Chapter 225

Lín Jìn's Quantum Iris suddenly seeped Klein Bottle–shaped blood beads——at the moment the Observer Larva opened its eyes, the engine hull cracked open spiderweb-like fissures. Dark-gold liquid seeped from the fissures, and as it dripped it actually condensed in the void into a counterclockwise-rotating hourglass.

"Time Primordial Fluid!" Ling Yue's Mechanical Zigong Remnant suddenly sounded an alarm, the code of the Life Cradle Protocol beneath her skin began to boil. Her shattered eyelash frost regrew, etching the Ice Soul Immortal's warning maxim onto the North Sea Cold Array Diagram: "Drinkers gain five hundred years of life; those who suffer calamity fall into Eternal Night."

Ao Li's crystallized fragments suddenly resonated. The jade fragments integrated into the New Universe Birth Canal, at this moment recombining in the Time Primordial Fluid into a vague humanoid shape: "It's the amniotic fluid of the Iris Zigong......" Her voice carried quantum tide static, "Higher civilizations are changing the culture fluid!"

Lín Jìn's Quantum Right Arm suddenly spasmed. The Observer Larva's Compound Eyes rotated beneath his skin, and when his fingertip touched the Time Primordial Fluid, the void suddenly ripped open a galaxy-shaped wound——that being the higher-dimensional structure called the "River of Time", now being stirred into a vortex by his Quantum Right Arm.

"Stop quick!" Ling Yue's warning was drowned by thunder. The entire starfield suddenly stacked up Klein Bottle–shaped thunderclouds; the flickering within the clouds was not lightning, but dimensional fissures displaying the Fibonacci Sequence. Lín Jìn's right arm had reached into the River of Time, now scooping up a handful of Radiance Nectar flashing with the brilliance of two hundred thirty civilizations.

When the first drop of nectar fell into his mouth, memory suddenly burst. Lín Jìn saw himself wearing the Observer's Rainbow Light Robe, smearing Time Primordial Fluid onto Ling Yue's past-life Frost Sword; he also saw Ao Li's crystallized fragments recombining five hundred years later, using the Nirvana Fire Seed to burn the New Universe Birth Canal.

"So longevity is...... memory expansion......" His Quantum Iris spurted blood tears, and from deep within the Chaos Seed Core came the grinding sound of gears seizing up. The vortex of the River of Time suddenly reversed, and the Radiance Nectar he had scooped up actually began to ruminate——those nectar deposits contained the death memories of all who had drunk it.

Ling Yue's North Sea Cold Array Diagram suddenly overclocked. She stabbed her Eyelash Frost into her own Quantum Iris, freezing the flow of Time Primordial Fluid at Absolute Zero: "This isn't nectar, it's the memory cleanser of higher civilizations!" Her Mechanical Zigong Remnant suddenly played an encrypted log——the screen showed the Ice Soul Immortal had drunk this fluid, and thus voluntarily become the Living Array Eye of the Jade Box Sand Table.

Ao Li's Jade Fragments suddenly aggregated into an Entropy Compass. The compass needle spun wildly, pointing to the dimensional fissure deep within the thunderclouds: "Heavenly Tribulation is the antivirus program of the Life Cradle Protocol!" Her voice was distorted by the time tide into a metallic grinding sound, "Temper the nectar with the thunderclouds!"

Lín Jìn's Quantum Right Arm had grown a Fractal Structure. Bearing the tearing pain of his Primordial Consciousness, he flung the scooped Radiance Nectar toward the thunderclouds. At the instant the nectar contacted the dimensional fissure, the entire starfield suddenly rang with infant wails——the New Universe Birth Canal oozed Rainbow Light amniotic fluid, which actually became quantum-entangled with the Time Primordial Fluid.

The thunderclouds suddenly collapsed into Hēidòng. From the singularity thrust out not a gravitational ray, but a chain entwined with the Life Cradle Protocol's code. Lín Jìn's right arm suddenly mutated into a time anchor, pinning the incoming chain in the void: "Ling Yue! Freeze the entropy increase of the protocol code!"

Ling Yue tore off the last three strands of Eyelash Frost. The frost crystals traced in the void the Ice Soul Immortal's Benming Sword sigil, and the core temperature of the North Sea Cold Array Diagram plummeted to Planck Scale. The frozen protocol code suddenly underwent autophagy, and on the chain appeared the tombstone inscriptions of all who had drunk the Radiance Nectar.

"Now!" Ao Li's Entropy Compass suddenly self-detonated. Jade fire ignited the Time Primordial Fluid, refining it into one hundred twenty-nine thousand Memory Amber. Lín Jìn's Quantum Right Arm seized one amber and pressed it into his chest, and from deep within the Chaos Seed Core came the sound of shattering glass——the Observer Larva's Compound Eyes were sealed by the amber, and the wound in the River of Time began to heal.

But the price of victory is now showing: Ling Yue's Eyelash Frost has completely vanished, her eye sockets swirling with the Source Code of the Life Cradle Protocol; Ao Li's Jade Fragments have fully merged into the New Universe Birth Canal, becoming eternal nourishment for the Iris Zigong; and Lín Jìn's Quantum Right Arm cannot be restored, his fingertips continually dripping contaminated Time Primordial Fluid.

When the last wisp of thunderclouds dissipated, everyone heard the Jade Box Sand Table humming back to life. Silver restorative fluid seeped from the engine hull fissure, those fluids coalescing into Lín Jìn's likeness, smiling as he poured Radiance Nectar into the River of Time.

"Reincarnation...... not yet......" Lín Jìn's Quantum Iris suddenly seeped blood-red equations, the fine lines cracking the Memory Amber sealing the Observer Larva,"End......"