Chapter 405: Crisis Turn

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Crystallized sand gravel vaporized into violet mist under the impact of the energy beam, and the barrel of the Mo School mechanism cannon melted into a crimson hue from overload. Gongxu Yue's pupils reflected the trajectory of black crystal shards splattering—those sharply angular fragments quantum leapt in midair, astonishingly turning into the phantoms of three hundred silver‑haired infants, giggling as they stuffed the shards into their mouths to chew.

"Fragments of the Abyss Return Ruler!" Ao Li's Inverse Scale trembled from stress, and the World-Cutting Blade split the folds of space. The moment the blade edge touched the fragment, the silver‑haired infant phantoms suddenly materialized, their pink fingertips lightly flicking the blade: "Sister's toy, give it back to me~"

####【Feast of Gluttony】

The thousand-legged monster suddenly grew explosively, countless nurturing tentacles sprouting from its crystallized joints and drawing the sky‑filled black crystal shards into its belly. The scale of the Celestial Instrument frantically pulsed on its forehead, and on the nursery surveillance screen the three hundred infants abruptly ceased crying; their umbilical cords pierced the nursery pods, weaving a Star Sand‑like Shenjing Wangluo in the void.

"It's reconstructing the cognition Anchor Point!" Lín Jìn's Star Sand right hand plunged into the sand, and Nirvana Fire burned along the earth veins. The subterranean truth reflected by the flames was suffocating—black crystal shards were reassembling deep within the nest, each fragment encasing the polluted memory residue of allied soldiers.

####【Dragon Blood Great Wall】

Three Dragon Clan warriors manifested their true forms, burning their life essence blood to erect a circular fire wall. Crimson‑gold Dragon Scale peeled off piece by piece under the monster's impact, the fallen scales melting into liquid bronze that seeped into the sand. Xuan Yuan Hao's beastly body suddenly rose to a standing posture, his talons gripping the Celestial Instrument on the monster's forehead: "Mo School! Now!"

Gongxu Yue's remaining mechanical arm suddenly disassembled, and three thousand spirit‑shocking spikes rained down, driving into the monster's spinal vertebrae. When the final spike lodged into the seventh bone joint, the scale of the Celestial Instrument abruptly reversed—99.9% cognition contamination rate began to plummet, and black Brain Fluid seeped from the Compound Eyes on the foreheads of the nursery infants.

####【Exhausted Fuel Fire】

Ao Li leapt into the air atop the corpses of the Dragon Clan warriors, chaotic spirit marrow boiling on the World-Cutting Blade into a cyan‑white flame. The moment the blade edge pierced the monster's chest armor, the silver‑haired infant's scream rang through the Twelve Dimensions: "This is my favorite toy!"

The black crystal core suddenly swelled into a jade basin illusion, the amniotic fluid within the basin swirling over the battlefield. The Taiyi Thunder Talisman of a Lingxiao Hall disciple, upon contacting the amniotic fluid, transformed into nurturing tentacles, and the gears of the Mo School mechanism beast exuded Colostrum mixed with Star Sand. As Ao Li's blade tip was about to reach the core, the entire desert abruptly collapsed into a Möbius Strip structure—her past and future looped infinitely on the torus, each timeline's self experiencing a different crushing defeat.

####【Instant Eternity】

Lín Jìn's Star Sand right hand suddenly Quantum Leapt, piercing seven dimensions to grasp Ao Li's wrist. Nirvana Fire flowed backward along their clasped hands, melting the Möbius Strip into a bronze solution. "Now!" Within the depths of his pupils, the Vermilion Bird Zhengtong transformed into a world‑burning fire phoenix.

The World-Cutting Blade finally pierced the jade basin illusion, and the black crystal core vaporized into Stardust within the primordial fire. The thousand-legged monster fractured inch by inch, its crystallized shell paling to a ghastly white, and the Celestial Instrument on its forehead suddenly exploded, sending three hundred blood‑stained milk teeth raining toward the desert like meteors.

####【Crimson Gift】

The surviving team members knelt on the glass‑like sand, discovering that each grain of Stardust reflected the silhouette of the Polaris Tower. Gongxu Yue's mechanical eye suddenly emitted an alarm— the nursery infants collectively floated, their umbilical cords stitching the void fissures, each stitch bearing an Abyss Return Ruler scar.

Ao Li's World-Cutting Blade suddenly softened, coiling around her newly formed nurturing tentacles. Within the chaotic spirit marrow of the blade spine, the silver‑haired infant phantoms were fusing black crystal fragments: "The cognition war never ends, because you... are the best arms factory~"

On the horizon at the desert's edge, the compound‑eye structure of the second bronze sun had fully formed. When its light swept across the battlefield, the crystallized remnants of all the fallen suddenly stood at attention, arranging themselves in a bow toward the sun.