# Chapter 42: The Dominator 6000
The psionic virtual world manifested by the Triple Veil was like a dividing line, an invisible wall. It used virtual chaotic universal constants as a barrier, and in the instant a thought arose, it locked the spacetime churned by the cocoon thread.
Psionic power moves all things with a single thought. As the Triple Veil's transcendent psionic energy surged, a silver-blue radiance suddenly ignited in the originally black-and-white spiral of contradiction. Even though the cocoon thread accelerated its churning of spacetime, even forming a self-rotating vortex in space, it still could not avoid being illuminated by this light, then enveloped within the virtual world, completely isolated from the outside, forced to temporarily cease its action of breaking through the world barrier.
But this was not the end. Long before the Triple Veil made its move, Joshua had already acted. Amidst the chaotic vibrations caused by multiple black holes moving together—vibrations so chaotic that their trajectories were impossible to discern—the enormous silver world swung its four protruding black hole fists, carrying an aura that seemed ready to split even the virtual world apart, smashing down from above toward the very center of the spiral of contradiction!
This was their coordinated killing blow. The Triple Veil served as the lock, while Joshua acted as the hammer. Working together, they could both unleash their strongest aspects in an instant.
Psionic power was not without direct lethal means, but those were merely small tricks using energy and virtual constructs. Against absolute powerhouses, no matter how complex and varied the techniques, they could not breach the barrier of absolute energy levels. Illusions and mental abilities were even more meaningless. To cause damage to a transcendent powerhouse, the Triple Veil's available methods were nothing more than a few rare techniques like "Psionic Singularity" and "Virtual World."
But that was enough.
In the instant the virtual world was generated, the cocoon thread that the Ultimate Sublimation Aggregate had extended into the Starry World immediately froze motionless—because the virtual world created by the Triple Veil this time was a perfectly symmetrical, uniform world.
In this world, everything was perfectly symmetrical. Every law, every entity had its corresponding opposite. They were balanced, stable, mutually canceling, mutually compensating. There was no change, no possibility, because within it, time and space had not yet appeared, and matter and energy were completely absent.
It was not spatial locking, nor temporal suspension, nor energy-absorbing freezing. To describe it, this stillness was an undetectable isolation. The cocoon thread was completely isolated outside the observation axis, losing all ability to observe and respond.
But this was only temporary. As long as the cocoon thread's main body outside the Starry World realized this, even the absolutely symmetrical world could not stop its advance—which was why Joshua's attack was needed to completely shatter this equilibrium. He would carry the brute force of a "Big Bang" from outside the world, forcibly destroying this virtual world along with the tendril the Ultimate Sublimation Aggregate had extended into this world!
The mass of a black hole burst into the absolutely symmetrical world. This was like the Big Bang itself, completely shattering the equilibrium within the virtual world. This fist, condensed from the flesh and blood of billions upon billions of Ultimate Beings and the mass of stars, directly caused symmetry breaking within the virtual world. Because of this, the excess mass generated by asymmetry gave birth to matter and energy, which in turn structured space and time.
Just like the birth of a world—a primordial Big Bang occurred.
Although it was only virtual, this strike was unquestionably a Big Bang-level bombardment. All the matter and energy of this virtual universe, with a force so intense, so violent, so uncontrollable that even laws could be confused, transformed into a boiling frenzy. Together with the unstoppable black hole fist, it crashed directly onto the cocoon thread.
It was only at this moment, having finally perceived time and space, that the cocoon thread awoke as if from a dream and began to resist. But it was too late. After the smallest measurable unit of time, the cocoon thread—so sturdy that it didn't seem to be made of any substance in the universe—began to shatter layer by layer, dissolving into nothingness.
"Success?"
No!
Before this simple thought could even form, a premonition flashed through Joshua's mind. His superluminal thinking was unaffected by any delay or spacetime distortion, and this gave him time to react.
Boom!
At the center of the virtual world, which had been smashed into nothingness and chaos by the black hole fist, within the shattered energy clouds being continuously absorbed by the black hole, a divine light suddenly blazed forth—far surpassing a supernova explosion, almost infinitely bright. This light's instantaneous output amplitude and total energy level both climbed without limit. And at the same moment, within the shattered energy clouds, just in front of the event horizon of the black hole fist, a small segment of the cocoon thread that had not yet been completely annihilated twitched.
Energy was converging. Spacetime was shaking.
In the turbulent real spacetime, the suddenly appearing infinite light began to concentrate, to focus. And then, transforming into an energy impact a million times more surging than the Great Magic Tide outside the Starry World, it struck Joshua's "fist" at light speed.
Even the black hole, known for devouring everything, was not absolutely invincible. Just as Joshua could use gravitational manipulation to indirectly move black holes, even control them to attack, there were always other methods to deal with this terminal celestial body.
And at this moment, the Ultimate Sublimation Aggregate used the simplest one.
Use nearly infinite energy to push it away.
In that instant, Joshua had already reacted. He wanted to evade with his fist. The Triple Veil had also reacted, creating spatial distortions to redirect the Ultimate Sublimation Aggregate's energy supply back onto itself. But the infinite energy impact did not come in a single stream.
From the center of the spiral of contradiction, a total of twelve infinite energy impacts were simultaneously unleashed. Evading the first was impossible to evade the second, and failing to evade the second would cause all attacks to converge. And so, they all focused together on the black hole that was just a hair's breadth away from completely swallowing that last segment of cocoon thread.
A dazzling wheel of light transformed into the accretion disk of the black hole, displaying seven colors, creating a dim rainbow in the dark vacuum of space.
And then, bit by bit, it was pushed away.
"What?!"
Joshua sensed that the temperature of one of the black holes at his right fist was rising rapidly, even reaching hundreds of millions of degrees in an instant—like a miniature black hole. This was inconceivable for a black hole, because he knew very well that each of the eight black holes composing his Black Hole Engine had the mass of dozens or hundreds of suns, and their temperatures were only about one ten-millionth of a degree above absolute zero!
Heating a black hole? Preposterous! Unless you pulled out infinite energy and forcibly poured it in!
But the Ultimate Sublimation Aggregate really did pull out infinite energy.
"Not good!"
The temperature rose rapidly, but the mass also grew at an alarming rate. The nearly infinite energy focused on pushing the black hole produced a mass composition far beyond what Joshua could control. The balance of two black holes in Joshua's right fist Black Hole Engine collapsed. The black hole that was hit generated a gravitational pull far stronger than before, directly pulling the other black hole toward it, about to cause a collision and merger.
Even Joshua's expression changed. He could only decisively sever all connection with this black hole, then use his last bit of strength to save the black hole about to be pulled over, and throw the massive black hole—whose mass was continuously increasing under the concentrated fire—toward the cocoon thread.
Like a baseball thrown with rapid force, once freed from Joshua's gravitational control, the black hole flew toward the cocoon thread like a dark comet, dragging a long accretion belt. Its momentum, in the thin nebula layers, produced a sound exceeding five hundred decibels, with enormous mechanical waves shattering everything around.
But then, an astonishing scene occurred. As Joshua cut off his connection with the black hole, the twelve energy jets also stopped. This runaway massive black hole obliquely brushed past the rapidly regenerating cocoon thread, then eerily stopped in place, motionless.
Those jets had not only precisely canceled all the force of the black hole fist but had also completely canceled the black hole's angular momentum, turning it into a pure Schwarzschild black hole.
What terrifying reaction speed, control, and precision in calculating one's own power and the enemy's power... Even if it was just a single cocoon thread, it possessed such formidable strength.
Understanding this immediately, Joshua, though his attack was thwarted, did not stop. A flash of determination crossed his mind.
"At the very least, this move tells me that even a being approaching the Sage cannot directly withstand the singularity of a black hole."
Joshua and the Triple Veil communicated rapidly. The Triple Veil was now using psionic power to cut spacetime, completely controlling the space within one light-second around the cocoon thread with psionic energy, shattering all matter within it, and evenly dividing the space into countless intricate, irregular strips. But the cocoon thread seemed independent of everything. Neither pure psionic shattering nor psionic cutting had any effect. The spatial fissures that could tear apart almost everything in the material world didn't even leave a mark on it.
But even this unreasonable cocoon thread, which couldn't be identified for the moment, feared black holes, feared singularity, feared Joshua's Black Hole Fist. So it erupted with nearly infinite energy in an instant to push Joshua's fist away. The consumption ratio was such that if Joshua was one, the Ultimate Sublimation Aggregate paid over a million.
Singularity was the core of a black hole—the singularity point or singularity ring. There, all known and unknown laws and meanings of any universe or world would be lost. It was beyond human imagination, beyond the category of "cognition." At the outer edge of the singularity, the flow of time could even slow to nearly infinite slowness. If someone could survive at the edge of a singularity, that person would witness the destruction of the black hole or the end of the universe in an instant.
This singularity would destroy all "common sense and laws." That was why black holes were called terminal celestial bodies. To oppose them, one had to rely on power beyond "common sense and laws"—that is, at least reaching the level where one could superluminally spread one's own information, ignore energy conservation to create new transcendent power, affect the multiverse with a single thought, and create a new "Way"—the "Sage" realm, which itself surpassed singularity.
Thus, below the Sage level, black holes were the simplest and most powerful attack method available to all transcendent individuals. Various transcendent power singularities were essentially the same method—using nearly infinite transcendent power to condense an approximate black hole singularity to attack the opponent. The various ultimate techniques built upon this were nothing more than things like "Black Hole Fist Arts."
Techniques reached this point, more or less the same.
"I understand now. Why the battlefield where the Sage once fought the Plenty Evil God had so many black holes remaining, even forming a wall of black holes I couldn't see the end of, isolating the Extreme Dark Abyss from the outer abyss..."
In an instant, understanding all the cause and effect, Joshua immediately knew that this was precisely the battlefield the Sage had created to seal, or rather to block the Plenty Evil God's movements!
At the end of the battle, the Plenty Evil God was completely destroyed by the Sage, its remains sealed with black holes and fixed with formations, used as raw material for a "single super-large world." And the Sage, at the end of the battle, broke through the Sage realm, becoming a being beyond limits.
"Quick!"
Suddenly, Joshua said to the Triple Veil: "Pull all the surrounding stars over here!"
"Alright!"
Without question, the Triple Veil knew very well that he alone could not oppose the colossal entity outside the world. Cooperating with Joshua was their only path to victory. So, as psionic energy forcibly smoothed the spacetime distortion caused by the spiral of contradiction, the Psionic Aggregate mobilized its energy reserves accumulated over nearly eighty million years—almost infinite—and began pulling the surrounding stars, bringing them closer to their location.
At this moment, the Triple Veil held nothing back. He truly went all out. And with the surrounding area being the center of the Dark Galaxy, with extremely high star density and quantity, soon dozens, then hundreds of stars appeared around Joshua and him with the light of teleportation.
"It's meaningless. I want to enter this world and see why it has stood for so long under the impact of the Great Magic Tide."
At the same time, the cocoon thread began to dance again. The stability of the world barrier once again stood firm. Something even more massive could be seen breaking through the world barrier, extending from the other side of the spiral of contradiction. And from outside the world, an inexplicable voice spoke calmly: "I want to know why this world is so close to the source of the Magic Tide and the First Flame, what secrets it contains."
"Don't block my path."
What greeted it this time was a black hole machine gun.
This was not a metaphor or exaggeration, but a real black hole machine gun. Joshua and the Triple Veil worked together. The former forcibly split and compressed stars into small, unstable black holes about the mass of Earth, while the latter used psionic energy to stabilize them and delay their evaporation. Both erupted with power simultaneously, launching hundreds, then thousands of miniature black holes in an instant. Before one wave ended, the next was already launched, layer upon layer, wave upon wave, forming a hail of bullets.
Each miniature black hole had a Schwarzschild radius of no more than eight millimeters, even smaller than a conventional bullet. But the mass it contained and the kinetic energy imparted by its speed were enough to shatter a star. Using stars as magazines, an endless stream of miniature black holes flew toward the seemingly frozen cocoon thread. Some, due to poor control, self-evaporated mid-flight, transforming into energy waves and radiation sufficient to affect an entire galaxy. But the vast majority flew steadily toward the enemy, ignoring all obstacles and barriers.
The essence of civilization was boiling water, explosions, and throwing rocks—at least for the human civilization Joshua had encountered.
Vacuum sea, supernova, and black hole were just boiled water, explosions, and rocks with different shells. Simple and straightforward, nothing special.
Again, the strange infinite light appeared. Centered on the cocoon thread, streams of nearly infinite energy, seemingly connected to the Ultimate Sublimation Aggregate's main body, erupted. They swept through the vacuum, intercepting most of the miniature black hole impacts. But the spacetime distortion brought by black holes could even bend light. The relentless black hole impacts forcibly broke through this nearly infinite energy defense, creating a breach. Dense miniature black holes, like a black storm, howled and slammed into the cocoon thread. After absorbing some mass, they self-evaporated, heating everything around them to near the absolute maximum temperature.
This time, the cocoon thread seemed to have completely lost its ability to resist, allowing itself to be destroyed.
Watching the enemy that had completely lost all reaction, Joshua and the Triple Veil were instead stunned.
Their plan was to use miniature black hole rapid fire to suppress the cocoon thread, then compress stars to create a wall of black holes, forcibly block it under the event horizon, and then let these black holes merge into a supermassive black hole, directly suppressing the entire spiral of contradiction produced by the Eternal Void Anchor.
But they eliminated the enemy in the first step?
That was absolutely impossible!
Situations beyond the plan, for the most part, did not represent unexpectedly "good" outcomes, but unexpectedly "bad" ones!
And this time was no exception.
Just as Joshua and the Triple Veil discovered that the cocoon thread had lost its signal, they immediately observed that extremely long, one-dimensional straight-line cocoon thread again. It emitted light, gradually "disappearing" under the accurate bombardment of numerous miniature black holes. But soon, they discovered another strange phenomenon: the miniature black holes did not self-evaporate after hitting their target, but eerily disappeared.
As if swallowed by something.
But then, Joshua and the Triple Veil observed the miniature black holes they had launched earlier. After suddenly disappearing, they suddenly reappeared behind that segment of space. They flew rapidly, then self-evaporated and dispersed as the psionic delayed evaporation field the Triple Veil had added to them dissipated, erupting into a brilliant energy fluctuation—as if they had entered a teleportation gate.
"No, it's not teleportation!"
The Triple Veil, proficient in virtual worlds, immediately detected the anomaly: "Our miniature black holes entered another world. The disappearance just now was actually entering the boundary of another world. And we saw them again only because this world was unfolding, allowing us to glimpse its interior!"
"This is within the Starry World. Where could another world come from?!"
There was actually no need to ask. Joshua quickly figured out where that strange other world had come from.
He looked up in shock at that ordinary, extremely thin, seemingly about to dissipate cocoon thread.
It was small, fragile, inconspicuous, like a one-dimensional line. But this one-dimensional line could churn spacetime, shatter the world barrier, and erupt with nearly infinite power to block his Black Hole Fist. Joshua had originally thought it was the Ultimate Sublimation Aggregate behind it using it as a medium to transmit power and fight them at a distance.
And now, facing an unstoppable attack, this cocoon thread began to unfold.
A line. A plane. A complete three-dimensional space. A complete cosmic spacetime.
And so, as this seemingly ordinary cocoon thread fully unfolded, a strange space, black like the vacuum of the universe, replaced the original space, appearing within the Starry World.
That was the true form of the cocoon thread—a massive alternate space at least sixty astronomical units in size. At this moment, Joshua suddenly understood why even the spiral of contradiction gate, which could teleport evil gods and nearly countless Ultimate Beings, could not simply teleport that small cocoon thread. The answer was so simple: because it was larger than all those evil gods and Ultimate Beings combined!
Countless miniature black holes could be seen shooting into this massive space.
No explosion. No evaporation. Nothing was swallowed. Even the delay formation disappeared. These miniature black holes did not self-evaporate but eerily maintained their form.
Then, these miniature black holes adjusted their positions, were once again imbued with kinetic energy and delayed evaporation formations, and launched rapidly.
This time, the target was not the cocoon thread, which had disappeared, unfolded, and transformed into an alternate space, but the alert Joshua and the Triple Veil.
The attack was reversed, reflected.
Within this alternate space, endless light could also be seen shining, waiting to erupt. This was the convergence of all the attacks and all the energy it had endured during this time.
Absolute control. Absolute self-will. Under the spatial domination of the self-willed beast, reversing attacks, reflecting damage, being invincible, being able to use the enemy's energy to attack the enemy—this was not a particularly difficult technique.
"Domination."
The Near-Saint spoke thus: "No matter whose power it is."