As the Stardust Train traveled through the manifestation veins of the Symbiotic Manifestation Realm, the manifestation Taiji Totem in the center of Arui's palm suddenly burst with a halo intertwined with pearlescent white and ink black—the golden lines reorganized like fractured ties between reality and illusion, and a fragmented totem of Being and Non-being generating each other imaged at the core. Ice Drip's alarm halo took the form of an alternating reality-illusion Möbius strip, outlining an endlessly expanding existential rift on the starmap: "An anomaly in Being and Non-being has been detected! Within the source of existence of the Symbiotic Universe, a 'Being-Non-being Cleavage Stream' is stripping away 'Being' (actual existence) and 'Non-being' (existential void) across all dimensions at a rate of 0.32%, attempting to dismantle the universe into a purely existential domain of absolute Being and a purely void domain of absolute Non-being."
Outside the portholes, the balance of Being and Non-being that sustained the multiverse cracked apart like a realm of reality and illusion. The War-Pattern Clan's lava had its "substantial form" and "formless energy" forcibly stripped away; the solidified rock was hard as diamond yet possessed no energy whatsoever (being without substance), while the dark fire of the void burned fiercely yet had no physical form (non-being with quality). The Spectrum Clan's photons lost the reality-illusion law of Being-Non-being symbiosis; their su…
Chapter 399