bioinnovel Chapter 385 Negotiating Conditions
Chapter 385 Negotiating Conditions
The pale gold patterns on the ruins of Nantianmen flashed once when Su Fan stepped onto the city bricks.
This time, the flash of light was no longer a passive response to the law fluctuations deep within the Ruins, but rather the law structure of the city bricks themselves actively accepting the will of all living beings.
In the section where one-third of the city wall collapsed, the new bricks have grown to be level with the old ones.
The white law slurry seeping from the brick seams, after its final solidification, took on an extremely faint chaotic original color, completely identical to the light on the blade of Pangu's axe.
The Primordial Celestial Venerable sat cross-legged on the spine, with his whisk resting on his knees.
After all 108 runes were restored, the whisk threads changed from silvery-white to extremely pale transparent, with each thread shimmering with a faint, clear light.
He looked down at the four people walking in through the city gate, and his lips twitched slightly.
"The ancient god's egg has been resolved. The density of the laws in the Guixu foundation jumped another half-degree after the larva merged with it. The old frequency of the Chaos Ancient God has been completely covered by the new frequency of Guixu, and the egg will no longer seek out the old mother body."
"After the mountain root was incorporated into the foundation, the law structure of the Buzhou Mountain remnants also began to connect with the Dao patterns of all living beings in the Guixu foundation."
"After the docking is completed, the lower half of Buzhou Mountain will become part of the foundation of Guixu. At that time, the pressure-bearing capacity of Guixu will double."
The Primordial Celestial Venerable took the whisk from his lap, and the whisk strands drew an arc in the air, within which appeared a real-time image of the laws connecting the Guixu foundation and the Buzhou Mountain ruins.
In the images, the ancient law patterns at the bottom of the Buzhou Mountain ruins are gradually merging into the pale gold pattern network of the foundation. With each merge, the density of the foundation's laws increases by one degree.
"How much longer until docking?" Su Fan planted the Pangu Axe at his feet.
"Three months. After the docking is completed, the remains of Buzhou Mountain will no longer be Buzhou Mountain. It will become part of the Guixu foundation, merging with the mountain root, stone fragments, and the life law network of larvae to form a complete Guixu law system."
"By then, it will be at least ten times more difficult for those Rahu bodies deep within the chaos to penetrate the Void from the bottom."
The Primordial Celestial Venerable withdrew his whisk, and the image vanished.
"However, during the docking, the water essence sealed inside the Buzhou Mountain remains will temporarily lose the residual warmth of the laws of Gonggong's remnant consciousness."
"Although the Guanghan Crystal has completely fused with the Wedge of Creation, and the sealing strength is three times that of the original, the law vibrations generated by the docking will cause the law sedimentation layer at the bottom of the pool to loosen for a very short time."
"How long will the loosening last?" Su Fan asked.
"Each tremor lasts about a hundred breaths. There will be three major docking tremors in total over three months, on the last day of the first, second, and third months respectively."
"Each vibration loosens the law-based sediment layer at the bottom of the water essence pool."
"Within a hundred breaths, although the seal on Rahu's head will not be broken, the Hongjun Dao principle in his eye sockets has completely merged with the wedge tip and will no longer actively suppress his consciousness. He will open his eyes within those hundred breaths."
Yuanshi Tianzun looked down at Su Fan.
"He opened his eyes not to break free from the seal. The seal was three times stronger, and he couldn't break free. He opened his eyes because after Hongjun's Dao principles left, only the pure core of the Demon Ancestor's laws remained deep within his mind."
"The core will instinctively react to fluctuations in the laws of the outside world. The docking vibration will trigger his instinct, allowing him to briefly regain consciousness. Within a hundred breaths, he can speak."
Sun Wukong slammed his golden cudgel against the city bricks:
"What are you saying? You're going to be the first to settle scores with us three thousand years from now? He said that outside the Tai Sui rift."
"Not only that. He was sealed beneath the Water Essence for 30,000 years, and the Demon Ancestor's memories sealed deep within his spiritual platform contain information about the laws and structures of the primordial chaos."
"That information will be useful for your next step: to retrieve the last fragment of the Heaven-Opening Axe from the ancient battlefield ruins."
The voice of the Primordial Celestial Venerable was very calm.
"The ancient battlefield ruins are the main battlefield where Pangu shattered the ancient gods of chaos. The laws and environment there are completely different from those in the chaotic gray mist belt."
"The coordinates that Hongjun carved on the stone slab only marked the location of the fragments, not the law traps inside the battlefield ruins."
"Luo Hou fought against the ancient gods of chaos back then. He was the opposite of the natural opposite of the laws of chaos, while the ancient gods were the primordial life forms that naturally arose from the laws of chaos."
"The two fought a battle at the beginning of chaos. The ancient god lost and was shattered by Pangu. Rahu survived and was scattered and sealed in various places by Hongjun. He knew the distribution of the law traps inside the battlefield ruins."
"So when he opened his eyes, he wasn't there to fight us, he was there to negotiate. To negotiate terms."
Su Fan pulled the Pangu Axe from the ground, and the chaotic primordial light on the axe blade flickered slightly as he spoke.
"Yes. He wants to exchange a piece of information for a promise. The information is the distribution of the law traps of the ancient battlefield ruins."
"He will tell you what the promise is during the first docking vibration. The first docking vibration will be in three days. You have three days to prepare."
Yuanshi Tianzun placed his whisk on his lap.
Su Fan nodded and turned to walk towards the gap in the city wall.
Nezha followed behind him, carrying the Fire-Tipped Spear. The Law Mark on his left shoulder shone steadily under the golden patterns of the bricks of the South Heavenly Gate.
Xu walked barefoot on the city bricks, and with each step, the Eastern Emperor's heart in his chest beat, its rhythm synchronized with the newborn pulse of the larva deep within the foundation of Guixu.
Sun Wukong squatted on the edge of the battlement without moving, placing his golden cudgel across his knees. The white arcs of electricity from the aftermath of the calamity danced on the cudgel for a moment before he forcibly suppressed them back into the depths of his mind.
At the breach in the city wall, Qingfeng was leading the soldiers who remained behind to clean up the last batch of broken bricks.
His broken sword had completely healed, and the newly grown blade was covered with extremely faint dark red law patterns, which were of the same origin as the embers of flint in the pale gold line on Xu's chest.
The human warrior leaned against the edge of the battlements, new skin growing over the old scars of his two broken legs, the Demon Emperor's Spear resting across his knees.
Gongsun Bao sat beside him, the chipped axe at his feet. The chipped edge on the axe blade had healed itself in the aftershocks of the laws governing the return of the gods, and the newly formed metal surface at the healed edge was inlaid with a very faint silver-white law pattern.
Yang Jian stood up from the pillar of the city tower, the pale golden vertical line on his forehead had completely healed.
He pieced the two shattered mirror pieces back together, and the real-time sealed state of the six Rahu bodies deep within the chaos appeared on the mirror surface.
His left arm was just cut off, his right arm was shattered, his left and right legs were half crippled, his torso was pressed down under the Zixiao Palace, and his head was sealed under the ruins of Buzhou Mountain.
The remaining six slumbering physical bodies are sealed in pools of law fluid throughout the chaos. The seals on three of them have already loosened, and the churning frequency of the law fluid is increasing.
"The locations of the remaining three fragments of the Heaven-Opening Axe have also been pinpointed. One is near the seal on Rahu's torso, one is near the seal on Rahu's left leg, and one is deep within the ancient battlefield ruins."
"The torso is beneath the Purple Cloud Palace, overlapping with the Creation Jade Tablet barrier left by Hongjun. The left leg is in another pool of law-based liquid deep within the chaos, where the seal has loosened."
"The ancient battlefield ruins are located in the deepest part of the area. Next to Hongjun's coordinates, there are those words engraved: 'The ancient gods are not all dead; there are living things on the battlefield.'"
Yang Jian turned the mirror towards Su Fan.
"The living thing refers to the egg of the ancient god. Now that the egg has been dealt with, there are still ancient god remains and fragments of laws that have not been fully deconstructed inside the battlefield ruins."
Su Fan slung the Pangu Axe over his shoulder:
"Three days later, Luo Hou's head will open its eyes during the first vibration of the docking. Deep within his mind are sealed memories of the laws from the beginning of chaos, and he knows the distribution of the law traps inside the ancient battlefield ruins. He wants to set conditions, but what those conditions are is currently unknown."
"But he was sealed for a full 30,000 years. The wedge of creation was driven deep into his spiritual platform, and the Guanghan Crystal sealed all the sealing nodes. No matter how much he struggled, he could not get out of the Water Essence.
"We'll take his information as it comes. We'll agree to his conditions if we can, and if we can't, we'll let him stay under the water essence."
"What if he offers conditions like resurrecting Hongjun?" Nezha slung the gun barrel over his shoulder.
"Hongjun is gone and cannot be resurrected. Luo Hou himself knows this. He was personally destroyed by Hongjun back then, because Hongjun's laws of creation and his Demon Ancestor's laws are mutually exclusive."
"He couldn't beat Hongjun when he was alive, and he has no hope now that Hongjun is dead. His conditions are most likely not related to Hongjun."
Sun Wukong flipped down from the top of the wall and landed next to Nezha, slamming his golden cudgel on the ground.
"I saw the words carved by Hongjun 30,000 years ago in Zixiao Palace. Hongjun speculated on Luo Hou's ultimate goal. When Luo Hou fought the ancient god of chaos, it was not to devour the ancient god, but to protect the laws of chaos themselves."
"Protect the laws of chaos?" Nezha tilted his head and looked at the monkey.
"The Chaos Ancient Gods are primordial life forms that naturally arose from the laws of chaos. When they were alive, the laws of chaos were consumed by them, not devoured."
"The more ancient gods there are, the faster the laws of chaos are consumed. Rahu is the natural opposite of the laws of chaos, and his instinct is to maintain the balance of the laws of chaos."
"When the ancient gods overexert themselves on the laws of chaos, Rahu will awaken and suppress them. After the ancient gods are shattered by Pangu, the laws of chaos lose their restraint and begin to expand uncontrollably. This is what you later saw as the chaotic gray mist and the pool of law slurry."
"Hongjun scattered and sealed Rahu in various places not to stop him from devouring the primordial world, but to stop him from continuing to suppress the disorderly expansion of the laws of chaos."
"Because after the laws of chaos expand to their limit, they will begin to collapse inward, and the end point of the collapse is an extremely small singularity of the laws."
"Once that singularity is formed, it will suck in all the chaotic gray mist surrounding the entire primordial world, and the primordial world itself will be dragged to the edge of the singularity by the tide of laws."
Sun Wukong took the fragment of the Jade Tablet of Creation from his pocket. The extremely simple law rune on the fragment flashed by itself after he finished speaking.
"The last line of words that Hongjun carved on the dome of the main hall of Zixiao Palace was this. I didn't understand it at the time, but after the axe handle fragment recognized its master, the Pangu Guardian Law directly infused the meaning of this passage into the depths of my mind."
"So Luo Hou's conditions are very clear. He wants to prevent the formation of the singularity of the chaotic laws. He has the method, but he is sealed and cannot act."
"We can move, but we don't know how. He wants to use the distribution of law traps in the ancient battlefield ruins to exchange for us doing something for him. This matter is most likely related to the singularity of the chaotic laws."
Su Fan put the Pangu Axe down from his shoulder, the blade touching the ground.
"We'll know when he opens his eyes three days later and tells us himself."
Xu walked over from the edge of the city wall, the transparent scorch mark on his right index finger gleaming faintly in the golden light of Mars.
He held the stone core in his left palm. The silver-white crystal on the surface of the core had lost most of its light after the density of the laws of the Ruins of Return had stabilized, leaving only a very faint silver-white halo.
Su Fan tucked the Pangu Axe into his waistband and walked towards the gap in the city wall.
Qingfeng was leading the remaining soldiers to fill the last batch of broken bricks into the foundation cracks at the bottom of the gap. Under the infusion of the will of all living beings, the broken bricks automatically interlocked with the white rock layer of the foundation.
Su Fan walked to the edge of the gap and placed his left hand on a piece of broken brick that had just been filled in.
The axe-shaped mark on his palm activated automatically the moment it touched the brick, and the Pangu Guardian Law flowed into the brick along his arm.
The newly formed pale gold patterns inside the broken bricks are growing at an accelerated rate under the protection of the law, growing at least twice as fast as before.
"The city wall can be repaired within three days. The defenses of the South Heavenly Gate must remain intact before the first tremor. How long can the seal of the myriad demon skeletons in Beiju Luzhou hold out?"
Su Fan withdrew his left hand and turned to look at Yang Jian.
"After Di Jun's main body is nailed back to Bone Mountain, the seal will automatically maintain its position for at least a thousand years. We don't need to worry about Beiju Luzhou for now. This half of the shattered mirror can still be used once more."
"During the docking vibration, the law-deposited layer at the bottom of the Water Essence will loosen and shift. The mirror can penetrate the loosened deposit layer and reflect a real-time image of Rahu's head. If you want to see what he says, use this mirror."
Yang Jian separated the two pieces of the broken mirror and handed one half to Su Fan.
In just three days, the walls of the South Heavenly Gate were repaired faster than expected, thanks to the combined blessings of the will of all living beings and the protective laws of Pangu.
As Qingfeng led the remaining soldiers to fill the gap with the last batch of broken bricks, the white law slurry gushing from the brick joints no longer needed human guidance, automatically seeping into the depths of the gap along the pale gold patterns of the city bricks.
With each inch of penetration, the interlocking between the new and old bricks deepens.
By the morning of the third day, the pale gold patterns on the entire city wall had formed a complete net.
At the very center of the net is the Primordial Celestial Venerable, seated cross-legged on the ridge, with a whisk lying across his lap, and one hundred and eight transparent runes slowly flowing on the whisk's threads.
Su Fan stood by the edge of the battlements, tucking the half-broken mirror that Yang Jian had given him into his waistband.
The Pangu Axe was stuck at his feet, and the chaotic primordial light on the axe blade flowed steadily under the golden light of Mars.
The axe-shaped mark on his left palm was slightly warm after the city wall was repaired, indicating that the fusion of Pangu's Guardian Law and the will of all living beings had been pushed forward a little further.
Nezha leaned against a pillar of the city tower, carrying his Fire-Tipped Spear. The law mark on his left shoulder was bright and stable, and the warmth of the Pure Yang Talisman continued to emanate a faint temperature from his chest at the Tanzhong acupoint.
Xu stood barefoot at the edge of the Guixu Crack, his right hand pressed against the pale gold line on his chest.
With each beat of the Eastern Emperor's heart in his chest cavity, the larvae deep within the Guixu foundation responded with a pulse.
Sun Wukong squatted at the highest point of the battlement, his golden cudgel resting on his knees.
The white arcs of electricity from the aftermath of the calamity danced on the staff for a moment before he forcibly suppressed them back into the depths of his spiritual platform.
The monkey's eyes reflected the glowing light of the laws in the direction of the Buzhou Mountain ruins, the color of which was transitioning from deep blue to pale gold.
That was a precursor to the first tremors that occurred when the foundation of Guixu and the remains of Buzhou Mountain began to connect.
"It's about to begin."
Xu opened his eyes, and in his pale golden pupils was a real-time image of the first ancient law pattern at the bottom of the Buzhou Mountain ruins officially merging into the pale golden pattern network of the Guixu foundation.
The moment it merged in, the entire foundation of Guixu shook from top to bottom.
The tremor was extremely short but extremely deep, traveling upwards from the lowest layer of the foundation along the white rock layer, passing through the walls of the water essence pool, through the stone corridor of the Buzhou Mountain ruins, through the law membrane wall of the Guixu crack, and striking the soles of everyone present.
Su Fan held the shattered mirror up to his eyes.
The law-deposited layer at the bottom of the water essence pool on the mirror surface cracked open with countless extremely fine fissures during the tremors, and the aura of the Demon Ancestor's laws, which had been sealed for 30,000 years, surged out from the depths of the fissures.
Its aura was an extremely dark purple. After colliding with the transparent sealing runes of the Guanghan Crystal at the bottom of the pool, most of it dissipated on its own, and the remaining remnant condensed into an extremely blurry dark shadow above the surface of the pool.
The outline of the shadow kept expanding and contracting, each expansion and contraction accompanied by an extremely low-frequency hissing of the law.
Deep at the bottom of the pool, Rahu opened his eyes.
The pair of pure black eye sockets reflected a faint dark purple halo under the light of the Guanghan Crystal seal shining through the cracks in the sedimentary layer.
There were no pupils in his eye sockets, only two black holes formed from extremely dense liquid of the Demon Ancestor's Law.
Nine layers of transparent runes flowed steadily on the handle of the Wedge of Creation, while the tip of the wedge was driven six inches deep into the spiritual platform, pressing him firmly to the bottom of the pool.
He stared intently at the half-shattered mirror above the water's surface, peering through the cracks in the deep primordial water and sediment layers.
Su Fan was on the other side of the shattered mirror.
"Three days ago, Laozi said you would open your eyes during the docking vibration, and sure enough, you did."
Su Fan pushed the broken mirror forward, and the image on the mirror surface magnified on its own.
The details of Rahu's head are clearly visible on the mirror.
The law patterns on the edge of the eye sockets stopped flowing under the seal, and the lingering charm of the Hongjun Dao Laws deep within the patterns had completely merged with the wedge tip.
The core of the Demon Ancestor's Law deep within the Lingtai was compressed into a fist-sized ball of extremely dark purple light under pressure three times stronger than the sealing intensity.
"Mortal. My time is limited; the layer of laws will close again within a hundred breaths. Therefore, I will state my conditions directly."
Rahu's voice penetrated the law transmission channels of the Water Essence and the Shattered Mirror, directly pouring into the depths of Su Fan's spiritual platform.
The voice was extremely flat, without anger or struggle.
"I can give you the distribution of law traps in the ancient battlefield ruins. Every trap there was a law rift blasted out by the last bit of life force of the Chaos Ancient God before his death."
"The flow of time inside the rift is completely different from that outside; some parts are fast, some are slow, and some cycle repeatedly. Anyone who goes in unaware of this distribution will almost certainly die."
"What are the conditions?" Su Fan asked.
"The singularity of the laws of chaos. The Great Sage saw Hongjun's words in Zixiao Palace, so he should already know about its existence."
"The laws of chaos lost their restraint after the death of the ancient gods and expanded for 30,000 years. Now they are approaching the critical point of collapse."
"Once the collapse begins, a singularity of law will form deep within the chaos, sucking in all the surrounding chaotic ash and law pools."
"The primordial world is on the outer edge of chaos. The tides of laws formed by the singularity will drag the primordial world to the edge of the singularity. At that time, the foundation of the Ruins will not be able to hold, nor will the Southern Heavenly Gate."
Rahu paused for a moment.
"There is only one way to prevent the formation of the singularity: before the laws of chaos expand to a critical point, compress enough fragments of the laws of chaos back into the remains of the ancient god."
"The remains of ancient gods are the original containers of the laws of chaos; only they can contain fragments of the laws of chaos without being overwhelmed."
"There are at least a hundred ancient god remains in the ancient battlefield ruins that have not been completely deconstructed. Each of these remains is hollow inside. They can reabsorb fragments of the laws of chaos."
"You want us to stuff fragments of the laws of chaos into the remains of an ancient god, using the remains as a container to reduce the density of the laws of chaos and delay the formation of the singularity."
Su Fan pressed the broken mirror to his waist and held the handle of the Pangu Axe with his left hand.
The Pangu Guardian Law inside the axe handle pulsated slightly in his palm, sensing a crucial piece of law information hidden in Luo Hou's words.
"It's not just a delay. Once the fragments of chaotic laws inside the remains accumulate to a certain density, the remains will automatically activate the residual life laws of the ancient gods."
"The laws of life and the laws of chaos catalyze each other within the remains, creating a completely new law structure: the chaotic laws of life. Once this law takes shape, it will automatically migrate to the area with the highest density of chaotic laws."
"During the migration process, it actively absorbs fragments of the surrounding chaotic laws, and this absorption is continuous and will not stop."
"If enough aggregates of chaotic life laws can be activated before the singularity forms, they will form a stable law cycle system in the chaos."
"Once this system is established, the disorderly expansion of the laws of chaos will be completely reversed, and the singularity will never be formed."
As Luo Hou spoke, the dark purple halo in his eyes contracted slightly.
"When Hongjun scattered me, I had three prototypes of the Chaos Life Laws sealed within me. These three prototypes were extracted from the core of the ancient gods before they were shattered by Pangu."
"These are the only spoils of war I acquired in that battle with the ancient gods. Hongjun sealed these three original forms in my torso, left leg, and the deepest part of the ancient battlefield ruins, respectively."
"The torso is beneath the Purple Cloud Palace, and the left leg is in another pool of law-based liquid deep within the chaos, sealed at the deepest part of the ancient battlefield ruins."
"The positions of the three fragments of the Heaven-Opening Axe completely overlap with these three original forms. This is not a coincidence; it was deliberately arranged by Hongjun."
"He sealed the fragments and the original together, using the chaotic laws of the Heaven-Opening Axe fragments to suppress the original and prevent it from activating prematurely."
Su Fan pulled the Pangu Axe from the ground, and the chaotic primordial light on the axe blade suddenly shone brightly for a moment after he finished speaking.
"Yes. Hongjun foresaw everything. He foresaw that I would spit out the fragment of the True Spirit, that you would use it to break the seal and retrieve the axe handle, and that you would eventually have to go to the ancient battlefield ruins to retrieve the last fragment."
"He sealed the three original prototypes and the last three fragments together, so that you could obtain the original prototypes while retrieving the fragments."
"After obtaining the prototype, take it to the core remains of the ancient god at the deepest part of the ancient battlefield ruins, and activate the three prototypes simultaneously with the chaotic primordial light on the Pangu Axe."
"Once the three prototypes are activated, they will automatically search for empty ancient god remains inside the battlefield ruins, enter the remains, and begin to absorb fragments of the chaotic laws."
"The aggregate of chaotic life laws will then take shape. Once the first aggregate is formed, it will automatically search for the next vacant remnant in the chaos. As long as the first one is activated, you don't need to worry about the rest."
"The seals on the torso and left leg are still there, how can we take them?"
Nezha slammed his fire-tipped spear to the ground.
"The torso is beneath the Purple Cloud Palace, and the Creation Jade Tablet barrier was personally set up by Hongjun. The Great Sage has fragments of the Creation Jade Tablet, which can open the barrier. The left leg is in the Law Pool deep within Chaos, and the seal has already loosened."
"The stalactites and fissures around the pool are similar to those around the Tai Sui. You've already cut off the right arm, the left arm, so cutting off the left leg isn't difficult. The key lies in the ancient battlefield ruins."
"Only I know the distribution of the law traps inside the ruins. After you obtain the prototypes from the torso and left leg, enter the ruins with the Pangu Axe and the three prototypes."
"Follow the layout of the traps I have provided, and you will be able to avoid all the cracks in the laws and reach the core remains of the ancient god deep within the ruins."
As Luo Hou spoke, the law-based sedimentary layer at the bottom of the water essence pool began to close again.
The aura of the Demon Ancestor's Law surging from the edge of the sedimentary layer crack was forcibly pushed back to the bottom of the pool under the pressure of the Guanghan Crystal seal. The dark purple halo in Luo Hou's eye sockets began to dim, and his voice also began to weaken.
The hundred-breath time is almost up.
"My condition is simple. Once the aggregate of chaotic life laws takes shape, it will maintain the balance of chaotic laws on its own. That's what I didn't finish back then."
"I have been sealed away for 30,000 years and am unable to do this. You will finish it for me. The condition is that you prevent the formation of the singularity of the Chaos Law. The Primordial World and Chaos coexist; if Chaos collapses, the Primordial World will not survive either."
The sedimentary layer is completely closed.
Rahu's head sank back to the bottom of the water essence pool, and a faint dark purple light flashed in the last moment before his pure black eye sockets closed.
After the light dissipated, the nine layers of transparent runes on the handle of the Wedge of Creation flowed steadily, and the seal was restored to its complete state.
The surface of the water essence pool returned to calm, and the jade rabbit pendant above the pool was still slowly rotating. The Yin cold energy and the sealing cold law of the Guanghan Crystal maintained a stable resonance frequency.
Su Fan took the broken mirror from his waist. The image of Rahu's head on the mirror had disappeared, replaced by an extremely detailed map of the laws.
The map marks the location of every law trap inside the ancient battlefield ruins, the time flow offset value inside the trap, and the safe path to avoid the trap.
The edge of the map is also engraved with a line of tiny law runes, the contents of which are the precise coordinates of the three prototypes of chaotic life laws on the torso, left leg, and deep within the ruins.
"He provided the complete distribution of the traps. The coordinates also match the markings on the Hongjun Stone Tablet."
Su Fan handed the broken mirror to Yang Jian.
Yang Jian took the broken mirror and pieced the two pieces back together. Real-time law images of three coordinates appeared on the mirror surface.
The seal on the torso beneath Zixiao Palace is stable, while the seal on the left leg in the Law Pool is rapidly loosening. The fragments and the original are sealed together at the deepest part of the ancient battlefield ruins, and the seal is temporarily stable.
"The first vibration has ended. The next vibration will be in a month, at which time Rahu will open his eyes again, but there's no need to talk to him anymore."
"He gave us everything he was entitled to. For the next month, we split into two groups. The Great Sage went to the Purple Cloud Palace to retrieve the original form from his torso, while Nezha and I went to the Pool of Laws to retrieve the original form from his left leg."
"Xu will remain at the South Heavenly Gate, overseeing the progress of connecting the Guixu foundation and the Buzhou Mountain ruins. The two groups will return and reunite in a month, and then go together to the ancient battlefield ruins."
Su Fan slung the Pangu Axe over his shoulder and turned to look at Sun Wukong.
Sun Wukong took the golden cudgel off his lap, its shaft thickening, and hoisted it onto his shoulder.
"I've climbed the steps of Zixiao Palace before, so I don't need to this time. The fragment of the Jade Tablet of Creation can directly open the entrance to the barrier."
He took the fragment of the Jade Tablet of Creation from his bosom. The first branch of the rune on the fragment, facing downwards, was pointing towards the direction of the Purple Cloud Palace, with a faint, clear light shining at the end of the branch.
Nezha slung the Fire-Tipped Spear over his shoulder, and the Wind-Fire Wheels were rekindled. With the dual blessing of the Pure Yang Talisman and the Stone Core, the flames exploded into two extremely bright tongues of fire.
The law mark on his left shoulder twitched slightly after hearing Luo Hou's words, synchronizing with the beating frequency of the Eastern Emperor's heart in Xu's chest cavity.
He glanced down at his left shoulder, then looked up at Su Fan:
"I'll follow you down the path of the left leg. Cut off the right arm, cut off the left arm, then cut off the left leg to make it a round number."