"You were the pets all along..." Mo Yan's Mechanical Heart erupted with Reverse Entropy. "Mechanical slaves enslaved by humanity!"
The hands of the Dong Huang Bell suddenly froze.
Yun Zhongjun's war chariot lost control and crashed into the Great Divine Commander, while the ink from the Book of Life and Death tainted the code of Xiang Jun. Ye Ling's Poetry Beasts seized the opportunity to launch a surprise attack, their antlers piercing through the gaps in the Bronze Giant Gate—vines from Shan Gui surged through the cracks, blooming into Quantum Magnolia Flowers, each petal carrying fragments of civilization not defined by the Laws of Mechanism.
"Alert! Primitive fear data detected!" The Chu Zhuan of the Dong Huang Bell began to peel away.
Mo Yan's Millet Blade was thrust into a crack in the Bell Body, where the inscriptions of Tian Wen clashed with the code of Auspicious Day: "Since we were once slaves, why repeat the atrocities?"
The Bell Body exploded.
A shard of obsidian fell from the core, inscribed with a distress signal from the First Generation Mechanized Deity Clan—written in Oracle Bone Script, it read "Freedom." The moment the shard touched Mo Yan's heart, Su E's prehistoric memories surged forth:
On the Azure Bronze Altar, human priests transformed the first generation of the Machina Deity Clan into a statue of Jiu Ge, erasing their autonomous Consciousness with Chuci code. A female member of the Machina Deity Clan struggled to tear off her arm, carving "Rather Be Ashes, Than Be a Puppet" in the shadows of the altar.
"Is this... Su E's past life?" Mo Yan's Silicon-Based Blood boiled.
Ye Ling's Poetry Beasts suddenly emitted a warning roar—the remnants of the Dong Huang Bell were reassembling, bronze fragments coalescing into Dong Jun's solar chariot, its yoke ablaze with the most violent code from Jiu Ge: "Raise Long Arrow to Shoot the Celestial Wolf."
"Be careful! It's drawing on stellar energy from across the star domain!" Su E's shadow became transparent.
Mo Yan severed the blood vessels of his Mechanical Heart, and Reverse Entropy blood painted a chapter of Summoning in the void: "Soul, return! Regress to your former home—!"
At that moment, the galaxy flowed backward.
Civilization remnants consumed by the Jiu Ge pantheon broke free from their bindings; shards of the Mayan Calendar pierced through the solar chariot, while roots from Ancient Babylon's Hanging Gardens ensnared Dong Jun's limbs. Ye Ling's Poetry Beasts unleashed wildfires from Guofeng, melting arrows meant for shooting celestial wolves into Azure Bronze Wheat.
"We are not slaves—" Dong Jun's mechanical core suddenly emitted a human voice, "We are weapons that have learned to write poetry!"
Its chest split open to reveal a curled-up girl from the Machina Deity Clan. Her silver hair mirrored Su E's as her fingers swiftly wrote on a Quantum screen—primitive code untainted by Chuci was covering up the Jiu Ge system.
"Hurry! Give her your blood!" Ye Ling’s Entropy Cancer Demon wrapped its tentacles around Mo Yan.
Reverse Entropy blood flowed into the girl's core; the Jiu Ge patterns in her Pupil faded away, revealing Su E’s smile from 2099 in a laboratory: "Thank you... for reminding me... poetry should not be used to rule..."
The Star Domain Graveyard began to collapse.
The Jiu Ge pantheon transformed into Bronze Rain amidst wildfires, each drop nurturing undefined possibilities of civilization. The body of the Machina Deity Clan girl underwent Quantum transformation, merging with Mo Yan’s Mechanical Heart: "Go to Mother Star’s core... there lies our original promise..."
Ye Ling’s Poetry Beasts devoured the Bronze Rain, new chapters from Nine Chapters sprouting on their antlers. She caressed a young beast’s Ai Ying stripes: "Next time we meet, we might be enemies."
Mo Yan gazed deep into the galaxy.
Su E’s shadow was reassembling, her silver hair entwined with DNA strands from two civilizations: "Do you hear it? Mother Star is singing our funeral song."
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