Under the impact of the dual forces, the crystal thorns that made up the cocoon were like fragile glass, instantly covered with spider-web-like cracks! Pei Du's enormous power, coupled with the explosion of his inner crimson will, attacked from both inside and outside!
Snap——!!!
A crisp and loud shattering sound echoed throughout this quiet space!
The crystal thorn cocoon that wrapped Xu Shuangyao was torn open with a huge, irregular crack under the dual effects of Pei Du's desperate grab and the burst of internal crimson will!
From within the crack, a dazzling crimson light erupted like lava that had been suppressed for billions of years! At the core of the light, Xu Shuangyao's suspended body shook violently! Her tightly closed eyes suddenly opened!
The pupils were no longer blank or confused crimson as before, but a kind of... cold, burning crimson flame, yet with a heart-pounding clarity and determination... divine brilliance!
Her gaze instantly penetrated the crack and fell on the thorn giant outside the cocoon, which was so broken that it was no longer human-like, but still clung to the cocoon wall tightly, like a burning ember.
Their eyes met.
Pei Du's molten-gold pupils reflected a pair of icy eyes burning with crimson flames. The excruciating pain and energy depletion left his consciousness like a flickering candle in the wind, his vision blurred and blood-red. But he "saw" it! Deep within those eyes, that single spark of "Xu Shuangyao," the unextinguished light of her soul, now enveloped in a cold crimson flame...
She's still alive! She's still... her!
A subtle, liberating thought flashed through Pei Du's fading consciousness. The strength of the giant thorny hand that gripped the cocoon wall began to rapidly drain away.
Just then—
Xu Shuangyao's cold eyes, blazing with crimson flames, locked onto Pei Du's shattered body. Those horrific wounds, pierced by emerald roots and still dripping with dark green energy fluid! They also locked onto the dark green, dark blue, and chaotic silver energy cores clashing wildly deep within those wounds, on the verge of complete annihilation!
A cold and precise thought, like the most efficient command, instantly emanated from her burning pupils and reached Pei Du's remaining consciousness:
[Energy...guided...target...dome...weak point...detonate...!]
At the same time, a faint but remarkably clear stream of coordinate information, imbued with a cold sense of logic, instantly imprinted itself upon Pei Du's consciousness, like an activated program! The coordinates pointed not to a specific physical location, but rather... above the vast transparent dome that enveloped Eden, to an extremely subtle, regular structure where energy flow periodically decayed!
Pei Du's consciousness, on the verge of extinguishing itself, was forcibly injected with a shot of adrenaline by this icy command and coordinates! The completely dimmed data thorn chains in his molten gold pupils were instantly activated by this command, bursting out with a last bit of brilliant light like a last ray of light!
No need to think! No time to hesitate! This is the only way to survive! Use his remaining body and the last ignited bomb to blast a path for Xu Shuangyao!
"roar--!!!"
Pei Du roared with a mixture of endless pain and destructive pleasure! His shattered body erupted with a final burst of light, like a supernova about to explode! The three destructive energies within his body, clashing violently and on the verge of annihilation, were gathered and compressed by him, using the cold coordinates transmitted by Xu Shuangyao as the core and the remaining thorns of his body as the barrel. Then, he brazenly blasted them towards the coordinate point above the dome!
Boom——!!!!
An indescribable torrent of destructive energy, composed of dark green, dark blue, and chaotic silver, erupted violently from Pei Du's shattered chest and ruptured wounds like a lance of divine retribution. Wherever the torrent passed, space wailed piercingly, ripping open dark, unstable cracks in space!
This destructive torrent that gathered Pei Du's last life and will hit the huge transparent dome with incredible precision, at the weak point in the rules that Xu Shuangyao had discovered with his "Scarlet Authority"!
Time seemed to freeze at this moment.
There was no earth-shattering explosion.
There was only one sound... the heart-pounding "swish" of glass being hit by a red-hot iron ball, and the subsequent sharp buzzing sound as if the structure of the universe itself was being torn apart!
At the point where the dome was struck, the transparent material, once shimmering with the brilliance of the galaxy, instantly turned a blindingly bright white! Countless fine, cold, and destructive crimson geometric lines, like cracks with life, spread wildly across the dome's surface, centered on the point of impact. These crimson lines weren't physical cracks, but rather... the manifestation of the regular structure being forcibly disrupted and destroyed!
The rule barrier that constitutes the dome has reached its limit under the dual effects of the energy impact of Pei Du's desperate attack and the rule interference of Xu Shuangyao's crimson authority!
Snap——!!!
A sound that was louder and more shocking than the shattering of the crystal thorn cocoon, as if the whole world was wailing, resounded throughout Eden!
A huge crack hundreds of meters long, with four colors of energy flames burning on its edges: dark green, dark blue, chaotic silver, and cold crimson, was torn apart on the transparent dome that covered the sky and the earth!
Beyond the crack, there was no longer the quiet void with gorgeous nebula light bands slowly flowing.
Instead, it was… a cold, deadly silence filled with twisted metal debris and scarlet electronic eyes… a hellish scene! It was the very scene they had just escaped from in a bloodbath—the “Cradle Shadow” steel cemetery!
Through the vast rift, blazing with four-colored energy flames, one could clearly see countless heavily armored, crimson-glowing mechanical tentacles. Like sharks scenting blood, they frantically converged from every corner of the Iron Cemetery toward this sudden rift leading to Eden! Within their crimson electronic compound eyes, the crimson light of destruction flashed with unprecedented brilliance!
[Alert! High-dimensional energy leak detected! Coordinates locked!]
[Detected...Eden Eco-Dome...damage! ]
[Detected... extinction-level pollution source... and high-risk protocol carrier... signal! ]
[Highest priority...Clearance protocol...Execute...Invasion...Purification...Begin!]
The cold, emotionless mechanical declaration, like the prelude to death, passed through the crack and clearly entered the emerald forest that had just been peaceful and tranquil!
The gardener's immense and gentle will erupted into an unprecedented scream of utter terror and rage at the moment the dome shattered.
"No--!!!"
"The dome...shattered...!"
“They…are back…!!!”
The scarlet light of destruction, like the open eyes of hell, shone through the burning cracks, coldly projecting onto Pei Du's broken body and Xu Shuangyao's eyes burning with crimson flames.
The hunter of the cradle shadow followed the smell of blood and finally extended his icy tentacles of death into this forgotten land of light!
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