Chapter 223

Lín Jìn's Quantum Wound suddenly contracted violently, the Chaos Seed Core deep within emitting a rumination-like spasm. He knelt in the boiling Virtual Time Plasma, his throat bone protruding a terrifying swelling, vomiting seven Golden Core Fragments wreathed in Rainbow Light—those were the memories of two thousand four hundred lifetimes devoured by the Chaos Body, crystallized into a deadly poison in the Entropy Trap.

"Don't touch!" Ao Li's warning was torn apart by the virtual time tide. Ling Yue's Mechanical Zigong Remnant suddenly surged, nerve bundles coiling a Golden Core Fragment and thrusting it into her eye socket. Instantly, her Eyelash Frost crystallized into Ice Flowers, her pupils reflecting a suffocating scene: Lín Jìn wore the Observer's Rainbow Light Robe, using the Annihilation Sword Array to dismember the Ice Soul Immortal's Frost Body.

"Is this...... your past life memory?" Ling Yue's voice suddenly became triple echo, her left side beginning Quantum Tunneling. The Memory Particles released from the Golden Core Fragment wove into a cocoon in the void, dragging the three into a superposition-state Reincarnation Illusion.

Lín Jìn's Chaos Seed Core suddenly cracked with spiderweb-like patterns. From deep within the Seed Core came the Taotie's hiss, his esophagus mutating into a Klein Bottle Structure, beginning to automatically devour loose Memory Particles—with each swallowed particle, the Hēidòng Mark on his tailbone brightened a fraction—this was the Devouring Protocol implanted by a higher civilization, awakening.

"Stop!" Ao Li's Iris Tentacles stabbed Lín Jìn's neck, but were crushed by his newly grown Taotie fangs. Jade-colored Nirvana Fire Seed flowed backward through the fangs into his body, actually igniting the Reincarnation Karma Fire within the Memory Particles. Lín Jìn saw the scene of his 1,700th reincarnation: Ling Yue's Mechanical Zigong burst with pincers, pinning Ao Li to the Operating Console of the Jade Box Sand Table.

Taotie's devouring speed grew ever faster. The Virtual Time Plasma was siphoned into a vortex, Lín Jìn's spine sprouting bone spurs of Fractal Structure, each tip opening the Observer's Compound Eyes. Ling Yue's remaining Eyelash Frost suddenly overgrew, redrawing the Ice Soul Immortal's Life Talisman on the remnants of the North Sea Cold Array Diagram: 'Seal his seven apertures with Taiyin Dark Ice!'

But it was half a step too late. Lín Jìn's Taotie mouth had expanded into a black hole horizon, the entire void's Memory Particles pouring in like an inverted Galaxy. His Quantum Iris burst forth a Blood Star Chart, past life memories and present life experiences colliding within the Chaos Seed Core—the Ice Soul Immortal's self-slain Frost Sword, the Observer's dripping Correction Fluid, the Iris Zigong's scorched birth canal...... all the images shattered into 129,000 prism shards, each shard curling a Heart Demon.

"It turns out I am...... the Antivirus Program of the Jade Box Sand Table......" Lín Jìn's Taotie fangs suddenly pierced his own palm, black blood writing the Original Code of the Life Cradle Protocol in the void. His Chaos Body was disintegrating, each piece of flesh turning into a Greedy Taotie Clone, frenziedly gnawing at the three's remaining proof of existence.

Ao Li's Crystallized Body suddenly self-detonated. Jade Fragments reassembled within the Memory Particles, the Nirvana Fire Seed igniting inside the Taotie's gastric sac: 'With my residual body as a primer, I refine the Reincarnation Obstacles!' Her Iris Tentacles turned into chains, dragging Lín Jìn's Taotie true form toward the Virtual Time Singularity.

Ling Yue seized the moment to hurl the last three strands of Eyelash Frost. Frost crystals pierced Lín Jìn's Quantum Iris, freezing in the North Sea Cold Array Diagram an Absolute Zero thought prison: 'Recall the Ice Soul Immortal's Frost Heart Art!' Her Mechanical Zigong Remnant suddenly played a strange recording—that was Lín Jìn's Operation Log from his past life as an Observer.

The Taotie's hiss suddenly turned into a wail. Lín Jìn saw himself having transformed Ao Li into a Star Sand Container, and witnessed Ling Yue's past life being made into a Living Array Eye. The most terrifying of a certain hidden memory: deep within his Chaos Seed Core curled a High-Dimensional Baby bristling with Iris Tentacles—a monster nurtured from devouring two thousand four hundred parallel worlds.

"These are...... my sins......" Lín Jìn's Wei Zhui Gu Hēidòng Yin Ji suddenly reversed spin, his Taotie fangs snapping in response. The devoured Memory Particles surged forth, coalescing in the void into a Self-Referential Paradox structure—each particle recording his act of devouring himself.

Ao Li's Nirvana Fire Seed suddenly mutated. Within the jade fire appeared the Ultimate Form of the Annihilation Sword Array: Shi Er Wan Jiu Qian Dao Wen linked head-to-tail, forming an Ouroboros Structure endlessly consuming itself. She pressed the fire seed into Lín Jìn's Chaos Seed Core: 'Use Taotie to devour Taotie!'

As the sword array began devouring Lín Jìn's true form, the Virtual Time Singularity burst forth with infant wails. Ling Yue's Eyelash Frost completely melted, revealing beneath the skin the Source Code of the Life Cradle Protocol—those codes were re-forming into a birth canal shape. She suddenly realized: the so-called Heart Demon Tribulation was merely the labor pains of a new universe's birth.

"Let the Taotie devour the entire cycle of reincarnation!" Ling Yue snapped the last nerve bundle, dipping in the blood of the agreement's Source Code to write on Lín Jìn's forehead the Ice Soul Immortal's final precept. The Chaos Seed Core instantly disintegrated, its core's Iris Infant opening its Compound Eyes, pupils rotating with the tombstones of two hundred thirty civilizations.

When the Taotie's devouring reached critical point, everyone heard the Jade Box Sand Table shatter. All the devoured Memory Particles suddenly began to ruminate, coalescing in the void into Inverse Entropy Amber—each amber ice-sealing an uncontaminated Parallel World Silhouette.

Lín Jìn's damaged Quantum Iris welled clear tears. In his final lucid moment, he saw Ao Li's Nirvana Fire Seed transform into Qing Luan, clutching Ling Yue's Source Code as it flew toward the birth canal rift. While he himself collapsed into a Singularity, a sigh came from deep within the Chaos Seed Core: the High-Dimensional Existence sighed, 'Perfect Living Forceps......'