A faint blue condensate oozed from the metal floor of the Entropy Balance Center. The dark purple tentacles on Lin Yue's back suddenly contracted violently, forming a spiral mark beneath her skin. As soon as Lu Li's golden code touched the edge of the mark, it was shaken by a corrosive energy and disintegrated into a data stream. The mark was devouring the surrounding Order Energy at a nanoscale speed, and even the remaining gear lubricant from the calico cat dripped onto it, instantly turning into black powder.

"This isn't the power of the origin of chaos." Lin Yue supported herself on Lu Li's shoulder, rising to her feet. The thread of time condensed into a probe around her wrist, carefully piercing the mark. As her consciousness reached the core of the mark, she saw countless streams of dark purple light weaving into a network in the void. Each node corresponded to a coordinate in the multiverse, and the mark on the Entropy Balance Center was the first anchor point of the network. "This is... some kind of coordinate marker, replicating across space and time like a virus."

The calico cat suddenly jumped onto the wreckage of the Entropy Balance Center and slapped a metal plate with spiral patterns on it with its claws: "Meow! There are residual fluctuations here!" Lu Li's golden code immediately covered the metal plate, and the broken data stream actually pieced together half of a star map - the edge of the star map was marked with long-lost ancient god characters, and in the center was a galaxy wrapped in a dark purple vortex, and the outline of the giant eye was suspended in the core of the vortex.

"Ancient God Star Map?" Lin Yue's thread of time swept across the text, and the memory fragments of the first generation guardian suddenly exploded: "This is a map of 'outside the rift'! The first generation guardians once found similar star maps at the edge of the universe, but they were all corroded by chaotic energy..." Before she finished her words, the star map on the metal plate suddenly seeped out dark purple liquid, and all the ancient god characters were twisted into new symbols in the liquid - it was a string of constantly jumping time and space coordinates.

Lu Li's code instantly locked onto the coordinates: "The coordinates point to the antimatter nebula in the Emerald Dream Universe! But it was destroyed by an entropy storm three hundred years ago." A memory crystal suddenly popped out of his armor. A faint light seeped out from the cracks on the surface of the crystal, projecting the final battle image of the first generation guardian. In the picture, a silver-haired guardian embedded the star map fragment into the coordinate hub of the antimatter nebula, and then detonated the entire nebula.

"They blew up the nebula to destroy the coordinate hub!" Lin Yue gripped the Star Scepter tightly, and the star track on the staff suddenly reversed. "Now the spiral mark has activated the remaining coordinates, which means that the existence outside the rift is repairing the hub. If they succeed, all the marked points will be connected into a channel, and chaotic energy will surge into the multiverse like a tide." The calico cat's whiskers suddenly exploded, pointing to the top of the Entropy Balance Center - a dark purple crack had appeared there at some point, and the tentacles hanging from the crack were resonating with the mark on Lin Yue's back.

"We must find the remains of the hub before the channel is formed." Lu Li injected the last section of stabilization code into the memory crystal, and the three vague afterimages condensed again. "But the entropy storm of the antimatter nebula is still there. Ordinary spacecraft will disintegrate if they enter." The calico cat suddenly jumped onto Lu Li's shoulder and used its claws to pry open the energy cabin of his armor. Inside lay half a gear-shaped crystal, which was the "core of order" left behind when the first generation guardians sealed the origin of chaos.

As soon as the Order Core was extracted, the mark on Lin Yue's back emitted a piercing, high-pitched sound. The patterns on the crystal's surface resonated with the spiral mark, unexpectedly unfolding a miniature stargate in the void. On the other side of the stargate was not an antimatter nebula, but a metallic space dotted with countless gear wrecks. At its center hovered a fragment of a star map inscribed with ancient divine script—the very fragment of the coordinate hub destroyed by the First Guardians.

"The star gate was opened by the Order Core!" Lu Li threw the crystal towards the star gate, and the code turned into a traction beam, "Go in quickly! The mark is interfering with the stability of the star gate!" As soon as Lin Yue passed through the star gate, the crack behind him burst out with a powerful suction force. The calico cat's hind legs were entangled by the tentacles, and it screamed and swung its tail: "Gear...stuck it!" Lu Li immediately turned all the codes into a rain of gears, smashing them towards the tentacles at the edge of the crack, but saw that the tentacles suddenly split into countless streams, swallowing the gears like living things.

The stargate trembled and shrank. Lin Yue grabbed the calico cat's paw and pulled it into the metal space. The moment the stargate closed, she saw a giant claw covered in spiral scales emerge from the crack in the Entropy Core, striking fiercely at the Core of Order. The crystal erupted with a blinding white light beneath its claws, illuminating the entire star map space. Lu Li's code decoded the ancient divine text in the bright light: "The core fragment records the entrance to 'Beyond the Rift,' but it requires a 'key' to open it..."

His words were interrupted by the vibrations of metallic space. Countless dark purple tentacles emerged from cracks in the ground, entwining themselves around the fragments of the hub. The shadowy figures of giant, scaly claws pierced through space, fiercely clawing at the mark on Lin Yue's back. The calico cat suddenly opened its mouth and sucked in the scattered gear debris. Its body suddenly expanded into a half-human-sized mechanical beast, its gears gleaming with blue light as they gnawed together. "Use my core... overload it!"

Lin Yue instantly understood. The thread of time sliced ​​through the calico cat's mechanical chest like a scalpel—the beating core within was the "memory gear" left behind by the first Guardian. The moment the gear met the fragment of the hub, all the ancient divine texts transformed into streams of light and poured into Lin Yue's mind. She beheld the forgotten origins of the universe: before the birth of order, beyond the rift lay a "Primordial Sea," a fusion of chaos and consciousness. And that giant eye was the first consciousness born from that Primordial Sea, eager to devour all ordered universes and return everything to its original state.

"The key is... the resonance between the Guardian's obsession and the Entropy Balance!" Lin Yue pressed the memory gear into the nexus fragment, and the seventeen-colored gems and Lu Li's golden code simultaneously injected energy. The metallic space vibrated violently, and a complete star map emerged from the nexus fragment. A crack appeared in the dark purple vortex at the center, and from the crack floated the shadowy key woven with countless civilizational symbols—the same key held by the first Guardian leader in Chapter 89.

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