Chapter 410: Rune Shift

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The cave's dome‑hanging nerve bundles suddenly snapped taut like strings, emitting a shrill hum. The runes in the magic circle, no longer static engravings, transformed into three hundred tail‑joined snake‑shaped blue lights, weaving in the void into the mouth of Gui Xu that devours all. Xuan Yuanhao's beast claw dug deep into the crystallized rock layer, yet the Divine Beast's body in the suction moved inch by inch forward, carving five furrows of Golden Blood into the ground.

"Dam water level! Attack its left pivot!" True Immortal Zixiao's sword tip pierced the rock fissure, Taiyi's pure light flowing upstream along the blade, detonating seventy‑two fixed‑star sigils in the void. The moment the talisman touched the edge of the magic circle, Gongshu Yue's mechanized beast Po Jun suddenly disintegrated, and three thousand Bronze Gears rained down toward the dim rune—each gear engraved with the Mo family Forbidden Art "Heavenly Craft Soul‑splitting Curse."

####【Gui Xu Stomach Sac】

The instant the dim rune was struck, the magic circle spasmed and flipped, hurling everyone into the air. Ao Li's dragon tail wrapped the stone platform wreckage, Inverse Scales peeling off piece by piece under the suction. She saw within the damaged rune a curled shadow of a black‑haired infant, sucking on fragments of Chaotic Spirit Marrow: "Sister hurt me…"

"Lingxiao disciple, ignite soul!" True Immortal Zixiao suddenly shattered the Benming Sword Soul, the broken blade light enveloping the burning Primordial Spirit piercing the rune fissure. The surface of the blue‑light rune cracked, revealing a pulsating mother‑nest cavity inside— a stomach sac assembled from the Crystallized Remnant Bodies of allied soldiers, digesting their battle memories.

####【Flame of Burning Sky】

Lin Jin's Star Sand right hand suddenly Quantum Leapt, piercing seven dimensions to grasp the core of the stomach sac. Nirvana Fire flowed upstream along the Star Sand channels, scorching the digestive fluid into a sky‑filled Golden Rain. Xuan Yuanhao seized the chance to revert to human form, slashing open the blood vessels of both arms; the Divine Beast's essence blood painted in the air a neural pulse chart of the Time Whale Remains. When the pulse Pinqü resonated with the magic circle, the entire cave suddenly fell into a strange stillness.

"Now!" Ao Li's Realm‑cutting Blade flew from her hand, its blade wrapped in the spiritual light infused by everyone. Chaotic Spirit Marrow boiled on the blade, transforming into a Genesis Blade that spanned past and future, slashing toward the rune core. The silver‑haired infant's scream pierced twelve layers of dimensions, billions of umbilical cords sprouting from the rune fissure, coiling around the blade—each cord's end linked to a crystallized infant in the orphanage.

####【Cognitive Backlash】

Gongshu Yue's mechanized arm suddenly over‑extended, inserting into his own chest cavity and tearing out burning Chaotic Spirit Marrow. When the Marrow was thrust into the Genesis Blade, the blade's burst of pure light revealed a phantom of Polaris Tower— the Celestial Sphere's gears spun in reverse, the gauge retreating from 99.99% to 85%. The blue‑light rune finally disintegrated completely, the magic circle exploding like a shattered glass lantern.

But the dawn of victory faded in an instant. The scattered rune fragments suddenly Quantum Reassembled, forming a three‑dimensional projection of twin beings in the cave's center. The silver‑haired infant toyed with the black‑haired infant's umbilical cord, molding the residual magic circle energy into a new toy—a miniature Abyss Return Ruler, its shaft engraved with the names of allied soldiers.

"Cognitive Reforge completion 91%." The black‑haired infant's babble reverberated across everyone's spirit platform, their old wounds suddenly began to crystallize, living text from the Shadow Demon Codex surfacing beneath the skin. In the orphanage's surveillance feed, three hundred infants simultaneously flashed innocent smiles, their foreheads' Compound Eyes spitting Star Sand mixed with Brain Fluid, forming a nascent magic circle above the northern wasteland.

Ao Li staggered, kneeling, and discovered the edge of the Realm‑cutting Blade crawling with nurturing patterns. When her fingertips touched the patterns, three hundred polluted spacetime memories surged into the spirit platform— in each Parallel World, she voluntarily nurses the new god.