Chapter 402: Countermeasure for the Dire Situation

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Sand and dust, carrying a fetid black mist, surged in the oasis; the vines' sharp screech tearing the air intertwined with the monster's roar into a dirge of death. Ao Li's Dragon Scale glowed with a blue sheen in the toxin‑steaming air; she stomped her foot, shattering the Crystallization sand pebbles beneath, and the Inverse Scale's stress‑induced trembling hum pierced the battlefield clamor.

"Xuan Yuan clan, break its left foot! Dragon Clan, throat lock!" Her roar carried the wave of chaotic spirit marrow, and the World‑cutting Blade split a blade of light that enveloped Star Sand. Xuan Yuan Hao's heavy sword answered, smashing into the monster's left limb joint; at the instant the sword tip struck the Crystallization shell, the black stone veins beneath the monster's skin suddenly bulged— that shell was forged from countless sand scorpion Residual Bodies, and pus blood mixed with cognitive spores seeped from the fissures.

Ley Line Ambush

Disciple of Lingxiao Pavilion stepped on the dual‑instrument Array Eye, and seventy‑two Taiyi Thunder Sigils formed a net in the air. Qing Xu Zi bit his tongue, spitting out his life‑blood; the thunder light instantly turned crimson, and as it slashed into the sand it ignited the underground mycelial network. The Mo School mechanical beast 'Ravager' dug three meters into the ground, its barbed Drill shredding the Neural Synapse of the black stone mother nest, and Gong Xu Yue's mechanism box launched three hundred spirit‑shocking nails, which drove along the earth‑vein fissures into the densest nodes of the Gui Xu imprint.

"Kan water level, seal!" Zi Xiao pointed his sword to the northern sky, and Taiyi Xuan Ice followed the trajectory of the spirit‑shocking nails to freeze the earth‑vein. The vines' regeneration rate suddenly dropped; the broken ends no longer spewed pus blood, but instead exuded Star Sand‑like cognitive residue. A half‑Crystallized vine suddenly self‑detonated, and among the spray of fragments a phantom of the North Star Tower emerged— the celestial sphere's gauge had retreated to 97% due to their counterattack.

Godslayer's Dance

The monster's thousand legs suddenly surged, and its Crystallized joints erupted with living text from the 'Gui Xu Fetal Treasury Scripture'. Ao Li spun to dodge the sweeping scorpion pincers, and the World‑cutting Blade slipped into the intersecting scar on the monster's waist and abdomen. The blade's edge now conveyed not the clang of metal, but a Zigong‑like pulsation— inside the monster's cavity, three hundred black stone embryos were synchronously matching the nursery babies' brainwave Pinqü.

"Lín Jìn!" she shouted sharply, and her Star Sand‑formed right arm responded by inserting into the wound she had cleaved. Nirvana Fire flowed backward along Lín Jìn's veins, exploding inside the monster as seventy‑two blazing red lotuses of karmic fire. The phantom of the silver‑haired infant screamed out of the red lotus, and the creation hourglass in its hand melted into a bronze teardrop.

Cognitive Backlash

The ground suddenly quantum‑collapsed, turning the sand beneath everyone's feet into a transparent film. Three hundred meters below, the core of the black stone mother nest revealed its true form—a cradle assembled from Crystallized camel skulls, each eye socket suspended with cognitive fragments of allied soldiers. Gong Xu Yue's mechanical arm suddenly grew in reverse, stabbing into his own chest and tearing out burning chaotic spirit marrow: "Mo School ultimate technique·Heavenly Craft Sacrifice!"

The spirit marrow plunged into the cradle, and time and space suddenly halted. All the Gui Xu imprints within human bodies began to resonate, and Ao Li saw her own reflection dancing in the celestial sphere atop the North Star Tower— each step rewriting the nursery babies' genetic code. When she spun and delivered the final slash, the tower‑top gauge thundered back to 85%, the monster's thousand legs shattered at the roots, turning into a sky‑wide Crystallization rain.

Crimson Dawn

The oasis's palm trees withered in the Crystallization rain, the vines shed their purple hue and turned to ash‑white powder. The surviving squad members knelt on the glass‑like sand, noticing the Compound Eyes structures pulsing in each other's pupils fading away. The core of the Azure Scale god‑slaying crossbow suddenly cracked, dropping a black stone fragment soaked in vernix— the fragment's surface bore a clear imprint of the silver‑haired infant's tooth.

"Cognitive pollution clearance rate 63%..." Gong Xu Yue's mechanical eye wept black fluid, and the battered mechanism box suddenly displayed the nursery's surveillance footage: the Compound Eyes on the foreheads of three hundred infants were bleeding, and their cries in the ruins of the Northern Library coalesced into new Gui Xu imprints.

Ao Li's World‑cutting Blade suddenly emitted a Zigong‑like pulsation, and the newly formed nurturing patterns along the blade's spine flickered in sync with the bronze corona at the desert's edge. When the first ray of Star Sand‑laden dawn light swept over the battlefield, all the Crystallized corpses instantly stood at attention and bowed toward the direction of the North Star Tower.