bullyxtreme Chapter 393 The Song of the End
Chapter 393 The Song of the End
The cracks in Lingyue's jade pendant spread wildly like a spider web, each crack oozing a ghostly blue light, like the last flicker of a dying star.
Just as the eerie blue light was about to fade away, a violent change occurred in the paradoxical space—the originally flowing star river suddenly reversed direction, and those rivers formed by thousands of points of light intertwined in the air to form a dazzling yet dangerous chain, which ensnared the data-based body of the observer, Lingyue, with astonishing speed and precision.
She emitted a piercing electronic shriek, her body instantly disintegrating into countless streams of data that scattered throughout the void. Yet, in the blink of an eye, they rapidly reformed under the resonance of the loom, a twisted and mocking smile tugging at the corner of her mouth.
"In the realm of entropy increase, every attack you make becomes nourishment for me."
Her voice was cold and mechanical, like the whisper of a demon from the abyss.
The beam of light projected by the dark giant eye was like a real black python, condensing into an indestructible black crystal wall on the surface of the sphere.
Lingyue gritted her teeth and poured all her power into the arrow that the jade pendant had transformed into. The arrow struck the crystal wall like a meteor, instantly sparking thousands of sparks, but ultimately failed to penetrate it even slightly.
The immense impact caused her to stagger and fall to her knees, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth.
Countless "illusory figures of the Spirit Moon" descended simultaneously, wielding chaotic scepters, threatening to annihilate her completely.
At the critical moment, a beam of light burst forth from the spacetime node where Li Zhao was trapped. His body and the gear completely merged, transforming into a stream of light that pierced through the dimensional barrier and condensed behind Lingyue into a giant shield of light radiating holy brilliance.
"Lingyue, look here!"
Li Zhao's voice had a metallic hum, full of determination and anxiety.
As he raised his hand, the complete array of runes from the first generation of guardians appeared on the shield, each rune shimmering with a mysterious and powerful force. "The sphere at the core of the loom is the observer's 'warehouse of possibilities,' but the key to the warehouse... is within you!"
Li Zhao's words struck like a hammer blow, waking Lingyue from her despair.
She suddenly recalled the memories of Wenli that she had seen in the spacetime turbulence—the bronze key beside her swaddling clothes was not the key to all things, but the dimensional key carried in her genes.
A resolute feeling welled up in her heart. She bit her tongue and sprayed her blood essence onto the jade pendant. What seeped out of the crack was no longer light, but golden gene chains. These gene chains twisted like living things, exuding a mysterious life aura.
The golden gene chain, like a nimble snake, swam towards the core of the loom. The black crystal wall emitted a buzzing sound the moment it came into contact with the bio-electric current, and tiny cracks began to appear on its surface.
The observer, Lingyue, rushed forward in terror, but was firmly blocked by Li Zhao's Great Shield of Light.
"Do you think sacrificing yourself will change anything?"
Her data stream was punctuated by an unusual tremor, and her voice betrayed an undisguised panic.
"The higher-dimensional beings have already written the entire script, including your 'awakening'!"
Lingyue ignored him and focused all her energy on activating the gene chain, pouring every bit of power into it, and finally burned a crack in the crystal wall.
Colorful streams of light spilled from the cracks in the sphere, each stream representing the possibility of being imprisoned by the observer.
Lingyue saw a future where the black-robed Lingyue put down her scepter and revealed a gentle smile; she saw a heartwarming scene where Li Zhao took off his armor and walked side by side with her.
She even saw Wenli watering the plants in the garden, enjoying a peaceful moment in her daily life. These stripped-away "realities" flooded into her consciousness like a tidal wave, transforming into the final force that destroyed the crystal wall.
When the sphere exploded, the entire paradoxical space began to collapse like dominoes. The gears of the loom flew off one after another, making a deafening sound. The observer Lingyue's body also shattered into millions of light points and dissipated into the void.
The beam of light from the dark giant eye once again pierced through time and space, reshaping an even larger loom in the ruins.
This time, the loom's gears were etched with the faces of Lingyue and Li Zhao, each turn relentlessly crushing their illusory images.
"You think destroying the anchor will grant you freedom?"
The giant eye's voice was like a collapsing glacier, carrying endless indifference and oppressive power: "The increase in entropy in all dimensions was already destined. Your resistance is nothing more than fuel that accelerates the heat death of the universe."
As Lingyue watched Li Zhao's body gradually become transparent, a sharp pain surged in her heart. She suddenly remembered the last words of the phantom of the first guardian.
"At the heart of paradoxical space is the concrete manifestation of the observer's fear."
She suddenly lifted the broken jade pendant and forcibly merged her own essence with Li Zhao's power of light.
In the blinding light, the two figures overlapped to form a yin-yang symbol, radiating a dazzling and sacred glow, directly colliding with the beam of light projected by the giant eye. At the moment of contact, Lingyue saw the observer's "true form."
Those were countless infants curled up in a higher dimension, maintaining their "eternity" by absorbing the emotional energy of lower-dimensional beings. The eyes of these infants were empty and greedy, sending chills down one's spine.
"So you are the most pitiful prisoners after all."
Lingyue's voice no longer contained fear, but only pity.
The yin-yang symbol burst forth with light beyond dimensions, the giant eye let out a mournful cry, and the beam of light completely disintegrated.
The loom turned to dust in the light, and all the imprisoned phantoms of the Spirit Moon revealed relieved smiles.
Lingyue discovered that her body was dissipating, turning into specks of starlight, and Li Zhao's Great Shield of Light was also rapidly dimming, as if it would disappear at any moment.
Their strength has been exhausted to the limit, and the flame of their lives is about to be extinguished.
"At least, together we exposed some of the lies."
Li Zhao's fingertips gently touched Ling Yue's palm, and countless fragments of memories danced between them, those adventures they had experienced together, and the moments of life and death they had shared, all surfaced before their eyes.
In the distance, the reborn starlight flowed into gentle ribbons of light, supporting their gradually transparent bodies.
At the end of the band of light, a golden gate engraved with unknown runes slowly opened, and from behind it came a chorus of thousands of voices: "Welcome to the Door of Truth..."
Lingyue used her last bit of strength to grip Li Zhao's hand, but the moment she touched the door, she saw a figure standing inside that looked exactly like her. However, the person had three yin-yang fish patterns flashing between their eyebrows, and the scepter they held in their hand had the lens of the observer's giant eye embedded at its tip.
The figure looked up and smiled, its voice carrying a familiar warmth: "I've finally waited for you, my... container."
Before the words were finished, the golden gate slammed shut with a deafening roar.
Lingyue and Li Zhao's figures disappeared in the light, as if they had never existed.
On the ruins of the broken loom, a jade pendant engraved with yin and yang symbols lies quietly. In the light seeping from the cracks, one can vaguely see a spirit moon from a certain time and space pushing open a sunlit window. The world outside the window is as usual, yet it seems to hide a deeper secret, making one unable to resist exploring the unknown truth...