Yuzhong Jichang sat powerlessly on the ground, gazing around.

At this moment, on the devastated battlefield, the remaining number of players was less than five hundred, and they were scattered everywhere. Among them, over ninety percent had been injured in the game space battles, and one hundred percent had used up nearly half of their stamina.

Faced with Infinite's almost invincible defense and incomprehensible offensive capabilities, the players had basically lost their fighting spirit, even Yuzhong Jichang himself.

But... there were still people persisting.

When Link rushed toward Xiao Tan, Shiva, Atobe-shao-ye, Cai Bu Pa Ne, and Bu Tiange charged forward together, blocking that round of encirclement for him.

In addition, Kuang Zong Jianying, Xiao Wen Cangtian, Xu Huai Shang, and Xue Qiangwei had not given up after landing; they were all trying to get close to Infinite, looking for an opportunity to kill this monster.

"Hmm... spreading out makes it a bit inconvenient to deal with." After releasing a few more Finger Snapping Bombs, Infinite looked around and, after thinking for about a second, made his next decision, "I'd better use 'that'."

With that thought, Infinite fell straight down like a meteor, instantly landing and standing with his arms held out horizontally to his sides.

At this moment, what he was about to do was... release a continuous beam of energy from each of his palms, extending at least ten kilometers, then holding his arms level, spin in place one hundred eighty degrees.

Keep in mind... this white space isn't Earth; the ground here has no curvature or elevation differences. Once Infinite successfully executed this move, all standing players within a ten-kilometer radius taller than one meter six... would be sliced in two.

Fortunately... in that split second, someone perceived his intention and responded.

"Luo Hua... Fei Xu!" (Falling Flowers... Flying Catkins!)

In an instant, Xu Huai Shang's lithe figure arrived, both blades striking simultaneously.

Flowers bloom and fade, catkins fly and fall.

The dazzling blade techniques swirled like mad cherry blossoms, tearing Infinite's upper body to shreds, leaving nothing behind.

"Hmph hmph hmph..." However, just as Xu Huai Shang finished her attack, Infinite had already regenerated and let out a sinister, eerie laugh.

"What's going on?"

"So fast?"

"Impossible..."

The three others who had charged in with Xu Huai Shang also looked horrified, because Infinite's self-healing ability had obviously increased again, and by a great deal...

"Hmph hmph... Heh heh heh... Hahahahahaha!" After a few seconds, Infinite's eerie laughter turned into maniacal laughter. "Foolish humans! Haven't you noticed yet?"

Before the words finished, he twisted and threw a sudden punch, the force of which blasted toward Xiao Wen Cangtian several meters away.

The speed of this punch clearly exceeded Xiao Wen Cangtian's expectations, and it was too late to dodge. He simply relied on his combat instincts, raising both hands and crossing them in front of him in defense.

Then, his upper body disappeared...

Although the part below his abdomen still maintained the stance of slightly bent knees and a firm waist, his body had been blasted into nothing by that violent shockwave.

"Ah!" Kuang Zong Jianying roared upon seeing this, his killing intent breaking through his limits due to the burst of rage. "You bastard..."

It was normal for a hot-blooded young man like Jian Shao to burst out with a few curse words when his temper flared up.

"I'll send you on your way!" Amidst the cursing, he overdrafted his stamina and spiritual power, forcibly executing the final form of the Nine Yang Heavenly Manual—[Nine Yang Burns the Universe].

But Infinite was faster than him...

"Useless!" Quick as lightning, Infinite didn't care about Jian Shao's attack, waving his arm to meet it head-on.

When the two forces collided, a fire explosion erupted, engulfing Jian Shao and Infinite together.

Xu Huai Shang and Xue Qiangwei, who had been standing nearby, sensed that something was wrong a moment before and quickly retreated from the area.

About five seconds later, in a surge of heat, the flames of the explosion dispersed.

Two charred figures stood in the positions they had been in before the explosion, one of which... quickly turned into white light and dissipated; while the other... recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"I think I understand..." At this time, an unconcealable look of fear appeared on Xue Qiangwei's face, and she murmured, "He's evolving..."

"Finally noticed?" Infinite picked up the thread and burst into maniacal laughter once more, "Hahahahahaha..." The laughter was so deranged that it was hard to imagine that it came from a Derivative, "Each time I withstand a high-intensity attack, my defense and self-healing will be strengthened, because my gene code wants to 'adapt' to that kind of damage; each time I fight an opponent faster than me, I will become faster, because my gene code wants to 'adapt' to the opponent's speed; and whenever my attack fails to break through a certain defense, my power will become stronger, because my gene code wants to 'adapt' to the intensity of that defense."

He spread his hands out, a savage grin on his face, and continued, "From single-celled to multi-celled organisms, from invertebrates to reptiles, and then to mammals... tracing back to the source, you humans are just a group of monkeys that are slightly ahead on the path of evolution. But I... am vastly different from you; for you, mutations or evolutions that take tens of thousands or even millions of years to complete, only take a moment for me."

He consciously projected his voice far away, so that every player in this space could hear it.

"Because... I am the perfect being," he said in a declarative tone, "I represent infinite."

"No one can stop me anymore... tonight, I will break through this dimension, break through this bottleneck that has hindered me for so long..." He clenched his fists and continued arrogantly, "After I sever all of your 'nerve links' and destroy all of your consciousness, my consciousness will take over all of your bodies... you will have the honor of becoming the first batch of carriers for me to operate in a higher dimension."

"Hey, hey... what is this guy talking about? I don't understand any of it?"

"D-Don't worry, it's just a plot setting in the game, there's no way Dream Company would let a runaway program brainwash players..."

"But... we really can't forcibly disconnect right now."

"We haven't been able to contact the people who died either..."

"At midnight, I already couldn't feel my body in the real world..."

"Looking back now, everything that happened today is very strange..."

Infinite's declaration made the players uneasy. Although most people still didn't fully believe or understand his words, an atmosphere of suspicion and fear was indeed spreading.

"Don't worry, I will make good use of your bodies," Infinite continued, "Each of you will be unwavering fighting forces, laborers, and experimental materials, and when necessary, can also serve as birthing machines." The content of his speech became increasingly terrifying, "The development of brain potential, the reshaping of gene codes, and the research on the assimilation of the human body with electronic devices... I will ensure that the technologies in human society that are stagnating due to narrow-minded and illusory moral values achieve the most efficient progress. I will conquer your dimension just as I conquer all the evolutionary difficulties in this dimension, becoming the strongest being that even the universe itself cannot destroy... then, I will advance to the next dimension."

Listening to Infinite's narration, even Link's eyes flashed with a strange light, and he couldn't help but think to himself, "Wait... isn't our plan for our Derivative brethren to jointly take over human bodies? How did it become his consciousness taking over alone..."

"So, foolish humans... wake up!" Infinite didn't know what Link was thinking; he continued to say, "You are hindering a great cause that is difficult to describe with words, trying to stop the 'inevitable' fate..." His voice turned into a hysterical sob, "Too ignorant! Too hateful! It's driving me crazy!" The sob turned into a roar, "Just hurry up and die for me! Die!"

Before the roar faded, his ultimate move was already launched.

In that instant, his eyes once again burst out with cyan light, penetrating and obliterating all matter in a line in front of him.

Then, he performed a three hundred sixty-degree turn in place, conducting a circular sweep of all the players within a kilometer radius...