On its ever-shifting form, several dark points of light, emitting an aura of "nothingness," lit up simultaneously! The icy lock felt like billions of steel needles, instantly piercing the souls of Pei Du and Xu Shuangyao! This time, it wouldn't test them! The terrifying energy of several zero-returning thorns was frantically gathering within the points of light! It was determined to completely erase this area, along with the "error" within it, from existence!
There's no escape! No way to avoid it! This containment area is like a sealed cage!
Xu Shuangyao tensed up in Pei Du's arms, the golden flame mark between her eyebrows radiating an unyielding light as she tried to summon her strength again. However, her weakened soul made the energy she had gathered like loose sand.
Pei Du's eyes flashed with molten gold! Unprecedented cold murderous intent and rage exploded within his chest like a volcano! The core of the End Star pulsed frantically, and the dark power of the End roared through his body like a flood. His arm, covered in dark gold patterns, tightly protected Xu Shuangyao. His other hand, fingers clenched like a knife, the violent power of the End concentrated fiercely, ready to meet this all-destroying impact! Even if it meant shattering him to pieces!
At this desperate, critical moment!
Buzz——!!!
A strange, resonant wave suddenly erupted from the pulsating golden flame mark between Xu Shuangyao's eyebrows! This wave wasn't directed at the Zero Sector, but rather... it madly swept across this vast, abandoned containment area filled with painful memories! Especially... across the cold metal cages covered in dried blood and scratches!
This fluctuation... seems to have resonated deeply with the pain and despair that Source Key G-7 left here before it was formatted!
Then, something even more unexpected happened!
The blazing golden flame mark between Xu Shuangyao's eyebrows suddenly shifted in color! No longer pure gold, deep within its core, a faint yet pure blue light shone, like a star that had slumbered for eons, suddenly igniting! The aura of that blue light... unexpectedly mirrored the icy sense of order emanating from the core data fragment of Source Key G-7!
It was the Thorn Mark! It was the deepest contact between the Source Key data fragment and Xu Shuangyao's soul brand during the previous decontamination, leaving behind a trace of the most fundamental imprint! Now, stimulated by the Zeroer's destructive pressure, in this place where the Source Key had once suffered so much, this same mark of origin was fully activated!
The moment this faint blue light lights up!
boom--!!!
The entire abandoned Stardust Sons containment area felt like it had been bombarded with billions of psychological bombs! Those cold, lifeless metal cages, those twisted bars, those dried bloodstains… For countless years, they held the despair, pain, unwillingness, and overwhelming hatred of countless abandoned "Stardust Sons." Like a lit powder keg, they were instantly ignited by this single, dark blue light!
Visible to the naked eye! Countless twisted streams of resentment, dark red, pale blue, and pitch-black, composed of pure negative spiritual energy, erupted like a volcano from the depths of hell, suddenly rising from the cages, bars, and bloodstains! Instantly filling the entire containment area!
These raging torrents of resentment didn't attack Pei Du and Xu Shuangyao. Instead, like a flood that had found an outlet, they rushed madly towards the descending Zeroer with a hatred that could destroy the world! They rushed towards the embodiment of cold order!
"hatred--!!!"
"pain--!!!"
"Destroy…the…cradle——!!!"
The simultaneous screams of billions of resentful souls and the impact of their thoughts, mixed with a violent torrent of spiritual energy, slammed heavily into the exposed corner of the Zeroer's massive body!
Chichichi--!!!
Like boiling oil poured onto snow! The surface of the Zero One's body, composed of absolute order and spatial faults, instantly erupted in a violent energy annihilation reaction! The dark stream of light fluctuated violently! The few dim points of light that were gathering the Zero Thorn were suddenly attacked by the backlash of the deepest hatred of the "Cradle" itself, and instantly became flickering! The condensed energy was in a violent disorder!
The Nullifier's massive body suddenly froze! Its cold and ruthless logical core seemed to have never anticipated that in this abandoned land, such a massive backlash against its own order would erupt! Its momentum was forcibly curbed!
"Now!" Pei Du's eyes flashed with molten gold! The opportunity created by this sudden change was fleeting! He held Xu Shuangyao in his arms, his body, covered in dark gold lines, bursting out at top speed. Like a gust of wind merging into the shadows, he rushed madly towards the deepest part of the containment zone, a location marked with the word "Deep Structural Weakness," as revealed by the fragmented scans of the Source Key data!
There is the only way out of this prison hell!
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