bioinnovel Chapter 394 Fragments of Mount Sumeru
Chapter 394 Fragments of Mount Sumeru
Sun Wukong carried his golden cudgel, and the aftershocks of the calamity beneath his feet left an extremely long white trail in the void.
The dark gold barrier on the outside of the membrane receded further and further behind them, and the eight fragments of law light flowed on the surface of the barrier, pulsating synchronously with the will of all living beings on the inside of the membrane through the membrane.
He didn't turn around; his monkey eyes reflected the three extremely faint dark golden spots deep in the void.
The point of light hovered above a layer of primordial laws that had not yet been transformed by any fragments at the end of the void. The thickness of that layer far exceeded that of any other place before.
The sheer thickness of the sedimentary layer, due to its own inherent laws and weight, forced a deep indentation into the void.
In the very center of the depression, three fragments slowly rotate on their own, at an extremely slow pace, so slow that they only jump once every long interval.
"The last three. When Pangu separated the guardian will, he left the three wildest pieces on the thickest sedimentary layer. This place is much colder than near the membrane wall."
Sun Wukong slammed his golden cudgel into the void, the end of which pierced a faint fold of law on the edge of the electric arc pedal beneath his feet.
The folds are the natural structure of this sedimentary layer formed in the void by its own laws, and deep within them are countless fragments of ancient god life laws that have not yet been activated.
The fragments writhed slowly in the folds, the rhythm of which was extremely slow.
He pulled the stick out of the folds and continued walking.
The three fragments simultaneously stopped rotating when he got close enough to them.
They hang in the very center of the depression, the patterns on their surface are so faint that they are almost completely covered by the dark purple light of the sediment layer.
At the core of each fragment is a dark gold dot of light, which flickers at an extremely slow frequency.
But the instant they stopped rotating, the three points of light simultaneously deflected in the direction of Sun Wukong.
They sensed the primordial law imprints of the Chaos Stone Embryo remaining on his staff.
"You recognize me. I am not Pangu, I sprang from a stone on Flower Fruit Mountain. The Pangu you have been waiting for for 30,000 years is gone. His spine became Mount Buzhou, his heart became the primordial Heavenly Dao, the fragments of his axe blade scattered in the chaos, and his remaining consciousness completely dissipated after he nailed the wedge of creation."
"The last protective will he left behind before he left was sealed in Su Fan's axe. The remaining eight fragments have already been put back into place, forming a barrier on the outside of the membrane. Only the three of you are missing."
Sun Wukong held the Golden Cudgel horizontally in front of him, and the remaining Chaos Stone Embryo imprint on the cudgel activated on its own in the void, releasing a very faint circle of dark golden light.
The three fragments vibrated simultaneously the moment they received the stone embryo imprint.
After the tremor, instead of drifting towards Sun Wukong like the previous eight fragments, they each retreated a bit – they were resisting.
It wasn't resisting the stone embryo imprint, but rather resisting the residual effects of the great calamity within Sun Wukong's body.
The aftershocks of the Great Calamity were a product of the collision between the laws of the outer realms and the primordial Heavenly Dao. The frequency of these laws was slightly mismatched with the original protective will of Pangu.
There was no such repulsion when the eight fragments were activated by Su Fan's will of the Dao of All Beings near the membrane.
Because the will of all living beings is itself a new law resulting from the fusion of Pangu's protective will and the will of all people in the primordial world, it has a wider frequency and greater tolerance.
However, Sun Wukong's stone embryo imprint is the most primitive law structure from the beginning of chaos, with extremely high purity and extremely narrow tolerance.
The fragments of guardian will sealed within the three fragments are also the most primitive and wildest parts that Pangu separated when he separated them, and their tolerance is also extremely narrow.
When two extremely narrow tolerances collide, they produce an extremely subtle misalignment in the frequency of the law.
"You think the aftershocks of the Great Calamity on my body are unclean. I was struck by the Chaos Calamity outside the Tai Sui Crack, corroded by the laws of the outer realms in the outer realm cage, and suppressed by the Five Elements Mountain for five hundred years on the edge of the Ruins of Return. This body is indeed unclean."
Sun Wukong looked down at the white arcs of electricity crackling on his staff.
The aftershocks of the great calamity within the electric arc and the fragments of laws remaining deep within the spiritual platform from beyond the realm intertwined, spontaneously emitting extremely subtle law noises in the void.
He slammed the golden cudgel into the void, forcibly suppressing the aftershocks of the great calamity deep within his spiritual platform back to its lowest level. The white arcs of electricity struggled on the cudgel for a moment before extinguishing themselves.
After it was extinguished, only the purest chaotic stone embryo imprint remained on the staff.
After the aftershocks of the cataclysmic event subsided, the three fragments stopped retreating and hovered again in the very center of the depression.
The frequency of the dark golden light at their core began to accelerate, from once every long time to once every tens of breaths, and from once every tens of breaths to once every few breaths.
As they accelerated to a rhythm perfectly synchronized with the golden line in Su Fan's left palm, the three fragments simultaneously drifted towards Sun Wukong.
It wasn't fast, but it was extremely stable, leaving a faint ripple of law in the void with each drift.
When the ripples spread to the surface of the membrane, they were automatically absorbed by the dark gold barrier on the outside of the membrane, leaving no indentation on the membrane.
"I admit it. I knew it. How could the fragments left by Pangu not recognize the stone embryo imprint?"
Sun Wukong grinned, held the golden cudgel horizontally in front of him, and let the three fragments float along the cudgel toward his palm.
The three fragments suddenly stopped at the same time as they floated to the front of his palm.
The dark golden light at their core suddenly accelerated its beating, the frequency of which increased from one beating every few breaths to several beatings per breath.
After accelerating to the limit, the law patterns inside the three fragments simultaneously changed from extremely faint to extremely bright.
They sensed the fragments of ancient gods' life laws sealed deep within the sedimentary layers.
After the aftershocks of the calamity were suppressed, the fragment briefly awoke, releasing a faint wisp of the ancient god's will.
After Yu Yun came into contact with the protective will within the three fragments, the fragments instinctively treated the remaining pieces as sedimentary material that needed to be transformed.
They began to actively absorb the fragments of the ancient god's life laws within the fragments.
"Don't inhale. These fragments aren't sedimentary material; they're fragments of the ancient god's life laws. They're meant to be embedded in the membrane wall as law nodes. If you inhale them, you'll lose thousands of nodes in the membrane wall. Su Fan will have to infuse the will network again later."
Sun Wukong reached out to try to push the three fragments apart, but the fragments absorbed the debris at an extremely fast speed. Thousands of fragments had already floated up from the folds of the sedimentary layer, drawn towards the fragments by the protective will within the three fragments.
Sun Wukong thrust his golden cudgel forward, its shaft thickening to block the fragments and shards.
The fragment struck the rod and was automatically bounced back into the depths of the sedimentary layer by the chaotic stone imprint on the rod.
The three fragments lost their absorption targets, and the frequency of the dark gold light spot at the core gradually decreased, while the law patterns on the surface changed from extremely bright to extremely faint again.
They hovered in front of the rod, like small animals whose food had been stolen, emitting extremely low-frequency vibrating sounds of law.
"These fragments are not for you to eat. The nodes of the membrane wall need them; if you eat them, the healing speed of the membrane wall will not increase."
"Come back with me, my friend. The barrier on the outside of the membrane is only complete when you three are needed to form the whole picture of Pangu's original protective will."
Sun Wukong retrieved his golden cudgel, and the three fragments hovered above his palm, each slowly rotating on its own. The rhythm of their rotation was perfectly synchronized with the beating frequency of the Eastern Emperor's heart in the chest cavity inside the membrane wall in the distance.
He turned and flew towards the membrane wall.
At the same time, Su Fan stood at the edge of the South Heavenly Gate and held up the half-shattered mirror that Yang Jian had given him.
The law signals from the three fragments deep within the void on the mirror surface are moving towards the membrane wall at an extremely stable speed.
Beside the signal, there was an extremely faint fluctuation of law moving synchronously; that was Sun Wukong's Chaos Stone Embryo Imprint.
He turned the shattered mirror toward the crack in the Ruins of Return. Ruins stood barefoot at the deepest part of the Ruins of Return's foundation, his right hand pressed against the pale gold line on his chest.
Inside the Guixu foundation, the sealed mountain roots are making final adjustments to the density of the laws in preparation for the second month's docking vibrations. The larvae deep within the foundation are pulsating very steadily through the flint root system.
Nezha, carrying the Fire-Tipped Spear, leaned against him, the Law Mark on his left shoulder glowing faintly in the golden light of Mars.
"If the Great Sage goes to catch those three fragments by himself, aren't you afraid that his size and the aftershocks of the calamity will anger the fragments?"
"When we were attaching the fragments outside the membrane last time, those eight paths all recognized the will of the Path of All Beings. The Great Sage does not have the Path of All Beings on him, only the Stone Embryo Imprint plus the aftereffects of a great eon."
"He just deliberately pushed the aftershocks of the calamity back to the bottom of his spiritual platform. The three fragments have started moving towards the membrane wall, and their movement speed is even faster than the previous eight."
"The Stone Embryo Imprint resonates with those three fragments more strongly than the will of all living beings. Those three fragments are the most primal and wild; they do not recognize the laws after fusion, but rather the purest guardian will from the beginning of chaos."
"The Great Sage himself was born from the Chaos Stone Embryo, and the frequency of his stone embryo imprint and the laws of those three fragments almost completely overlap."
Su Fan tucked the broken mirror back into his waistband, turned around, and walked towards the center of the city wall.
The Pangu Axe was stuck in the crack of the city bricks, and there was no light on the axe blade.
He pulled out the axe, tucked it into his waistband, and walked along the descending passage of the Guixu fissure towards the Guixu foundation.
At the deepest part of the Guixu foundation, the ruins are crouching on the interface where the remains of Buzhou Mountain meet the mountain's root.
The patterns on both sides of the interface have already interlocked more than halfway, and the remaining parts are slowly connecting on their own.
The vibrations generated during the docking process were mostly absorbed by the mountain's own buffer layer, with only very minor aftershocks propagating upwards along the white rock layer of the foundation.
He heard Su Fan's footsteps, stood up, and turned around.
"The Great Sage caught the three fragments smoothly. The fragments are already flying towards the membrane wall and are expected to reach the outer side of the membrane wall in a little while."
"After the three fragments are put back into place, the dark gold barrier on the outside of the membrane can be pieced together to form the complete law structure of Pangu's original protective will."
"At that time, the resonance intensity between the laws of all beings on the inner side of the barrier and membrane will increase by at least 10%. However, when the fragments return to their original positions, a law-based impact will occur."
"The impact was not strong and did not damage the membrane wall, but the law ripples generated by the impact will propagate along the chaotic gray mist inside the membrane wall towards the direction of returning to the void."
"When the vibrations reach the foundation of Guixu, the frequency of the ripples and the aftershocks generated by the vibrations at the base of the mountain will have a very brief superposition. This superposition will not damage the foundation, but it will briefly awaken the larvae deep within it."
Xu removed his right hand from his chest, and the transparent scorch mark on his index finger cracked slightly as he finished speaking, from which a faint wisp of flint embers emerged.
He pressed the embers back into the scorch marks and looked up at Su Fan.
What happens when the larvae wake up?
Su Fan looked down at the sleeping larva in the very center of the Guixu foundation.
The chaotic patterns on the larva's body surface have completely merged into the pale gold pattern network of the foundation, and the dark red light spot in the center of the thorax is pulsating at an extremely slow frequency.
"Nothing will happen. After it wakes up, it will think that the mother is calling it. This is because the frequency of the superimposed laws is exactly the same as the resonance frequency of the density of the laws of the Guixu foundation that it sensed when it first hatched."
"It will briefly crawl towards the membrane wall, then find that the mother structure is not there, and crawl back. The whole process lasts less than a moment and has no impact on the foundation."
"But last time it crawled towards the membrane wall, an old crack on the side wall of the Guixu Crack, which had not yet fully healed, was shaken open by the ripples of law as it crawled over."
"That crack was created by a fragment of the foundation of Mount Sumeru when the Five Elements Mountain pressed down on the Guixu Pass. It wasn't the Great Sage's Five Elements Mountain, but a fragment of the original Mount Sumeru from an earlier time."
"The fragments are still embedded deep in the crack and have not been fully absorbed by the white rock layer of the foundation."
The market paused for a moment.
"Fragments of the true form of Mount Sumeru."
Su Fan squatted down and placed his hand on the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation.
The golden thread in the palm of his left hand activated itself the moment it touched the rock surface, and the will of all beings surged out from the thread and poured into the foundation.
After receiving the will of all living beings, the larvae deep within the foundation jumped up in heart rate and transmitted the real-time locations of all the abnormal points of the laws inside the foundation back to the depths of Su Fan's spiritual platform through the roots of the flintwood.
One of the anomalies was extremely faint, so faint that it hadn't been noticed during previous scans of the heart network of the Ruins. Its location was directly below the old crack on the side wall of the Ruins Rift.
Embedded deep within the crack was a tiny grayish-white fragment of law, its surface engraved with faint Buddhist law patterns.
The engravings on the patterns are completely of the same origin as the patterns on the fragments of the Mount Sumeru seal when Sun Wukong was suppressed under the Five Elements Mountain, but they are older and more primitive.
"This fragment is not from the Five Elements Mountain. The Five Elements Mountain was moved down from Mount Sumeru by the Tathagata. The Buddhist law patterns on the fragments from the mountain's base are younger and have a lower density."
"The density of Buddhist laws in this fragment is extremely high, almost identical to the frequency of the laws of the Tathagata himself. It is not a fragment of the mountain's foundation, but a fragment of the core of Mount Sumeru itself."
"When the Buddha moved Mount Sumeru to the Five Elements Pass to suppress the Void, the core of Mount Sumeru was squeezed by the density of the laws of the Void crack, and a piece of it broke off from the inside and fell into the depths of the crack."
"The fragments were sealed in the crack for 30,000 years, and were slowly absorbed by the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation, but the absorption rate was extremely slow."
"Because the density of Buddhist laws inside the fragment is too high, the patterns of sentient beings in the white rock layer are not completely compatible with Buddhist laws."
Xu placed his hand on the pale gold line on his chest, and the heart's network translated the fragmented laws and structures it sensed into concrete information within his chest cavity.
"If it's not fully compatible, why was it only discovered now?"
Su Fan withdrew his left hand and stood up.
"Because the density of laws in the foundation of Guixu was not high enough before. After the mountain root was incorporated into the foundation, the density of laws in the foundation jumped up significantly. The Dao patterns of sentient beings in the white rock layer began to actively reject all incompatible law fragments, including this core fragment of Mount Sumeru."
"The friction caused by repulsion transforms the law signals of the fragments from extremely weak to a level that can be detected by the cardiac network."
"After a while, the second docking vibration will shake this fragment out from the depths of the crack. After it is shaken out, the fragment will drift towards the South Heavenly Gate along the rising channel of the Ruins of Return."
"If it were allowed to drift into the golden patterned network of the South Heavenly Gate city wall, the laws of Buddhism and the laws of the path of sentient beings would clash on the city wall."
Xu opened his eyes.
"What will be the consequences of the conflict?" Su Fan asked.
"The pale gold patterns on the city wall are the physical carriers of the laws of the path of all living beings. If Buddhist laws are embedded in them, they will form an extremely subtle law fault within the patterns."
"The fault line won't cause the city wall to collapse, but it will create a tiny blind spot in the city wall's network of laws. The perception of laws within the blind spot will drop to zero."
"In other words, if anything gets close to the outside of the membrane, the blind spot on the Nantianmen city wall won't be able to detect it."
Xu removed his right hand from his chest.
"Then don't let it drift into the city walls."
Su Fan took the Pangu Axe off his waist and walked to the front of the old crack on the side wall of the Guixu Crack.
The opening was extremely narrow, allowing only one finger to be inserted.
Embedded deep within the crack was a grayish-white fragment of the core of Mount Sumeru. The Buddhist law patterns flowing on the surface of the fragment flickered slightly when they came into contact with the will of all living beings remaining on the blade of Pangu's axe.
"We cannot use the Pangu Axe to chop it open. The density of Buddhist laws inside the fragment is too high. Chopping it open will shatter the fragment into countless smaller fragments of laws, and these fragments will drift into the Guixu Crack and be even more difficult to clean up."
"We need to use something that resonates with the Buddhist principles to draw it out. The Buddha is not in the primordial world, nor is the main body of Mount Sumeru, but the Great Sage still retains the lingering Buddhist principles of the Five Elements Mountain seal fragments on his body."
"He was imprisoned by the Five Elements Mountain for five hundred years, and a fragment of the seal from Mount Sumeru left an extremely subtle imprint of law deep within his spiritual platform. That imprint and the law frequency of this fragment are completely of the same origin."
Xu walked to Su Fan's side.
"The Great Sage is catching the fragments in the void and hasn't returned yet."
Su Fan took the broken mirror out of his waist.
The law signals from the three fragments on the mirror surface were already approaching the edge of the membrane.
Sun Wukong's Chaos Stone Embryo Imprint followed closely behind the fragment.
"There's still time. It will take some time for the fragments to be shaken out by the docking vibrations, enough for the Great Sage to get back from the membrane wall."
Xu pressed down on the pale gold line on his chest, and the heart's network transmitted the real-time law image of the old crack on the side wall of the Xu fissure into the shattered mirror.
Su Fan aligned the shattered mirror with the direction of the crack, and the law signal of the core fragment of Mount Sumeru on the mirror surface slowly increased.
He tucked the broken mirror back into his waistband and walked along the ascending passage of the Guixu Crack towards the South Heavenly Gate.
When they returned to the breach in the city wall, Nezha was still leaning against a pillar on the city tower, the light of the law mark on his left shoulder remaining stable.
"The Great Sage is back."
Nezha pointed his fire-tipped spear towards the membrane wall.
A beam of extremely bright dark gold light pierced through the outer membrane and shot into the sky above the South Heavenly Gate. Three fragments flew out of the light in a row.
Their rotation speed is extremely fast, and the dark golden light at their core is extremely bright, with its brightness completely synchronized with the eight fragments of law light flowing on the dark golden barrier on the outer side of the membrane.
The three fragments did not linger; they flew directly to the outside of the membrane wall and disappeared into the three unfilled gaps in the law at the very center of the barrier.
The moment the void was filled, the law patterns on the surface of the entire dark gold barrier simultaneously changed from extremely bright to extremely stable.
With the addition of eight fragments and three more fragments, all the fragments of the guardian will that Pangu had separated from the twelfth Chaos Stone Embryo have returned to their original positions.
The resonance intensity between the laws of sentient beings on the inner side of the barrier and membrane wall increased significantly, and the density of the laws on the membrane wall jumped up in tandem.
Sun Wukong flipped out of the light and landed on the battlements of the South Heavenly Gate.
The golden cudgel slammed down on the city brick, its end wedging three inches into the brick.
A new tear appeared in the void on the hole in his old battle robe on his left shoulder, cut open by fragments of the law, with a tiny fragment of the void law embedded at the edge of the tear.
"The last three are done. Those three were much wilder than the previous eight; they almost ate all the thousands of ancient god fragments in the sedimentary layer as snacks. I had to use the aftershocks of the eon to suppress the fragments and pull them back."
Sun Wukong pulled the golden cudgel out of the city bricks and carried it on his shoulder.
How much do you know about the core fragments of Mount Sumeru?
Su Fan took the shattered mirror out of his waist, and the real-time law image of the old crack on the side wall of the Ruins of Return was slowly brightening on the mirror.
"A core fragment of Mount Sumeru. Something belonging to the Buddha himself. When the Five Elements Mountain pressed down on me, the seal fragment of Mount Sumeru left an extremely fine imprint of Buddhist law deep within my mind."
"It's been over five hundred years, and that mark has never faded. Just now, when I was catching the fragment in the void, that mark jerked by itself."
"It was the friction caused by the laws of nature when this core fragment was repelled by the white rock layer of the Ruins foundation that activated the imprint. It's calling me. I'll go and retrieve it."
Sun Wukong slammed his golden cudgel on the ground, and the grayish-white fragment of law was reflected in the mirror in his monkey eyes.
He hoisted the golden cudgel onto his shoulder, turned around, and walked towards the direction of the Ruins of Return.
Su Fan tucked the broken mirror back into his waistband and followed behind him.
Nezha carried the Fire-Tipped Spear at the back, and the three of them passed through the descending passage of the Guixu Crack and stood once again at the deepest part of the Guixu foundation.
Xu squatted directly in front of the old crack on the side wall of the fissure, his right hand pressed against the edge of the crack.
The transparent scorch mark on his index finger had completely cracked open, and the embers of flint seeped down along the inner wall of the crack, enveloping the core fragment of Mount Sumeru deep within the crack.
The fragments slowly moved outwards, enveloped in the embers of flint.
"It is resisting the embers of flint. The flame law of flint clashes with the extreme cold attribute of Buddhist law. The embers can only envelop it, not pull it out. It needs to be induced by something that resonates with the Buddhist law."
Xu turned his head.
Sun Wukong slammed his golden cudgel on the ground and squatted down directly in front of the crack.
He reached his left hand into the crack, his five fingers spread, and the Buddhist law imprint deep within his mind, pressed out by the fragments of the Five Elements Mountain seal, was activated on its own.
The frequency of the laws within the imprint is extremely faint, but it is completely of the same origin as the Buddhist law patterns on the surface of the fragment.
The moment the fragment sensed the brand, it stopped resisting, broke free from the envelopment of the flint embers, and floated along the inner wall of the crack towards Sun Wukong's palm.
It stopped when it floated to the center of his palm, hovering there and slowly rotating. The Buddhist law patterns flowing on its surface changed from a very pale grayish-white to a very pale gold after it came into contact with the mark.
"It has recognized me as its master. It regards me as Buddha. The mark deep in my mind was made by Buddha himself. The fragments of the law instinctively thought that Buddha was still there, so they followed me."
Sun Wukong stood up, carrying the shards.
"What do you plan to do with this fragment? Take it back to Flower Fruit Mountain to enshrine it, or embed it in the South Heavenly Gate city wall as a sensor?"
"The density of Buddhist laws within it is extremely high. If it is embedded into the golden pattern network of the city wall, it can fill in that blind spot of laws. After it is filled, the city wall's law perception will be fully covered, and it can sense anything that gets close to the outside of the membrane wall immediately."
Su Fan looked at him.
"Embedded into the city wall. That brand deep within my soul has been pressing down on me for over five hundred years; it's time to let it do something meaningful."
"This fragment recognizes me as the Buddha, so I'll have it stay on the city wall and guard the gate for me. If anything approaches from the outside of the membrane, it will be the first to warn me."
Sun Wukong carried the fragments along the ascending passage of the Guixu Crack towards the South Heavenly Gate.
Su Fan and Xu followed behind him.
Nezha carried the Fire-Tipped Spear at the very back.
When the four returned to the South Heavenly Gate city wall, the golden light of Mars was shining on the newly grown pale gold patterns on the city bricks.
Sun Wukong walked to the center of the city wall, held the core fragment of Mount Sumeru in his palm, and pressed his left hand against the Tanzhong acupoint on his chest.
That's where the seal fragments of Five Elements Mountain were thrown in back then.
He forced the Buddhist law imprint deep within his mind out of his chest and poured it into the fragment.
The moment the fragment received the brand, all the Buddhist law patterns inside were activated, and the law connection was completed with the golden pattern network of the path of all beings on the city wall.
After the docking was completed, the fragments automatically embedded themselves into the center of a brick that was not yet completely covered by the gold pattern.
The pattern of the interlocking positions changes from a very pale gold to a very pale dark gold.
The Buddhist principles and the principles of the path of sentient beings merged spontaneously within the brick body to form a completely new principle node.
The frequency of the laws inside the node is completely synchronized with the frequency of the laws of the dark gold barrier on the outside of the membrane.
From then on, no fluctuation of the laws on the outside of the membrane could escape the perception of this core fragment on the South Heavenly Gate city wall.
Sun Wukong slammed his golden cudgel against the city bricks and squatted down on the crenellation.
He stared at the fragment of Mount Sumeru's core that was spinning on its own on the city brick, remained silent for a moment, and then grinned:
"The Buddha has suppressed me for over five hundred years, and now his core fragment of Mount Sumeru is guarding my door. This is a worthwhile deal."