Chapter 556: Entropy-Reversing Forbidden Zone

She saw herself lying face down in a pool of blood three hundred meters away, Lin Jin's star gate device inserted into the broken part of her dragon horns. Even more terrifyingly, when she wanted to go closer to check, that corpse suddenly opened eyes without pupils, the corners of its lips curling into a smile identical to the High Priest's.

"Don't look directly!" Lin Jin's quantized right arm suddenly surged, starlight tentacles wrapping around Ao Li's waist and dragging her back. The crystal floor they had just been standing on suddenly rolled backward, growing countless mirror-like spikes, each mirror reflecting a death scene from a different timeline.

Black blood seeped from the crystal cracks, condensing into the original text of "Zhuangzi" in the air. Ao Li's Reverse Scale Dagger rusted into ash the moment it was drawn, and she realized with horror that her dragon scales were peeling off piece by piece, revealing newly born crystal bones beneath. Lin Jin's star gate device suddenly emitted a sharp alarm, the holographic interface showing that all programs were restoring to factory settings.

"It's the entropy-reversing effect..." the young commander tore open the energy compartment, the Λ crystal core actually regressing into raw ore. "Time is flowing backward here, we are becoming..."

His voice stopped abruptly. Ao Li followed his gaze, her blood almost freezing—those crystal spikes were sealing the remains of past dragon clan observers, and in the central scarlet crystal, the remnant soul of the First Generation High Priest was slowly opening its eyes.

Time-space suddenly tore open. Ao Li saw the dragon clan sacred mountain from three hundred years ago being rebuilt before her eyes, the High Priest wearing the bronze mask placing an infant into a Λ crystal furnace. When she tried to touch the illusion, her palm suddenly crystallized, the entropy-reversing effect spreading frantically along her dragon clan bloodline.

"Shatter the central crystal!" Lin Jin's starlight tentacles pierced into the black blood swamp. His Ouroboros curse resonated with the crystal jungle, actually projecting a design blueprint of the mechanical Buddha in the void. Ao Li finally saw the note in the corner of the blueprint—it was clearly her own handwriting!

Crystal spikes attacked like a rainstorm. In her dodge, Ao Li glimpsed the future corpse melting, fusing with black blood to form new crystals. When her fingertips touched the central crystal, the High Priest's remnant soul suddenly spoke: "You have finally come to accept your fate, 99th Generation Observer."

Dragon blood burned on the crystal surface. Ao Li saw half a bronze mask held in the remnant soul's hand, perfectly matching the totem she had seen in Lin Jin's memories. Even more terrifying was that dark matter fluid identical to the black blood composition was seeping from the broken part of the mask.

Lin Jin's quantized tentacles suddenly went out of control. They split into countless time-space clones in the entropy-reversing zone, each clone attacking the central crystal in a different timeline. When the star gate device completely reset to zero, bronze patterns lit up in the boy's pupils: "Now!"

Ao Li transformed her palm into a blade and stabbed into her heart. The burning dragon blood triggered a chain reaction in the crystal jungle, and the remains of past observers erupted with golden light simultaneously. In the gaps of entropy-reversing time, she saw the complete form of the First Generation High Priest's mask—it was clearly the miniature face of the mechanical Buddha!

The central crystal shattered with a bang. Half a bronze mask fell into the black blood swamp, and Lin Jin's head felt like it was splitting the moment he touched it. Countless sealed memories gushed out: the woman wearing the complete mask carrying an infant through the dragon clan sacred hall, while three hundred Ouroboros coffins forming a Buddha ring were suspended behind her.

"Mother..." Lin Jin murmured unconsciously. The mask suddenly adhered to his face, and Λ crystals proliferated frantically from every pore. Ao Li realized with horror that the boy was quantizing, his body emerging with energy patterns identical to the mechanical Buddha.

Black blood suddenly boiled. The entropy-reversing zone began to shrink rapidly, all crystal memories flowing backward to the center. When Ao Li grabbed Lin Jin to prepare for a jump, she saw the First Generation High Priest's remnant soul make a bizarre hand seal before dissipating—it was precisely the forbidden seal for immortality recorded in the "Fuxi Soul Scripture." ===== CHAPTER 557 =====