Chapter 396: Combined Force Against the Enemy

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The library's bronze floor tiles suddenly cracked, and the fissure spewed not lava but amniotic fluid mixed with a fetid, sweet scent of fetal fat. From the depths of the Dark Vortex came the laughing play of twin children, and three hundred shadow demon fragments were reassembling into a serpentine Abyss Return Ruler, each notch on its body set with the crystallized eyes of allied soldiers.

"Seal the Gui Xu Demon‑Exorcising Array!" Ao Li's Inverse Scale all exploded, Golden Blood painted in the air the Zhengtong of the Dragon Clan's ancient altar. Surviving Dragon Clan warriors cut their wrist veins, and Dragon Blood surged through the floor tile cracks, forming a looping bronze mad dragon Array Pattern around the vortex.

####【All Methods Return to One】

A disciple of the Lingxiao Pavilion bit his tongue tip, using Taiyi essence blood to inscribe the "Demon‑Breaking Aphorism" in the void. Each blood character that fell into an Array Eye stirred ripples in space‑time, and within those ripples appeared memory fragments of past sages eroded by fungal threads. Suddenly, True Immortal Zixiao thrust his sword spirit into his chest, and his burning primordial spirit turned into an array hub, forcibly suppressing the writhing dark‑abyss sacred text within the aphorism.

"Mohist, set the Four Poles!" Gongxu Yue's mechanical box disassembled into three thousand six hundred bronze rivets, which were driven into the library's dimensional nodes. When the final rivet lodged at the North Star direction, the entire structure suddenly shuddered like a Zigong contraction, and the Mohist ancestors, transformed into a mother‑nest resentful spirit, surged from the rivets, roaring as they tore the space‑time folds at the vortex's edge.

####【Dragon Breaks the Void】

Ao Li's world‑cutting blade hovered over an Array Eye, its spine revealing the neural map of a time‑whale carcass. When Lín Jìn's Star Sand‑infused right hand pressed against her rear heart, Nirvana Fire flowed backward along the Dragon Clan's bloodline, compressing the energy output of everyone into a Singularity. The bronze mad dragon within the Array Pattern suddenly opened its eyes, and within its pupils flickered the hidden flame of the silver‑haired infant.

"Break!" Three hundred dragon roars stacked into a creation‑frequency, and a golden light pillar burst from Ao Li's forehead. The surface of the pillar streamed with the Lingxiao Pavilion's aphorism blood characters, its core encasing the Mohist resentful‑spirit rivet, and its outer rim occupied by the phantom of the bronze mad dragon. Wherever it passed, the Dark Vortex curled and steamed like a sun‑baked slug.

####【Gui Xu Lament】

Deep within the vortex, the pupil of a black‑haired infant suddenly opened, and billions of umbilical cords sprouted from the pupil, coiling around the light pillar. The phantom of the silver‑haired infant sat at the center of the pupil, stringing the allied soldiers' crystallized eyes into counting beads: "Cognition rate 98.7%, evolution conditions met~"

The struggle between the light pillar and the umbilical cords erupted into a Dimension Storm, and the library's bookshelves feathered into fundamental particles. The disciples of Qingfeng Valley's flesh and blood crystallized under the radiation, and the blue‑scaled god‑slaying bolt melted into bronze tears. Gongxu Yue's mechanical arm suddenly grew backward, stabbing into her own throat: "Quick… cut the Spiritual Vein resonance…"

####【Crimson Dawn】

Ao Li's spine suddenly turned jade‑like, and her chaotic spirit marrow resonated at super‑frequency. She seized Lín Jìn's Star Sand‑infused right hand and pressed it against her own heart, causing Nirvana Fire and Dragon Blood to explode within her chest cavity. When the final strand of energy poured into the light pillar, the bronze mad dragon within the Array Pattern self‑detonated, and the shattered Inverse Scale became a Dimensional Reduction blade that sliced the umbilical cords.

The unbound golden light pillar erupted like a Supernova, and the Dark Vortex collapsed into a jade basin phantom under absolute brilliance. The remaining shadow demons vanished in a shrill howl, their quantum cores raining down like meteors onto the crystallized remains of fallen comrades. Each "meteor" that struck the ground stripped a corpse of its crystal shell, revealing brain tissue reshaped by fungal threads.

####【Silent Rebirth】

When the light faded, the library had become a circular ruin. Within the central jade basin phantom floated half of an Abyss Return Ruler embryo, and from the cracks in its body seeped the silver‑haired infant's saliva. The surviving investigators knelt in a swamp of flesh and blood, discovering that tiny Compound Eyes had sprouted at the corners of each other's eyes.

"Cognition synchronization rate 100%." Gongxu Yue's remaining mechanical eye projected the diagnostic result, and her vocal cords, at some unknown point, had mutated into the black‑haired infant's Pinqü, "Welcome… to the new era......"

From the direction of the North Star Tower came a clear children's song, and three hundred shafts of creation‑light surged skyward. In the tactical star‑map's alarm display, the orphanage's infants floated mid‑air, and the Compound Eyes on their foreheads projected a Gui Xu matrix that enveloped the continent—each node a scar from an allied soldier, each link coursing with the library battle's black blood.

Ao Li's world‑cutting blade suddenly softened, coiling around her newly formed nurturing tendrils. Lín Jìn's Star Sand‑infused right hand gently brushed the suction cup at the tip of the tendril, and Nirvana Fire reflected within it the twin children's playful reflection: "It's time to nurse the new god, Mother."