As the Stardust Train traveled through the old and new veins of the Symbiotic Iteration Realm, the blazing Taiji Totem in Arui's palm suddenly burst into a halo intertwined with crimson and pearlescent white—its golden lines reorganized like a broken chain of emotion, and the core imaged a fractured totem of suffering and joy coexisting. Ice Drip's alarm halo took the form of a displaced emotional peak, outlining an ever-expanding perceptual rift on the stustar map: "Suffering-joy abnormality detected! At the emotional origin of the Symbiotic Universe, there is a 'Suffering-Joy Cleavage Stream' stripping away 'suffering' (emotional tempering) and 'joy' (emotional pleasure) across all dimensions at a rate of 0.32%, attempting to dismantle the universe into a pure realm of absolute suffering and a pure realm of thorough pleasure."
outside the porthole, the balance of suffering and joy that maintained the multiverse shattered like emotional waves. The War-Pattern Clan's lava "painful tempering" and "pleasure achievement" were forcibly stripped apart; warriors endured a hundredfold burning pain during forging without the slightest sense of achievement (suffering without joy), and festive songs failed to soothe any wounds (joy without a basis). The Spectrum Clan's photons lost their emotional resonance of suffering and joy coexisting; painful light particles possessed only a tearing sensation without the power of growth (suffering without progress), while pleasant light particles…
Chapter 395