As the Stardust Train wove through the intellectual and foolish veins of the Symbiotic Realm, the boundary spiral totem on Arui's palm suddenly burst into a vermilion halo—golden lines intertwined like a broken lifeline, and at the core, a fragmented totem of the cycle of life and death materialized. Ice Drip's alarm halo took the form of an hourglass running out and then reversing, outlining an expanding rift of existence on the starmap: "Life-and-death anomaly detected! Within the existential origin of the Symbiotic Universe, a 'Life-Death Cleavage Stream' is stripping away 'life' (existential manifestation) and 'death' (existential transformation) across all dimensions at a rate of 0.32%, attempting to dismantle the universe into an eternally unchanging absolute habitat of life and a completely annihilated pure domain of death."
Outside the portholes, the balance of life and death that sustained the multiverse cracked like a flickering candle. The War-Pattern Clan's lava had its "birth manifestation" and "extinction transformation" forcibly decoupled; newly erupted magma remained forever liquid and refused to solidify (the truncated domain of life), while cooled rock completely lost its energy and could not be remelted (the absolute domain of death), forming the paradox of "the living live forever, and the dead remain dead forever." The Spectrum Clan's photons lost the energy cycle of life-death symbiosis: born light particles vibrated forever without annihilating, while …
Chapter 386