The chronological erosion could not be halted. Having consumed the environment of their parents' youth, the prenatal hunger of the twins locked onto the very core of the Foundational Era—the emotional and structural bond that had defined the first one hundred chapters.
The fractures across Haoran's silhouette began to pulse with a blinding, silver-gold rhythm. The timeline was now drawing from The Covenant itself, the definitive moment where Haoran and Yuxiao had established themselves as the Top 1 Couple and discovered the Threads of the Absolute.
As the twins siphoned this specific narrative block, the immediate memory of why they were fighting began to blur within Haoran's vanishing consciousness. The specific text of their early vows, the exact glance they shared before sacrificing their mortal limits at Chapter 100, was pulled into the Womb-Gate. The twins were not just taking his power; they were taking the original reason for their union to construct their own dual primordial link.
Without the foundational logic of the Covenant, the Threads of the Absolute that Haoran was using to bind himself to Yuxiao began to fray, snapping one by one with the sound of breaking crystal.
Yuxiao felt the tether loosening. Her own form, missing its anchor, began to dissolve at the edges, her fingers turning into loose silver script that floated toward the ceiling. "Haoran! I can't feel the bond. The first hundred chapters... they're completely empty. Who are we saving?"
Haoran's silhouette flickered violently, almost indistinguishable from the bleached white void around them. He had lost his ascension, his defense, and now the explicit memory of his covenant. Yet, even without the conscious memory of the vow, the habit of his 500-million-year existence remained absolute. He did not need to remember the covenant to enforce it; his entire structure was designed to protect her.
With a final, silent effort, he used his own fading silhouette as the thread itself, weaving the remainder of his shadow-form directly into the gaps where Yuxiao's boundaries were dissolving. He replaced her missing script with his own unwritten text, forcing her to remain whole even as he became completely transparent.
The twins accepted the raw, unmapped devotion of the covenant, their fetal heartbeats synchronizing for the first time inside the womb. In the pale, exhausted air, the countdown dropped again: 453 chapters remain.