Chapter 371: The Dark Abyss Society's Conspiracy

The Bronze Sea rippled with blood‑colored waves, and the Chaos Soul in Ao Li's palm projected a lingering Star Chart image. Xingzhi's wings suddenly trembled violently, and the luminous feathers traced a chaotic path in the void: "An abnormal gravitational wave has appeared in the third quadrant of Gui Xu, like… the frequency of the Dragon Clan's temple star marker?"

Lín Jìn's star‑sand‑transformed right hand brushed Zhuque Ling, and the blazing fire scorched dark‑gold patterns onto the surface of the Soul. "How could a holy site that was blood‑cleansed by the Dark Abyss Society three months ago suddenly emit a Distress Signal?" In the star‑fire he crushed between his fingertips, a dragon‑shaped totem made of withered spores faintly materialized.

"It's a quantum lure." The Mechanical Core, code Guiyou, suddenly projected a Holographic Projection, showing the Dark Abyss Society leader's phantom traversing the Star Chart, "They have activated the Causal Chain left by the sacred relics, using Soul resonance as a trap."

Xu's Hēidòng chest cavity buzzed, and time‑space fragments reassembled before everyone into a horrific scene: within the Dragon Clan's temple covered in fungal threads, three hundred bronze coffins were oozing black slime. The slime coalesced into the shape of Ao Li, who was thrusting the Edge‑cutting Blade into Lín Jìn's rear heart.

"God‑slaying prophecy…" Jun's fingertip fungal threads suddenly went berserk, and his red eyes reflected fragments of civilization within the remains of the Time Whale, "Three days later, at the third quarter of the Wei hour, this future will collapse into reality."

Ao Li's dragon‑horn crystal suddenly flaked off, and the newly formed jade‑like spiral resonated with the Chaos Soul: "Then let the Dark Abyss Society see how the Dragon Clan's fury burns through their plot." She pressed the Soul into the Bronze Sea, causing seventy‑two Star Gates to rise in the water, each reflecting a different Time‑Space Coordinate.

The Dark Abyss Society leader stood before the skull Throne, with the Star Chart beneath his feet flowing with corrupted Dragon blood. From beneath his black robe, fungal tendrils extended, injecting withered spores into the Dragon Clan prophet's eyeballs: "When the Chaos Soul returns to its place, you will witness the birth of a new god…"

The prophet's murky pupils suddenly reflected the glow of a Star Gate. The leader's tendrils instantly hardened into crystal, and he snarled as he crushed the eyeball: "Finally arrived."

Xingzhi's wings unfurled into a circular Star Rail, but the navigation beam split midway into a Double Helix Structure: "Something is altering the spatial curvature!" As soon as she finished speaking, the entire squad suddenly fell into the Klein Bottle Structure's space‑time—its Star Gate entrance and exit linked end‑to‑end in Fourth Dimension space.

Jun's fungal network suddenly spread across the void, and his red eyes flickered with spore luminescence: "At the seven‑o'clock direction, Entropy Value anomaly!" The pseudo‑star formed by condensed withered spores exploded loudly, and the Dark Abyss sentinels hidden in the dimension folds ignited with azure fire.

"The welcome ceremony is too enthusiastic." Lin Jin's Vermilion Bird Spirit shredded three ambushers, but the flame could not ignite the black crystals inside them, "These aren't living people…"

"It's a Causal Mirror Image." Xu's Hēidòng chest emitted time‑space fragments, projecting the scene from three days ago when everyone discussed strategy in the Bronze Sea, "The Dark Abyss Society captured our time after‑images and forged them into bio‑weapons."

The mechanical arm of Guiyou suddenly inserted into its own core, pulling out data cables that pierced the ground. The entire trap's dimensional structure unfolded as a hologram, and everyone saw tens of thousands of black crystals proliferating along the Causal Thread: "The core lies in the Dragon Clan temple's ley lines; nine locations must be destroyed…"

His words were cut off by the roar of the skull Throne. The Dark Abyss Society leader's projection descended at the center of the Klein Bottle, and three hundred sixty fungal tendrils emerged from beneath his black robe, each embedded with fragments of sacred Dragon relics: "Hand over the Chaos Soul, and I will spare your whole bodies."

Ao Li's Edge‑cutting Blade suddenly emitted a mournful wail, its blade surface sprouting fine fungal patterns. Xingzhi's navigation Star Rail was polluted by black crystals, and her wings were petrifying at a visible speed. At the most critical moment, Jun tore open his own fungal heart and pressed it to the ground: "Mother God blesses!"

Crimson spores surged like a tide across time‑space. All black crystals blossomed with blood‑red fungi on their surfaces, temporarily halting the proliferation of the Causal Mirror Image. Lin Jin seized the chance to fling Vermilion Bird Spirit skyward, and the flame burned through the Dimension Barrier along the fungal network: "Guiyou, structural weak point!"

"At the three‑o'clock direction, Entropy Value singularity!" The Mechanical Core burst with overclocked red light. Ao Li's Edge‑cutting Blade pierced the void, and Bronze Sea water gushed from the fissure, shattering the Klein Bottle trap into fragments.

The group fell into a massive biological chamber. The flesh walls were studded with pulsating sacred relic runes, and a altar made of three hundred dragon horns floated at the center. The Dark Abyss Society leader's true form sat upon it, a fragment of Chaos Soul embedded in his chest resonating with the core in Ao Li's hand.

"How dare you defile the sacred relics!" Ao Li's Dragon Scales stood up like blades, yet the Edge‑cutting Blade could not cleave the Causal Barrier enveloping the altar. The leader's tendrils pierced the flesh wall, and the entire sanctuary suddenly contracted into a heart shape: "This is the true form of the Dragon Clan—worms tainted by the old god's flesh!"

Xu's Hēidòng chest cavity suddenly collapsed into a Singularity. Time‑space fragments replayed ancient Secret History: the Dragon Clan ancestors, in resisting the old god, had fused sacred relics with alien god flesh. Those writhing flesh walls are the sealed source of the contamination itself.

"Now, it's time to harvest." The Soul fragment in the leader's hand erupted with black light. Nine dragon‑horns of the altar pierced the major acupoints around Ao Li, forcibly extracting the Chaos Soul. Xingzhi's petrified wings suddenly grew in reverse, and the navigation Star Rail sliced into the altar nodes with surgical precision: "You thought we hadn't discovered the back‑door program in the fungal network?"

Lin Jin's star‑sand‑transformed right hand suddenly became solid, and Vermilion Bird Spirit coiled around the Abyss Return Ruler, stabbing into the ley line core. The flame ignited the spore bombs Jun had pre‑planted, and the entire biological chamber began to collapse with increasing Entropy. Guiyou's database opened fully, and the mechanical arm turned into a decoder that pierced the altar: "Chaos Soul Transmission Protocol, decryption complete!"

The Dark Abyss Society leader's roar shattered the dimension. His black robe tore apart, revealing a true form stitched from sacred relic fragments and alien god flesh: "You don't understand at all! Only by merging the powers of the new and old gods can…" His words cut off—Ao Li's Edge‑cutting Blade had, at some point, pierced the Chaos Soul fragment in his chest, and the blade surface pulsed with purification code extracted by Xu from time‑space fragments.

"The Dragon Clan's glory is not for the profane to speak of." Ao Li crushed the Soul fragment, and the Chaos power erupted like a Supernova. In the bright light, everyone saw the Dark Abyss Society leader's flesh turn to ash, while those sacred relic fragments gradually regained purity.

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Jun's fungal network suddenly emitted an alarm. From the dissipating remnants of the Dark Abyss Society leader, tiny twin‑shadow projections rose. A silver‑haired infant lightly kissed the forehead of a black‑haired infant, and the two turned into a flash of light, slipping into the depths of the Chaos Soul.

"The true conspirator…" Lin Jin's star‑sand‑transformation halted at his elbow joint, and a Vermilion Bird totem surfaced beneath his skin, "It was never the Dark Abyss Society."

Xingzhi's wing navigation Star Rail suddenly pointed toward the Eye of Gui Xu. The newborn consciousness in the shattered jade basin let out a wail, and on the surface of the bronze flesh tree, the Dark Abyss Society leader's distinctive fungal pattern emerged.