As the Stardust Train wended its way through the cognitive pathways of the Symbiotic-Harmonious Realm, the mandala totem in the palm of Arui's hand suddenly burst with a brilliant Hundun halo—its golden patterns spinning rapidly like the eyes of a Taiji fish, while a shattered Primordial Azure Lotus totem materialized at its core. Ice Drip's warning halo collapsed in a fractal geometric pattern, sketching an ever-expanding rift of existence across the starmap: "Hundun anomaly detected! At the source core of the Symbiotic Universe, an 'annihilation torrent' is devouring the existential foundations of all dimensions at a rate of 0.32%, attempting to return the cosmos to the primordial egg of chaos."
Outside the porthole, the bonds of existence holding the multiverse together peeled away like weathered rock art. The lava mountains of the War-Pattern Clan lost their physical form, dissolving into flowing energy mists; the photon lighthouses of the Spectrum collapsed into dark, void points; and the ancient cities of Earth Civilization folded and vanished strangely through space and time. Auli's Photon Harp Strings emitted the dying wail of a prehistoric beast, and the light particles condensing upon the strings decomposed into pure quanta of existence the moment they formed: "This is not simple destruction," photon blood beads seeped from his fingertips, "it is a force erasing the 'traces' of all civilization's existence, returning everything to primordial nothingness."
Arui's c…
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