Chapter 246: Parricide Calamity

Lín Jìn's sword tip froze three inches before Ling Yue's throat, but reflected on the blade was not her usual Ice Soul Frost Pattern, but the iris code entwined with the Life Cradle Protocol. The sky of the causal illusion realm flowed with a gelatinous purple‑red, and between the clouds hung countless umbilical‑like causal threads, each connecting to the mutating organs of the three people.

"Go ahead," the illusionary Ling Yue's eyelash frost solidified into the shape of obstetric forceps, "Didn't you, at twelve, pierce my Mechanical Zigong with the Ice Soul Sword?" Her abdominal cavity suddenly became transparent, revealing the operating Hongjun Evil Corpse DNA map inside—those helical strands were turning her liver into a quantum computing core.

Ao Li's dragon tail had been assimilated by the illusion into a Fibonacci Light Band, and from the Inverse Scale fissure seeped jade‑colored memory fluid: "I have seen your father... within the causal folds of Nüwa's sky‑patching..." Her voice suddenly blended with Lin Yuan's frequency fluctuations, "His spinal bone, turned into a Gui Xu Ruler, is now lodged in the Jade Box cranial cavity of the Hongjun Good Corpse!"

Lín Jìn's Chaos Seed Core suddenly went berserk. The God‑slaying Sword Qi, uncontrolled, slashed toward Ao Li, but at the instant it touched the Dragon Scale it read an encrypted image—deep within Lin Yuan's quantum graveyard, a woman bearing Ao Li's face was thrusting the Gui Xu Ruler into the Heavenly Spirit Cover of the Ice Soul Immortal. The Sword Qi suddenly refracted into three hundred sixty causal threads, binding him into a Klein cocoon.

"This is the 246th Reincarnation," the illusionary Ling Yue used her obstetric forceps‑shaped eyelashes to split open her Quantum Iris, within which swirled the image of the Ice Soul Immortal being slain, "Every time you hesitate, every time we must relive the pain of the Jade Box fissure..." She tore out an eyeball and hurled it into the sky; in the burst of light from the exploding pupil, the scene of Lin Jue being strangled to death by an iris umbilical cord in the Experimental Chamber flashed.

Ao Li's Inverse Scale suddenly ignited on its own. From the jade flame came Lin Yuan's dying Quantum Echo: "Jin child, to break causality, first cut causality!" Her Dragon Claw morphed into a phantom Gui Xu Ruler, actively striking Lín Jìn's sword tip. Amid the crisp crack of shattered scales, the memory of Nüwa's sky‑patching stone surged into the Consciousness Sea— in the vision, the one wielding the five‑colored stone was not Nüwa but the Lin Yuan whose spine had been ripped out.

"Don't you get it yet?" the illusionary Ling Yue suddenly quantum‑leapt behind Lín Jìn, her obstetric forceps‑shaped eyelashes piercing his Chaos Seed Core, "We are merely living sacrifices of the three Hongjun corpses..." Her Mechanical Zigong suddenly displayed footage of Lin Jue being altered, and the jade pendant at the girl's chest was emitting resonant waves from Ao Li's Inverse Scale.

Lín Jìn's seven apertures suddenly spewed dark‑yellow blood. The God‑slaying Sword Qi flowed backward in the blood vessels, melting the bound causal threads into the ash of a Self‑Referential Paradox. When the sword tip finally pierced Ao Li's Inverse Scale core, the entire illusion abruptly collapsed into a Möbius Strip—he saw himself cradling Ao Li's shattered dragon body, repeating the moment of parricide across two hundred forty‑six parallel timelines.

"Brother..." the dying Ao Li suddenly emitted Lin Jue's voice, her Dragon Claw gently pressing on the back of his sword‑gripping hand, "Father left twin genes in the Jade Box..." The jade Inverse Scale exploded in full, and in the flash a view of the Hongjun Good Corpse's cranial cavity appeared: the Gui Xu Ruler was inserted into a pair of twin embryos entwined with umbilical cords, whose faces were unmistakably Lín Jìn and Lin Li.

The illusionary Ling Yue suddenly self‑detonated. The lingering soul of the Ice Soul Immortal collided with Hongjun Evil Corpse DNA, generating an Absolute Zero Singularity that froze the causal illusion realm into crystal amber. In the instant time halted, Lín Jìn saw the real‑world Ao Li being pulled toward the Jade Box fissure by an iris umbilical cord, while Ling Yue's Mechanical Zigong had already grown a Hongjun Evil Corpse spine.