The countdown was down to thirty seconds.
On the face of the Jade Monolith, the characters were flashing crimson, pulsing with the steady beat of an armed explosive. Across thirty thousand leagues of the lower mortal realm, the storm clouds were already condensing into a black ceiling of death.
Lin Ke couldn’t simply pull the plug.
The Heavenly Dao’s dispatch loop was hard-coded. If a started purge thread was ended without an orderly return code, the unhandled exception handler would default to PURGE_ALL_SECTORS.
He had to refactor the kernel live. He had to write a hot-patch, compile it in his mind, and merge it directly into the unchanging stone while thirty billion massive power loads of sky-trial star-fire coursed through his blood.
In his sea of mind, Lin Ke’s thoughts moved at picosecond intervals.
He tore into the decompiled source code of Patriarch Tan Xuan’s original engine.
Change 1: Strip Commit 0xDEADBEEF. Delete the Golden Crow bloodline bypass table. Set karmic audit settings to strictly objective, load-testing boundaries.
