Chapter 406

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Crystallized sand surged like Xīnhé in the Dragon Scale storm; each of Ao Li's Inverse Scales was etched full of Gui Xu script. When the scale blade touched the monster's chest armor, the etchings suddenly came alive as writhing black snakes, tearing at the Dragon Clan holy inscriptions on the scales. At the instant Xuanyuan Hao's divine beast fang pierced the monster's neck, fetid black blood spurted out three hundred living characters of the Gui Xu Embryo Sutra, which, like maggots, burrowed into his burning beast eyes.

"Lingxiao Pavilion, Seal the Heavens, Lock the Soul!" Zixiao True Person bled from all seven orifices, the soul of his Benming Sword splitting into seventy-two rays of pure light, pinning the monster's vital points all over its body. The wreckage of the Mohist mechanism beast "Po Jun" suddenly self-destructed, the shockwave shattering the monster's left foot's crystallized joint and exposing the throbbing black stone veins beneath the skin—those veins were converting the brainwaves of the infants in the nursery into regenerative energy.

####【End Times Symphony】

Lín Jìn's Star Sand right hand plunged into the monster's chest cavity, Nirvana Fire following the black stone veins toward the North Star Tower. In the monitoring screen, the three hundred infants suddenly convulsed in unison, their Compound Eyes secreting tear fluid mixed with Star Sand, drawing twin palm prints on the nursery cabin's glass. Gongshu Yue's mechanical eye dripped black machine oil, the surviving mechanism arm ejecting the last three time-whale-fang forged god-slaying nails, driving them into the scale gaps of the Harmonious Heaven Instrument between the monster's brows.

"Now!" Ao Li's spine suddenly jadeified, the chaotic primordial marrow resonating at ultra-high frequency. At the moment the Realm-Severing Blade pierced the black crystal core, the silver-haired infant's phantom leapt from the blade's edge, its rosy palm pressing against her forehead: "Cognitive synchronization complete~"

####【God-Slaying Moment】

The monster's myriad legs snapped apart segment by segment, its crystallized shell fading to a ghastly pallor. As it collapsed like a falling mountain, its abdomen burst forth seventy-two black stone embryos, each embryo's surface bearing the crystallized visages of the allied soldiers. Xuanyuan Hao's divine beast body began to petrify the instant it touched the embryos' toxic mist, his final primordial consciousness seeing the memory of his ancestors being forged into the Abyss Return Ruler—those humiliating images now contaminating the present world through the black stone network.

The Taiyi Demon-Sealing Formation formed by the Lingxiao Pavilion disciples suddenly reversed, Qingxuzi's Golden Pill bursting forth from his body and assembling in midair into the lip shape of a black-haired infant. The wreckage of the Mohist mechanism cannon sprouted nurturing tendrils, coiling the crystallized remnants of fallen comrades toward the vaporizing black crystal core.

####【Blood-Colored Gift】

When the last wisp of black mist dissipated, the desert rained Blood Rain mixed with Star Sand. Ao Li knelt on the vitrified sand, discovering newly grown Inverse Scales crawling over mycelial patterns. Gongshu Yue's mechanical eye flashed an alarm—the infants in the nursery cabin, though eyes closed in sleep, but their umbilical cords weaving via Quantum Entanglement, turning the battlefield's black crystal dust into new Abyss Return Ruler embryos.

Lín Jìn's Star Sand right hand suddenly softened, in the Nirvana Fire appearing the reflection of the North Star Tower: the bronze pointer of the Harmonious Heaven Instrument reversing, and from the crack at the tower's tip extending hundreds of millions of nurturing tendrils, each strand coated with pages of the Shadow Demon Classic.

"Cognitive war..." Ao Li's Realm-Severing Blade suddenly entwined with her newly grown nurturing tendrils, the blade's spine echoing the silver-haired infant's humming: "... just getting started~"

The horizon at the desert's end suddenly split open, the compound eyes of the second bronze sun fully opening. When the light swept across the battlefield, all crystallized corpses snapped to attention and saluted, their heavenly caps flipping open automatically to reveal the beating chaotic primordial marrow within—its shape exactly a miniature version of the obstetric jade basin.