Chapter 417

As the Stardust Train traversed the old and new veins of the Symbiotic Iteration Realm, the old and new Taiji Totems in Arui's palms suddenly burst into a halo interwoven with milky white and iridescent light. The golden patterns scattered like broken brocade, and at the core, the fractured Totem of Unity and Diversity in Harmony manifested. Ice Drip's warning halo assumed a disordered, blocky pattern, outlining an expanding rift of existence on the star map: "Anomaly in unity and diversity detected! Within the source of existence of the symbiotic universe, a 'Unity-Diversity Cleavage Stream' is stripping away the 'unity' (existential commonality) and 'diversity' (existential individuality) across all dimensions at a rate of 0.32%, attempting to dismantle the universe into an absolute, uniform realm of pure sameness and a thoroughly segregated realm of pure difference." Outside the portholes, the balance of unity and diversity that maintained the multiverse was fraying like snapped threads in a tapestry. The "Commonality War-Mark" and "Individuality Variant" of the War-Mark Clan's magma were forcibly stripped apart; the patterns on all weapons became completely identical yet devoid of energy (sameness without difference), while every warrior's combat technique was unique yet incapable of coordination (difference without sameness). The photons of the Spectrum Clan lost their governing laws of unity-diversity symbiosis—fields formed by mono-frequency photons became as monoton…