In the Icefield of Eternal Night, the baby drew a Star Map with Xing Sha, which was now seeping with blood. The Snow Wolf King had data flowing through its pupils, and as its forepaw pressed down on the ice, ancient characters suddenly appeared: [299th overwrite failed, Memory Residual Value 47%].
"You are more stubborn than the previous two hundred and ninety-eight subjects." The Snow Wolf King was enveloped in Azure Light, transforming into a man draped in a silver cloak. Around his neck hung an Ice Crystal Pendant, sealing a fragment of the Xuan Qiong Mirror that was covered in cracks.
The baby suddenly reached out to touch the ice crystal. What should have remained frozen for millennia, the Jing Pian, unexpectedly melted, forming a miniature Star Chart in its palm. The Snow Wolf King's expression changed drastically—the arrangement of that Star Chart was identical to the Star Trail of the Blood Fiend Sect's Main Temple Underground Palace from thirty years ago.
"This is not something you should remember." The man's fingertip glowed with the Memory-Dissolving Spell, but he found that the curse patterns disintegrated inch by inch on the baby's skin. Beneath the ice layer came the sound of shattering glass; all the deeply buried Xing Sha floated up, coalescing into three hundred different ages of Lin Che's phantoms.
The baby suddenly spoke, its voice an old man's: "You Observers always make the same mistake." Its fingertip surged with Xing Sha, pinning the Snow Wolf King against an ice pillar. "You treat reincarnation as an experiment, yet do not realize you are also a reflection in the mirror."
The Aurora suddenly twisted into a Vortex, and from its center emerged a woman wearing a Bronze Mask. In her hand, a lamp flickered not with flame but with a pulsating Mirror Heart: "Number Jia Xu Seventy-Nine, you have violated protocol by contacting a subject."
The Snow Wolf King struggled and roared: "He has Gene Fluctuation of the First Generation Observer within him!"
"Therefore, this observation is terminated early." The woman snapped her fingers, shattering the Ice Crystal Pendant. The sealed Jing Pian instantly transformed into Blood Mirror Liquid. The Star Map beneath the baby's feet began to devour the Ice Field; each Lin Che phantom that fell into the pattern caused another blood-red ring to appear in the baby's pupil.
When the ninety-ninth phantom disappeared, a sigh echoed from deep within the Ice Field—an echo of the Primordial Divine Phoenix. Suddenly, the baby formed Xing Sha into a dagger and stabbed it into its heart; astonishingly, the heart it extracted pulsed in sync with the Mirror Heart in the lamp: "Tell the Elders' Council that the Third Observation will activate 'Unforeseen Agreement.'"
A blizzard engulfed everything. The next day, a passing caravan found only an unfinished Stardust Scroll on the ice, with small letters at its tail reading—"Observation Error Value reached 9.87%, recommend initiating Mirror Abyss Destruction Procedure." Meanwhile, three thousand miles away at Fengqi Valley Ruins, Ling Shuang was polishing the Xuan Qiong Mirror when it suddenly reflected scenes from the Ice Field: a baby smiling at its mirror with an expression indistinguishable from Lin Che's.
As Lin Che's fingertip touched the Xuan Qiong Mirror at Fengqi Valley Ruins, visions of Mirror Icefield twisted abruptly. With each pulse of the Mirror Heart in his lamp, fine cracks appeared on his Silver Moon Birthmark at the nape of his neck. Ling Shuang, who was preparing potions, suddenly looked up—she saw Lin Che exuding Golden Red Blood Mist similar to what had surrounded her sister when she fell off a cliff.
"Che Er!" Ling Shuang's exclamation caught in her throat. She saw Lin Che's pupil split into dual Star Trails; his left eye reflected scenes of Icefield Baby carving out its heart while his right eye showed that Divine Phoenix Heart wrapped in a mirror within Guixu Sea Eye.
The cold smile of the Bronze Mask Woman pierced through the mirror-like surface. "It seems the synchronization rate has exceeded the threshold." Suddenly, she tore off her mask, and Lin Che's blood nearly froze—there, unmistakably, was Ling Shuang from some timeline in the three hundred cycles of reincarnation!
"Surprised?" The woman caressed the lantern heart, the flickering flame's frequency perfectly matching Lin Che's pulse. "Your aunt never mentioned where the other half of her heart went when she sealed the Erosion Mirror, did she?"
A baby on the Ice Field suddenly let out a wail, the sound waves shattering the ice for ten miles around. The broken body of the Snow Wolf King was reformed by Xing Sha, transforming into a stream of light that entered the baby's forehead. When the baby opened its eyes again, what flowed within was the Star Map from Lin Che's Nine Heavens Star Guiding Technique.
"How does it feel to taste Jing Yuan?" The woman snapped her fingers, commanding the flames to form a blood-red contract in mid-air. "With the remnants of the Primordial Divine Phoenix's soul within you, trade for the lives of all orphans from Feng Qi Valley in this timeline."
Lin Che suddenly laughed. He pressed the Xuan Qiong Mirror against his chest, and at the moment it touched his heart, the entire Fengqi Valley Ruins began to distort. Countless Bronze Coffins rose from the earth veins, each coffin lid engraved with records of deaths from different timelines.
"You've made three mistakes." Lin Che's voice echoed with three layers of resonance, as sound waves from the past, present, and future shattered the blood-red contract. "First, I have never fused with the original divine soul; second..." The Double Moon Seal on his forehead suddenly reversed its rotation, and fine tooth marks appeared on the surface of the lantern heart. "The true core of the Erosion Mirror is within this lantern!"
The woman's retreating figure crashed through seven layers of ice peaks, yet the lantern ignited spontaneously in mid-air. Within the burning mirror liquid appeared images that made her heart race with terror—what should have been resting in Guixu Sea Eye, the Divine Phoenix Heart, was now beating within Lin Che's chest, and those mirrors entwined around it were all remnants of past Observers!
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