The Truth about the Food Cliff: The Creation Core and the Sacrifice of the Three Souls
Amid the creaking of gears in the space-time rift, Xiaodou's gear-mouse form gradually faded, revealing the shimmering patterns of a starlight embryo beneath. Bai Shenyuan hugged him tightly, the warmth of his three personalities intertwined into a cocoon—Lingyuan's searing heat, Bai Yan's warmth, and Lin Shen's warmth—a protective cocoon that transcended time and space.
"Don't be afraid," Bai Yan's personality kissed his gear tail, "We are going home."
The chains of the Food Cliff had completely broken. The shadowy figure of the Sky-Swallowing Beast roared in the clouds. Chain fragments littered the ruins, each shard engraved with the Heavenly Dao rune of "Sweet Shackles." As Xiaodou's gear tail touched the ground, bitter chocolate vines began to grow from the fragments, wrapping around Bai Shenyuan's ankles.
"It's a trap set by Heaven!" Lin Shen pushed up his glasses. "These vines are using our sweet memories as bait!"
Ling Yuan's personality swung his sword to cut through the vines, but the blade was stuck to the sweet sap—the same sweet taste as when Xiaodou first nibbled his sleeve in the Demon Realm arc. Bai Yan's personality seized the opportunity to condense fox fire and bake a memory osmanthus cake: "Using sweetness to fight sweetness is something the Heavenly Dao would never have imagined."
The nursery pod in the center of the ruins slowly rose, its surface covered with the Concept Rat Clan's Sky-Swallowing Eggshell. Xiaodou's gear-shaped tail resonated with the eggshell, transforming into a soft, furry claw that gently pressed against it. A scene from three thousand years ago reappeared:
- Bai Yan's mother knelt in front of the nursery cabin, tears on her face, her fox fire overdrawn: "I'm sorry, Xiaodouzi, we couldn't protect you..."
- Bai Yan's father embedded the three soul fragments into the egg shell: "The three souls of the abyss will become your key. Remember, sweetness is not a shackle, but courage."
"So you already knew..." Xiaodou choked and bit through the eggshell, and the starlight embryo flowed into his body. "I'm not the reincarnation of the Rat King, I'm the child you hid."
An ice crystal osmanthus pendant fell out of the nursery cabin, and the pendant contained Xiaodou's first cry - that was a sweet sound wave that could purify everything.
The shadowy figure of the Sky Devouring Beast suddenly swooped down, its claws entwined with the gear chains of the Future Research Institute. Bai Shenyuan protected Xiaodou behind him, and the three soul patterns lit up with their final light:
- Ling Yuan's personality: "This time, I will be the chain, locking away the malice of Heaven."
- Bai Yan's personality: "Baby, from now on, you have to bake the osmanthus cake yourself..."
- Lin Shen's personality: "Remember to use the anti-sticking spray I invented, don't be like Bai Yan and blow up the kitchen."
Foxfire and gears exploded simultaneously, and Bai Shenyuan's body transformed into a point of light. Like his parents in the scene three thousand years ago, he used his soul to weave a sweet cage, trapping the Sky-Swallowing Beast at the bottom of the Food-Storing Cliff. Xiaodou's starlight tears dripped onto the cage, and unexpectedly, they bloomed into edible rainbow flowers, each petal engraved with the words "Deer Seen in the Deep Forest."
"No!" Xiaodou pounced towards the light spot, and his gear tail turned into a furry pad again - he turned back into his original treasure-hunting rat form, and the "King" rune on the center of his claws resonated with the star mark of the White Abyss.
A holographic screen suddenly popped up from the chip of the mechanical cat, showing that the sweet energy of the entire universe was converging towards the demon world: the candy battleship in the interstellar chapter fired sweet shells, the bakery in the modern chapter emitted healing aromas, and the sweet flower roots in the fairy tale town spread to the rifts in time and space.
"The awakening of the Concept Rat King has been detected," the mechanical cat's voice was filled with tears, "but the guardian's three souls lack energy and cannot maintain their physical form..."
Xiaodou looked up and saw the three phantoms of Bai Shenyuan's souls smiling in the starry sky. Ling Yuan threw him a tactical belt, Bai Yan threw him a foxfire osmanthus cake, and Lin Shen handed him an anti-sticking spray.
"Live on," three voices overlapped, "We are in your soul and will never disappear."
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