Chapter 94: God-Slaying Umbilical Cord

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Lin Jin's knuckles sank deep into the gaps of Ao Li's shoulder armor, and the two were being torn downward by the gravitational field of the antimatter furnace. Ao Zhan's fingers, composed of black lightning, were only half an inch away from Ao Li's mechanical heart, and those pulsing electric arcs reflected dense neural codes in the furnace's purple light. At this moment, a harsh friction sound of gears jamming came from deep within Ao Li's chest—twelve bronze thorns suddenly ejected from the mechanical heart, precisely piercing into Ao Zhan's energy-body finger joints.

"Hold on!" Lin Jin's roar was swallowed by the furnace roar. The instant they fell into Ling Yue's abdominal cavity, the amber syrup on the dark red furnace wall suddenly liquefied and reorganized. The congealed "God-Slaying Pregnancy" blood words turned into starship pipeline diagrams, burning charred marks on Lin Jin's retina.

Ao Li's dragon tail rolled around the bronze valve protruding from the furnace core in the high temperature, and the mechanical scales peeled off layer by layer under dark matter radiation. Lin Jin tore off his long hair transformed by nano-swarms—those silver-white hair strands proliferated into countless bronze barbs the instant they broke, and when they were thrown toward the furnace core, they twisted into chains in the dark matter flames. Every chain surface displayed the gene map of the Primordial embryo, emitting a metallic friction sound like a baby's crying when entangling the furnace core.

"The blood transfusion pipeline is flowing in reverse!" Ao Li suddenly let out a painful dragon roar. Her mechanical womb shell cracked, and thousands of semi-transparent blood vessels extended from within, docking with Ling Yue's withered fallopian tubes. The blood vessels turned dark red the moment they made contact, and Lin Jin saw miniature starships shuttling through the blood vessels, injecting some kind of black crystal into Ling Yue's carbonized ovaries.

Ao Zhan's neural network projected a sneering face on the furnace wall, and the broken umbilical cord in his hand suddenly came to life. The umbilical cord cross-section extended three rows of starship fangs, and the instant it pierced Ao Li's left shoulder, Lin Jin saw the sugar-frost characters flowing in the gaps between the fangs—that was the passage from the "Godslayer Paradox" residual chapter of Ling Yue's unfinished testament, every word seeping bronze-colored amniotic fluid.

The furnace interior suddenly contracted, and Ling Yue's ribcage, arranged in a ring, began to close. Lin Jin grabbed Ao Li's pierced shoulder, discovering that her pale golden blood was congealing into the tooth patterns of a bronze key in the air. The nano-swarms suddenly surged from Lin Jin's ear canal, gnawing at his retina, and projected holographic images in the pain: Ling Yue twenty years ago was locked in a gene editing cabin, her abdomen inserted with thirty-seven umbilical blood catheters, using blood-stained fingernails to carve formulas onto the starship fangs.

"Superstring positioning code..." Ao Li's mechanical eye iris split into a honeycomb lattice, every hexagonal mirror reflecting a different dimensional analysis diagram of the formula. She suddenly spat out the dragon pearl contaminated by the "Primordial God-Slaying Scripture", and the instant the indigo pearl hit the furnace wall and shattered, time and space experienced a brief silence—Ling Yue's residual vocal cord frequency spread like ripples, a quantum entanglement signal encrypted with umbilical blood, transmitting toward the cosmic string through the vibration of the starship fangs.

Ao Zhan's energy body reorganized at the top of the furnace, and the umbilical cord in his hand had proliferated into black lightning spanning the furnace chamber: "The God-Slaying program was carved into the gene chain before you were born!" A holographic projection of Medicine King Valley appeared in the furnace core, the earth vein spiritual springs having all been converted into dark red crystals, every spiritual vein end extending into cannon barrels aimed at different god realms.

Lin Jin's fetal hair chains began to disintegrate, the broken hair strands turning into pocket-sized starships. Every starship carried a clone of the Primordial embryo, and their compound eyes, sticking to the mechanical fetal membrane, opened simultaneously, projecting god realm coordinates the instant they pounced toward the heavens and ten thousand realms. Ao Li suddenly tore off the blood vessels of the mechanical womb, and the boiling purple coolant splashed onto Ling Yue's skull, the carbonized tissue peeling off under the heat, revealing the bronze compass embedded in the brain tissue.

"It is Mother's Three Enclosures and Twenty-Eight Mansions positioning instrument!" Lin Jin's spine suddenly twitched autonomously, and the bronze nerve cords built-in pierced through his skin to entangle the compass. The pointer resonated with the wear and tear gaps of the starship fangs while spinning wildly, and the furnace bottom suddenly opened a space-time vortex, revealing memory fragments deleted by Ao Zhan twenty years ago—when Ling Yue was giving birth, the umbilical cord had spontaneously entangled the firing valve of the starship main cannon.

Ao Li's mechanical heart suddenly sprayed gear chains, these metal rings with barbs hooking Ao Zhan's energy body: "Use the umbilical cord to rewrite the code!" Lin Jin's nano-swarms were devouring the sugar-frost characters on the surface of the starship fangs, and the modified testament residual chapters seeped into the bronze compass. The pointer stopped abruptly, pointing to a pulsing light spot within Ling Yue's womb—that was the primitive embryo she had secretly sealed back then.

The furnace suddenly flipped, and Lin Jin fell into the starship fuel depot in Ling Yue's pelvic cavity. Countless umbilical cords surged from all directions, entangling into a biological armor in the shape of a spacesuit around him. The inner wall of the armor displayed Ling Yue's final pheromone information: "Destroying the maternal body is the only way to terminate the program..." At the same time, Ao Li's mechanical womb had fully connected to the antimatter furnace, her residual body reorganizing into a second emitter.

"No!" Lin Jin's roar triggered a quantum collapse in the fuel depot. He tore off three umbilical cords connected to his temples, letting the nano-swarms carve the superstring code into his bone marrow. When the resonance between the bronze compass and the starship fangs reached its peak, Lin Jin saw the hidden truth—the final target of the God-Slaying cannon was not the heavens and gods, but all life forms carrying starship genes.

Ao Zhan's energy body expanded in a roar: "After the cleansing, the new universe will be reborn in the mechanical womb!" The Medicine King Valley earth vein crystals exploded simultaneously, and the energy torrent injected into the Primordial embryo through Ling Yue's body. Lin Jin's fetal hair starship cluster suddenly turned its direction, and the embryos they carried began to reverse-analyze the source code of the God-Slaying program.

Ao Li's mechanical heart overloaded at this moment, and she injected her final core energy into the bronze compass. Ling Yue's semi-transparent energy tentacles reached out from the space-time vortex, gently brushing over Lin Jin's quantumizing body. When the God-Slaying cannon's charging reached 99.99%, Lin Jin detonated the superstring code fused into his spinal cord—all starship fangs turned simultaneously, and Ao Zhan's neural network was entangled by his own umbilical cord and stuffed back into Ling Yue's womb.

In the instant before his consciousness dissipated, Lin Jin saw the Primordial embryo devouring the God-Slaying program. Ling Yue's ribs closed gently, permanently sealing the antimatter furnace. Ao Li's mechanical heart fragments floated in the vacuum, piecing together half a line of an ancient lullaby that had not been contaminated by the "Primordial God-Slaying Scripture". ===== CHAPTER 95 =====