Qing Man locked her gun firmly on Xu Shuangyao: "The contamination of the star core is irreversible! She is being forcibly transformed into a Zeroer! She must be destroyed before she is completely transformed!"
The power in Pei Du's body resonated violently with the core of the mother tree, and the Throne of Thorns grew wildly!
"Stop!" Pei Du roared, and the Throne of Thorns burst out with a terrifying will, forcibly imprisoning Qingman!
He rushed towards Xu Shuangyao, but saw that the light golden liquid oozing from her wound was corroding her flesh and blood, and cold lines had spread to her neck!
Xu Shuangyao's eyelashes trembled, and a faint golden light suddenly flashed in the depths of her pupils! A cold, mechanical voice escaped from her lips: "Detecting... high-threat... End Star Core Entity... Executing... Clearance Protocol!"
Pei Du's heart felt like it was sinking into an icy cave! The cradle's clearing command... was covering her consciousness!
He suddenly tore apart his chest covered with dark gold patterns, and the star core blood containing the original power gushed out!
"Want to devour her? Ask me first!" Pei Du growled, and pressed the blood burning with dark golden flames hard against Xu Shuangyao's heart!
"She...she's turning into...Zero!!!"
Qingman's distorted scream was like an ice cone filled with poison, which fiercely penetrated the intense resonance between Pei Du's consciousness core and the will of the mother tree!
boom--!
The immense torrent of will emanating from the Throne of Thorns momentarily stagnated! Pei Du's molten-gold pupils suddenly broke free from the vast cold and chaos, their focus suddenly sharpening! The dark golden lines covering his entire body, burning like icy flames, flickered violently, like a reactor whose charging had been forcibly interrupted.
The sharp thorns and new shoots on the throne of thorns, which had just begun to twist, grow, and entwine around him as if about to be crowned king, suddenly froze at this sudden change! The new green shoots instantly dimmed a little, and the tips of the hideous thorns even emitted a subtle creaking sound like a painful groan.
Pei Du's sight, as if pulled by an invisible force, instantly tore through the barriers of space and was fixed ten steps away - fixed on the figure bound to the ground by dark green vines!
Time seems to be infinitely stretched and solidified at this moment.
He saw it.
I saw it clearly.
The dark red blood scab on Xu Shuangyao's right arm was being slowly pushed away by an extremely dazzling and ominous pale golden liquid...! The liquid was viscous, like a molten metal solution with stardust, emitting a faint but soul-freezing starlight! It was flowing slowly and steadily along her fair skin, like a living thing!
Even more terrifying was the fact that, originating from that wound, tiny, cold, pale golden lines with an absolutely geometric beauty were spreading and corroding across her exposed skin at a speed visible to the naked eye! Like countless cold, golden venomous snakes, greedily devouring Xu Shuangyao's flesh and warmth! The lines crawled across her forearms, up her slender neck, and even... silently advanced towards her paper-white cheeks!
The pattern... cold, precise, inhuman! It was identical to the dark golden marks on his left palm, emanating from the blood of the star core, and the mysterious wooden sigil at the heart of the Throne of Thorns! It was the Cradle's most central and ruthless mark of creation! It was the core code found only in Zeros!
"Zero Returner..." Pei Du's brain seemed to be plunged into an icy abyss of absolute zero, his core of thought instantly frozen! Qing Man's hysterical screams still echoed in his ears, and every word was like a heavy hammer hitting his will tempered by the star core!
Forced transformation?! Cradle's purge command...actually took effect directly on Xu Shuangyao? After he had just learned that the star core blood in his body might be the same as that of the Zero Resetters, or even the source?! After he had just ignited a glimmer of protection?!
Absurd! Cruel! An unacceptable irony of fate!
A destructive rage colder and more violent than the Nullifier's extinction beam, mixed with unprecedented panic, erupted from the deepest depths of Pei Du's consciousness, like a star core dormant for billions of years ignited in an instant! This rage wasn't directed at Qing Man, but directly at the icy will that controlled everything from nowhere—the Cradle! It was it! It was it that would completely crush everything he cared about!
“Ugh—!”
Pei Du let out an extremely suppressed roar, like a dying beast! The dark golden lines covering his body instantly transformed from flickering to an unprecedented, almost violent brilliance! The light was no longer a cold flame, but a devastating explosion of light, like the precursor to a supernova explosion!
Buzz——!
The Throne of Thorns resonated with the forcibly ignited Star Core Blood within him, creating an even more intense and uncontrollable resonance! The entire massive "mountain" aggregate emitted an earth-shattering roar! Countless tangled vines lashed and snapped frantically! The turbid green sky twisted violently, like boiling pus! The scattered white bones around the throne were instantly reduced to dust by the violent energy fluctuations!
Qing Man, who had been staring intently at the pale golden lines spreading across Xu Shuangyao's body, was plunged into a state of utter fear and utter disarray. She was also shaken by the sudden onslaught of fury, emanating from a higher-ranking bloodline! The bark lines covering her skin instantly became blazingly hot, as if scorched by a branding iron! The instinctive submission to the "Son of Thorns," emanating from deep within her lifeblood, and her current extreme fear and murderous intent towards the "Cradle Pollution," tore madly apart within her consciousness!
"The pollution... must be removed! Before she's completely transformed! Before she becomes Cradle's pawn!" Qing Man's dark green pupils shrank to a point in sheer terror and twisted determination. She suddenly raised her hand, covered in bark lines and with fingertips gleaming with a dark green glow! Her movements were as fast as lightning, tinged with a desperate madness!
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