bioinnovel Chapter 388 Remains of Ancient Gods
Chapter 388 Remains of Ancient Gods
The two walked forward for a while, and the ashes of law on the ground of the ruins grew thicker and thicker.
The ashes reached from his ankles to his calves, and each step kicked up a large cloud of extremely fine gray-white dust.
The dust hovered in mid-air for a long time without falling. When it was illuminated by the dark golden light leaking from the time rift above the ruins, the entire space was covered with a layer of turbid dark gold.
Sun Wukong walked ahead, his golden cudgel slung over his shoulder, the tip of which held a fragment of remains broken off from the edge of the gap.
The fragments swayed on the tip of the rod, their surfaces still bearing a faint trace of the laws of life, swirling freely in the gray mist.
He glanced back at Su Fan.
"This place is even more stifling than a crack in the Tai Sui (a type of ancient Chinese algae). At least in the Tai Sui crack, there's the sound of dripping stalactites, but here, not even a fart can be heard."
"The ancient gods are all dead. The lingering life force within their fragments is only enough to keep them from completely disintegrating, and they can no longer make a sound."
"Once the aggregate takes shape, the life laws within these remains will be reactivated, and this place will no longer be so quiet."
Su Fan walked forward through the ashes, carrying the Pangu Axe on his right shoulder. The chaotic primordial light on the axe blade cut a path through the gray mist.
The ashes on both sides of the passage were forced to surge to the sides by the light, and occasionally, half of the broken bones of an ancient god's remains were revealed in the surging ashes. The surface of the broken bones was engraved with extremely deep grooves eroded by the laws of chaos.
"Will these remains come to life after the aggregates take shape?"
"It's not about coming back to life. The remains themselves have no consciousness, but after the aggregate of chaotic life laws enters the remains, it will use the remains as a container to absorb the surrounding fragments of chaotic laws."
"During the absorption process, the remains will automatically repair their internal law structure. Once repaired, the remains will rise from the ashes and migrate to the place with the highest density of chaotic laws."
"During the migration, it continues to absorb fragments, forming a stable cycle of laws."
"Stand up? Hundreds of ancient god remains standing up, that's quite a sight."
Sun Wukong grinned.
"The remnants that stand up are not enemies. They are not aggressive; they only have the instinct to absorb fragments of the laws of chaos."
"Rahu wanted to devour the fragments of the ancient god's heart before the aggregate could take shape, in order to prevent the remains from rising up."
"Once the remains stand up, the density of the chaotic laws will be continuously absorbed, and the singularity will never form. Rahu's remains will not be able to obtain the collapsing energy of the chaotic laws and will not be able to be resurrected."
As they talked, they bypassed a rift in the laws of time where the flow of time was extremely fast.
The time-law patterns at the edge of the crack flowed on their own in the gray mist, so fast that the naked eye could only see a blurry silver-gray halo.
Following the distribution map given by Luo Hou, Su Fan went around the crack from the left side.
A very short, sharp cry of law emanated from within the crack, piercing through the gray mist and striking the axe-shaped mark on his left palm, causing the mark to become slightly hot.
"What's sealed inside this crack?"
Sun Wukong tilted his head and glanced at the crack.
"A fragment of time that the ancient god created using the laws of life before his death. The fragment contains a moment from the battle between the ancient god and Rahu."
"It's marked on the distribution map of Rahu. This crack contains the last scene that the ancient god saw before being shattered by Pangu."
Su Fan took the broken mirror from his waist and held it up to the crack.
A very blurry image appeared on the mirror.
The ancient god stood in the chaotic void, and Rahu's Demon Ancestor Laws enveloped him from all directions, peeling away the ancient god's core layer by layer.
The ancient god raised his head and looked into the deeper reaches of chaos, where an extremely bright axe light was cleaving through the chaos.
At the end of the axe's light is Pangu.
"The last thing the ancient god looked at was Pangu."
Sun Wukong put the golden cudgel down from his shoulder, the tip of the cudgel touching the ground.
"That's right. What the ancient god saw before he died was not Rahu, but Pangu. The axe that Pangu used to cleave the chaos shook the ancient god's core out of Rahu's embrace of laws."
"The core fragments of the ancient god are scattered throughout the battlefield ruins, with the largest one sealed inside the core remains. It is the heart fragment that Rahu's remains wanted to devour."
Su Fan put the broken mirror back into his waistband.
Sun Wukong remained silent for a moment, then slung the golden cudgel back onto his shoulder.
"Pangu split the chaos to save the core of the ancient god. Before dying, the ancient god used the last bit of life law to seal the heart fragments into the core remains."
"Hongjun foresaw all of this, leaving Rahu alive so we could retrieve his original form. Those old fogies played a very grand game."
"Hongjun has finished his game. It's our turn to make the final move."
Su Fan continued walking forward, carrying the Pangu Axe.
The two traversed the area densely populated with temporal rifts and entered the middle layer of the ruins.
The ashes of the middle layer of law are thicker than those of the outer layer, so thick that every step you take sinks up to your knees.
The fragments of remains buried beneath the ashes are larger and more complete, with some fragments still retaining the physical structure of the ancient god in life.
A severed finger, half a rib, and a shattered skull.
Each fragment contained a faint trace of the laws of life, circulating freely within the gray mist.
The flow was extremely slow, so slow that it only flashed once every few dozen breaths.
Sun Wukong stopped in front of a severed finger.
The severed finger was enormous, taller than the man himself when it stood up, and its surface was covered with deep claw marks etched by the laws of the Demon Ancestor.
The arrangement of the claw marks was exactly the same as the pattern of laws he had seen when he fought Rahu's right arm outside the Tai Sui rift.
"This severed finger is the thumb of the ancient god's right hand. The claw marks were left by Rahu. Back then, he not only stripped the ancient god of its core, but also dismantled its remains."
"He wanted to completely dismantle the remains of the ancient gods, leaving no container to hold the fragments of the chaotic laws. In this way, the chaotic laws would expand infinitely, and after expanding to their limit, collapse into a singularity."
"After the singularity is formed, Rahu can use the laws of the singularity to reshape his own body."
"He was just one step away back then. Pangu split the chaos to separate him from the ancient gods, and Hongjun scattered him and sealed him in various places, so his plan to dismantle the remains was shelved."
"The remnant body now wants to devour the fragments of the ancient god's heart, not to dismantle the remains, but to use the ancient god's life laws within the heart fragments to reactivate the three original forms within its body. It wants to become the mother of the aggregate."
Su Fan reached out and pressed his hand on the surface of the severed finger, and the will of the Dao of All Beings surged out from the axe-shaped brand in his palm and poured into the inside of the severed finger.
The lingering life force within the severed finger twitched slightly the moment it came into contact with the will of all living beings.
After the throbbing, extremely fine pale gold lines grew on the edges of the claw marks on the surface of the severed finger, and the lines spread along the claw marks deep into the finger bone.
"What are you doing?" Sun Wukong asked, looking at him.
"Add a bit of the will of all living beings to the severed finger. The residual life law within the remains is too weak, so weak that it's about to fall apart."
"The will of all living beings can temporarily maintain their legal structure from collapsing. Once the aggregate takes shape, the original will burrow into the remains, and these severed fingers and bones will be able to stand up again."
Su Fan withdrew his left hand. The pale gold patterns on the surface of the severed finger did not disappear after he left his palm, but continued to slowly spread along the claw marks into the depths of the finger bone.
Sun Wukong stared for a moment, then slammed his golden cudgel to the ground, and white arcs of electricity from the aftermath of the great calamity exploded from the cudgel.
The electric arc spread outwards along the ashes, enveloping dozens of fragments of remains half-buried in the ashes.
The residual energy within the electric arc automatically neutralizes upon contact with the traces of the Demon Ancestor's Law remaining on the surface of the fragments.
After neutralization, the residual life force within the fragments began to flow more rapidly, with the flow rate increasing from once every few dozen breaths to once every ten breaths.
"I'd also like to add something. The aftershocks of the Great Calamity can neutralize the remaining traces of the Demon Ancestor's laws. After the traces are cleared, the life laws inside the remains will recover even faster."
Su Fan did not answer, but simply put the Pangu Axe down from his shoulder, the chaotic original light on the axe blade shining on the surface of the remains fragments that had been cleansed by the aftershocks of the calamity.
Wherever the light passed, the lingering life force within the fragments also twitched, its rhythm perfectly synchronized with the beating frequency of the Eastern Emperor's heart within the Ruins' chest.
The two continued walking forward.
After passing through the middle layer where the fragments of the remains were most concentrated, the gray fog ahead suddenly thinned, thinning to the point that the outline of the extremely large ancient god core remains in the distance could be clearly seen.
The remains were enormous, so large that one could not see the top even when looking up. The surface of the skeleton was covered with extremely complex patterns formed by the intertwining of the laws of chaos and the laws of life.
At the very center of the pattern is the chest cavity, inside which is sealed an extremely bright dark red dot—that is a fragment of the ancient god's heart.
With each beat of the heart fragment, the law patterns on the surface of the entire remains flashed in sync.
The beating frequency was extremely slow, so slow that it only beat once every few tens of breaths, but every time it beat, the dark red light spot inside the two prototypes in Su Fan's arms would beat once as well.
"The core remains are just ahead. The third prototype is sealed directly beneath the remains, along with the last fragment of the Heaven-Opening Axe. We need to retrieve the fragment before we can get the prototype."
"Between the fragments and the original is a sealing membrane formed by the ancient god's own rib before his death. This membrane must be split open with Pangu's axe."
Sun Wukong took the fragment of the Jade Tablet of Creation out of his pocket. The third fork on the fragment was pointing directly at a very dark area below the chest cavity of the remains.
The light spot at the end of the fork was extremely bright, so bright that the fragment itself was vibrating slightly.
Su Fan carried the Pangu Axe and walked towards the remains.
After taking a few steps, he suddenly stopped and looked down at his feet.
The ashes of law beneath his feet rapidly thinned around the remains, until they became so thin that a row of extremely ancient law runes could be seen buried beneath them.
Runes were engraved on the base of the remains, and each rune was completely of the same origin as the sealing runes on the Jade Tablet of Creation that Hongjun had engraved on the stone slab.
The runes were still circulating on their own, at a very slow but steady pace.
"Hongjun's seal. He sealed the third prototype and the last fragment of the Heaven-Opening Axe beneath the base of the remains, pressing them down with the seal of the Jade Tablet of Creation for 30,000 years. The seal is still in operation, which means that the prototype and the fragment are still there."
Su Fan squatted down and pressed the axe-shaped mark on the surface of the rune with his left palm.
The clear light of the Creation Jade Tablet inside the rune flashed briefly the instant it came into contact with the will of all living beings. After the flash, an extremely fine crack appeared on the surface of the rune.
A faint wisp of clear light emerged from inside the opening, the same source as the clear light emanating from the fragment of the Creation Jade Tablet in Sun Wukong's arms.
"The seal recognizes your will of the Path of All Beings. Hongjun should have written in the letter how to break this seal."
Sun Wukong walked to the base of the remains and looked up at the tiny characters carved on the ribs.
The handwriting magnified itself under the primordial light of Pangu's axe, revealing it to be the letter Hongjun left for Su Fan.
Su Fan walked to the ribcage and pressed his left hand against the first line of words on the ribcage.
The clear light of the Jade Tablet of Creation sealed within the characters flowed from his fingertips into the depths of his mind, unfolding word by word in his consciousness.
"I am Hongjun. The master of the Jade Tablet of Creation, and the assistant of the Primordial Heavenly Dao. Thirty thousand years ago, I used the Jade Tablet of Creation to scatter Rahu and seal his twelve physical bodies in various parts of the Chaos."
"It's not that we can't kill him, but that we don't want to. Rahu's Demon Ancestor Law and the Chaos Law are of the same origin but repel each other. If we kill him, the Chaos Law will go out of control, and the Primordial World will perish. If we spare him, we will be in this situation today."
"You all wrung out the path of all living beings from mortal bodies, received the Pangu Axe from the remnant consciousness of Pangu, retrieved the fragment of the Eastern Emperor Bell from the depths of the Ruins of Return, severed Rahu's right arm from the crack of Tai Sui, took the axe handle fragment from the Bottomless Pool, obtained the Jade Tablet of Creation from the Purple Cloud Palace, and retrieved the prototype of the Chaotic Law of Life from the ruins of the ancient battlefield. Every step was within my calculations, except for one thing: the Ruins."
"The Ruins are formed from the sediment of the Returning Ruins, and are not within the calculations of the Heavenly Dao. Its appearance has changed the weight of all the variables of the laws. Originally, it was planned that the formation of the aggregate would take a hundred years, but with the Ruins, it has been shortened to one month."
"The awakening of Rahu's remains will also be brought forward. You must gather three original forms within one month and activate them with the Chaos Origin Color of Pangu's Axe."
"Once activated, the prototype will seek out its remains. On the day the aggregate takes shape, the collapse of the singularity of the chaotic laws will dissolve itself."
The letter pauses here, with one line remaining.
The next line of writing was deeper and heavier than the previous one, and the edges of the engraving still retained the clear light and lingering glow of the Creation Jade Tablet that had seeped from Hongjun's fingertips when he was engraving the words.
"One last thing. If Rahu's remaining body devours a fragment of an ancient god's heart, his original form will be resurrected, and the primordial world will be in grave danger."
"If you prevent the remains from forming and the aggregate from taking shape, then the laws of chaos will cycle on their own, and the singularity will never be unsealed."
"But after the aggregate takes shape, the density of the chaotic laws will drop sharply, and the vacuum of laws created by the drop will suck all the sleeping bodies of Rahu deep in the chaos into the ancient battlefield ruins."
"At that time, six remains, two limbs, a torso, and a head will be gathered at the core of the site. All of Rahu's physical remains will be assembled."
"After the convergence, Luo Hou's Demon Ancestor Law core will use the temporary core as a guide to forcibly fuse all the physical body fragments and reshape his true form. This is something that will inevitably happen after the last line of defense of Hongjun's seal is breached."
"You must use the Pangu Axe to shatter the heart fragments of the ancient god's core remains as the aggregate takes shape."
"When the heart fragments shatter, the ancient god's life laws dissipate. Once dissipated, even if Rahu's physical body were to reassemble completely, it would be impossible to reshape his original form."
"By then, the cycle of the laws of chaos will be complete, and Rahu's physical body will have nowhere to go but to disintegrate itself and merge into the fragments of the laws of chaos, thus eliminating any future troubles. This is the final step I failed to complete 30,000 years ago, and I entrust it to you."
The letter ends here.
Below the last line of text is another line of even smaller characters, with strokes so light they are almost invisible.
"Furthermore: There are nine fragments of the Pangu Axe in your possession. Six are already in your hands, and three are scattered throughout the chaos. One is on the top of my Zixiao Palace, one is in the Great Sage's Golden Cudgel, and the other automatically returned to its place when the axe handle recognized its master."
"The nine pieces are actually complete. The protective law on the axe handle is the primordial prototype of the Dao of All Beings that Pangu took out from the twelfth Chaos Stone Embryo."
"The prototype and the path of all living beings that you extracted from the will of ten thousand people share the same origin but flow differently. On the day the two merge, the Pangu Axe will no longer be the Pangu Axe."
"It will transform into a vessel for all living beings in the primordial world. At that time, you will naturally understand how to use it. Hongjun's final words."
Su Fan withdrew his hand from his ribs.
After reading the letter, the axe-shaped mark on the palm rotated once on its own, and after rotating, the dark golden light on the surface of the mark subsided by three-tenths.
The light that had been contained flowed down his arm and into the handle of the Pangu Axe, merging with the Pangu Guardian Law within the handle.
At the moment of fusion, the primordial chaotic light on the blade of Pangu's axe suddenly shone brightly, and after it faded, the color of the light changed from the primordial chaotic color to an extremely faint golden hue of the Dao of All Beings.
"Hongjun has finished his letter. He has been calculating for 30,000 years, and the final step is to shatter the heart fragments, causing Rahu's physical body to completely disintegrate."
Su Fan put the Pangu Axe down from his shoulder, the blade touching the ground.
"Then let's chop it up. We'll take the third prototype first, activate the aggregate, and then chop it up along with the heart fragments when the remains rush in."
Sun Wukong slammed his golden cudgel on the ground.
Su Fan walked to the base of the remains, raised the Pangu Axe above his head, and aimed it at the seal crack on the base that had been opened by the will of all living beings.
The golden light of the Dao of All Beings on the axe blade condensed into an extremely bright pillar of light above the crack, and the pillar of light penetrated the sealing membrane and struck deep into the base.
Two things were sealed deep inside the base.
A tiny, axe-shaped spot of light, and a dark, deep purple sphere.
Both the fragments and the original form sensed the aura of Pangu's axe and rose from the depths of the seal.
The fragments surfaced first, hovering in front of Su Fan and slowly rotating.
After the last fragment of the Pangu Axe was put back in place, the golden light of the Dao of All Beings on the axe blade suddenly receded, and the law patterns of the nine axe blade fragments completed their final assembly inside the axe body.
Su Fan looked down at the axe in his hand. The golden light on the axe blade had all receded into the axe body, leaving only a very thin golden line at the tip of the blade.
The axe felt lighter, so light that it was almost weightless, but the left hand holding the axe handle could feel the protective law inside the handle completing the final step of fusion with his will of the Way of All Beings.
The third prototype emerged from the depths of the seal and hovered in front of Su Fan's chest.
The dark red light spot inside the prototype was still dormant, its pulse beating extremely slowly, only once every few tens of breaths.
Su Fan took out the other two prototypes from his arms. The three prototypes floated in front of him, each slowly rotating on its own.
He raised the Pangu Axe, and the golden lines on the axe blade shone on the three prototype surfaces.
The dark red light spots inside the three prototypes were lit up at the same moment. After they were lit up, the rotation rhythm of the three prototypes synchronized to a frequency that was exactly the same as the beating frequency of the Eastern Emperor's heart in the Xu's chest cavity.
"The third prototype has been activated. All three prototypes are now awake."
Sun Wukong took the fragment of the Jade Tablet of Creation out of his pocket. The third branch on the fragment suddenly exploded the moment the three original forms were activated. After the explosion, the ends of the branches pointed to the hundreds of empty ancient god remains inside the remains.
Guided by the golden light of the Pangu Axe, the three prototypes flew towards the depths of the remains.
Their flight paths were so fast that the naked eye could only see three very thin, dark purple streaks of light.
The light penetrated the remains, disappearing into the center of the chest cavities of the three empty ancient god remains.
After the original body was submerged, a burst of extremely bright dark purple light exploded inside the chest cavity of the first remains, and the light spread throughout the body along the law patterns of the remains.
The internal laws and structures of the remains repaired themselves in the light, and after the repair, the entire remains rose from the ashes.
The second body then stood up.
The third body, the fourth body.
As the aggregate formed, hundreds of ancient god remains rose one by one. Inside each of their chest cavities was an extremely bright dark red light. With each jump of the light, fragments of chaotic laws around them were absorbed into the interior of the remains.
The density of chaotic laws surrounding the ruins began to drop sharply after the aggregate took shape.
The sudden drop created a vacuum of laws that sucked in all the sleeping bodies of Rahu from the depths of chaos.
The left and right eyes have already awakened, and they are being blocked by the guardian deity outside the Tai Sui crack.
The left and right palms have just awakened and are rushing towards the ruins.
The seals on the left and right feet loosened, and the frequency of the law-based slurry surging increased.
The six extremities of the remains, drawn together from all parts of the chaos by the vacuum of laws, converged simultaneously on the ruins of the ancient battlefield.
The convergence speed is extremely fast.
Su Fan stood before the core remains, gripping the Pangu Axe with both hands, the blade aimed at the fragment of the ancient god's heart that was beating rapidly inside the remains' chest cavity.
Each time a fragment jumps, the law patterns of the entire remains flash synchronously.
The frequency of the beating is getting faster and faster.
The heart fragments sensed that Rahu's physical body was converging, and they accelerated on their own.
It wanted to absorb all of Rahu's physical body into the remains before Su Fan could shatter it.
Su Fan did not wait.
Pangu's axe cleaved down.
The axe blade struck the very center of the heart fragment.
The law patterns on the surface of the fragments stopped flowing the moment the axe blade touched them, and the entire skeleton of the core remains trembled violently.
The tremor spread from the chest cavity in all directions, and hundreds of ancient god remains that had just stood up stopped in their tracks.
The heart fragments shattered.
The cracks spread from the point of contact between the axe blades into the depths of the fragments, splitting in two, then into four pieces, and finally into countless extremely fine, dark red fragments of the law.
Debris exploded inside the remains' chest cavity, each fragment carrying the lingering aura of the ancient god's life laws, scattering everywhere in the gray mist.
The flying debris struck the ribs of the remains, and the inscriptions of Hongjun on the surface of the ribs shattered line by line under the impact of the debris, disintegrating from the last line forward.
The letter shattered into extremely fine powder, which drifted into the gray mist and dissipated on its own.
"The heart fragments are shattered! Where is Rahu's physical body now?"
Sun Wukong slammed his golden cudgel to the ground, and the aftershocks of the great calamity exploded into a circle of extremely bright electric arcs on the cudgel.
Su Fan took the broken mirror from his waist.
The signals of the laws governing the six fragments of the body on the mirror are rapidly converging from all parts of the chaos towards the core of the ruins.
The left and right eyes had already broken through the defenses of the Tai Sui crack, and the guardian deity's protective mountain array seal was shattered in two layers.
The left and right palms were moving extremely fast through the pile of ancient god remains fragments surrounding the ruins.
The seals on the left and right feet had completely fallen off, and the liquid of law left two extremely long, dark purple trails behind them.
"All six fragments are rushing here. After the heart fragments shattered, they lost their target for resurrection, but the temporary core remains. They will continue to converge following the signals of the temporary core's laws."
"After the convergence, the temporary core will forcibly fuse all the physical body fragments. Without the life laws provided by the fragments of the ancient god's heart, the fusion is destined to fail, but the collapse of the laws at the moment of failure will blow up the entire ruins."
Su Fan put the shattered mirror back into his waistband, gripped the Pangu Axe with both hands, and the golden light on the axe blade did not dim after the heart fragments shattered, but instead became even brighter.
The protective law inside the axe handle and his will of the Dao of All Beings have reached the final stage of fusion.
He could feel the axe itself changing—its weight, temperature, and structural laws were all changing.
"What would happen if we blew up the ruins?" Sun Wukong asked.
"The hundreds of remains that had just stood up in the ruins will be blown to pieces, and the aggregates will dissipate as soon as they take shape. The density of the chaotic laws will get out of control again, and the singularity collapse will start all over again. The scheme that Hongjun planned for 30,000 years will be in vain."
"Then we can't let them converge. I'll go to the outer perimeter of the ruins and intercept the left and right palms, while you stay here and intercept the left and right eyes. The left and right feet are the slowest, so it'll take them a while to get here. If we intercept four parts, even if the remaining two arrive, we won't be able to piece together the temporary core."
Sun Wukong hoisted the golden cudgel onto his shoulder.
"Great Sage, can you withstand having both of your hands severed by yourself?"
Su Fan looked at him.
The monkey's old injury to its left scapula has fully healed after resting at Zixiao Palace, and the dark gold scab on the broken bone in its right rib has also fallen off, with its grip strength restored to 90%.
But for a person to carry two hands, those are the two most densely patterned extremities of Rahu's twelve bodies, making them even more difficult to deal with than the right arm.
"Even if I can't take it, I have to. When in my life have I ever stopped fighting just because I can't take it anymore?"
Sun Wukong grinned, somersaulted out of the skeletal remains' chest cavity, and his golden cudgel trailed a long white arc of electricity in the gray mist as it rushed towards the outer perimeter of the ruins.
Su Fan turned around, holding the Pangu Axe horizontally in front of him.
The gray mist surrounding the remains was torn apart by two extremely bright dark purple lights, and the left and right eyes rushed out from the direction of the Tai Sui crack.
Both eyes were extremely large, each the size of a millstone, with pure black pupils and a dense layer of demonic ancestral law patterns around the eye sockets.
They have no limbs or torso, only two eyeballs suspended in mid-air, the surface of which is covered with old wedge holes formed by the fragments of the Wedge of Creation pressing down on them for 30,000 years.
The inside of the wedge hole was empty; the fragment had already been shattered outside the crack of the Tai Sui.
Both eyes were fixed on Su Fan.
The aura of the Demon Ancestor's Law surging from the depths of his pupils condensed into two extremely thin beams of dark purple light in the gray mist, which shot towards Su Fan's chest.
Su Fan dodged the first strike by sidestepping, and then used the Pangu Axe to cleave the second strike upwards.
The golden light on the axe blade evaporated all the fragments of the Demon Ancestor's Law inside the beam the moment it came into contact with the beam. The resulting vapor of the Law formed a very faint dark purple halo around the axe blade.
The halo was quickly swallowed up by the golden light of the axe blade.
"Even with only two eyes left, he's still so fierce."
Su Fan, carrying the axe, charged toward the left eye.
"My eyes are the first pair of physical bodies to awaken simultaneously in 30,000 years. You have shattered my right arm, left arm, left leg, and right leg, and now you will even cut off my last remaining limbs."
The voice from the left eye came from the depths of the pupil, extremely cold, so cold that it showed no emotion.
"Not only will we cut you down, we'll cut you down so much that you won't be able to build temporary cores."
Su Fan rushed to the front of his left eye, and with a diagonal slash of the Pangu Axe, the axe blade cut into the outer edge of his left eye socket, piercing through the thinnest part of the law pattern on the edge of the eye socket.
The pupil of his left eye contracted violently the moment the axe blade pierced through. After the contraction, black law fluid gushed out from all the old wedge holes on the surface of the eyeball. The fluid sprayed onto Su Fan's left arm, corroding several holes in the sleeve.
He didn't stop; the axe blade continued to cut inward, reaching the extremely dark core of the demon ancestor right in the center of the eyeball.
The core exploded the moment the axe blade touched it. After the explosion, the entire left eye shattered from the inside out, breaking into countless extremely thin fragments of the law. These fragments were evaporated into nothingness by the golden light of Pangu's axe in the gray mist.
At the same time that the left eye shattered, the right eye rammed into Su Fan from behind.
Before Su Fan could turn around, he swung the Pangu Axe backward, and the Pangu Axe mark at the end of the axe handle struck the center of his right pupil with pinpoint accuracy.
The residual consciousness of Pangu within the axe mark activated itself the moment it touched the pupil. The residual image exploded into a burst of extremely bright white light, which enveloped the entire right eyeball and burned countless deep law-based scorch marks on its surface.
His right eye twitched violently, and the pupil self-destructed before the burn could spread to the core. The shockwave generated by the self-destruction sent Su Fan flying.
His back slammed into the ribs of the remains, shattering the law membrane of three ribs.
Su Fan slid off his ribs and stood up, supporting himself with one hand.
His left hand was split open at the base of his thumb, and golden blood was flowing down the axe handle.
The fragments of the self-destructing right eye slowly drifted away in the gray mist, and the remnants of the Demon Ancestor's Law inside the fragments were automatically absorbed by the ancient god remains that were standing up in the chest cavity of the remains.
With each jump of the dark red light spot in the chest cavity of the remains, a layer of scattered fragments was drawn in.
Sun Wukong, carrying his golden cudgel, jumped back from the perimeter of the ruins. A piece of his left shoulder armor was broken, and half of his right trouser leg was torn, but he still had a smile on his face.
"Both hands were intercepted. I pierced the palm of the left hand, and smashed the wrist of the right hand. Neither is completely dead, but the temporary core cannot be pieced together. What about the left and right feet?"
Su Fan took the broken mirror from his waist.
The signals indicating the left and right feet on the mirror surface suddenly stopped simultaneously when they were still a long distance from the ruins, hovering in the chaotic gray fog and no longer moving forward.
After a brief pause, both feet began to retreat backward simultaneously, moving extremely fast as they sank deeper into the chaos.
"They're not coming anymore. The heart fragments are shattered, four extremities have been severed, and the temporary core's law signals are weakening. Sensing the failure of the convergence, their instincts drive them back into the depths of the pool to fall asleep again."
Su Fan put the shattered mirror back into his waistband, carried the Pangu Axe, and walked out of the skeleton's chest cavity.
Outside the ruins, hundreds of ancient god remains have all stood up.
The dark red light spots inside their chest pulsated in sync, and with each pulsation, a layer of fragments of chaotic laws surrounding the ruins was drawn in.
According to the chaotic law, the density decreases steadily under the continuous absorption of the aggregate, and the decreasing curve is smooth and continuous.
The countdown to the collapse of the singularity automatically stopped after the density dropped below the critical value. After stopping, the countdown returned to zero, and the singularity disappeared.
The chaotic expansion of the law of chaos has ended.
The chaotic law cycle system began to take shape under the combined action of the aggregate and the remains of the ancient god.
After it took shape, the pool of laws deep within the chaos no longer surged chaotically, and the stalactites of laws stopped dripping endlessly.
The chaotic gray fog thinned inch by inch.
So thin that the golden light of Mars could be seen in the direction of Guixu through the gray fog.
Sun Wukong squatted on the shoulder of a standing corpse, his golden cudgel resting on his knees, looking down at the last batch of law fragments being absorbed by the corpse on the ground of the ruins.
The fragments dissolved on their own in the ashes, after which the color of the ashes changed from grayish-white to a very pale dark gold.
He hoisted the stick onto his shoulder and stood up.
"The laws of chaos have taken shape in a cycle. The two remaining limbs of Rahu are still dormant deep in the pool of magma. Without the energy of the singularity's collapse, they cannot awaken. The torso is pressed under the Purple Cloud Palace, and the head is sealed under the remains of Mount Buzhou. This battle is over."
Su Fan stood directly beneath the remains, with the Pangu Axe stuck at his feet.
After the chaotic laws took shape, the axe-shaped mark on the left palm completed its final rotation. After the rotation, the dark golden light on the mark's surface receded into the depths of the skin, leaving only a very faint golden line on the palm.
The Pangu Guardian Law inside the axe handle and his will of the Way of All Beings were completely integrated.
The Pangu Axe was no longer the Pangu Axe; it had transformed into an ordinary axe with no light on its blade and no patterns of laws on its handle.
But when he gripped the axe handle, he could feel that the axe head contained a perfectly complete Law of All Beings.
That was a new law formed after the fusion of the will of ten thousand people in the primordial world and the original protective law of Pangu.
This law does not need light to prove itself.
He tucked the axe into his waistband and walked towards the exit of the ruins.
Sun Wukong tumbled off the mantle's shoulder and followed behind him.
The two passed through the last patch of ash being absorbed by the remains, through the gap, through the solidified layer of law sediment at the edge of the left leg seal pool, and headed towards the South Heavenly Gate along the path they had come from.
The larva deep within the foundation of Guixu emitted a faint pulse through the network of laws.
The content of the pulsation is extremely simple: the aggregate has taken shape, the singularity collapse has been resolved, the chaotic law cycle has stabilized, and the pressure test of the Guixu foundation has been passed.
The newly grown pale gold patterns on the Nantianmen city bricks flashed once in unison.
The Primordial Celestial Venerable sat cross-legged with his back straight, his whisk resting on his lap, and opened his eyes.
One hundred and eight transparent runes flowed slowly on the whisk.
He took the whisk off his lap and said something.