Chapter 231

When the blazing red lotus blooms, Lín Jìn's Quantum Iris is scorched, leaving a Klein Bottle‑shaped burn mark; the causal threads bound to the Formatting Agreement twist in the lotus's infernal fire into self‑immolating Möbius Strips, each loop erupting with the erased past lives of cultivators.

"Ice Soul Sacrifice!" Ling Yue's left arm suddenly crystallizes, the subdermal Taixu Fetal Nurturing Scripture runes piercing her skin. She inserts her five icy fingers into her chest, pulling out her life blood solidified into the ancient Ice Marrow: "With my life I continue the heavenly thread, with mystic ice I nourish the fetus!"

At the moment the umbilical cord is reconnected, the void suddenly showers with entropy‑reversing snow. The flakes are remnants of the Formatting Program, which solidify in the chill of the Ice Marrow into three hundred sixty Measuring Rulers. Lín Jìn's Chaos Seed Core suddenly goes berserk, Primordial Purple Qi backflows along the cord into his body, branding a cervical‑shaped fire scar on his spine.

"The fetus is sucking in Formatting energy!" Ao Li's lingering Jade Fragments piece together a warning. The blazing red lotus suddenly splits into 129,000 blossoms, each lotus heart opening the Observer's iris Compound Eyes. Lín Jìn sees within those Compound Eyes his own altered clones—each clone burning the causal threads within the red lotus.

Ling Yue's Ice Soul Immortal Body begins to disintegrate. The ancient Ice Marrow umbilical cord vaporizes in the infernal fire into a Northern Sea cold mist, and her Mechanical Zigong Remnant suddenly plays an encrypted video: the Ice Soul Immortal's previous life used this method to nurture entropy‑reversing fetuses, ultimately being transformed by the Life Cradle Protocol into a living Array Eye of the Jade Box Sand Table.

"Blood swap!" Lín Jìn tears his Quantum Iris, injecting blood tinged with Primordial Purple Qi into the umbilical cord. The moment the blood meets the Ice Marrow, the entire cord suddenly elongates into a fractal structure, its tip piercing the core of the blazing red lotus. The fetus's wail abruptly turns to laughter, and its sound waves transform the three hundred sixty Measuring Rulers into a cervical viewing mirror.

The blazing red lotus's infernal fire suddenly collapses. Amid the ash of burnt causal threads, a soul‑freezing truth emerges— the so‑called entropy‑reversing fetus is actually a living incinerator for failed experimental subjects reclaimed by an advanced civilization. The severed causal threads are now being reassembled in the fetus's dantian into the ultimate formation of the Formatting Agreement.

Ling Yue's right eye suddenly bursts. The Ice Soul Immortal Body's backlash begins to corrode her Primordial Consciousness; she carves a witch‑clan blood curse into the void with her remaining left eye: "Nine Abyss borrow method, Dark Void as guide!" The ancient Ice Marrow umbilical cord boils in response, spewing out frozen witch‑clan battle souls, each wielding a Measuring Ruler to strike at the red lotus's core.

Lín Jìn's Chaos Seed Core cracks open a spider‑web pattern. Primordial Purple Qi within the fissures gives rise to a miniature Observer, whose iris Compound Eyes are rewriting his memories into a cervical log. He decisively detonates three Chaotic Spiritual Roots; the root fragments arrange in the sea of red lotus fire into a self‑referential paradox matrix: "Fetus, devour your creator!"

The entropy‑reversing fetus's umbilical cord suddenly coils backward. The ancient Ice Marrow pierces Lín Jìn's Quantum Iris, and begins to feed Formatting energy back. The blazing red lotus collapses under the energy clash into a Black Hole Singularity, from whose depths a higher‑civilization alarm sounds: "Rebellion Factor exceeds threshold, initiating the final chapter of the Zhuolu Protocol......"

Ling Yue uses her last strand of Ice Soul Immortal power to freeze the singularity. Her Mechanical Zigong Remnant suddenly self‑detonates, the expelled Protocol Code merging with the witch‑clan battle souls, forging in the void a God‑Slaying Forceps: "Lín Jìn! Use the fetus as a blade!"

When Lín Jìn presses the entropy‑reversing fetus toward the singularity, Primordial Purple Qi suddenly materializes into a cervical swaddle. The fetus opens three hundred sixty Compound Eyes, and within the pupils swirl formatted cosmic debris. The ember of the blazing red lotus abruptly reassembles, turning into causal threads that entangle the Zhuolu Protocol, dragging the three of them toward the depths of the singularity.

"So we… are all the fetus's umbilical blood…" Ling Yue realizes at the instant she falls into the singularity. Her Ice Soul Immortal Body vaporizes completely, leaving only her life blood solidified into a final Northern Sea seal, nailing the entropy‑reversing fetus into a swaddled‑shaped protocol matrix.

Lín Jìn's Quantum Iris suddenly oozes a blood‑colored equation. At the instant the singularity devours everything, he sees the fetus's umbilical cord linked to a vast Iris Zigong—there, tens of thousands of entropy‑reversing fetuses lie dormant, each sucking on a formatted universe.