chsdbacks Chapter 382 Hongjun Stone Tablet
Chapter 382 Hongjun Stone Tablet
When Yang Jian counted to the forty-seventh breath, the fingertips of Rahu's left arm on the mirror touched the surface of the pool.
Dark purple fingertips and bone claws pierced the surface of the pool, and the law-based liquid spread upwards along the patterns on the surface of the bone claws, crawling from the fingertips to the base of the fingers, and from the base of the fingers to the back of the hand.
The fragment of the Wedge of Creation at the cut surface of the left shoulder joint flashed suddenly as the fingertip touched the water. After the flash, the brightness dropped sharply, and extremely fine fragments of law began to fall from the edge of the fragment.
The debris fell into the slurry pool, creating a small ring of very faint grayish-white steam on the surface.
"The fragments of the Wedge of Creation have begun to disintegrate. The seal on the left arm will fail before the fragments shatter completely."
"It's not that the fragments shattered and were unsealed; rather, the fragments briefly regained their full sealing power during the shattering process before finally breaking apart."
"The moment the sealing power is fully restored, the activity of the Demon Ancestor's Law in the left arm will be suppressed to the minimum. That moment is the best time to make a move."
Yang Jian spoke at a very slow pace.
Su Fan put the Pangu Axe down from his shoulder and held it with both hands.
The 'human' character scar on his left palm split open at the same instant the fragment of the Wedge of Creation flashed, and golden blood flowed down the axe handle onto the axe blade, mixing with the blue-gold patterns on the blade.
The will of all beings surged from the scar and crack, flowing into the axe handle and then into the axe blade. With the blessing of the blood, the brightness of the two lights jumped up simultaneously.
He looked at the left arm slowly sinking into the pool of liquid in the mirror and asked Yang Jian:
"How long will the sealing power last after the fragment is restored to its full strength?"
"At most five breaths. Within five breaths, the activity of the Demon Ancestor's Law in the left arm will be suppressed to less than 10%, and the blessing of the Law Essence on it will be temporarily interrupted."
"After five breaths, the fragment will shatter completely, the seal on the left arm will be fully released, and its law activity will rebound to a higher level than before. This is because the law slurry inside the pool will be directly injected into its law circulation system."
Sun Wukong slammed his golden cudgel against the city bricks, the end of the cudgel wedging three inches into the crack between the bricks.
The monkey's eyes reflected the left arm in the mirror, and a smile still lingered on its lips, but most of the nonchalance in that smile had vanished.
"Five breaths. Enough for me to hit it three times. The first hit will be its elbow joint, the second its wrist joint, and the third its broken shoulder joint."
"The seal at that location had just shattered, and the bone fragments of the Law were still exposed. When I stabbed it in, the aftershocks of the calamity directly poured into the fluid cavity. I used this move to pierce through my right ankle outside the Tai Sui rift, and it worked."
Su Fan did not respond.
He mentally divided the five breaths into three segments.
From the first breath to the second breath, the left arm will stiffen briefly the instant the fragment regains its full sealing power. This is the body's instinctive stress response when the activity of the law is suppressed to the limit.
From the third to the fourth breath, the stiffness ends, and the left arm will prioritize protecting the joint connections, with the pattern lines of the elbow and wrist joints automatically becoming denser.
In the fifth breath, the fragments shattered and the seal was completely broken. The liquid from the slurry pool flowed back into the left arm, and its activity rebounded to its peak.
By then, it won't be their turn to act; the left arm will directly dive into the depths of the pool to find the fragments of the true spirit.
The actual attack window is only the first four breaths.
After the fourth breath, regardless of whether the left arm is broken or not, one must exit the surface of the slurry pool, because upon the arrival of the fifth breath, the slurry pool will form a backflow vortex, and the suction force of the vortex is enough to drag anything near the surface of the pool into the depths of the slurry pool.
"From the first breath to the second breath, the Great Sage smashes his elbow joint, and I cleave his wrist joint. Both joints are damaged simultaneously, and the law patterns on my left arm will automatically densify the joint connection between the third and fourth breaths. During densification, the law bone fragments at the shoulder joint break will be briefly exposed; that location is the only blind spot it cannot protect."
Su Fan hoisted the Pangu Axe onto his shoulder, turned around, and faced the bottomless pool of laws deep within the chaos.
The golden light of Mars shone from behind him, casting an extremely long shadow in front of him.
Yang Jian handed the broken mirror to Su Fan, who took it and tucked it into his waistband.
The fragments of the broken mirror could still maintain a real-time image on the surface of the slurry pool for a moment, enough for him to judge the progress of the fragment's breakage when he was close to his left arm.
Sun Wukong pulled out his golden cudgel, which grew thicker, and carried it on his shoulder to Su Fan's right side.
The two leaped side by side out of the ruins of the South Heavenly Gate, stepping on fragments of the Kunlun mother rock floating in the void as they sped toward the depths of chaos.
The Tai Sui crack slowly closed behind them, and the gatekeeper crossed his arms in front of his chest. The cracks on the giant stone hand shone with a very faint stone-gray halo under the light of the nine ancient stars in the ruins of the old Kunlun Mountain Gate.
The crack in Tai Sui was sealed, but Rahu still had eleven physical bodies sealed in various parts of the chaos.
His right arm was shattered, his left and right legs were half crippled, his torso was pressed under the Zixiao Palace, and his head was sealed under the ruins of Buzhou Mountain.
The left arm was at the edge of the slurry pool, about to enter the water.
The remaining six slumbering physical bodies were sealed in the Law Pool deeper within the Chaos. The coordinates that Hongjun carved on the stone slab marked the location of each body. The seals on three of them had already loosened, and the Law Pool was churning at the same frequency as before Luo Hou's right arm awoke.
But that's for the next battle.
In this battle, the left arm will be cut off first.
As the two approached, the law stalactites around the bottomless law pool began to drip liquid at an accelerated rate.
The frequency of the slurry dripping is directly proportional to the depth of Rahu's left arm submerged in the pool. For every zhang (approximately 3.3 meters) the left arm sinks into the slurry pool, one more drop of slurry drips from the tip of the stalactite.
Su Fan stepped on a floating law-based boulder at the edge of the pool and raised the shattered mirror from his waist to his eyes.
The shoulder joint of the left arm on the mirror surface had sunk three zhang below the surface of the pool of water. The fragments of the Creation Wedge at the fracture surface were still flickering, but the flickering frequency was one beat slower than before.
More and more law-related fragments fell off the edges of the debris. These fragments slowly sank in the slurry, and halfway down, they were squeezed into extremely fine powder by the law pressure inside the slurry.
"The fragment will have ten breaths to fully restore its sealing power. The restoration location is five zhang below the surface of the pool, which is the current depth of the left shoulder joint fracture."
Yang Jian's voice came from the shattered mirror. His voice was accompanied by extremely subtle noise due to the interference of the law slurry, but every word was pronounced very clearly.
Sun Wukong slammed his golden cudgel against the edge of the pool, and the end of the cudgel plunged into a crevice in the floating rocks.
He placed one foot on the pole, squatted at its top, and looked down at the outline of his left arm slowly sinking below:
"After fighting my right arm for so long outside the crack of the Tai Sui, I've figured out a pattern."
"Whether it's the left or right arm of Rahu, the break at the shoulder joint is where its law patterns are densest. That's because that's where the wedge of creation was inserted; although the wedge is broken, the hole is still there."
"The law patterns around the wedge hole are sealing patterns personally carved by Hongjun. Luo Hou's own demon ancestor patterns were suppressed by the sealing patterns for 30,000 years, resulting in an extremely thin self-healing layer. That self-healing layer is a law bud formed by the mutual erosion between the sealing patterns and the demon ancestor patterns."
"Before I punctured my right ankle last time, I scraped off the granulation tissue with the tip of a stick. After scraping it off, the serous cavity was exposed, and it punctured easily."
"The fracture at the shoulder joint of the left arm also has a self-healing layer."
Su Fan put the Pangu Axe down from his shoulder, with the blade facing down towards the surface of the pool.
The double light from the axe blade pierced through the dark purple law liquid on the surface of the pool, illuminating a very faint grayish-white law pattern around the severed joint of the left arm below the water's surface.
The pattern around it was completely different from the dark purple patterns of the Demon Ancestor's Laws. It was lighter in color, the pattern was denser, and each pattern was wriggling very slowly. It was alive.
That was a fleshy sprout of laws formed by the mutual erosion of the sealing patterns and the Demon Ancestor patterns over the past 30,000 years. Inside the sprout were both remnants of the seal of the Creation Wedge and fragments of the Demon Ancestor's laws from Rahu himself.
The two cancel each other out in the granulation tissue, forming an extremely thin but extremely tough self-healing membrane.
If this membrane is not scraped off, the Pangu Axe will be countered by the seal residue and the fragments of the Demon Ancestor.
"Fourth breath. Before I cleave the wrist joint, I will scrape off the self-healing layer of the shoulder joint fracture. After scraping it off, you will insert the stick. The aftershocks of the eon will flood the fluid cavity, exploding the law nodes of the shoulder joint from the inside. Once the nodes are shattered, the law patterns of the entire left arm will shatter from the inside, just like the right arm."
Su Fan switched the Pangu Axe to his backhand, with the blade facing up, and aligned the tip of the blade with the self-healing layer marked on the mirror.
Sun Wukong flipped down from the top of the staff and landed on the floating rocks. He pulled the golden cudgel out of the crack in the rocks, gripped it with both hands, and aimed the tip at the broken joint of his left arm below the surface of the pool.
He glanced back at Su Fan, grinned, and said, "Fine. You scrape the flesh, I'll poke holes. I'll turn this left arm into a sieve within five breaths."
Yang Jian announced his last three breaths from within the shattered mirror.
The fragment of the Creation Wedge at the shoulder joint of Rahu's left arm flashed suddenly deep within the slurry, its brightness surpassing any previous flash.
The fragments of law that fell from the edge of the fragment all froze in mid-air at the moment of the flash. They were not frozen, but a sign that the fragment was about to regain its full sealing power.
The moment the sealing power was restored, the activity of the Demon Ancestor's Law in the entire left arm was forcibly suppressed to less than 10%.
The movement of the left arm froze.
Su Fan leaped off the floating rock, stepping on a piece of rubble that had been knocked down by the Law Stalactite on the surface of the pool, and swept the Pangu Axe horizontally with his backhand.
The axe blade's blue and gold light drew an extremely bright arc on the dark purple surface of the pool, the end of which precisely cut into the grayish-white self-healing layer at the fracture site of the left shoulder joint.
The axe blade scraped across the surface of the self-healing layer, producing an extremely piercing sound of friction.
The self-healing layer had a very thin layer of law-based flesh scraped off by the axe blade. After the flesh fell off, it floated in the slurry and was temporarily suppressed by the sealing power of the fragment of the Creation Wedge, preventing it from regrowth.
The exposed slurry cavity membrane wall beneath the self-healing layer is a very faint dark purple, and the surface of the membrane wall still retains old wedge holes formed by the sealing patterns over 30,000 years.
The inside of the wedge hole was empty; the fragments of the Creation Wedge had been forced out by Rahu himself and spat into the depths of the pool.
"The self-healing layer has been scraped off. The wedge hole is empty, push it in!"
Su Fan sheathed his axe, turned around, and leaped out of the pool of water, stepping on the pebbles.
Sun Wukong attacked at the same instant.
The golden cudgel became thinner and sharper, and the tip of the cudgel was aimed at the old wedge hole exposed at the broken shoulder joint and pierced straight in.
The tip of the rod passes through the wedge hole, penetrates the membrane wall of the slurry cavity, and the entire rod body is submerged inside the left shoulder joint.
The aftershocks of the cataclysmic event poured in from the end of the rod handle, rushed along the rod body into the slurry cavity, and exploded into a dazzling white arc of electricity inside the cavity.
The electric arc spread along the law patterns on the left arm toward the elbow and wrist joints, turning all the law patterns from dark purple to grayish-white wherever it passed.
His left arm convulsed violently, his five fingers clenched into a fist in the water and then suddenly opened, his fingertips tearing wildly underwater, creating five extremely deep cracks in the surface of the pool.
The law-based liquid on both sides of the crack could not close temporarily due to the impact of the aftershocks of the calamity, revealing the dark purple law layer deep beneath the pool.
"Third breath! The sealing power of the fragment is beginning to weaken, and the activity in the left arm is rebounding. It's going to burrow deeper into the magma pool!"
Yang Jian's voice exploded from the shattered mirror.
At the end of the third breath, the left arm broke free from the brief suppression of the sealing force. After the semen cavity inside the shoulder joint was blasted open by the aftershocks of the calamity, 30% of the law patterns on the entire arm were shattered, but the remaining 70% were frantically accelerated to flow under the backflow of the law semen in the semen pool.
Ignoring Su Fan and Sun Wukong, his left arm clenched into a cone shape, and plunged deep into the pool of liquid.
Its goal was very clear: the fragments of the Demon Ancestor's true spirit in the deepest part of the pool.
The wound that had pierced the shoulder joint was healing rapidly under the backflow of serous fluid. New granulation tissue was emerging from the edge of the wedge hole and re-wrapping the serous cavity membrane. The self-healing speed was at least twice as fast as that of the right arm outside the Tai Sui crack.
The power of the law-based slurry inside the pool to enhance Rahu's physical body far surpasses that of the chaotic gray mist.
"It heals too fast! My rod is still stuck in its shoulder joint!"
Sun Wukong gripped the handle of the staff with both hands, trying to pull it outwards, but the force of his left arm sinking down was too great, and the golden cudgel was dragged along with him into the depths of the pool.
The staff was covered in black law fluid gushing from the fluid cavity. The fluid spread upwards along the staff and sizzled as it touched the back of Sun Wukong's hand.
The monkey hair on the back of his hand was charred and curled by the slurry, and his skin was covered with a dense layer of burn blisters, but he did not let go.
Su Fan flipped over the rubble and leaped back onto the floating rock, pulling out the command flag left behind by Nezha from his waist with his left hand.
When Nezha handed him the command flag, he told him to plant it under the sediment layer, but he only planted the flag. After Nezha left, he took the flag back and put it back into his waistband.
He unfurled the command flag, and the lotus flower imprinted on it shone brightly under the resonance of the law of the mark on Nezha's left shoulder.
He flung the command flag onto the surface of the pool, and the flag ignited upon contact with the water. With the combined blessing of the Pure Yang Talisman and the stone core, the Fire Law exploded into a bright lotus-shaped flame.
The flames burned through the law-based slurry on the surface of the pool, condensing into an extremely thin film of flame above the water, with the edge of the film just wedged into the left elbow joint.
"Nezha's command flag bears his mark of the path of all living beings. The frequency of the mark's laws is of the same origin as the core of the stone embryo, and the flame membrane can hold up his left arm for a moment."
Su Fan shoved the Pangu Axe into his back, grabbed the handle of the Golden Cudgel with both hands, and pulled it out with Sun Wukong.
The floating stones beneath their feet began to shatter under the immense force of their left arms sinking down, and the law patterns on the surface of the floating stones broke off one after another.
"My rod is stuck in the wedge hole! The granulation tissue inside the wedge hole is wrapping around the tip, and the more I pull, the tighter it gets!"
Sun Wukong gritted his teeth, and the old wounds on his tiger's mouth all reopened, with golden blood flowing down the handle of his staff into the liquid.
Suddenly, a blindingly bright silver-white light burst forth from the depths of the pool.
Light pierced through the deepest part of the pool, striking the surface of the massive law-enhancing liquid and turning the entire dark purple pool silvery-white.
At the very center of the light, the axe-shaped light spots of the three fragments of the Heaven-Opening Axe were activated simultaneously. Nezha activated the fragments' resonance and vibration at the bottom of the pool using the stone core.
The frequency of the law of vibration spread upwards along the liquid, penetrating the fragment of the Wedge of Creation within Rahu's left arm.
The fragments exploded violently amidst the tremors, shattering into countless extremely fine powders of the laws.
As the fragments shattered, the seal on the left arm was completely broken. However, the backlash from the laws generated at the moment the seal was broken, combined with the resonance and vibration of the fragments of the Heaven-Opening Axe, directly shattered 50% of the law patterns on the left arm.
The movement of the left arm suddenly stiffened amidst the shock, and the granulation tissue inside the shoulder joint that was healing was shaken off completely, exposing the wedge hole again.
"Nezha has activated the fragment! The fragment shattered, the seal is completely broken, but half of the law patterns on his left arm were shattered, and it's frozen!"
Taking advantage of the moment when his left arm was stiff, Su Fan pulled the golden cudgel out of the wedge hole.
The tip of the rod brought out a large clump of black law slurry and shattered law buds. The slurry splashed onto the pumice, corroding a deep pit into its surface.
Sun Wukong retrieved his golden cudgel, gripped it with both hands, and the cudgel grew thicker.
He glanced at the silvery-white light spreading from the depths of the pool, then at Rahu's left arm, which was frozen in mid-air below the floating stone, and grinned.
The laugh was soft, but genuine.
"That brat Nezha did a great job at the bottom of the pool. Now it's my turn to clean up the mess."
He swung the golden cudgel in a wide arc and smashed it into his left elbow joint.
The law patterns inside the elbow joint had been shattered by half due to the resonance and vibration, and the remaining half collapsed completely under the impact of the aftershocks of the great calamity.
The elbow joint exploded from the inside out, and the forearm and forearm broke in two.
A large amount of grayish-white law powder gushed out from the fracture, and the powder slowly sank into the slurry.
His left leg was pierced through the crack in the Tai Sui, his right leg was broken in two, and his right arm was completely shattered into powder.
Now his left arm is also broken.
After the elbow joint fractured, only the upper arm of the left arm remained connected to the shoulder joint.
The internal laws and patterns of the upper arm began to disintegrate from the inside under the dual impact of the resonance vibration and the aftershocks of the calamity, and the disintegration was extremely rapid.
Sun Wukong put his staff back on his shoulder and looked down at the two severed arms that were falling into the depths of the pool.
After the severed arm sank deep into the slurry pool, the law-based slurry on the surface of the pool closed up again, and the dark purple surface of the pool returned to calm.
Only the lotus-shaped flame of Nezha's command flag was still dancing above the water's surface, its flame membrane stuck to the surface of the slurry pool, burning through the last layer of the backflowing law slurry.
"The left arm is broken. The elbow joint is shattered, and the law patterns on the upper arm are disintegrating. Even if it sinks to the bottom of the pool, it can no longer absorb the fragments of true spirit; the law circulation system is already broken."
Su Fan took the Pangu Axe off his back, and the two lights on the axe blade shone brightly again under the dual reflection of the silvery light and the lotus flames.
He turned and looked at the membrane wall on the surface of the pool, which had been burned through by the flames of the command flag, and asked into the shattered mirror, "Nezha, what's it like down there?"
Nezha's voice came from the shattered mirror, carrying extremely subtle noises from the interference of the law-based liquid, but his tone still had that same impetuousness:
"The three fragments of the Heaven-Opening Axe have been activated and are resonating and vibrating. I've retrieved the True Spirit Fragment. Xu used a flint flame to seal it inside the stone core; it can't escape now."
Nezha's voice came from the broken mirror, and the noise was even louder than before.
"The fragment vibrations are weakening. The density of the laws at the bottom of the slurry pool is too high, and the resonance frequency of the stone core is being forced downwards. The three fragments of the Heaven-Opening Axe are sinking deeper into the slurry. They're not falling in; they're being sucked in by something."
"Something is moving deep within the mud. Ruins say that the structure of that thing's laws is of the same origin as Rahu's left arm, but it is older, at least an order of magnitude older."
Su Fan held the shattered mirror up to his eyes.
The real-time image at the bottom of the slurry pool on the mirror surface was blurred into a dark purple by the interference of the law slurry, but deep within the dark purple, a very blurry outline was slowly changing shape.
The outline edge is constantly expanding and contracting, and each expansion and contraction brings the surrounding mud up.
The churning mud contained extremely fine fragments of the laws, and the light flowing on the surface of the fragments was exactly the same as the gray-white pattern of the self-healing layer at the broken joint of the left arm.
"It's the remains of Rahu's left arm that fell to the bottom of the slurry pool. After the two severed arms sank to the mud layer, they were crushed by the sediment of the laws at the bottom of the pool."
"The fragments of the Demon Ancestor's Law remaining in the debris are being absorbed by something deep within the sludge. That thing is not a fragment of the True Spirit. The fragment of the True Spirit is already sealed within the core of the stone embryo; it is absorbing the remaining Law slurry from the severed arm remains."
Ruins' voice cut in from the shattered mirror, speaking at an extremely fast pace; with each sentence, the pulse in his chest quickened.
Su Fan squatted on the edge of the floating stone and aimed the broken mirror at the shadow at the bottom of the pool.
The outline of the shadow began to shrink after absorbing the law slurry of the severed arm's remains, shrinking from an extremely irregular shape into an extremely regular sphere.
A faint, dark purple halo flowed across the spherical surface, within which three extremely fine lines of law were slowly intertwining. The direction of these lines was completely identical to the sealing runes on the Jade Tablet of Creation that Hongjun had carved on the stone slab.
"It's not something from Rahu. It's a backup plan left by Hongjun."
Su Fan took the Pangu Axe off his back and positioned it with the blade facing down at the surface of the pool.
The double light from the axe blade pierced through the slurry and shone on the spherical outline. The three law patterns on the surface of the sphere lit up simultaneously under the light of the Pangu axe.
After the light faded, a very fine crack appeared at the intersection of the three lines, and a faint wisp of clear light emerged from inside the crack, exactly the same as the clear light on the fragment of the Jade Tablet of Creation that Sun Wukong brought out from Zixiao Palace.
"The map that Hongjun carved on the back of the stone slab marked the location of the Bottomless Law Pool with three fragments of the Heaven-Opening Axe, but there was also a line of very small characters on the edge of the map."
"I spent a whole year studying the inscriptions in Zixiao Palace. The inscription on that line was the faintest, so faint that it was almost invisible. It read: 'The bottom of the pool contains the covenant of creation. With a fragment of the true spirit as the key, it can unlock the seal of Hongjun.'"
Sun Wukong slammed his golden cudgel against the floating rock, wedging the end of the cudgel into a crevice. He squatted on the top of the cudgel, looking down at the spherical outline deep within the pool of liquid.
Nezha's voice then came from the shattered mirror:
"The fragment of the True Spirit is in my hands. Xu sealed it inside the stone core with a flint flame. I'll try bringing the core close to that sphere."
Su Fan pressed down on the shattered mirror: "Wait a minute. What else is engraved on Hongjun's stone tablet?"
Sun Wukong took the fragment of the Jade Tablet of Creation out of his pocket and held it in his furry palm.
The minimalist law rune on the surface of the fragment automatically activated when it approached the surface of the pool of liquid, with one stroke pointing upwards and the other downwards.
At the forked end of the downward-facing rune, a new fork appeared, the end of which pointed directly to the center of the spherical outline deep within the pool of liquid.
"The downward-facing rune has three branches. The first points to Rahu's left arm, the second to the bottomless pool of law, and the third to the sphere at the bottom of the pool."
"I only read half of the line of text that Hongjun carved on the top of the Zixiao Palace; the second half was worn away by the laws of time. Now, the jade tablet fragments have completed the second half themselves."
"What did you complete?" Su Fan stared at him.
"At the bottom of the pool lies the covenant of creation, which, with a fragment of the true spirit as the key, can unlock the seal of Hongjun. Within the seal lies a fragment of the handle of Pangu's axe that created the world. The nine fragments of the axe blade are scattered throughout the chaos, but the handle remains intact."
"Hongjun sealed the axe handle at the bottom of this pool and wrapped it with the seal of the Jade Tablet of Creation for 30,000 years."
"The fall of the severed left arm remnant activated the outer layer of the seal's law patterns. Once the seal is fully activated, the axe handle will automatically sense the resonance frequency of the stone core. The core can locate it and also pull it out of the seal."
Su Fan held the Pangu Axe horizontally in front of him, and the two lights on the axe blade dimmed for a moment after hearing Sun Wukong's words.
It wasn't that the laws were exhausted; rather, the axe blade itself sensed the presence of the axe handle fragments.
His Pangu Axe was reforged from one of the axe blade fragments by the remnant consciousness of Pangu. The axe blade and the handle share the same origin, and the fragments of the same origin will generate a very brief resonance of laws between them.
However, the axe handle fragments were sealed by the Jade Tablet of Creation for 30,000 years, so the resonance signal from the axe blade could not reach that depth.
"The axe handle fragment is inside that sphere. Hongjun used the True Spirit fragment as a key to seal the seal, and the severed left arm remnant only activated the outer layer of law patterns."
"To truly break the seal, the True Spirit Fragment needs to be placed into the crack in the very center of the sphere. Once placed inside, the seal will open briefly, and the axe handle will automatically sense the resonance frequency of the stone core. The core can locate it and also pull it out of the seal."
Xu translated the signals of the laws he sensed into specific information in his heart's vascular network, and his heartbeat stopped for a moment when he finished speaking the last sentence.
"Then what are we waiting for? I have a fragment of the True Spirit and the core of the Stone Embryo. The only thing separating us from that sphere is a layer of mud. Just put it in."
Nezha speaks extremely fast.
"After it's put in, the seal will open for a moment. How long is a moment?"
Su Fan's voice was very calm.
Xu remained silent for a moment before speaking:
"Once Hongjun's seal is broken, the laws of the Creation Jade Tablet inside the sphere will automatically sense the resonance frequency of the stone core."
"After sensing it, the seal will close again within moments, spitting out the axe handle fragment and swallowing back the true spirit fragment. This is the exchange law set by Hongjun."
"Exchange a True Spirit Fragment for an Axe Handle Fragment. But after the exchange, the True Spirit Fragment will be sealed and permanently locked inside the sphere, and can never be taken out again."
"Then let's not take it. The fragments of Rahu's true spirit shouldn't have been left outside in the first place. Sealing them in Hongjun's seal is more secure than sealing them in the core of the stone embryo."
Su Fan looked down at the 'human' character scar on the palm of his left hand.
After hearing Xu's words, a trace of very faint golden blood seeped out from the scar and crack again. The blood dripped down between his fingers onto the floating stone, burning a tiny golden spot on the surface of the stone.
The will of all beings spontaneously senses the location of the axe handle fragments.
The blade of the Pangu Axe is the one in his hand, while the handle is the one that Hongjun sealed at the bottom of the slurry pool.
The blade and the handle share the same origin, and the resonance of the laws between the fragments of the same origin is probing into the depths of the pool through his channel of the path of all living beings.
"Nezha, place the True Spirit Fragment into the crack in the stone core. After the seal is broken, the stone core will automatically locate the axe handle fragment. Once the fragment comes out, use the core to stabilize it and prevent it from drifting away."
"The axe handle fragment was sealed within the Jade Tablet of Creation for 30,000 years. When it first came out, its law activity was extremely low. It needed the resonance frequency of the stone core to continuously stimulate it for a while before it could restore its complete law structure."
After Su Fan finished speaking into the shattered mirror, he slung the Pangu Axe over his shoulder and turned to look at Sun Wukong.
"Once the axe handle fragments regain their complete legal structure, they will automatically fly towards the direction of Pangu's axe. The legal attraction between fragments of the same origin is extremely strong at close range. We caught it on the surface of the slurry pool."
Sun Wukong pulled the golden cudgel out of the crevice in the floating rock; the cudgel grew thicker, and he carried it on his shoulder.
"Alright. In my life, I, Old Sun, have received peaches of immortality, elixirs of immortality, and the decree of Buddha, but I have never received the handle of Pangu's axe. Today, I will receive it."
At the bottom of the pool, Nezha held the stone core in his left palm, the light from the silvery-white crystal on the surface of the core illuminating his entire face.
He reached his right hand into the law membrane formed by the flames of flint in the Ruins and took out the sealed fragment of the Demon Ancestor's true spirit from the core.
The fragment was only the size of a fingernail, with extremely dense dark purple law patterns flowing across its surface, and deep within the patterns, there was still a very faint pulsation of Rahu's original consciousness.
That was the last lingering trace of his will left on the fragments when he swallowed them and tried to refine them.
Nezha gripped the fragment tightly, stepped on the mud at the bottom of the pool, and walked directly in front of the spherical outline.
As he approached, the three law patterns on the surface of the sphere accelerated their flow simultaneously. The crack at the intersection of the patterns opened automatically, and the clear light emanating from inside the crack shone on Nezha's face, making the law mark on his left shoulder extremely bright.
"I've stuffed dragon balls, spirit pearls, and lotus incarnations into my body before, but I've never stuffed a fragment of the Demon Ancestor's true spirit into my body. Today, I'll do it."
Nezha pressed the fragments into the crack.