The annihilation of the Soul Erosion Needle was like a stone cast into a deathly still abyss. Before its ripples could spread, they were swallowed by an even greater darkness. Deep within the void, that surge of intent filled with shock and fury abruptly withdrew, replaced by an extreme chill that froze the soul. The Finality Council had not been discouraged by the failure of a single assassination attempt. Instead, it seemed to have thoroughly provoked the savage nature lurking beneath its surface.
"Reincarnation... an anomaly... has reached the edge of taboo. Execute the 'Finality Assimilation' protocol." The icy intent emerged from the Eternal Night Great Hall like a final verdict.
In an instant, at the outskirts of the Ancient Monster Starfield, the three Star Corpses that had been purified into battered ruins by the Reincarnation Pure Land and were on the verge of collapse suddenly ceased struggling. Their remaining bodies no longer emitted resentment or deathly stillness. Instead, they began to collapse inward, as though squeezed together by an invisible giant hand, turning into three bizarre crystals as black as ink, with dark-red blood veins flowing across their surfaces. Within the crystals were no longer chaotic vengeful souls, but an intensely condensed, utterly pure Source of Annihilation—and... a unified, aggressive will had been bestowed upon it!
These three Annihilation Crystals no longer attacked the Pure Land. As if alive, they abruptly changed direction and shot toward three different locations at a bizarre speed beyond light—rather than the Ancient Demon Star Altar, they targeted three of the weakest "spatial fold" nodes in this starfield, nodes that the Finality Council had secretly marked long ago!
"Not good! They want to detonate the Source of Annihilation, tear apart the starfield's barrier, and draw in a deeper layer of the Finality Dark Tide!"