Blinding light swallowed everything.
The chaos sample's desperate torrent of dark-red energy, laden with all its madness and hunger to devour, and the Observers' cold, merciless beam, intended to purify and erase him completely, struck Lin Ye's utterly undefended body almost simultaneously, without the slightest resistance!
The sight shattered everyone who witnessed it!
"No!!!" Gamora screamed in anguish, trying to charge over regardless of the danger, only to be held back by the powerful Stasis Field and the swarming enemies!
"Lin Ye!" Star-Lord's eyes nearly burst with rage. He frantically maneuvered his ship to provide covering fire, but concentrated enemy fire left him struggling just to hold out!
Drax roared furiously, swinging his massive axe wildly, but he could not break through the encirclement!
Rocket and Banner were scared out of their wits!
Portmaster Ayla's face went deathly pale, and even the Stasis Scepter's light fluctuated violently! She had never expected Lin Ye to make such a resolute, almost suicidal choice!
Queen Bee Aishana, Academician Orlan, and Accuser Talos froze in shock as well. Then different gleams flared in their eyes-bewilderment, regret, but above all... the greed and satisfaction of hunters about to claim their prey!
Meanwhile, streams of data flickered wildly in the cold electronic eyes of the white-robed Observers, as though they were conducting an emergency assessment.
Yet the horrific scene they had expected-Lin Ye's body being torn apart, annihilated, or devoured and assimilated by chaos-did not immediately occur.
The two torrents, utterly opposed in nature yet both carrying devastating power, seemed to plunge into a bottomless... vortex of nothingness the instant they entered Lin Ye's body!
Lin Ye's body seemed to have become absolute "emptiness," pure "nothingness"! There was no resistance, no conflict, only... ultimate acceptance and stillness!
[Heart of Annihilation]!
In that final moment between life