In the 52nd year of the Star Dome Calendar, the balanced forge-fire matrix of the Forgefire Embryo Starship emitted a sharp, tearing scream on the night of the autumnal equinox. The Ancestral Forge Hammer in Chen Feng's hand suddenly slipped from his grasp, the chaotic patterns on its head resonating with the mirror rifts outside the porthole. Deep within the rifts, twelve inverted black forges were devouring the boundaries of the parallel universes. Carved upon their bodies were "Chaos Mirror Runes" even older than the Anti-Forge Mold, each rune stripping away the balance between forge-fire and anti-forge-fire.
"Chen Feng! The anti-ancestral energy of the Chaos Mirror Era is eroding the boundaries of the multiverse!" Su Yuhan's monitoring screen was covered in spiderweb-like cracks. "The Cold Pool of the Mirror Earth has frozen, and the forge-fire embryo in the primary universe... is losing its heartbeat!"
In Liu Ruyan's communication projection, the mechanical body of the mirror-Chen Feng knelt half-bent before the console, the balanced forge-core on his chest flickering with a dying red light. "They have come... the messengers of the forge-fire anti-ancestor, determined to return all universes to absolute chaos..." His image was suddenly swallowed by black forge-fire, his dying gaze fixed directly on Chen Feng. "Go to the core of the mirror rift... the last forge molds of the ancestors are there..."
Chapter 36