chsdbacks Chapter 417 The Primordial System
Chapter 417 The Primordial System
After the final pulse of law released by the bone and blood fragments spread along the four laws system, the primordial law fault deep within the foundation of the Ruins of Return completely healed.
The newly formed white rock layer at the healed area has an extremely smooth and flat surface, without even a single pattern of laws remaining.
Under the support of pulses, the larval sensing network completed its final full-law node calibration, and the calibration results were synchronously transmitted to the sensing array of the Eros monitoring station.
Eros stood on the white rock platform, and the transparent law membrane around him was reinforced by the pulse, with the last layer being reinforced on its own.
After the reinforcement was completed, the causal law patterns inside the membrane wall were extremely stable and dense, so dense that even the heart network of the Void could not distinguish which patterns were Eros's own and which were added by the pulse.
He raised his right hand from his side, palm facing up, and the three law clauses inside the draft agreement crystal in his palm, which had been personally marked by the origin of the old domain's laws, all lit up.
The light pierced through the law membrane of the Ruins of Return, struck the extremely dark void outside the membrane, and flew towards the Old Domain.
"The Four Laws of Primordial Chaos have been upgraded from a symbiotic structure to a single law system."
"The four law nodes of Guixu, Xujindi, Nantianmen, and Fanjian have all been integrated into one. There are no gaps in the connection of the laws within the system, no weak points in the laws, and no deviations in the frequency of the laws."
"The Void has a bottom, the Primordial Chaos will not sink—this has been transformed from a law confirmation pulse into a law attribute of the law body itself."
"The Third Branch's Monitoring Station for the Primordial Laws is officially closed from this moment on."
"It's not evacuation, it's closure."
"The purpose of the monitoring station is to monitor fluctuations in the boundaries of the laws. Now that the boundaries of the laws no longer exist, the four directions have merged into one, and there are no boundaries to monitor."
Yang Jian stood on the South Heavenly Gate city wall, two shards of mirror pieced together and placed in his palm.
The dark purple law membrane in the direction of the old domain, which was receiving the pulse of the Eros Law, appeared on the mirror.
After receiving the pulse, the membrane wall trembled very slightly. After the tremor, the flow patterns on the surface of the membrane wall changed from very slow to very fast, so fast that even the mirror-like pattern residue could not keep up with its flow speed.
"The origin of the laws of the old domain has received a pulse."
"It cannot release any law power to the outside world during its seclusion, but it responds by changing the flow speed of the law patterns on the surface of the membrane."
"The flow rate changed from extremely slow to extremely fast, and after a short while, it returned to extremely slow."
"After the restoration, the surface of the membrane wall has an additional, extremely fine and faint new pattern compared to before."
"The frequency of the new pattern's laws is completely synchronized with the Pangu bone and blood law imprint inside the bone and blood fragments."
Yang Jian turned the shattered mirror toward Su Fan.
Su Fan was sitting at the entrance of the weapons shop eating fried dough sticks, with the Pangu Axe leaning against the stool leg.
Upon hearing Yang Jian's message, he stuffed the last piece of fried dough into his mouth, chewed it twice, swallowed it, pulled the Pangu Axe from beside the stool leg, carried it on his shoulder, and flew towards the direction of the Guixu Crack.
The original laws of the old domain etched a new pattern on the surface of the membrane, and the frequency of the law in the pattern was completely in sync with the bone and blood fragments.
That wasn't a response to Eros's pulse, but a response to the signal of the laws that brought the four primordial laws system into one after the completion of the evolution of the Pangu Paradox.
It uses the extremely faint lingering echo of its laws, the only thing it can release to the outside world during its seclusion, to express a very brief and ancient message.
Xu stood at the edge of the Ruins foundation, his right hand pressed against the pale gold line on his chest. The heart's vascular network translated the frequency of the new pattern on the surface of the old domain membrane into specific information within his chest cavity.
When he opened his eyes, his pale golden pupils reflected a faint, ancient dark golden light from the direction of the Old Domain.
"The original laws of the old domain are engraved on the surface of the membrane with new patterns, the contents of which are only three words."
"received."
"Before Pangu sealed the paradox into the depths of the Ruins, he struck the very center of the original core of the laws of the Old Domain with the back of the Heaven-Opening Axe."
"That knock wasn't an attack, nor a seal; it was a greeting."
"He used the frequency of the laws of the Heaven-Opening Axe to tell the origin of the laws of the Old Domain—I left a paradox in the depths of the Ruins of Return. After the paradox has evolved, the four laws of the Primordial World will merge into one."
"When you are completely integrated, your seclusion should end."
"After it ends, there's no need to guard the boundary of laws between the Old Domain and the Primordial World anymore; the boundary no longer exists."
"The faction within the three branches of the Outer Gods that advocates peace will take over from you to maintain the balance of laws in the depths of the void."
"You are free."
Xu removed his right hand from his chest.
Eros looked down at the ten transparent law patterns on the tips of his fingers.
After the barrier of the different frequency law was laid out, the pattern remained extremely faint and stable. Now, under the law resonance of the new pattern on the surface of the old domain membrane, it flashed on its own. After the flash, the law fluorescence on the surface of the pattern became slightly brighter than before.
This was an extremely subtle detail, but Eros knew it meant that the Law of Different Frequency had officially separated from the Primordial Laws system after completing the isolation zone, the expansion of the barrier in the Land of Ruins, and the reinforcement of the five key nodes of the Ruins Foundation.
It is no longer a transitional law between the primordial and extraterrestrial divine law systems, nor is it a product of the fusion of the imprint of the old domain laws and the will of all living beings.
It is a third-party law system that was formally certified by the original source of the old domain's laws during its seclusion through the new texture on the surface of the membrane.
It does not belong to the primordial world, nor to the extraterrestrial gods, nor to the old domain; it belongs only to the laws of another frequency.
He activated all ten transparent law patterns on his hands and nodded slightly towards the direction of the old domain.
Then he lowered his hand and turned to look at Su Fan.
"The Law of Different Frequencyes is officially independent from this moment on."
"Its system of laws does not belong to the primordial world, nor to the extraterrestrial gods, nor to the old domain; it belongs only to itself."
"I am the first physical imprint left by the Law of Different Frequency in the Primordial Law system, and also the last ambassador of the Third Branch stationed in the Primordial Law system."
"After the Law of Different Frequency became independent, the third branch's monitoring station stationed at the Law of Primordial Chaos was officially dismantled."
"I am no longer the ambassador of the Primordial Laws; I am the first observer of the Laws of Different Frequency in the Ruins of Return."
"The object of observation is not the primordial world, not the extraterrestrial gods, not the old domain, but the primordial law fault deep within the foundation of the Ruins of Return that has been completely healed."
"The fault line contains extremely faint remnants of the laws that remained after the Pangu Paradox was completed. These remnants did not dissipate after the fault line healed, but are still slowly evolving on their own."
"The frequency of the law of different frequencies is completely different from the frequency of the law of afterimage. It will not be absorbed by the afterimage, nor will it interfere with the self-evolution of the afterimage. It can continuously observe the changes in the law structure of the afterimage."
"The observation data will be transmitted synchronously to the source of the laws of the old domain, and will be used as reference data for the old domain to recalibrate the balance of the laws in the depths of the void after the old domain's seclusion ends."
"After the seclusion ends, the Old Domain will send people to Guixu."
Eros looked down at his fingertips.
Xu stood at the edge of the Guixu Crack, took the stone core out of his bosom and held it in the palm of his left hand.
The silvery-white crystal on the core surface beats at an extremely stable frequency, perfectly synchronized with the heartbeat of the larva deep within the Guixu foundation.
He placed his right hand back on the pale gold line on his chest, and the beating frequency of his heart's pulse network was adjusted very slightly after the law of different frequencies officially became independent.
The adjustment was minimal, but he knew it meant that his heart network had sensed a very faint fluctuation of law in the extremely dark and still law vacuum deep within the foundation of the Ruins.
The frequency of the fluctuations overlapped very slightly with the chaotic primordial light on the blade of Pangu's axe, very slightly with the imprint of Pangu's bone and blood laws inside the bone and blood fragments, and very slightly with the lingering law resonance of Pangu's last words at the bottom of the crevice.
"All of Pangu's contingency plans left in the depths of Guixu—the mutant seal, the original liquid of the isolation zone, the backup law nodes, the heterogeneous frequency membrane, the bone and blood fragments, the echoes in the crevice, and the paradoxical fault line—have all been put back in place."
"Each subsequent move released a very faint residual force of law after returning to its position. The residual force did not dissipate, but instead sank into the crevices of the original white rock layer at the deepest part of the Guixu foundation."
"They slowly gather at the bottom of the crevice."
"The convergence is not fast, but it is continuous."
Xu opened his eyes.
Su Fan's hand holding the axe handle trembled very slightly.
Pangu's backup plans have all come into play.
Each subsequent move released a very faint aftereffect of the law after returning to its place. The aftereffect did not dissipate but sank into the depths of the Ruins.
They are not remnants, but extremely subtle imprints of the laws that Pangu deliberately left inside each of his rear hands when he cleaved out each one.
Inside the mutant seal, there was a fragment of Pangu's protective will; inside the isolation zone's original liquid, there was a trace of Pangu's power of creation; and inside the backup law node, there was a trace of Pangu's bone and blood law imprint.
The inner wall of the different frequency membrane still retains a trace of the laws of Pangu's nest shell, and the bone and blood fragments contain the complete imprint of Pangu's laws of bone and blood.
The gap between the lines sealed off Pangu's last breath of law, and the paradoxical fault sealed off the last logic Pangu had figured out before creating the world.
No one knows what the lingering effects of the laws released after each move returns to its place will form when they come together.
Even Pangu himself didn't know.
He left a contingency plan for those who came after him. Those who came after him put all the contingency plans back in their proper places, and the resulting residual laws and influences gathered together to form something that Pangu had not foreseen.
He foresaw that the paradox would evolve and be completed, that the four laws of the primordial world would merge into one, that the old domain would engrave new patterns on the surface of the membrane in response, and that the laws of different frequencies would become independent.
However, he did not anticipate that after each subsequent move was put into place, the people would continue to pour the will of all living beings into the depths of the Ruins, and the residual law within the subsequent moves would converge and merge at the bottom of the crevice.
A Dou was squatting at the entrance of the weapons shop, chopping the day's worth of dry branches with a small axe.
After chopping firewood for several months, the gray-white aura of law on the axe blade had evolved to be extremely stable and bright. With each axe strike, the pre-chopping pulse would lock onto the weakest point of the dry branch's fibers, precisely splitting the dry branch in half.
After chopping the firewood, he carried it to the stove and stuck the bone and blood fragments to the edge of the quenching tank to continue the new round of law resonance calibration before quenching.
He flipped the small axe over. The dark gold law patterns on the blade, enhanced by the paradox pulse, had evolved to perfectly mesh with the law structure inside the axe blade. After meshing, the quenching precision of the small axe no longer needed human calibration.
The Pangu Bone and Blood Law Imprint inside the bone and blood fragments automatically releases extremely weak law pulses during each quenching. The pulses are transmitted into the larval perception network along the law resonance channel between the quenching tank and the Guixu foundation. The perception network automatically translates the pulses into quenching accuracy calibration data, which is then synchronously transmitted to the Eros monitoring 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.
The object of maintenance is not the primordial wilderness, nor the desolate ruins, but the burning temperature of the stove at the fried dough stick stall and the fresh oil stains splattered on Old Zhang's apron.
Each time wood-chopping generates a fluctuation of laws, it leaves extremely subtle law imprints inside the bone and blood fragments. After several months of accumulation, extremely subtle law patterns begin to appear on the surface of the Pangu bone and blood law imprints sealed inside the fragments.
The direction of the pattern is completely the same as the direction of the dark gold law pattern on the blade of A Dou's small axe, and the frequency of the chaotic original light on the blade of Pangu's axe is completely synchronized. It also has a very subtle overlap with the residual charm of Pangu's rear law that is slowly gathering in the deep crevices of the Guixu underground.
Sun Wukong squatted on the battlements of the South Heavenly Gate, his golden cudgel resting across his knees.
The monkey's eyes reflected the extremely quiet and dark white rock layer deep in the direction of Guixu, where the lingering remnants of Pangu's post-heavenly laws were slowly gathering at the bottom of the crevice and began to arrange themselves during the gathering process.
The order of arrangement is not random; it is arranged according to the time sequence in which Pangu unleashed each subsequent move.
The first layer is the fragment of the guardian will inside the mutant seal; the second layer is the remnant of the power of creation inside the original liquid of the isolation zone; and the third layer is the bone and blood law imprint inside the backup law node.
The fourth is the lingering echo of the Nest Shell Law within the Different Frequency Membrane Wall; the fifth is the complete imprint of the Bone and Blood Law within the Bone and Blood Fragment; the sixth is the last breath of law sealed by the echo in the crevice; and the seventh is the logic sealed within the Paradoxical Fault.
The seven lingering echoes formed an extremely neat sequence at the bottom of the crevice. The frequency of the laws within the sequence gradually increased from the first to the seventh. When it reached the seventh paradoxical logic, the very center of the sequence trembled slightly.
After the tremor, the seven residual energies simultaneously disintegrated on their own. The resulting fragments of laws re-condensed at the bottom of the crevice, forming a faint and ancient phantom of laws.
The outline of the phantom was extremely blurry, so blurry that even the heart network of the Ruins could only be barely discerned as extremely simple lines.
The lines do not depict the structure of laws, nor the seal runes, nor the imprint of will.
It was the silhouette of a person crouching in the depths of Guixu, speaking his last words towards his mother's scales. It was extremely faint and quiet, so quiet that it completely merged with the extremely dark and quiet vacuum of laws deep within the crevice.
Pangu did not leave.
After returning all his backup plans to their proper places, he retrieved all the extremely subtle law imprints that he had sealed within each of them, which condensed into this extremely faint and serene silhouette beneath the Ruins of Return.
The silhouette is not alive; it has no consciousness, no will, and no laws or power.
It was merely a very brief projection of the laws that Pangu pieced together using the lingering echoes of the last seven laws after countless eons.
The projection won't last long; once it dissipates, the underground of Guixu will truly be empty.
However, during the duration of the projection, the operating frequency of all the law nodes within the Primordial Four Laws system resonated very subtly with the extremely faint and still silhouette within the projection.
The resonance band was extremely narrow, so narrow that even the heart network of the Ruins could barely detect it, but all nodes sensed it.
The mutants inside the sealing membrane remained in eternal slumber, and the seal itself was reinforced by the resonance, while the vacuum of the isolation zone was purified by the resonance.
The backup law node, at the opening, absorbed and transformed the last strand of the original crystal of the nest shell law within the resonance, while the lingering law resonance of Pangu's last words at the bottom of the crevice was completely sealed within the resonance.
The core fragment of Mount Sumeru on the South Heavenly Gate city wall reinforced the surrounding law nodes through resonance, and the flint beacon rune at the entrance to the Land of Ruins pushed the law anchoring precision to the limit through resonance.
On the bluestone slab in front of the fried dough stick stall, the aftershocks of the calamity at the alley entrance resonated and self-calibrated their frequency.
All nodes completed the final maintenance of the laws in resonance. After the maintenance, the Primordial Four Laws System was upgraded from a single law entity to a completely autonomous law life entity.
It requires no external force to maintain it, no backup plan to back it up, no paradox to support it, and no law or will to guide it.
It is its own guardian.
The projection lingered at the bottom of the crevice for quite some time before beginning to dissipate very slowly.
The dissipation was slow but continuous. When the last wisp of the law's residual energy dissipated, the extremely faint and quiet figure inside the projection slightly turned its head.
The direction my head is turned is not towards the Ruins, not towards the end of the Ruins, not towards the Southern Heavenly Gate, not towards the mortal realm, but towards the Old Domain.
The source of the old domain's laws could not release any law power to the outside world during its seclusion, but it sensed the direction in which that figure turned its head.
The new pattern it etched on the membrane surface flashed extremely subtly the moment the figure turned its head to the side. After the flash, the fluorescence of the pattern changed from extremely bright to extremely faint, so faint that it was almost invisible, but it was still faintly glowing.
It responded to Pangu's departing figure with the last trace of the law's lingering resonance, the content of which was not in any law frequency, not in any law rune, not in any law imprint.
It moved only slightly in the extremely dark and quiet seclusion, and after it moved, the law structure inside the old domain underwent a very subtle change.
The change was not at the level of laws; it was the first time in countless eons that the original laws of the old domain had produced such a faint emotional fluctuation in response to the outside world.
It was not a law-sensing or law-resonance; it was an extremely faint sigh of law unconsciously released by some extremely ancient and primordial law entity while it was dormant.
The sigh contained only two words.
"See you later."
The original law of the old domain believes that Pangu did not truly disappear.
With the paradoxical evolution complete, the four laws of the primordial world upgraded from a symbiotic structure to a single law entity and then to a law life entity. Pangu's contingency plans were all put back in place, and the lingering law energy within the contingency plans pieced together a very faint silhouette at the bottom of the crevice.
Before the figure disappeared, he glanced at the Old Domain and the Old Domain replied with two words.
It knew that after Pangu's silhouette dissipated, it would re-condense elsewhere, not in the form of a law projection, but in the form of an extremely weak law resonance generated when all the law nodes inside the primordial law life form operated on their own.
As long as the primordial chaos continues to unfold, as long as the extremely dark and still white rock layer beneath the Guixu Earth continues to circulate on its own, and as long as the steam from the youtiao stall's steamer continues to rise, the silhouette of Pangu will never truly disappear.
It simply merged into the foundation of the Primordial Law Life Form, becoming a part of the Primordial Law Life Form itself.
After the seclusion of the Old Domain ends, someone will be sent to Guixu to collect Eros's observation data. By then, Pangu's figure will no longer be there, but the new pattern carved on the surface of the membrane by the origin of the Old Domain's laws will still be there.
The patterns will continue to glow, shining until the old domain's seclusion ends, shining until the origin of the old domain's laws personally comes to Guixu to see Pangu.
Pangu was not there then, but Guixu was there, the Primordial World was there, the Laws of Life were there, the fried dough stick stall was there, Adou's little axe was there, the fragments of bone and blood were there, Su Fan's Pangu Axe was there, Sun Wukong's Golden Cudgel was there, the heart network of the Ruins was there, Eros's alternate frequency laws were there, Nezha's Fire-Tipped Spear was there, Yang Jian's Shattered Mirror was there, Qingfeng's Broken Sword was there, the human warrior's Demon Emperor Spear was there, Gongsun Bao's Blended Axe was there, Old Zhang's Oil Pot was there, and the aftershocks of the Great Calamity on the Bluestone Slab were there.
Pangu's figure has faded away, but everything he guarded for countless lifetimes remains, nothing is missing.
The Ruins have a bottom, and the primordial chaos will not sink.
There's no need to guard it anymore; the primordial world will guard itself.
The next morning, before the steam from the fried dough stick stall's steamer had even risen, A Dou was already squatting at the alley entrance chopping up his share of dry branches for the day.
The gray-white halo of light on the blade of the small axe was extremely faint and thin in the morning light. With each swing, the withered branch would break in two before it even touched the blade.
He stacked the chopped firewood next to the stove and pasted the bone and blood fragments onto the edge of the quenching tank for the final round of law resonance calibration.
Old Zhang poked his head out from behind the stove, his apron now splattered with a few more oil stains.
"Adou, we chopped several more bundles of firewood today than yesterday. The fried dough stick stall is doing better and better, and we're using up firewood faster and faster. We can't keep up with the speed at which we're frying the dough sticks."
"If you can't keep up, just chop more. Once the little axe has evolved to its limit, you don't need to exert any force when chopping wood. The pre-chopping pulse at the front of the axe blade will lock the weakest point of the dead branch fibers in advance, and you can break several branches with one chop."
"Bone and blood fragments adhered to the edge of the quenching tank, and the temperature of the quenching slurry was automatically adjusted to the most precise critical point. After chopping firewood, the gray-white aura of the law on the axe blade was brighter than before chopping."
"Chopping wood is equivalent to quenching, and quenching is equivalent to chopping wood. The entire law chain operates autonomously from the weapons shop to the foundation of Guixu, without human intervention."
A Dou flipped the small axe over. The dark gold law patterns on the axe blade, enhanced by the paradox pulse, had evolved to the point where they completely meshed with the law structure inside the axe blade. After meshing, the quenching precision of the small axe no longer needed human calibration.
He picked up the bone and blood fragment from the edge of the quenching trough and placed it on the stone platform. The Pangu bone and blood law imprint inside the fragment automatically released extremely weak law pulses every time he chopped wood.
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.
Su Fan leaned against the door frame of the weapons shop, with the Pangu Axe stuck at his feet.
The golden light of Mars spread steadily across the South Heavenly Gate city wall, while the new patterns on the dark purple law membrane in the direction of the old domain were still faintly glowing.
Sun Wukong returned to Flower Fruit Mountain. Xu continued to monitor the completely healed primordial law fault deep within the foundation of Guixu using his heart network. Eros, directly above the fault, used the law of different frequencies to continuously observe the extremely faint aftereffects of the paradox after its evolution was completed.
Nezha returned to Chentang Pass carrying the Fire-Tipped Spear, while Yang Jian pieced the broken mirror back together to continue monitoring the fluctuations of the void laws outside the membrane wall during the old domain's closed-door cultivation period.
Qingfeng led the soldiers left behind to maintain the law nodes of the core fragment of Mount Sumeru on the South Heavenly Gate city wall as usual. Human warriors sharpened their daily cleavers in the weapon shop, while Gongsun Bao placed his dull axe on the brick stove to continue using it as a quenching tank.
After A Dou finished chopping the last few dry branches, he piled up several neat rows of firewood next to the stove.
He placed the small axe on the stone platform, side by side with the fragments of bone and blood, the two lines of law resonating subtly in the morning light.
Old Zhang scooped the fried dough sticks out of the oil pan and placed them on oil paper to drain the oil, leaving a few more oil stains on his apron.
He put the freshly fried dough sticks into an oil paper bag and shouted in the direction of the weapons shop.
"Su Fan, the fried dough sticks are ready! Eat them while they're hot, they won't be crispy when they get cold!"