chsdbacks Chapter 418 Fragments...
Chapter 418 Fragments...
After Pangu's silhouette completely disappeared, the crevice deep within the Guixu foundation returned to extreme darkness and stillness.
When the projection of the law formed by the lingering aftereffects of the seven techniques dissipated, it did not generate any law shockwaves or leave any law residue.
It simply dissipated very quietly, leaving only a layer of extremely pure, original white rock at the bottom of the crevice. Not a single pattern of laws remained on the surface of the white rock layer, making it exactly the same as the newly formed white rock layer at the healed fault, extremely smooth and flat.
It was so smooth that even the scanning echoes of the larvae's sensory network couldn't produce any abnormal signals when they hit it.
Xu withdrew all his perception of the heart's energy network from the direction of the crevice, and was about to put the stone embryo's core back into his bosom when the transparent law pattern on his fingertip suddenly twitched again.
The first jump was extremely faint, so faint that it was almost his own illusion, but then the second jump came immediately. The frequency of the jump was extremely low and deep, so deep that it resonated with the light of the Eastern Emperor Mother Liquid flowing inside the pale golden line on his chest in a very subtle way.
He placed his right hand back on his chest, and all the sensory power of his heart pulse probed along that pulsation to the deepest part of the Guixu foundation.
When they reached the deepest point directly below the interface between the white rock layer and the mountain root, their perception did not encounter any obstruction from any laws or structures.
The sealing membrane wall is stable, the isolation zone vacuum is stable, the backup law node is stable, the gap is stable, and the paradoxical fault is stable.
All five key nodes are stable, so stable that even the heart's vascular network cannot be found to have any flaws.
But the transparent law pattern on his fingertip was still pulsating, and the frequency of the pulsation was getting faster and faster, so fast that he had to take the stone embryo core out of his bosom and hold it in his left palm, using the law resonance of the silver-white crystal on the surface of the core to calibrate the perception frequency of his heart's pulse network.
After completing the calibration, he ventured deeper into the foundation of the Ruins, this time deeper than ever before, to the point that the sensory limits of his heart's vascular network were almost exhausted.
Just before its perception was about to run out, a very subtle flash appeared in an inconspicuous natural law fissure deep within the white rock layer. The flash was so brief and weak that even the larval sensory network categorized it as a normal geological law adjustment.
"There's something deeper in the foundation of Guixu."
"It's not a backup plan, not a seal, not a paradox, not any law structure left by Pangu."
"It is a law rift, and the inside of the rift is sealed with extremely weak law fluctuations. The frequency of the fluctuations overlaps very slightly with the chaotic original color light on the blade of Pangu Axe, very slightly with the gray-white law halo on the blade of Adou's little axe, and very slightly with the Pangu bone and blood law imprint inside the bone and blood fragments."
"The fissure is located extremely deep directly below the crevice, far exceeding the limits of any previous scan of the cardiac vascular network."
Xu opened his eyes.
Su Fan was sitting at the entrance of the weapons shop eating fried dough sticks when he heard Xu's message and put the dough sticks down.
He took the shattered mirror out of his waist, and the real-time image of the law rift deep in the foundation of the Ruins appeared on the mirror.
The rift in the image was extremely narrow and dark, and the density of the laws inside was so low that it was almost nonexistent. It had a very subtle overlap with the law breathing that the living beings unconsciously released in the core of the nest shell in the Ruins before they fell asleep.
He tucked the broken mirror back into his waistband, pulled the Pangu Axe from beside the stool leg, slung it over his shoulder, and flew towards the Guixu Crack.
The steam from the fried dough stick stall's steamer was barely visible behind him. A Dou was squatting at the alley entrance chopping wood when he looked up and saw Su Fan flying across the alleyway, stepping on the golden law membrane. He paused for a moment, then called out to Su Fan's back.
"Uncle Su, the axe lit up by itself just now. It didn't light up when it was chopping wood, but when it was placed on the stone platform and resonated with the bone and blood fragments."
"After it was lit up, the gray-white aura of law on the axe blade was even brighter than before, bright enough to reveal the direction of the law patterns inside the fragment of the South Heavenly Gate brick embedded in the crack of the bluestone slab. It couldn't be seen before, but it can now be seen."
"Has something been activated again beneath the Ruins of Return?"
When Su Fan landed at the edge of the Guixu rift, Xu was squatting directly above that law rift.
He placed his right hand on the surface of the white rock layer, focusing all the perception of his heart's network on the extremely faint fluctuation of the law inside the fissure.
Eros stood beside him, the transparent law membrane around him swirling slightly in the faint golden law glow of the Guixu foundation, and all ten transparent law patterns on his hands were activated.
After the Law of Different Frequency became independent, Eros's perception of the law became more accurate than before. However, when he aimed the ten beams of light from his hands at the direction of the rift, he found that the perception of the Law of Different Frequency could not penetrate it at all.
The density of laws inside the fissure is extremely low, so low that the frequency of the laws of different frequencies is reflected back by the extremely pure law vacuum environment at the entrance of the fissure.
"The laws of different frequencies cannot be penetrated."
"The environment within the fissure is not a vacuum, but a primordial void that is purer than a vacuum."
"Within the void, there are no laws, no laws, no laws, no laws, only the purest existence itself."
"This kind of environment does not exist in any known law system in the primordial world."
"The thing sealed deepest in the foundation of Guixu was not left by Pangu."
"All of Pangu's backup plans have been put in place, the paradox has evolved, and the shadow has dissipated."
"The fluctuations of the laws within this rift were only activated after Pangu's silhouette dissipated."
"It was not the power of Pangu that activated it, but the natural ripples of the laws generated by the primordial laws life forms during their autonomous operation."
"When the ripples spread to the bottom of the Ruins, they resonated with the extremely ancient and primitive environment inside the fissure."
"The rift was activated by resonance, and after activation, extremely faint fluctuations of law began to emanate from within the rift."
Xu removed his right hand from the white rock layer and stood up.
Sun Wukong, carrying his golden cudgel, rushed back from the direction of Flower Fruit Mountain and landed on a white rocky platform at the edge of the Guixu foundation that was not yet covered by pale gold moss.
The dark red flame, formed from the embers of flint on the chest's Tanzhong acupoint, shone brightly in the faint golden light of the Guixu foundation.
He slammed the golden cudgel to the ground, squatted down, and saw the extremely faint and ancient light of law reflected in the direction of the crack in his monkey eyes.
"My mother was counting scales when she suddenly said that something was breathing at the bottom of the Ruins."
"Not a living thing, not a mutant, not a collection of laws."
"It is the breath of life forms governed by the laws of the primordial world."
"Her breathing was extremely light and steady, so light that even her scales could barely detect a faint pulse of the law."
"She said that this breath was not left by Pangu, but was the first autonomous breath produced by the primordial world after the paradoxical evolution was completed, the four laws system was integrated into one, and the law life form operated autonomously."
"The breath blew into the depths of the Ruins, and in the deepest part of the primordial white rock layer, it condensed into an extremely tiny seed of law."
"The seed is not a backup plan, not a seal, not a paradox."
"It is the original particle of the law that is naturally condensed by the life form of the primordial law during its autonomous operation."
"The particle contains all the memories of the laws governing a primordial life form from its birth to the completion of its evolution."
"These memories are not for defending against external enemies, nor for maintaining the balance of the laws."
"It is the first autobiography left to itself by a life form governed by the laws of the primordial world."
Su Fan put the Pangu Axe down from his shoulder, the blade touching the ground, and looked down at the seed of law that was slowly condensing deep in the crack.
The seed was only the size of a fingernail, and the laws flowing on its surface were extremely faint and ancient, so ancient that they overlapped very slightly with the law membrane at the entrance to the Land of Ruins, with the chaotic original light on the blade of Pangu's axe, and with the gray-white law halo on the blade of A Dou's little axe.
It sealed all the memories of the laws at the key moments since the birth of the primordial law life form inside an extremely small particle. It wasn't sealed with a seal, but rather wrapped layer by layer by the breathing rhythm of the law life form itself.
The first layer contains the frequency of law fluctuations when the mutant was sealed and reinforced deep within the Guixu foundation; the second layer contains the law transformation data when the energy of the isolation zone's slurry was drained by the larval sensory network.
The third layer contains the law enhancement curve when the original law liquid is released inside the nest shell of the backup law node, and the fourth layer contains the law superposition spectrum when the different frequency membrane wall spreads and when the sealing mark frequency resonates.
The fifth layer contains the moment when the bone and blood fragments release the last law pulse, and the four laws system merge into one. The sixth layer contains the sequence of seven residual echoes when Pangu's silhouette condenses at the bottom of the crevice.
The seventh layer contained the faint sigh of the laws of the Old Domain as the figure turned its head to look in the direction of the Old Domain before disappearing.
After being wrapped in seven layers, the seed trembled slightly inside the crack. After the tremor, the law patterns on the surface of the seed changed from extremely faint to extremely bright, so bright that they reflected the entire crack as an extremely faint dark gold.
The dark gold interior contained images of the entire process of a primordial life form from its birth to its complete evolution, governed by the laws of nature.
The images are not meant to be shown to anyone; they are the seeds themselves undergoing self-calibration.
When A Dou ran from the alleyway with his schoolbag on his back, there was something else in the bag besides the draft paper and the wooden axe.
He pulled a tiny, grayish-white fragment of law from his bag. The fragment had fallen from the sparks of law generated by the resonance between the blade of his small axe and the fragments of bone and blood when he was chopping wood on the stone platform in the weapons shop.
The fragments were only the size of rice grains, and the patterns of laws flowing on their surface were extremely faint and thin, with a very subtle overlap with the law memory wrapped in the seventh layer on the surface of the law seed deep in the crack.
"Uncle Su, this piece of debris fell out of the sparks when the little axe resonated with the bone and blood fragments."
"The debris didn't fall from the axe blade, nor from the fragments; it was formed by the law-generating sparks produced when they resonated within the law-generating steam of the quenching tank."
"The frequency of the laws within the fragments is completely synchronized with the chaotic primordial light on the blade of the Pangu Axe, completely synchronized with the Pangu bone and blood law imprint within the bone and blood fragments, and completely synchronized with the breathing frequency of the seed in the fissure beneath the Ruins."
Su Fan took the fragment and placed it in his palm, looking down at the tiny gray-white fragment of law in his hand.
The law patterns on the surface of the debris flickered on their own when they came into contact with the extremely weak law fluctuations released by the seed deep in the crack. After the flicker, the law frequency inside the debris adjusted itself, with an extremely slight adjustment.
The fragments are law beacons that naturally condense from the resonance between the small axe and bone fragments during the autonomous operation of the primordial law life form. The frequency of the beacons is completely synchronized with the breathing frequency of the law seed deep in the rift.
This beacon can penetrate the primordial void environment inside the crack without disturbing the internal law structure of the seed, and read out the seven layers of law memory inside the seed one by one.
The data retrieved is not for analysis, but for archiving.
The seed's law memory is the first autobiography left to itself by the primordial law life form. The autobiography does not need to be interpreted or studied; it only needs to be preserved intact and stored in the deepest part of the primordial law life form's own law foundation.
Sun Wukong pulled the golden cudgel from the white rock layer, carried it on his shoulder, walked directly above the crevice, and looked down at the seed of law that was self-calibrating deep within the crevice.
"My mother said that the first spontaneous breath of a life form under the primordial laws was breathed into the depths of the Ruins and condensed into this seed."
"The seed was not Pangu's backup plan, nor anyone else's backup plan."
"It is the memory of the primordial laws of life forms, the autobiography of the primordial world itself."
"This autobiography doesn't need to be written by anyone else; it was naturally formed when the primordial world was breathing."
"Pangu used the axe to split the skeleton of the primordial world, and later humans used the will of all living beings to infuse the flesh and blood of the primordial world. After the paradoxical evolution was completed, the primordial world had its own laws and life."
"Now it has its own breath, and the breath blows into the depths of Guixu and condenses into a seed, which seals all its memories."
"No matter how many void fragments remain outside the Primordial World, no matter how many unexplored areas of dense laws remain deep within the void, no matter whether there will be new variables on the side of the extraterrestrial gods after the old domain's seclusion ends."
"The primordial world can breathe on its own; breathing is its memory."
"Where there is memory, there are roots."
A Dou placed the fragments on the stone platform, alongside the small axe and pieces of bone and blood.
The fragments activated themselves upon contact with the gray-white aura of law on the blade of the small axe and the Pangu bone and blood law imprint inside the bone and blood fragments. After activation, the fragments released an extremely weak law pulse.
The pulse penetrates the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation, penetrates the original, desolate environment inside the fissures, and precisely hits the center of the seed.
The seed stopped self-calibrating the moment it received the pulse. After it stopped, the seven layers of law memories were simultaneously projected outward from inside the seed, unfolding layer by layer in the darkest and quietest law void at the deepest part of the Guixu foundation.
The first layer unfolds the frequency of law fluctuations during the sealing and reinforcement of the mutants. All mutants inside the sealing membrane simultaneously cease all law activities at the moment of eternal slumber and sealing reinforcement.
The second layer unfolds as the energy of the isolation zone slurry is drained by the larval sensory network, and the last trace of law energy inside the slurry disintegrates into an extremely pure law vacuum the moment the transformation is completed.
The third layer unfolds as the law enhancement curve of the original law liquid released from the nest shell inside the backup law node. When the original liquid flows out of the node, it is slowed down layer by layer by the different frequency law buffer layer until it is within the range that the larval perception network can withstand. Every bit of original liquid is absorbed and transformed cleanly.
The fourth layer unfolds as a superposition of laws during the spreading of the heterogeneous membrane wall and the resonance of the sealing mark frequency. The heterogeneous law and the nest shell law form a very stable superposition of laws on the surface of the sealing membrane wall. After the superposition, the rebound intensity of the membrane wall to the gatekeeper law detection pulse is increased.
The fifth layer unfolds as the bone and blood fragments release their final law pulse, merging the four law systems into one at that moment. At that instant, the four law nodes of Guixu, Xujindi, Nantianmen, and Fanjian simultaneously trembled slightly, and after the tremor, the law boundaries between the four directions completely disappeared.
The sixth layer unfolds as the silhouette of Pangu condenses at the bottom of the crevice, revealing the arrangement of the seven lingering echoes of his back. These seven echoes are arranged in the chronological order of each of Pangu's backhand strikes, and when they reach the seventh paradoxical logical sequence, there is a very subtle tremor in the very center.
The seventh layer unfolds as the figure turned its head to look towards the old domain before the figure disappeared, and the source of the old domain's laws responded to those two words with an extremely faint sigh of law. The content of the sigh was not in any law frequency; it was just that the source of the old domain's laws moved very slightly in the extreme darkness and stillness of seclusion.
After all seven layers of memory were unfolded, the seed was extremely quiet and dark inside the crack, so quiet that it completely merged with the extremely dark and still vacuum of laws deep within the white rock layer.
The seed completed its self-calibration, sealing the complete memory of the primordial laws of life forms from birth to the completion of their evolution within an extremely small particle. After sealing, the law patterns on the seed's surface changed from extremely bright back to extremely faint, almost invisible, but still pulsating slightly at an extremely slow and steady rhythm.
A Dou squatted at the edge of the crevice. The outline of the axe drawn in pencil on the crumpled draft paper in his schoolbag was still there, as was the crooked line of words next to it.
"My axe shines."
He picked up the debris from the stone platform and put it back in his schoolbag, placing it alongside the draft paper and the wooden axe.
The debris gleamed faintly inside the schoolbag, casting a very pale, dark gold hue onto the pencil-drawn outline of the axe on the draft paper.
He patted his schoolbag, stood up, and stepped onto the bluestone slab he had come from, walking step by step toward the alley entrance.
The aftershock of the calamity at the alley entrance exploded into tiny white arcs of electricity beneath his feet, and the law patterns on the bluestone slabs shone brightly from the edge of the Guixu crack all the way to the entrance of the weapons shop.
Steam rose from the steamer basket of the fried dough stick stall in the morning light, and Old Zhang was bending over to add coal briquettes to the stove, his apron now splattered with a few more oil stains.
The golden light of Mars spread steadily across the South Heavenly Gate city wall. The core fragments of Mount Sumeru and the fragments of Buddhist laws slowly rotated on the city bricks, their rotation rhythm perfectly synchronized with the breathing frequency of the seven layers of memories inside the seed of law deep in the fissure of the Guixu underground.
The new patterns on the dark purple law membrane in the direction of the old domain were still faintly glowing. The law anchoring precision of the flint beacon rune at the entrance to the Ruins had been pushed to its limit after the primordial law life form completed its first autonomous breath.
Sun Wukong squatted on the ramparts of the South Heavenly Gate, his golden cudgel resting on his knees. He looked down at the seed of law that was slowly pulsating deep within the extremely quiet and dark white rock layer in the direction of Guixu, stuffed the last bite of peach into his mouth, chewed it twice, and swallowed it.
"Pangu's silhouette has faded, but the seeds of the primordial world have come to life."
"One is the last projection of the old era, and the other is the first breath of the new era."
"After the projection dissipated, no trace was left in the depths of Guixu. After the seed took root, an extremely subtle breath appeared in the depths of Guixu."
"His breathing was so light that even my mother could barely sense it."
"But it won't stop."
"As long as the primordial chaos continues to operate, as long as the white rock layer beneath the Ruins continues to circulate on its own, and as long as the steam from the fried dough stick stall's steamer continues to rise, this breath will not stop."
Su Fan slung the Pangu Axe over his shoulder and headed towards the weapons shop.
The seed has come to life, breathing continuously; it has roots in the primordial wilderness, and those roots breathe.
The next morning, when A Dou ran into the weapons shop with his little axe on his back, Old Zhang was bending over adding coal briquettes to the stove.
The steam from the youtiao stall's steamer rose straighter and more steadily in the morning light than usual.
Su Fan sat on a low stool, with the Pangu Axe leaning against the stool leg, and was stuffing the last fried dough stick into his mouth.
A Dou pulled the small axe from his waist and placed it on the stone platform. The dark gold law pattern on the axe blade was extremely faint yet extremely bright in the morning light.
The bone and blood fragments were attached to the edge of the quenching tank, and the Pangu bone and blood law imprint inside the fragments automatically released extremely weak law pulses every time wood was chopped.
The pulse travels along the law resonance channel between the quenching tank and the Ruins foundation into the larval perception network, where it is automatically translated into quenching accuracy calibration data. This data is then synchronously transmitted to Eros's heterogeneous law observation station.
The entire calibration chain, from the small axe to the Guixu foundation, and from the Guixu foundation to the heterogeneous frequency law observation station, requires no human intervention.
After evolving to its limit, the little axe became a fully autonomous law maintenance node at the very end of the Guixu Law System in the mortal realm. Its maintenance target was not the primordial world or Guixu, but the burning temperature of the stove at the fried dough stick stall and the newly splattered oil stains on Old Zhang's apron.
Old Zhang took the freshly fried dough sticks out and placed them on oil paper to drain the oil, leaving a few more oil stains on his apron.
He carried the fried dough sticks to the entrance of the weapons shop, placed them on the stone table, and glanced down at the faint dark gold light on the surface of the bone and blood fragments.
"Su Fan, this fragment has been sitting by the quenching tank for months. It lights up by itself every time I chop wood, it flashes by itself when I quench, and it even trembles when the steam from the steamer floats onto it while I'm frying dough sticks. Is this thing alive?"
Su Fan finished chewing and swallowing the last bite of the fried dough stick, pulled the Pangu Axe from beside the stool leg, carried it on his shoulder, stood up, and walked to the stone platform.
The Pangu Bone and Blood Law imprint within the bone and blood fragments, empowered by the Paradox Pulse, has evolved to be completely synchronized with the breathing frequency of the Primordial Law life form.
Each breath creates extremely subtle ripples of energy on the surface of the fragments. When these ripples spread into the quenching tank, they automatically adjust the temperature of the quenching slurry to the most precise critical point.
He aimed the faint, chaotic light from the blade of the Pangu Axe at the bone and blood fragments, and the two beams of light resonated briefly at extremely close range.
"It's not alive."
"It was the imprint of laws that Pangu condensed with his own bones and blood that was reactivated after the primordial law-based life forms began to breathe autonomously."
"After activation, the fragment is no longer a sealed item, no longer a backup plan, and no longer a suppressing stone."
"It became a vital node for the primordial laws of life in the mortal realm, a node for the breath of the laws."
"The breathing node doesn't need to do anything. It just needs to be placed next to the quenching tank and absorb the steam from the fried dough stick stall and the will of all living beings that A Dou infuses into the axe blade when he chops wood every day."
"The absorbed law energy is transmitted into the larval perception network through the law resonance channel between the quenching tank and the Guixu foundation. The perception network then translates the energy into law reinforcement data for the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation."
"The entire transmission chain, from the small axe to the depths of Guixu, and from the depths of Guixu to the breathing rhythm of the primordial law life forms, requires no human intervention throughout."
"It is no longer Pangu's backup plan, but part of the breath of the primordial world."
A Dou picked up the small axe from the stone platform and turned it over. The dark gold law patterns on the axe blade shone brightly under the light of the dual laws of bone and blood fragments and Pangu Axe, so bright that they could illuminate the pulsating trajectory of the aftershock of the great calamity on the bluestone slab at the entrance of the weapon shop.
He tucked the small axe into his waistband, walked out of the weapons shop, and headed towards the alley entrance on the bluestone slabs.
The aftershock of the great calamity at the alley entrance exploded into tiny white arcs of electricity beneath his feet, and the law patterns on the bluestone slabs shone brightly from the entrance of the weapons shop all the way to the end of the alley.
Steam rises from the steamer basket of the fried dough stick stall in the morning light, as if the primordial world is breathing, breathing on the bluestone slabs.