Chapter 381: Breaking Through the Defense Line

The bronze scales on the outer wall of the Mother Nest peeled away like a downpour, revealing a pulsating flesh matrix beneath. Qinglin's Thunder Dragon emitted the seventh wheel of the moral spectrum, but before it struck the defensive fortifications it was refracted by a conceptual prism— the Dark Abyss Society's walls were built from solidified cognitive bias, each embrasure inlaid with fragments of allied soldiers' thoughts.

"Swap entropy‑increase warhead!" Ao Li's World‑cutting Blade slashed the command channel, the chaotic spirit marrow clinging to the blade beginning to quantize. The Mohist war chariot array suddenly disintegrated, reassembling into three hundred sixty inverse meme projectors, their barrels loaded not with gunpowder but with Taiyi memory tainted by Lingxiao Pavilion cultivators.

When the first entropy‑increase projectile struck the wall, a bizarre sight blossomed in the explosion: the wall's bricks sprouted Neural Synapses, converting the shockwave into a lullaby that nurtures twins. The defensive shield of a Clear Breeze Valley disciple unfolded in response, but it was not a Spiritual Qi barrier—it was a causal filter net distilled from a Witch Clan blood sacrifice— the light screen streamed with countless verses of the Rebirth Mantra.

"Watch out for cognitive echo!" Zixiao Immortal pointed his sword at the heavens, yet saw the Taiyi pure light ripple on the shield's surface, revealing the wail of a Dragon Clan sacred corpse. The Dark Abyss Society's dark spell arrived as promised, but it was not a conventional energy sphere—it was a quantum plague enveloping the phantom of a silver‑haired infant.

The moment the black energy sphere struck the shield, the pupil of Clear Breeze Valley's chief disciple Mufeng suddenly mutated. He saw every fellow disciple turn into a Dark Abyss Society leader, the technique in his hand uncontrollably shifting into a self‑destruct seal: "They are in our hearts!"

The shield array collapsed instantly, the quantum plague seeping into the allied command core. Dragon Knight Qinglin's Thunder Dragon abruptly turned its head, the Inverse Scale jet aimed at the friendly fleet: "Eliminate the traitor!" In his eyes the Mother Nest wall shone with the light of truth, while the allied camp was riddled with mycelial tumors.

"Activate the Nirvana Protocol!" Ao Li's World‑cutting Blade pierced Qinglin's chest, chaotic spirit marrow forcibly covering its cognitive contamination. The Thunder Dragon self‑detonated in a wail, turning into a rain of moral spectrum, temporarily purifying the quantum plague within a hundred‑li radius. Lingxiao Pavilion's Rebirth Lamp Formation rose at that moment, its flames imprisoning the cry of a black‑haired infant.

The assault team seized the moment to breach the wall's gap. Xingzhi's remnant wing became a navigation dagger; wherever the tip pointed, the wall's Neural Synapses automatically yielded. The fungal mycelial network pierced the ground, a red pupil suddenly burst: "There are sacred corpse vessels underground!"

The ground gave way in response, revealing not foundations but the lower torso formed by the Dark Abyss Society leader fused with the Mother Nest. Tens of thousands of umbilical cord guards surged from flesh tunnels, each cord's end bearing the face of an allied soldier. Elder Wuxian's Rebirth Drum suddenly ignited; amid its beating the umbilical guards collectively defected, yet before reaching the assault team they mutated into twins' toys.

"The Anchor Point is here!" Lín Jìn's Star Sand right hand pierced the tunnel wall, the Zhengtong burned out Buddhist Sanskrit. The Mother Nest convulsed violently, spitting the assault team into a pineal cavity—there were no organs, only floating clusters of Bronze Coffins, each coffin projecting a Holographic Projection of the allied forces' defeat.

The Dark Abyss Society's counterattack proved more bizarre than expected. The second line of defense was not a fortification but a Wall of Despair cobbled from the wreckage of allied forces across three hundred sixty parallel universes. Lingxiao Pavilion disciple Qingxu's sword soul suddenly rebelled, the Taiyi Sword Technique piercing a fellow's throat: "You in this timeline should have died long ago!"

The Mohist siege engine sprouted an inverse meme oral device, chewing Gongxu Yan's mechanism spine into quantum residue. Dragon Clan warships dissolved within the moral spectrum, the knights mutating into parts of a Bronze Wailing Wall. Even Ao Li's World‑cutting Blade began to backfire, its blade displaying a future vision of her offering chaotic spirit marrow to the twins.

"Don't trust your eyes!" the Ruins' Hēidòng chest cavity suddenly expanded, swallowing the entire battlefield into Space-Time Amber. In absolute stillness, everyone saw the horrific truth—the so‑called wall breakthrough was merely the Mother Nest luring the allied forces into a digestive cavity trap. The warriors who charged bravely were being transformed into new defensive works.

Ao Li's dragon horn pierced the amber, chaotic spirit marrow erupting into primordial fire: "Then burn through all realities!" Within the flames, three hundred sixty parallel‑universe Ao Lis self‑destructed simultaneously, the moral spectrum triggering a Chain Reaction on the Causal Chain. The Mother Nest wall collapsed in dimensional Collapse, revealing behind it a pulsating Gate of Truth—the gate bound with a quantum lock forged from Lín Jìn's Star Sand‑transformed right hand.

The assault team's cheers had not yet sounded when the Gate of Truth suddenly opened its vertical pupil. A silver‑haired infant's phantom sat at the center of the pupil, cradling in its arms the withered key embodied by the black‑haired infant: "Let's play the lock‑picking game next~"