The fused calamity orb fell.
Not like a meteor.Not like a spell.
Like a decision.
A cosmic verdict from two Zone Kings and the Calamity Heir himself.
The moment it touched the atmosphere, space buckled.Clouds shredded.Frost boiled.The Frozen Chasm tilted sideways as if gravity forgot its own rules.
Shan Wei stood alone in front of it.
Behind him:
Jin Wei braced with both arms spread, shielding the others
Drakonix clung to Shan Wei's ankle, wings flaming, refusing to let go
Xueya reached toward him, eyes shining with terror and frost
Yue Lian crouched, lightning trembling along her limbs
The Empress held her breath, lips pressed in fear
The orb roared.
The Devourer and the Serpent howled in unison.
The Calamity Heir whispered:
"End."
The impact hit Qi Shan Wei directly.
1. The Impact — A Universe Cracking
There was no explosion at first.
Only silence.
A deep, unnatural, smothering silence.
Then—
BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
The world disintegrated.
Ice mountains atomized.Air ignited.The ground folded inward as if struck by a star.
Shan Wei's body was hurled backward so violently that light struggled to keep up.
His vision went white—then black—then prismatically fractured.
He felt the impact not on his skin…but on his existence.
It hit his karma.His fate.His possible futures.His past cycles.His Prismatic roots.
The attack wasn't meant to kill.
It was meant to erase him from every timeline.
2. Shan Wei's Soul Nearly Tears Apart
Inside the collapsing blast, Shan Wei's thoughts scattered like glass.
Voices overlapped:
"Unworthy.""Erase him.""Break.""Reset.""Alone.""Nothing."
Images flashed—Xueya smiling faintly under a cherry blossom tree.Drakonix asleep in his lap.Jin Wei kneeling in loyalty.Mei Lianhua crying over herbs.Feng Qingyue training under moonfire.Bai Lianhua praying under lotus light.Yin Yuerin whispering in the shadows.Hua Xiangning surrounded by beasts.
Then flashes of blood.Fire.Despair.Death.Visions the Heir forced him to see.
His soul cracked.
His heart stuttered.
Something inside him—
broke.
And yet—
did not.
Through the storm, he heard a small voice.
A desperate voice.
A voice that refused to let him vanish.
"Fweeeee—!!!"
Drakonix.
3. Drakonix Defies His Own Limits
The little divine beast launched himself into the blast—
Not caring that the flames would flay him.Not caring that he wasn't strong enough.Not caring about Nirvana backlash.
Only caring about Shan Wei.
His tiny body slammed into Shan Wei's chest—
And the flames around him exploded into a brilliant rainbow burst.
Not Nirvana Fire.
Something rarer.
A Pre-Ascension Prismatic Barrier.
The Empress gasped from outside the blast.
"That's—That's a divine beast technique lost since the First Age!!"
Drakonix screamed:
"FWEEEEEEEE—!!!!"("NO TAKE SHAN WEI AWAY!!")("SHAN WEI STAY!!")("SHAN WEI MINE!!")("SHAN WEI FAMILY!!")
His scales cracked.Blood dripped.His wings burned.
And he didn't stop.
The barrier expanded.
Struggling.Flickering.Trying to protect Shan Wei's soul.
4. Jin Wei Performs an Impossible Move
From outside, Jin Wei saw Shan Wei vanish inside the blinding sphere.
His core flared crimson—
"MASTER—LOST."
His ancient programming groaned under catastrophic conflict.
Obey?Survive?Hold ground?
He made a choice.
"OVERRIDE.PRIORITY:MASTER > EXISTENCE."
His armor split open.
Obsidian-gold plates rearranged.Runes glowed violently.A hidden array powered by forbidden puppet law activated.
Yue Lian screamed:
"NO—!THAT ARRAY BURNS HIS CORE—HE'LL DESTROY HIMSELF—!!"
But Jin Wei didn't care.
He launched himself into the blast.
His massive arms wrapped around Drakonix and Shan Wei—
And he activated:
"CELESTIAL REDIRECTION SHIELD."
A move only higher-stage puppets were supposed to use.
His joints cracked.His plates bent.His core overheated.
But the blast's direction changed—
Siphoned sideways—
Blasting a crater miles wide into the mountains instead of into Shan Wei's body.
The Devourer snarled.
The Serpent writhed.
The Heir whispered:
"…That puppet.That beast.They interfere too much."
5. Xueya's Lunar Frost Reaches the Brink
Xueya watched in horror as the blast swallowed Shan Wei.
Her pulse spiked.
Her vision blurred.
Her frost veins glowed.
Her body trembled.
Her emotions cracked.
Her sword shattered from gripping it too tightly.
Yue Lian looked at her, panicked.
"Xueya—your Domain—It's—It's—"
Too late.
Her Lunar Frost Awakening surged.
Silver moonlight erupted from her body—
Her eyes turned pure lunar white—
Her hair floated on invisible winds—
And frost spiraled outward like galaxies.
The Empress was stunned.
"…She's awakening out of grief."
Xueya whispered, voice hollow:
"Shan Wei…"
The frost under her feet crystallized into ancient ice-lotus patterns.
If she lost control—
She would freeze the world.
But she didn't care.
She took a step forward.
Another.
Another.
Snowflakes formed rings around her ankles.
Her aura cut through the collapsing disaster.
She reached out—
"No matter what…I won't lose you…"
Her Domain expanded with terrifying power.
The Devourer hissed.
The Serpent's chains recoiled.
Even the Calamity Heir paused.
"…Interesting."
6. The Empress Sees Something Terrifying
The Empress squinted into the dying blast wave.
Then—
Her silver eyes widened.
She inhaled sharply.
Her hands trembled.
"Oh no…No…NO—"
Yue Lian turned.
"What!? What do you see!?"
The Empress whispered:
"His soul…His core…It's not collapsing."
Yue Lian blinked.
"Wh—what do you mean!?"
The Empress's voice cracked in awe and fear:
"It's… evolving."
The Heir's voice sharpened.
"…Impossible."
The Empress stepped back, as if witnessing a deity's birth.
"Qi Shan Wei's Prismatic core…is reforging itself.He is absorbing the laws being used to erase him."
She swallowed.
"That blow wasn't his end—it was his forge."
7. Inside the Blast — Shan Wei Refuses to Break
Shan Wei hung in a void.
Pain like burning galaxies ripped through him.
Every breath threatened to tear open his soul.
His body wouldn't move.
His pulse faltered.
His mind trembled.
But he heard Drakonix crying.
Felt Jin Wei holding him.
Saw Xueya reaching toward him.
And something inside him whispered:
"Not this time."
The Forbidden Awakening pulsed in the distance.
Dark.Terrible.Inviting.
He reached for something else.
A light.
A memory.
A choice.
He whispered:
"…Prismatic Overdrive…"
He grasped it—
But not recklessly.
Not in despair.
He grasped it in defiance.
The seven lights inside him aligned again.
Fire.Ice.Lightning.Void.Light.Shadow.Life.
But this time—
A new light appeared.
Fate.
The specter of the First Prismatic Emperor appeared behind him, calm and steady.The echo of the Last Prismatic Emperor appeared on his other side, broken but rising.
Shan Wei breathed.
And stood.
8. The Blast Ends — And Shan Wei Is Still There
The world slowly came back into view.
The calamity orb's destruction faded.
The chasm's winds resumed.
Snow fell again.
Everyone held their breath.
The smoke cleared—
And Shan Wei slowly, painfully stood up.
His clothes torn.Blood down his arms.Hair wild.Eyes blazing with an impossible prismatic glow.
Drakonix hung onto his shoulder, burnt but alive.
Jin Wei knelt beside him, cracked, smoking—and still shielding him.
Xueya froze in place.
Tears fell from her eyes—
immediately turning into tiny frost crystals.
Yue Lian covered her mouth.
The Empress's legs shook.
The Devourer staggered backward.
The Serpent recoiled in fear.
The Calamity Heir whispered—
for the first time—
not confident.
Not amused.
But unsettled.
"…How… did you survive that?"
Shan Wei wiped blood from his mouth.
His voice—steady.Defiant.Alive.
"Because I am not the person you saw in your futures."
His aura flared.
"I am rewriting my own."
To be Continued
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