CHAPTER 107 – Gu Yanzhou's Soul Leashes to Her Core
Gu's world was fading to absolute black. The stabilization from her earlier attack had worn off, and the First Root's presence was crushing the last threads of his existence.
He could no longer see colors, the world reduced to gray static.
He could no longer feel the ground.
He could barely hear Shen's desperate voice.
Only Xiao Xi's voice—distant but clear—remained.
Only her chaos threads, now woven with gold, wrapped around his core, held him together like the last working circuits in a failing machine.
He whispered, his existence hanging by a thread:
"Xiao Xi… don't… lose… for my sake."
Shen held him tightly, sweat beading on his brow as Gu flickered in his arms like a failing hologram.
"Don't you dare die on her, Gu! She'll destroy the entire world if you do! Fight!"
Gu couldn't laugh or speak anymore.
He barely breathed.
But he felt it—
a pull.
A profound, irresistible warmth.
The gold thread connecting him to her, humming with life, vibrating with her presence.
He followed it, not with his dissolving body, but with his innermost essence.
Blindly.
Desperately.
Completely.
His soul,the pure narrative essence she had given him,drifted toward her like a moth to flame, seeking not to be consumed, but to survive by merging with its source.
His voice, a silent, powerful resonance, reached her mind, cutting through the chaos:
"Xi… let me stay with you.
I don't want to be a thread.
Let me be the anchor."
Xiao Xi, mid-battle, gasped, the sudden intrusion a shock that shook her core.
The chaos around her trembled—then surged as her heart lurched, overwhelmed by the depth of his devotion.
"Yanzhou…!"
Her system shrieked inside her mind, fighting the spontaneous, high-risk maneuver:
[WARNING: ILLEGAL BOND INITIATED]
[GU YANZHOU'S SOUL IS SPONTANEOUSLY BONDING TO YOUR CORE ESSENCE]
[THIS WILL CHANGE HIS EXISTENCE PERMANENTLY: HE WILL BECOME A PART OF THE ROOT]
[THIS MAY CHANGE YOU PERMANENTLY: YOUR CHAOS WILL BE BOUND BY HIS LOVE]
[PROBABILITY OF SUCCESS: 1.2%]
Xiao Xi clenched her jaw, her decision immediate and absolute.
"I don't care about the probability.
Let him in."
She threw her arm out, the golden-violet chaos threads cracking open a portal of pure, welcoming light, aimed directly at his fading form.
"Yanzhou—COME! Anchor yourself to me!"
A fragment of Gu's soul, shining like a faint gold beacon, shot toward her.
The First Root shrieked in primal alarm:
"NO—YOU WILL NOT FORM A BOND IN MY DOMAIN!
IT WILL STABILIZE HER!"
But Xiao Xi caught the golden fragment in her palm, pressing it against her own core—
and the universe trembled, shifting its fundamental laws to accommodate the union.
"Stay with me," she whispered, her voice full of fierce promise.
Gu's voice murmured weakly inside her soul, echoing the first time she saved him:
"…Always."
The bond snapped into place.
Their souls locked.
Their cores harmonized.
Their worlds merged into a singularity of power and devotion.
And Xiao Xi transformed from the Root of Chaos to the Root of Creation