chsdbacks Chapter 409 Silence of Another Frequency
Chapter 409 Silence of Another Frequency
As the distress signal burst forth from the edge of the Ruins of Return, three beams of light shone from the deepest void outside the membrane.
The first beam, a thin and bright dark purple pillar of light, came from the direction of the Old Domain and pierced through the still-closed membrane of the Old Domain's laws.
The original source of the laws of the old domain has not awakened, but the extremely ancient law defense mechanism sealed within the source has been triggered by the distress signal.
The second beam, originating from the third branch's origin, was extremely stable and fast. It traveled in reverse along the law communication channel laid out during Eros's stay, instantly piercing through the three tracks of wreckage where monitoring stations had been removed.
The third beam, originating from the direction of the Ruins of the Land, was an extremely deep and slow-moving dark golden pillar, perfectly synchronized with the pulsating frequency of the gray-white law imprint inside the flint crystal on Sun Wukong's chest.
"The old domain's automatic defense mechanism has responded. However, the response method is not to directly deploy troops. During the balance period, the old domain cannot release any law power externally; it uses law authorization instead."
"It temporarily delegated control of the laws governing the original sealing membrane deep within the Guixu foundation to Eros's monitoring station. After the authorization, the monitoring station's sensing array could directly access the law patterns of the sealing membrane, reactivating the sealing laws that were crumbling at the cracked edges."
"After activation, the rate at which the crack spreads will slow down, but it cannot completely heal; it takes time."
Xu pressed his right hand on the pale gold line on his chest, and his heart network simultaneously translated the law authorization signal from the direction of the old domain to everyone.
The silver-white law membrane surrounding Eros changed from extremely bright to extremely faint and transparent the moment it received the authorization from the Old Domain. Inside the transparency was an extremely ancient law rune.
The direction of the runes and the law patterns of the nest shell that are collapsing at the edge of the seal cracks are completely of the same origin.
He raised both hands from his sides, spread his fingers, and simultaneously shot out ten extremely thin, transparent beams of law from his fingertips, striking the cracked seal patterns that were collapsing.
The texture stopped disintegrating the moment it came into contact with the beam of light, and after that, the internal laws and structures of the texture began to slowly repair themselves.
The repair process is slow, but the rate at which the cracks spread has been reduced to a fraction of what it was before.
"The old domain authorization can only stabilize the seal patterns, not repair the cracks. The gray-white law remnants inside the cracks are still gushing out, and the law density of the remnants is continuously increasing."
"The monitoring station's sensing array can last for a period of time with the support of authorization, but authorization has an expiration date. During the old domain's balancing period, the automatic defense mechanism of the law's origin cannot release the power of the law to the outside world for an extended period of time."
"Once the authorization period expires, the rate of crack propagation will rebound instantly. The residue inside the crack must be thoroughly cleaned and the membrane wall resealed before the authorization ends."
Eros's voice was extremely calm and steady.
Su Fan stood directly above the crack, carrying the Pangu Axe, and slammed the axe blade against the edge of the crack.
The crack was temporarily brought under control, but a very faint sound of friction from the laws of nature came from the deepest part of the white rock layer in the distance.
It wasn't the sound of scum gushing out, but rather the communication frequency of those dozen or so mutated entities changing direction after the sealing membrane was suppressed by the old domain's authorization.
Instead of releasing pulses towards the cracks, they turned towards a very faint gap in the law deeper within the sediment layer.
The gap was not located inside the Guixu foundation, but at a very deep point at the interface between the sedimentary layer and the Guixu white rock layer.
The gap was so small that even the heart's vascular network had not been detected before.
However, the law fluctuations generated when the old domain authorized the activation of the seal pattern briefly illuminated the law structure at the edge of the gap, and Yang Jian's shattered mirror captured this scene.
"There is an extremely fine gap at the interface between the sedimentary layer and the Guixu white rock layer. The gap is not a crack, but a primordial fault that existed at the very beginning of the formation of the sedimentary layer."
"The density of laws inside the fault is extremely low, and more than a dozen mutants have already switched all their communication frequencies to the direction of the fault. They are using communication pulses to probe the depth of the fault."
"If the fault penetrates the law membrane between the sedimentary layer and the Guixu white rock layer, it can bypass the seal and drill directly into the Guixu foundation through the fault. No matter how tightly the seal is built, it will be useless."
Yang Jian pieced the broken mirrors together, marking the location and depth of the primordial law fault line on the mirror surfaces.
The fault is extremely deep, so deep that even the remnants of the mirror law can hardly reach it, but the depth data is far from optimistic.
The fault is separated from the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation by only a very thin layer of law membrane.
The thickness of that membrane is being peeled away layer by layer by the communication pulses of the mutant.
"A dozen or so mutants simultaneously release communication pulses toward the fault line. The resonance of the laws generated by the superposition of the pulses will tear the membrane apart. After tearing it apart, they directly burrow into the foundation of the Ruins and devour the first node, which is the larval nest."
Nezha slammed his fire-tipped spear to the ground.
"It's not just the larval nest. The fault is located in the area where the laws of the Guixu foundation are most densely packed. Once it's torn open, the mutants will spread in all directions much faster than the debris that flows out from the crack. The crack is just a gap, but the fault is the collapse of an entire layer of law membrane."
Xu removed his right hand from his chest.
Sun Wukong squatted at the edge of the crack, holding his golden cudgel across his knees. His monkey eyes reflected the law membrane on the mirror, which was being peeled away layer by layer by the communication pulses of the mutants.
He took the crystallized flint embers from his pocket and held it in his furry palm; the gray-white imprint of the law was still embedded inside the crystal.
The frequency of the dark red flames on the crystal surface and the communication frequency of the dozen or so mutants deep in the fault overlapped very slightly.
"The membrane wall on the other side of the fault line is formed by the Nest Shell Law. The Nest Shell Law frequency of the core law within my body is of the same origin as the membrane wall."
"I used the aftershocks of the eon to envelop the laws of the nest shell, poured them into the fault lines, and filled the fault lines before the membrane walls were peeled off."
"But the membrane wall will be briefly exposed during the peeling process. Before the fault is filled, those dozen or so mutants can see the law structure inside the Guixu foundation in the fault."
"Once they see it, they will mark the density coordinates of the larval nest within the core of the law. No matter how tightly the seal is repaired, as soon as they awaken, their first instinct will be to rush directly towards the larval nest. Because they have already memorized the coordinates."
Sun Wukong stood up.
"Remember it. Once the seal is repaired, they will never have another chance to awaken."
Su Fan pulled the Pangu Axe from the edge of the crack, hoisted it onto his shoulder, and walked towards the fault line.
Deep within the Guixu foundation, the primordial law fault is barely noticeable at the interface between the gray-white law sedimentary layer and the Guixu white rock layer.
The fault is extremely narrow, allowing only one person to pass sideways.
The inner wall of the fault was engraved with extremely ancient nest shell law patterns, and the direction of the patterns was completely the same as the law membrane wall at the entrance of the Ruins.
This is a natural seam left when Pangu sealed the mutant into the sedimentary layer, where the Nest Shell Law seal and the original white rock layer of the Guixu foundation were joined.
The laws governing the interior of the rift are extremely stable, so stable that they have never loosened in countless universes.
However, after the law resonance generated by the collective awakening of the mutants tore a crack in the sealing membrane, the aftershocks of the resonance traveled along the law patterns inside the sedimentary layer to the edge of the fault, cracking a gap in the extremely fine law patterns on the inner wall of the fault.
The opening was extremely shallow, almost invisible to the naked eye, but the mutant's law communication pulses found it and were using pulses to peel away the law membrane walls at the edge of the opening layer by layer.
Inside the fault, the area on the law membrane wall that has been peeled open by the mutant communication pulses is slowly expanding.
The membrane wall is so thin that you can see the larval nest deep in the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation on the other side of the fault through the membrane wall.
The dark red dot in the center of the larva's thorax was still pulsating at a very stable frequency. Its sensory network covered the entire Guixu foundation, but it could not sense the threat on this side of the fault.
The communication pulses of the variants are extremely low and dispersed, and the sensing network classifies the pulses as normal rules for the deposition layer for fine-tuning.
Sun Wukong squeezed into the fault line and slammed his golden cudgel against the inner wall of the fault.
The rod's tail was wedged into the inner wall directly above the opening created by the mutant's communication pulse.
The crystal of flint embers on the chest's Tanzhong acupoint was extremely bright in the dark and still void of the law within the fault, its pulsation frequency perfectly synchronized with that of the dark red light spot in the larval nest's chest cavity on the other side of the fault.
He released the aftershocks of the calamity from the depths of his mind, and silvery-white arcs of electricity spread down the shaft of the staff, enveloping the edge of the opening where the staff's tail was wedged in.
The electric arc shook the mutant communication pulses away from the edge of the opening, and after the opening was shaken away, the law membrane wall at the edge of the opening temporarily stopped peeling off.
"The breach has been temporarily stabilized. However, a large section of the membrane has been torn open, and the density coordinates of the larval nests can be seen in the fault line from those dozen or so mutants."
"They are carving coordinates into the core of the law. They are carving at an extremely fast speed, and they have already carved several lines. We need to fill in the fault before they finish carving all the coordinates."
"Once the membrane is filled in, it heals. No matter how many coordinates are carved, it's useless. They can't see the larvae and therefore can't get through."
The system synchronously transmits the structural changes in the internal laws of the fracture detected by the cardiac network into the fragmentation mirror.
Su Fan, carrying the Pangu Axe, squeezed into the fault line.
The interior space of the fault is extremely narrow, and the blade of Pangu's axe is almost touching the law patterns on the inner wall of the fault.
He pressed the thin golden line on the inner wall of his left palm, and the will of all beings poured into the depths of the fault along the nest shell law patterns on the inner wall.
When the liquid reached the edge of the area where the membrane wall had been peeled open, the will was blocked by the residual law frequency of the mutant communication pulse.
The residual frequency is not in sync with the will of all beings, so any forced infusion will be repelled.
Sun Wukong pulled the golden cudgel out from the edge of the opening, aiming the tip at the dozen or so communication pulses of the mutants deep in the fault, which were recording coordinates.
The crystal of flint embers on the chest's Tanzhong acupoint exploded into a circle of extremely bright dark red flames the moment the tip of the rod was lifted. The flames were wrapped with silvery-white arcs of electricity from the aftershocks of the calamity, forming an extremely thin beam of silvery-red law.
The beam hits the center of the pulse, cutting off the pulse frequency that is recording the coordinates.
After the cut, the speed at which the mutant recorded coordinates slowed down significantly, but the coordinates that had already been recorded were sealed inside the core of the law and could not be erased.
"The coordinates were partially etched. The density, orientation, and distances between faults of the larval nests were all etched in."
"After the fault is filled, they can't see the larvae, but as soon as they awaken, their first instinct is to rush towards these coordinates. The sealing membrane can block their physical bodies, but it can't block their law-based communication pulses."
"The pulse can penetrate the seal and locate the fault again. Although the fault has been filled, the density of the filling material is slightly different from that of the original membrane."
"The communication pulses of the variants can identify this difference, and once the difference is identified, they can relocate the fault."
Xu's voice was extremely steady.
"Then we won't give them a chance to awaken. After the seal cracks heal, the old domain will authorize the reactivation of the seal patterns, doubling the seal's strength after activation."
"The doubled seal suppressed the mutant's awakening process into a state of eternal slumber, deeper than deep sleep. In this state of eternal slumber, the mutant's law communication pulses completely stopped, and no matter how many coordinates were inscribed, they could not be sent out."
Eros's ten beams of transparent law light still struck the seal patterns at the edge of the crack, and the Old Domain's authorization erected an extremely thin bridge of law between his law core and the seal membrane.
The internal laws of the authorized bridge are extremely stable, so stable that they can simultaneously maintain the repair of the seal patterns and the healing of the fractured membrane walls.
Su Fan slammed the Pangu Axe against the inner wall of the fault.
The will of all beings poured into the peeled membrane on the inner wall, condensing into an extremely bright golden law membrane at the gap in the membrane.
The will of all beings within the membrane wall resonated with the laws of the nest shell. After the resonance, the area inside the fault that had been torn open by the communication pulse of the mutant began to slowly heal.
The rate of healing is not fast, but it is continuous.
The progress of the fracture healing was marked in real time on the broken mirror surface by Yang Jian, and the density of the laws in the healing area on the mirror surface was jumping up at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Just as they reached the last gap that was about to close, the dozen or so mutants deep within the fault simultaneously released their final collective communication pulse.
The pulse's target was not the larval nest, but an extremely faint signal of law located far away from the foundation of the Ruins.
The signal was extremely low and ancient, so ancient that even the heart's pulsation network paused briefly the moment it detected it.
After the heart's pulsation resumes, the system translates the captured signals into concrete information within the chest cavity.
He removed his right hand from his chest and spoke in a very calm and steady voice.
"The signal is not inside the Guixu foundation, not outside the membrane wall, not in the direction of the old domain, and not in the direction of the desolate land. It is extremely deep below the interface between the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation and the mountain root."
"The collective pulse of the mutants used the residual law waves left over from the moment the fault healed as a beacon, and shot them into the extremely weak law signal. The signal was activated."
"It is different from the gray-white law imprint sealed inside the first mutated body, and it is also different from the law imprint that the Great Sage peeled off. It is not a law mutated body, but a law isolation zone that Pangu personally cleaved out before sealing the mutated body into the sedimentary layer."
"The isolation zone seals all the most unstable fragments of law at the boundary between the void and chaos at the bottom layer. The mutant is just a wisp of law that has leaked out from the upper layer of the isolation zone."
"The isolation zone itself has never been activated. Now, a collective pulse from more than a dozen mutants has penetrated the outermost law membrane of the isolation zone, and the original law fragments sealed inside the isolation zone have sensed the pulse and have begun to awaken."
Su Fan's hand, which was holding the axe handle, froze in mid-air.
After the fault heals, the interior of the fault is extremely quiet and dark, so quiet that one can hear the extremely subtle friction sounds emitted by the law patterns flowing freely deep within the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation.
He pulled the Pangu Axe from the inner wall of the fault, hoisted it onto his shoulder, and looked down at the extremely ancient law isolation zone that was slowly awakening deep within the foundation of the Ruins of Return.
What's sealed inside the isolation zone isn't a law mutation or a law fragment, but rather an extremely unstable primordial law slurry produced when the Void and Chaos eroded each other before Pangu created the world.
The slurry inside the isolation zone was sealed and suppressed for countless eons by the Nest Shell Law personally carved by Pangu, and it is now extremely thick and dense.
Once the isolation zone is activated, the slurry will gush out from the depths of the isolation zone, and the first wave of law-based impact will overturn the foundation of the Ruins from the bottom up.
"Can the seal on the isolation zone be reinforced using the fusion of the aftershocks of the Great Calamity and the Nest Shell Law?"
Su Fan looked at the ruins.
Xu closed his eyes, and his heart's pulse network probed towards the isolation zone.
A moment later, he opened his eyes, and his pale golden pupils reflected a very faint gray-white aura of law from the deepest part of the Guixu foundation.
He removed his right hand from his chest.
"The law structure of the isolation zone is older and more primitive than that of the sedimentary layer. The nest shell law fusion can only reinforce the seal of the sedimentary layer, and its reinforcement effect on the seal of the isolation zone is greatly reduced."
"The primordial law slurry sealed inside the isolation zone has an extremely strong ability to absorb the aftershocks of the calamity. After absorption, the slurry's reawakening speed will double."
"The aftershocks of the great calamity will not only fail to reinforce the isolation zone, but will also accelerate the awakening of the slurry. To reinforce the isolation zone, we cannot use the Pangu Axe, the Nest Shell Law, or any law power that resonates with the power of chaos, nothingness, and creation."
"Because the liquid sealed inside the isolation zone is a mixture of nothingness and chaos, any law of the same frequency that enters it will be absorbed and transformed by the liquid, becoming the liquid's own law energy, accelerating the awakening."
"Then what should we use to reinforce it?" Nezha asked.
"Use the power of the law that is completely different from the frequency of the slurry inside the isolation zone. Differentiate the frequency to the point that the slurry cannot absorb it."
Ruins turned to look at Eros.
The transparent membrane surrounding Eros trembled slightly when it received Xu's gaze.
Ten beams of law light from both hands were still striking the edge of the crack; the Old Domain Authorization had only a little time left.
He withdrew the last bit of power of the laws authorized by the old domain from the edge of the crack and poured it into the deepest part of the core of the monitoring station's sensing array.
The array contains the oldest causal law sensing element of the third branch. The law frequency of the element has a very slight overlap with the will of all living beings in the primordial world. The overlapping band was marked by the origin of the laws of the old domain after the draft agreement was signed.
After being marked, an extremely faint imprint of the laws of the old domain was generated inside the component. The frequency of the imprint's laws was different from that of the laws of the three systems of Return to the Void, Primordial Wilderness, and the Land of Ruins.
It is completely independent and does not resonate with any laws.
"The third branch of the law of cause and effect and the will of all living beings in the primordial world continued to merge within the monitoring station for a considerable period of time after the draft agreement was signed."
"The fusion product is a completely new law structure, belonging neither to the extraterrestrial god law system nor to the primordial law system. Its law frequency is completely different from the slurry inside the isolation zone, so the slurry cannot absorb it."
"Use this fusion law to lay a layer of heterogeneous law membrane on the sealed surface of the isolation zone, completely isolating the slurry from the outside world. After isolation, the awakening process inside the isolation zone will automatically pause."
"Because the trigger condition for awakening is sensing a change in the density of external laws, the heterogeneous frequency membrane filters out all external law signals, so the slurry cannot sense the change and will not awaken."
Nezha leaned against the inner wall of the fault, carrying the Fire-Tipped Spear. The law mark on his left shoulder was extremely bright under the blessing of the Pure Yang Talisman.
He looked down at the extremely thin beam of law that was gathering between Eros's palms; the color of the beam was indescribable.
It's not dark purple, not silver-white, not dark gold; it's an extremely faint, chaotic gray formed by layering three colors.
The patterns of laws flowing within the gray light were extremely complex and unfamiliar, so unfamiliar that even the heart network of the Ruins could not decipher its structure.
"When did this fusion law begin to fuse?"
"From the day the draft agreement was signed, I separated a backup law element from the deepest part of the monitoring station's sensing array and continuously activated it with the imprint of the old domain law, while simultaneously receiving bidirectional input from the Dao patterns of all living beings on the Guixu foundation and the frequency of the third branch of the causal law."
"The fusion process was extremely slow. It wasn't until the law fluctuations generated by the activation of the seal pattern in the old domain reached the monitoring station that the final layer of the fusion law was generated."
Eros raised the gray light beam of law between his palms above his head, and the beam shone brightly in the extremely dark and quiet law void inside the fault.
It was so bright that it could illuminate the direction of every nest-shell pattern on the inner wall of the fault.
Su Fan put the Pangu Axe down from his shoulder, the blade touching the ground, and turned to look at the law isolation zone that was slowly awakening deep within the fault.
Under the impact of the collective pulse of the mutants, the outermost sealing membrane of the isolation zone has begun to show extremely fine law cracks. The gray-white law slurry gushing out from the depths of the cracks is extremely thick and dense, so thick that even the heart network of the Ruins cannot sense the law boundary inside the slurry.
He hoisted the axe onto his shoulder.
"How much time is left on the old domain license?"
"It will run out quickly. Once it's depleted, the rate at which the cracks spread will rebound instantly. At the same time as the rebound, the sealing membrane of the isolation zone will be briefly exposed the moment the authorization ends."
"Because during the authorization period, there was an extremely subtle resonance between the power of the old domain's laws and the sealing membrane, and this resonance masked the law fluctuations generated by the awakening of the isolation zone."
"Once the authorization ends, the resonance disappears, and the awakening signal of the isolation zone will be captured by the larval perception network. After being captured, the perception network will trigger the emergency response of the laws of the entire Ruins Foundation."
"Once the emergency response is triggered, the Guixu Crack will automatically close, preventing entry from the outside and exit from the inside. During the emergency response, the Guixu foundation will be in a completely isolated state."
The Ruins transmitted the countdown of the old domain authorization sensed by the heart network to the Shattered Mirror.
Su Fan took the broken mirror out of his waist and shone it towards the crack in the Ruins of Return.
A minimalist pulse of law shot out from the mirror, pierced through the law membrane of the Guixu Crack, and flew towards the South Heavenly Gate.
The pulse contains only one sentence.
"The Ruins of Guixu are about to close, and Nantianmen will take over the outer defense line. During the closure, do not wait for us; guard the boundary markers."
After finishing, he tucked the shattered mirror back into his waistband, hoisted the Pangu Axe onto his shoulder, and walked to the very center of the fault line, facing the extremely ancient law isolation zone that was rapidly awakening.
The Ruins Rift closed itself the moment the old domain authorization ended.
The shockwave generated by the sealing spread in all directions along the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation, hitting the sealing membrane and the inner wall of the fault and being absorbed. After absorption, the interior of the Guixu foundation fell into an extremely dark and quiet silence of the laws.
In the silence, only the gray light beam of law at the very center of the fault continued to extend downwards at an extremely stable frequency. Eros shot it into the surface of the isolation zone sealing membrane, and the beam spread out on the membrane to form an extremely thin and transparent membrane of different frequencies.
The spreading speed was not fast but continuous. When it spread to the edge of the sealing membrane wall of the isolation zone, the primordial law slurry inside the isolation zone that was awakening surged briefly and then fell silent again.
The isolation was successful.
Su Fan slammed the Pangu Axe against the inner wall of the fault and sat down next to the axe handle.
Sun Wukong squatted on the edge of the fault, his golden cudgel resting on his knees, his monkey eyes reflecting the gray membrane that was steadily spreading across the surface of the isolation zone.
Neither of them spoke.
The depths of the Guixu foundation are extremely quiet, so quiet that one can hear the very faint friction sounds as the patterns of the nest shell on the inner wall of the fault flow on their own.
After the larvae's sensory network went silent in the isolation zone, it re-scanned the status of all the abnormal nodes of the laws of the Guixu Foundation. After confirming that everything was correct, the dark red light spot in the center of the chest cavity twitched extremely slightly.
After it finished jumping, it restored the operation of the laws of the Guixu Foundation to normal.