When Lord Orange's paw crushed the 10D coordinate equation, the bronze key suddenly came alive. Its emerald eye fractured into starlight, projecting a holographic map across Lin Feng's retinas—the glowing dots were primordial black holes from the universe's birth, strung together as a quantum bridge to the Chaos Sea. The moment Lin Feng touched the bridge's gravitational ripples, their ship spun like an ant in a cosmic washing machine, tumbling through dimensional folds.
The Chaos Sea wasn't emptiness—it was a graveyard of failed culinary universes. For three million light-years, charred galaxies floated like kebabs on dark-matter skewers. Black hole curry bubbled in spacetime fissures, star-chili seeds floating on its surface. Supernova chili oil swirled in crimson nebulae, pickling comets into kimchi.
"Welcome to Grey Sparrow's cosmic dumpster." Wu Li's ghostly form emerged from a burnt nebula, her mech-body wrapped in a dark-matter chef's robe. Six arms wielded a neutron-star rolling pin, quantum cleaver, and antimatter ladle. "These wrecks are failed experiments… including—" A mech-tentacle yanked out a familiar ship fragment—their old grill-ship from Betelgeuse.
Lord Orange's tail stiffened into a blade: "You reek of Our litter-bearer!" It shredded Wu Li's shell, revealing Lin Feng's DNA chains pumping Golden Ear code into her core.
"Surprise, surprise!" Wu Li's chest split open, exposing a dark-matter heart. "Your flesh scattered during the entropy fire made perfect puppet material!" The core projected Lin Feng's memories—his sister smeared with birthday cake, his father's hunched背影, even Lord Orange stealing herring cans—all burning with blue flame.
Lin Feng gripped the key. Its eye wept bloody tears that crystallized into twelve knives engraved with Redemption Codex fragments: "A traitor's blood quenches eternal flames." He slashed the DNA tubes, spewing quantum blood that ignited thirteen galaxies' dark matter.
At the Chaos Sea's core loomed Grey Sparrow's ultimate form—the Chronovore Glutton, a 120,000-light-year-wide abomination woven from 90 million devoured timelines. Its tentacles were rivers of eaten history, maw churning with parallel universes. Its skin bore culinary scars: charred Andromeda, steamed Magellanic Clouds, sashimi Milky Way remnants.
"It's devouring all possible futures," Lin Yu's quantum ghost whispered, her body a tapestry of stardust and recipe code. Holograms revealed horrors: a cyborg Lord Orange bombing rebels, a Lin Fengdissecting galaxies for sushi platters.
The Glutton spewed Lin Feng's worst nightmares: his sister dragged into a flaming oven, his father stabbing his heart with the key, his mother replaced by a mech-bomb on her wedding day.
"Choose," the Glutton's voice shattered black holes, gravitational ripples spelling recipes. "Become Grey Sparrow's eternal chef… or watch all timelines become ingredients!"
Lord Orange leaped into the abyss, its nine tails—each a different era's weapon—slashing spacetime: "Every life We've lived… is a blade to sever fate!" Medieval holy swords clashed with cybernetic lasers and cultivation lightning.
As the Glutton faltered, Lin Feng activated the key's final form. The emerald eye revealed the Chaos Sea's truth—Su Wan's brainwaves had built this culinary simulator! Her mech-brain floated in Golden Ear fluid, synapses branching into 300 million recipe codes enslaving billions.
"Mom…" Lin Feng rasped, seeing quantum tears in her eyes—each a frozen, devoured universe. "This… is your eternity?"
Su Wan's consciousness flickered: "Xiao Feng… destroy the core… I'm trapped—" Grey Sparrow's firewall silenced her, neurons firing planet-cracker beams.
Lord Orange's tails snapped, blood crystallizing into the Nine Lives Cookbook: "Our lives… for nine chances to break the cycle!" Its severed tails detonated dark-matter bombs across timelines—holy swords shattered codes, cyber-tails triggered data tsunamis, tribulation lightning cracked dimensional cages…
Lin Feng stabbed the key into his heart. God-slaying blood painted the Redemption Codex in the void: "Let chaos be the stove, time the fuel, a mother's love the sacrifice—LET'S FEAST!"
The Chronovore Glutton disintegrated, timelines exploding like fireworks. In his fading consciousness, Lin Feng saw Su Wan's smile—her mech-brain dust embracing a new universe's embryo. Galaxies reformed, black hole curry becoming stars, supernova chili oil raining life.
Lord Orange, tails regenerating, leaped into the embryo. The bronze key's eye became a new sun, its light revealing Lin Yu—hair of nebulae, fingers dripping primordial soup.
"Gege, I'll guard this universe now." Her skirt brushed newborn Earth, reviving dinosaurs. "The new culinary laws… need kinder recipes." She tossed Grey Sparrow's codex into the sun, birthing a new periodic table of cupcakes and quarks.
Wu Li's remnant hovered, reshaping into a judge's robe: "Turns out… Grey Sparrow never truly controlled Golden Ear." Her mech-eye gleamed. "Maybe I'll be… the Cosmic Food Critic?"
Epilogue:
Lord Orange perched on newborn Everest, tail coiled around the broken key—still faintly reeking of herring. As quantum catnip sprouted below, the Chronovore's echo rumbled:
"Cooking… is an endless cycle…"
In a primal tribe roasting saber-tooth tiger meat by firelight, a child's eyes flashed with the key's emerald glow. Lord Orange's ears twitched. Deep in the new universe's dark-matter oceans, a single cell—wrapped in Grey Sparrow code—began to divide.