Chapter 5971

A jagged cry tore from Jared’s throat—half agony, half exultation.

His skin split like glass struck by a hammer, scarlet fissures racing across every inch of his body. Before blood could spill, the chaotic force flooding him stitched the wounds shut—only to rip them open again with the next pulse.

Deep in the power well of his abdomen, pressure swelled until it felt ready to burst.

The Four-Colored Origin Star hovering there vanished beneath a tide of raw chaos. Every hue drowned. Every contour scoured away. Nothing about the invasion was gentle. The new power devoured the old, then crushed the fragments into unfamiliar shapes.

His awareness drifted, unmoored, into a shoreless dark.

He became a single mote at the dawn of existence, watching nebulae billow, galaxies ignite and collapse, feeling the first currents of creation brush past him. Every muscle, vein, and bone drank that current. Cells shattered, reformed, and flared brighter, as though the blueprint of his body were being rewritten line by luminous line.

Within him, his chaotic celestial energy recognized a sovereign.