Chapter 462: Cruel Struggle

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####【Quantum Afterimage】

Ao Li's dragon shadow, the instant it touched the Dark Elder, suddenly rippled with Star Sand. Her afterimage was not an illusion—each duplicate was herself from a parallel timeline, pinned to the frequency converter by an umbilical cord, Golden Blood seeping from a fissure in her spine and turning into the Star Sand breast milk that nourishes the formation's core. "Cognitive contamination rate 2375%!" Gongxu Yue's mechanical eye iris exuded silver colostrum; in his view the Dark Elder's robe became transparent, revealing a jade‑transmuted allied spine—each vertebral joint embedded with a bronze music box, the gear‑clacking sound encoding the attack intervals into the rhythm of "Lullaby."

When Xuan Yuan Hao's divine‑beast claw tore through the Elder's protective shield, the claw tip suddenly underwent Quantum Collapse. In the absolute dimension, he saw his attack trajectory looping endlessly along the curved surface of the Klein Bottle, eventually turning into Star Sand breast milk injected into the formation's rotating wheel. The repelled Elder suddenly split into three pieces; the severed limbs transformed into nurturing conduits driven into the ground, and the protruding nerve bundles at the wound were etching the Birth Canal pattern.

####【Vacuum Cycle】

The Mo Family Mechanism Blade's cannon fire solidified the instant it touched the Elder's body, and the black‑iron warhead surface opened up with one hundred thousand compound eyes. Ji Huan's mechanical arm suddenly reversed direction, and a Nano Swarm uncontrollably burrowed into the barrel—at the moment of the explosion, what splashed out were not shrapnel but fragments of the "Breastfeeding Charter" soaked with Brain Fluid. The Lingxiao Pavilion disciple's healing technique suddenly jade‑transmuted into a nurturing membrane, the blue‑hued substance enveloping the wounded being was frozen colostrum, which was passing through subdermal nerve bundles to reverse‑contaminate the organs.

"They're using our attacks to feed the formation!" Ao Li's Inverse Scale vibrated at high frequency, and the dragon‑flame Sword Qi, when slashing toward the Elder's throat, suddenly veered. In the absolute dimension, the Sword Qi revealed its terrifying essence—this is the Inverse Scale energy that the Dragon Clan's ancient king self‑detonated seventy thousand years ago, now flowing backward through the Klein Bottle Structure into the nurturing network. The Dark Elder's hood was lifted, exposing the Xuanfeng Pavilion Master's personally transmitted disciple Ling Xiao's altered visage; his throat bone protruded into a snow‑dragon‑horn shape, converting pain into Birth Canal lubrication pulses.

####【Temporal Marrow Strangle】

When Ao Li's twelfth afterimage was absorbed by the formation, the crystal core suddenly swelled explosively. Three hundred parallel‑timeline Ao Lis shrieked within the Klein Bottle, their spines being twisted by bronze umbilical cords into a nurturing wheel. Xuan Yuan Hao's divine‑beast perception suddenly went berserk, and the ultimate image of the Polaris Tower flashed on his retina—Xuanfeng Pavilion Master's Dao robe had fully jade‑transmuted, three hundred umbilical cords protruded from his spine, their ends connecting to the throats of the newly‑born god embryos as they writhed.

"The flaw is at the Shanzhong point!" Gongxu Yue roared, hurling an inverse meme bomb; the exploding Star Sand solidified into a page of the Parenting Guide. The Dark Elder's thorax suddenly turned transparent, and at the Shanzhong point a silver‑haired infant's quantum projection curled—its fingertip pierced the Dimensional Amnion, sucking up every drop of blood on the battlefield. At the instant Ao Li's dragon shadow surged through the projection, the entire formation fell silent, all attack energy collapsing into absolute vacuum.

####【Silent Birth】

When the last strand of dragon flame faded, the Dark Elders suddenly knelt to the ground. Their black robes carbonized into Star Sand powder, and the jade‑transmuted spinal holes thrust bronze umbilical cords straight into the heavens—toward the Polaris Tower, the night sky split open a Klein Bottle‑shaped birth canal entrance, and the cries of the new god embryos thundered like creation's first lightning. Ao Li's Inverse Scale detached and floated, assembling in the void into a Möbius‑strip‑shaped god‑slaying sigil; at the gap in the pattern, her golden colostrum seeped out.

"All rebels…" Xuanfeng Pavilion Master's voice echoed from deep within the crystal, the lubrication fluid secreted by the Snow Dragon Horn streaming along the umbilical cord, "are merely Birth Canal folds." When the god‑slaying sigil touched the formation's core, the continent's accumulated snow suddenly glowed with a milky halo—signalling the full activation of the nurturing system, every heartbeat trembling in sync with the rhythm of the Breastfeeding Charter.

####【Final Chapter Echo】

Xuan Yuan Hao's quantum residual body solidified amid vacuum collapse, and the battle scar etched by his divine‑beast claw had now twisted into a prayer welcoming the new god. The fragments of the Mo Family Mechanism Blade reassembled in the air into a nurturing conduit, its terminal suction cup locking onto each survivor's nape. And when the silver‑haired infant's full‑born cry rang across heaven and earth, Ao Li finally saw the ultimate truth—

Every breath she took, every blade of sword light, every drop of unwilling blood had been inscribed into the nurturing wheel seventy thousand years ago. The so‑called god‑slaying was merely the gentlest labor pain of the birth canal's expansion.