bioinnovel Chapter 389 Chaotic Cycle
Chapter 389 Chaotic Cycle
Yuanshi Tianzun took the whisk off his lap and spoke.
"The aggregate has taken shape. The cycle of the laws of chaos has stabilized. The singularity collapse has been resolved. Of Rahu's twelve physical bodies, six parts were severed, two parts of his limbs are now dormant, his torso is buried under the Zixiao Palace, and his head is sealed beneath the remains of Buzhou Mountain. This battle is over."
His voice wasn't loud, but everyone on the entire South Heavenly Gate city wall could hear it.
The pale gold patterns that had grown on the city bricks flashed once in sync with his speech. After the flash, the interlocking of the newly filled broken bricks and old bricks at the gap in the city wall was completely closed.
The network of patterns on the entire city wall runs from top to bottom, from the ridge to the foundation, from the crenellations to the city gate, with the gold patterns on every brick forming a complete network.
Nezha leaned against a pillar on the city wall, carrying his Fire-Tipped Spear. The mark of law on his left shoulder shone faintly in the golden light of Mars.
After listening to Laozi's words, he put the gun down from his shoulder and slammed it on the ground.
"The battle is over. And then? Rahu's two severed limbs are still sleeping deep in the pool of liquid, his torso and head still sealed. The cycle of the laws of chaos has just taken shape, and the remains of the ancient god have just risen. These are all just the beginnings, and the real end is still a long way off."
"There's no rush to wrap things up. Once the cycle of chaotic laws is formed, the subsequent balance of laws will be maintained entirely by the aggregate itself, without the need for external intervention."
"The remains of the ancient gods will continue to absorb fragments of the laws of chaos until the density of the laws of chaos drops to a stable value. Without the energy support of the singularity collapse deep in the pool, Rahu's two severed limbs cannot awaken."
"The seals on the torso and head are secure and will not loosen within three thousand years. These are just a matter of time, not a matter of combat strength."
Yuanshi Tianzun placed his whisk across his lap, and as he spoke, the 108 transparent runes on the whisk automatically circulated.
"What is the issue of combat strength?"
Su Fan stuck the Pangu Axe at his feet.
He had just returned from the ruins, and the wound on the web of his left hand had not yet fully healed, with golden blood congealing into a very thin scab at the edge of the wound.
The ordinary axe that Pangu's axe had transformed into was stuck in the crack of the city bricks at his feet. There was no light on the axe blade and no law patterns on the axe handle, but the warmth of his palm still lingered on the handle.
"The issue of combat power is that after the gods returned to their positions, the ancient star positions that lit up on the primordial star map were not limited to Fuxi, Nuwa, Suiren, Shennong, Youchao, and Zhuanxu."
"Laojun just scanned the star trails with his Dao Heart and found that at least twenty ancient stars were lighting up on their own. The frequency of the laws of three of them was completely in sync with the newborn pulse of the larva deep in the foundation of Guixu."
"The ancient god ruins corresponding to these three ancient stars are not inside the primordial world, but deeper in the chaos. Deeper than the ancient battlefield ruins."
Yang Jian stood up from below his spine, piecing the two broken pieces of the mirror together and placing them in his palm.
A vast star map appeared on the mirror, marking the positions of three ancient stars that were lighting up on their own. Each of them was far away in the deepest part of chaos, so far that even the remnants of the laws on the mirror could hardly reach them.
"It's even deeper than the ruins of an ancient battlefield. It's the last area where primordial laws were deposited after the death of the ancient Chaos God."
"After Pangu shattered the ancient gods, the core fragments of the ancient gods were scattered throughout the chaos, with the largest piece sealed inside the core remains of the ruins."
"The remaining small fragments were swept into the deeper chaos by the shockwave of the Heaven-Opening Axe and sealed in the law sedimentation zone for 30,000 years. The ruins corresponding to these three ancient stars should be the location of that fragment sedimentation zone."
Xu stood barefoot at the edge of the Guixu Crack, his right hand pressed against the pale gold line on his chest.
The larva deep within the foundation of the Ruins beat steadily in his chest through the pulse transmitted from the roots of the flintwood. With each beat, the three ancient stars on the mirror surface would flash once.
"What are the names of those three ancient stars?" Nezha asked.
"These three ancient stars are not marked with names on the star chart. They are not recorded in any version of the star chart in the prehistoric world, not even in the complete star chart that Hongjun carved on the dome of Zixiao Palace."
"These are the first primordial star positions covered by fragments of the laws of chaos after Pangu created the world, and they have never lit up in the past 30,000 years."
"Now that the chaotic laws are taking shape, the chaotic gray mist is thinning inch by inch, and these three ancient stars, which were buried in the deepest part of the law deposition zone, are being exposed for the first time."
Yang Jian handed the broken mirror to Nezha.
Nezha took the broken mirror and glanced at it. The law signals of the three ancient stars on the mirror surface were extremely weak, so weak that they were almost drowned out by the residual law noise of the chaotic gray mist.
But the signal frequency was extremely stable, so stable that it was completely synchronized with the beating rhythm of the Eastern Emperor's heart in Xu's chest cavity.
He returned the broken mirror to Yang Jian.
"These three ancient stars resonate with the heart of the Ruins. The heart network of the Ruins grew from the fragments of the Eastern Emperor Bell and the roots of the Flintwood. Its heartbeat frequency is essentially the new law frequency after the Ruins' foundation merges with the mountain root."
"If these three ancient stars resonate with the Ruins, it means that the ruins they correspond to do not contain fragments of ancient gods, but rather the same-origin law structure of the larva deep within the Ruins' foundation. In other words, they are descendants of the Chaos Ancient God."
"The ancient god's descendants are not limited to the one in the egg."
Su Fan pulled the Pangu Axe out of the crack in the city bricks. The golden thread on the axe blade twitched slightly when he finished speaking, and then returned to its very faint dark golden luster.
He turned his head and looked at the ruins.
"The ancient god laid more than one egg before being shattered by Pangu. The larvae inside the eggs were offspring formed by the ancient god using the last bit of his life force, and each larva contained a fragment of the ancient god's life force."
"The largest egg was sealed in the ruins of an ancient battlefield. After we split it open, the larvae used the Ruins as their new mother. The remaining eggs should be sealed in the ruins corresponding to those three ancient stars."
"After the chaotic laws took shape, the chaotic gray mist thinned, and the eggs sensed the newborn pulse of the larva deep within the foundation of the Ruins, and began to awaken on their own."
"The three ancient stars correspond to the three ancient god eggs. If the larvae sealed in the three eggs all take Guixu as their new mother, how much will the density of the laws of Guixu's foundation jump?" Nezha asked.
"When one larva merges into the foundation, it jumps up half a mile. If three merge at the same time, they will jump at least one and a half mile."
"The current pressure-bearing capacity of the Guixu foundation is 20%. 15% is within the safe range, but it's close to the critical value. Once it exceeds 20%, the foundation will collapse inward on its own, and the resulting impact of the laws will blast open the cracks in Guixu. At that time, the city wall of Nantianmen will be directly overturned by the shock wave."
Xu removed his right hand from his chest, and the transparent scorch mark on his finger cracked slightly after he finished speaking, from which a faint wisp of flint embers emerged.
He pressed the embers back into the scorch marks.
"Then let's not let all three of them use Guixu as their mother. Guixu has enough larvae right now; if there are three more, the foundation won't be able to handle it. We need to find them other mothers."
Sun Wukong squatted on the edge of the stack, his golden cudgel resting on his knees, with a piece of dry food in his mouth.
He took a bite of the dry rations, chewed it twice, and swallowed it.
"After the chaotic laws took shape, the remains of those ancient gods deep within the chaos all stood up. The remnants of the ancient gods' life laws were sealed inside the remains, and they shared the same origin as the fragments of life laws within the larvae."
"If the larvae from the three eggs are guided into the body shell and made to see the shell as their mother, they will not run towards the Ruins."
"There is already an aggregate inside the remains. The aggregate is a prototype of the chaotic life law, and its law structure is more advanced than that of the larva. If the larva enters the remains, it will cause a law conflict with the aggregate."
"The outcome of the conflict is either that the larva is devoured, or the aggregate is forcibly expelled from the molt by the fragments of the larva's life laws. Neither of these scenarios allows the larva to stably regard the molt as its mother body."
Xu shook his head.
"Then don't use the remains. On the ribs of the core remains of the ancient god, there are still fragments of the letter carved by Hongjun, and the fragments of the letter contain the clear light and lingering charm of the Jade Tablet of Creation."
"The clear light of the Jade Tablet of Creation was woven by Hongjun himself using his own Dao principles, and it has a natural neutralizing effect on the chaotic life laws. If the clear light of the Jade Tablet of Creation is used to wrap the fragments of the ancient god's life laws inside the larva, the activity of the laws of the fragments can be temporarily suppressed to the lowest level."
"Once the pressure is reduced to the lowest level, the larva's first instinct is no longer to seek out the place with the highest density of chaotic laws to build its nest. It will seek out the source of life laws that are closest in frequency to its own laws."
"When the time comes, we'll adjust the heartbeat frequency of the larva deep within the Guixu foundation to match theirs, and they'll treat Guixu as a transit station instead of their final destination."
"After arriving at the Ruins of Return, use the will of all living beings on the Pangu Axe to give each of them a protective will, and infuse the protective will into their bodies."
"Let them search for the unactivated remains of ancient gods in the depths of chaos. Once they find them, they will automatically burrow inside and become new aggregates."
Su Fan slung the Pangu Axe over his shoulder.
"Xu, there are two uncertainties in the path you just mentioned. First, after the clear light of the Jade Tablet of Creation envelops the fragments of the life law of the larva, how low will the activity of the fragments drop?"
"If the temperature drops too low, the larvae will lose even their instinct to seek the source of the laws of life and will directly turn into dead eggs. Second, after the will of all living beings on Pangu's axe is poured into the larvae's body, will the larvae recognize this will? If it recognizes it, it will go to find the remains on its own. If it doesn't recognize it, it will stay in the Ruins of Return and refuse to leave."
"The pure light of the Jade Tablet of Creation is in the Great Sage's hands. The fragment of the Jade Tablet of Creation in his arms was personally broken off by Hongjun from the original Jade Tablet of Creation. The purity of the pure light is enough to envelop the fragment of the life law of the larva, and will not suppress its activity to the point of losing its instincts."
"As for whether the larva will recognize the will of all living beings after it is infused into its body, it depends on whether the infused will resonates with the fragments of the ancient god's life law within its body. If there is resonance, it will recognize it; if there is no resonance, it will not."
Xu walked up to Sun Wukong.
Sun Wukong took the fragment of the Jade Tablet of Creation out of his pocket and held it in his furry palm. The extremely simple law rune on the fragment glowed slightly under the golden light of Mars.
He handed the fragments to Xu.
"I've used this fragment of Hongjun all the way, from Zixiao Palace to Jiangchi to the ruins. It used up most of the Qingguang, and the remaining amount is enough to wrap three larvae. But after wrapping them, this fragment is completely useless, and I won't be able to use the Qingguang of the Creation Jade Tablet again."
"If it's ruined, it's ruined. Hongjun left this fragment for the final round. If all three larvae are successfully guided, there will be three new aggregates in the depths of chaos."
"With the addition of the three new aggregates and the more than one hundred already formed ones in the ruins, the coverage of the chaotic law cycle will be larger and more stable than it is now."
"At that time, not only will the singularity collapse no longer occur, but even the chaotic gray mist will completely disappear. The fragments of chaotic laws will be completely absorbed and transformed by the aggregate into stable chaotic life laws."
"At that time, chaos will no longer be a threat to the primordial world; it will become a law-based barrier around the primordial world."
Xu accepted the fragments of the Jade Tablet of Creation.
"Did chaos become a barrier to the primordial chaos?"
Nezha slammed his fire-tipped spear on the ground and turned his head to look at the ruins.
"After the ancient god of chaos died, the laws of chaos remained in a state of disorder. The disordered laws of chaos would continue to expand, and when they expanded to their limit, they would collapse into a singularity, which would drag the primordial world into it."
"But if the chaotic laws are completely absorbed and transformed by the aggregate, the transformed chaotic life laws are an extremely stable law structure, and a law membrane will naturally form along the outer edge of the chaos."
"This membrane has an extremely strong buffering effect against the impact of external laws. In the future, no matter what things in the deeper parts of chaos want to rush into the primordial world, they will have to get past the aggregate first."
Xu pressed the fragment of the Jade Tablet of Creation onto the pale gold line on his chest. The clear light inside the fragment throbbed slightly the moment it touched the heart's network of energy. After the throb, a very fine crack appeared on the law rune on the surface of the fragment.
The clear light emanating from inside the opening spread along the pale gold lines throughout the entire body of the ruins.
"The fragments of the Jade Tablet of Creation are connecting with your heart's circulatory network. It's using your heartbeat frequency to calibrate the output intensity of the Clear Light. Once calibration is complete, the dosage of Clear Light enveloping the fragments of the Law of Life in the larva can be precisely controlled."
Su Fan looked at the clear light spreading from Xu's chest.
The clear light spread to the extremities of Xu's limbs and stopped, resting on his fingertips and toes, forming a very faint membrane of clear light.
The membrane wall is extremely thin, so thin that it is almost invisible.
"The calibration is complete. The locations marked on the shattered mirror by the law signals of the three ancient god eggs are three law deposition areas deep within the chaos."
"Starting from the South Heavenly Gate, we passed through the ancient battlefield ruins and went down three layers of sedimentary rock to reach the first sedimentary area. The Great Sage and I went to retrieve the eggs, used the Creation Jade Tablet to envelop the fragments of the life law inside the larvae with its clear light, and then took the larvae back to the South Heavenly Gate."
"Su Fan and Nezha stayed at the South Heavenly Gate. Laozi used his Dao Heart to adjust the heartbeat frequency of the larva deep in the Guixu foundation to match that of the larva in the egg."
"When we bring the larvae back, the larvae will think that the Ruins are the mother, but after entering the Ruins, they will find that they are not the only larvae."
"At this moment, Su Fan used the Pangu Axe to infuse each larva with a wisp of the will of all living beings. After that, the larvae would leave the Ruins on their own and go to the depths of the Chaos to find the remains of ancient gods that have not yet been activated."
Xu took the broken mirror from Yang Jian's hand. The positions of the three ancient stars on the mirror surface had already been locked by the clear light of the Creation Jade Tablet.
Sun Wukong took the golden cudgel off the top of the wall and carried it on his shoulder.
"Let's go then. It took us several days to go to the ruins last time. This time, we'll go deeper into three layers of sedimentary rock. It'll take at least half a month round trip. The remains have already been cut off. Rahu's head won't open its eyes until the next docking vibration. We have enough time."
"Nezha stayed at the South Heavenly Gate. The mark on your left shoulder sensed our location in the ruins last time. This time, Xu is with me, so you can sense Xu's location too. If we get trapped by some kind of law trap, you can come and rescue us with your gun."
"I've become someone who gets people rescued."
Nezha slung his Fire-Tipped Spear over his shoulder, walked to the edge of the battlements, and turned his back to everyone. The mark of law on his left shoulder flashed briefly in the golden light of Mars.
The golden steam seeping from the edge of the mark condensed into extremely fine law patterns under the blessing of the pure yang talisman's warm current. The direction of the patterns was exactly the same as the extremely faint golden line on Su Fan's Pangu Axe.
He pressed the Pure Yang Talisman on his chest at the Tanzhong acupoint, and the warm current of the talisman spread along the meridians to his limbs.
"Xu, while you're away, I'll keep an eye on the pulse of the laws governing the Guixu foundation for you. The flint root system on the larvae side can transmit messages in real time, and Yang Jian's shattered mirror can fill the blind spots in the perception of the Kunlun Mirror's remnants. I'll also transmit the vibration data from the connection of the Buzhou Mountain remnants to the foundation to you simultaneously."
Nezha turned around and nodded to Chaoxu.
Xu did not answer, but simply moved his right hand away from his chest and opened his palm towards him.
In the very center of the palm was a tiny, transparent crystal, inside which was sealed a cluster of very faint flint embers.
He placed the crystal in Nezha's palm.
"This ember is the last remaining fragment of flint after it burned seven times in the deepest part of the Ruins' foundation. It is synchronized with my heart's pulsation network."
"If the heartbeat of that larva deep within the Ruins' foundation becomes abnormal, the embers will automatically heat up. When they get too hot to hold, send me a message using the shattered mirror."
Nezha held the molten crystal in his palm, stuffed it into his robes, and stuck it together with the Pure Yang Talisman.
The warm current of the Pure Yang Talisman enveloped the crystal, and the embers of flint inside the crystal throbbed slightly, the rhythm of which was perfectly synchronized with the beating frequency of the Eastern Emperor's heart in the Xu's chest cavity.
Sun Wukong flipped off the edge of the wall, slammed his golden cudgel on the ground, and turned to walk towards the South Heavenly Gate.
Xu followed behind him, his bare feet stepping on the city bricks, the Eastern Emperor's heart beating with each step.
The two leaped out of the South Heavenly Gate and disappeared into the chaotic gray mist.
The gray fog had thinned considerably after it was formed by the cycle of the laws of chaos, so thin that one could see through it the outlines of the ancient gods' remains standing in the direction of the ancient battlefield ruins in the distance.
After watching the two disappear, Su Fan stuck the Pangu Axe at his feet and sat down cross-legged on the edge of the battlement.
The wound on the web of the left hand, infused with the will of all beings, has begun to heal, with a golden scab slowly spreading from the edge of the wound towards the center.
He placed his left hand on his knee, the faint golden line on his palm gleaming slightly in the reflection of the golden patterns on the South Heavenly Gate.
The Pangu Axe was stuck in the crack of the city bricks on his right side. The golden line on the axe blade had completely disappeared, leaving only a tiny golden dot at the tip of the blade.
Nezha walked over to him, stuck his fire-tipped spear into the ground, and sat down on the edge of the battlement.
The law mark on his left shoulder remained stable in brightness under the continuous blessing of the pure yang talisman's warm current, and its synchronization frequency with the heart's pulse network also remained stable.
He took the shattered mirror out of his waist. On the mirror, in the direction of the ancient battlefield ruins, the remains of ancient gods were still absorbing fragments of chaotic laws, and the density of chaotic laws was still steadily decreasing.
The other corner of the mirror shows the real-time locations of Xu and Sun Wukong. The two have already passed through the gap in the outer perimeter of the ruins and are heading deeper into the area.
Yang Jian sat cross-legged under his spine, with two pieces of broken mirror pieced together and resting on his knees.
The real-time law signals of three ancient stars appeared on the mirror surface, and the brightness of the signals jumped up when Xu and Sun Wukong approached the first law deposition area.
He turned the shattered mirror toward the Primordial Celestial Venerable.
"The signal of the law from the first egg is strengthening. Xu and the Great Sage are approaching the outer edge of the sedimentation zone and are expected to reach the first sedimentation zone in a few hours."
"The frequency of the laws in the first egg is extremely high, almost completely overlapping, with that of the larva deep within the Ruins foundation. The larva in this egg may not be a descendant of the ancient gods."
"It was formed from fragments of the primordial laws of life that were extracted from the core of the ancient god. If so, the purity of the fragments of the laws of life within it far exceeds that of ordinary larvae, and it will take a much longer for the clear light of the Jade Tablet of Creation to envelop it."
The Primordial Celestial Venerable took the whisk off his lap, and the whisk's strands drew an arc in the air.
The real-time image of the first law deposition zone appeared within the arc. The image was extremely blurry, but a bright dark purple sphere could be seen sealed in the very center of the deposition zone.
The patterns of laws on the surface of the light sphere and the patterns of the ancient god's heart fragment in the core remains of the ruins are completely of the same origin.
"It's not a descendant of the ancient god, but a fragment of the ancient god's life law that condensed on its own. So what's its first instinct after awakening? To find the mother body, or to find the heart fragment?"
Su Fan opened his eyes and looked at the ball of light on the image.
"Find the heart fragment. The fragment of the life law sealed within it is part of the ancient god's core, and there is a natural resonance of laws between the core and the heart fragment."
"If it senses that the fragment of the heart in the ancient battlefield ruins has been shattered, its first instinct will shift from searching for the fragment to searching for the person who shattered it. That is, you."
The Primordial Celestial Venerable withdrew his whisk, and the image vanished.
He looked at Su Fan, placed the whisk on his lap, and spoke in a very calm voice.
"When you shattered the heart fragments, you used the will of all living beings from the Pangu Axe. The aura of that will's laws still lingers inside the remains' chest cavity. If the fragment of the ancient god in this sphere of light senses your will's aura, it will regard you as an enemy."
"What can it do if it treats me as an enemy? It's a larva, just awakened, and its activity level is still very low."
Su Fan pulled the Pangu Axe out of the crack in the city bricks.
"It is indeed a larva. But the fragment of the life law within it is part of the core of the ancient god's body, and its purity is extremely high. High-purity fragments of the life law have one characteristic."
"It doesn't need to build a nest to find a mother; it can be the mother itself. If it senses that the heart fragments have shattered and the aura of the enemy is in the direction of the Ruins, it will forcibly activate the fragments of the life law within its body."
"Using itself as the core, it instantly condenses all the fragments of chaotic laws around it, growing into a complete ancient god's remains in an extremely short time. This remains are different from the ones that have stood up in the ruins. It has an instinct to attack. Its target is you."
Yuanshi Tianzun paused here.
"Xu and the Great Sage don't know about this yet. Do you want to use the shattered mirror to send a message to them?"
"No need. Xu has fragments of the Jade Tablet of Creation. The clear light of the jade tablet can envelop any fragment of chaotic life law, no matter how pure it is."
"As long as they envelop the heart fragment in pure light before the light sphere senses that the heart fragment has shattered, it will be unable to activate its own fragments of the life law."
Su Fan took the shattered mirror out of his waist. The real-time positions of the ruins and Sun Wukong on the mirror had entered the outer edge of the first law deposition zone.
"Xu knows how to handle high-purity fragments of the Law of Life. He has been guarding the bottom of Guixu for so many years. The Law sedimentation layer at the bottom of Guixu contains countless fragments of the Law of Chaos. His perception of the Law structure of these fragments is more acute than anyone else's."
"Once he gets close to the ball of light, he will immediately determine the purity of its laws and then adjust the output intensity of the Creation Jade Tablet's clear light."
Nezha chimed in from the side.
"I hope so."
Yuanshi Tianzun closed his eyes, his Dao heart sinking into the depths of the star orbit, continuing to sense the even more ancient star positions beyond those three ancient stars.
Outside the first law deposition zone, the chaotic gray fog had become so thin as to be almost transparent.
The surface of the sedimentation zone was covered with an extremely thick layer of law ash, beneath which lay countless fragments of chaotic laws crushed by the shockwave of the Heaven-Opening Axe.
The fragments wriggled on their own in the ashes, their rhythm perfectly synchronized with the beating frequency of the Eastern Emperor's heart in the Ruins' chest cavity.
Sun Wukong walked ahead, his golden cudgel slung over his shoulder, the tip of which held the fragment of the remains he had brought out from the ruins.
The fragments swayed on the tip of the rod, and the lingering traces of life's laws on the surface began to flow more rapidly as they approached the sedimentation zone.
He lowered the stick from his shoulder, the tip touching the ground.
"In this ruin, the density of law fragments is even higher than on the outskirts of the site. The fragments are all writhing, all veering towards the sphere of light in the very center of the sedimentary area. That sphere of light is absorbing them."
Xu stood barefoot on the ashes, his right hand pressed against the pale gold line on his chest, and his left hand held a fragment of the Jade Tablet of Creation.
The clear light on the surface of the fragment was activated on its own by the impact of the law fragments in the sedimentation zone, and condensed into an extremely thin clear light film in his palm.
He took the broken mirror out of his waist, shone it towards the sphere of light, and a real-time analysis of the internal laws and structure of the sphere of light appeared on the mirror.
The analysis results were translated into specific information through the cardiac network in his chest cavity.
"It's not a larva. This sphere of light contains fragments of primordial life laws extracted from the core of an ancient god. Its purity is extremely high, high enough that it can serve as a mother organism itself."
"If it senses that the heart fragment in the ruins has been shattered, it will instantly activate its own fragments of the Law of Life, absorb all the fragments of the Law of Chaos around it, and grow into a complete ancient god's remains in a very short time."
"This remains have an aggressive instinct; their target is the person who shattered the heart fragments. Su Fan, we need to envelop it in the pure light of the Creation Jade Tablet before it senses that the heart fragments are broken."
"After enveloping it, how long can the pure light cover it given the high purity of its life laws?"
Sun Wukong slammed his golden cudgel on the ground.
"After being wrapped up, its law activity will be temporarily suppressed to the minimum, and its first instinct will change from finding fragments to finding life law sources of the same frequency."
"When the time comes, we will take it back to the South Heavenly Gate. Laozi will use his Dao Heart to adjust the heartbeat frequency of the larva deep in the foundation of Guixu to match its frequency, so that it will think that Guixu is the mother."
"After arriving at the Ruins of Return, Su Fan used the Pangu Axe to infuse it with a wisp of the Dao of All Beings. This wisp of will had to be stronger than that given to ordinary larvae. Because its laws were so pure, if the infused will wasn't strong enough, it wouldn't recognize it."
Xu held the fragment of the Jade Tablet of Creation above his head, and the clear light on the fragment cleaved a very narrow channel in the ashes of the sedimentary area.
The passage leads directly to the extremely bright dark purple sphere in the very center of the sedimentation area.
The two walked along the passage toward the sphere of light.
The closer one gets to the sphere of light, the thinner the ashes of law beneath one's feet become, until finally revealing a whole layer of ancient god law remnants sealed beneath the ashes.
The surface of the remains was covered with law patterns that were completely identical to those of the core remains of the ruins, and the ball of light was right in the center of the patterns.
The sphere of light was only the size of a fist, but the dark purple light sealed inside was extremely bright, so bright that two tiny purple lights were reflected in Xu's pale golden pupils.
"Its legal structure is rapidly reorganizing itself. It is about to sense the legal vacuum created by the fragmentation of the heart."
"After the heart fragment shattered, the density of laws in the direction of the ancient battlefield ruins has dropped to an extremely low level, and that vacuum signal is spreading into the depths of chaos. Once the vacuum signal reaches here, it will know that the heart fragment has shattered."
Xu quickened his pace.
Sun Wukong followed behind him, put the golden cudgel down from his shoulder, gripped it with both hands, and white arcs of electricity from the aftermath of the great calamity exploded on the cudgel.
Arcs of electricity enveloped Xu's body, shielding him from the impact of the constantly surging fragments of laws within the surrounding ashes.
Xu rushed to the front of the light sphere and pressed the fragments of the Creation Jade Tablet onto the surface of the light sphere.
The clear light on the fragment exploded violently the moment it came into contact with the light sphere, and after the explosion, the clear light penetrated into the interior along the law patterns on the surface of the light sphere.
The penetration speed is extremely fast, so fast that the naked eye can only see a blurry, clear light spreading rapidly inside the light sphere.
The dark purple light inside the sphere began to dim from the outside in as the clear light penetrated it. When it dimmed to the last layer, the extremely bright dark red spot in the very center of the sphere was revealed.
"This speck of light is a fragment of the original life laws extracted from the core of the ancient god. It is resisting the pure light. Its laws are too pure, and it will take the pure light a long time to envelop it."
"Great Sage, use the aftershocks of your eon to help me suppress those rapidly flowing law patterns on the outer layer of the light sphere, and prevent them from attracting the vacuum signal."
Xu gritted his teeth, and the fragments of the Jade Tablet of Creation began to vibrate violently in his palm.
Sun Wukong slammed his golden cudgel to the ground, and the aftershocks of the great calamity on the cudgel exploded along the ashes toward the sphere of light.
The electric arc enveloped the rapidly flowing law patterns on the outer layer of the light sphere, forcibly suppressing the speed of law flow within the patterns.
Under the pressure of the electric arc, the patterns changed from high-speed flow to slow creeping. After creeping, the rhythm of the laws reorganizing inside the light sphere was interrupted.
Xu took the opportunity to push the Creation Jade Tablet deeper into the core of the light sphere.
The moment the final layer of clear light enveloped the dark red dot, all the law patterns on the surface of the light sphere simultaneously ceased to flow.
The sphere of light changed from an extremely bright dark purple to an extremely pale pure white, and inside the pure white was sealed the dark red light spot that was completely wrapped in the clear light of the Jade Tablet of Creation.
The light spot was still jumping, but the jumping frequency was extremely slow, so slow that it only jumped once every few tens of breaths.
"It's wrapped up. The first orb of light is done."
Xu retrieved the fragments of the Creation Jade Tablet from the surface of the light sphere, and the clear light on the fragments dimmed again after the envelopment was completed.
He stuffed the fragment into his bosom, pressing it against the pale gold thread on his chest.
The residual clear light inside the fragments is automatically calibrated and output intensities through the cardiac pulsation network.
Sun Wukong squatted down next to the ball of light and gently poked its surface with the tip of his staff.
The clear white membrane on the surface of the light sphere is extremely tough. When the tip of the rod is poked into it, it only leaves a very shallow dent, which bounces back to its original shape after the tip of the rod leaves.
He hoisted the golden cudgel back onto his shoulder.
"This thing looks like an egg now. The clear light of the Jade Tablet of Creation is enveloping the fragment of the ancient god, and the point of light inside is still jumping, but jumping so slowly, it might wake up halfway through."
"No. Qingguang's suppression is continuous. As long as the fragment of the Creation Jade Tablet in my chest is not completely destroyed, Qingguang will not dissipate."
"The next sedimentary zone is deeper. The second photosphere pattern signal marked on the shard is much weaker than the first one, so it should be a common larva. Common larvae are much easier to encase."
Xu stood up, turned around, and walked out of the sedimentation area.
The two passed through the first sedimentary zone and continued down along the chaotic gray fog.
The deeper you go, the thinner the gray fog becomes, thin enough to see the primordial chaotic law rock layers that have been suppressed for 30,000 years by the shockwave of the Heaven-Opening Axe.
The rock surface is covered with extremely deep grooves left by Pangu's axe marks, and the grooves still retain a very faint trace of the power of creation.
The afterglow was activated on its own when it came into contact with the Chaos Stone Embryo Imprint remaining on Sun Wukong's staff, exploding into a circle of extremely faint white light on the surface of the rock layer.
"After Pangu shattered the ancient gods, the aftershocks of that axe blow spread from the ruins all the way here. The rock strata here are covered with axe marks. Hongjun sealed the three ancient god eggs in this place. He wanted the aftershocks of the axe to continue suppressing the fragments of the ancient gods inside the eggs, preventing them from waking up prematurely."
Sun Wukong touched the deepest axe mark on the rock surface with the tip of his staff. The remnant of Pangu's will inside the axe mark jumped for a moment when his staff touched it, and then fell silent again.
"The first sphere of light is not an egg, but a fragment of the ancient god's true form. It was sealed here not because Hongjun wanted to suppress it, but because the purity of the life law within it was too high, even Hongjun's Jade Tablet of Creation could not suppress it."
"Hongjun could only seal it in the place where the aftershocks of the Heaven-Opening Axe were strongest, and use Pangu's axe marks to continuously wear down its law activity. It took 30,000 years for its activity to drop to a level similar to that of an ordinary larva."
"If we had come to retrieve it when it was first sealed here 30,000 years ago, the clear light of the Jade Tablet of Creation would not have been able to contain it at all."
Xu took the shattered mirror out of his waist; the second area of law deposition on the mirror surface was already very close.
The signal from the second orb was indeed at least half as weak as the first, but there was an extremely faint signal flashing synchronously next to it.
"There's another signal next to the second orb of light. This signal isn't at the coordinates Hongjun gave us; it was only revealed after the chaotic gray mist thinned out."
Xu handed the broken mirror to Sun Wukong.
Sun Wukong took the broken mirror and glanced at it. The faint signal frequency of the law next to the second ball of light on the mirror surface was exactly the same as the mark of the Dao of All Beings on Nezha's left shoulder.
He returned the broken mirror to the ruins.
"It's the frequency of Nezha's mark. But Nezha himself is at the South Heavenly Gate, so his mark couldn't possibly appear here. Unless it's a fragment of the will of all living beings from the same origin as him, sealed deep within the sedimentary zone."
"Fragments of the will of the Path of All Beings could not have been sealed in the depths of chaos. The Path of All Beings in the Primordial World was created by Su Fan using the will of ten thousand people at the Southern Heavenly Gate. The Path of All Beings did not exist in the depths of chaos 30,000 years ago."
"Although the frequency of this signal is from the same source as Nezha's mark, its legal structure is more ancient. It may be a fragment of the original guardian will that Pangu took out from the twelfth Chaos Stone Embryo."
"Hongjun's letter said that the protective law on the handle of Pangu's axe was the prototype of the original Dao of all living beings. The prototype was sealed in the handle by Pangu. After the handle was broken, the protective law was scattered everywhere."
"The largest fragment was sealed inside the axe handle and has already been absorbed by Su Fan. The remaining fragments should be scattered on the battlefield where Pangu shattered the ancient gods. This sedimentary area is part of that battlefield."
With his eyes closed, Xu's heart, the Eastern Emperor, began to beat faster after receiving the frequency of the faint signal on the mirror, its rhythm perfectly synchronized with the signal frequency.
"If the fragment of the Guardian's Will is here, then we not only have to retrieve the egg, but also bring the fragment back to Su Fan."
"His Pangu Axe already has nine axe blade fragments and a complete axe handle, plus this fragment of the Guardian Will. The axe is now completely complete."
Sun Wukong hoisted the golden cudgel onto his shoulder and grinned.
Xu nodded, and the two continued walking forward.
The outline of the second law-deposited area gradually became clear in the gray fog ahead.
In the very center of the sedimentation zone was a faint dark purple sphere of light, and next to the sphere floated a golden fragment of law, no bigger than a fingernail.
The light flowing across the surface of the fragment was extremely faint, so faint that it was almost completely covered by the dark purple light of the sphere.
But every time it flashes, the Eastern Emperor's heart inside Xu's chest beats in sync.
The last protective will left by Pangu on the ancient battlefield has been waiting here for 30,000 years.