The chill of despair, like the deep chill of the universe, threatened to freeze Pei Du completely! He risked his very life, but what he got in return wasn't salvation, but even more complete destruction?! He was personally feeding his own power to that icy program, hastening Xu Shuangyao's demise?!

"Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" The imprisoned Qing Man in the distance witnessed all this and let out an even more shrill howl, filled with despair as if witnessing the coming of doomsday! "Pollution! Two-way pollution! Mother Tree!! Save your people!!"

As if responding to her wailing, and as if completely enraged by Pei Du's uncontrolled outburst of essence blood and the chaotic ball of golden and white annihilation light—

Boom boom boom!!!

The entire abyss of life emitted a terrifying roar as if a planet was on the verge of collapse and disintegration!

At Pei Du's feet, the slowly wriggling, several-meter-thick, dark green moss layer bulged, tumbled, and tore madly upward, as if swarms of boiling ants had been thrown into it! Countless terrifying roots, as thick as ancient pythons, covered in thick, pitch-black shells and sticky mucus, carried a pungent, sweet, and fishy odor of decay a hundred times stronger than before. Like a swarm of tentacles awakened from hell, they tore through the moss and soil, madly twisting and devouring Pei Du and Xu Shuangyao in the center, and the chaotic ball of golden-white light!

These roots exuded a vast, chaotic, and utterly hungry will! They sensed the leakage of Pei Du's "source blood"! They sensed the even more "delicious" contaminated aura from Xu Shuangyao, merging the two star core powers! Driven by hunger and chaos, the mother tree's convergent, tormented will completely ran amok! It wanted to completely devour and digest these two "sources of pollution," the chaotic energy, and this entire area!

In front of him was Xu Shuangyao, who was using his power to accelerate his transformation. Behind him were the frantic devouring roots of the mother tree! Even further away, there was Qing Man, imprisoned but glaring at them with resentment! Pei Du instantly fell into an absolutely hopeless situation, with no chance of survival!

His strength was draining madly, the infusion of his essence and blood like poison to quench his thirst. His body trembled slightly from the intense pain and weakness. The molten gold pupils reflected the strange, blended patterns of light and dark gold on Xu Shuangyao's skin. They also reflected the icy light flashing wildly in those pupils, a logical contradiction that still locked onto him. They also reflected the dark, twisting jungle of roots beneath his feet, gaping like the mouth of hell...

Retreat? There was no way to retreat! Fight? How to fight? Attack Xu Shuangyao? Destroy her transforming body? That would be tantamount to killing her with my own hands! Attack the roots of the mother tree? His remaining strength was dwindling, a drop in the bucket! Moreover, if he withdrew his hand, the cradle's cleansing process would be unimpeded, and Xu Shuangyao's complete transformation would be completed instantly!

Desperate situation! A truly hopeless situation with no hope at all!

However, at the last moment when his consciousness was completely devoured by despair—

Deep in Pei Du's mind core, which had been tempered by the core of the star and was extremely cold, a faint glimmer of inspiration that came from beyond instinct suddenly flashed like a match lit in absolute darkness!

It's not logic! It's not power! It's... resonance!

It was that faint feeling of...oneness with the will of the chaotic mother tree he'd felt when he'd pressed the core sigils of the Throne of Thorns! It was the feeling of...oneness and...an odd attraction between the source blood essence he'd madly injected into Xu Shuangyao's chest and the core code of the Cradle Zero within the chaotic ball of golden-white light.

Similarity... Repulsion... Attraction... Chaos... Hunger...

An almost crazy idea of ​​gambling everything, like a lightning that broke through the chaos, struck Pei Du's consciousness that was on the verge of stagnation!

Since it cannot be stopped! Since it cannot be escaped!

Then... detonate it!

Use his final will and remaining strength as a fuse! Detonate this chaotic energy that is frantically absorbing his essence and blood, being analyzed by the Cradle Program, and even considered a "delicacy" by the roots of the Mother Tree! Detonate this deadly vortex of mutual repulsion and strange attraction! Transform this desperate place into the ultimate melting pot! Either, tear open a ray of hope in the chaotic explosion! Or... be utterly annihilated along with her!

No time to weigh the pros and cons! No way out!

Deep within Pei Du's molten-gold pupils, that icy golden light instantly compressed and condensed to its utmost! All despair, pain, and hesitation were completely burned away by this final, all-consuming determination!

"Want to devour?! Then... let's die together--!!!"

He let out a final, soul-rending roar!

His body, covered in dark gold lines, erupted with a final burst of light! He no longer attempted to control the influx of his essence and blood. Instead, like opening the floodgates, he unleashed all his remaining source power, along with his raging will, a fusion of protection and destruction, burning to its core. He completely and without reservation poured it into the palm pressing on Xu Shuangyao's heart! Into the chaotic, swirling, and mutually annihilating ball of golden-white light!

boom--!!!

Time, at this moment, was completely distorted and stretched!

Pei Du's final will and original blood essence were like ice water thrown into a boiling oil pot, or like the last spark that ignited a powder keg, which suddenly detonated the chaotic vortex that had accumulated terrifying energy!

There was no sound. Or rather, the sound was instantly elevated to a level beyond the limits of all living auditory perception, transforming into a soul-shattering, utterly dead silence!

Only light!

Indescribable light! No longer the golden or dark gold of before, but a chaotic, primordial light like the dawn of the universe! With the absolute annihilation property of destroying all matter and energy, centered around Pei Du and Xu Shuangyao, it exploded indiscriminately and violently in all directions like a supernova!

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