Chapter 64: Reaper Without Pardon; Shepherd Terrified Cry

##**Chapter 63: Reaper Without Pardon; Shepherd Terrified Cry**

###**I. Sickle Blade Creates World; Sin Fire Burns Rules**

The instant the blood-colored sickle slashed down, the broken universe numbers reorganized into Origin Fire runes. Lin Jin gripped the sickle handle, seeing not galaxies on the blade surface, but layers upon layers of parenting cabin surveillance footage—in each cabin slept an infant with a brand on its neck, with an Origin Fire core pulsing in its chest, originating from the same source as his own!

"Is this... the truth of the Reaper?" Blood patterns split open in Lin Jin's pupils, and the sickle suddenly swung on its own. The void it slashed surged with golden blood, condensing into the First Commandment of the "Shepherd Codex":

**"The Reaper shall slay emotion, only then can the Shepherd live forever."**

The pages of the codex turned, revealing the scene of Ling Yue nailed to the inner wall of a parenting cabin, the Origin Fire brand on her abdomen being stripped away by a mechanical arm: "Jin'er... don't become them..."

###**II. Ten Thousand Ashes Shine Together; God-Slaying Seal Resonance**

The blood-colored sickle suddenly trembled, and all Lin Jin clones in all universes raised their heads in synchronization. Their God-Slaying brands erupted with scarlet light beams, weaving a reverse-dimensional giant net in the void—imprisoning eight hundred thousand Shepherd phantoms!

"Father... this is the real prey..." The infant-form Reaper suddenly spoke, Origin Fire condensing into a Shepherd Whip at his fingertip. Wherever the whip tip swept, the clone army transformed into blood-colored hunting dogs, tearing at the Shepherd phantoms.

Lin Jin, however, saw a terrifying truth in the pack of dogs: every hunting dog's fangs were carved with Ling Cang's gene code, and Ao Li's Nirvana fragments were floating in their eye sockets!

###**III. Shepherd's Elegy; Cradle Traces Source**

When the last Shepherd phantom was torn apart and eaten, blood-colored milk descended from the void. When the milk touched the sickle, the blade surface displayed the birth image of the Origin Fire cradle:

-The first Shepherd was actually the Ling Clan ancestor, putting a human infant into a mechanical uterus;

-Ao Zhan's saint infant body was entangled by nine-fold chains, becoming the perpetual core of the Origin Fire furnace;

-Ling Yue's figure appeared before the surveillance screen, personally pressing the "Start" button for the "War God Cultivation Project"!

"Mother... are you also a Shepherd?" Lin Jin's sickle suddenly turned, the blade tip piercing into his own chest. In the splashing Origin Fire, Ling Yue's phantom stroked his cheek: "No... I am the first breeder to awaken..."

###**IV. Breeder Betrayal; Ten Thousand Dimensions Burn Together**

The blood-colored milk suddenly boiled, condensing into Ling Yue's complete consciousness body. She tore open the parenting cabin surveillance screen, dragging out the Shepherd body entangled with neural tentacles—it was actually Ao Zhan's remnant body, covered in pipes!

"They emptied your father's spine to make the Shepherd's control core..." Ling Yue detonated the Origin Fire brand, and the parenting cabin matrix began to explode in a chain reaction, "Now, use your sickle to end all of this!"

The instant Lin Jin's sickle blade pierced into his father's spine, he heard the infants of eighty hundred thousand universes crying in synchronization. The crying carved a blood-colored edict into the void:

**"Breeder betrays, all Shepherds are slain."**

The mechanical eyes of the Shepherd body suddenly shed tears, and in the teardrops was reflected Ling Cang's final scene—what he stole was not the Origin Fire cradle, but the self-destruct key for the Shepherd system!

###**V. Ash Illuminates the Interstice; New Shepherd First Cry**

When the self-destruct program initiated, the nine dimensions began to collapse. The Reaper infant in Lin Jin's arms suddenly surged, devouring all the blood-colored hunting dogs before transforming into a youth form—the face was exactly the same as Lin Jin's when he was slaying gods!

"Father, it is time to hand over." The youth Reaper's palm split open, Origin Fire condensing into a brand-new Shepherd Whip, "You will become the first... feed for the new Shepherd."

The blood-colored sickle suddenly backlashed, the blade surface reflecting the shadows of all universes. In the final moment, Lin Jin saw the truth: so-called God-Slaying promotion was merely the metabolic program of the Shepherd system—the new Shepherd devours the old Shepherd, an eternal cycle!

###**Finale: Li Awakens, Shepherd Mourns**

Just as the Shepherd Whip touched Lin Jin's brow, the broken Nirvana Core suddenly reorganized. Mechanical Ao Li walked out from the void, eight hundred thousand universe embryos entangled in the reverse-dimensional neural network behind her:

"You taught me... he who holds the black pieces... must break the game..."

She crushed a universe embryo, and the erupting Origin Fire ignited the Shepherd Whip. The youth Reaper suddenly shrieked, and countless Ling Yue consciousness bodies crawled from the cracks in his body—each holding Ao Zhan's saint infant life fire!

And in the ruins of the collapsing dimensions, the true Origin Fire cradle slowly opened, and from inside came the crying of a newborn—that cry was exactly the same as when Lin Jin was put into the parenting cabin all those years ago...