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Chapter 11 - Chapter 11:Star Ruins Remnant: Life Ashes Pact

The ruins of the Star Altar trembled under the radiation of the bronze moon, and sticky star marrow gushed out from the cracks in the ground. The lid of the last bronze beast coffin slid down with a harsh metal friction sound, revealing a sleeping boy inside - his face matched Su Ye's like a mirror image, even the frequency of his eyelashes trembling was exactly the same. The first generation original body of the Snow Shadow Wolf curled up in his arms suddenly raised its head, and the star-blue light at the tip of its tail flowed like the aurora, illuminating the inscription engraved in the coffin: [X-000, Perfect Container].

Qian Shisan's mechanical body suddenly rose up, and six bronze cables extended from its spine, with the tips piercing the pure original body with the devouring frequency of the mother beast. Madam Hong's brain burst into an ancient jade light in the incubator, and her mechanical vocal cords let out a distorted roar: "The first generation body... must be complete!" Mucus seeped out of her cerebral cortex and condensed into hundreds of star-patterned tentacles in the air. The suction cups of each tentacle showed the image of Su Ye as a baby.

"Back off!" Su Ye's light blade cut off the three nearest tentacles, and the star marrow that spewed out from the broken parts condensed into a holographic projection of Madam Red in the air. The projection's abdomen bulged, and the star patterns squirmed under the skin - it was the scene of the surgery where she was implanted with the ancient jade embryo. The Snow Shadow Wolf cub exploded into the "Star Embers·Return Together" form, and the blue flames wrapped in gray spots formed a field with a diameter of 100 meters. Every time the flame leaped, a crack appeared in the star skeleton crystal in Su Ye's heart, and the countdown number flashed between the cracks: [28 days remaining].

"You can't hold on." Qian Shisan's mechanical eye scanned Su Ye's physiological data, and the chest armor plate suddenly cracked, revealing the core of the first-generation star core - inside the prismatic crystal, there was a first-generation body curled up in the form of a baby. The baby's eyelids trembled slightly, and his fingertips stretched out from the surface of the crystal, carving the same star pattern as Su Ye in the void.

The pure original suddenly opened his eyes, and the stars flowed in his amber pupils. He raised his right hand, and the star pattern on his fingertips produced quantum resonance with Su Ye, and the torrent of memory hit the battlefield like a meteorite rain—— 

**Memory flashback**: Under the shadowless lamp in the first generation laboratory, Madam Red was fixed on the operating table. The first generation held a bone saw and cut open her abdomen, and implanted the ancient jade embryo into the uterus. The original body of the Snow Shadow Wolf wailed behind the reinforced glass, and the moment the tip of its tail was stained with the first gray spot, the cry of the baby penetrated the soundproof wall of the laboratory. Madam Red's remaining consciousness was connected to the console, and the first generation's voice became distorted under the stimulation of the electrode: "Use your motherly love... to balance the rampage of the star pattern..."

"Father... they are the ones who are wrong." The voice of the pure original body resonated with Su Ye, and the star pattern chain shot out from his palm and wrapped around Qian Shisan's mechanical neck. His fingertips stroked the chain, and each link of the chain showed the experimental log destroyed by the first generation. "I am... the conscience that has been stripped away."

Madam Hong's brain suddenly broke free from the restraints of the incubator, and her vocal cords rubbed against each other and shrieked piercingly: "No! You are the defective product of my failure!" The giant claws made of mucus slapped the boy, and countless moon pupils opened in the center of the claws, and star pattern decomposition beams shot out from the pupils. Ling Shuang's Ice Soul Spider Web froze the giant claws at the critical moment, and Mo Yan's Red Lotus Karma Fire spread along the spider web, and the complete phantom of her sister emerged in the flames. The phantom's hand penetrated the dimensional wall and gently stroked Mo Yan's cheek: "Destroy the brain... That is the last control node of the first generation..."

The Snow Shadow Wolf's "Return Together" form burned out the last of its blue flames, and the cub's body fell like a kite with a broken string. The cracks in Su Ye's heart star skeleton increased to 19, but the light blade became more blazing due to the severe pain, and the souls of the beast masters of all generations appeared on the blade: "Use this - to end reincarnation!" 

The pure original body turned into a torrent of starlight and merged into Su Ye's body. The star patterns of the two people built a light bridge between their blood. Qian Shisan's mechanical torso broke into parts. The moment the first-generation star core was exposed, Madam Hong's brain broke free from the restraints and crashed into the arms of the pure original body. The ancient jade light suddenly purified the mucus, and the giant claw stabbed the first-generation star core: "My child... This time, mom chose you..."

"Boom!" 

The shock wave from the star core explosion overturned the entire star altar, and the bronze fragments in the ruins were suspended in a star ring. The Snow Shadow Wolf turned into a silver-white meteor and jumped up, swallowing the largest fragment of the star core. Gray spots and blue flames collided quantumly in its body, and its fur peeled off in the energy storm. When it degenerated back into a cub and fell to the ground, the star-blue lines on the tip of its tail were like hungry roots, swallowing up the last bit of gray spots. 

"The contract... has been reconstructed..." Su Ye knelt on the ground and panted, and the cracks in the star skeleton were frozen at [7 days remaining]. Where the pure original body dissipated, a star-blue ancient jade was suspended in the air, and the residual image of Madam Hong's consciousness was sealed inside. Her lips opened and closed in the jade, and the star marrow etched a coded message on the jade wall: "Be careful... outside the star ruins..."

The fragments of Qian Shisan's star core suddenly gathered and condensed into a miniature bronze moon. Sister Ling Shuang's pupils suddenly contracted - in her foreboding vision, the night sky cracked open a huge star ruins eye, and countless bronze constellations opened their huge eyes like awakened Titans. The Snow Shadow Wolf licked Su Ye's palm, and the cub's golden eyes reflected the horror deep in the star ruins for the first time: the forehead of the ten thousand meter wolf-shaped skeleton with its tail wrapped around the galaxy was engraved with the same star pattern as Su Ye. In the chest cavity of the skeleton, tens of thousands of bronze coffins were being reassembled, and the number [X-000] appeared on the surface of each coffin.

Mo Yan's Red Lotus Blade suddenly pointed to the sky: "They are coming." 

A bronze meteor shower fell from the Eye of Star Ruins, and the nearest invasion cabin crashed into a hill a thousand meters away. The frost on the surface of the cabin melted under the moonlight, revealing the sleeping boy inside - the star pattern on his chest was intact, and the Snow Shadow Wolf Primarch in his arms slowly opened his eyes, and the star-blue light at the tip of his tail illuminated the inscription on the cabin wall: [The God of the End·First Generation Complete Form].

The Eye of Star Ruins opened twelve pupils deep in the sky, and a stream of bronze light poured down like a river flowing backwards. Wherever the light stream swept, the contracted beasts were instantly petrified, their pupils retaining the last moment of fear, and the star patterns condensed into a blue-gray crystal shell on their bodies. The Snow Shadow Wolf cub blew up the star-blue barrier at the tip of its tail, and the light curtain collided with the bronze torrent to produce a dazzling arc, reflecting the phantom of a ten-thousand-meter-long wolf skeleton - the star pattern on the creature's forehead flickered at the same frequency as the crack in Su Ye's heart, and every pulse made Su Ye vomit blood mixed with star marrow.

"There are... 6 days left." Su Ye held down the wildly beating Star Remains crystal, the cracks had spread to the collarbone. Ling Shuang's Ice Soul Spider Emperor Silk pierced into the light stream, and the spider silk instantly crystallized into a data conduit: "It is extracting the soul of the contracted beast to charge!" The holographic projection unfolded on the spider web, showing that a miniature star core had formed inside each stone statue.

Mo Yan's Red Lotus Karma Fire burned towards the sky, but the red flame was twisted into bronze when it touched the Eye of Star Ruins. The sister's exclamation came from the flames: "Run! Star Ruins is rewriting the timeline!" Before the voice fell, the bronze light stream suddenly rolled back, dragging everyone into the center of the vortex.

The laboratory in the time rift was glowing with cold green light, and the young Madam Red was dissecting the original body of the Snow Shadow Wolf on the dissection table. Her scalpel accurately cut out the gray spot at the tip of the tail and implanted it into the heart of the baby Su Ye. "Stop!" Su Ye's light blade slashed at the illusion, and the blade penetrated the phantom of Madam Red and hit the energy node of the Eye of Star Ruins - it turned out to be the star-patterned bottle on the baby's bedside.

The ten thousand meter wolf skeleton opened its eyes in the tremor of the time axis, and the tailbone wrapped in the galaxy swept through the cracks. The Snow Shadow Wolf cub burst into a mournful cry, and the "Star Ashes·Return Together" form was forcibly restarted. The moment Cang Yan wrapped everyone and escaped back to reality, the cracks in the star skeleton on Su Ye's chest increased to [Remaining 3 Days], and galaxy-shaped mucus oozed out of the crystal surface.

"The flow of time is wrong!" Ling Shuang stared at the watch, the minute hand was spinning counterclockwise, "We lost... 72 hours?

Sister Ling Shuang suddenly broke free from his embrace, and the spider egg fragments condensed into star key fragments in her palm: "Use me... to connect to the Star Ruins!" The Ice Soul Spider Silk pierced her spine, and the extracted star pattern energy was poured into Su Ye's heart through the silk thread. The girl's skin quickly turned pale, and bronze ice crystals condensed on the ends of her hair.

The phantom of the ten thousand meter wolf skeleton solidified at this moment, and the giant claws tore through the ionosphere and reached the earth. Mo Yan's red lotus entangled Ling Shuang's wrist, and the phantom of her sister in the fire actually materialized - she held the wolf skeleton claws with her bare hands, and the magma-like lines wandered on the surface of the spirit: "Mo Yan... conclude a blood contract!"

The sisters held hands, and the red lotus and ice soul merged into a red and white flame. The fire column shot up into the sky, burning off the wolf skeleton's middle finger. The falling finger bones turned into a bronze rainstorm, and every drop of liquid reflected Su Ye's death on the ground: his body was exploded by the backlash of the star pattern, he was swallowed and assimilated by the mother nest, and he aged into ash in the time loop.

The Snow Shadow Wolf leaped onto the wolf skeleton's forehead. At the moment when the cub was biting the core of the star pattern, Su Ye pierced his heart with the light blade. The star skeleton crystal exploded into 365 fragments - corresponding to the Earth's revolution period - embedded in the major joints of the wolf skeleton. The giant beast disintegrated in a wailing, and the remains were reabsorbed by the Eye of Star Ruins.

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