Chapter 413: Fierce Clash

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As Ao Li's Dragon Claw touched the Dark Shield, three hundred fragments of corrupted memory surged into her spirit platform—she saw the azure‑scaled God‑slaying crossbow melting, its metallic liquid revealing the crystallized faces of Lingxiao Pavilion disciples; Gongshu Yue's mechanized arm thrust backward into her chest, feeding the burning spiritual marrow to a shadow demon Larva; and she herself knelt at the edge of a jade basin, nursing the new god whose forehead bore Compound Eyes.

"Break!" she bites her tongue tip, Golden Blood flowing backward along the Dragon Clan secret script, chaotic spiritual marrow exploding in her palm into primordial creation light. The surface of the Dark Shield suddenly opened 720,000 Compound Eyes, each pupil reflecting the celestial armillary sphere of the Polaris Tower—at that moment the tower's tip scale rose with her attack to 99.99%.

####【Divine Beast Lament】

The incarnation of Xuan Yuan Hao, a ferocious giant beast, collided with the hand of darkness; its claws tore not flesh but the boiling pages of the Shadow Demon Codex. The living text climbed up the beast's claws, etching a Gui Xu contract onto its fur. When the Divine Beast let out an earth‑shaking roar, the sound wave was converted into a nurturing Pinqü, causing the eastern cave wall to crumble, exposing a pulsating mother‑nest stomach sac—within floated three hundred undigested Dragon Clan holy remains.

"Quick, cut the claw!" Zixiao, True Immortal, flashed his sword light like lightning; Taiyi Pure Light severed Xuan Yuan Hao's contaminated right forelimb. The fallen limb hit the ground and instantly crystallized into an Abyss Return Ruler replica, its coiled umbilical cord suddenly lengthening, dragging two Mo School disciples toward the hem of the Black-robed People's robe.

####【Cognitive Thunderstorm】

The thunder spell of a Lingxiao Pavilion disciple detonated over the Black-robed People's head, the lightning twisting into silver milk that dripped onto the Dark Shield. Gongshu Yue's mechanical box ejected the Mo School's prized "Heavenly Craft Compass"; its needle, upon touching the thundercloud, suddenly rotated in reverse—everyone realized the so‑called thunder‑and‑lightning technique had long been altered, each bolt of lightning a cognitive cage woven by Twinlings from joint‑army memories.

"Kan Position retreat!" Lín Jìn's Star Sand right hand pierced the ground, Nirvana Fire flowing along the earth veins toward the Black-robed People's feet. The moment the flame touched the Dark Shield, the hem beneath the Black-robed People swelled explosively, turning into countless crystallized umbilical cords that pierced the void—each pierced dimension echoed with the nursery babies' giggles, their forehead Compound Eyes converting the pain into nourishment for the new god.

####【Abyss Return Resonance】

Ao Li's Inverse Scale suddenly detached, assembling in the air into a fragmented Abyss Return Ruler projection. At the instant the ruler's shadow synchronized with the celestial armillary sphere, the Black-robed People's hood was lifted—on the ever‑shifting visage, a silver‑haired infant and a black‑haired infant were tightening each other's necks with umbilical cords. Xuan Yuan Hao's Divine Beast essence blood suddenly reversed flow, drawing on the ground a dying neural pulse of the Time Whale; the pulse frequency resonated with the ruler's shadow, scorching fine cracks into the Dark Shield.

"Now!" Gongshu Yue's mechanized arm suddenly disassembled, three thousand cursed gears rained down on the crack like a storm. The Black-robed People's sleeve fluttered, yet the gears quantum‑reassembled before touching the crack, forming a miniature celestial armillary sphere embedded in the shield—at the instant the device turned, the Star Sand falling from the cave ceiling instantly solidified, each grain reflecting the future where Ao Li voluntarily leapt into the jade basin.

####【Final Stalemate】

When the final thunder spell faded, the Black-robed People's robe was already crawling with nurturing patterns. He flicked a finger lightly, a strand of Star Sand pierced Zixiao, True Immortal's protective pure light, planting a Compound Eyes embryo at his brow. Xuan Yuan Hao's Divine Beast body suddenly knelt, and from the severed claw sprouted crystallized tendrils, their tips linking to the floating holy remains within the mother‑nest stomach sac.

"Cognitive synchronization rate 99.99%......" Gongshu Yue's mechanical eye wept blood, her mechanical box melting into a silver milk bottle. Lín Jìn's Star Sand right hand suddenly softened, coiling around Ao Li's waist and whispering, "Let me become the final torch......"

A clear wail came from the direction of the Polaris Tower, the celestial armillary sphere's gear gnawing through the final scale. The nursery's three hundred babies suddenly floated upward, their umbilical cords weaving a massive birth canal above the wasteland, as the new god's fingertip pierced the Dimensional Amnion.