Chapter 409: Purifying the Smoke (Continued)

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Ao Li's golden light spread over the rock wall like a tide, and the runes emitted a sharp wail under the scourge of purification. When the black fog dispersed, the four walls of the cave suddenly revealed countless nurturing holes—each hole contracted violently, spouting amniotic fluid mixed with Star Sand, which gathered on the ground into the palm print of a silver‑haired baby.

"This isn't purification..." Purple Sky True Immortal's sword edge trembled, and Taiyi Pure Light scorched a char mark onto the rune surface, "It's a prelude to childbirth!"

####【Rune Fetal Movement】

The stone platform debris suddenly floated and reassembled, the shattered crystals forming a phantom of the Celestial Sphere in the amniotic fluid. At the instant the instrument rotated, the neural bundles hanging from the cave ceiling abruptly elongated, and the attached shadow demon larvae collectively opened their Compound Eyes—within their pupils flickered live images of nursery babies. Qinglin's God‑Slaying Crossbow automatically locked onto the phantom core, but the arrowheads transformed into nurturing bottles as they left the string.

"Cognitive reversal!" Gongxu Yue's mechanical arm plunged into the ground, and the Mohist forbidden device "Heavenly Work Lock" climbed up along the earth veins. When the chain touched the Celestial Sphere phantom, the runes suddenly went berserk, the azure light turning into three hundred Quantum Umbilical Cords that coiled around everyone's wrists—each person's Spiritual Vein was being forced to synchronize with the scale of Polaris Tower.

####【Inverse Scale as Sacrifice】

Ao Li's Inverse Scale explosively ruptured, and Golden Blood painted a massive annihilation array of the Dragon Clan in the air. At the moment the Array Pattern formed, Lín Jìn's Star Sand right hand suddenly performed a Quantum Leap, piercing three dimensions to grasp the core gear of the Celestial Sphere. Nirvana Fire surged upward along the Star Sand channels, scorching within the instrument a dying neural pulse of a time whale.

"Now!" Ao Li's Edge‑of‑World blade pierced the Array Eye, and chaotic spiritual marrow resonated with the annihilation array. The cave suddenly fell into absolute silence, and everyone's wounds simultaneously exuded Star Sand—these twinkling particles assembled in the air into the crying face of a black‑haired baby, while the wail was interlaced with the silver‑haired baby's bell‑like laugh.

####【Dimensional Childbirth】

When the last wisp of black fog vanished, the stone platform debris suddenly swelled into a jade basin shape. The amniotic fluid within boiled, revealing three hundred curled embryos—each embryo bore a replica pupil of a coalition soldier on its forehead. Purple Sky True Immortal's sword cleaved the jade basin, but Taiyi Pure Light was sucked by the embryos, transforming into Genesis Power that nourished them.

"Destroy the visual link!" Xuanyuan Hao's transformed divine beast suddenly self‑detonated its left forelimb, spraying essence blood onto the Celestial Sphere phantom. The nursery scene on the instrument's surface suddenly flickered with snowflakes, and black blood seeped from the embryos' Compound Eyes. Gongxu Yue seized the chance to hurl the Mohist treasure "Gui Xu Anchor", and at the instant the bronze weight shattered the jade basin, the entire cave was engulfed by Genesis Pure Light.

####【Crimson Dawn】

After the bright light faded, everyone knelt on the crystallized sand, gasping. The runes on the cave walls peeled away one by one, revealing a throbbing mother‑nest cavity inside—formed from three hundred Dragon Clan holy remains into a Zigong, each vertebra inscribed with the rules of a twin game. From the direction of Polaris Tower came a clear children's song, the Celestial Sphere's scale froze at 99.99%, and in the nursery's surveillance feed the babies suddenly displayed innocent smiles, slipping their fingers into their Compound Eyes and gently stirring.

"Cognitive contamination... reversed?" Lín Jìn's Star Sand right hand suddenly softened, coiling around Ao Li's newly formed nurturing tendrils. Deep within his pupil, the silver‑haired baby's phantom was weaving a Xie Dai with Nirvana Fire, and the fabric of the Xie Dai was stitched together from everyone's shattered battle robes.