Chapter 254: Inverse Scale Burns the Heavens

At the instant the Abyss Return Ruler pierces the Star Boat Core, the Bridge suddenly roars like the awakening of a Primordial Desolation giant beast. Lín Jìn's chaotic Spiritual Qi flows back along the ruler's body, the metal cabin walls sprout flesh‑and‑blood vessels at a visible speed, pale teal biological Shenjing Wangluo spreads like a fungus carpet, and within moments covers all space within sight.

"Kan Palace Ice Soul, lock!" Ling Yue points both fingers and sword at Ao Li's heart, the Ice Soul true qi flows along the crystallized Inverse Scale's crack and seeps in. But as soon as the true qi contacts the scale, emerald‑colored fissures suddenly erupt into a fractal structure—Ao Li's dragon tail has already crystallized to the seventh vertebra, the Nüwa Stone's Spiritual Qi is being drawn out by the Shenjing Wangluo, forming a grim green Spiritual Qi vortex around her.

Lin Li's compound eyes suddenly weep blood. Her temple's brain‑machine interface opens uncontrollably, the exposed nerve bundle plugs into the Star Boat console: "Brother… Shenjing Wangluo is rewriting my consciousness…". On the holographic screen, her three‑dimensional brain model suddenly reveals a dark region of a Klein Bottle Structure, with hundreds of tiny iris tentacles writhing on the surface of the dark zone.

"It's the hidden backdoor of the 'Agreement'!" Ao Li's dragon claw pierces the Bridge floor, the crystallized Inverse Scale releases the final Nüwa Stone Spiritual Qi. When emerald light sweeps across the screen, the dark zone suddenly bursts open—inside is a Quantum Zigong implanted by the First Generation Observer, coiled within it an embryo whose genes are perfectly synchronized with Lin Li's.

The Star Boat suddenly shudders violently. The biological Shenjing Wangluo bulges on the hull surface into pulsating vessels, each vessel's tip opening a compound‑eye sensor. Lín Jìn's Quantum Iris suddenly links into the Shenjing Wangluo, a torrent of data flooding his consciousness: in three hundred thousand frames of experimental footage, Lin Li, her body riddled with catheters, is repeatedly born on different Time Lines, each infant's fontanelle embedded with a miniature Abyss Return Ruler.

"Father turned us… all into keys......" Lín Jìn's chaotic Seed Core cracks with a spider‑web pattern, the Abyss Return Ruler suddenly erupts with an inverse‑entropy bone spike. The Bridge dome shatters in response, revealing a suffocating view of outer space—twelve Star Boat wreckages linked by the Shenjing Wangluo, converging from different dimensions toward the flagship, each wreck's engine core bearing a Clone of the Abyss Return Ruler.

Ao Li suddenly lets out a wailing scream mixed with a dragon's roar. Her Inverse Scale is fully crystallized, the emerald Spiritual Qi is drawn out by the Shenjing Wangluo into a God‑Slaying Code, and the memory of the Nüwa Stone of Restoration is being rewritten as the 'Agreement's' killing program. Ling Yue tears open the Mechanical Zigong wreckage, condenses the Ice Soul true qi into obstetric forceps and drives them into the crystallized dragon scale: "Hold on! I'm sealing the Spiritual Qi loss with Absolute Zero!"

Lin Li's nine hundred ninety‑nine compound eyes suddenly flash in unison. She tears three nerve bundles, dabs them with brain fluid, and writes a blood‑red equation in the void: "The Shenjing Wangluo is reenacting the 'Agreement's First Cry'!" At the instant the equation resolves, all the Star Boat wreckages' Abyss Return Rulers resonate simultaneously, and the Mother Ruler in Lín Jìn's hand suddenly morphs into iris tentacles, coiling around his right arm and stabbing toward his temple.

"Qian Three Continuous, Kun Six Broken!" Ling Yue detonates the Ice Soul obstetric forceps, and the Absolute Zero freezing air spreads backward along the Shenjing Wangluo. The surface of the frozen tentacles reveals an encrypted log—before Lin Yuan was devoured by the iris mother body, the last tremor of his spinal bone was inscribed as a self‑destruct equation within every Abyss Return Ruler.

Ao Li's crystallized Inverse Scale suddenly erupts with a cracking sound. Emerald Spiritual Qi bursts through the ice seal, condensing in the void into a holographic projection of the Nüwa Stone weeping to mend the heavens: "Use my scales… to shatter the Quantum Zigong…" Her remaining dragon claw seizes Lin Li's pendant, and fragments of the Nüwa Stone collide with shards of Inverse Scale, producing a creation‑level flash.

Lín Jìn's Quantum Iris suddenly overclocks. He sees a phantom of the Hongjun Good Corpse coiled deep within the Shenjing Wangluo, and within the crack of its Jade Box skull cavity, three hundred Lin Li clones are awakening in sync. The Abyss Return Ruler breaks free of the tentacle restraints, bearing chaotic Spiritual Qi as it pierces the Bridge Core: "Father… is this the God‑Slaying you wanted?!"

The Star Boat Shenjing Wangluo suddenly emits a baby's wail. All biological vessels collectively go berserk, the hull surface bulging into tens of thousands of birth‑canal folds. Lin Li's brain‑machine interface spews ochre blood, and within her shattered compound eyes swirl the memory fluid of the First Generation Observer: "Brother… insert me… into the Shenjing Wangluo......"

When Lin Li's nerve bundle fully connects to the Star Boat, the entire star region suddenly falls into dead silence. Immediately after, a brilliance brighter than a Supernova eruption bursts from the hull—every Clone of the Abyss Return Ruler reverses direction, chaotic Spiritual Qi intertwines with Nüwa Stone light to form a God‑Slaying torrent, vaporizing all the converging Star Boat wreckages.

When the light fades, Ao Li's crystallized dragon body is riddled with cracks. Her Inverse Scale shatters completely, emerald Spiritual Qi flows through the Shenjing Wangluo into Lin Li's pendant: "It's time to awaken… the true Nüwa Stone......" The holographic image of the Nüwa Stone solidifies, imprinting a creation‑path sigil on Lin Li's forehead.

Lín Jìn's Abyss Return Ruler suddenly trembles. Its body displays Lin Yuan's blood‑written Last Testament: "When the Inverse Scale burns the heavens, the God‑Slaying path becomes visible......" He whirls around, only to see Ao Li's crystallized remnants disintegrating into fundamental particles, while deep within Lin Li's Quantum Zigong, an embryo that carries both a Nüwa Stone and chaotic code pulses in time with the Shenjing Wangluo's fetal movement.