CHAPTER 95 – Xiao Xi Emerges as the True Root
Back in the Core—
Xiao Xi inhaled slowly, the terrifying, raw energy now submitting to her will.
The chaos threads curled around her fingers like living, violet flames, no longer threatening to consume her, but obeying her thought.
Her hair floated weightlessly, glowing with a faint, swirling violet light.
Her eyes shimmered with the power of creation.
The System projected a holographic interface before her:
[Host synchronization: 72%. Stability achieved.]
[Chaos stabilization: incomplete. Use of power risks physical damage.]
[Warning: Returning now risks world rupture. Target objective: Gu Yanzhou's revival.]
Xiao Xi wiped her tears, the moisture instantly dissolving into light.
Her resolve was absolute.
"Start the return sequence now.
I have no more time to wait."
[Host—Gu Yanzhou will survive if you succeed in the restoration. But if you lose control upon returning… both of you vanish utterly.]
Her voice was steady, resonant with the authority of the Core itself.
"I won't lose control.
I won't lose him.
I won't lose."
The void trembled, not in fear, but in recognition.
"True Root—command accepted.
Return sequence initiated."
A massive surge of violet-white energy lifted her into the air.
Her voice echoed across the infinite space, a final declaration of dominance over her fate:
"I'm going back.
My stability is my will."
A portal ripped open in the void—a tear in reality.
Light swallowed her.
The last thing she heard was Gu Yanzhou's faint, breaking voice, a desperate plea for existence:
"Xiao… Xi… anchor…"
And then—
She stepped out into the collapsing, fracturing world.
But not as a heroine seeking rescue.
Not as an anomaly fighting deletion.
Not as a transmigrator adjusting to a new setting.
She stepped out as—THE ROOT.
Every deleted entity froze mid-lunge.
The sky stabilized for a single, stunned heartbeat.
The chaotic energy instantly submitted to her presence.
Even the Root Protagonist, the mechanism of perfection, stiffened entirely.
His silver eyes widened in something he'd never shown before: pure, terrified confusion.
Xiao Xi's voice, now imbued with the authority of the Chaos Core, rang across the broken world.
"Gu Yanzhou—come back to me.
I am your Anchor."
Her chaos power surged outward—a controlled, stabilizing wave of purple-white light—
and reality bent to her absolute will.