Chapter 170

In the year 118 of the Star Dome Calendar, the portholes of the Forgefire Embryo Starship were shrouded in a dark grey mist. Ahead, the "Nest of the Zero-Initializer" loomed like a mechanical heart covered in thorns, its twelve anti-gravity struts plunged deep into the core of a dead star. The pure-energy waves rippling across its surface looked exactly like pulsing hostility. Chen Feng gripped the jar of Crystal-Core Honey gifted by the Crystalline Civilization; the Symbiosis Totem on its surface shone with striking brightness amidst the dark fog. "High-density anti-symbiosis magnetic field detected," Su Yuhan’s voice was fractured by electrical static. "Their defense system can decompose any mixed energy. Even our honey molecules are..." "They are being repelled, just as they repel symbiosis." Chen Feng stared at the disintegrating honey molecules on the monitor. He suddenly recalled a line from Old Zhou's Manual: "Purity is not cleanliness; it is simply another way of writing loneliness." He turned to Liu Ruyan. "Adjust the ship’s hull to the prism-reflection mode of Jingleng Star. Let the pure-energy see its own reflection."