bioinnovel Chapter 376 Buzhou Mountain
Chapter 376 Buzhou Mountain
The pale gold patterns on the ruins of Nantianmen flashed once simultaneously as the three stepped into the city gate.
The white grout that was seeping out from the gaps in the city bricks had solidified by 70%, and the rest was still slowly filling the last few narrow gaps.
In the third of the collapsed city wall, new bricks grew outward from the broken edges of the old bricks. The growth was extremely slow, but each new brick had its own light gold patterns that perfectly matched the gold patterns on the old bricks.
The Primordial Celestial Venerable sat cross-legged on the spine, with his whisk resting on his knees.
Two-thirds of the 108 runes have been restored, and the whisk threads have turned from grayish-white back to silver-white, with only a few remaining strands bearing traces of the charred remains from the extraterrestrial war.
He looked down at the three people walking in through the city gate, his lips twitched, and he spoke in a low voice, but the entire South Heavenly Gate could hear him.
"The crack in Tai Sui has been sealed. Rahu's right arm is shattered. Are the gatekeepers still on the other side of the mountain gate?"
Su Fan planted the Pangu Axe at his feet, looked up at Laozi, and described the movements of the twelve dark purple law pools outside the Tai Sui crack one by one.
His right arm was shattered, his left leg was half crippled, and his right leg was broken in two, but his left arm, torso, and head had already awakened in the bottomless pool of law.
Although the remaining six physical bodies have not yet awakened, the churning frequency of the law fluid is also accelerating.
Rahu will come back sooner or later, and next time he will definitely come with more than three limbs.
As Laozi listened, the clear light on the whisk flickered slightly when he spoke of the simultaneous awakening of the left arm, torso, and head.
"Rahu's torso was pressed under Zixiao Palace by Hongjun, and his head was sealed deep within the ruins of Buzhou Mountain. The guardian deity gave you a coordinate."
"The Purple Cloud Palace is above the Ruins of Return, and Mount Buzhou is below the Ruins of Return. The Five Elements Mountain does not suppress the Great Sage, but rather the two entrances to the Ruins of Return."
Yuanshi Tianzun took the whisk off his lap, placed it in his palm, and drew a very simple law diagram in the air with his right index finger.
The diagram depicts the spatial interlocking relationship between Guixu, Wuxing Mountain, Zixiao Palace, and Buzhou Mountain.
Guixu is the bottom of the primordial world. The Five Elements Mountain is located at the entrance of Guixu. Zixiao Palace is hidden in the void layer deep above Guixu. The remains of Buzhou Mountain are in the foundation layer deep below Guixu.
"The Purple Cloud Palace is not on the surface of the earth. Back then, Hongjun used the Jade Tablet of Creation to create a separate void layer above the Ruins of Return, and the Purple Cloud Palace was built in that void layer."
"The remains of Mount Buzhou lie beneath the Ruins of Guixu. When Gonggong struck Mount Buzhou, the mountain broke in two, and the upper half collapsed and crashed into the northwest corner of the primordial world, forming the Mount Buzhou ruins that you are familiar with."
"But that was only the upper half. The lower half of the mountain didn't collapse; instead, it was pulled backward into the foundation layer of Guixu by the immense suction force of the leaking wind in the Heavenly Dao. That half of the debris that entered the foundation blocked another entrance to Guixu."
Laozi pressed the diagram down, and the Five Elements Mountain and the spatial relationship between the upper and lower layers on the diagram became clear at a glance.
"With both the top and bottom openings blocked, and the main body of Guixu sealed off in the middle, excrement can no longer escape. The leak in the Primordial Heavenly Dao did not begin with Guixu, but with the day when Tathagata's Mount Sumeru pressed down on the Five Elements Mountain."
Sun Wukong squatted on the top of the wall, his golden cudgel resting on his knees.
The monkey's eyes reflected the diagram of laws drawn by Laozi, and its face remained expressionless.
He took the golden cudgel off his lap, placed the tip of the cudgel on the Five Elements Mountain on the map, and spoke in a calm voice.
"What did Buddha say when he suppressed me? He said that I had committed grave sins by causing havoc in the Heavenly Palace, and that I would be imprisoned under the Five Elements Mountain for five hundred years, waiting for the pilgrim to come. I always thought that this was a scheme set up by Buddha and Guanyin to prepare for the pilgrimage."
"I only realized today that the pilgrimage was a pretext; the real purpose was to suppress me. And the suppression wasn't for my own sake, but to block the entrance to the Ruins of Return. From the day I, Old Sun, sprang from the stone, I was the plug chosen by Buddha."
"It wasn't Buddha who chose him. It was Hongjun."
With a flick of his whisk, the Primordial Celestial Venerable shattered the Law Diagram into points of light.
"After Hongjun used the Jade Tablet of Creation to scatter Rahu, he pressed Rahu's torso under the Zixiao Palace and sealed his head into the remains of Buzhou Mountain. However, Rahu's ten limbs were sealed in various parts of the chaos. In order to prevent Rahu's limbs from seeping into the prehistoric world through the two entrances of Guixu, Hongjun needed a living chaotic being to block the entrance of Guixu."
"After Pangu separated heaven and earth, only two kinds of chaotic beings remained: one was the Lord of the Well, and the other was the Chaos Stone Embryo. The Lord of the Well was sealed at the bottom of the well, and the Chaos Stone Embryo split into twelve pieces and scattered throughout the chaos. The largest piece was washed ashore on Flower Fruit Mountain by the waves of the East Sea, absorbed the essence of the sun and moon for hundreds of millions of years, and then cracked open."
"What sprang out after the crack was you. You were not chosen by Buddha. Before you were even born, Hongjun used the Jade Tablet of Creation to calculate the location of your chaotic stone embryo."
"He instructed the Buddha to move Mount Sumeru to the Five Elements Pass to suppress the Void. The weight of Mount Sumeru required a stone that could withstand the pressure of the laws of chaos."
"You are that suppressing stone. The Five Elements Mountain presses down on the entrance to Guixu, and you are pressing down under the Five Elements Mountain, creating a double suppression that seals off the entrance to Guixu. Without you and the Five Elements Mountain, the entrance to Guixu would collapse in 30,000 years, and it wouldn't even be able to wait for the birth of the Ruins."
Laozi looked down at Sun Wukong.
Sun Wukong slammed his golden cudgel against the top of the battlements three times.
The first strike is heavy, the second is light, and the third is neither heavy nor light.
Then he stood up, hoisted the golden cudgel onto his shoulder, and grinned.
After laughing, he pointed the stick in Su Fan's direction and spoke in his usual nonchalant tone, but he enunciated each word clearly.
"Boy, did you hear that? I, Old Sun, am not a prisoner being suppressed, but a sealing stone placed at the mouth of the Lord of Guixu. Hongjun's scheme, Tathagata's moving mountain, I am the plug."
"Now that the Void has emerged, the Void has a bottom, Mars has changed color, and the Heavenly Dao is no longer leaking information. The Void Master's mouth no longer needs to be plugged. For the first time in my life, I, Old Sun, am not a plug. I can do whatever I want."
"What do you want to do?" Su Fan asked, looking at him while carrying the Pangu Axe.
"I want to leave Zixiao Palace. I want to ask Hongjun a question. When he used the Jade Tablet of Creation to calculate my fate, did he foresee that I would survive being imprisoned under the Five Elements Mountain for five hundred years?"
"Did anyone foresee that I would follow a mortal from the Southern Heavenly Gate to the bottom of the well, to the Ruins of Return, to the Tai Sui Crack, cutting beyond the Three Realms and into the depths of Chaos?"
"If he didn't foresee it, then he's a Dao Ancestor for nothing. If he did foresee it, then I have to thank him in person. Without him suppressing me for five hundred years, I wouldn't be so resilient."
Before Su Fan could answer, Nezha spoke first.
He stuck the fire-tipped spear into the ground, walked to Sun Wukong's side, and looked up at the monkey squatting on the edge of the wall.
"Great Sage, if you want to go down to Zixiao Palace, I'll go with you. Zixiao Palace is in the void layer above Guixu. The flow of time there is just as chaotic as Guixu, and the density of laws is even higher than that of Tai Sui Crack. You were just torn apart by Rahu, and your left shoulder blade has only just been reattached. Your grip strength is less than 60%."
"Are you going alone? I'm worried about you going."
"I'll go alone. You have other things to do."
Sun Wukong flipped down from the top of the wall and landed in front of Nezha.
"Laojun just said that there are still remnants of Mount Buzhou under the Ruins of Return, and Rahu's head is sealed inside. His right arm is broken, and his left and right legs are crippled, but his torso and head are still reviving."
"The torso is in Zixiao Palace. I'll go find Hongjun to get the answer and see if he's still around. As for the head—the remains of Buzhou Mountain are beneath Guixu, not far from the newly revived flint tree in the ruins."
"The ruins will revive the firewood at the Suiming site, and the entrance to the Buzhou Mountain remains will be automatically exposed after the Guixu foundation is solidified. You have to be faster than me: I'll go up from Zixiao Palace, and you'll go down from Buzhou Mountain."
Su Fan looked down at the three crooked "human"-shaped scars on the palm of his left hand.
The scabs from the third incision had all fallen off, and the new skin was a pale gold color, exactly the same as the vein network of the intact heart in Xu's chest cavity.
He clenched his fist and looked up at Sun Wukong.
"Then we'll split into two groups. You go to Zixiao Palace, and Nezha and I will go down Buzhou Mountain. After the Ruins are reborn and the Flintwood is restored, it will come down to Guixu to find me. Its heart network can share the perception of laws with the Flintwood's root system. It can pinpoint the exact location of the Buzhou Mountain ruins."
"What about the Northern Continent?"
Qingfeng, leaning on his broken sword which was mostly repaired, stood up from the pile of rubble. His right leg had fully healed thanks to the healing power of the white bones of Guixu, and he could walk without a limp.
"Yang Jian and the others are still on their way. After Di Jun's remnant soul was nailed back to Bone Mountain by the Demon Emperor's spear, all the remains of the myriad demons in Beiju Luzhou were returned to their places, but Di Jun's original body is still pressed down at the bottom of Bone Mountain. Back then, he was dismembered by Yu the Great and sealed in various places in the Eight Desolations, and his main body is sealed at the bottom of Bone Mountain."
"Yang Jian stabilized the seal with the Kunlun Mirror, and the human warriors retrieved the Demon Emperor Spear, but the three Demon Emperor heads pierced by the spearhead had not yet been exorcised. Gongsun Bao was carrying the human warriors back, while Yang Jian stayed behind at Bone Mountain to clean up the mess."
"It will take them at least two more days to get back to Nantianmen."
Qingfeng walked up to Su Fan, the newly grown blade on the broken sword gleaming coldly.
"I can take a team to stay and guard the South Heavenly Gate until Yang Jian and the others return. The aftershocks of the laws governing the return of the gods are still repairing the city walls, and Laozi's whisk is almost back to its pre-war state. The South Heavenly Gate can be defended."
"Then let's defend it."
Su Fan took the Pangu Axe from his waist, and the triple light on the axe blade shone brightly again under the golden light of Mars.
He hoisted the axe onto his shoulder.
"Nezha, let's go. First, we'll go to the Suiming Ruins to retrieve the ruins, and then we'll go straight down Buzhou Mountain."
The two turned and walked towards the South Heavenly Gate.
Nezha walked to Su Fan's right, carrying the Fire-Tipped Spear. The wound on his left arm, left by the Time Hunter, had completely healed in the aftershocks of the laws of the gods returning to their places. The newly grown skin had a very faint dark golden luster, which was the mark of the Dao of All Beings transformed by the residual heat of the Flint Law.
He glanced at his left arm, clenched his fist, and his knuckles made a crisp sound.
Sun Wukong carried his golden cudgel and walked alone to the other side of the South Heavenly Gate.
The entrance to Guixu is located below the ruins of Wuxing Mountain, while the entrance to the void interlayer of Zixiao Palace is located deep above Guixu.
He looked down at the edge of the Guixu crack beneath his feet. When the Five Elements Mountain pressed down on him, his face was pressed against this stone, listening to the sounds from beneath Guixu for five hundred years.
They could hear the seal of the Lord at the bottom of the well leaking air, and the bones of the Ruins breaking and regenerating repeatedly, yet they still couldn't discover that there was another space above their heads.
"I, Old Sun, have been counting stones at the edge of Guixu for five hundred years, but I've never counted the one on top of my head."
He slammed his golden cudgel on the ground and somersaulted upwards into the depths of the void above Guixu.
Su Fan and Nezha crossed the White Rock Plain and sped toward the Suiming Ruins, following the direction repositioned by the dark gold line on the Ruins' chest.
After the foundation of Guixu was solidified, the texture of the white rock on the surface of Baiyan Plain became deeper, and the texture of each rock belonged to the same law structure as the light gold texture that had grown on the bricks of Nantianmen City.
Nezha's Wind Fire Wheels left two very shallow fire marks on the white rock, and the heat from the edges of the fire marks baked a very thin layer of law-based steam on the rock surface.
The outline of the Suiming ruins emerged a hundred miles ahead of them.
When I left last time, the ruins were covered by layers of chaotic sediment, but now the sediment has been pushed aside by the newly grown flint roots.
Seventeen new buds sprouted from the trunk of the 30,000-year-old tinder tree, each emitting a dark red residual heat of the law, which formed a pale red light shield above the ruins.
Xu stood barefoot in the center of the light shield, his right hand resting on the trunk of the flint tree, his left hand hanging at his side, with faint scorch marks still remaining on his fingers from being licked by the flint flame.
The pale gold line running through its chest is now completely connected to the flint's new roots. With each heartbeat, the roots penetrate deeper into the chaotic sedimentary layer.
"How deep are the roots?" Su Fan walked into the light shield and stood beside the ruins.
The residual warmth of the flint sprouts shone on the several holes in his left arm that had been corroded by the Rahu sap, and new granulation tissue slowly grew from the skin around the holes under the influence of the residual heat.
"Seventy thousand feet. We're just three thousand feet away from penetrating the deepest part of the Guixu foundation."
"When Taiyi cast the bell, he used the sound of the bell to record the spatial coordinates of the Buzhou Mountain ruins. Those coordinates were drawn up from the roots of the flint tree by my heart's network. The entrance to the Buzhou Mountain ruins is due north at the bottom of the Ruins of Return, where there is a law rift that has been distorted by a time fracture."
"The crack is sealed with the primordial water essence left over from when Gonggong smashed Buzhou Mountain."
Xu withdrew his right hand, and the connection of the flint root was temporarily severed. The light on the vein network on its chest dimmed for a moment, but the vein network of the three heart fragments on the surface of the core continued to operate on its own.
It turned to look at Su Fan and Nezha and asked.
"You want to descend Mount Buzhou? Is it for Rahu's head?"
"That's not all. The gatekeeper gave the Great Sage a piece of advice: Zixiao Palace is above Guixu, and Buzhou Mountain is below Guixu. Rahu's body is in Zixiao Palace, and his head is in Buzhou Mountain. The Great Sage went to Zixiao Palace alone, while Nezha and I went to Buzhou Mountain."
"Besides Rahu's head, Laozi didn't know what else was in the remains of Buzhou Mountain. But after Gonggong broke Buzhou Mountain, the upper half of the mountain collapsed in the northwest, and the lower half was sucked into the foundation of Guixu by the leaking wind of the Heavenly Dao."
"The lower half of Buzhou Mountain contains, besides Rahu's head, the remaining primordial water essence of Gonggong himself. That water essence was sealed by a time rift for 30,000 years. If it is still alive, it should know all the laws and structures inside the Buzhou Mountain ruins. Finding the water essence will lead to the location of Rahu's head."
Su Fan took the Pangu Axe off his shoulder and touched the ground with the axe blade.
"Gonggong's water essence. After Gonggong smashed Buzhou Mountain, he was chased by the fire god Zhurong and eventually died from exhaustion. His body turned into primordial water essence and scattered throughout the ruins of Buzhou Mountain."
"His water spirit has no consciousness, but it retains the memories of the laws it followed in its previous life. If I can come into contact with the water spirit, I can use my heart's energy network to decipher its memories of the laws."
Xu completely withdrew his right hand from the flint and walked up to Su Fan.
"I'll go with you."
The three left the Suiming Ruins and headed north along the bottom of Guixu towards the entrance of the Buzhou Mountain ruins.
After the Ruins were created, the bottom of the Ruins was completely solidified into a white rock foundation. However, the further north you go, the thinner the law patterns on the surface of the white rock become, and in their place is an extremely ancient gray-black law sedimentary layer.
That was the primordial sediment formed when the Heavenly Dao leaked air and mixed together chaotic gray mist and fragments of ancient laws before the foundation of the Ruins had solidified.
Nezha's Wind Fire Wheels went out twice when he stepped on the sediment layer. The third time, he simply put the Wind Fire Wheels away and walked behind Su Fan on foot, carrying his gun.
"The density of laws in this godforsaken place is too high, and the Fire Wheel's Fire Law is being suppressed to the point of being unable to breathe."
Nezha, carrying his gun, stomped his feet on the sediment layer, making a series of dull echoes.
The echoes struck the law membrane above the Ruins of Return and bounced back, superimposing to form an extremely low-frequency hum.
The heart's vascular network, perfectly assembled within the rust's chest cavity, was exceptionally sensitive to this low-frequency hum. It raised its right hand, the scorch mark left by the flint flame on its fingers slightly burning hot amidst the hum.
"It's this buzzing sound. It's an echo of the laws leaking out from the time fracture, a ripple produced when the water essence floats inside Mount Buzhou. The innate water essence has no vocal cords, yet it can disturb the surrounding time laws and produce this frequency of echo. Over the past 30,000 years, every time the broken bones at the bottom of Guixu were shaken by this buzzing sound, the cracks would deepen by one layer."
Su Fan, holding the Pangu Axe, stopped in front of an extremely wide rift in the laws.
This fissure is unlike any other time-related crack I've ever seen: the sedimentary layers on either side of the fissure were not torn apart by external forces, but rather burned through from the inside by some kind of extremely high-temperature shockwave.
At the burn-through fracture, there are still remnants of law crystals that have been melted by high temperature. The crystals are dark black and covered with fine water-like cracks.
That was the trace of the laws left by the innate water essence that was instantly evaporated when Gonggong smashed Buzhou Mountain, and the water vapor re-condensed into water droplets that hit the cracks and breaks.
"This fissure is the break left by the evaporation of the water essence when Gonggong smashed Buzhou Mountain. Going through it and further in leads into the interior of the Buzhou Mountain ruins. The lower half of the Buzhou Mountain ruins contains the head of Rahu, as well as the water essence scattered by Gonggong. The buzzing of the water essence comes from the deepest part of the fissure."
Xu raised his right hand and pressed it against the edge of the crack. When the scorch mark on his finger touched the water crystal at the break, the scorch mark automatically cracked and a very faint dark red flame emerged.
The flame and the water essence law remaining on the crystal surface briefly came into contact and exploded into a tiny cloud of law steam. After the steam dissipated, the water crystal at the break automatically contracted inward, making way for a narrow passage that could only allow one person to pass sideways.
The three squeezed sideways into the narrow passage.
Inside the narrow passage is an extremely long natural stone corridor, and the rock walls on both sides of the corridor are covered with ancient law patterns that were shaken out from inside the Buzhou Mountain when it was broken apart.
These patterns are completely different from the patterns of the laws of nature commonly found in the surface ruins of the primordial world—they are rougher and more primitive, with each pattern having extremely deep engravings, and the interior of the patterns is embedded with innate magma crystals that have not completely cooled.
Nezha reached out and touched the nearest magma crystal on the rock wall. His fingertip was burned, and when he pulled it back, a tiny blister had formed on it.
"Thirty thousand years have passed, and this magma is still scalding hot. Just how tall was Mount Buzhou back then?"
"Mount Buzhou was formed from the spine of Pangu. When Pangu fell, his spine supported the heavens and the earth, and that was the earliest Mount Buzhou. Its height was not measured, but was created by Pangu's will."
"When Gonggong rammed his head against Buzhou Mountain, what broke was not the mountain, but the last bit of will that Pangu left in his spine. When the will shattered, the spine broke, and the primordial water essence shattered along with it."
The sound of the ruins was drawn out inside the stone corridor, echoing layer upon layer.
At the end of the stone corridor, a huge underground cavern suddenly appeared before the three of them.
The hollow dome is the top of the inner cavity of the lower half of Buzhou Mountain, where countless ancient magma stalactites hang upside down, each stalactite tip wrapped with a fragment of the Rahu Law sealed in a water crystal.
The fragment was slowly wriggling inside the crystal; it was still alive.
At the bottom of the void was a vast expanse of water governed by laws. The water was a deep blue, almost black, and its surface was perfectly still, without a ripple.
That was not ordinary water; it was the original essence of water formed by the gathering of all the fragments of innate water essence scattered after Gonggong's death.
Deep within the water essence lies a massive, dark purple head—the head of Rahu.
The head had its eyes closed, and a broken spear was stuck in the center of its brow. The shaft of the spear was engraved with the runes of the Creation Jade Tablet, which were personally blessed by Hongjun.
That broken spear was the Creation Wedge that Hongjun used to seal Rahu's head.
With each breath Rahu took deep within the water essence, a faint, dark purple ripple spread across the surface of the water.
Nezha took the Fire-Tipped Spear off his shoulder, gripped it with both hands, and aimed the tip at the center of the brow of the giant head below the water.
"Rahu's head is larger than the three limbs outside the Tai Sui crack combined. Lao Jun said that Hongjun pressed the torso under the Zixiao Palace and sealed the head in the ruins of Buzhou Mountain—so is the spear stuck in his forehead the wedge of creation that Hongjun himself inserted?"
"The Wedges of Creation. After Hongjun used the Jade Tablet of Creation to shatter Rahu's true spirit, he took the fragments of the jade tablet and cast twelve wedges of creation, which were then nailed to the main joints of Rahu's twelve physical bodies."
"The joints of the three severed limbs outside the Tai Sui crack all have wedge holes. The wedges were mostly broken during the erosion of the laws over 30,000 years, which is why the right arm was able to be shattered by the old axe marks you found."
"But this one is different; it's intact. The wedge hole is still there, and the runes on the Jade Tablet of Creation are still there. This wedge was driven into Rahu's head even earlier than the oldest sedimentary rocks in the Guixu strata."
Su Fan carried the Pangu Axe to the edge of the Water Essence.
He squatted down, extended his left hand, and placed the 'human' character scar on his palm an inch above the water's surface. Although the palm did not touch the water, the will of all beings in his palm was transmitted through the water surface into the depths of the water essence.
The moment Rahu's head, sealed at the bottom of the primordial liquid, came into contact with the will of all living beings, its tightly closed eyes suddenly opened.
Those eyes were pure black, without pupils or whites, only two black holes formed by extremely dense liquid of demonic ancestral laws.
A faint golden light shone from the depths of the black hole—the lingering aura of the Creation Jade Tablet, which remained in the fragments of Rahu's True Spirit after being scattered by Hongjun thirty thousand years ago.
Rahu's head stared at Su Fan through the vast expanse of primordial water.
Luo Hou spoke in the water, his voice rising from the deepest part of the water essence, penetrating the bottomless water and reaching the seams of Su Fan's hand, which was pressed against his palm.
It's not something you hear with your ears; it's a vibration of the laws that penetrates directly into your bones.
Su Fan did not retract his left hand; he extended his right hand as well, placing both hands above the water's surface.
The 'human' character scar on the left hand transmits the will of all beings, while the right hand, clenched into a fist, presses down on the back of the left hand to increase the pressure of the transmitted law.
He used the same bone transmission technique to send his own voice back.
"Your twelve bodies are shattered, your right arm is crippled, your left leg is broken, and your right leg is severed. Now your torso is in Zixiao Palace, and your head is here. The first person you see when you open your eyes is me. I've chopped off one of your arms. You still want to continue fighting?"
Luo Hou remained silent in the water for a moment, then the frequency of the bone-transmitted vibrations subtly changed. It was no longer an angry roar, but a flat voice tempered by the extreme cold that had been sealed at the bottom of the water essence for 30,000 years.
"Mortal. You were able to shatter my right arm because of the old axe mark of Pangu and the sealing technique of Hongjun. But I am now sealed beneath the primordial water essence, and the wedge of creation has been driven into the Demon Ancestor's spiritual platform for 30,000 years without ever loosening. Is there anyone in your primordial world who can remove this wedge?"
"No one can pull it out. My left arm, torso, and head are all awakening at the same time, and you can't seal them off. Sooner or later, I will explode this pool of water essence from the inside, and then my head will break free and collide with the remains of Mount Buzhou."
"Mount Buzhou was formed from the spine of Pangu, and it is fundamentally opposed to my Demon Ancestor's laws. The two laws exploded inside Mount Buzhou, and you will all be buried underneath."
Su Fan stared at those pure black eye sockets and touched the tip of the Pangu Axe to the water's surface.
The triple beam of light pierced through the water and shone directly on the wedge of creation in the very center of Rahu's brow.
"I won't pull out that wedge. I'll drive it three inches deeper into your forehead, and use the will of all living beings to wrap the wedge handle, reactivating the Creation Jade Tablet runes on the wedge. I won't use Pangu's axe to chop you down, nor will I use the power of creation to shatter you. You can stay under the Water Essence and think it over slowly—whether to continue fighting or find a different way to live."
The two faint golden lights in the black eye sockets of Rahu's head contracted slightly after Su Fan finished speaking.
It shrank to a tiny circle, then paused for a moment before spreading out again. As it spread, the lingering aura of the Creation Jade Tablet within the golden light was slightly brighter than before.
He shifted his gaze from the Pangu Axe in Su Fan's hand to the ruthless figure squatting at Su Fan's feet.
The complete and assembled Eastern Emperor's heart in Xu's chest cavity was projecting a pale golden network of veins through the sternal wall. The light of the network shone into the Water Essence, creating a very faint resonance with the lingering aura of the Creation Jade Tablet in Luo Hou's eye sockets.
Xu sensed the resonance, raised its head to look at the huge dark purple head on the opposite bank of the pool, and began to translate the information hidden in the resonance for Luo Hou.
"The golden light in his eyes was not the light of Luo Hou's own laws. It was the remnant of Hongjun's Dao principles left over from the fragments of the Jade Tablet of Creation being crushed in the remnant souls of ancient gods and demons that he devoured."
"For 30,000 years, he has been unable to fully digest this Dao principle. Just now, when he heard you say that the will of all living beings is wrapped around the wedge of creation, this Hongjun Dao principle moved on its own. It is responding to you actively."
"The Wedge of Creation was forged by Hongjun using fragments of the Jade Tablet of Creation, and the will of all living beings was extracted from the bones of mortals. However, the Hongjun Dao principles in the inner core of the wedge and the Creation Wedge runes in the outer layer of the wedge handle can achieve a brief resonance under the influence of these Dao principles."
"As long as you reactivate the runes on the wedge handle with the will of all living beings, the trace of Hongjun's Dao principle remaining in Rahu's spiritual platform will push the wedge tip inward from within. With the combined force of the inside and outside, the wedge can be driven in another three inches. These extra three inches are enough to seal him for three thousand years."