The Faith Mark above the Mother Nest was still slightly warm. Lin Yi could clearly sense seven different power fluctuations shooting toward the seven core defense points of the Mother Nest—the molten gold surging in Long Wu's fiery battle aura, the electromagnetic arc light bursting from Lao Zhou's mechanical arm, and the green life light flowing in Xia Xia's healing spell.

His star chart slowly rotated behind him, each star track connected to the consciousness of a certain job changer, like an invisible string that, with a gentle tug, could hear the battle cries from thousands of miles away.

"Shadow Corrosion concentration exceeds the limit!" Chu Yao's projection suddenly appeared beside him, the data stream in her blue eyes jumping wildly. "The third energy chamber of the Mother Nest has opened a secret door; Night Owl is mobilizing the last Shadow Corrosion legion."

Lin Yi looked up at the churning black mist of the Mother Nest.

The remnant soul of the night owl hovered in the center of the black mist. Half of its face had been scorched black by the light of faith, yet it still grinned. The ink-black liquid seeping from its fingertips dripped into the void, exploding into writhing black shadows.

"He's betting on the numbers," Lin Yi said in a low voice, as the spacetime power within the star map began to condense.

He could feel that, through the bond of faith, each of the other transmigrators was transmitting emotions to him—Long Wu's fervor, Lao Zhou's composure, Xiao Xia's gentleness, washing over his heart like a tide. "But he didn't know that our bond was never simply one plus one."

A deafening roar came from the core area of ​​the northwest.

Long Wu's fiery battle aura had already turned into a liquid state. He punched a twenty-meter-tall mechanical beast in the chest with one fist. The molten gold flames seeped into the mechanical gaps and exploded with a "boom".

The mechanical beast's head was hurled thirty meters away, crashing into the nest's protective shield and sending sparks flying.

The Flame Team members behind him cheered, and several elite-level job changers took the opportunity to leap onto the mechanical beast wreckage, their flaming swords simultaneously piercing the not-yet-fully-cooled energy chamber—a tactic Lin Yi had specially designed for them: Mythical-level powerhouses to break through the defenses, elite-level to finish off the enemy, completely cutting off any possibility of repair.

"The Southeast Energy Warehouse is under an electromagnetic storm!" Chu Yao's voice was filled with excitement. "Old Zhou's robotic arm has been modified with an antimatter pulser, and now the enemy's energy output has decreased by 40%!"

Lin Yi's gaze swept across the holographic map and suddenly fixed on the northeast direction.

The red dot that was originally marked "Void Portal" was flashing wildly, and the white-bearded figure was like a gray lightning bolt, the bronze sword in his hand drawing a silver arc.

His silver hair danced wildly in the spatial turbulence, each sword strike precisely hitting the weakest point of the teleportation portal. "Seal!" he roared, and the Bagua pattern on his Taoist robe suddenly shone as brightly as day. The entire teleportation portal was torn to shreds, and the Shadow Erosion soldiers that poured out were burned to ashes by the purification spells of the healing squad behind them before they even landed.

"Alright!" Lin Yi chuckled softly, his knuckles cracking as he clenched his fists.

He could feel the stinging pain in the white-bearded man's palm through the link—it was the burn left from taking the spatial turbulence head-on, but the old man's mind was filled with only excitement: "That felt great!"

"I've lived for eight hundred years, and this is the first time I've ever fought so exhilaratingly!"

The change happened in the blink of an eye.

The remnant soul of the Night Owl suddenly swelled into a cloud of black mist, and countless Shadow Erosion tentacles emerged from every corner of the Mother Nest, like a giant black net covering the raiding party.

More numerous small combat robots crawled out of the mechanical beast wreckage, and the number of Shadow Erosion soldiers increased tenfold in three seconds, even turning the air into a murky gray-black.

"The Shadow Erosion has exceeded 70%!" Chu Yao's voice trembled for the first time. "They are devouring the Light of Faith!"

But the next second, Xia's healing light pierced through the black mist.

This girl, who wasn't even at the elite level before, now had a blindingly bright mark of faith on her forehead.

She opened her arms, and the healing technique was no longer a single-point treatment, but transformed into a light net covering a kilometer.

The wounds inflicted by the Shadow Corrosion healed at a visible speed, and even the corroded equipment began to reform its metallic patterns. "Everyone!" Her voice transmitted through the link to the consciousness of each comrade, "I can feel your power!"

We...we are one!

Long Wu's flames suddenly surged three times.

He kicked away the Shadow Wolf that pounced at him, then turned to the Flame Team member beside him and grinned: "Little Xia is right!"

"I feel like I could beat ten mechanical beasts right now!" Before he finished speaking, his fist had already pierced through a giant Shadow Erosion Insect that had just crawled out of the ground. Molten gold flames spread along the wound on the insect's corpse, and wherever it passed, the Shadow Erosion Black Mist sizzled and burned out transparent holes.

A booming sound came from Aizen's location.

The swordsman, who always smiled with his eyes narrowed, now had pupils that shrunk to slits, and his Zanpakuto at his waist shattered into countless fragments with a "bang." "Hogyoku: Final Release." His voice was as soft as a sigh, but the fragments rained down on the Shadow Erosion Legion.

Each exploding jade fragment triggered a chain reaction, tearing Shadow Erosion soldiers to shreds and even twisting and deforming mechanical armor in the shockwave.

He looked up in Lin Yi's direction, a wildly arrogant smile playing on his lips: "Boss, was that enough?"

A night owl's scream echoed from within the black fog.

Cracks began to appear in his remnant soul, and the Shadow Erosion Tentacles' attacks weakened significantly.

As Lin Yi gazed at the shrinking red alert zone on the holographic map, the spacetime power within the star map suddenly began to reverse—he could sense that Earth's fortune was still rising, and the progress bar of the civilization trial was moving toward 100% at a visible speed.

"Chu Yao, the defense strength of the Mother Nest Central Hub." He suddenly spoke, lightly tapping the red dot at the very center of the holographic map with his fingertip.

"The core shield has 37% remaining, and the energy supply has been cut off by 62% by Lao Zhou." Chu Yao's projection suddenly materialized, reaching out to place a hand on his shoulder. "But there's a defensive matrix left behind by an advanced civilization inside the central core, requiring at least three mythical-level powerhouses to attack simultaneously to break through it."

"Xuanmingzi." Lin Yi turned to look behind him.

The old Taoist priest who always wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth was standing beside him at some point. The bloodstains on his Taoist robe had dried, but fresh blood beads were still seeping from between his fingers.

He followed Lin Yi's gaze to the central red dot, then suddenly laughed: "Young friend, do you want to ask if my Eight Trigrams Formation can break that damn matrix?" He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, opened his palm, and three ancient coins gleaming with a bluish light floated up. "Don't even mention the matrix of advanced civilizations; even the array set up by Dao Ancestor Hongjun back then, I could tear a hole in it if I grit my teeth."

"Su Qing," Lin Yi called again.

The sweet aroma of tea wafted over first.

Su Qing emerged from the void, the water spirit patterns and faith marks in her hair reflecting each other.

She gazed at Lin Yi, her eyes shining brighter than ever: "I can feel something in my core, something connected to me by blood." She raised her hand to gently touch her heart. "There...it's waiting for me."

Lin Yi's star chart suddenly began to spin violently.

He looked down at the job changers still fighting fiercely, at the sky purified by the light of faith, and at the tender branches sprouting from the ruins, and suddenly smiled.

That was the most relaxed laugh he had had since he became the master of time and space.

"Very good." He turned to face the Mother Nest's central core, the star map unfolding into a dark spatial rift. "Once they've cleared the outer perimeter... it's our turn to go in."

The owl's remnant soul let out a final scream in the black mist.

He gazed at the seven beams of light gradually approaching the central hub, at the figures enveloped in the light of faith, and suddenly recalled the words spoken by the enforcers of the advanced civilization before they left—

"When ants learn to band together, they are no longer ants." The metal door of the Mother Nest Central Hub was torn into pieces by the spacetime rift, and Lin Yi was the first to step into the door.

His star chart spun like a vortex above his head, turning the pervasive shadowy black mist into dust, revealing a pale blue cocoon of light suspended in the center—the final sealing procedure of the Night Owl, its surface covered with runes of advanced civilization, like countless venomous snakes flicking their tongues.

"Old Xuan, Su Qing." Lin Yi turned his head, his voice made clear by the hum of the star map.

Xuanmingzi's Taoist robe fluttered without wind, and the three ancient coins merged into the void, drawing three cyan-gold trails around the cocoon of light; pale blue blood beads seeped from Su Qing's fingertips, and when they dripped onto the surface of the cocoon of light, the runes suddenly emitted a faint light that resonated with the water spirit patterns in her hair.

"This is a bloodline lock." Su Qing's voice trembled, but it was filled with unwavering certainty. "My mother... no, it's the memory passed down within me that contains the formula to break it." She raised her hands and placed them on the cocoon of light. The silver bells on her wrists jingled softly, and the originally violent runes slowly unfolded into flowing ripples, like a beast that had been soothed.

Xuan Mingzi suddenly groaned, and beads of blood seeping from between his fingers condensed into a blood-red line in the air, disappearing into the azure-gold trajectory. "The array-breaking techniques of advanced civilizations are indeed exquisite," he chuckled through gritted teeth. "However, they didn't expect that what's locked within the seal is the key to awakening Su's bloodline."

The cocoon of light began to crack under the combined efforts of the three.

Lin Yin could clearly sense that the power of spacetime was surging along the connection between him, Su Qing, and Xuan Mingzi—this was the unique "resonance conduction" of a mythical-level profession. The combined power of the three caused the cracks in the cocoon of light to spread at a visible speed.

"Snap!"

The moment the last rune shattered, the entire nest trembled violently.

The remnant soul of the Night Owl was ejected from the cocoon of light. Its originally translucent figure suddenly swelled into a colossal statue twenty meters tall, with dark shadow-corrosion tentacles surging beneath its skin. Its left eye became a black hole, while its right eye shone with the cold gold unique to advanced civilizations—that was because it had forcibly fused with the "Shadow Corrosion Core" hidden deep within its core.

"Foolish!" Night Owl's voice was like the scraping of metal. "This core carries the energy of millions of years from the Void Realm. You think breaking the seal will guarantee victory?" His black hole left eye swept over Lin Yi, the air freezing the instant they touched. "Now, it's your turn to experience... being devoured!"

The Shadow Erosion tentacles poured down like a torrential rain, piercing through the metal walls of the central hub and surrounding the three of them.

Lin Yi's star map suddenly reversed to silver, and the power of spacetime transformed into a shield, repelling the tentacles. At the same time, he sensed the changes in the outside world through the faith link—Long Wu's flames suddenly burned through the last batch of mechanical beasts, Lao Zhou's electromagnetic storm cut off all backup energy, Xia's healing light net covered the entire battlefield, and even Aizen's Zanpakuto fragments were re-condensing into a sharper form.

"They're channeling power into us." Lin Yi chuckled, a golden mark formed from the light of faith appearing in his palm. "Old Xuan, Su Qing, grab me."

Xuanmingzi's ancient coin suddenly exploded into a sky full of blue light, setting up a defensive array around the three of them; Su Qing's water spirit pattern and faith mark completely merged, her figure became semi-transparent, but corroded the Night Owl's shadow tentacles, leaving holes in them.

Lin Yi took a deep breath, and each star track in the star chart lit up with a light corresponding to the job changers in the outside world—Long Wu's red, Lao Zhou's purple, Xia Xia's green, Bai Hu Zi's gray, Lan Ran's silver... All the colors intertwined into a golden torrent, surging up his arm into the night sky.

"Divine Revelation: All Paths Return to One!"

The roar pierced through the bond of faith, exploding in the consciousness of every job changer.

Long Wu's fist ignited with molten gold fire capable of melting everything, directly shattering the last Shadow Erosion Tower; Lao Zhou's mechanical arm unleashed an electromagnetic pulse brighter than the sun, burning the remaining portals to ashes; Xia's healing spell transformed into a rain of light, not only healing the wounded but also feeding back the power of faith within the rain of light to Lin Yi; Whitebeard's bronze sword slashed a spacetime rift, sweeping away the fleeing Shadow Erosion soldiers into the turbulent current; Aizen's Zanpakuto's final form was fully formed, its blade flowing with a silver light that resonated with the frequency of Lin Yi's star map.

A golden torrent condensed into a giant blade above the owl's head.

Cracks began to appear in his Void Realm Overlord form. His black hole left eye frantically devoured the surrounding Shadow Corrosion energy, but it couldn't withstand the purity of the power of faith. "No!" he roared, "Advanced civilizations will not let you go!"

The virtual world also has...

His voice abruptly stopped the moment the giant blade fell.

The body of the Void Realm Ruler crumbled inch by inch in the golden light, like grains of sand scattered by the wind.

The last wisp of soul drifted to Lin Yi's side, and Night Owl's face returned to human form, with a hint of relief in his eyes: "You won... but this is just the beginning."

The will of the Void Realm... will remember this day.

Before he finished speaking, he vanished completely.

The ovary control center suddenly emitted a piercing alarm.

Lin Yi looked up and saw that black cracks were seeping from the location of the cocoon of light, like the mouth of a giant beast, about to swallow the entire mother nest and even the surrounding city.

Xuan Mingzi wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and pointed to the crack, saying, "This is a chain reaction from the Shadow Erosion Core explosion. The Mother Nest structure won't last three minutes!"

Su Qing suddenly grabbed Lin Yi's wrist. Her water spirit patterns dimmed, but she still forced a smile and said, "I can temporarily stabilize the rift, but I need you to open a spacetime rift and get everyone out of there."

Lin Yi's star map spun wildly, and the spacetime rift unfolded into a pitch-black vortex above his head.

He glanced at the holographic map, confirming that all the job-change participants had entered the safe zone, before turning to Xuan Mingzi and Su Qing and saying, "Let's go!"

As soon as the three of them leaped into the crevice, a deafening roar came from behind them.

The core of the hive collapsed completely, and black fissures, like severed threads, began to frantically devour the surrounding buildings.

Lin Yi looked back through the rift and saw the last ray of golden faith rising from the ground, supporting the residential building that was about to be swallowed up—it was Xia and the healing team, still holding on.

"Chu Yao!" he growled into the air, "Initiate emergency evacuation procedures, prioritize the evacuation of civilians!"

"Executed, boss." Chu Yao's projection appeared in the rift, her blue eyes gleaming with an unprecedented determination. "Long Wu and the others are reinforcing the protective wall with their flame battle aura. Old Zhou's mechanical legion has already blocked all escape routes."

Don't worry, we...will not lose.

Lin Yi gripped Su Qing's hand tightly, and the star map shone even brighter.

Outside the spacetime rift, the aftershocks of the collapsed mother nest were still spreading; inside the rift, the figures of the three gradually blurred.

But he knew this was not the end—the Night Owl's last words still echoed in his ears, and the threat from the Void Realm was far from over.

But he had more important things to do.