277: Whispers of the Brood

When Li Dong perceived the conceptual umbilical cord connecting the Devourer to the unknown darkness, the entire flesh dimension fell silent.

The feast of self-destruction he had ignited with his own hands abruptly stalled.

It was not the end of chaos.

Rather, it was chaos being imbued with a brand-new will.

A will, far more ancient, profound, and coldly ruthless, like an iceberg weighing hundreds of millions of tons, crossed an immeasurable distance of space and time, crashing violently into this small living dimension!

Hum—

Li Dong's Divine Soul shook violently.

This will was completely different from the Devourer's pure greed.

If the Devourer was a starving beast, then this will was a biologist holding a scalpel, eyes devoid of the slightest ripple.

Indifferent, precise, and carrying the absolute arrogance of looking down upon ants.

Void Mother Nest!

"Warning! Warning! High-dimensional will arrival detected! Information density... incalculable! Attempting to analyze... Analysis failed! Logic module overloaded!"

The Observer's scream, teetering on the brink of collapse, exploded within Li Dong's Divine Soul. Colorful data streams flashed wildly like garbled code, and for the first time, its voice carried an emotion named "fear."

"Host! The Void Mother Nest has sensed you!"

Li Dong did not need the Observer's reminder; he had already felt it.

That gaze pierced through the dimensional barrier, pierced through the chaotic flesh labyrinth, and locked onto his Divine Soul with pinpoint accuracy.

It was as if all his secrets, from the Attunement Law to the heart of the universe, were stripped away layer by layer under this gaze, laid bare on an operating table.

"Roar!!!"

The enormous tumor, which had been in the midst of self-devouring, suddenly let out a roar intertwined with ecstasy and pain.

It had received a response from its "mother"!

Boom!

The core of the tumor, into which Li Dong had implanted the "ultimate virus," stopped attacking itself and instead redirected all its power, frantically assaulting that tampered "self" definition!

Countless flesh tentacles twisted together like desperate war spears, stabbing fiercely at the "parasitic anchor" constructed by Li Dong's Law, attempting to dig this lethal "cancer cell" out of its body!

"Want to get rid of me?"

Li Dong's eyes turned cold, and the will of the Attunement Law descended like the firmament to suppress it.

The invisible melody turned into tangible shackles, forcibly suppressing the Devourer's death throes.

At the same time, the Law Scalpel in his hand shone even brighter, preparing to perform deeper cutting and infection on the resisting tumor!

However, at this moment.

The conceptual umbilical cord connecting the tumor to the space outside the dimension suddenly flared with light!

An invisible, irresistible pulling force came from the other end of the umbilical cord.

The Void Mother Nest was calling its child home!

The Devourer's massive body began to turn illusory, as if it were about to be forcibly dragged out of this dimension.

"Oh no!"

Alarm bells rang in Li Dong's mind.

The Observer's weak warning sounded again: "Host... you cannot let it return! Once it returns to the Void Mother Nest, all our combat data, Law characteristics, including the Attunement itself, will be analyzed by the Void Mother Nest! The next... the next thing to descend will be our natural enemy!"

Li Dong naturally understood this principle.

Letting a tiger return to the mountains brings endless trouble.

Moreover, this "tiger" was carrying his most core intelligence!

"heart of the universe!"

Li Dong moved his mind, and the nascent heart of the universe resonated with him. Vast life energy and the power of Law flowed along his will, turning into a torrent that slammed fiercely against the conceptual umbilical cord, attempting to forcibly interfere with that summoning force.

However, the moment those pure Origin energies of the Universe touched the umbilical cord, they were like boiling water poured on snow, quickly dissolved and assimilated by a gray-green, extra-dimensional Law.

It had little effect!

The status of the Void Mother Nest was far above the nascent heart of the universe!

Seeing the Devourer's figure fading, about to disappear completely.

Just at this critical moment.

The ancient stone slab, which had been silent in the depths of Li Dong's Divine Soul, anchoring his "existence," erupted with boundless light without warning!

That light was not energy, but a concept.

A concept even more domineering and ancient than "existence"!

Hum—!

On the surface of the stone slab, countless twisted and complex runes that had never been seen before emerged on their own; they were like living things, burning and flowing frantically!

The moment these runes lit up, the summoning force from the Void Mother Nest actually produced an eerie resonance with the stone slab!

It was as if they originated from the same ancient logic!

Li Dong's Divine Soul felt intense pain, as if being torn by two unimaginable forces at the same time.

But in the midst of extreme pain, a flash of inspiration split the fog in his mind like lightning!

He understood!

The Void Mother Nest's summoning was not a simple pulling of power, but a teleportation based on "conceptual anchoring"!

It had a "primary anchor" outside the Void Realm, while the Devourer itself was a "sub-anchor," achieving cross-dimensional retrieval through resonance.

And the runes currently appearing on the ancient stone slab seemed... to be a higher-order, more primitive "anchor" protocol!

"I understand..."

Li Dong grinned, revealing a cold and crazy smile.

"You want to summon it back?"

"No, you're not going anywhere!"

"Stay... right here!"

He made a decision that could be called crazy.

Reverse anchoring!

He would use the ancient stone slab as the core to tamper with the definition of the Devourer as a sub-anchor, forcibly sever its connection with the Void Mother Nest, and nail it... forever into this dimension!

"Void Furnace!"

Li Dong let out a roar from his Divine Soul.

"At any cost, stop it for me!"

At the boundary of the Universe, the sea of dark nothingness guarding the rift let out a sorrowful roar the moment it received the order.

Boom!!!

The Void Furnace's deep, dark core began to collapse inward and burn!

It ignited all the energy it had accumulated over countless years, along with a portion of its own Origin, in an instant, turning into an unprecedented, purest "Void barrier," like a giant black curtain, slamming fiercely over that Void Realm rift!

Crack—

The barrier collided with the summoning force of the Void Mother Nest, producing a loud sound of shattering at the conceptual level.

The darkness of the Void Furnace became thin and dim at a speed visible to the naked eye, but it held on desperately!

That summoning force from the Void Mother Nest was temporarily blocked!

Only for a fleeting moment!

But, it was enough!

"Now!"

Li Dong poured all his will, along with those burning ancient runes on the ancient stone slab, entirely into the Attunement Law!

He held the ancient stone slab high, as if holding a stele to judge the world, and smashed it fiercely down at the fading Devourer!

This smash was not a physical attack.

It was a definition! It was a rewrite! It was a judgment!

"In my name, I cast an anchor here!"

"Your coordinates no longer belong to the Void Realm!"

"Your existence from now on belongs to this world!"

Boom!!!

The ancient runes instantly covered all concepts of the Devourer like a brand!

Its illusory body suddenly solidified, letting out a wail more shrill and desperate than any before!

The conceptual umbilical cord between it and the Void Mother Nest, under the domineering power of the ancient stone slab, was forcibly grafted onto the dimensional coordinates of this Universe!

The connection... had been tampered with!

It was fixed!

It had been nailed, by Li Dong, using its mother's method of summoning, into the cage of this Universe!

In the distance, those Hand of Order judges who had been watching all along experienced collective data chaos.

Their logic cores were completely burned out.

Enemy A was committing suicide.

Enemy B was preventing Enemy A from committing suicide.

And then Enemy B, in a way they couldn't understand, kept Enemy A here forever?

Who... exactly was the enemy?

Just as they were crashing.

A pure, indescribable fury was transmitted from outside the rift that had been temporarily blocked by the Void Furnace.

It was no longer a cold will.

It was pure, tyrannical... rage, ready to tear the entire Universe to shreds!

The Void Mother Nest was enraged!

It realized that its vanguard, this important pawn, had not only failed its mission but had also been captured by the enemy!

What enraged it even more was that the enemy seemed to be using a power of the same Origin that was even more ancient than its own!

This was a provocation!

This was the ultimate blasphemy against a great existence!

Rumble—

The entire Void Realm rift began to twist and expand violently, as if an invisible giant hand was frantically tearing at the boundary of the Universe from the other side of the rift!

The Observer's nearly fading voice sounded in Li Dong's Divine Soul with final despair:

"Warning... final warning..."

"The Void Mother Nest... is building a permanent... dimensional bridge!"

"It is... descending in its true form!"