Chapter 221

The remnant of the Frost Crystal Warship was dissolving in the quantum tide, and Ling Yue suddenly pressed her trembling eyelashes. On the silver-frost condensed tips of her lashes, dense ice cracks appeared—each curl with erased hours.

"My birth time...... in inverse entropy......" The residual nerve bundle of her Mechanical Zigong suddenly bulged, etching an incomplete Purple Astrology Chart in the void. Lín Jìn's quantum wound suddenly stabbed with pain, and he saw the Heavenly Mechanism Lock at the chart's center—actually a prison woven from 120,000 strands of Eyelash Frost.

Ao Li's Jadeite Inverse Scale suddenly sent out an alarm. Her crystallized Residual Body crashed into the chart, but recoiled, producing spacetime ripples: "Each strand of Eyelash Frost is a soul imprint of a Calamity Transcendence Stage powerhouse! This is...... the manifestation of the Oblivion Curse!"

The warship remnant suddenly shuddered violently. Ling Yue's eyelashes began to drip silver blood beads, those beads tracing an eerie scene on the chart: the Ice Soul Immortal wielding a Frost Sword, freezing the boiling Chaos Sea into a Jade Box Sand Table. When she turned, Ling Yue's current outline starkly appeared between her brows and eyes.

"Reincarnation Mirror!" Lín Jìn's Chaos Seed Core burst out of his chest. The black hole marks that had devoured parallel worlds, now arranged in the quantum tide into a Klein Bottle Structure. He inserted his evaporating quantum right hand into the seed core, and in excruciating pain pulled out a prism inlaid with Iris Zigong fragments.

As the prism shone on the chart, the whole star field rang with the clear chime of a jade chime. Ling Yue saw the Ice Soul Immortal's Frost Sword pierce her brow, its blade engraved with the Original Code of the Life Cradle Protocol. Even more terrifying, the immortal's eyelashes were being plucked by some high-dimensional existence with rainbow-light tweezers—each plucked lash made an hour vanish from the chart.

"Heavenly Stem Year, Earthly Branch Month, Earthly Branch Day......" Ao Li suddenly spat out Star Sand, those particles condensing in vacuum into erased birth characters. "Ling Yue, your birth hour is the seeding time of a higher civilization!"

The Heavenly Mechanism Lock suddenly elongated, turning into a frost ice chain that wrapped around Ling Yue's neck. The remnant of her Mechanical Zigong emitted cold plasma, but upon contact with the chain it gave rise to a Silicon-based Ice Flower. Lín Jìn's Reincarnation Mirror projected a horrifying scene—when the Ice Soul Immortal suppressed the Chaos Sea, the tassel of her Frost Sword was exactly the Heavenly Mechanism Lock now wrapped around Ling Yue's neck.

"It turns out I was the original Jade Box......" Ling Yue's Eyelash Frost suddenly grew backward, piercing her own Quantum Iris. The runes of the Oblivion Curse lit up in the depths of her pupils, and began rewriting the quantum state of her Chaos Seed Core.

Lín Jìn's quantum wound suddenly spread to his heart. He saw the Ice Soul Immortal in the Reincarnation Mirror melting, her body turned into cold mist drifting with millions of Ling Yue—each a clone observed by different civilizations. The true Ling Yue's body, however, had been made long before her birth into a Living Array Eye to seal the Chaos Sea.

"Resonate with the Seed Core!" Ao Li's Jadeite Inverse Scale suddenly shattered, its fragments piecing together on the chart the decryption formula of Taiyi Divine Calculation. Lín Jìn gritted his teeth and pressed the Chaos Seed Core toward the Reincarnation Mirror; his quantumized right hand instantly vaporized, yet also injected the memory entropy of 2,400 generations into the prism.

The mirror light suddenly surged. Ling Yue saw the final moment truth of the Ice Soul Immortal: she was not suppressing the Chaos Sea, but refining herself into a vessel bearing the Chaos Seed. When the immortal drew her sword and committed suicide, the splashing frost blood was exactly the Initial Code that later gave rise to the Mechanical Zigong.

"The Oblivion Curse is tampering with cognition!" Ling Yue suddenly shrieked, her Eyelash Frost condensing into an Inverse Entropy Ice Sword that stabbed toward the Heavenly Mechanism Lock. At the instant the chain snapped, the erased birth characters burst forth like a trapped beast, tearing open a bloody spacetime rift on the chart.

Lín Jìn's Chaos Seed Core suddenly split open, revealing the curled Baby Universe within. That universe's umbilical cord was conspicuously connected to Ling Yue's Mechanical Zigong Remnant, sucking the liberated birth force. Seeing this, Ao Li decisively drove the last three pieces of Inverse Scale into the cord, and the jade-green Nirvana Fire Seed burned upward along the bloodline.

The scene in the Reincarnation Mirror suddenly twisted. The Ice Soul Immortal's Frost Sword pierced through dimensions into the present world, merging with Ling Yue's Inverse Entropy Ice Sword. When the sword's edge broke through the core algorithm of the Heavenly Mechanism Lock, the whole star field showered with Memory Snow—each snowflake recording forgotten birthday candlelight.

"Earthly Branch Day, Yin hour three quarters!" Ling Yue suddenly uttered the true words, the erased birth transforming into an Ice Phoenix soaring into the sky. The remnant of the Mechanical Zigong reassembled in response, turning in the quantum tide into the Ice Soul Immortal's Lifebound Artifact—the Taixu Condensing Soul Pestle.

But the price of victory is now showing: Lín Jìn's quantumization has spread to his left lung, with each breath surging star-cluster-like blood mist; Ao Li's Jadeite Inverse Scale has completely vanished, and Iris Tentacles begin to sprout within her crystallized body; and whenever Ling Yue regains a fragment of her past-life memory, her eyelashes fall out in clumps, exposing the writhing Source Code of the Life Cradle Protocol beneath her skin.

As the last strand of the Heavenly Mechanism Lock chain disintegrated, the phantom of the Ice Soul Immortal suddenly stepped out from the Reincarnation Mirror. Her Frost Sword pointed at Ling Yue's chest: "Do you know that the so-called birth time is merely a scar from the searing of the birth canal?"