As the Stardust Train traveled through the inner and outer veins of the Symbiotic Realm's surface and depths, the surface-depth Taiji Totem in the palm of Arui's hand suddenly burst into a halo of interwoven bronze and silver-white light—its golden lines reorganizing like a fractured timeline, with a shattered Totem of Passing on the Torch taking form at its core. Ice Drip's alarm halo took the shape of an inverted hourglass, outlining an expanding chronological rift across the star map: "Ancient-modern anomaly detected! At the chronological origin of the Symbiotic Universe, an 'Ancient-Modern Cleavage Current' is stripping away the 'ancient' (chronological past) and 'modern' (chronological present) across all dimensions at a rate of 0.32%, attempting to dismantle the universe into a pure ancient domain of absolute past and a thorough present of absolute now."
Outside the portholes, the ancient-modern balance that sustained the multiverse cracked apart like a timeline. The War-Pattern Clan's lava "ancient pattern heritage" and "modern art innovation" were forcibly severed; the ancient war-patterned rocks contained creation power but no one could activate them (ancient yet unused), while modern forged weapons were razor-sharp without any war-pattern blessing (modern yet rootless). The Spectrum Clan's photons lost the chronological law of ancient-modern symbiosis; ancient light particles carried primeval wisdom that could not be read by modern light streams (ancient yet isolat…
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