Just as Taichu and the others were leaving, he felt as if he had entered another world.
When the Taichu fingertips touched the collapsing infant universe, the bronze compass suddenly disintegrated into twelve Liu Guang.
Each streak of Liu Guang transformed into star trails, paving a rainbow bridge beneath everyone's feet leading to the core of the universe.
The Reincarnation Mirror on Xuan Yuan's chest suddenly emitted a sharp buzzing sound, and the reflections of everyone appeared on the mirror surface—each reflection had a bronze mark flashing between its eyebrows.
"This is a mirror image..." The Saint Lord Chenyi pressed his trembling sword hilt, stardust drifting from his tattered sleeves. "We've all been marked."
Blood suddenly seeped from the right half of Six-Eared Macaque's mutilated body, and memories of his three thousand incarnations flooded back like a tide.
He saw that at the end of each era, a blue light pierced through the brows of the rebels, condensing their battle memories into stardust.
Taichu's pupils contracted violently.
In the collapsing core of the universe, floats a bronze statue that looks exactly like him.
The statue holds the triangular crystal that Tianqi threw out before it dissipated.
When his divine sense touched the statue, the entire star field suddenly fell into absolute silence.
Countless fragments of memory fell like a meteor shower.
Before the bronze gate at the end of the Chaos Sea, the first Inspector inserted the key into the lock.
Deep within the Guixu Sea Eye, a cosmic consciousness stripped of its emotions is diverging;
In the reflection of the Nine Heavens Hell, countless souls etched their marks of rebellion onto the Reincarnation Disk...
"I see."
Azure flames ignited at Taichu's fingertips, within which emerged the Hundun patterns unique to the Inspector's warship. "The place we are in is actually a mirror image."
The Honeycomb Structure suddenly stopped vibrating, and the nine pairs of dark gold eyes converged into Liu Guang.
Space and time twisted and folded in the bright light, and when everyone regained their sight, they found themselves in a pure white space.
Liquid starlight flowed across the ground, and three hundred and sixty bronze mirrors floated in the air, each reflecting the end times of different eras.
In the center of the mirror array, a figure with the same face as the Taichu One was wiping the star map.
The key mark on his forehead was intact, and his robe was adorned with the dimensional ripples unique to the Inspector's warship.
"This is getting more and more interesting." As the person turned around, the entire space began to crack open.
"They were actually able to trigger the original vision of the Guixu Protocol; it seems we underestimated him."
The natal sword of the Saint Lord Chenyi suddenly unsheathed itself, but the blade pierced through the opponent's body as if passing through a holographic projection.
The Reincarnation Mirror in Xuan Yuan's hand suddenly became hot, and the mirror surface revealed a truth that suffocated everyone.
The entire battlefield is being replayed in a giant petri dish, and the liberated souls are merely part of a pre-programmed sequence.
"Welcome to the Mother Nest Core." The person raised his hand and touched the center of the Taichu's forehead.
The illusory image of the Bronze Key was forcibly pulled out. "What you perceive as reincarnation is nothing more than the process by Inspector increases their power."
Six-Eared Macaque's three thousand incarnations suddenly and uncontrollably reassembled, Law of War operated in reverse within his body.
His golden hair stood on end as he realized with horror that his very essence was transforming into the Hundun flesh and blood of the Inspector warship.
"Stop!"
The Taichu Town Heaven Sword pierced the liquid starlight, but the sword energy dissolved the moment it touched the opponent.
A faint blue light emanated from his wound, resonating with the nutrient solution in the petri dish.
"Don't you understand yet?" The man's fingertips were entwined with the Taichu energy that had dissipated.
"Each cycle of eras is a projection of the Inspector's consciousness. Your so-called resistance is merely a pre-awakening phase of the Overseer's power..."
Xuan Yuan suddenly crushed the Reincarnation Mirror, the shards piercing his chest like sharp blades.
Blood-stained fragments floated in formation, forcibly severing the energy resonance. "He's tampering with perception! Don't trust your eyes!"
Taking advantage of the moment Saint Lord Chenyi ran his fingers across the sword, and the rusty longsword suddenly shed its disguise, revealing a crystal-clear sword core.
The moment the sword rang out, cracks appeared simultaneously on all 360 bronze mirrors.
"Oh?" The man revealed a playful expression. "Someone actually managed to break through the cognitive lock of the Guixu Protocol?"
"Because the true Reincarnation Disk..." Xuan Yuan laughed heartily, blood streaming from his seven orifices, "Has never been in the hands of Hou Tu Sister Houtu!"
The blood-stained lens suddenly reformed, reflecting the slowly rotating bronze wheel behind the other person—the wheel was engraved with erasing era numbers.
The Taichu pupils suddenly turned pure gold, and memories of his past life exploded like a supernova.
He saw himself, as the first Inspector, dividing the cosmic consciousness into twelve parts and casting them into the cycle of reincarnation.
They witnessed Tianqi discover the truth in the Ninth Era and seal the memories with bronze chains.
I saw that the Saint Lord Chenyi, in every era, had reincarnated with a sword spirit, all to await this moment...
"The variable is not external." In the Taichu, the Bronze Key was allowed to leave the body, "But rather in the choice."
He suddenly grabbed Six-Eared Macaque, who was undergoing a transformation, and the Town Heaven Sword pierced through their chests.
It merged with the energy of the Inspector and the bloodline of the origin of war, surging forth and drawing the Reverse Entropy equation in the pure white space.
Xuan Yuan laughed as he stepped into the blood array, and the fragments of the Reincarnation Mirror began to reverse the cause and effect of time and space.
"Are you all insane?!" The man's expression turned to shock and anger for the first time. "Forcibly reversing this will cause..."
Suddenly, the sword core of the Saint Lord Chenyi exploded, and the sword energy containing millions of years tore through the dimensional barrier.
Through the crack, everyone witnessed a breathtaking sight: in countless petri dishes, the Taichu entities from different eras were simultaneously looking up.
"Now!" The Taichu burned his divine soul to illuminate all the bronze mirrors.
The epochal afterimages in the mirror stretched out their arms, and three hundred and sixty rays of light converged into an arrow that transcended dimensions.
The man tried to escape, but found that Six-Eared Macaque's three thousand incarnations had somehow formed a cage.
The hair, imbued with the aura of the Void, transformed into chains, firmly binding him to the trajectory of the arrow.
"This body is yours."
The Taichu form began to quantize, and with a final glance at his fading companions, he said, "Tell the original body—"
The moment the arrow pierced through the void, the entire Mother Nest Core echoed with the crisp sound of shattering glass.
With his last sword energy, the Saint Lord Chenyi protected everyone's true spirits, and amidst the dimensional storm, he glimpsed the final smile of the Taichu.
When the bright light faded, the pure white space was reduced to ruins.
Amidst the floating stardust, half Bronze Key slowly rotates, revealing an unfamiliar star map on its surface.
As the Six-Eared Macaque, mangled hand grasped the key, a sigh from the Taichu suddenly echoed in his ears, "To the new universe..."
Behind them, a baby universe in a petri dish suddenly burst into bright light, and the outline of a bronze gate vaguely appeared in the nebula.
"Let's go, Master will be waiting for us here..." Six-Eared Macaque roared, gathered everyone up, and left at lightning speed.