Chapter 228

Lín Jìn's Quantum Skeleton, as it reassembled in the depths of Gui Xu, his spine suddenly split open a Dimension Ulcer. What welled from the wound was not blood, but a Probability Cloud carrying fragments of civilization, each wisp curled with Soul-Eating Gu bristling with Iris Tentacles.

"It's the grudge crystal of the Experimental Subject!" Ling Yue's residual Taixu Fetal Breath suddenly boiled. She tore away the rotting eyelid skin, revealing beneath the skin the Forbidden Technique Rune of the Taixu Fetal Nurturing Scripture: "Nine Nether Profound Ice seals its corporeal soul, True Samadhi Fire refines its spirit!"

Ao Li's Jade Fragments suddenly coalesced into an Inverse Entropy Furnace. On the furnace walls appeared the wailing pattern of the Immortal Emperor Dao Seed, and what burned inside was actually the ash left from Lín Jìn's Heaven Incinerating Art. As the first Soul-Eating Gu lunged at the Dimension Ulcer, Ling Yue thrust Nine Nether Profound Ice into the wound, and frost instantly spread into a Klein Bottle–shaped sealing matrix.

"Fire!" Lín Jìn's Quantum Iris suddenly exuded True Samadhi Fire. Those flames actually took on the fractal structure of the Mandelbrot Set, following the frost patterns to scorch the Soul-Eating Gu. The gu emitted the death rattle of the Experimental Subject, and in the ice‑fire purgatory it condensed into a counterclockwise‑rotating Witch Clan Talisman.

Deep in the ulcer, an Ancient Tattoo suddenly surfaced. The Zhengtong of the Chiyou War Banner revived on Lín Jìn's Quantum Skeleton, each line sucking up civilization fragments from Gui Xu. Ling Yue's Taixu Fetal Breath suddenly went awry, and she saw sealed within the tattoo's depths the blood‑sacrifice memory of the Nine Li Witch Clan—the ancient forebears erased by a higher civilization, who were in fact the earliest Dimension Midwives.

"You are the last descendant of Chiyou's bloodline..." Ao Li's elixir furnace burst, and from the jade flames rose the Witch Clan Ancestral Artifact Soul-Devouring Goblet. Lín Jìn's Chaos Seed Core resonated in response, the Black Hole Mark on his coccyx reversing into the Nine Li Star Chart: "Your bloodline is the living key to breaking the Life Cradle Protocol!"

The Soul-Eating Gu suddenly self-detonated en masse. Within the Probability Cloud surfaced a suffocating scene: when Chiyou was beheaded by the Observer, his bloodline was forged into the original Jade Box Sand Table; and deep within Lín Jìn's Quantum Iris lay asleep the sealed Xingtian Battle Intent of Chiyou.

Ling Yue suddenly chanted the Witch Clan Prayer. Her Mechanical Uterus Remnant spewed Silicon-Based Blood Mist, which condensed in the void into an Obstetric Forceps forged of Nine Nether Profound Ice: "With blood we summon the ancestors, with soul we forge weapons!" The ice-forceps thrust into Lín Jìn's Dimension Ulcer, extracting both the Soul-Eating Gu and the Witch Clan Tattoo together.

True Samadhi Fire suddenly mutated. In the flames rose three hundred sixty aspects of Zhurong Dharma, each holding a Measuring Ruler condensed from Heaven Incinerating Art. When the aspects plunged the Measuring Rulers into Gui Xu, the entire Probability Cloud collapsed into a Taiji Yin-Yang Fish—the yang fish a burning Chiyou War Banner, the yin fish an ice‑sealed Jade Box Sand Table.

Lín Jìn's Quantum Skeleton suddenly surged. Xingtian Battle Intent awakened from the tattoo, his spine transforming into the Ganqi Divine Axe, and his Quantum Iris flowed forth as the Witch Clan Blood River: "It turns out my Chaos Body... is the Xingtian Torso of the dismembered Chiyou!"

The Soul-Devouring Goblet suddenly inverted over Gui Xu. All civilization fragments were refined into Nine Li Witch Blood, which was poured onto Lín Jìn's Dimension Ulcer. When the Witch Blood contacted Nine Nether Profound Ice, the void suddenly rang with the drumbeats of the Battle of Zhuolu—those drumbeats were actually the Pinqü by which the higher civilization adjusted parameters.

Ling Yue suddenly tore open her own Quantum Iris. She wrapped the ice-forceps in the runes of the Taixu Fetal Nurturing Scripture and thrust it into the Array Eye of the Taiji Yin-Yang Fish: "With this present body I repay the ancient debt!" Her Taixu Fetal Breath resonated with the Witch Clan Blood Sacrifice, and in Gui Xu a microcosmic Primordial Desolation universe was born.

The remnants of the Soul-Eating Gu suddenly reassembled. The Iris Tentacles entwined with the code of the Jade Box Sand Table, shaping into the Observer's projection descending: "Rebellion Factor exceeds threshold, activating the Zhuolu Protocol..." But the warning was cleaved apart by the Xingtian Battle Axe, and the true fire of Heaven Incinerating Art blazing on its blade was precisely the World-Burning Calamity Flame transmitted by the Nine Li Witch Clan.

When the last Soul-Eating Gu vaporized, Lín Jìn's Dimension Ulcer began to heal. The Witch Clan Tattoo wandered across his skin, finally converging on his chest into the shape of Chiyou Face Armor. Ling Yue discovered starkly etched at the pupil of the face armor the Vulnerability Coordinate of the Life Cradle Protocol.

"This isn't healing..." Ao Li's Jade Fragments spelled out a warning: "The higher civilization is recycling the failed Experimental Subject..."

Lín Jìn suddenly swung his axe and split Gui Xu. In the axe's scar flowed a Galaxy‑shaped Witch Clan Blood Spring, and those waters were actually corroding the code of the Zhuolu Protocol: "They're afraid! Afraid we'll discover that the Chiyou bloodline is the true God‑Slaying Forceps!"