Deep within the Sword Domain, the "First Generation Ruins" lay shrouded in eternal twilight. Twelve coiling-dragon pillars held up the collapsed vault, each dragon pattern flowing with a two-colored glimmer born from the same source as the heart core. The instant Chu Mo's fingertips touched the broken stele at the center, the entire ruin shook violently. Golden blood seeped from the cracks across the stele's surface, tracing long-lost Primordial Chaos Script across the ground.
"Brother Chu Mo!" Ripples suddenly spread across Yun Che's Time Reversal Mirror. Reflected within it was the scene deep in the ruins—the Demon God Counter Scales, which should have remained sealed, were absorbing the broken stele's blood. The demonic script upon the scales formed a bizarre antithesis with the stele's writing. "These words are rewriting history! The stele records the legend of the First Generation Sword Master splitting apart chaos and order, but now..."
Su Hanxue's World Suppressing Sword suddenly rang out clearly, its blade automatically pointing toward the back of the broken stele. "Look here!" Incomplete sword scars emerged upon the once-blank surface. Each scar corresponded to one of the three marks on Chu Mo's heart core, yet there was an additional fourth Shallow Mark, almost impossible to see. "This is... sword intent older than even Mother's sword scars. It's the same as what I sensed in the Deliberation Hall!"
Chu Mo pressed his hand against the broken stele. His Chaos Sword Body resonated with the blood, and fragmented memories surfaced in the depths of his Sea of Consciousness: the First Generation Sword Master, wearing the Reverse Scale Crown, stood at the origin point of primordial chaos. What he held was not a single divine sword, but the "Hub of Hong Meng," formed from three swords of light—the very prototype of the three Law Swords he had condensed upon the Symbiosis Platform. But in the next scene, the Sword Master's figure suddenly shattered. Three sword scars fell respectively into the three realms of chaos, heaven suppression, and world suppression, while the final Shallow Mark vanished without a trace.
"So the First Generation Sword Master never truly died. He split himself into Law Swords and sealed them within the three realms." The phantom of the Heart Burning Sword Master suddenly appeared beside the broken stele, his voice trembling as never before. "The nine keys guarded by us seven Divine Venerables were actually fragments of the Hub of Hong Meng that shattered when the First Generation Sword Master split apart. And you, Chu Mo..." He looked at the diamond-shaped light mark on Chu Mo's chest. "The Chaos Sword Body within you is precisely the 'Mark of Annihilation' the First Generation Sword Master left in the Chaos Realm."
The ground abruptly split open, and twelve puppet Divine Venerables crawled out from the fissures. The fragments of the World Annihilation Seal in their hands had fused into a complete "Eye of Annihilation." Within its pupil was reflected the fourth Shallow Mark on the broken stele. "Hand over the Hub of Hong Meng, or we will restart the 'Annihilation Cycle'—this is a law personally established by the First Generation Sword Master!"
Yun Che's Time Reversal Mirror shattered completely for the first time. Its gilded fragments floated in the air and automatically assembled into a scene from the First Generation Sword Master's final moments: he stood at the collapsing origin point of primordial chaos, injecting the final Shallow Mark into the myriad realms that had yet to take shape. In a soft voice, he said, "When the sword scars of annihilation and salvation overlap, let chaos learn to weep, let order understand the heartbeat, then..." The image was suddenly swallowed by the black light of the Eye of Annihilation.
Su Hanxue's World Suppressing Sword slashed toward the Eye of Annihilation, but the blade was sucked into its black pupil. Pain laced her voice. "They're devouring the First Generation Sword Master's remnant soul! Chu Mo, do you remember what the remnant soul inside the heart core said? The nine keys are my body... The World Annihilation Seal was never the Demon God's weapon. It was the shackles the First Generation Sword Master used to seal himself!"
Understanding suddenly dawned upon Chu Mo, and he pressed his palm against the fourth Shallow Mark on the broken stele. The power of the Chaos Sword Body, heaven suppression, and world suppression surged in at once. The Primordial Chaos Script upon the stele began repairing itself, revealing the concealed latter half of the sentence: "... Then, let symbiosis become a third choice beyond destruction and creation."
The Eye of Annihilation released a piercing shriek. The puppet Divine Venerables' armor crumbled away one after another, revealing translucent bodies beneath, formed from reverse scales and sword scars—the "World Annihilation Remnant" left behind when the First Generation Sword Master split himself apart. Chu Mo finally understood. The so-called Demon God Source was merely the distorted form the World Annihilation Remnant had taken after absorbing the negative energies of chaos. The true First Generation Sword Master had, from beginning to end, been waiting for someone to gather the three swords and allow the laws of annihilation and salvation to be reborn through symbiosis.
"Yun Che, Hanxue, lend me your strength!" Chu Mo raised both hands. The three Law Swords descended from the heavens and assembled into the complete Hub of Hong Meng in his palm. The broken stele's golden blood transformed into chains, linking the World Annihilation Remnant to the heart core. "The First Generation Sword Master split himself apart back then to prevent a single law from ruling the myriad realms. What we need to do now is not destroy the remnant, but help it remember that it once was—"
"The first Symbiosis Sword Master of the Primordial Sword Domain." Su Hanxue finished Chu Mo's words. Her World Suppressing Sword scar merged into the World Annihilation Remnant's reverse scales, gradually softening the remnant's outline. "Look, the Eye of Annihilation is becoming the Eye of Symbiosis. Those devoured laws are returning to the heart core!"
Yun Che's Time Reversal Mirror fragments suddenly turned into butterflies of light, fluttering around the remnant. "Brother, look—the remnant's memories are returning! When he split apart chaos and order back then, it wasn't to create opposition, but to give the myriad realms the possibility of choice... It was only later, after the World Annihilation Remnant was contaminated by the demon realm, that it became the 'Demon God' we thought it was."
When the Hub of Hong Meng completely fused into the remnant, the coiling-dragon pillars throughout the First Generation Ruins suddenly lit up. The dragon patterns on the pillars transformed into silhouettes of Chu Mo, Yun Che, and Su Hanxue. The Eye of Annihilation shattered completely, becoming twelve Law Seeds that floated above the Symbiosis Platform, each seed engraved with the totem of a different realm.
"So the seven Divine Venerables and twelve Annihilation Divine Venerables were all law guardians split from the First Generation Sword Master." The Heart Burning Sword Master's phantom finally solidified. He removed his helmet, revealing a sword seal similar to Chu Mo's. "When we split apart the Sword Domain back then, it was both to prevent the World Annihilation Remnant from reviving and to await a symbiosis bearer capable of uniting the three swords—you three are the 'Primordial Reincarnation' foretold by the First Generation Sword Master." Chu Mo looked at the Hub of Hong Meng in his hand and suddenly felt the call of the myriad realms. In the Eternal Night Forest of the Dark Realm, purified fluorescent grass was bearing Seeds of Symbiosis; in the Order Holy Land, Twin Flowers capable of containing both chaos and order had grown from the cracks in the Wall of Legal Principles; and in the most distant Void God Realm, a silver-haired girl gazed toward the Sword Domain as three-colored patterns suddenly surfaced upon the World Creation Pen in her palm.
"Brother Chu Mo, the heart core is showing us the way!" Yun Che pointed at the newly appeared star map on the ruins' floor. Its endpoint was Hong Meng Hall deep within the Void God Realm. "That should be where the First Generation Sword Master left the final Shallow Mark, and also..." She suddenly frowned. "Also the true battlefield where Mother, Chu Muxue, was 'besieged' by the seven Divine Venerables back then."
Su Hanxue clasped Chu Mo's hand, sensing that the Source of Chaos surging within him had become gentle and warm. "Mother wasn't hunted down back then. She voluntarily entered the Void God Realm carrying fragments of the World Annihilation Remnant, all to buy time for you to grow. Now, it's time for us to complete the mission she left unfinished."
The three stood at the center of the ruins as the Hub of Hong Meng transformed into flowing light and enveloped them. Chu Mo gave the broken stele one last look and discovered that the fourth Shallow Mark had vanished completely. In its place, at the center of three overlapping sword scars, was a tiny, pulsing diamond-shaped light mark—that was their brand-new Primordial Mark.
Storms howled across the Void God Realm outside Hong Meng Hall. When Chu Mo's Chaos Sword cleaved apart the clouds, the first sight before them was nine Law Scales suspended in the air, each weighing the "chaos-order" index of a different realm. At the center of the scales, the sole remaining "Law God Venerable" among the seven Divine Venerables who had besieged Chu Muxue knelt on the ground, with a bloodstained Heaven Suppressing Sword Tassel before him.
"You've finally come, Symbiosis Sword Master." The Law God Venerable raised his head. There was no hostility in his eyes, only relief. "The seven of us willingly bore the stigma back then, implanting fragments of the World Annihilation Remnant into our bodies, solely to prevent the demon realm from completely devouring the First Generation Sword Master's consciousness. Now, my fragment..." He coughed up black blood, within which lay half a reverse scale. "It is nearly impossible to suppress."
Chu Mo accepted the bloodstained sword tassel, and Mother's sword intent surged toward him like a tidal wave. At the tip of the tassel was engraved a pattern identical to the fourth Shallow Mark on the broken stele—it was the final "Symbiosis Key" left by the First Generation Sword Master for Chu Muxue.
Yun Che suddenly pointed deeper into Hong Meng Hall and cried out, "Look! There's a baby there, wrapped in three-colored light... Wait, she has the same sword seal on her brow as we do!"
Su Hanxue's World Suppressing Sword suddenly trembled violently. A memory from Chu Muxue's final moments emerged upon its blade: amid the torrential rain of the Void God Realm, she stuffed the bloodstained sword tassel into an infant's swaddling clothes and told the seven Divine Venerables behind her, "Take her to the Order Holy Land, just as you protected Chu Mo back then... This time, let her become the bridge linking chaos and order."
Something seemed to explode within Chu Mo's heart—the infant entrusted by Mother, the baby girl sleeping deep within Hong Meng Hall at this very moment, was clearly... Yun Che. No, that wasn't right. Yun Che had clearly been the Saintess raised in the Heaven Suppressing Hall. How could she possibly be...
"Don't be surprised, Symbiosis Sword Master." The Law God Venerable gave a bitter smile. "Princess Yun Che was originally the reincarnation of the 'Mark of Salvation' that the First Generation Sword Master left in the Heaven Suppressing Realm, while Miss Su Hanxue is the 'Mark of Balance' of the World Suppressing Realm. From the moment you three were born, you were destined to hold hands in chaos and walk together in order."
The Hub of Hong Meng suddenly shone brilliantly, and the nine Law Scales began recalibrating. Their once-tilted needles all pointed toward the exact center. Looking at the sleeping infant, Chu Mo finally understood the true meaning behind Mother's final words: "Find the sword that belongs to you"—his sword had never been a weapon. It was a companion who shared his origin, a symbiotic bond carved deep into his soul.
When the three sword seals lit up at once, a complete chart of the Primordial Chaos Era emerged upon the vault of Hong Meng Hall. Chu Mo saw the past: the First Generation Sword Master splitting open chaos and creating the myriad realms; he saw the present: the three of them rebuilding the Symbiosis Law amid ruins; and he saw the future: beings from countless realms bearing three-colored sword seals upon their brows, dancing the dance of symbiosis at the boundary between chaos and order.
Yet in the deepest part of the chart lingered a blurred shadow—countless shattered sword scars floated there, each inscribed with a different "possibility." One was especially clear: a silver-haired girl held the World Creation Pen and wrote the words "world annihilation" in the Void God Realm, while upon her brow was also a half-visible Primordial Chaos Sword Seal.
"Brother Chu Mo, the heart core is warning us." Yun Che wrapped her arms around herself as she watched the chart gradually fade away. "That World Creator in the Void God Realm, she... she may be the lost fourth Shallow Mark from when the First Generation Sword Master split apart, and the only unsealed 'Mark of the Unknown.'"
Su Hanxue tightened her grip on the World Suppressing Sword. The Symbiosis Key on its tassel emitted a faint glow. "No matter who she is, if she tries to destroy the myriad realms with a single law, we will answer with the Symbiosis Law—just as Mother planted hope with her sword tassel back then, we will protect hope by uniting the three swords."
Chu Mo pulled Yun Che and Su Hanxue into his embrace, feeling the steady pulse from the heart core. The wind of the Void God Realm swept through Hong Meng Hall and lifted his robe, revealing the diamond-shaped mark on his chest, perfectly overlapping with the heart core. It now resonated with the sword seals of his two companions, forming a perfect triangular circuit.
"Let's go and welcome our fourth companion." Chu Mo looked at the baby girl still sleeping, a relieved smile rising to his lips. "The Shallow Mark left by the First Generation Sword Master should not be the foreshadowing of annihilation, but the beginning of symbiosis."
As the three figures vanished into the light of Hong Meng Hall, the Law God Venerable looked at the reverse scale fragment in his hand and finally revealed a smile unseen in a hundred years. Behind him, upon the nine Law Scales, the weights representing chaos and order were melting into a new substance—the Breath of Primordial Chaos, something only the Symbiosis Sword Master could create, transcending binary opposition.
Beyond the myriad realms, the silver-haired girl stopped her World Creation Pen. Watching the three-colored radiance illuminate the edge of the Void God Realm, a complicated expression flashed through her eyes. She raised a hand to brush the half sword seal on her brow, then lowered the pen and wrote upon the blank realm: "The symbiosis bearers have arrived. Where is the annihilator?"
Before the writing could solidify, it was washed into flecks of light by a rain of three-colored radiance. Like the hope scattered by the First Generation Sword Master long ago, it would eventually bloom at some dawn into a true flower of primordial chaos, beyond destruction and creation.
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