect, as the Magic Missiles and other magic released by Fang Zheng were easily split by the Chaos Knight’s sword without posing any threat.

Even Fang Zheng’s usual unstoppable Bounce Back swordsmanship finally met its match.

As they say, no one steps into the same river twice, the Chaos Knight having been tricked twice in succession by Fang Zheng’s Bounce Back and Spear Reversal, and even losing his Unicorn in the process, if he still didn’t realize there was a problem, then he would have deserved to perish in the Holy Church’s internal strife.

Thus, the Chaos Knight unleashed his ultimate skill—Sword Qi Release!

This Sword Qi Release wasn’t the type where one swings the sword to release an attack of sword qi; instead, he condensed the sword qi around the blade to expand his attack range.

Faced with this attack, Fang Zheng’s Bounce Back suddenly lost its effectiveness; both Bounce Back and Spear Reversal need decisive and precise hits on the enemy, and with the Bounce Back being blocked by the sword qi, rendering it ineffective as it cannot hit the blade itself. The Spear Reversal was too easily dodged, even if Fang Zheng could manipulate the bullet’s direction, but the opponent wasn’t a large and weak Black Soul elder demon, the Chaos Knight’s response and speed weren’t much slower than Fang Zheng’s, even if Fang Zheng used Spear Reversal, it would be easily blocked by the opponent.

This didn’t mean Fang Zheng was rendered helpless!

”Ha...!”

Realizing the opponent was wary of Bounce Back and Spear Reversal, Fang Zheng decisively put away the white Dagger, then raised the Pitch Black Greatsword in his hand, and struck at the Chaos Knight, who also suddenly raised his Longsword to meet Fang Zheng’s Greatsword.

In the instant the two intermingled, time began to overlap!

One Sword!

The power accumulated across one thousand five hundred thirty-seven dimensions erupted at the moment of impact, causing even the space behind the Chaos Knight to tremble sharply, a deep trench several hundred meters deep appearing out of thin air, stretching far into the horizon.

This force was sufficient to turn everything before it into dust; however, to the Chaos Knight, he simply gripped his Longsword tightly, letting out a cold snort.

”Hmph!!”

With this cold snort, Fang Zheng immediately felt his outputted power abruptly disrupted, scrambled, and shattered. That immense force, capable of crushing everything, suddenly seemed to run into a high-speed grinder, getting shredded.

However, this wasn’t without a price.

”Crack... crack...”

Negating Fang Zheng’s attack using Chaos Power, yet fractures began to appear on the Chaos Knight’s armor, barely perceptible. Regardless, he was merely a conduit for Chaos, not Chaos itself. Facing Fang Zheng’s attack and wishing to negate it completely, there would be a certain degree of damage to himself as the conduit.

But Fang Zheng was also not feeling so well.

Destruction is often easier than creation.

The swordsmanship Fang Zheng created was founded on his ability to manipulate time, and time itself is ordered, precise as a clock. At this moment, Fang Zheng felt like he painstakingly assembled a model with blocks to battle, only for the opponent to swing a hammer and smash it to pieces, but... did you think that’s the end?!

Having missed his strike, Fang Zheng swiftly jumped back, and meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of golden vortices appeared behind him, from which weapons emerged.

Then, time froze.

In this instant, countless time branches were activated.

Fang Zheng stretched out his hand.

Gripped the cold, crimson Long Spear, and threw it forth.

The bowstring in his hand was pulled taut, shooting out rays of starlight.

The golden Holy Sword swept down, becoming a tidal wave of light with dazzling brilliance.

The rainbow Radiance tore through space, destroying civilizations.

The cold blade traced the path of death, obliterating all.

In the Royal Wealth, thirty-two thousand five hundred twenty-one Noble Phantasms were unleashed in this moment, this minute, this second, towards the same target, presenting an unparalleled assault.

Soon after, time resumed its flow.

Tens of thousands of time lines swiftly began extending towards the Chaos Knight, and once they reached their destination, the fate of the Chaos Knight would be decisively sealed!

Yet...

”Foolish delusions!”

Accompanied by a roar, the Chaos Knight suddenly gripped the Longsword in his hand tightly and raised it high. Following that, a furious storm erupted with him at its center!

Time, space, causality, in this moment, everything lost the constraints of the order laws, becoming chaotic, fragmented and ruined. The tens of thousands of time lines that Fang Zheng had fabricated were drawn into it, and then mercilessly torn into pieces!

The connections between cause, process, and result were shattered.

The links between beginning and end were erased.

No matter how terrifying the attacks, how strong the power.

As long as they hadn’t existed, it meant nothing!

However, that’s not the reality!

”Got you!”

At this time, Fang Zheng’s figure suddenly appeared behind the Chaos Knight, with no indication of when; he held the Greatsword, thrusting it towards the Chaos Knight’s back.

At this moment, Fang Zheng’s eyes were exceptionally clear.

And in his mind, echoed events from a long... long time ago... well, strictly speaking, not too long ago.

It was when he first teamed up with Fina to close the Gates of Hell.

At that time, Fang Zheng had said something to Fina.

”If chaos is characterized by indeterminacy and lawlessness, does this mean chaos itself is a part of order?”

Calculating from the Main World’s timeline, perhaps not even two years have passed until now.

But for Fang Zheng, it seemed like it was a long time ago.

What is order? What is chaos?

If order can assign a definition to chaos, are they truly opposed by necessity?

At this moment, Fang Zheng finally seemed to understand why the Goddess of Order in this world created things, as Nimph said, with goals and outcomes set, but the intermediate processes all omitted...

No, it wasn’t omission, but black-boxed.

Just like Schrödinger’s box, before you open the box, the living cat and the dead cat simultaneously exist inside.

However, whether the cat inside is alive or dead only matters to the person who wants to open the box.

To others, does it matter if the cat inside the box is alive or dead, or even if there’s a cat at all?

No.

It’s like most people taking an elevator; they don’t care by what principle the elevator operates, they only know it’s enough that the elevator can safely take them from point A to point B.

Back in the goddess’s bathhouse, Nymph nearly burned out her brain over this matter, while Fang Zheng and Fina clearly didn’t care.

Because... it really doesn’t matter.

What’s important is not the process but the result!

It turns out, if something is impossible, then it’s a kind of finite improbability. While infinite improbability lies in that it will ultimately have a result.

Because it is infinite, improbable.

Therefore, there’s no need to obsess over how I killed him, because I only need to kill him! I don’t need to consider these problems myself; I just need to find that point in time and jump there, that’s enough!

As for the steps and process in between... what does it matter to me?

That’s right, this was exactly what Fang Zheng thought of when he had a flash of inspiration during the goddess’s previous operation.

Sword of Four!

”Puchi!!”

The sharp greatsword pierced the Chaos Knight’s heart, penetrating his body, and the Chaos Knight’s movements also stopped at that moment. He turned his head, looking blankly at Fang Zheng who appeared behind him, his eyes filled with disbelief.

”How are you here?”

The Chaos Knight couldn’t understand, he couldn’t comprehend that he had already exerted all his Chaos Power, tearing the surrounding space, time, and everything. Logically speaking, no orderly being could withstand this force and come to his side, because around him, even space itself was chaotic.

However, Fang Zheng appeared here and then pierced his body with a sword.

”How do I know, I don’t care either.”

Meeting the puzzled gaze of the Chaos Knight, Fang Zheng shrugged his shoulders.

”You see, I wanted to kill you, and now I’ve killed you, that’s enough, isn’t it?”

”Boom!!!”

As Fang Zheng’s words fell, scorching Primordial Fire instantly ignited from the greatsword, pouring into the Chaos Knight’s body along the wound. At the next moment, the surface of the Chaos Knight began to shatter and split. He blankly gazed at Fang Zheng, seemingly unable to comprehend his words.

”This... is not order.”

”So, what is order then?”

Fang Zheng stared at him without blinking.

”Order is... truth...”

The Chaos Knight murmured, reaching out as if trying to grasp something.

”Then, what is truth?”

Fang Zheng remained indifferent, all of this was meaningless. Perhaps now when he said, ”What is truth?” it might travel through a wormhole to a star system thousands of light-years away, triggering a war lasting thousands of years, causing billions of deaths. Then when both sides realize the prime culprit of their war, they would gather a massive expedition army to destroy Earth and humankind.

Then, during the fleet’s space transit, due to an error in dimensions calculation, it ended up being swallowed by a dog.

Such things will always happen, and we are powerless to stop them.

This is reality, this is life.

”Truth... is...”

This time, the Chaos Knight didn’t finish his words, a mocking smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. But then, roaring flames burst from his throat, his eyes began to melt, and black smoke started to come out of his ears and nostrils. Soon, the Chaos Knight turned into a pile of pitch-black charcoal, slowly disappearing in the burning of the Primordial Fire.

”Phew—!”

However, just at this moment, suddenly, Fang Zheng felt the air around him become sticky, and at the same time, Nymph’s voice rang in his ear.

”Master, be careful, we have detected an extraordinary, unobservable energy forming at the North Pole...!”

As soon as Nymph’s voice fell, Fang Zheng saw a thick cloud of smoke suddenly rise from the sky, transforming into a sky-covering hand, reaching out towards Fang Zheng. At the same time, Fang Zheng saw the Chaos Knight’s body crack with a ”snap,” and then something the size of a fist, shining with a seven-colored radiance, like a crystal, emerged from the Chaos Knight’s body, flying towards that big hand.

What on earth is that?

Fang Zheng didn’t have time to think about it; he wouldn’t be concerned with this problem now. To Fang Zheng, anything the enemy supports, he must oppose. Anything the enemy opposes, he must support. From this, it can be deduced, if it’s something the enemy wants to destroy, he must preserve it. If it’s something the enemy wants to preserve, he must seize it!

Seeing this scene before him, Fang Zheng hesitated for a moment before suddenly reaching out, summoning the Dimensional Codex, and taking out a Soulstone, crushing it forcefully!

”Roar—————!!”

The Star Forging Dragon King suddenly appeared from the void, roaring as it pounced towards that strange hand, colliding heavily with it. Meanwhile, Fang Zheng took the opportunity to rush forward and grabbed that crystal, putting it away.

At the same time, the Star Forging Dragon King also collided heavily with that hand.

”———————!!!”

The fierce airflow covered the sky, even ripping open a huge hole in the atmosphere at the North Pole, roaring cold winds surged, sweeping everything.

When Fang Zheng opened his eyes again, that inexplicably appearing hand had disappeared, while the Star Forging Dragon King quietly remained at the top of the sky, watching him.

Then, its body began to collapse.

”What bad luck...”

Seeing this scene, Fang Zheng sighed helplessly.

This wasn’t a case of the Star Forging Dragon King perishing together with the mysterious hand; the reason is simple— the Soulstone of the Star Forging Dragon King has run out of uses.

Originally, Fang Zheng didn’t plan to use the Star Forging Dragon King, but that hand came fiercely with no good intention, coupled with its formidable momentum, Soulstones of Malthael and Arthas at that rank were definitely no match for it. So, out of necessity, Fang Zheng had to use the Star Forging Dragon King one last time.

Although he didn’t know what that thing was, the important thing is it has been secured.

Thinking of this, Fang Zheng looked again at that strange crystal stored in his inventory.

As for what it actually is... it seems only the Goddess of Order would know.

Hopefully, this item will be worthy of the sacrifice of the Star Forging Dragon King.