In the 71st year of the Star Dome Calendar, as the Forgefire Embryo Starship crossed the halo of the solar system, the Symbiotic Forge Core in the palm of Chen Feng's hand suddenly radiated a piercing chill. Outside the porthole, Earth was draped in a rare armor of silver-white, the auroras of the Arctic Circle had frozen into Forging-Pattern ice crystals, and the Cold Pool in southwest China now resembled an icy pupil embedded in the Earth, its frozen surface ripples locking in multicolored light traces that shared the same origin as the Myriad Forges Federation's Symbiotic Forge Core.
"Chen Feng! The frequency of the Cold Pool's forgefire embryo has dropped to zero," Su Yuhan's voice carried a sob as the Cold Pool Mineral Vein spectrum on the monitoring screen displayed a deathly flat line. "Yet beneath the ice, we're detecting anti-symbiotic fluctuations identical to the String Breakers' Entropy Annihilation Core..." She suddenly pointed at the tactical screen. "Twelve reverse-forging light pillars are extracting the forgefire essence from deep within the Earth's core!"
On Liu Ruyan's communication screen, a phantom of Father emerged beside the old locust tree by the Cold Pool. His voice reached them amidst the sound of cracking ice: "Xiaofeng, do you remember the first lesson when the Cold Pool froze? The root of the forgefire... lies at the bottom of the pool." Before the image dissipated, the tree rings of the locust tree revealed the outline of Old Zhou's Gear Mold, …
Chapter 56