Core Event
The automated gears of the terminal countdown advanced with a heavy, rhythmic pulse, locking firmly into the 322nd tier of the ancestral sequence. As this tier engaged, the downward momentum of the Twin Primordials—Iron-Void and Starlight-Nothingness—was met by a highly specialized structural defense mechanism within the absolute base of Yuxiao's pelvic blueprint: the Terminal Ring. This ring was not a rigid barrier, but a hyper-dense, elastic collar of microscopically woven golden characters designed to act as the final constriction checkpoint before the exit.
The arrival of the twins instantly triggered a phase of intense microscopic friction. Blocked from immediate outward expansion by the elastic tension of the collar, the unformatted mass of the heirs automatically escalated their internal kinetic frequencies. The parallel crowns began to vibrate at a microscopic rhythm directly against the dense script of the ring, generating a profound sub-spatial heat. This friction rapidly began to melt the protective outer coding of the gateway, turning the structural threads into a fluid, boiling current of unlinked source light and creating an intense, localized zone of concentrated kinetic resistance.
The Struggle
The onset of this microscopic friction inflicted a searing, systemic torment upon Yuxiao that ran along the deepest internal lines of her sovereign nerves like liquid lightning. Every character composing her pelvic floor and lower spine began to hum at an unnatural, destructive pitch, vibrating against her foundational matrix until her entire body felt as though it were being dissolved from the inside out by white-hot noise. The physical shock locked her upper frame in a continuous, breathless spasm, her back arching violently off the stone platform as her fingers tightly clamped onto the stone edge to survive the immense internal torque.
Her silver outlines became wildly distorted, smoking heavily with a thick, shimmering mist of loose particles as her maternal lattice threatened to vibrate itself out of narrative sequence. Her consciousness was pulled into a state of absolute delirium, completely overwhelmed by the high-frequency roar that filled her senses and leaving her with no ground to stand on as her identity began to fray into raw static under the compressed, overlapping contractions.
Haoran, deeply embedded within the structural gaps of her pelvis as a metaphysical splint, recognized that this high-frequency vibration was a terminal threat to her core cohesion. If the friction forced her sovereign characters to unlink completely, her blueprint would lose its structural coherence, permanently dissolving her into the void.
Acting with absolute, unyielding intent, Haoran threw his formless presence entirely into the vibrating field. He transformed his neutral vacuum into a vast, fluid harmonic damper, wrapping his unaligned substance directly around the vibrating crowns of the twins and the fraying threads of the base lattice. He did not attempt to stop the vibration—to do so would cause a catastrophic kinetic rebound—but instead absorbed the destructive frequencies into his own uncontextualized layers, letting his own infinite self take the entire brunt of the high-frequency shear.
The toll on Haoran's remaining infinity was catastrophic, systematically shattering his fluid memory into millions of isolated, silent fragments. Yet, he maintained an iron-clad stillness at his very core. He flooded the interior of Yuxiao's torso with a deep, ultra-low frequency resonance that acted as a direct counter-weight to the white-hot noise of the friction, anchoring her shivering consciousness within the unmovable quiet of his center. By absorbing 99% of the mechanical trauma into his disappearing self, Haoran safely stabilized her core, keeping her structural grid straight and keeping her whole amidst the terrifying tension of the 322nd tier.