Before the first pulse of the newborn cosmic embryo's heartbeat reached the ends of space and time, jagged rifts like bared fangs simultaneously tore open across the folds of the thirty-nine dark universes. The "Claws of Entropy" extended by the ancestral nest of the Nine Remnants boiled with the cold, lifeless residue of billions of galaxies; the "Withering Tentacles" reaching out from the Abyss of Eroding Space were internally flooded with the corpse-slime of decaying spatial dimensions; and from the gap pried open in the "Coffin of Eternal Slumber" in the deepest abyss seeped the "Burial Light" that withered the nascent Laws. These ancient monsters, lurking in the depths of the void's great tombs to gnaw upon the corpses of civilizations, feared the newborn universe's first cry even more than the Return to Void!
"Stifle the first cry..."
The Claws of Entropy were the first to clamp onto the embryonic membrane of the new universe, the 3,600 dead stellar cores embedded in their fingertips suddenly blazing with a pale, sickly radiance. The radiance converged into a "Heat Death Cage," seeking to eternally freeze Lin Moyu and his Dao Fruit—which was stepping into the Tribulation Transcendence Stage—at the ultimate endpoint of entropy increase! The inner walls of the cage bulged with countless screaming faces of Star Remnants, and the ultra-cold freezing breath they spewed actually condensed an ash-gray ice shell across the surface of the nascent Dao Spring!
Chapter 172