The Stardust Train traveled through the accelerating and decelerating rhythms of the Symbiosis realm. The Taiji Totem in the palm of Arui's hand suddenly began to emit a beige and emerald-green light—its golden lines resembling a broken baton, displaying a fractured "continuation of the old and the new" pattern in the center. The alarm light of Ice Drip flickered on and off like a loose light bulb, drawing an ever-widening crack across the starmap: "New-and-old anomaly detected!
There is a 'New-Old Schism Current' in the universe, separating the 'old' (what already exists) and the 'new' (what has just emerged) of everything, trying to tear the universe apart into a 'Pure Old Domain' of only antique things and a 'Pure New Domain' of only novel gadgets. Current speed is 0.32%." Outside the train windows, the new-and-old balance that maintained the universe was shattered like a broken jigsaw puzzle.
In the lava of the War-Pattern clan, the forging methods passed down from the ancestors suddenly stopped working (the old was useless), while newly figured-out techniques failed the moment they were applied (the new could not hold its ground); the light particles of the Spectrum clan descended into chaos, with information carried by old light particles turning entirely into garbled code (the old was obsolete), and signals emitted by new light particles completely incomprehensible to anyone (the new was useless). On Earth, things were even more absurd: old clocks ran faster than roc…
Chapter 416