The cold abandoned containment area has now turned into a boiling purgatory.
Countless torrents of resentment, composed of pure negative spiritual energy—dark red like solidified blood, dark blue like frozen malice, pitch black like the abyss of despair—like vengeful spirits freed from eons of shackles, roared skyward from cages stained with blood and scratches, twisted bars, and dried stains! They converged into a raging torrent of destruction, carrying the endless pain and monstrous hatred of the Stardust Children, tortured to madness by the icy logic of the Cradle, and slammed fiercely into the apocalyptic megastructure that was tearing through space and attempting to descend—the Nullifier!
"hatred--!!!"
"pain--!!!"
"Destroy…the…cradle——!!!"
The screaming thoughts of billions of resentful souls mixed with violent spiritual energy formed a substantial shock wave, which slammed heavily into the huge body of the Zeroer, which was composed of spatial faults and solidified annihilation energy!
Chichichi--!!!
Like millions of red-hot blunt knives scraping against superalloy! The dark light flowing from the Zeroer's body instantly twisted and fluctuated violently! The defense of absolute order and icy space, when exposed to the deepest and most chaotic torrent of hatred emanating from its own creation, was like solid ice meeting boiling magma, a violent energy collision filled with sparks of annihilation! Several dark points of light, gathering the "Zero Thorn", flickered violently, and the condensed energy showed a noticeable sluggishness and disorder!
The Nullifier's unimaginably massive body suddenly froze! Its cold, ruthless core of logic seemed to be momentarily confused. Why had this area, which it considered a discarded garbage dump, these long-formatted "failures" that should have been reduced to dust, erupted with such a massive backlash, directed directly at the very core of order? This chaotic hatred was itself the greatest irony and blasphemy against the absolute logic of the Cradle!
It's this one-thousandth of a second delay!
"Go!" Pei Du's icy voice was like a blade scraping across metal, carrying an unquestionable resolve! His arms, covered in dark gold patterns, tightly embraced the weakened Xu Shuangyao, his molten gold pupils fixed on the deep structural weaknesses revealed by the Source Key data fragments! His legs erupted with strength beyond his limits, and he transformed into a black lightning bolt that ripped through the air, charging brazenly towards the deepest part of the containment zone, blocked by massive metal debris and broken pipes!
Behind him was the terrifying figure of the Zero, briefly blocked by the torrent of resentment, and the dot of annihilation flickering due to the chaotic energy! Ahead was the only way to survive!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Pei Du's fists, adorned with dark gold patterns, were like battering rams, unleashing the furious force of the End without reservation! The massive metal debris blocking his path was blasted away, torn apart, and annihilated like fragile cardboard! Broken pipes belched scalding steam and energy liquid, like the wails of a dying beast! Like a humanoid Tyrannosaurus Rex, he forcibly carved a path through the abandoned steel jungle!
Xu Shuangyao, held in his embrace, the golden flame imprinted between her brows at the moment the torrent of resentment erupted. The azure light at her core, originating from the Source Key, suddenly brightened and stabilized, as if fueled! This light seemed to become an invisible core, an anchor point of resonance! As the torrent of resentment surged into the sky, madly attacking the Zeroer, a faint yet pure strand of chaotic spiritual essence emerged, like iron filings drawn to a magnet, transcending space, ignoring obstacles, and quietly merging into that azure light!
Xu Shuangyao's body suddenly tensed! Her clear eyes were instantly flooded with countless fragments of shattered, painful, and desperate memories! Those were the final wails of countless "Stardust Children" before being formatted! The despair of the cold cage! The inhuman pain of energy stripping! The deep curse on the "cradle"! These chaotic, violent, and negative spiritual essences, like boiling molten steel, poured fiercely into her newly solidified soul imprint!
“Ugh—!” She let out a suppressed groan of pain, her body trembling violently in Pei Du’s arms. The golden flame mark between her eyebrows flickered wildly, the dark blue and golden light clashing and intertwining violently! The thorn mark on their touching skin simultaneously lit up with a scorching light, frantically transmitting this soul-level pain shock!
Pei Du instantly felt the impact! A hint of cold anger flashed in his molten gold pupils. He hugged his arms covered with dark gold patterns even tighter, and a more refined end-life energy flowed through his arms into Xu Shuangyao's body, forcibly suppressing and channeling the chaotic spiritual source that was violently pouring in!
"Hold on! They're... helping you!" Pei Du's deep voice echoed through Xu Shuangyao's chaotic consciousness, like a stabilizing force! He keenly sensed that these influxes of chaotic spiritual essence, while causing severe pain, held no malicious intent! Guided by the dark blue core of the Thorn Brand, they were, in a near-sacrificial manner, channeling their most fundamental power—the fragments of will twisted by the torture of the "cradle," yet still unyielding—into Xu Shuangyao's soul brand! Like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, all thoughts converge into one!
This is not a simple superposition of power, but a kind of... spiritual nirvana... using pain as firewood, hatred as fuel, and the will of the planet as a furnace!
Boom——!
Pei Du's punch shattered the last of the massive alloy gate's wreckage into a hail of metallic dust! At the end of the passage, a deep, narrow chasm, barely wide enough for one person, appeared before his eyes! Unstable spatial ripples flowed along its edges, while within was a turbulent flow of distorted light and shadows! This was the weak point in the deep structure marked by the Source Key data fragment! The node for the space jump!
However, at the moment the crack appeared!
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