The New Universe That Screams Without Sound
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The newborn universe resembled a corpse being dissected slowly. Its sky, heavy with clouds of dead star dust, bled showers of molten mercury, scorching the ground that looked like the skin of a sick dragon. In the heart of this desolation stood Jihan, his black wings trimmed with golden edges, gazing at the black star swelling on the horizon like a malignant tumor. The star was not just a celestial body... it was a mouth swallowing light and releasing a wail akin to mothers who had lost their children.
"Finally... I found you."
The voice of Liang Yue emerged from within the star, but it wasn't a single voice... it was thousands—entwined echoes from every universe betrayed by Lang Xian.
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Journey to the Mouth of Hell
Jihan decided to venture toward the black star. Along the way, he passed through:
The Cemetery of Planets: Broken planetary corpses forming a labyrinth of cosmic memories.
The River of Illusions: Its black waters carried glimpses of lives never lived—yet mirroring his inevitable fate.
The Forest of Ribs: Trees made of the bones of ancient gods, whistling whenever a living creature passed.
At the edge of the star, he found a door made of cosmic flesh, pulsing like an exposed heart. Etched into its surface were carvings of twins being sacrificed in unending rituals.
Jihan (touching the door with his burned hand marked by the black ring):
"Fear... is your only key."
The door opened, releasing a hot wind that carried the stench of charred human flesh.
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The Kingdom of the Lost Twins
Inside the star, the kingdom of twins resembled a tormented paradise. Identical twins (each with one golden eye and one black) walked on streets paved with their fathers' skulls. The air was thick with the screams of unborn children, and bells tolled rhythmically—as if counting the universe's heartbeat.
At the center, where the throne should have been, there stood a massive cauldron boiling endlessly with golden blood. Above it, twins were hung one by one, their souls flayed to weave the Thread of Fate binding the universes.
Liang Yue (appearing as a towering shadow above the cauldron):
"Welcome, heir of the wolf... have you come to finish the game?"
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The Memories That Devour Themselves
When Jihan tried to reply, the cauldron pulled him inside. There, he found himself in an infinite mirror room—each mirror showing a different version of his past:
In one, Lang Xian raised him as a true son.
In another, his twin Liang Yue destroyed the universe in his place.
In a third, he was a blind priest laughing atop his father's corpse.
The mirrors began to shatter, each shard cutting into his flesh. The golden blood from his wounds was consumed by the cauldron, releasing a cosmic scream that shook the black star's core.
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The Blind Priest and the Third Blood Prophecy
In the depths of the cauldron, Jihan met the blind priest from the Shinlu tribe. This time, however, the priest bore a third eye on his forehead—an eye the color of cosmic blood.
The Priest (his third eye tracking Jihan's every move):
"The third blood will come... He who crucifies the father becomes the father."
Before he could explain, the third eye split open, birthing a three-eyed child slithering like a venomous serpent. The child looked at Jihan and laughed—a laugh that reshaped the cauldron's walls into faces from a forgotten era.
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The Unannounced War
Jihan returned to the surface of the black star, but something had changed. The butchered twins began to move, their golden eyes glowing with the same light as his black ring. Liang Yue, now a being of black light and countless eyes, released a scream that united all universes in a wave of terror.
Liang Yue:
"Slavery chooses you... even when you think you are the master."
Jihan didn't hesitate. He unleashed his black wings, each feather firing shards of frozen time, while his golden eye incinerated every twin that approached.
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The Wolf's Second Fall
At the battle's peak, Lang Xian's ghost emerged from Jihan's golden blood—a specter made of every dead version of Lang Xian. He attacked Liang Yue with a dagger carved from the bones of twin children.
Lang Xian's Ghost:
"Betrayal is like art... you repeat it until it's perfected."
But Liang Yue devoured the ghost in a mouth of cosmic darkness, unleashing a storm of golden ash around Jihan.
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The Seed the Father Planted in the Son
Covered in ash, Jihan felt something growing in his chest. The black ring melted into a golden seed—just like the one Lang Xian once consumed. When he pulled it out with his own hands, the black universe exploded into fragments, revealing a new one behind it…
This new universe was different:
The sky was red like frozen blood.
The earth, a chain of floating islands over a sea of godly tears.
The twin children played on the remains of dead stars, each with a sleeping third eye.
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The Creature That Doesn't Belong
At the center of this new universe, Jihan found a black mirror reflecting a different version of himself:
Half of his face was a god with three eyes.
The other half, a silently weeping child.
The Reflection (a voice combining every voice Jihan had heard):
"You are not salvation... You are the bridge between two hells."
Jihan shattered the mirror with a sword of black light, but each shard became a small black star... it was only the beginning.
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The Unreadable Prophecy
In the end, Jihan returned to the Blood Diamond City—now nothing but ruins covered in star dust. The blind priest (somehow still alive) was waiting for him at the gates of the cosmic cemetery.
The Priest (drawing a bloody symbol in the air):
"The third blood is coming... it will take what's left of you."
Before he could finish, the ground cracked open, and the three-eyed child from the cauldron emerged—holding Lang Xian's mummified heart... still beating.
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And in a place outside of time, where universes are hidden within the tears of gods, a child's laugh was heard… echoing from the beating heart held by the three-eyed child. The laugh spread like fire through a field of straw, and a path split open in the red sky… the path to eternal war.