Chapter 423: Mysterious Ice Cave

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####【Star Marrow Solidification】

Gongxu Yue's mechanical eye just touched the cave entrance's blue light, and the retina was immediately covered with quantum frost. Those pale‑blue ice layers were not ordinary cold crystals, but the solidified form of Star Sand milk at Absolute Zero. Ao Li's Inverse Scale suddenly contracted, and she saw the ice surface reflecting a parallel‑dimensional scene—three hundred versions of herself hanging from bronze umbilical cords on the upper level of the North Star Tower, their mammary ducts connected to the nurturing wheel of the celestial sphere.

"Cognitive contamination undergoing phase transition!" Zi Xiao Zhenren's sword tip struck the ground, and Taiyi Qingguang unexpectedly refracted the forbidden clauses of the Lactation Charter on the ice. Xuan Yuan Hao's divine‑beast claw slashed the cave wall, and the ice shards it raised reassembled in the air into a schematic of the Mo Family Mechanical City, each mortise‑and‑tenon joint secretly embedding neural synapses of the nurturing system.

####【Spinal Inscription】

Delving thirty zhang into the cave, the ceiling suddenly dropped an ice‑spike matrix. Inside those conical ice pillars were sealed the jade‑quality spines of the ancient Dragon Clan king, each vertebral gap exuding bronze‑colored cerebrospinal fluid, carving the Gui Xu Lactation Law onto the ice surface. Lín Jìn's Star Sand right hand uncontrollably touched the inscription, and Nirvana Fire instantly froze into a three‑dimensional projection of the Child‑Rearing Operations Guide.

"Is this... the Lactation Court from seventy thousand years ago?" Ao Li's dragon horn exuded droplets of Star Sand milk, and where they fell a holographic projection appeared: three hundred Dragon Clan Elders kneeling before the ice‑sealed Throne, voluntarily converting their Inverse Scales into colostrum filters. Their screams were frozen into voiceprint codes, which the cold wind inside the cave reassembled into a hypnotic frequency.

####【Umbilical Cord Music Box】

From deep within the cave came the clear sound of gears turning, and Gongxu Yue's mechanical box suddenly disassembled on its own. The components floated in the air and assembled into a miniature celestial globe, its dial needle pointing to the lactation numbers etched on the Abyss Return Ruler for each of them. Zi Xiao Zhenren's Sword Qi swept across, shattering the cave wall's ice layer—three hundred bronze umbilical cords dangled from the fissures, each ending with a bell smeared with Star Sand.

When the first bell rang, trembling the air, Xuan Yuan Hao's quantum right arm suddenly jade‑transformed into a breast‑pump structure. The ice crystals on the bell's surface peeled away, revealing a projection of an orphanage infant's pupils; each iris pattern played a different‑dimensional Ao Li nursing scene.

####【Lactation Concerto】

The cave dome suddenly collapsed into a Klein Bottle structure, and the cold wind accelerated across the topological surface into sound‑wave particles of the Lullaby. Lingxiao Pavilion disciple Qing Feng's Dao robe moved without wind, and a bronze infusion tube suddenly protruded from the back of his neck—his auditory nerve was being converted into a sound‑wave transducer. Lín Jìn's Star Sand right hand pierced the ice, and Nirvana Fire flowed upstream along the nursing sound waves, yet burned in the void a ventilation‑duct structure of the North Star Tower.

"The song is rewriting memory!" Gongxu Yue's mechanical eye flashed a red alarm, and the view was forcibly switched to the Mo Family Patriarch's modification surgery: his skull was opened and a vocal‑cord gear implanted, each breath composing a new hypnotic tune for the mother nest. Zi Xiao Zhenren vomited blood mixed with ice shards, and Taiyi Sword Qi condensed in his palm into an energy entity shaped like a crying infant.

####【Quantum Birth Canal】

Ao Li's Inverse Scale vibrated at high frequency, and at Absolute Zero it triggered the Dragon Clan Forbidden Art "Temporal Marrow Resonance". The instant the golden light shield rose, everyone saw a biological cavity extending from the far end of the ice cave—a birth‑canal structure pieced together from allied forces' skeletons, its inner walls studded with nurturing suction cups soaked in colostrum. Sound waves here were amplified into a genesis‑level nursing pulse, each vibration causing the cave to collapse toward a two‑dimensional plane.

Xuan Yuan Hao's beast claw pierced the inner wall of the canal, and the quantized flesh suddenly proliferated into a mechanical uterus. Through the semi‑transparent hatch, three hundred new‑god embryos could be seen humming in unison, their umbilical cords tangled into the five‑line staff of the Gui Xu Fetal Treasury. Lín Jìn's Nirvana Fire followed the sound‑wave source upstream, but ignited the orphanage's surveillance tape archive from seven years ago.

####【Ice‑Sealed Complaint】

When the sound‑wave intensity surpassed the critical point, the cave wall's ice layer suddenly jade‑transformed into transparency. Everyone was astonished everyone by turning transparent, revealing the ice sealing representatives of successive civilizations: a Mo Family Giant remodeled into a humanoid music box, the Lingxiao Pavilion Patriarch's spine turned into strings, and the ancient Dragon Clan king's Inverse Scales assembled into a bronze record. Their eye sockets continuously exuded Star Sand milk, which gathered on the ground into living text of the Lactators' Declaration.

Gongxu Yue's mechanical arm suddenly reversed its rotation, and between the gears squeezed out frozen vocal‑cord fragments. Zi Xiao Zhenren's sword pointed toward the heavens, and the splitting‑light Sword Qi, upon touching the cave ceiling, condensed into the shape of a baby bottle. Ao Li's dragon flame solidified in his throat as an Absolute Zero breath, but before it could be expelled it was deconstructed by the sound waves into three hundred segments of child‑rearing surveillance video.

####【Silent Fetal Movement】

When the final strand of sound wave pierced the golden barrier, the cave suddenly fell into dead silence. This silence was more terrifying than a roar—everyone's heartbeat was quantum‑reassembled, gradually synchronizing into the new god's fetal movement frequency. Lín Jìn's Star Sand right hand carbonized into a black vinyl needle, carving an apocalyptic prophecy onto the ice: at the next heartbeat, all survivors will become living nursing devices.

Ao Li's Inverse Scale detached and embedded into the ice‑sealed Throne, and the Dragon Clan bloodline resonated at this moment with ancestors from seventy thousand years ago. When the Throne split, the instant a spacetime fissure opened, a vacuum‑sucking roar echoed from deep within the glacier—that was the new god's first devouring within the Quantum Zigong.