The "Hong Meng Hall" of the Void God Realm floated at the boundary between eternal night and daylight. A hundred thousand crystal pens hung upside down from its roof, each tip dripping Realm Laws that had yet to solidify. As Chu Mo and the other two stepped across stairs paved with words, the floating characters suddenly came alive—"chaos" transformed into dark-gold fire serpents, while "order" condensed into gilded chains. Yet the instant they touched the sword marks between their brows, they meekly curled into cocoons of light.
"Such powerful World Creation Power..." Yun Che stroked a cocoon of light. The Time Reversal Mirror fragment had already reassembled in her palm, reflecting the scene within the hall: at its center floated the thousand-meter-wide Myriad Realms Ink Disc, its surface engraved with incomplete maps of realms. Above it, a silver-haired girl gripped a World Creation Pen burning with tri-colored flames, its tip hovering over the final stroke of the words "world annihilation."
When she turned around, Chu Mo's breath abruptly caught—half a sword mark on the girl's brow was identical in every detail to the pattern on his mother Chu Muxue's sword tassel. Her eyes were even more astonishing: her left eye held the dark gold of the Chaos Sword Body, while her right bore the gilded gold of the Heaven Suppressing Seal. They were the embodiment of chaos and order coexisting within the same pair of eyes.
"Symbiosis Sword Master, or World Annihilation Candidate?" The girl's voice was like a freshly carved stele inscription, carrying the authority over laws unique to a World Creator. She raised a hand and scattered the words "world annihilation," and the Myriad Realms Ink Disc immediately displayed the scene of Chu Mo and the others first arriving in the Sword Domain. "I am the master of the Void God Realm, and also the only Mark of the Unknown left unsealed when the First Generation Sword Master split apart—you may call me Mo Hen."
Su Hanxue's World Suppressing Sword suddenly pointed at the Dark Realm map twisting upon the ink disc. "You are rewriting the laws of the myriad realms! The Seed of Symbiosis in the Eternal Night Royal Court is being devoured by ink. This isn't world creation, this is..."
"Calibration." Mo Hen lightly tapped the ink disc with her World Creation Pen. The devoured Seed of Symbiosis actually split open with fresh sprouts amid the ink. "The law of the Void God Realm is Writing is Reality, but the Shallow Mark left behind by the First Generation Sword Master told me that true world creation should not be absolute creation. It should be..." She looked at the diamond-shaped mark of light on Chu Mo's chest. "Like you—let destruction become the stroke of creation's pen, and let creation carry the sharpness of destruction."
Yun Che suddenly pointed at the ink disc and cried out, "Brother Chu Mo, the core of the Demon Realm has turned into a question mark on the ink disc! And that baby girl we found in the First Generation Ruins... her aura has appeared in the Undefined Realm on the ink disc!"
A bitter smile touched Mo Hen's lips as her World Creation Pen drew three doorways in the void. "That child is a Blank Container created by the First Generation Sword Master with his final Shallow Mark, meant to contain all laws gone berserk. But now—" She pushed open the central door. Beyond it floated a golden swaddling cloth amid chaos. "The contamination of the World Annihilation Remnant is seeping into the blank realm. If she is devoured by the ink, the laws of all myriad realms will become dead words that can never be rewritten."
Chu Mo stepped through the doorway. The baby girl in the swaddling cloth suddenly opened her eyes. Her pupils were pure and colorless, yet the moment she saw him, tri-colored streams of light emerged in their depths. The Hub of Hong Meng in his palm automatically flew out and became a pen rack hovering above the infant's head. The three Law Swords actually transformed into her Fetal Hair Brushes.
"Her name is... Hong Meng?" Su Hanxue gently stroked the still-unformed sword mark on the baby's brow, suddenly recalling the message left on her mother's sword tassel. "Mother once said that the strongest sword is not one that cleaves chaos apart, but one that teaches chaos to write its own story. Looking at her now, this child is the purest poem written together by chaos and order."
Mo Hen's World Creation Pen suddenly shook violently, and the map of the myriad realms upon the ink disc blurred across vast stretches. "The Demon Realm remnants are attacking the border of the Void God Realm. They stole the Broken Stele Blood from the First Generation Ruins and are using the power of the World Annihilation Remnant to 'black out' the laws of the myriad realms—look! The Seed of Symbiosis in the Dark Realm is withering, and the Twin Flower in the Order Holy Land is fading!"
Yun Che's Time Reversal Mirror suddenly enveloped the entire ink disc, reflecting a scene from the depths of the Demon Realm: the remnant souls of twelve Annihilation Divine Venerables were refining the Broken Stele Blood. Embedded atop their Reverse Scale Crowns were World Annihilation Fragments split from Chu Mo's heart core.
"So that's it..." Chu Mo clenched his fists. The stabbing pain from his heart core reminded him of the Heart Burning Sword Master's words. "When the First Generation Sword Master split apart, the World Annihilation Remnant took away his decisiveness, while our symbiosis took away his tenderness. Now, if the remnants want world annihilation to return to absolute destruction, they must first erase the..."
"Humanity." Mo Hen wrote the enormous words "symbiosis" in the void with her World Creation Pen, but blood dripped from its tip. "The power of law in the Void God Realm is being blackened. I cannot hold on much longer. Chu Mo, ignite the ink disc with your Chaos Sword Body. Yun Che, use the Eyes of Reversed Time to fix the strokes of the words. Su Hanxue, use the World Suppressing Seal to infuse every character with purification..."
The battle unfolded in the world of words in an unimaginable manner. Every slash of Chu Mo's Chaos Sword sent out a dark-gold sword radiance that left behind burnable Sealing Wax Characters upon the ink disc. Yun Che's Eyes of Reversed Time returned strokes on the verge of being blackened to their original pure form. Su Hanxue's World Suppressing Seal acted like an eraser, wiping away the Source of World Annihilation caught within the ink.
The most perilous moment came at the Myriad Realms Source Pool in the center of the ink disc. As the bloody hand of an Annihilation Divine Venerable was about to touch the Primordial Chaos Seed within the pool, Chu Mo suddenly placed the baby girl into it. Her colorless pupils instantly reflected the laws of every realm—Chaos Fire Serpents and Order Chains became playmates in her eyes, voluntarily winding together into a cocoon of light that protected her.
"Look! The Source Pool is absorbing the blood of world annihilation!" Su Hanxue's World Suppressing Sword swept through the purified ink. The dark gold once regarded as a symbol of destruction was now blending with Heaven Suppressing Gold into a warm amber hue. "Mo Hen, quickly record this new law with the World Creation Pen!"
But Mo Hen dropped to her knees at that moment. The half sword mark on her brow was being eroded by the ink. "My very existence was a 'mistake of the pen' made by the First Generation Sword Master. Now world annihilation wants to correct that mistake... Chu Mo, take Hong Meng and leave the Void God Realm. Go to the Law Furnace at the junction of the myriad realms. There, the World Annihilation Fragments can be forged into..."
Her voice was suddenly swallowed by the ink. The instant the World Creation Pen fell, Chu Mo caught it and discovered that its shaft bore the same Symbiosis Key as his mother's sword tassel. At the same time, every incomplete realm map on the ink disc suddenly began completing itself. Tri-colored protective forests grew along the edge of every realm—the Sword Intent Manifestations of the three of them.
"Mo Hen!" Yun Che embraced the gradually transparent master of the Void God Realm and discovered that her body was transforming into countless crystal pens. "You won't disappear, will you? Mother once said that true World Creators live within what they create." Chu Mo pointed toward the direction where stars were being born. There lay an unnamed blank realm, waiting for the first trace of ink to create a world. "Go teach those who bring annihilation to write poetry, and bring the World Creators home. After all..." He looked at the World Creation Pen in his hand. Its tip was automatically sketching the silhouettes of the three of them. "Our swords ceased to be weapons for battle long ago. They are Pens of Symbiosis, used to write hope amid chaos and draw tenderness within order."
The wind passed across the Symbiosis Bridge, carrying Hong Meng's laughter toward the myriad realms. In a Dark Realm village that was slowly healing, an old priest looked up and saw three-colored meteors streak across the sky. He knew they were not omens of destruction, but three souls once prophesied to be separated, using their own way to make the entire universe hear—the never-lonely heartbeat of those bound in symbiosis.
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