The world was unraveling at the edges.
Luo Feng watched as the sky cracked like eggshell porcelain, revealing the yawning abyss beyond. The Fox Spirit's eighth tail had manifested mid-collapse—a writhing, ink-black appendage that whispered prophecies in reverse.
"The Emperor comes. He fears. Stop him stop him stop—"
Li Qing's sword hand trembled for the first time in memory. "What did you unleash?"
[System Override: Final Evolution Initiated]
[Mission: Fuse All Void Energies]
[Reward: The Power to Rewrite Reality]
[Failure Penalty: Becoming the New Cage]
The ground beneath them dissolved into fractal patterns. Luo Feng's veins burned as the nine Void Energies—Wind, Thunder, Sword, Illusion, Forgery, Poison, Combat, Divine, and Memory—screamed for release.
Then the Void Emperor arrived.
And he was bleeding.
[The Emperor's Gambit: A God's Desperation]
Starlight dripped from the Emperor's wounds as he materialized, his once-pristine robes now tattered at the edges. The void where his eyes should be pulsed with something new—fear.
"Fool," he hissed. "You've doomed us all."
Behind him, the fabric of reality ripped wider. Something glistening and many-mouthed pressed against the gap.
The Fox Spirit's eighth tail shrieked.
"The First Horror! The one they caged!"
The Void Emperor raised a hand—not to attack, but to plead.
"Fuse the energies. Now."
[The Fusion: Nine Become One]
Luo Feng had no choice.
He let the Void Energies collide inside him:
Wind and Thunder birthed a storm that scalded his lungs.
Sword and Illusion forged phantom blades between his ribs.
Forgery and Poison turned his blood to liquid silver.
Combat and Divine set his bones ablaze with celestial fire.
Memory—the final piece—stitched it all together with scars.
The pain was beyond words. Beyond thought.
Then—
Silence.
[Fusion Complete: Eclipse Void Energy Unlocked]
[Ability: One Reality Edit Per Day]
Luo Feng looked at his hands. They were wrong now. Half here, half somewhere else.
The Void Emperor fell to his knees. "Fix it."
[The Choice: Rewrite or End?]
The System offered two options:
[Rebuild the Cage] (Restore the world as it was—forget everything)
[Let It Burn] (Become the new god of a broken reality)
The Fox Spirit's tails wrapped around his arm. "Choose right, idiot."
Li Qing said nothing. Just nodded.
Luo Feng reached into the bleeding sky—
—and pulled.
[Check-In Complete (The World Remade)]
The cracks sealed. The Horror's wails faded. The Void Energies settled like wolves after a hunt.
But something was different.
The Wife of Ashes' ghost stood beside the Void Emperor, her hand on his shoulder.
"You did well," she whispered—to both of them.
Then she was gone.
[Reward: Eclipse Void Energy]
[Cost: The Original Timeline is Forever Lost]
The Fox Spirit's ninth tail burst forth in a shower of sparks.
"Oh," she said. "That's new."
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