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Lin Ye gazed at the white light, the stardust power within him calming down, yet carrying a strange resonance. He could feel the seeds of memory taking root and sprouting at the core of the new universe; those imprints of love, courage, and hope were transforming into the cornerstone of the new universe's laws.

The starship sailed into the new universe, and the closer it got, the stronger the resonance became. Suddenly, Alice pointed ahead and exclaimed, "Energy scans show an Earth-like planet forming! Life signals... are extremely strong!"

Outside the porthole, a blue planet gradually came into focus. Its surface was covered with vast oceans, and continental plates were just beginning to form. On a plain in the northern hemisphere, countless ferns were growing at a visible rate. Even more astonishingly, at the edge of a forest, several upright-walking creatures were dancing around a campfire, their appearance... almost identical to that of humans on Earth.

“That is…” Bulma covered her mouth, tears streaming down her face again, “Their souls… do they carry our memories?”

Lin Ye smiled slightly, his fingertips touching the porthole, feeling the pulse of life emanating from that planet: "Perhaps. But the important thing is that they have inherited our will to protect the world."

Vegeta snorted but didn't refute, only staring at the blue planet with a complicated look in his eyes: "Hmph, I hope they're not as stupid as we were back then."

“Our journey is not over yet.” Lin Ye turned around, looking at his companions, golden stardust shimmering in his eyes. “The new universe needs guardians, and we… are the only ones who remember the old universe.”

The starship sailed through the new universe, with the annihilated past behind them and unknown hope ahead. Lin Ye knew that the Cocoon of Reincarnation had taken everything from the material world, but left behind something more eternal than the stars—those memories and emotions sealed in stardust would eventually blossom into the most brilliant flowers of life in new soil. And their legend had only just begun.

Chapter 199: Newborn Code

Sunlight from the new universe streamed through the portholes, casting dappled patterns on the control panel. Lin Ye's fingertip traced the navigation screen as the starship passed over a ring-shaped nebula, the swirling dust trails displaying patterns resembling Earth's annual rings—this was already the seventh "memory anchor" they had discovered.

“Coordinates 37.21, high concentration of energy detected on the surface.” Alice’s cursor was locked on the equatorial region of the blue planet ahead. “The signal source is a basalt rock with a geological age of over one billion years.”

As the landing capsule broke through the clouds, Vegeta suddenly kicked the sidewall: "Hey, Lin Ye, look at that valley—doesn't it look like Korin Tower magnified ten times?"

In the center of the valley stood a black stone monument with sharp, angular edges. Its surface was covered in spiderweb-like cracks, yet it possessed an order that seemed unnatural. Bulma, wearing scanning glasses, approached, her fingertips tracing the raised lines on the surface, and suddenly exclaimed, "This isn't basalt! It's some kind of alloy, with the same composition as the outer shell of that high-dimensional spaceship we first saw!"

“The pattern on it…” Wukong reached out and touched it, and the surface of the monument suddenly lit up with a faint light, revealing dynamic light and shadow. In the scene, a blond warrior was using an energy wave to shatter a meteorite, while a blue-haired woman was adjusting equipment beside him—it was clearly a scene from their battle in Sagittarius three hundred years ago.

“The text is being translated.” Bulma’s glasses projected holographic subtitles, “'...In the Seventh Era, the Stardust Messenger emerged from his cocoon, using memories as seeds to sow hope in the void…' The rest is blurred, but this symbol…” She pointed to a spiral mark at the base of the monument, “is perfectly consistent with the energy fluctuation frequency of the new universe seed we implanted!”

Lin Ye's Stardust power suddenly ignited, and he pressed it against the monument. Countless images flashed before his eyes: priests of primitive tribes praying to the starry sky, city-states carving their images on the domes of their temples, and interstellar fleets exploring deep space under the name "Stardust." These civilizations were separated by billions of kilometers, yet they shared similar totems of faith.

“It seems we not only had our memories implanted, but we also became creation myths.” Vegeta chuckled, but couldn’t hide the shock in his eyes. “But more than becoming a god, I want to know—” He suddenly looked up at the sky, “Alice, where did that energy fluctuation just now come from?”

An alarm blared, tearing through the air. Alice's projection was covered in red alert, and data streamed down her body like a waterfall: "High-frequency code surge detected! Source... New Universe Core Coordinates!"

"The core?" Lin Ye's heart sank. The energy core of the new universe should have been pure light of creation, so how could it have code-related reactions?

Bulma had already rushed to the control panel, her wrench clanging against the circuit board: "It's not natural fluctuation! It's a structured instruction stream—wait, this data signature..." She turned sharply, her face pale, "It's exactly the same as the underlying protocol of the Omega core program!"

The starship lurched violently during the jump. The starry sky outside the porthole was no longer a tranquil black, but rather like clear water splashed with ink, with countless streams of purplish-black code darting about like living things. Wukong gripped his golden cudgel tightly, fine sparks emanating from the metal shaft: "Didn't that guy explode in the old universe? Why is he still haunting us?"

“The Cocoon of Reincarnation resets the material universe, but high-dimensional code may remain as information.” Alice pulled up a 3D model, the core region of the new universe marked as a red vortex. “Just like when a computer formats a hard drive, stubborn viruses in hidden partitions may remain. Right now, this code is self-replicating in the core server!”

As the starship broke through the final energy barrier, everyone was stunned by the sight before them—an energy sphere a million kilometers in diameter hovered in the void, its surface covered with flowing golden patterns, the "source code" of the new universe. But at this moment, countless purplish-black tentacles were emerging from the depths of the core, wrapping around the golden patterns like vines, and wherever they passed, the light dimmed into a deathly gray.

"Look at those golden patterns!" Lin Ye pointed at the screen. "They're fighting back!"

Sure enough, in the areas corrupted by the purplish-black code, the golden patterns would suddenly burst forth with intense light, shattering the code fragments. The frequency of those golden light fluctuations was exactly the same as the energy form when they implanted the memory seeds.

"It's our memory code!" Bulma slammed her hand on the table. "It's become the firewall of the new universe!"

“But the firewall is about to break down.” Alice’s voice crackled with static. “The Omega code is parsing the core protocol. In three minutes, the new universe will be forcibly formatted!”

Lin Ye looked at the consciousness access pod next to the control panel. Fine water droplets condensed on the pod's glass—a physical reaction to the interaction of higher-dimensional information. "We have to clear them manually. Alice, prepare to upload your consciousness."

"No!" Vegeta slammed his hand on his shoulder, the combat suit's cooling system emitting a piercing hum. "In the code space, consciousness is just data. If Omega captures it, it's gone forever!"

"Then do you have a better way?" Lin Ye looked directly into his eyes. "Last time on our home planet, we survived thanks to the memory seed; this time in the new universe, we have to rely on the memory code to protect it."

Goku suddenly grinned, spinning his golden cudgel in his palm: "Vegeta, are you scared? You've been inside Majin Buu's belly, what are you afraid of, a bunch of numbers?"

Number 18 silently checked the access pod interface, while Bulma stuffed the last spare battery into Lin Ye's hand: "The consciousness link stability period is only 15 minutes. If it exceeds this time, the nerves will overload."

The instant the white light engulfed his consciousness, Lin Ye felt as if he had been thrown into a washing machine. The code space was a three-dimensional maze made up of 0s and 1s, and the purplish-black Omega code surged in like a tide, each data stream carrying a familiar malice—the core instructions that Omega was trying to annihilate all life.

"Left!" Vegeta's consciousness transformed into a stream of red data, shattering the oncoming code block with a single punch. "These things will split! The one I just destroyed has become ten!"

Goku's consciousness surged with golden light, smashing through the code wall like a bulldozer: "Lin Ye, look at those gold nuggets!" In the distance, countless golden cubes were automatically combining to form a barrier against the purple-black code. Each cube was flashing with fragments of their past memories—Bulma's smile, Android 18's fighting stance, and Goku's Kamehameha.

"The memory code is fighting autonomously!" Lin Ye guided the power of stardust, forming a golden shield around the consciousness. "But they lack core commands! We need to find the Omega's master control program!"

The deeper one delves into the code space, the higher the density of the purplish-black code becomes. They begin to simulate physical attacks; Vegeta is struck by an "energy wave," and his consciousness dims by a third in an instant.

"This can't go on!" Bulma's consciousness traversed the data stream, her technological knowledge transforming into blue light blades that sliced ​​through the code. "Omega is drawing on the computing power of the new universe! We have to cut off its energy supply!"

Just then, Lin Ye's stardust power suddenly resonated with a certain area. He rushed towards the center of the labyrinth, where a constantly splitting purplish-black sphere floated, each split spraying out massive amounts of code—the core program of Omega. On the surface of the sphere, the face they had last seen in the old universe was clearly etched.

"Now!" Lin Ye gathered all the stardust power into a sword of consciousness. "Partners, transfer your energy to me!"

Goku's fighting spirit transformed into golden flames enveloping the sword, Vegeta's pride caused the blade to crackle with lightning, Bulma's wisdom formed a data flow circuit on the hilt, and Android 18's composure made the sword's momentum flawless. The moment the golden sword was swung, all the memory codes resonated with light, forming a massive sword array phantom.

"Click——"

The moment the purplish-black sphere cracked open, the entire code space trembled violently. The Omega code receded like a tide, while the memory code, like a swarm of bees returning to their hive, surged into the golden patterns of the new universe's core. Lin Ye's consciousness floated up in the white light, and what it saw last was countless fragments of memory deep within the core reassembling, forming a completely new set of instructions built from hope.

When his consciousness returned to his body, Lin Ye found himself slumped over the control panel, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth. Outside the porthole, the golden patterns of the new universe's core were brighter than ever before; the memory codes, like active neurons, wove a complex network on the core's surface.

“Clearance rate 100%.” Alice’s projection was still somewhat blurry, but her voice carried the relief of someone who had survived a catastrophe. “The Omega code has been completely decomposed, and the memory code… has now become one of the underlying protocols of the new universe.”

Bulma slumped in her chair and casually tossed a wrench onto the table: "So, in the future, intelligent life in this universe will be born with our 'positive energy plug-in'?"

Vegeta walked to the porthole, looked at the newly formed star cluster in the core area, and suddenly snorted: "Good, so that we won't have to clean up this mess ourselves next time."

Lin Ye smiled, the power of stardust flowing through his body, bringing an unprecedented peace. He opened the star map, where countless flashing red dots marked planets affected by the remnants of the Omega code—civilizations in those places had been distorted, like programs infected by a virus.

"Next stop, Galaxy No. 47." Lin Ye pointed to a star system shrouded in a purplish-black shadow on the star map. "The civilization there has written war as the law of survival. We need to go and 'debug' it."

Wukong slung his golden cudgel over his shoulder and laughed like a child: "Let's go! It'll be a good opportunity to test whether the gravity of the new universe is suitable for cultivation!"

While Android 18 inspected the weapon systems, Bulma began calculating warp parameters, and Vegeta, though grumbling about the hassle, was the first to enter the cockpit. The light from the starship's engines ignited pierced the void. This time, they were no longer saviors, but seed planters—personally planting the courage, love, and hope from their memories into every world that needed light.

Lin Ye stood before the observation window, watching the stars of the new universe streak past. He knew that as long as the memory code continued to operate at its core, the shadow of Omega could never truly engulf this world. And their journey had only just begun.

Chapter 200: The End of the Gods

Stardust danced wildly in the shattered spacetime, like a swarm of startled fireflies. On Lin Ye's clenched fist, purplish-black burns still hissed and emitted blue smoke; the eerie color writhed and twisted, as if the Omega Core code was still trying to erode his flesh. He hovered among the cosmic debris, a twisted half-destroyed starship wreckage floating beside him, still bearing the marks of energy burns from the battle.

Not far away, Vegeta's body blazed with deep blue flames, like a burning blue sun. The Garic Cannon roared out like an angry dragon, its powerful energy rippled through space, blasting the last batch of menacing mechanical tentacles into countless data fragments. Those fragments flickered a few times in the vacuum before disappearing like vanished ghosts.

“Instability detected at the spacetime anchor point!” Alice’s holographic projection on his shoulder flickered violently. The strands of hair composed of data streams were torn apart by the spacetime turbulence, sometimes coalescing into strands, and sometimes scattering into tiny specks of light. “The thirteenth-dimensional corridor is about to collapse. We must evacuate within 30 seconds!” Her voice was unusually urgent, as if she would be completely swallowed up by the spacetime turbulence in the next second.

Goku's silver hair flew wildly, and the energy of Ultra Instinct materialized, forming a golden energy shield around him. The oncoming space meteorite shattered upon contact with the shield, bursting forth with dazzling light. He roared, his voice piercing the void: "Lin Ye! Take Bulma and go first! Vegeta and I will cover the rear!" With that, his figure flashed like silver lightning towards another wave of surging mechanical tentacles.

Lin Ye suddenly turned around, the rock spear condensing into a spinning energy body in his palm. A sharp, piercing sound, as if it would tear apart the chaotic spacetime, filled the air. "Have you forgotten the prophecy of the Super Dragon Balls?" His voice, laced with the shrill roar of the spacetime turbulence, "When the blood of God resonates with the system's source code, the Seed of the End will—"

Before he could finish speaking, a grotesque golden rift suddenly opened in the space behind him, as if the sky had been cleaved open by an invisible giant blade. Twelve streams of light shot out like arrows, piercing the divine mark on Lin Ye's back with unerring accuracy. A searing pain instantly engulfed his entire body, as if a thousand red-hot steel needles were simultaneously stabbing him. His vision went black, and his consciousness began to blur, but before his last shred of clarity, he saw a yellowed parchment scroll float out from the rift, inscribed with ancient Saiyan script: "The end of the gods begins with betrayal."

[Flashback: The Crimson Sunset on Namek]

It was a land ravaged by war, where Frieza's mechanical army wreaked havoc on Namek. The instant Frieza's mechanical arm mercilessly pierced his chest, Lin Ye didn't see death, but rather a bright red mission interface suddenly appearing in his mind: [Devour Emperor Genes, Reward: Ancient Saiyan Bloodline]. Warm purple blood splattered onto his retina, turning the "Combat Power 5" detector an eerie crimson.

“So from the very beginning…” He coughed violently, blood splattering out and staining his clothes red. Looking at the system core glowing within him, his voice was filled with self-mockery, “We were all just experiments on someone else’s chessboard.” He recalled his adventures over the years, realizing that every step he took was part of someone else’s calculations.

[Real-world battlefield: A code cage]

Vegeta's Garic Cannon slammed into the golden crack, the powerful energy colliding with the mysterious power surrounding it, erupting in a dazzling light. However, an invisible force rebounded the energy, the powerful impact fracturing his arm. He gritted his teeth and roared, his voice filled with resentment and anger: "Kakarot! Grab Lin Ye! He's been locked onto by the laws of the gods!" His eyes were filled with anxiety, his body trembling slightly as he endured the excruciating pain in his arm, preparing to launch another attack.

Wukong instantly teleported to Lin Ye's side, but the moment he touched Lin Ye's shoulder, he was jolted back as if struck by a high-voltage electric shock. His pupils contracted sharply, his face filled with shock: "His body... is becoming data!" Lin Ye's skin gradually turned transparent, revealing clearly the flowing code patterns beneath. Those patterns shimmered with an eerie light, as if they were alive, moving within his body.

Alice suddenly emitted a piercing alarm, so sharp it hurt the eardrums: "System source code fusion detected! Lin Ye is becoming... a new Omega Core!" Her projection began to become unstable, with snow-like interference appearing from time to time.

[Key Clue: The Shattered Prophecy]

Bulma's voice, choked with sobs, came through the communicator, broken and crackling with static: "I deciphered the parchment! The prophecy hidden by the Namekian elders was actually—" Before she could finish, she was silenced by a violent explosion, "The system creator used Saiyan genes to cultivate a vessel for God, and Lin Ye's transmigration... was part of the plan!" The communicator then fell silent, leaving only the crackling of static.

Lin Ye's consciousness struggled painfully between code and flesh. Scenes from his childhood bedroom flashed through his mind: the cozy bed, the walls covered in science fiction posters. The silver pendant his mother had given him before her death was glowing; its interior was engraved with patterns identical to the Mark of God. So the so-called system was nothing more than a key to activate a container.

“So that’s how it is…” He smiled bitterly, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth, forming a string of blood beads in the vacuum. “I am not a savior, but the key to destroying the world.” He closed his eyes, feeling the conflict between the two forces within him, his heart filled with despair and resentment.

[The Final Choice: Code or Flesh and Blood]

A radiant hand of light, emanating an oppressive aura, emerged from the golden crevice, distorting and warping the very space it touched. Just as it was about to seize Lin Ye, Vegeta suddenly unleashed an aura surpassing even the deep blue aura, the shockwaves from his body distorting the surrounding space into small spatial vortexes. "Enough talk!" The Saiyan prince's tail coiled around Lin Ye like a steel whip, using his body to block the radiant hand. "If you want him, you'll have to get past me first!" His eyes were unwavering, as if declaring war on a god.

Goku simultaneously activated the Kaioken Technique at 20x speed, the Spirit Bomb condensing into a dazzling ball of light in his palm. The light illuminated the entire dark universe, even dimming the distant stars. "Lin Ye, do you remember the first time you transformed into a Super Saiyan?" His voice trembled, yet remained incredibly firm. "This time, it's our turn to save you!" His forehead was covered in sweat, and his body trembled slightly from the immense strain of the Kaioken, but his eyes shone with unwavering courage.

Lin Ye looked at his companions' scarred yet incredibly determined faces. Vegeta's arm wound was still bleeding, Goku's body was flushed red from the Kaioken technique, Bulma waited anxiously on the other end of the communicator, and Android 18 silently prepared to provide support. Suddenly, the system interface in his mind displayed the final option:

[A. Accept the laws of God and become the administrator of the new universe]

[B. Detonate the blood of the gods, perishing together with the system's source code]

Alice's projection suddenly overlaid on the options, and lips composed of data streams gently moved: "Choose C... Trust the warmth of flesh and blood." Her voice was soft, yet it seemed to possess a power that struck Lin Ye's heart directly.

Climax: The Resonance of Flesh and Blood

Lin Ye violently ripped apart the system interface, as if breaking free from the shackles of fate. Without hesitation, the rock spear pierced his own heart, blood gushing out like a fountain. In the instant the blood of the gods exploded with the source code, he heard the energy of all his comrades resonating in the void—a powerful and warm force, countless times stronger than any cold code. He seemed to see their past battles fought side-by-side, the laughter and tears, the victories and defeats, all transformed into a force that sustained him.

“This is… the true Super Saiyan…” He smiled as he fell, his body disintegrating into countless particles of light in the explosion. Each particle carried the memories of his comrades: Goku's passion, Vegeta's pride, Bulma's wisdom, Android 18's resilience… The golden rift let out a resentful roar, gradually shrinking into specks of light and disappearing. After the spacetime turbulence subsided, only Vegeta remained, catching the last piece of Lin Ye's clothing, on which were written in blood: [Go find the rift in Universe 7; the truth lies there.]

[Epilogue: The Unfinished Journey]

The newly repaired starship sailed slowly through space, its engines emitting a low rumble. Suddenly, Bulma's scanner beeped rapidly, its red light flashing incessantly. "Found it! An anomalous space at the edge of Universe Seven!" She zoomed in, her pupils contracting sharply, her face filled with shock. "That's... another Lin Ye?" Her hands trembled slightly, her eyes filled with doubt and tension.

On the screen, another Lin Ye, dressed in the attire of the Supreme Kai, stood before the rift, holding half of the Super Dragon Ball in his hand. He raised his head, his eyes flashing with the same purple light as the system's source code, his gaze cold and unfamiliar, as if he were a stranger from the abyss.

Vegeta clenched his fist, and his deep blue aura erupted once more, the shockwaves around him causing the starship to sway slightly: "It seems the real battle is just beginning." A cold smile curled at the corner of his lips, his eyes filled with fighting spirit.

Wukong gazed at the endless starry sky, his silver hair gleaming under the navigation lights, a confident smile playing on his lips: "No matter how many Lin Yes there are, we will bring him back." His voice was firm and powerful, as if declaring their determination to the entire universe.

The starship pierced through the nebula, heading towards the unknown rift. Behind them, the light particles Lin Ye had disintegrated into were re-aggregating, forming a new star radiating a warm glow in a forgotten star field, as if silently guarding their upcoming new adventure.

Chapter 201 The Gathering of the Boundless Realm

The sky of the Boundless Realm resembled a piece of linen that had been repeatedly washed, its grayish-white surface gleaming with an eerie metallic sheen. Even the suspended energy clouds seemed to have solidified into sharp, angular shapes. Lin Ye stepped onto the transparent energy floor, each step creating spiderweb-like ripples of fluorescence. Nebulae billions of light-years away beneath his feet were collapsing and reforming at a visible speed, as if the entire universe had been kneaded into a flowing canvas at the edge of this space.

“System scan complete.” Alice’s electronic voice vibrated in her ear canal, carrying a subtle electrical noise. “Nine contestants were found to have abnormal energy characteristics—fluctuation frequencies exceeding the threshold of the Twelve Universes Standard, and containing unknown dark matter components.”

Lin Ye's thumb unconsciously rubbed the energy interface of his combat suit, his gaze sweeping over the 128 warriors arranged in a circle. The Pride of Universe 11 was forming a triangular defensive formation with Jiren at the center. Tiny ice crystals floated on the silver-haired warrior's aura, and with each breath, spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the surrounding energy floor. On the right, Caulifla was violently shaking Kale's shoulders, and snake-like black streaks of light were wrapped around the surging green flames of the two. When Kale roared and transformed, the black streaks of light shot into the air like living things, leaving charred claw marks on the ceiling.

"Hey kid." Vegeta suddenly nudged Lin Ye's ribs with his elbow, his tail curling into a wary question mark behind him. "Look at those two guys from Universe 6—their energy is mixed with impurities, like alien energy rejected by Saiyan blood." His voice was very low, but he couldn't hide the wariness in his tone. "The last time I saw this kind of fluctuation was on Spovic, who was controlled by Babidi."

Just then, the space above the viewing platform suddenly rippled with patterns like shattered glass. Two clusters of light particles coalesced into the figures of the shorter and taller Omni-Kings, the clouds beneath their feet spinning wildly counter-clockwise, while the attendants standing on either side of the Omni-King's throne suddenly descended like puppets—the faces of the two figures were completely covered by hoods, only their fingers holding pure gold trays were visible, their nails displaying an eerie bluish-black hue.

"The rules for the first round are very simple~" The short Omni-King clapped his hands, his voice filled with childlike innocence, but the glint in his eyes sent a chill down Lin Ye's spine. "As long as you get the badge on the tray, you can advance!" Before he finished speaking, the tall Omni-King raised the tray, and the twelve badges refracted different images under the eerie light of the Boundless Realm: some looked like burning stars, some looked like twisted gears, and on the badge corresponding to the seventh universe, there was a black vortex that Lin Ye had never seen before.

“Only one person can advance from each universe,” the taller Omni-King added, his voice much deeper than the shorter one, each word like an icicle striking the energy floor. “If all the contestants from a universe are eliminated, that universe will disappear like a painting that has been erased.”

Lin Ye's pupils suddenly contracted. This was completely different from the original story! Just as he was about to ask a question, Alice's alarm suddenly turned into a piercing shriek: "Warning! Space folding detected—an abnormal phase transition has occurred in the quantum state of contestant Noether from Universe 3!"

Before the words were even finished, the mechanical warrior covered in silver armor suddenly emitted a strange, metallic cracking sound. A black hole half a meter in diameter split open in his chest, its edges churning with purplish-black plasma. The Fifth Universe contestant closest to him didn't even have time to raise his defensive light shield before being torn into a stream of light particles by an invisible force. Lin Ye watched helplessly as the energy patterns on the arm of one of the blue-skinned warriors faded rapidly, as if erased, before being sucked into the black hole.

“That’s not normal space distortion.” Bulma’s scream came through the communicator, mixed with Trunks’s exclamation in the background. “Look at Nott’s energy reaction—he’s turning the surrounding spatial structure into time particles! It’s like…like shredding timelines with a paper shredder!”