Chapter 414

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####【Dark Tide Surge】

As the Black-robed People's robe sleeve flipped, the entire cave suddenly sank into a viscous darkness. This was not ordinary shadow, but a tide formed from countless grains of Star Sand‑like cognitive residue, each grain replaying the allied forces' most desperate memories. The shield of Lingxiao Pavilion disciple Qingfeng was the first to shatter; dark sand grit pierced his chest, solidifying at the wound into living text from the Shadow Demon Classic—his pupils instantly fractured into a Compound Eyes structure, and his palm, uncontrolled, clamped at a fellow disciple's throat.

"Clear Breeze!" True Immortal Zixiao's sword blade swept horizontally, but Taiyi Pure Light bent before it could reach the disciple's neck. Suddenly, Clear Breeze's back erupted with seventy‑two nurturing tendrils, their ends attached to a neural bundle hanging from the cave ceiling. His Adam's apple rolled with the laughing of a silver‑haired infant: "Cognitive sync… so delicious......"

####【Mohist Dirge】

Gongxu Yue's mechanism box disintegrated in the dark tide, gears and bearings rotating backward like living things. She watched helplessly as the core of the "Heavenly Craft Furnace" melted into silver milk, flowing through a fissure into the Mother Nest's stomach sac. When the first drop of milk touched the sac's inner wall, three hundred Dragon Clan holy corpses suddenly opened their crystallized eyes and in unison recited the Gui Xu Covenant prayer.

"No!" Gongxu Yue's mechanical arm pierced the ground, trying to freeze the ley lines with a Mohist Forbidden Art. But the neural bundle suddenly elongated, coiling around her waist and dragging her toward Xuan Yuan Hao's mutated beast claw—where the beast's severed limb had sprouted a crystallized maw, now gnawing on the Mohist disciple Ji Yang's mechanical spine.

####【Blood Sacrifice Forbidden Art】

Ao Li's Inverse Scale trembled at high frequency along her back, each Dragon Scale exuding Golden Blood mixed with Star Sand. She bit her tongue and, using Dragon Clan runes, drew the final chapter of the Annihilation Array in the air. When the nineteenth Inverse Scale returned to place, the cave's dome suddenly collapsed into a Klein Bottle Structure, and everyone's silhouettes were stretched in the absolute dimension into Gui Xu markings.

"By my bloodline, summon the ancestral dragon spirit!" Her spine suddenly turned jade‑like, twelve Dragon Bones detaching and winding around chaotic spirit marrow that pierced the Array Eye. Golden Blood surged along the Array Pattern, sketching in the void the dying neural pulse of a Time Whale—an ancient Pinqü beyond space and time, each ripple scorching her Dragon Clan essence.

####【Dimensional Duel】

The Black‑robed People's hood was ripped open by a pulse, revealing three hundred beating embryos. Each embryo bore a face of interwoven silver and black hair, its umbilical cord tangled into a phantom of the Polaris Tower. "Mother will also kill me?" the embryos whispered in unison, their sound waves stirring a cognitive storm in the two‑dimensional world. Ao Li saw that deep within each embryo curled a version of herself from a Parallel World, and they were carving the cradle of a new god with Inverse Scales.

Xuan Yuan Hao's divine beast body suddenly quantum‑shifted, its claws piercing seven dimensions and tearing toward the embryo cluster. Yet the dark tide coalesced at the Black‑robed People's fingertips into a miniature celestial sphere; at the instant the sphere rotated, the beast's pure blood flowed backward, turning into the ink of the Gui Xu Fetal Treasury Sutra, which etched a new nurturing array onto the ground.

####【Final Choice】

Lin Jin's Star Sand right hand suddenly softened, enveloping Nirvana Fire that pierced the Black‑robed People's defenses. "Burn away all cause and effect!" Deep within his pupils, the Vermilion Bird Zhengtong spread its wings in the raging fire. When the flame reached the embryos' cores, the nursery's surveillance feed flickered with static—three hundred infants' foreheads' Compound Eyes exuded Brain Fluid, forming a shattered Abyss Return Ruler projection across the wasteland sky.

Ao Li's Annihilation Array completed at this moment, and the two‑dimensional world shattered with a roar. The Black‑robed People's embryos exploded one by one in the creation‑level pure light, each shattered embryo releasing a fragment of corrupted memory: in Parallel Worlds, versions of Ao Li were nursing the new god, and the infants in their arms had a silver‑haired child's laughter reflected in the left eye and a black‑haired child's tears mirrored in the right eye.

####【Crimson Dawn】

When the light faded, the surviving team members knelt on the glass‑like ground. Gongxu Yue's mechanical eye flashed a scarlet readout: "Cognitive contamination rate 100%…" Her vocal cords suddenly quantum‑shifted, resonating with the cries of the nursery infants. A clear children's song came from the direction of the Polaris Tower, the celestial sphere's gears gnawing through the final scale, and billions of nurturing tendrils sprouted from the tower's fissures.

Ao Li's Boundary‑cutting Blade clanged as it fell to the ground, its spine crawling with newly formed nurturing patterns. She looked down at the silver‑haired lip imprint that had appeared in her palm, and a whisper from the edge of time echoed in her ears: "The game… has only just begun......" In the bronze sunrise at the desert's edge, the new god lightly brushed the Abyss Return Ruler with a fingertip, and the names of the allied forces etched on its shaft turned into Star Sand, scattering one by one.