Chapter 373: Into the Tiger's Lair

The crystal cluster of the Time Whale Remains cast pillar‑shaped shadows in the void, and Ao Li's Dragon Scale shifted to a dark camouflage. Seven phantom silhouettes followed her—Lín Jìn's Star Sand right hand was reverse‑analyzing the Time Whale Shenjing Wangluo, Xing Zhi's wings folded into a Stardust cloak, Jun's pupils contracted to needle‑tip size, scanning the residual cognitive toxins in the Probability Cloud.

"Crystal resonance frequency offset 0.3 hertz," the data stream flashed across mechanical eye Guiyou, "A creature has just passed through the Third Quadrant's Kekule Ring."

The Ruins' Hēidòng chest cavity spewed a mass of quantum foam, and the group instantly appeared in the Time Whale's pituitary region. Jun's mycelium twitched violently the moment it touched the flesh wall: "They're using holy remains to cultivate reverse‑meme organisms!"

Ao Li's World‑Cutting Blade lightly traced the vascular bundle, and where Golden Blood seeped, a Star Chart pattern lit up—exactly the defense diagram of the Dark Abyss Society Mother Nest. Xing Zhi's wings suddenly unfolded into a hexagonal lattice: "No, these Star Charts are mirrored traps; the true path lies..."

Her voice was cut off by a sudden space‑time fold. Twelve Dragon Clan holy remains seeped from the flesh wall, each skull socket pulsing with withered spores. Lín Jìn's Zhu Que Ling ignited a blaze of karmic fire, and the bones suddenly assumed the opening stance of the Dragon Clan's sacrificial dance.

"It's the 'Reverse Soul Return to Ruins Formation'!" Ao Li's dragon horns flared with azure light, "Don't let them complete the ritual!"

Jun's mycelium pierced the holy remains joints like a downpour, while spore suppressant fluid sprayed back from the bones. Mechanical arm Guiyou deployed a molecular saw, and the cut splattered black Brain Fluid: "Error... these are living puppets..."

The Ruins' Hēidòng suddenly contracted violently, and space‑time fragments revealed a horrifying truth— the Dark Abyss Society fuses captured Dragon Clan warriors with holy remains to forge biological weapons capable of synchronously deploying ancient formation arts. Xing Zhi's Navigation Star Rail completed calibration at that moment, and the tips of the wings emitted seven gamma rays, precisely piercing the Quantum Entanglement nodes of the holy remains.

Ao Li's World‑Cutting Blade whipped up a chaotic storm. When the last holy remain turned to dust, the flesh wall suddenly split open with a luminous fissure, revealing a throbbing dark matter heart inside. Jun's mycelium, upon touching the surface, wildly sprouted an eye: "It's the Mother Nest's cognitive core!"

A topological map surfaced on the heart's exterior, each coordinate marked with Dragon Clan cipher. Lín Jìn's Star Sand right hand pressed on the center of the Zhengtong, and Zhu Que Ling's karmic fire burned a Three‑Dimensional Projection: "Ninefold Hilbert encryption, requiring synchronized cracking of seven hundred twenty causal keys."

Xingzhi's wings disintegrated into nano Stardust, weaving a Star Rail decryption matrix within the projection. Database Guiyou suddenly reported an error: "Detected the Star Law Court's top secret Final Protocol... this is the manufacturing diagram of a god‑slaying weapon!"

Ao Li's chaotic spirit marrow suddenly resonated with the map. When her dragon blood dripped into the core, the surface of the dark matter heart displayed twin child palm imprints. The silver‑haired infant's phantom emerged from the Zhengtong, and where its fingertips lightly touched, seventy‑two jade lotus blossoms unfurled—each blossom's core hiding a segment of altered Time‑Space Coordinate.

"A lie woven with the power of creation..." the Ruins' Hēidòng sucked in the jade lotus energy, "requiring apocalyptic entropy to neutralize."

Jun suddenly tore open its mycelial heart, injecting entropy flow spores into the flower's pistil. The black‑haired infant's phantom materialized amid screams, and the fog on the map was ripped open, revealing the true Mother Nest coordinates—located at the pineal gland of the Time Whale Remains.

When the group teleported to the target zone, Jun's mycelial network suddenly emitted a shrill alarm. On the fleshy ground beneath their feet, countless dormant eyes opened simultaneously—these are biological monitors the Dark Abyss Society fashioned from Dragon Clan retinas.

"Cognitive filter failure!" Xing Zhi's wings petrified rapidly, "They're transmitting to the Mother Nest..."

Mechanical Core Guiyou suddenly over‑clocked, releasing an electromagnetic Pulse Wave. The eye monitors burst in the glare, their fluid coalescing into the phantom of the Dark Abyss Society Leader: "Found you."

The entire Time Whale Remains quivered violently, and the flesh wall secreted a viscous black neural cord. Lín Jìn's Zhu Que Ling sliced off the incoming tentacles, only to see miniature twin children crawling from the cut surface: "They've completed symbiotic fusion with the Mother Nest!"

Ao Li's World‑Cutting Blade cleaved an escape route, but a humming of frozen space‑time echoed behind the group. Three hundred sixty reverse‑meme guards materialized from dimensional folds, lacking any definite shape, existing only as a mass of continuously collapsing Probability Cloud.

"Close your eyes!" the Ruins' Hēidòng engulfed the group into a quantum state. In absolute darkness, Jun's mycelial network transmitted a thermal imaging map: "They exist through observation! Do not form concrete cognition!"

Xingzhi's Navigation Wings blindly sketched a Star Rail in the void, and mechanical eye Guiyou switched to quantum radar mode. As the group prepared to break through the encirclement, the Dark Abyss Society Leader's true form descended—his lower half already merged with the Time Whale Remains, and the chaotic spirit marrow embedded in his chest resonated with the essence in Ao Li's hand.

"Do you like the gift?" he waved his hand, unfurling a Star Chart, the true Mother Nest coordinates scorching a brand onto everyone's retinas, "This game of hide‑and‑seek should end now."

Ao Li's World‑Cutting Blade suddenly reversed its edge, stabbing her own dragon horn. Golden Blood splashed onto the chaotic spirit marrow, activating the Dragon Clan holy remains' Final Protocol: "With blood as covenant, summon the ancestral dragon soul!"

Every cell of the Time Whale Remains began to boil. The phantom of the Ancient Dragon Ancestor awoke from the dark matter heart, emitting a dimension‑shaking roar. Cracks appeared in the Dark Abyss Society Leader's fused form, and the twin child phantom screamed as it fled.

"Go!" Lín Jìn's Zhu Que Ling wrapped the group, the karmic fire rushing through the fissure torn by the ancestral dragon. Jun's mycelial network suddenly went berserk, planting an entropy‑increase bomb in the Mother Nest's core: "Here's a parting gift..."

As the group fell out of the Time Whale Remains, a blinding flash behind them erupted like a Supernova. Xing Zhi's Navigation Wings locked onto the true Mother Nest coordinates—the point of starlight flickered deep within Gui Xu, resembling a demon dragon's pupil.

"It's not over yet..." Ao Li's dragon horns were riddled with cracks, and the chaotic spirit marrow displayed a scene of twin children at play, "This game is only just entering the middle game."