Chapter 395: Begin Counterattack on the Shadow Demon

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The library's dome suddenly collapsed into a Klein Bottle Structure, the quantum remnants of the shattered Shadow Demon coalesced in the void into a vortex. Ao Li's Inverse Scale stood upright in the spacetime distortion, and at the instant the Boundary‑Cutting Blade split the dimensional crease, the blade's edge conveyed the sensation of a silver‑haired infant's teeth gnawing.

"Three Talent Formation!" she shouted, her Dragon Claw tracing a blood‑colored incantation in the air, the glow of chaotic spiritual marrow piercing the black fog. Xuan Yuan Hao's bronze mad dragon surged forward at the sound, its dragon teeth tearing open the Shadow Demon's right shoulder, and a Qingfeng Valley disciple's wind blade cut into the wound like a scalpel—where black blood mixed with Star Sand splattered, the Taiyi Light of Lingxiao Pavilion transformed into chains that bound the shield core.

####【God‑Slaying Concerto】

Qing Lin's God‑Slaying Crossbow switched to rapid‑fire mode, the rain of arrows precisely pierced the knee joints of twelve Shadow Demons. At the instant these monsters, solidified into corporeal forms, knelt, the Mo family mechanical beast "Po Jun" leapt from a crack in the floor tiles, its serrated tail vertebra stabbing into the wound and stirring it. Gong Su Yue's mechanical box expelled three hundred Dimensional Reduction Talismans; when the talisman paper touched the black blood it suddenly unfolded into a two‑dimensional plane, forcibly halting the Shadow Demons' quantum‑ification process.

"Qian Position, supplement slash!" Zi Xiao Zhenren pointed his sword at the heavens, the flowing light of the Taiyi Sword Formation slashed down along the scar on the Shadow Demon's spine. When the seventh Shadow Demon husk exploded into stardust, the remaining black fog suddenly emitted a roar like a uterine contraction, and all Shadow Demon remnants collapsed toward the vortex's center.

####【Gui Xu Fetal Movement】

The core of the Dark Vortex opened seventy‑two hundred thousand Compound Eyes, each pupil reflecting a scene of allied soldiers falling in battle. Lín Jìn's Star Sand in his right hand suddenly quantum‑transformed, passing through the Dimension Barrier to grasp the vortex's depths—his fingertips felt the slick touch of a mammalian amniotic membrane.

"They're reassembling the mother nest!" his Nirvana Fire rose upstream along the umbilical‑shaped spacetime folds, the flames illuminating a horrifying truth: deep within the vortex floated a swaddling cloth woven from allied scars, and a silver‑haired infant was tearing the swaddle with a black‑haired infant's teeth, molding the Shadow Demon remnants into a new Gui Xu Abyss Return Ruler embryo.

Ao Li's Boundary‑Cutting Blade pierced the vortex's edge, and the blade suddenly sprouted Neural Synapses. Amid the fluctuations of chaotic spiritual marrow, she saw Xuan Yuan Hao's bronze mad dragon undergoing metamorphosis—its horns turning into nurturing tentacles, the Inverse Scale's gaps opening Compound Eyes, and the dragon's flame spewing out mixed with fragments of Golden Pill from Lingxiao Pavilion disciples.

####【Cognitive Storm】

The vortex's rotation speed suddenly surged, black amniotic fluid seeping between the gears of the Mo family mechanical beast. Gong Su Yue's control talisman abruptly reversed, branding a twin's lip imprint on her wrist. Lingxiao Pavilion's auxiliary formation began to reverse, the Taiyi Light turning into shackles that bound the caster, and the Qingfeng Valley disciple's wind blade swung uncontrollably toward a comrade.

"Sever the Spiritual Vein resonance!" Zi Xiao Zhenren swung his sword to cut off his left arm, the surging life‑blood painting a dual‑yin reverse formation in the void. At the instant the formation solidified, the chaotic spiritual marrow in every human body suddenly went berserk—Ao Li's newly born Inverse Scale burst forth, reconstituting in Lín Jìn's Star‑sand‑transformed right hand into a miniature celestial globe.

####【Dawn of Desperation】

The celestial globe's needle suddenly locked onto the seventh tier of the Gui Xu scale, and Gong Su Yue's mechanical box burst in response. Three hundred cognitive vaccines forged from time‑whale teeth scattered and splashed, triggering a chain collapse the instant they touched the vortex. The silver‑haired infant's phantom emerged from the vortex's depths, irately crushing the forming Gui Xu Abyss Return Ruler embryo: "Not counted! Start over!"

When the Dark Vortex was completely extinguished, the library's floor had turned into a swamp of flesh and blood. The surviving investigators knelt on the viscous substrate, gasping, while the tactical star chart in their arms suddenly flashed a glaring red light—emergency transmissions came from newborn nurseries across the continent, the foreheads of three hundred infants simultaneously opening Shadow Demon Compound Eyes, and they were humming battle songs with black‑haired infants' vocal cords.

Ao Li's Boundary‑Cutting Blade suddenly trembled, its spine reflecting the image of the Polaris Tower. The celestial globe atop the tower's tip had, at some unknown moment, completed its reassembly, each scale inlaid with a crystallized eye of an allied soldier, now turning slowly in time with the infants' humming.