Chapter 240

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When the first drop of umbilical blood fell onto the Star Boat deck, the void suddenly split open a Klein Bottle‑shaped ulcer. In the instant the dark‑golden blood beads splattered, the Hehuan Sect disciple Yu Jiao Long's rainbow feathered robe abruptly sprouted Iris Tentacles—those umbilical‑blood‑stained threads pierced her dantian, mutating her water spirit root into a spirit‑devouring vortex.

"Cut the Spiritual Vein quickly!" Ling Yue hurled the Ice Soul Heaven‑Measuring Ruler, its blade freezing Yu Jiao Long's left side. But her right side had already undergone quantum demonic transformation; the spirit‑devouring demonic body opened its maw and swallowed three Nascent Soul Cultivators, from whose belly the Observer Larva's giggle echoed.

Lín Jìn's Quantum Skeleton suddenly resonated. He saw his own Chaos Seed Core, just before it dispersed, now being demonic‑transformed inside a cultivator's body and reassembled into the Killing Code of the Life Cradle Protocol. When the fifth cultivator turned into a spirit‑devouring heavenly demon, his remaining Primordial Consciousness was forced to run the Chaos Seed Demonic Manual, and the void abruptly split open three hundred and sixty Gui Xu fissures.

"Kan Palace steadies the departing fire; the demonic seed nurtures the mysterious elixir!" Lín Jìn's skeletal fragments suddenly coalesced, the Quantum Iris entwined with umbilical blood cracking a third eye at his brow. The Nascent Souls of the cultivators that had been devoured, under the demonic manual's refinement, condensed within his shattered dantian into an anti‑entropy demonic pill—its surface sprouted nine hundred and ninety‑nine compound eyes, each reflecting the grimace of the Hongjun Evil Corpse.

Ling Yue suddenly spewed mixed primordial blood. Her Mechanical Zigong Remnant played an encrypted video: the Ice Soul Immortal's previous life had been tainted by umbilical blood, prompting her to reshape the Frost Sword into the original spirit‑devouring artifact. When the demonic Yu Jiao Long's tentacles lunged, Ling Yue decisively detonated the Measuring Ruler, and the Absolute Zero chill froze the tentacles into a Fibonacci Sequence ice sculpture.

"Use the demonic pill to counter‑devour the umbilical blood!" Ao Li assembled the Jade Fragments into a blood‑colored sigil. Lín Jìn's demonic pill suddenly erupted into a Fractal Structure, its pattern splitting into a self‑destruct equation. He tore open his chest cavity and pressed the pill into the Star Boat Core— the leaking umbilical blood suddenly reversed flow, solidifying on the pill's surface into the ultimate killing formation of the Formatting Protocol.

When the seventh wave of contamination surged, fewer than twenty cultivators remained alive. The Zixia Sword Sect elder Qingyangzi had just slain the heavenly demon, and his Benming Sword suddenly underwent quantum demonic conversion; the Nascent Soul head hanging from the Sword Tassel began reciting the Chaos Seed Demonic Manual. Lín Jìn's demonic pill abruptly split open a cervical‑shaped fissure, from which Iris Tentacles emerged and coiled around Qingyangzi, refining this tribulation‑crossing great adept into fresh demonic‑pill nourishment.

"So we were all just culture medium…" Ling Yue tore off the chaotic thunder pattern from her hair tips. The lightning that had been entwined with the Protocol Code now etched the Ice Soul Immortal's frost pattern onto the surface of the demonic pill. When the Thunder Pattern resonated with the frost pattern, the void suddenly poured a mixed primordial blood rain—each drop of blood coiled a swallowed universe.

Lín Jìn's Quantum Iris suddenly exuded a mysterious yellow primal qi. He saw the Observer Larva coiled deep within the demonic pill, its umbilical cord linking all spirit‑devouring heavenly demons: "Let demons devour demons, let pills bury pills!" When the demonic manual reached its peak, his left arm abruptly transformed into an Obstetric Forceps shape, the jaws clamping his own demonic pill and tearing it out violently.

The entire star region suddenly blared a Formatting Alert. The demonic pill exploded within the forceps into a Return-to-Void Singularity, and the surging umbilical blood contamination inside was paradoxically re‑absorbed by the singularity. Ling Yue seized the moment to hurl the Mechanical Zigong Remnant into the singularity; the clash of Absolute Zero and chaotic demonic qi generated a Kronecker Integral storm, dismembering all surviving spirit‑devouring heavenly demons.

When the storm subsided, Lín Jìn's Residual Body was already crawling with Dimension Ulcers. At his dantian a fragmented demonic pill spun, its pattern sealing the last strand of umbilical blood contamination. Ling Yue knelt in the void and discovered that within her Quantum Iris, the Ice Soul Immortal Remnant Soul was being assimilated by the Protocol Code released from the demonic pill.

"It's not over yet…" Lín Jìn's throat bone scraped, emitting a metallic tremor. His demonic pill suddenly split along fine fissures, and from within came the swallowing sound of the Observer Larva sucking on the source of contamination…