The dome of the Shandora Sacred Treasury completely collapsed.

Instead of shattering, it unfurled like flower petals, completely exposing the entire underground palace to the sky of the Golden City.

For the first time, sunlight shone directly upon the core of inheritance. The golden lightning and sun runes within the prismatic crystal suddenly seethed, creating a blinding contrast with the cold silver light emanating from the 3,600 mirror portals in the sky.

3,600 Observer Guards raised their Data Spears simultaneously.

Silver Logic Chains surged from the tips of the spears, weaving into a skynet in the air that covered all of Shandora.

Each chain was composed of flowing outworld scripts, and every character was a "Causality Correction Command."

They were forcibly rewriting the laws of reality in this airspace.

"Absolute Rationality Barrier fully deployed." The leading guard's voice was devoid of emotion; 3,600 voices spoke at once, their overlapping echoes resonating through the sky,

"All irrational variables within the zone will be formatted. Countdown: sixty seconds."

Bai Cheng's figure soared into the sky from the Thunder Pool Abyss.

In her left hand, she held the oath core, while the Sword of Conviction in her right hand burned with the Six Paths Star Lord Engravings.

Zi Yuan followed closely behind. Her Tide-Breaking Blade Intent shattered the remaining lightning, and the newly acquired Thunder Resonance Rune on her blade resonated with the oath core.

The two landed on the edge of the treasury's ruins, joining Lu Duo, Yu Nian, Garel, Aurora, and Elune.

"Where is the resonance core?" Bai Cheng's silver eyes swept over the group.

A flash of purple blade light suddenly burst across the sky from the direction of the Nest of a Thousand Mirrors.

The blade light tore through space, and Zi Yuan, Blue Bird, and Leng Ningxue leaped out. Zi Yuan held high the mirrored pyramid—the resonance core.

The three shards were finally gathered together.

At that exact moment, the three shards broke free from their holders' hands and flew toward the former site of the Golden Bell Tower in the center of Shandora.

The oath core transformed into golden lightning, splitting the sky.

The resonance core transformed into ten thousand mirrors, reflecting the faces of all the onlookers.

The core of inheritance bloomed with solar radiance, as warm as the first light of dawn.

The three forces converged and fused above the base of the bell tower, and the bell frame, which had been silent for a thousand years, completely solidified.

It was a three-hundred-meter-tall golden bell frame, its missing parts slowly being filled by the energy released from the three shards.

But the Observer Guards gave them no time.

"Fifty-seven seconds."

3,600 Data Spears were thrown at once.

The silver spears fell like a rainstorm, each splitting and reorganizing during flight into finer Logic Spikes.

The target of these spikes was not the flesh, but the soul—they were intended to directly delete irrational cognition.

Elune was the first to deploy a Divine Barrier, her three pairs of tattered light wings fully extended as an emerald time domain enveloped everyone:

"I can slow down the spikes, but I can't hold out for more than thirty seconds!"

Lu Duo's Emerald Network rose from the ground, transforming into a phantom of the Tree of Life, with the prayer echoes of countless civilizations flowing through its branches.

Yu Nian's pure heart vine wrapped around the tree's trunk, its milky-white halo purifying the malicious data contained within the spikes.

The spikes slammed into the barrier, making a crisp sound like glass shattering.

Cracks appeared in the first layer of the barrier.

Thunderous light erupted from Garel's right eye. He knelt on one knee and pressed his palm against the ground of the Golden City: "Bloodline of Rego... answer my call!"

A rumble of thunder came from deep underground.

Beneath Shandora, the thunder runes left behind by Rego that had been buried for a thousand years lit up simultaneously.

The entire Golden City transformed into a massive lightning array. Thunderous light surged from every street and every building, surging upward toward the sky!

The silver spikes melted and evaporated within the thunderous light.

But the guards were too numerous.

"Forty-three seconds."

3,600 guards raised their hands at once, their palms splitting open into mirrors.

Silver liquid data streams poured from the mirrors, converging in the air to form a thousand-meter-long beast.

A Rationality Devourer composed of pure logic.

The beast had no eyes or mouth, only a flat face made of countless logical formulas.

It opened its mouth, which was an ever-expanding black hole. Flashing along the edge of the black hole were absolute truth runes as indisputable as 1+1=2.

The gravity generated by the black hole began to distort reality.

The ground of the treasury ruins began to digitize, stones turning into flowing 0s and 1s.

Logic errors appeared in Lu Duo's phantom Tree of Life—leaves suddenly turned into numbers, and mathematical formulas surfaced on the trunk.

"It is forcibly converting this area into an Absolute Rationality Domain!" Data streams surged wildly within Leng Ningxue's icy eyes. "Once complete, all powers relying on emotion, conviction, and wishes will fail!"

Bai Cheng looked up at the Golden Bell Tower.

The repair progress of the bell frame was only at 65%.

There wasn't enough time.

She took a deep breath, and the insignia of judgment on her forehead burned simultaneously with the Thunder Mark left by the oath core.

"Everyone, lend me your strength."

Zi Yuan was the first to respond, her Tide-Breaking Blade Intent turning into a purple flow of light that poured into Bai Cheng's body.

Blue Bird's thunderstorm, Leng Ningxue's ice crystal calculations, Lu Duo's life network, Yu Nian's light of the pure heart, Garel's thunderous bloodline, Aurora's Sun Holy Word, and Elune's Time Authority.

Eight forces converged.

Bai Cheng's silver hair danced wildly in the energy storm, the nebulae in her eyes spinning to their limit.

She raised the Sword of Conviction, its blade beginning to crack as it failed to withstand such immense energy.

But she did not stop.

"Rego's regret lay in the fact that he gave up on possibilities."

"The arrogance of the Silent Observer lies in his belief that he can calculate everything."

"And the fundamental error of the Observer Council—"

Bai Cheng pointed her sword at the logic beast, her voice piercing through all of Shandora:

"—is that they forgot one thing."

"Rationality should be the torch that illuminates the path ahead."

"Not a cage that imprisons the soul!"

The Sword of Conviction shattered completely.

But at the moment of shattering, all the fragments transformed into billions of light points, each reflecting a scene:

On the Lei Hai Floating Island, before the Colossus of Sin, the figures of everyone charging forward despite knowing the odds of victory were slim.

In the Ruins of the Divine Kingdom, facing the Thousand Faces Mirror Pupil, Bai Cheng's resolve when she chose to execute the Second Judgment.

Beneath the gates of Shandora, those pairs of determined eyes when making the Trial of the Three Oaths.

And this very moment—the trust of everyone entrusting their power to her in front of 3,600 enemies.

These scenes, these emotions, these variables that were "inefficient," "unnecessary," and "affecting the optimal solution" in rational calculations, now converged into a radiance that could not be defined by logic.

The light slashed toward the logic beast.

The "absolute truth runes" at the edge of the beast's black hole began to crumble.

Because this light itself violated logic.

It both existed and did not exist, was both the past and the future, was both the conviction of countless individuals and the will of a single whole.

"Error... unable to parse..." Garbled code appeared on the beast's face.

The light pierced through its body.

The beast remained still for a second.

Then, it exploded from within.

What exploded was not flesh and blood, but countless broken logical formulas, disproven theorems, and...

For the first time, an expression akin to confusion appeared in the eyes of the 3,600 guards.

"Thirty-one seconds."

The countdown continued.

But the guards' movements had stalled.

Because at this moment, the repair progress of the Golden Bell Tower jumped to 100%.

At the top of the tower, the final gap in the golden bell was filled.

The bell was complete.

Upon the surface of the bell, the oath runes that had been silent for a thousand years...

The sun of Shandora, the thunder of Jaya, the mirrors of the Nest of a Thousand Mirrors, the star tracks of the Emerald Sea, and the totems of countless fallen civilizations—all lit up at once.

On the base of the bell tower, the phantoms of Rego, the First High Priest of Shandora, and Mirror Pupil appeared.

They smiled at each other and simultaneously raised their hands to press against the bell.

Then, the bell tolled.

It was not a sound in the physical sense.

It was a resonance.

A resonance that transcended time, space, dimensions, and even the boundaries of life and death.

Every living being in Shandora...

The Light-Winged Natives, the Aquatic Race, the Spiritual Lifeforms, the Cloud Beasts, the flowers and grass, and even every brick and stone heard it.

In the Eternal Thunderstorm Belt outside the Golden City, the lightning became gentle at this moment.

Deep within the Nest of a Thousand Mirrors, those cold mirrors reflected long-lost starlight.

Toward the Emerald Sea, the cracks in the star track network began to repair themselves.

And in the sky above Shandora, the Data Spears in the hands of the 3,600 Observer Guards simultaneously turned into silver petals and scattered with the wind.

The logic runes in their eyes extinguished, replaced by... confusion, and then clarity.

The leading guard looked down at his empty hands, then up at the golden bell, and after a long while, whispered:

"So... this is the sound of a 'wish'."

The countdown stopped.

The Absolute Rationality Barrier collapsed.

The bell tolled nine times.

When the ninth toll fell, a line of ancient text appeared on the surface of the golden bell, and the text transformed into a voice that entered the heart of every listener:

"Children of the sky islands."

"Do not fear choice, and do not dread error."

"Because it is precisely those uncalculated possibilities—"

"—that are the most brilliant starlight of civilization."

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And the first movement of the Bell Spirit was to look out beyond the starry sea, in the direction of the Nest of a Thousand Mirrors.

There, the silver heart of the Observer Council beat for one last time.

Then, in the resonance of the golden bell, it turned into an ordinary mirror.

Reflected in the mirror were no longer cold data, but... a real starry sky that was slowly recovering its vitality.

On the ruins of the Shandora Sacred Treasury.

Bai Cheng knelt on one knee. The Sword of Conviction was broken, but beside the insignia of judgment on her forehead, the Thunder Mark of the oath core and the blessing rune of the golden bell flashed simultaneously.

Zi Yuan supported her, her long blade returned to its sheath.

Blue Bird plopped down on the ground, panting heavily: "Is it... finally over?"

"No." High Priest Aurora looked into the distance, her white robes fluttering in the lingering resonance of the bell. "This is only the end of one chapter of the sky island epic."

The thunderous light in Garel's single eye subsided. He took off his tattered eyepatch, revealing his intact eye: "Lord Rego's regret has finally been laid to rest."

Lu Duo and Yu Nian smiled at each other as the phantom of the Tree of Life and the pure heart vine were slowly withdrawn.

Leng Ningxue pulled up a holographic star map, her icy eyes reflecting new coordinates: "The resonance of the golden bell has activated the deeper memory banks of the sky island civilization.

There may lie... the truth behind the fall of the Lord of the Sky, and the real reason for the birth of the Observer Council."

Elune's light wings slowly folded, her divine radiance becoming soft:

"Shandora's sun core has been connected to the golden bell; this sky island's faith network will truly become the lighthouse of the sky island civilization."

Bai Cheng stood up with Zi Yuan's support.

She looked toward the Golden Bell Tower, toward the eternally spinning projection of the sun core at the top of the tower, and then toward her companions.

Then, she smiled.

"Then let's continue."

Within her silver eyes, the galaxy began to flow once more.

"The journey of the Emerald Sea—"

"—will have its next chapter written within the tolling of the sky island's bell."

In the sky of Shandora, a rainbow appeared for the first time.

One end of the rainbow connected to the Golden Bell Tower, while the other end vanished into the distant starry sea.

And at the end of the rainbow, a new star map was unfolding.

Three new coordinates were marked on the star map:

"Forgotten Corridor: The Final Legacy of the Sky Federation"

"The Depths of the Mirror Abyss: The Penance of the First Mirror Pupil"

"The Other Side of the Starry Sea: The Cradle of the Observer Council"

The next volume of the sky island epic has quietly turned to its title page amidst the tolling of the bell.

And the story of the inheritors—

—is far from over.