[Emergency Plan Execution: Initiate... Law-Level... Annihilation Procedure...]

The cold, emotionless stream of thoughts, like a final judgment, resounded through Qingxu Immortal Lord's sea of ​​consciousness. Each word was like a sharp blade formed from ice that had remained frozen for billions of years, piercing deep into the core of his soul!

Annihilation!

It's not sealing, not suppression, but the most thorough... erasure! It completely obliterates Su Nian's existence, along with that "mutated" soul ice crystal, from the level of laws!

The Dark Gold Consciousness made a decision swiftly, ruthlessly, and decisively, without the slightest hesitation or room for maneuver!

Almost the instant that thought flowed out, an indescribable, terrifying suction force and destructive fluctuation, seemingly originating from the very void of the universe, suddenly formed around the cracked soul ice crystal! The space around the ice crystal began to visibly distort and collapse, even swallowing light, forming a miniature, yet dark singularity that exuded an aura of absolute annihilation!

The dark gold chains that were wrapped around the ice crystals were no longer imprisoning them, but had transformed into channels that guided the power of annihilation, shimmering with an ominous light, frantically extracting and compressing the very essence of the ice crystals!

"No--!!!"

Immortal Lord Qingxu let out a heart-wrenching, inhuman roar! He felt as if his soul was being torn apart and dragged along by that singularity, about to fall into an abyss of no return along with Su Nian!

He couldn't! He absolutely couldn't let her just disappear like that!

All reason, all calculation, all control over power, at this moment, were completely overwhelmed by the most primal, instinctive emotion—to protect! To protect at all costs!

He stopped thinking about the consequences and stopped weighing the pros and cons!

In that one ten-thousandth of a second before the annihilation singularity was about to completely devour the ice crystal!

Immortal Lord Qingxu made a crazy move that even he himself had not anticipated and could never replicate!

He...voluntarily relinquished all control over his own "Ice Mark Dao Seal"! He gave up resisting the tearing force of annihilation! He even...abandoned the last line of defense to maintain his life!

He poured all his mind, all his soul power, and all his obsession and longing for Su Nian into the forming annihilation singularity in the purest and most unreserved way, no longer simulating it with "frequency," but like a moth drawn to a flame! He poured himself into the deepest connection channel with Su Nian's soul ice crystal!

He wanted to be in sync with her! To resonate with her! Until... we were both in silence!

This is not an attack, nor a defense, but a kind of... self-destructive "integration"!

He wanted to use his own soul, his own existence, to fill the annihilating singularity, to buffer the obliteration of the laws! Even if it could only delay it for a moment, even if the final result was that the two of them turned to ashes together!

"Su Nian—!!!"

He let out his final cry with his soul, not in despair, but with a tragic determination to become one with her!

Just as Immortal Lord Qingxu's soul power surged recklessly into the Annihilation Singularity, about to be torn apart by the laws along with Su Nian's soul ice crystal—

A miracle, or rather, a mutation triggered by some deeper mechanism, has occurred!

The soul ice crystal, which had been trembling violently under the power of annihilation, with its cracks widening and its light rapidly dimming, suddenly... erupted with an unimaginable, dazzling ice-blue radiance the moment it came into contact with the soul resonance of Immortal Lord Qingxu, which was unreserved and even carried a self-destructive will.

This radiance is no longer tranquility and stillness, but is filled with a kind of... extreme "activity" and "resistance" that bursts forth after being forced into a desperate situation, unwilling to perish!

At the same time, the faint fluctuations belonging to System 088, which had been dormant, suddenly became clear at this critical moment, as if forcibly activated by some higher authority. With an unprecedented urgency and... chaotic noise, it forcefully inserted itself into this area that was about to be destroyed!

[Warning! Warning! Irreversible law-level attack detected on the host's soul essence!]

[An external high-dimensional consciousness (Immortal Lord Qingxu/Fragment of a God) has been detected initiating an unconventional resonance protocol!]

[The symbiotic fusion system is overloaded! The connection between the Frozen Law (sub-body) and the host's soul has exceeded the critical threshold!]

Error! Error! Unable to resolve the current state!

[Forced execution... ultimate solution... based on the host's deepest subconscious obsession... activated...]

The system's prompts were intermittent, filled with logical inconsistencies and unknown interference, as if it itself was on the verge of collapse amidst this incomprehensible upheaval!

As the system's "ultimate solution" was activated, the icy blue radiance of the soul ice crystal, along with the soul power that Qingxu Immortal Lord had poured in and the rampant annihilation power, forcibly intertwined and entangled into one in a way that completely defied common sense!

The once indestructible seal on the outer layer of the ice crystal, laid down by the dark gold consciousness, was now under immense pressure from the chaotic energy impact—both internal (Su Nian's outburst) and external (Xie Chen's fusion and annihilation power)—and emitted a series of cracking sounds! More cracks, like a spider web, instantly covered the entire surface of the ice crystal!

"boom--!!!"

Like the Big Bang at the beginning of the universe, it erupted silently yet violently deep within the consciousness of Immortal Lord Qingxu!

An indescribable energy storm, a mixture of extreme cold, destructive will, indomitable soul, and unknown variables forcibly intervened by some system, spread out with the nearly shattered soul ice crystal at its core!

The first to be affected was the newly formed annihilation singularity!

This singularity, which contained the power to annihilate according to the laws of nature, was violently twisted and fluctuated as if it had been thrown into a turbulent vortex by this chaotic and powerful energy storm that completely exceeded the design specifications! Its stable structure was destroyed, and the process of annihilation was forcibly interrupted and disrupted!

[WARNING! Annihilation process encounters unknown resistance! Energy circuit overload!]

[An anomaly variable (System 088) has been detected... Information entropy is rising sharply...]

[Recalculating threat level... Error... Database conflict...]

For the first time, the Dark Gold Consciousness's usually cold and unwavering stream of thought experienced a noticeable "stagnation" and "chaos"! It seemed unable to comprehend the development of events that were completely beyond its logical deduction!

At the very center of the storm, Immortal Lord Qingxu felt as if his soul had been torn into countless pieces, only to be forcibly reassembled in the next moment. Extreme pain intertwined with a strange, ethereal sense of clarity, as if he had touched some primordial source.

He "saw" that the cracked soul ice crystal was bobbing up and down in the energy storm, its core icy blue radiance tightly intertwined with his soul power, as if they were having a final, struggling dance together.

He even vaguely "heard" Su Nian's voice, no longer a faint thought, but a clear yet utterly weary and resolute cry that resounded directly deep within his soul:

"Xie Chen...grab...me..."

After reaching a certain peak, the energy storm began to subside slowly.

That terrifying annihilation singularity has vanished, as if it had never existed.

The fluctuations of Dark Gold's consciousness also fell into a strange "silence," seemingly engaged in a complex reassessment and calculation, with no new actions taken for the time being.

Immortal Lord Qingxu's sea of ​​consciousness was in complete disarray. His soul had suffered severe damage, and his consciousness was blurred. Only his obsession with Su Nian, like an inextinguishable star, kept him from completely losing consciousness.

He struggled, casting his last shred of lucidity toward the center of the storm after it had subsided.

There, the soul ice crystal... still floats.

But it has changed drastically!

The once crystal-clear ice crystals were now covered with countless cracks, as if they would shatter completely at the slightest touch. The ice crystals seemed to have shrunk in size, and their light had dimmed considerably, but within the gaps of those countless cracks, a deeper and more restrained icy blue halo was slowly flowing.

What shocked him most was that the connection between the ice crystal and his soul had not weakened because of this catastrophe; on the contrary, it had become even closer and more... inseparable!

It was as if their souls, in the resonance and storm of sharing life and death just now, had been forcibly imprinted with each other's marks, achieving a deeper level of binding, almost like a "symbiotic contract"!

At the same time, he sensed that his broken "Ice Mark Dao Seal" had undergone some subtle changes. The core of the Dao Seal had gained a trace of... an aura that originated from the same source as the halo flowing in the ice crystal cracks? It seemed to have also been tainted by the "activity" of Su Nian's indomitable soul and the unknown variables brought about by the system's intervention.

Just as he was trying to perceive this change further—

The cracked ice crystal of his soul trembled slightly, and a thought, clearer than ever before yet tinged with an indescribable weakness, flowed like a gentle stream into his almost parched consciousness:

"We're... safe for now..."

"But... 'it'... won't... give up..."

"The crack...is hope...but also...a greater...danger..."

"Get stronger quickly..."

The thought abruptly ended there. The light of the ice crystal completely subsided, falling silent once more, but the numerous cracks, like eternal scars, revealed the fierce struggle against the laws just now, and... the even more uncertain and perilous road ahead.

As Qingxu Immortal Lord gazed at the cracked ice crystal, feeling the deeper bonds and heavy responsibilities within his soul, he slowly closed his eyes.

He found out.

From this moment on, he and she will truly share a common destiny and weather life and death together.

Their enemy is... the laws themselves, which transcend the world.

The suspense in the story intensifies at this moment—the male and female protagonists forcibly interrupt the annihilation process in a near-silent manner, deepening their soul link into a symbiotic contract, with the ice crystal cracks becoming a symbol of both hope and danger. The dark gold consciousness remains silent for now, but an even greater storm is inevitable. How will this scarred bond face future law-level threats? All awaits to be revealed in the next chapter.