Another force, vast, chaotic, hungry, and painful, carrying the sweet smell of decaying plants and the cold remnants of star core pollution, was like a sticky green swamp, enveloping, penetrating, and corroding the ball of light from the outside, attempting to assimilate and devour it! That was the will of the mother tree! It wanted to pull it into a chaotic life form!

And that faint ball of consciousness was the very core of Xu Shuangyao's soul! Like a candle in the wind, torn apart by the double terror, its light had dimmed to the extreme, its edges constantly crumbling and dissipating, leaving only a tiny glimmer at the very core. Still relying on an unimaginable stubbornness and unwillingness that stemmed from life itself, it stubbornly guarded the last shred of memory and emotion belonging to "Xu Shuangyao"!

Pei Du could even "hear" the silent cries and...desperate calls coming from the ball of light!

“…Pei…Du…”

"…don't want……"

"…return…"

It was her! It was really her! Her consciousness hadn't been completely wiped out! She was still resisting! She was still calling out to him!

An unprecedented throbbing and excruciating pain, beyond anger and protection, originating from the deepest part of his soul, gripped Pei Du fiercely! He could almost feel the pain her soul was enduring, being torn apart by cold logic and chaotic will!

“Frost medicine——!!!”

Pei Du let out a silent, heartbreaking roar from within his consciousness! Like a star that had found its way home, his dark-gold true spirit mark, reckless and with an all-consuming protective will, slammed fiercely into the faint ball of consciousness torn apart by the dual forces. He attempted to use his presence to isolate and dispel the icy chains and sticky swamp that entangled her!

Buzz——!

The moment his dark gold true spirit mark came into contact with Xu Shuangyao's soul core that was on the verge of collapse!

No rejection! No confrontation!

An indescribable sense of resonance, like a perfect harmony, instantly swept Pei Du's entire consciousness!

He "sees" more clearly!

The icy, entwined chains, upon contact with his dark-gold True Spirit Seal, imbued with the essence of the supreme "Source Blood," seemed to have met their nemesis. Countless fine arcs of electricity instantly erupted, emitting a silent wail as they were forcibly forced back and repelled! Although they failed to completely break, the rate of their erosion was greatly curbed!

The sticky green swamp will, when sensing his "source" breath, instinctively conveyed a greedy desire to devour, but was frightened by the cold status it contained, which was above the chaos of this waste abyss, and the speed of penetration and erosion was also slowed down!

The moment Xu Shuangyao's faint light of consciousness merged with Pei Du's true spirit mark, it shone brightly like a spring pouring into a dry riverbed. Though still faint, it possessed a new level of...stability and resilience. The pain of being torn apart by the icy chains and chaotic swamp was also noticeably alleviated!

"Pei...Du...?" An extremely weak fragment of thought, filled with endless fatigue and disbelief, gently touched Pei Du's consciousness like a firefly drifting in the wind.

It's her! It's her truest consciousness!

"It's me! Hold on!" Pei Du's thoughts were like the strongest barrier, instantly transmitted, filled with unquestionable strength and comfort, "I'm here! Those things...don't even think about touching you again!"

However, at this moment when their souls merged and temporarily repelled the dual threats—

Something strange happened suddenly!

Buzz——!!!

A terrifying sweeping wave, far larger and colder than before, carrying a will of absolute destruction, descended without warning, as if crossing an endless sea of ​​stars! It instantly penetrated the chaotic light of the annihilation realm, the backflowing particle streams and the torrent of the Mother Tree's will, and with uncanny precision... locked onto Pei Du's dark gold True Spirit Mark, which had been integrated into Xu Shuangyao's soul core! It also locked onto Xu Shuangyao's soul light ball, which was being protected by Pei Du's True Spirit Mark!

Pei Du was deeply familiar with this will!

Cold! Precise! Ruthless! With the indifference of looking down on an ant and... the absolute rage of having his authority violated!

cradle!

It was the Cradle's will! It sensed it! It sensed Pei Du's interference with the cleansing process! It sensed the changes taking place within Xu Shuangyao, the special "key," beyond its control! It also sensed the exposure of Pei Du's "source blood" spirit!

"Detected...high priority...target...'Source Blood' mark...and...abnormal container..."

"Clear... Protocol... Highest Sequence... Activate..."

"Logic... conflict... forced... overwrite... execution... final... annihilation command..."

A cold, grand, mechanically synthesized sound, like the verdict of the laws of the universe itself, rang out directly in the deepest part of Pei Du and Xu Shuangyao's consciousness!

Right after!

Around Xu Shuangyao's soul ball, protected by Pei Du's True Spirit Mark, the temporarily repelled chains of cold logic seemed to be infused with destructive energy, instantly erupting with unprecedentedly dazzling golden light! The number of chains surged! Like billions of golden venomous snakes, with an even more violent will to obliterate, they madly twisted and contracted! They attempted to forcibly break through the protection of Pei Du's True Spirit Mark and completely shred and format Xu Shuangyao's soul along with Pei Du's True Spirit!

Not only that!

outside world!

Xu Shuangyao's body, being repaired by the particle flow and the Mother Tree's will, suddenly spasmed violently! At her heart, where Pei Du's palm was pressing, the energy vortex, originally compressed and restrained by the chaotic annihilation light, suddenly lit up with an extremely dazzling, extremely complex pale golden geometric core! The core spun and expanded wildly, emitting destructive energy fluctuations that were about to self-destruct! The Cradle's final annihilation command was to directly detonate the remaining Zero Core energy in Xu Shuangyao's body, completely wiping her, Pei Du, and the entire area!

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