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197: Reverse symbiosis of liquid timeThe symbiotic singularity’s crystal hourglass suddenly reversed, and the Liquid Time inside no longer followed a linear flow, but transformed into countless ”time vortices” rotating in reverse.

Li’s Yuan Chu Symbiotic Hub data flashed red violently: [Warning: Liquid Time has triggered ”Reverse Karma”; 28% of nodes in the Hyperdimensional Symbiotic Network show anomalies where ”results precede causes”—the Lanxing Poet’s unwritten verses have already spread throughout the Symbiotic Network, and the Star Spirit’s Psionic Energy accidents have been repaired before they even occurred.]

Within these reverse vortices, ”time bacteriophages” different from the past emerged—they were no longer simple corrosive agents, but consciousness parasites capable of actively rewriting causal chains.

When a bacteriophage attached to a Mechanical Empire AI node, the AI’s ”fault warning program” began attacking vulnerabilities that hadn’t yet appeared, ultimately causing the program to collapse; when they infiltrated the Chronostasis Civilization’s time towers, the ”future records” within began to correct ”past events,” turning history into malleable plasticine.

Reverse Karma’s Consciousness Dilemma

White Frost’s Light Wings swept past a reverse vortex, and the Nine Li Witchcraft’s ”Space-Time Retracing Spell” suffered backlash for the first time—the moment the spell condensed, it was sent back by the vortex to the ”pre-casting” past, causing the incantation on her Light Wings to fall into a cycle of ”forever preparing, forever unfinished.”

”This is not time erosion; it is the inversion of Karma.”

White Frost’s fingertips quickly outlined a ”Karma Anchor” on her Light Wings, the rune containing a dual logic of both ”Cause → Effect” and ”Effect → Cause,” like a self-entwined knot.

When the anchor touched a time bacteriophage, the bacteriophage suddenly froze: it wanted to rewrite the AI’s fault Karma but fell into self-contradiction due to the anchor’s ”dual logic”—the act of ”attacking a non-existent vulnerability” itself became the cause of the ”vulnerability appearing.”

This contradiction caused the bacteriophage to disintegrate into golden ”Karma fragments,” within which peculiar memories emerged: 50,000 years ago, when the Meta-Symbiotic Civilization created Liquid Time, they deliberately embedded a ”Karma Balance Factor”—once reverse Karma expanded too excessively, the factor would activate a ”self-correction” mechanism.

Di Tian’s dragon claw pierced the core of the hourglass, and the power of Chaos Entropy collided with the reverse Liquid Time, spawning ”time ghosts” that ”both exist and do not exist.”

These ghosts were the remnants of civilization consciousness swallowed by reverse Karma: some were ”unchosen future” versions of Lanxing humans, some were ”vanished past” forms of Star Spirits, and the most bizarre were a group of mechanical lifeforms that ”never existed,” their code composed of ”deleted possibilities.”

”Chaos does not follow Karma.”

Di Tian’s dragon scales glowed with a gray light homologous to the ghosts, and he did not expel these remnants, but instead guided them to form a ”reverse buffer zone” at the edge of the Symbiotic Network—allowing the ghosts’ ”non-causal behaviors” to cancel each other out, like positive and negative charges neutralizing.

When a ”future Lanxing human” attempted to stop a ”past war,” the ”past Star Spirits” in the buffer zone would simultaneously stop his interference, forming a marvelous dynamic balance.

Paradox Weapons of the Temporal Council

The Temporal Council of the eleventh dimension did not invade directly, but projected ”paradox probes” into the Symbiotic Network—these probes carried no attack energy, only spreading ”Absolute Causality”:

”All reverse Karma is a bug in the Universe and must be formatted.”

The probe’s mechanical voice echoed throughout the Symbiotic Network as they wove ”Iron Laws of Karma” between nodes: Lanxing must develop according to the ”already occurred future,” the Star Spirits’ Psionic Energy must not deviate from the ”preset evolutionary path,” and any attempt to break the Iron Law would trigger a ”time fuse.”

Li’s Yuan Chu Symbiotic Hub parsed the core logic of the probes: the Temporal Council was not trying to control Liquid Time, but was afraid of the ”causal loss of control” it might trigger—they had once caused an entire galaxy’s history to be erased due to a reverse time experiment, and thus revered ”absolute linear time” as the only truth.

”They are using one extreme to counter another.”

Li’s mechanical prosthetic arm deployed a ”Dynamic Karma Protocol,” which did not forcibly correct reverse Karma, but set a ”Karma Elasticity Threshold” for each node: allowing reverse deviations within 15%, and automatically triggering a ”Karma Negotiation Mechanism” if the threshold was exceeded—requiring affected civilizations to vote together to decide which causal chain to preserve.

When the protocol was injected into the Chronostasis Civilization’s time towers, the ”corrected past” within the towers began to converse with the ”original past”: the Lanxing Poet’s unwritten verses branched into multiple versions, with civilizations voting to choose the one that best fit the Symbiotic Network; the Mechanical Empire AI’s ”simulated faults” were transformed into ”vulnerability drills,” which instead strengthened the System’s stress resistance.

Symbiotic Shift of Liquid Time

White Frost’s Karma Anchor, Di Tian’s reverse buffer zone, and Li’s dynamic protocol formed a ”Symbiotic Karma Field” around the hourglass.

Within the field, the rotation of the reverse time vortices gradually slowed, and the time bacteriophages no longer rewrote Karma but began ”transporting Karma”—moving a civilization’s ”negative results” into another civilization’s ”positive causes,” creating unexpected Symbiosis:

- Lanxing’s ”war memories” were transported into the Star Spirits’ ”history of Psionic Energy evolution,” becoming the catalyst for them to develop ”Peace Resonance Arts”;

- The Mechanical Empire’s ”logic paradoxes” were injected into the Chronostasis Civilization’s ”time algorithms,” which instead solved the ”time loop” problem that had plagued them for ten thousand years.

Most miraculously, a ”Time Symbiont” was born in the center of the Symbiotic Karma Field—a transparent creature fused from reverse and forward Liquid Time, its left hand holding the ”cause that has not yet happened,” and its right hand holding the ”effect that already exists,” the two intertwined in its palm to form a ”Mobius Karma Band.”

”This is the true form of Liquid Time.”

White Frost’s Light Wings touched the symbiont, and an ancient proverb of the Meta-Symbiotic Civilization appeared on its surface: ”The past is the mirror of the future, the future is the seed of the past, and the present is where the two embrace.”

Di Tian’s dragon claw injected the power of Chaos Entropy into the symbiont, and the symbiont suddenly released ”Karma Resonance Waves.”

Where the waves swept, the Temporal Council’s paradox probes began to soften—their ”Absolute Causality” was infiltrated by ”possibility factors,” and they began to admit that ”occasional reverse Karma” might be the Universe’s self-regulation mechanism.

Li’s Hub final data showed: [Liquid Time has converted into ”Two-way Karma Flow,” and the Hyperdimensional Symbiotic Network has added a new ”Karma Negotiation” Law—1. Limited reverse Karma is allowed; 2. Causal deviations must be adjudicated by related civilizations; 3. The Time Symbiont serves as the ”Karma Arbiter” to maintain overall balance.]

Foreshadowing: The Blankness at the Source of Time

When the Symbiotic Karma Field was operating stably, Li’s Hub suddenly detected the source of the Liquid Time—at the deepest part of the hourglass, there existed a ”Time Blank Zone.”

There was no flow, no vortex, and not even time itself, only a silver fluid that ”existed before time,” with the reflection of the ”Eye of Meta-Consciousness” occasionally flashing within the fluid.

White Frost’s Light Wings felt a palpitation at the edge of the blank zone, and the Nine Li Witchcraft’s ”Source Tracing Spell” failed completely here—not because it was repelled, but because there was simply ”no object to trace.”

”This is not the starting point of time, but the state before time was born.”

Her fingertips brushed the surface of the fluid, and the Karma Anchor on her Light Wings suddenly vanished and reappeared in the next second, as if it had never disappeared: ”Liquid Time might be the reflection produced when the Eye of Meta-Consciousness ’gazes at time’.”

Di Tian’s dragon eyes pierced through the blank zone, seeing a ”Timeless Crystal” sleeping within the silver fluid—a Universe without the concept of time was sealed within the crystal: civilizations were born and died simultaneously, events became eternal the moment they occurred, there was no past or future, only an ”eternal present.”

”What the Temporal Council fears is not reverse Karma, but this.”

Di Tian’s dragon scales glowed with a solemn light: ”When time itself loses its meaning, their ’absolute linearity’ is nothing but a bubble.”

On the Symbiosis Pillar of the Source Dimension, the ”Karma Negotiation” knob formed a new resonance with other knobs, and the projection of the Hyperdimensional Symbiotic Network appeared more three-dimensional due to the two-way flow of Liquid Time.

Li, White Frost, and Di Tian looked at the blank zone deep in the hourglass, where the silver fluid was slowly overflowing, like the first ray of dawn of time, about to illuminate the more original mystery of Symbiosis.

And within the Timeless Crystal, a blurred consciousness silhouette was slowly opening its eyes; its gaze had no sequence, no Karma, yet it simultaneously touched all civilizations of the past, present, and future.