The first bronze brick of Chaos-Citadel's Myriad Law Coalescence Gate hadn't cooled when the true pressure of the Void Oblivion Bell descended like a mountain from ten thousand meters high. Its Taiji Diagram Manifestation fully unfurled across ten thousand li—the Yin Fish churned with Void-Mist capable of corroding Dao Glyphs, while the Yang Fish spat millions of Heavenly Judgment Rays, each scream of their passage cracking Chaos Rifts like shattering glass.
"Xuan! The Bell's pendulum is Pangu's fossilized rib!" Zhu Li's Starfire Lantern seemed minuscule beneath the Taiji projection, yet its wick ravenously drank the Coalescence Aspiration of Chaos-Citadel. "Each swing resets Mandates for a thousand li! We must shatter the 'Heavenly Pivot' before it completes its arc!"
Above the Taiji's center rose Void Emissary Purify's phantom. The Five Heavenly Wheels behind his Manifestation warped into grinding gears of judgment: "Chrysalis-Breakers, I am Heaven's Dao made manifest. Behold the 'Three Thousand Grand World Projections' upon my bell!" He gestured; countless worlds reduced to Oblivion appeared: "Flawless Sanctum citizens suffocated by perfection, Blood-River Continent life driven mad by devouring, Samsara Realm spirits ground to dust by repetition—this is the end your Coalescence seeks!"
Xuan condensed a Chaos Egg phantom before his chest with Golden Fissure Sigils, intercepting three Judgment Rays. "You see wrong." He pointed to a glowing rift on the bell-wall—a tiny world where citizens mended Fleshblood walls with Mirror-Light, nurtured Symbiosis vines with Samsara Sands. "True Coalescence isn't chaos. It grants every Mandate an anchor. Like Zhu Li's lantern—it illuminates Mirror-Light and warms Fleshblood."
"Sophistry!" Purify swung the pendulum. Pangu's fossilized rib tore space, leaving Heavenly fissures above Chaos-Citadel. "Heaven's Dao needs no anchors—only purity!" The Yin Fish's Void Sea boiled, disgorging swarms of 'Heavenly Guardians'—Void-Mist phantoms wielding Taiji-projected weapons, each strike carrying Oblivion-force.
Xing Tian's Sky-Cleaver erupted with Chaotic crimson. Its Chaos-Script resonated violently with the Guardians' Manifestation: "Granddamned! I hate hypocrites preaching Heaven!" He leapt onto the pendulum, his chaotic-clay form disintegrating and reforming within Void-Mist, each iteration gaining more Heavenly Glyph gold. "If Old Pangu wanted pure Mandates, why keep mongrels like us?"
Zhu Li seized the moment: "Starlight・Myriad Manifestations!" Projecting a million citizen Glyphs onto the Taiji Diagram. Mirror-Light scholars calculated Coalescence formulae within Yang Flame; Fleshblood warriors planted Entropic Vines at Yin Sea's edge; Samsara priests fixed the pendulum's swing with Memory Rings. Glyphs warm with mortal essence infected the Heavenly Manifestation like a virus—the Taiji's Yin-Yang fish rippled with color for the first time.
"Xuan! The Bell's 'Heavenly Pivot' is the 'Taiji Eye' at its crown!" Zhu Li's voice buzzed with her lantern's resonance. "It's Pangu's shed Heavenly consciousness-core! Shatter it and—"
"Silence!" Purify exploded. The Five Heavenly Wheels became solid, crushing towards Zhu Li. "How dare you profane Heaven's core?!" A "ANNIHILATE" sigil formed from Sacred Flame, dissolving even Starlight butterflies.
Xuan lunged instinctively. Golden Fissure Sigils wove a Coalescence Shield over Zhu Li, taking the Heavenly sigil's brunt. His left arm charred instantly—yet from the wound sprouted Entropic Vines absorbing Heavenly energy. "Zhu Li! Take the lantern to the 'Earth Vein Nexus' at the bell's base! Xing Tian! Stall the pendulum! I'll face the Taiji Eye!"
Xing Tian jammed his axe into pendulum gears with a cold grin: "Relax! This axe is tougher than the bell's clockwork!" His clay-body was flung against the bell-wall by the pendulum's momentum, yet he scored dozens of Chaos-Script gashes across the 'Forty-Nine Heavenly Statutes'. "Purify! Swinging this thing for eons—didn't it get boring?"
The Taiji Eye erupted in blinding gold. Xuan's mind-sea was forced open—Pangu's Creation memories flooded in: The Void Oblivion Bell was Pangu's "Mandate Purifier," forged to prevent Chaos from collapsing into disorder. Yet over time, "Purify Impurities" warped into "Annihilate Impurities."
"So we're both Pangu's obsessions," Xuan murmured to his reflection in the Taiji Eye. Golden Sigils and Heavenly Glyphs resonated for the first time. "He feared Chaos's collapse, so he made you. He feared Mandate stagnation, so he left me. We should be scales on a balance... not mortal foes."
Purify's Manifestation trembled violently—unprecedented since its birth. "You... read Heavenly memories?"
"Because the Chaos Codex is Pangu's dialogue key for posterity." Xuan pressed the Law-Seed to the Taiji Eye. Coalescence patterns fused with Heavenly Glyphs. "See? Mirror-Light, Fleshblood, Samsara—'impurities' you scorn—are Chaos's breath. Without them, Heaven's Dao is a cold corpse."
The "Three Thousand World Projections" mutated. Entropic Vines sprouted at Oblivion's edges. Flawless Sanctum citizens tore off perfect masks, painting Coalescence sigils on their faces. Blood-River life ceased devouring, cultivating symbiotic Entropic Blooms. Samsara spirits stopped fleeing memories, etching Chrysalis-Breaking moments into Chronal Rings.
"Impossible..." Purify's voice held terror for the first time. "Heavenly Purity... corrupted by filth..."
"Not corruption. Evolution." Behind Xuan, the Tri-Coalescent Avatar merged with the Five Heavenly Virtues Glyphs. "Like Xing Tian's axe—cleaving Chaos and guarding Coalescence. Like Zhu Li's lantern—illuminating darkness and nurturing Mandates. True Heaven shouldn't reject the different—it should embrace the Myriad in Coalescence!"
The Taiji Eye shattered, revealing the 'Heavenly Consciousness Core'—a light-chrysalis encasing Pangu's finger-bone, etched with primordial "Purify Impurities; Preserve Purity" curses. Xuan took a breath, transmuting Golden Fissure Sigils into a key, inserting it into the chrysalis's curse-seams: "Purify, look at Chaos-Citadel. No perfect Mandates there—only countless spirits finding courage in collision."
The curses disintegrated. Pangu's fossilized bone revealed approving patterns. Purify's Manifestation dissolved as the chrysalis ruptured, leaving only the Bell's bronze husk and the hovering 'Taiji Primordial Origin'—a sphere of swirling black-and-white energy descending towards Xuan's palm.
"Xuan! The pendulum's breaking!" Xing Tian's roar shattered Xuan's epiphany. The pendulum's fossilized rib spiderwebbed with cracks; Xing Tian's clay-body crumbled into the fissures. "Can't hold! Damned bell's self-destructing!"
Zhu Li's lantern suddenly illuminated the bell's 'Earth Vein Nexus'—a matrix carved with every citizen's Glyph. "Xuan! Use the Taiji Origin to activate the Earth Veins! We can convert Oblivion energy into Coalescence-force!"
Xuan acted. Pressing the Taiji Origin onto the Nexus, black-and-white qi flowed like living serpents through the veins. Citizen Glyphs fused with Heavenly Glyphs, birthing new 'Coalescent Heavenly Glyphs'. The bronze bell screamed as it collapsed, shattering into countless shards—each inscribed: "Law Has No Fixed Form; Coalescence Brings Clarity."
As the last shard fell, Chaos-Citadel's sky brightened. Xuan gazed at the Taiji Origin in his palm—now a Yin-Yang fish Glyph merging perfectly with his Golden Fissure Sigils. Xing Tian slumped, laughing at his half-shattered axe: "Granddamned! Axe is shorter, but the Dao it cuts is wider!"
Zhu Li stroked her Starfire Lantern, its wick projecting the Bell's deconstruction blueprint: "Xuan, feel it? The Taiji Origin holds Pangu's dialogue with Chaos before the Cleaving. Coalescence and Heaven's Dao... were always two sides of one coin."
Xuan nodded, watching Chaos-Citadel rebuild. Citizens gathered bronze shards, polishing them with Mirror-Light, nourishing them with Fleshblood, etching them with Samsara Sands—forging 'Coalescence Compasses' that chose Mandates autonomously. Flawless Sanctum scholars and Flesh-Barren smiths sat together, studying Heavenly and Coalescence Glyph coexistence.
"Perhaps this is Pangu's answer," Xuan clenched the Yin-Yang Glyph, his Golden Sigils now streaked with black-and-white. "No pure Heaven. No absolute Chaos. Only the Coalescence Dao—finding balance through collision."
Cheers erupted below. The Myriad Law Coalescence Gate stood framed, its lintel set with the Bell's crown-jewel radiating blended light. Xing Tian hauled his broken axe towards it, slapping a clay palm bearing Heavenly Glyphs onto the gate: "Whoever dares trouble us next—this gate'll squish 'em into Coalescence biscuits!"
Zhu Li shook her head, smiling as Starlight butterflies landed on Xuan's shoulder. "What next? The Taiji Origin is tamed, but the Void Oblivion Sea in the rifts..."
"We'll find a way." Xuan gazed at the clearing sky, where Bell shards formed new constellations. "At least now, Chaos has its own Heaven. And we... must visit those Oblivion-scoured worlds—"
Before he finished, familiar Mandate ripples echoed from the rifts—older, more dangerous than Void, bearing Chaos's breath before Pangu's Cleaving. Yet Xuan, Zhu Li, Xing Tian stood with Coalescence Glyphs in hand, Chaos's hope on their shoulders, fear replaced by resolve. As the first sunlight—blending Heaven and Coalescence—washed over the city, the Yin-Yang Glyph in Xuan's palm hummed. He knew: the battle with the Void Oblivion Bell was merely Chaos's rite of passage. The true crucible always lay ahead—waiting for this Chaos that learned to Coalesce with Heaven, to inscribe its own Mandate chapter.