The mechanical wings of the Entropy Shadow Colossus roared to life, and beneath its shrouding shadow, countless fragments of space and time drifted like fallen leaves. Lin Yue's thread of time trembled violently in the energy storm. A star map composed of seventeen-colored gem fragments swirled through the void, but it could never penetrate the black barrier cast by the Entropy Weaver. A twisted arc curved the corners of the black-robed figure's mouth as he manipulated the gears on the star disk to rotate in reverse. The flow of time on the entire battlefield was instantly disrupted. Lu Li's golden afterimage leaped back and forth across space and time, and the gear blades hurled by the calico cat froze in mid-air, transforming into suspended metal sculptures.

"Did you think finding me was the end?" The Entropy Weaver's mechanical face cracked open like a spiderweb, revealing a pulsating purple crystal within. "Look at this heart! It's forged from the despair of your first guardians!" He ripped open his black robe, revealing a shimmering heart embedded in his chest. The chains wrapped around its surface were etched with the mournful faces of silver-armored warriors. Lin Yue's thread of time stretched uncontrollably toward the heart. The liquid starlight seeping from the gem fragments resonated with the crystal, and her mind suddenly flooded with fragments of memories.

In a steam-filled laboratory, a young Guardian of Time conducted a forbidden experiment. He attempted to transform entropy energy into a protective force, but was gradually assimilated by the backlash. As the experiment spiraled out of control, his body began to disintegrate, but his consciousness unexpectedly became quantum entangled with the entropy core. "So you are... the missing first-generation Guardian!" Lin Yue's voice was filled with shock. "You were not consumed by the entropy demon, but actively absorbed the entropy power!"

The Entropy Weaver let out a piercing laugh, and the gears on the astrolabe burst into a blinding light. "That's right! When I saw clearly that the universe would eventually perish amidst increasing entropy, I decided to become the master of it all! The narratives of all civilizations are the threads I weave together to form the final chapter!" He waved his arm, and purple beams shot out from the Entropy Shadow Colossus's fingertips, instantly blasting a huge hole in Lu Li's golden armor. The calico cat seized the opportunity to leap onto the colossus's neck, its geared collar spinning at high speed, attempting to disrupt its energy transmission system, but was entangled by a sudden burst of black tentacles.

"Be careful! These tentacles carry memory corruption!" Lu Li's six afterimages forcibly condensed, and the golden code transformed into a light net that enveloped the calico cat. But the moment the tentacles touched the light net, a terrifying image emerged in his mind: the core of the Emerald Dream universe's annual rings completely collapsed, the spiritual creatures of the tree-like civilization turned to dust in the entropic energy; the mechanical heart of the steampunk world stopped beating, and the entire universe was plunged into eternal darkness. These images corroded his data consciousness like a virus, and chaotic red lines began to appear in the golden code.

Lin Yue's seventeen-colored gem suddenly erupted with intense light, enveloping her in a silver cocoon. Within the cocoon, she resonated more deeply with the remnants of the First Guardian's consciousness. "We were wrong... Entropy is not the enemy..." the Guardian's voice echoed in her mind. "The universe requires a balance between increasing and decreasing entropy, and the Entropy Weaver... he seeks to disrupt this balance!" Her threads of time began to grow in reverse, weaving a complex anti-entropy matrix across the cocoon's surface.

The moment the cocoon of light ruptured, Lin Yue's original threads of time transformed into galaxy-like bands of light, entwining the Entropy Shadow Colossus's joints. Lu Li seized the opportunity to inject the golden code into the colossus's energy core, while the calico cat used its gear collar to generate high-frequency oscillations, disrupting its internal cycle of entropy. The Entropy Weaver's expression suddenly changed. He frantically spun the star disk, summoning more entropic creatures from different time and space—mechanical dragons, data ghosts, and magical liches. These creatures were entwined with black vines, their eyes gleaming with a desperate purple light.

"You think you can stop me like this?" The Entropy Weaver drew a longsword from the star disk, engraved with entropy spells. The energy emanating from the blade twisted the surrounding space and time into a vortex. "Look at this!" He swung the sword at the ground, and a huge crack opened up. From its depths came the wailing of countless civilizations. Lin Yue's thread of time automatically flew towards the crack, but was entangled by black tentacles extending from it. She discovered with horror that these tentacles were absorbing the life energy within the thread.

At the critical moment, the shadowy figures of silver-armored warriors emerged from the seventeen-colored gems. They transformed their weapons into spears of light, piercing the heart of the Entropic Colossus. A crack finally appeared in the Entropy Weaver's expression. His mechanical face began to disintegrate, revealing a human face filled with regret. "I... I just don't want to see this all end..." As his voice faded, the gears of the astrolabe stopped turning, and the Entropic Colossus's body began to disintegrate into countless fragments.

However, just as everyone thought victory was within reach, the Entropy Core suddenly unleashed a deafening roar. The undestroyed half of the core burst forth from the planet's core, merging with the remaining energy of the Entropy Weaver to form a massive purple sphere. Images of the birth and destruction of the universe swirled across the sphere's surface, and the energy fluctuations released caused the entirety of spacetime to begin collapsing. Lin Yue's seventeen-colored gem fragments glowed once more, forming a mysterious pattern in the void. At its center, a never-before-seen cosmic coordinate emerged...

"That's... the balancing universe!" the calico cat's gear collar sounded an alarm. "The legendary core that maintains the balance between increasing and decreasing entropy!" Lu Li's golden code quickly analyzed the coordinate information, his expression becoming solemn: "But reaching there will come at a huge cost. Our existence may be completely rewritten..." Lin Yue clenched the thread of time in her hand, the light of the seventeen-colored gemstone illuminating her determined face: "To protect all universes, we must take this risk!"

As her words fell, a dazzling light suddenly erupted, like a massive torrent of energy, instantly engulfing the three figures. The light was so intense that it obscured everything around them, as if the entire world had lost its color in that moment.

At the center of the light, the figures of the three gradually blurred, eventually disappearing completely into the crack in time and space. This crack was like an endless black hole, swallowing up their existence and carrying them to the unknown beyond.

Behind them, the already enormous purple sphere was now expanding at an alarming rate. Its surface shimmered with a strange light, as if the end of the universe had arrived. The energy contained within this sphere was extremely terrifying, and the gravity it released had already begun to affect the surrounding space, causing the entire battlefield to tremble violently.

The fate of the universe now rests entirely on the three people who vanished into the rift of space and time. Their only hope of saving the universe lies in finding the ultimate solution to halt entropy within a balanced universe. If they fail, the universe will be consumed by entropy, and everything will be reduced to nothingness...