As the Stardust Train traversed the ancient and modern veins of the Symbiotic Chronological Realm, the ancient and modern Taiji Totem in Arui's palm suddenly erupted with a halo interwoven of dark iron and flowing silver—its golden lines reorganized like broken steps, and the core imaged a fractured Totem of Difficulty-Ease Complementarity. Ice Drip's alarm halo took the form of a fractured climbing ladder, outlining an endlessly expanding existential rift on the star map: "Difficulty-ease anomaly detected! In the existential origin of the Symbiotic Universe, a 'difficulty-ease cleavage current' is stripping away the 'difficulty' (existential challenge) and 'ease' (existential simplicity) across all dimensions at a rate of 0.32%, attempting to dismantle the universe into a pure domain of absolute challenge and a pure domain of thorough simplicity."
Outside the porthole, the difficulty-ease balance that sustained the multiverse collapsed like shattered stairs. The "breakthrough energy" and "simplicity potential" of the War-Pattern clan's magma were forcibly stripped away; the processes for forging divine artifacts became so complex that they could never be completed (difficult yet fruitless), while the operations for polishing stones became so simple that they lost all value (easy yet worthless). The photons of the Spectrum clan lost the existential laws of difficulty-ease symbiosis; the multi-layered information carried by complex light particles could never be decoded (diff…
Chapter 408