As the Star Dust Train traveled through the intricate veins of the Symbiotic Space Realm, the Taiji Totem in Arui's palm suddenly burst into a halo of interwoven amber and pitch-black light—the golden lines reorganized like a broken chain of heritage, revealing shattered new and old symbiotic totems at the core. The warning halo of Ice Drip took the inverted form of an hourglass, outlining an expanding civilizational rift on the starmap: "New and old anomalies detected! At the civilizational origin of the Symbiotic Universe, a 'new-old cleavage stream' is stripping away the 'new' (civilizational iteration) and the 'old' (civilizational heritage) across all dimensions, attempting to dismantle the cosmos into a purely new realm of absolute innovation and a purely old domain of thorough conservatism."
Outside the portholes, the balance between the new and the old that sustained the multiverse cracked apart like a broken chain of heritage. The War-Pattern Clan’s "New Fire Forging" and "Old Fire Heritage" were forcibly torn apart; newly erupted magma refused to bear ancient war-patterns (new yet rootless), and millennium-old rock art failed to integrate into modern forging techniques (old yet lifeless). The Spectrum Clan’s photons lost the iterative rules of new-old symbiosis; information carried by new light particles was completely severed from old light particles (new yet without succession), and the wisdom stored in old light particles could not be read by new light streams (…
Chapter 394