chsdbacks Chapter 414 The following information was omitted.
Chapter 414 The following information was omitted.
As A Dou ran back to the edge of the Ruins Crack with his schoolbag on his back, Su Fan was hoisting the Pangu Axe onto his shoulder, preparing to fly towards the end of the Ruins.
The golden light of Mars spread steadily across the South Heavenly Gate city wall, and the heart of the Ruins suddenly stopped beating for a moment.
This pause was extremely brief, so brief that even the sensing array at the Eros monitoring station failed to detect any abnormal laws, but the Ruins themselves knew.
After the isolation zone was purified, the heart's pulsation network had been operating at a very stable low frequency. Now it has suddenly stopped beating, not because something deep in the foundation of the Ruins has awakened.
This is because the larval sensory network completed a full-scale reversion of the fundamental law nodes for synchronization in the final stage of evolution.
After the calibration was completed, the perception network automatically released a very weak law confirmation pulse, which spread in all directions along the law patterns of the white rock layer.
When it diffused into the extremely dark and still vacuum of laws within the isolation zone, it was bounced back by the extremely pure law environment inside the vacuum.
The rebound echo formed an extremely subtle ripple of law within the larva's sensory network. This ripple was so weak that even the larva itself categorized it as normal law calibration feedback.
However, when the heart network of the Ruins received this ripple, it automatically deciphered the extremely ancient law information sealed within the ripple.
The message was extremely brief, consisting of only four words.
"The axe blade is here."
Xu placed his right hand on the pale gold line on his chest and translated the four words he had deciphered to everyone without missing a single one.
Su Fan stopped in his tracks.
He put the Pangu Axe down from his shoulder and looked down at the extremely faint chaotic primordial light on the axe blade. The light was extremely stable and faint in the extremely faint golden law glow of the Guixu foundation.
Sun Wukong squatted at the edge of the isolation zone, his golden cudgel across his knees. Upon hearing those four words, he slammed the cudgel on the ground and stood up. His monkey eyes reflected the extremely dark and quiet vacuum of laws deep within the isolation zone.
"The axe blade is here. After Pangu cleaved the isolation zone, he left something in the white rock layer directly below it."
"It's not a seal, not a node of law, but a fragment of the blade of a heaven-opening axe."
"The primordial slurry sealed inside the isolation zone disturbed his mother countless times. After he pressed the slurry deep into the white rock layer, fearing that the seal was not stable enough, he broke off a piece of the axe blade from the Heaven-Opening Axe and pressed it directly under the slurry."
"The chaotic laws within the fragment and the void laws of the primordial slurry are completely out of frequency. The slurry cannot erode the fragment. The fragment is pressed under the isolation zone by countless huiyuan, and has been passively absorbing the extremely weak law pulses released by the slurry. After absorption, the law structure inside the fragment evolves into a completely new law form."
"Now that the slurry has been drained, the fragments are exposed to the vacuum of laws, and the calibration echo of the perception network has activated the most primordial law imprint inside the fragments."
"The mark contains these four words: 'The axe blade is here.'"
"It tells future generations that Pangu left a fragment of an axe blade here, not to chop things, but to prove one thing: after he cleaved out the isolation zone, he did not leave immediately, but squatted down in the depths of Guixu and said something to his mother's scales."
"This sentence was not sealed in any law seal, but only in the deepest part of this axe blade fragment."
Su Fan shoved the Pangu Axe into his back, placed his hands on the surface of the white rock layer, and aligned the thin golden line on his left palm with the extremely dark and still vacuum of laws directly below the isolation zone.
The will of all beings surged from the fine thread and poured into the white rock layer, penetrating into the depths of the vacuum along the law patterns of the white rock layer. When it penetrated to the bottom of the vacuum, the will was blocked by an extremely ancient and faint law boundary.
The frequency of the laws within the boundary was extremely familiar, completely identical to the Pangu's protective will sealed inside the Pangu Axe, and had a very slight overlap with the power of creation, but was deeper and more stable, so deep that even the will of all living beings could only penetrate a very shallow trace on the surface of the boundary.
After this wisp penetrated in, a very faint resonance of law came from inside the boundary. The frequency of the resonance was extremely low and deep, completely synchronized with the frequency of the chaotic original light on the blade of Pangu Axe.
The axe blade fragment sensed the aura of Pangu's axe and awoke.
After reviving, the fragment trembled slightly at the bottom of the vacuum. The resulting ripples of law penetrated the vacuum, the heterogeneous frequency membrane, and the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation. They traveled upwards along the law membrane of the Guixu crack and were automatically captured by the core fragment of Mount Sumeru when they reached the South Heavenly Gate city wall.
The law node formed by the fusion of Buddhist laws and the laws of the path of all beings within the core fragment flickered extremely slightly upon receiving this ripple. After the flicker, the law patterns within the node adjusted slightly on their own. The adjustment was extremely subtle, but Yang Jian's shattered mirror captured this change.
Yang Jian pieced the two shattered mirrors together, and a real-time image of the axe blade fragment at the bottom of the vacuum of the isolation zone appeared on the mirror surface.
The fragments in the image were only the size of a fingernail, and the laws flowing on their surface were extremely ancient and primitive, so ancient that they were completely of the same origin as the law membrane at the entrance to the Land of Ruins, and completely synchronized with the frequency of the chaotic original light on the blade of Pangu's Axe.
He turned the shattered mirror toward Su Fan.
"The internal structure of this axe blade fragment is completely different from the nine existing fragments on the Pangu Axe blade."
"The existing nine fragments were formed by Pangu using the power of creation, and this fragment was formed by Pangu using his own bones and blood. He fused his own bones and blood into the blade of the Heaven-Opening Axe, broke it off, and pressed it under the isolation belt."
"The bone and blood fragments have an instinctive connection to the Pangu Axe, and automatically awaken after sensing its aura."
"After awakening, the fragments continuously released extremely weak law resonance pulses at the bottom of the vacuum, and the pulse frequency was completely synchronized with the frequency of the chaotic original light on the blade of the Pangu Axe."
"After synchronization, the fragments will automatically fly towards the direction of Pangu Axe. However, it was sealed in the vacuum of the isolation zone for countless eons. The law environment inside the vacuum is extremely pure. The fragments stayed inside for too long, and their own law structure has been purified by the pure vacuum environment."
"After purification, the Pangu bone and blood law imprint inside the fragment is extremely pure and bright, but the physical form of the fragment is extremely fragile, so fragile that it cannot withstand the law pressure changes over the distance from the bottom of the vacuum to the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation."
"If you let it fly on its own, it will break halfway and the words of Pangu sealed inside the fragments will be lost forever."
Su Fan took the Pangu Axe off his back, gripped it with both hands, and poured the will of all living beings into the axe blade. The chaotic original light on the axe blade shone brightly in the extremely faint golden law glow of the Guixu foundation.
He aimed the axe blade at the direction of the axe blade fragment directly below the isolation zone, preparing to use the quantum calamity aftershock bridge to draw the fragment out of the vacuum.
Sun Wukong slammed his golden cudgel on the ground, and the aftershocks of the great calamity on the cudgel exploded into a circle of extremely bright silver-white electric arcs, which wrapped around Su Fan's axe blade.
A very thin, silvery-white bridge of laws was erected between the Pangu Axe and the axe blade fragment at the bottom of the vacuum.
The aftershocks of the eon inside the bridge buffered the pressure changes of the laws within the vacuum to a level that the fragments could withstand. Under the pull of the bridge, the fragments began to slowly move upwards into the vacuum.
The movement was extremely slow, so slow that the heart network of the Ruins could clearly capture the minute ripples of law generated by each tremor of the fragment.
As the fragment rose higher, the ancient law pattern on its surface brightened slightly. By the time the fragment reached the top of the vacuum, its surface was extremely bright, reflecting a faint dark gold color onto the entire isolation zone.
The dark gold interior contains the words Pangu spoke when he was crouching at the bottom of the Ruins of Return, facing the direction of his mother's scales. It was not a message of law, nor a sealing rune, but just an ordinary sentence, spoken in a very light and faint tone, as if talking to himself, or as an apology finally spoken after countless eons.
"I suppressed the noisiest fragment. I left the axe blade here as a talisman. If the axe blade is still there, it means the suppression is still stable. If the axe blade breaks, it means the suppression has failed. Later, someone helped me clean up the remaining fragments. I can't go back, so please tell her for me."
The fragment stopped when it reached the surface of the white rock layer, hovering in front of Su Fan and rotating very slowly. The rhythm of its rotation was completely synchronized with the frequency of the chaotic original light on the blade of the Pangu Axe.
Su Fan extended his left hand, the thin golden line in his palm directly facing the extremely bright law pattern in the center of the fragment. The fragment stopped spinning the moment it touched the will of all living beings inside the thin line, and then floated towards the blade of the Pangu Axe, stopping directly in front of it.
It did not merge into the axe blade, but hovered very close to it, maintaining a very slight distance from it.
The Pangu bone and blood law imprint inside the fragment and the creation power inside the Pangu axe blade have extremely slight deviations in law frequency. The deviation is very small, but enough to keep the two laws independent and prevent them from merging. They only form an extremely stable law resonance within the gap between them.
"The fragment cannot be fused into the axe blade. It is of the same origin as the Pangu Axe but different in nature. The fragment formed from bone and blood and the axe blade formed from the power of creation cannot be forcibly fused. Fusing would cause the internal law structure of the fragment to collapse, and after the collapse, the sentence sealed in the deepest part of the fragment would dissipate."
"The fragment is now suspended next to the axe blade, forming an extremely stable law resonance with the axe blade. The resonance frequency is completely synchronized with the frequency of the chaotic original light on the Pangu axe blade, and also has a very subtle overlap with the law rune that Pangu carved with the tip of the axe blade dipped in blood on the scales of the living creature inside the core of the Nest Shell of the Ruins."
Xu removed his right hand from his chest.
Sun Wukong slammed his golden cudgel on the ground and looked down at the extremely bright fragment of bone and blood hanging next to the blade of Pangu's axe.
The fragment contained Pangu's words, spoken in a very soft and indifferent tone, which were slightly different from the words he had just relayed to his mother.
That sentence was spoken by Pangu to all living things; that sentence was spoken by Pangu to himself.
He took the crystallized embers from his chest, held it in his palm, and the gray-white law imprinted inside the crystal was extremely stable, perfectly synchronized with his mother's heartbeat frequency when she counted the scales in the Ruins of Desolation.
He held the crystal against the bone and blood fragment. The sentence sealed inside the fragment was reactivated under the resonance of the crystal's laws, and the surface of the fragment trembled slightly.
He repeated Pangu's words in the same tone as before, but after the last word was uttered, an extremely subtle lingering resonance of the laws surged from within the fragment.
The lingering aura contained a very brief message of the law, consisting of only two words.
"Don't worry about it."
The creature remained silent for a long time inside the core of the Ruins Nest, then spoke a sentence. Its voice pierced through the flint beacon runes at the entrance to the Ruins, traveled along the law membrane of the Ruins Crack, and entered the deepest part of the Ruins Foundation. Its tone was extremely soft and faint, exactly the same as when Pangu squatted beside the wound on her head and carved runes with the tip of his axe.
"That stone monkey, those words weren't spoken by Pangu to himself, they were spoken to me."
"Before he left, he buried the axe blade fragments at the bottom of the Ruins of Return and said the words mentioned earlier, the last two words being 'Do not think of me.' He asked those who came after him to say the first part, but the last two words were reserved for him to say to me personally."
"He foresaw that the axe blade fragment would eventually be found by someone else, and that the first part of his words would be relayed to me. He sealed the last two words deep within the fragment, and only the rune on my scales can activate them."
"The monkey hair crystal you just had contained my law's imprint. The frequency of that imprint activated the last two words deep within the fragment. I received it. Do not worry."
Sun Wukong pressed the crystallized embers of the flint onto his chest, then somersaulted towards the desolate land, carrying his golden cudgel.
Su Fan hoisted the Pangu Axe onto his shoulder. The bone and blood fragment next to the axe blade hovered very close to the blade, maintaining an extremely small distance. The extremely stable resonance of laws within this distance was extremely faint and stable in the extremely faint golden light of the Guixu foundation.
He followed in the direction of the Ruins.
The law membrane at the entrance to the Land of Ruins retreated on its own when touched by Sun Wukong's Chaos Stone Embryo Imprint. After it retreated, the extremely dark and quiet void inside the entrance was illuminated by the chaotic primordial light on the blade of Pangu's Axe.
The creature was perched directly beneath the core of the nest shell, its body coiling around the core in circles. The law patterns flowing across the surface of its scales were extremely ancient and primitive, so ancient that even the law frequency inside the bone and blood fragment next to the blade of the Pangu Axe automatically resonated with an extremely fine law rune on the surface of the scales when it approached them.
The rune was extremely thin and faint, but it had a very subtle overlap with the trajectory line that A Dou had cleaved in the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation with his wood-splitting axe.
The overlapping wavelengths were extremely narrow, so narrow that even the heart network of the Ruins could barely detect them, but living things sensed them.
She raised her head from the deepest part of her body, her dark golden gaze falling on the bone and blood fragments hanging beside the blade of the Pangu Axe at Su Fan's waist, and remained silent for a long time.
"This fragment was formed by Pangu using his own blood and bones. After he cleaved out the isolation zone, he broke off this fragment and placed it directly under the slurry. He squatted down in the depths of the Guixu Earth and said those words in the direction of Wulinjia. The last two words were sealed in the deepest part of the fragment."
"We have waited countless times, and we have finally received it today. The bone and blood fragments do not need to be left in Guixu. Have that elementary school student take it to the fried dough stick stall and place it next to the wood-chopping axe."
"The warmth and comfort of the mortal world can nourish the bones and blood, and the longer it is nourished, the more stable the imprint of laws within the fragments will become."
After saying this, the creature buried its head deep into its body again, closed its eyes, and continued to count the law patterns on its scales.
Sun Wukong took the bone and blood fragments from beside the blade of Pangu's axe, held them in his furry palm, and walked up to A Dou.
"My mother said this fragment belongs to you. It's not a fragment of Pangu's axe, but Pangu's own flesh and blood. Pangu's axe was formed from the power of creation, while the flesh and blood is Pangu's own life."
"He buried this fragment under the Guixu Earth for countless eons. Now that the task of guarding it is complete, the fragment no longer needs to be buried under the slurry."
"Mother said that the warmth of everyday life can nourish the bones and blood, and the steam from the fried dough stick stall's steamer is much warmer than the vacuum of laws beneath the Guixu Earth."
"Place it next to the wood-chopping axe. After you finish chopping wood each day, have Old Zhang smoke it with the fumes from frying dough sticks. After a while, the patterns on the surface of the fragments will become brighter on their own."
"When you temper your wood-chopping axe in the future, stick the bone and blood fragments to the edge of the tempering groove. The Pangu bone and blood law imprint inside the fragments will greatly improve the tempering precision of the wood-chopping axe."
A Dou accepted the bone and blood fragments with both hands, looking down at the extremely bright and faint dark gold law fragment in his palm.
The law patterns flowing on the surface of the fragments are extremely ancient and primitive, completely of the same origin as the law membrane at the entrance to the Land of Ruins, and have a very slight overlap with the chaotic original light on the blade of Pangu's Axe, but are more profound and stable than both.
He carefully placed the fragments onto the crumpled draft paper in his backpack; the line of text next to the pencil-drawn axe outline was still there.
"My axe shines."
The green glow from the highlighter had completely faded, but after the bone and blood fragments were placed on the draft paper, the extremely faint dark gold light on the surface of the fragments illuminated the entire draft paper in an extremely faint dark gold color, and the outline of the axe drawn in pencil within the dark gold was extremely clear and bright.
He slung his schoolbag over his shoulder and ran towards the alley entrance, stepping on the bluestone slabs.
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, while the quenching tank in the weapons shop still emitted faint steam. A human warrior was taking a pair of scissors that had just been quenched out of the tank.
A Dou ran to the stone platform, placed the bone and blood fragments next to his small axe, and then took a fried dough stick that Old Zhang had just fried from the cutting board and took a bite.
"Uncle Su, if I put the fragments of Pangu's bone and blood next to the wood-chopping axe, will the fragments light up by themselves when I chop wood in the future?"
"After it's lit, the firewood that's chopped up will be more flammable and burn longer than coal briquettes."
"Old Zhang said that the fried dough stick stall has been doing well lately, and they're using up firewood faster than before. They can't chop the firewood as fast as they fry the dough sticks."
Su Fan leaned against the doorframe of the weapons shop, lowered the Pangu Axe from his shoulder, and stuck it at his feet. He looked at the fragments of bone and blood on the stone platform, placed side by side with A Dou's small axe.
"The two law patterns resonated in an extremely subtle way, turning the faint law steam gushing out of the quenching tank into a very faint dark gold color."
He told A Dou that when splitting firewood, the fragments of bone and blood would light up on their own. The flammability and burning endurance of firewood depended on whether the direction of the wood fibers of the dry branches had been calculated before splitting. Splitting with the grain resulted in a neat cross-section and even burning, while splitting against the grain resulted in a rough cross-section and uneven burning.
A Dou listened attentively, picked up the small axe from the stone platform, flipped it over, and the dark red law pattern on the axe blade was extremely clear. Its hardness had exceeded the initial value of quenching, and its self-evolution speed was faster than before.
Old Zhang poked his head out from behind the stove, his apron covered in freshly splattered oil. There was no rush for firewood; A Dou had chopped enough to last a while, and if that wasn't enough, Old Li, the bicycle repairman next door, would bring over scrap wood.
Old Li said his tricycle chain was incredibly easy to ride ever since he used a chain that had been tempered by human warriors, and he used scrap wood as payment for his knife-sharpening work.
Gongsun Bao carried the scrap wood to the woodpile at the alley entrance and stacked it up. He said that the rolled edge on the axe blade had been used as a quenching groove for several months. The resulting cleaver could cut meat without getting wet. The rolled edge was still there, but it was deeper than before, and the quenching slurry flowed more smoothly than before.
A Dou picked up the bone and blood fragment from the stone platform and stuck it to the edge of the quenching tank. The Pangu bone and blood law imprint inside the fragment flickered very slightly when it came into contact with the remaining crystal fragments of the Demon Emperor's Spear law in the quenching tank.
After receiving the resonance of the laws from the bone and blood fragments, the temperature of the law slurry in the quenching tank automatically increased slightly, reaching the critical point where it was just enough to quench a small refined iron axe.
A Dou said that next time the axe is quenched, it should be quenched again so that the bone and blood fragments can help it evolve another layer, and it will heal itself if it breaks while chopping wood in the future.
Su Fan hoisted the Pangu Axe onto his shoulder and walked out of the weapons shop. The steam from the fried dough stick stall rose in the morning light, and the aftershocks of the Great Calamity at the alley entrance still danced with faint white arcs of electricity on the bluestone slabs.
Sun Wukong squatted on the ramparts of the South Heavenly Gate, watching from afar as A Dou squatted at the entrance of the weapons shop, placing a small axe and a fragment of bone and blood side by side on a stone platform, the two law patterns resonating extremely subtly.
The monkey took a bite of the peach, chewed it twice, and swallowed it. It then threw the peach pit into the Guixu Crack. The pit bounced twice at the edge of the crack and rolled into the depths of Guixu, where it was caught by the newly grown pale gold moss on the white rock layer of the foundation.
"All of Pangu's contingency plans have been put into place. The bone and blood fragments suppressed countless Huiyuan in the isolation zone, and now that their guarding mission is complete, they've been taken away by a primary school student's wood-chopping axe."
"The Path of All Beings has another fragment attached at the very end of the mortal realm. It's not used to cleave the chaos, but to help Old Zhang fry dough sticks. This is a worthwhile deal."
The golden light of Mars shone on the newly grown pale gold patterns on the city bricks, on the slowly rotating halo of the core fragments of Mount Sumeru and the fragments of Buddhist laws, and on the extremely dark and quiet law vacuum deep within the foundation of the Ruins and the pale gold moss newly laid on the Eros monitoring station.
The dark purple law membrane at the deepest part of the void outside the membrane wall, where the old domain was in seclusion, was extremely stable; the flint beacon rune at the entrance to the Ruins was extremely stable.
The steam from the fried dough stick stall's steamer was still rising, the quenching tank in the weapons shop was still emitting very faint steam from the laws, and the aftershocks of the calamity at the alley entrance were still dancing with very faint white arcs of electricity on the bluestone slabs.
After chopping another bundle of dry branches, A Dou carried it to the stove. Fragments of bone and blood gleamed slightly beside the wood-chopping axe, casting the outline of the axe drawn in pencil on the entire draft paper into a very faint dark gold.
The primordial world was stable, and Pangu's last words were transmitted.
After the vacuum of laws deep within the Guixu foundation stabilized, Xu withdrew all of its perception power from the isolation zone and restored it to cover the entire Guixu foundation.
In the final stage of evolution, the larval sensory network completes the last synchronization calibration of all law nodes, and the calibration echo spreads out extremely subtly deep in the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation.
It struck five key points: the sealing membrane wall, the fracture healing joint, the frequency isolation layer, the backup law node, and the vacuum of the isolation zone, and all of them remained stable.
He removed his right hand from his chest, preparing to retract the stone core into his robes, when the transparent law pattern on his fingertip suddenly twitched very subtly.
The first shock was so faint that he almost mistook it for a normal aftershock after his heart's pulsation network had been calibrated. But then a second shock came, even fainter than the first, so faint that it was almost imperceptible.
But it was throbbing, its throbbing frequency extremely low and deep, resonating with an inconspicuous law pattern deep within the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation.
The location of this pattern is not on the sealing membrane wall, not at the fracture joint, not in the frequency isolation layer, not at the backup law node, and not in the vacuum of the isolation zone.
It lies deep within a crevice of pristine white rock layers in the very depths of the Guixu foundation, a layer that has never been touched by any scan.
The crevice is so narrow that even the larval sensory network missed it when it evolved to expand its coverage area. This is because the density of laws inside the crevice is extremely low, almost the same as that of the void. The sensory network automatically categorizes it as a normal geological law fine-tuning.
But Xu knew that it wasn't a geological adjustment.
Geological fine-tuning will not continuously release extremely weak law pulses after the heart network calibration is completed; the frequency of these pulses is extremely ancient and primitive.
It was so ancient that it had a very subtle overlap with the primordial chaotic light on the blade of Pangu's axe, and a very subtle resonance with the Pangu bone and blood law imprint sealed inside the bone and blood fragments.
"There's something deeper in the foundation of Guixu."
Xu pressed his right hand back to his chest, and all the perception of his heart's pulse network probed into the depths of the crevice along the law pattern.