bioinnovel Chapter 395 Buddhist Laws
Chapter 395 Buddhist Laws
Sun Wukong slammed his golden cudgel against the city bricks and squatted on the crenellation.
The core fragment of Mount Sumeru was embedded in the center of the city brick. Dark golden law patterns flowed on the surface of the fragment, perfectly synchronized with the law frequency of the dark golden barrier on the outside of the membrane.
The monkey stared at the fragments for a moment, then took out a peach from its pocket, rubbed it on its old battle robe, and took a bite.
"When the Buddha suppressed me for over five hundred years, I counted the stones of the Five Elements Mountain every day. I remember how many broken stones there were at the base of the mountain, and how many Buddhist runes were carved on each stone."
"Later on the journey to the West, I asked the Buddha why that mountain had to press down on me. The Buddha said it wasn't pressing down on you, but on the entrance to Guixu. I asked again, then why did it have to be me?"
"The Buddha said it was because you were born from a chaotic stone embryo, and no one else could suppress you. I didn't say anything at the time, but I was thinking to myself, 'Why the hell didn't you say so earlier?'"
Nezha slammed his fire-tipped spear on the ground, tilting his head to look at the monkey: "If he had told you earlier, would you have agreed?"
"Yes. It's worth it to seal the Guixu Pass after suppressing it for over five hundred years. But that old bastard Tathagata didn't consult with me and just slapped it down. What I hate most in my life is taking action without consulting me."
"Now his core fragment of Mount Sumeru is embedded in my city wall, guarding the gate for me. Consider it interest he's paid back. The principal hasn't been repaid yet. I'll go to Mount Sumeru myself to collect it from him someday."
Sun Wukong threw the peach pit into the crack in the Ruins of Return and stood up.
Su Fan leaned against the edge of the battlement, with the Pangu Axe stuck at his feet.
The three thin golden lines on the axe handle gleamed faintly in the golden light of Mars.
He pulled the axe out of the crack in the city bricks, tucked it into his waistband, and turned to look at the ruins.
Xu stood barefoot at the edge of the Guixu rift, his right hand pressed against the pale gold line on his chest, his eyes closed as he sensed the heartbeat of the larva deep within the Guixu foundation.
A moment later, he opened his eyes, and a faint glow of law reflected in his pale golden pupils from the direction of Guixu.
"The second docking vibration is coming soon. The docking interface between the Buzhou Mountain remains and the mountain base is nearly 90% engaged, and the last 10% will be completed automatically after the vibration is triggered."
"The intensity of the tremor is greater than the first one, and the resulting aftershocks will spread in all directions along the foundation of the Ruins. When they reach the side walls of the Ruins crack, the old crack may be shaken open."
"Deep within the crack, there are still some fragments of laws that have been compressed by the core fragments of Mount Sumeru for 30,000 years. The density of the laws in these fragments is not high, so they will not damage the foundation, but they will float out of the crack and drift along the ascending passage towards the South Heavenly Gate."
"What would happen if the debris drifted into the gold-patterned network of the city wall?" Su Fan asked.
"Nothing will happen. Those fragments are the lingering Buddhist laws released by the core fragments of Mount Sumeru over the past 30,000 years. After being repeatedly squeezed by the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation deep in the crack, they have lost most of their legal activity."
"After drifting into the golden network of the city wall, it will be automatically neutralized by the laws of all living beings, and after neutralization, it will become very ordinary law dust, which will just be a layer of ash when it falls on the city bricks. But there is one fragment that is a little different."
"Before the core fragment of Mount Sumeru was removed, it was embedded in the interlayer of laws between the fragment and the inner wall of the rift. After the fragment was removed, the pressure of the laws in the interlayer became unbalanced, causing it to be ejected from the depths of the rift."
"Its structure is more complete than that of ordinary debris, and it still retains extremely faint traces of Buddhist law activity within it."
"If it drifts into the city wall, it will not be immediately neutralized by the laws of the Dao of All Beings. It will float in the golden pattern network of the city wall for a period of time, and when it drifts near a certain law node, it will be captured by the will of the Dao of All Beings inside the node."
Xu removed his hand from his chest and walked to the brick in the very center of the city wall that contained a fragment of the core of Mount Sumeru.
He extended his index finger and used the transparent scorch mark on his fingertip to draw an extremely fine line of law on the surface of the city brick.
The trajectory line starts from the location of the fragment, follows the light gold pattern on the city wall to the left, and extends to a brick joint at the edge of the crenellation that is not yet completely covered by the gold pattern.
"The frequency of that fragment's laws perfectly matches this trajectory line. It will drift along this line all the way to the brick seam at the edge of the crenellation."
"Deep in the crack between the bricks, there is a fragment of an old city brick that was shattered by the law of cause and effect when the extraterrestrial gods attacked the South Heavenly Gate."
"The fragments still contain extremely faint remnants of extraterrestrial causal laws, which have not been completely purified by the will of the Dao of All Beings."
"If fragments of Buddhist principles drift into that brick seam and resonate with the lingering influence of the extraterrestrial causal principles, the two principles will form a tiny mixed principle node inside the brick seam."
"The node will not explode or erode the city wall, but it will release an extremely weak signal of law. The signal frequency is so low that no one on the South Heavenly Gate city wall can sense it."
"If something on the outside of the membrane can sense this frequency, it will follow the signal to find it."
Su Fan walked to the brick seam at the edge of the crenellation and squatted down.
The gaps between the bricks are extremely narrow, allowing only one finger to be inserted.
He inserted his left index finger into the crack between the bricks, and when his fingertip touched the fragment of an old city brick, the thin golden line on his palm twitched slightly.
Sure enough, a very faint trace of extraterrestrial causal laws remained inside the fragment.
The aftertaste is a very faint grayish-white, flowing slowly and naturally deep within the brick seams.
He withdrew his finger and stood up.
"The lingering effects of the extraterrestrial law of cause and effect. Back then, the man in black robes led twelve extraterrestrial gods to open the cage of cause and effect at the South Heavenly Gate. After the cage exploded, fragments of the cage walls were scattered all over the city walls."
"Most of them were purified by the will of the Dao of All Beings. This fragment was embedded deep in the crack between the bricks. The space was too narrow for the will of the Dao of All Beings to penetrate, so it has remained there until now."
"If fragments of Buddhist principles drift in, the two principles will indeed resonate. Their frequencies overlap in a very narrow band."
"Signals emitted from overlapping bands can indeed be sensed if there are remnants of extraterrestrial beings remaining on the outer side of the membrane. But the extraterrestrial beings have already been defeated."
"The causal core of the black-robed man and his comrades is sealed at the bottom of the well, and they will not be able to come out for 30,000 years."
"The battle with the extraterrestrial gods is over, but the void outside the membrane contains more than just fragments of Pangu's protective will. The extraterrestrial gods came from the deeper reaches of chaos."
"The path they came from is a law-based passage deep within the void outside the membrane that has yet to be explored. There may still be law-based beacons of extraterrestrial gods remaining inside the passage."
"If the beacon senses this signal of the mixed laws, it will automatically activate and transmit the signal back to the origin of the extraterrestrial gods."
Yang Jian stood up from below his spine, piecing the two broken pieces of the mirror together and placing them in his palm.
A very blurry image of a law appeared on the mirror surface, deep within the void outside the membrane wall.
The image's outline was extremely irregular, with its edges constantly expanding and contracting, and it shared the same origin as the law runes used by the black-robed man when he opened the causal cage.
He turned the shattered mirror toward Su Fan.
"This is the image automatically captured by the mirror when the laws of the environment outside the membrane wall fluctuated extremely slightly after the core fragment of Mount Sumeru was embedded into the city wall."
"Its location is in the deepest part of the void, extremely far from the membrane. Its law signal is extremely weak, so weak that even Pangu's protective will barrier could not sense it, but it is indeed there."
"If the combined signal of Buddhist principles and extraterrestrial causal principles is transmitted, this beacon will be the first to receive it."
"The origin of the extraterrestrial gods. The man in black robes once said at the bottom of the well that after the ancient chaotic gods awakened, the true forms of the extraterrestrial gods were still sleeping in an even deeper depth."
"Their law of cause and effect was not cultivated by themselves, but borrowed from that well. After the master of the well was shattered by Pangu, the source of the power of the law of cause and effect was sealed at the bottom of the well, but the law structure of cause and effect itself did not disappear."
"It was scattered throughout the chaos, collected by the ancestors of the extraterrestrial gods, and used to establish a complete civilization based on the laws of cause and effect in the deepest part of the void."
"This civilization has never come close to the primordial world in the past 30,000 years—because the primordial world is surrounded by the barrier of chaotic laws left by Pangu when he created the world."
"Now that the laws of chaos have been absorbed and transformed into a membrane by the aggregate, the Pangu barrier is gone. The law signals generated by the mixture of the laws of sentient beings and the laws of Buddhism inside the membrane are a completely new law frequency for them. They will want to know the source of this frequency."
Su Fan looked at the extremely blurry image of the law on the mirror.
"If they want to know the source, they will send people to investigate. The first step in the investigation is to follow the signal to find the South Heavenly Gate. At that time, the South Heavenly Gate will not be left unguarded, but will be guarded a new round."
Nezha slammed his fire-tipped spear to the ground.
"Then don't let the mixed signal get out. Intercept that fragment of Buddhist law before it drifts into the crack between the bricks, or take out that old city brick fragment from the crack and use the will of all beings to purify the remaining traces of the extraterrestrial causal law. Either method will work."
Xu walked to the brick seam at the edge of the crenellation, squatted down, and stuck his right index finger into the seam.
The transparent scorch mark on the fingertip cracked slightly when it came into contact with the lingering traces of extraterrestrial causal laws within the fragment, and embers of flint poured out from the crack, enveloping the surface of the fragment.
The laws of flint and fire within the embers and the laws of causality from beyond the realm exploded simultaneously into a tiny cloud of law vapor after a very brief contact on the surface of the fragments.
After the steam dissipated, most of the residual causal laws from outside the fragment were purified, but a very tiny trace remained embedded in the deepest part of the fragment.
The embers of the flint couldn't reach that deep, so Xu withdrew his fingers and stood up.
"The internal structure of the fragment has three layers. The residual causal laws in the outermost and middle layers have been purified, but a trace of the innermost layer is still sealed within the stone texture of the fragment itself."
"The stone texture is the original material of the old city bricks of Nantianmen. It is the first batch of law-based stone materials mined from the foundation of Guixu after Pangu created the world."
"The internal laws and patterns of the stone are extremely dense, and the embers of the flint cannot penetrate it. Only by using the will of all living beings on the Pangu Axe to pour it in along the stone's patterns can that last trace of the causal law be forced out."
Su Fan took the Pangu Axe off his waist and squatted down in front of the brick seam.
He aimed the axe blade at the brick seam, and the will of all beings surged from the golden thread in his palm, flowing down the axe handle and into the axe blade, from which a faint golden light shot out.
The light penetrated deep into the cracks between the bricks, seeping along the stone texture inside the fragments of old city bricks to the innermost layer.
When it penetrated to the innermost layer, the lingering trace of extraterrestrial causal laws within the fragment struggled violently the moment it came into contact with the will of all living beings; it did not want to be purified.
The struggle lasted for a moment, then it was forcibly forced out of the stone texture by the will of all living beings.
The lingering aftereffects of the causal laws, which were forced out, were extremely faint grayish-white. They hovered over the crack in the brickwork for a very short time before being evaporated into nothingness by the golden light on the blade of Pangu's axe.
"Purification is complete. The residual causal laws within the three layers of the fragment have been completely eliminated."
Su Fan retrieved the Pangu Axe and stood up.
Xu reached his hand back into the brick seam, sensed it for a moment with the scorch marks on his fingertips, and withdrew his hand after confirming that there were no more remnants of laws inside the brick seam.
"The grout lines are clean. Even if fragments of Buddhist principles drift in, they won't resonate. But the fragments themselves still need to be contained, even though the activity of Buddhist principles within them is extremely weak."
"But if it is allowed to drift within the golden pattern network of the city wall, it will eventually drift to the vicinity of other law nodes. The will of all living beings within the node will actively capture it, and the friction of laws generated during the capture process will slightly reduce the node's perception sensitivity."
"The decline of one node does not affect the whole, but the core fragment of Mount Sumeru has just been embedded, and the law nodes around the fragment are still in the adaptation period, so their sensitivity is inherently unstable."
"If fragments of Buddhist laws drift to nodes near the core fragment at this point in time, it may cause an extremely slight misalignment in the law connection between the core fragment and the golden pattern network of the path of sentient beings."
"You've already drawn the drift path of the debris. After it drifts out of the crack, it will drift along the rising channel of the Guixu Crack towards the South Heavenly Gate. After reaching the city wall, it will drift along that trajectory line all the way to the edge of the crenellations. We'll intercept it at the midpoint of the trajectory line."
Su Fan walked to the very center of the city wall. The line of law traced by the Ruins Painting was extremely faint yet extremely clear under the reflection of the golden patterns on the city bricks.
The midpoint of the trajectory line is exactly on a newly grown brick at the gap in the city wall.
That brick was one of the last batches of broken bricks that Qingfeng and the soldiers left behind filled in the gaps in the city wall during its repair. The light gold patterns inside the brick had completely matched the gold patterns of the old brick, but the brick's own law structure was younger than that of the old brick, and the density of the law nodes was also lower.
When the debris floats above this brick, its speed naturally slows down. Because the density of law nodes in a young brick is low, the capture power of the will of all beings is weaker, and the debris will linger briefly above this brick.
There was enough time to stop it with Pangu's axe.
"What should we do after intercepting it? Purify it with the will of all living beings, or leave it?"
Nezha walked over carrying his Fire-Tipped Spear.
"Keep it. The Buddhist principles and structure within this fragment are of the same origin as the core fragment of Mount Sumeru, but it is more primitive and fundamental."
"If it is embedded into an old city brick next to the core fragment that has not yet been covered by gold patterns, so that it complements the laws of the core fragment, the adaptation period of the law nodes around the core fragment will be shortened by at least half."
"At that time, the connection between the fragments and the golden pattern network of the Dao of All Beings will be more stable, and the sensory sensitivity on the outside of the membrane will also be higher."
Xu removed his hand from the pale gold line on his chest.
"Then let's embed it. The docking vibration is coming soon, and the debris should be shaken out shortly after the vibration is triggered. Let's go down and wait."
Su Fan slung the Pangu Axe over his shoulder and turned to walk towards the Guixu Rift.
Sun Wukong flipped down from the top of the wall, carrying his golden cudgel, and followed behind him.
Nezha and Xu followed at the back.
The four of them passed through the descending passage of the Guixu Crack and stood once again at the deepest part of the Guixu foundation.
Xu walked to the front of the old crack on the side wall of the Guixu Crack and placed his right hand on the edge of the crack.
He closed his eyes, and with each beat of the Eastern Emperor's heart in his chest, the larva deep within the Guixu foundation pulsed in sync with the pulse transmitted through the flint root system.
The frequency of the pulsations is slowly increasing; the docking vibration is imminent.
"Prepare. After the docking vibration is triggered, the pressure within the crack will be briefly unbalanced. At the moment of imbalance, debris will be ejected."
Xu opened his eyes.
Before the words were finished, the last unconnected law pattern at the center of the interface between the Buzhou Mountain remnants and the mountain root automatically completed its connection under the combined pressure of the density of the laws of both sides.
The moment the docking was completed, the entire Guixu foundation shook from top to bottom.
The tremor was extremely deep, propagating upwards from the lowest layer of the foundation along the white rock layer, passing through the walls of the water essence pool, through the stone corridor of the Buzhou Mountain ruins, and through the law membrane wall of the Guixu crack.
The old crack on the side wall of the Guixu Crack suddenly opened wide amidst the tremors—the crack's width expanded from one finger to three fingers.
The fragments of Buddhist laws sealed deep within the crack were ejected the moment the pressure of the laws became unbalanced. Dozens of tiny gray-white light spots surged out of the crack and floated upwards along the ascending channel of the Ruins of Return.
One of the specks of light, instead of floating upwards with the other debris as it emerged from the crack, hovered at the edge of the crack.
Its structure is more complete than the other debris, and the extremely faint dark gold dot inside is still pulsating at an extremely slow frequency.
Xu stretched out his palm and aimed the transparent scorch mark on his index finger at the fragment. The embers of flint inside the scorch flowed out on their own, forming an extremely thin law membrane around the fragment, fixing it in mid-air.
"This is the one. Its legal structure is the most complete, and its Buddhist legal activity is the highest."
Ruins stood up, carrying the debris.
Su Fan took the Pangu Axe off his waist and gently touched the law membrane on the surface of the debris with the tip of the axe blade.
The will of all beings surged from the golden thread in the palm, flowing down the axe handle and into the axe blade, briefly making contact with the Buddhist principles within the membrane and debris.
Upon contact, the debris did not resist; its internal Buddhist principles were too inactive, and it had lost the ability to actively repel external principles.
Su Fan sheathed the axe blade and nodded to Chao Xu.
"It can be embedded. It won't reject the will of all living beings, and it should be able to complement the core fragments."
The four of them returned to the South Heavenly Gate city wall via the ascending passage of the Guixu Crack.
Xu walked to the center of the city wall and placed the fragment on an old city brick that was not yet completely covered by gold patterns, next to the core fragment of Mount Sumeru.
The moment the debris came into contact with the surface of the city brick, the Buddhist law patterns inside were activated on their own, and the laws were aligned with the extremely faint gold patterns that were originally on the city brick.
After the docking is completed, the debris automatically embeds into the brick body, forming a very faint dark gold law node at the docking position.
The law frequency inside the node and the law frequency of the core fragment of Mount Sumeru next to it form a very stable complementary resonance. The law ripples generated by the resonance spread in all directions along the golden pattern network of the city wall.
As the law-based nodes spread to the nodes surrounding the core fragment, the sensitivity of those nodes gradually stabilized through resonance, and the adaptation period was shortened by at least half.
"The fragments are now properly embedded. The law nodes around the core fragment are stabilizing. From now on, any fluctuations in the laws outside the membrane will not escape the perception of the Southern Heavenly Gate."
The rudder removed the handle from the city bricks.
Su Fan walked to the edge of the battlement and stuck the Pangu Axe at his feet.
The golden light of Mars shone on the newly grown pale gold patterns on the city bricks, and also on the core fragment of Mount Sumeru in the very center of the city wall and the fragment of Buddhist law next to it.
The two fragments slowly rotated on their own, their rotation rhythm perfectly synchronized with the frequency of the dark gold barrier on the outside of the membrane, and also with the pulsation transmitted from the larva deep within the foundation of the Ruins through the roots of the flintwood.
He looked up at the direction of the membrane wall. The dark gold barrier on the outside of the membrane wall was extremely bright in the void, and the law patterns flowing on the surface of the barrier were extremely stable.
The chaotic gray mist inside the membrane wall had become so thin as to be almost transparent. Through the gray mist, one could see that the ancient god remains that had stood up in the distance were still absorbing fragments of chaotic laws.
The laws of chaos operate in a highly stable cycle, and singularity collapse will not occur again.
Rahu's two severed limbs still slumber in the depths of the pool, his torso is pressed under the Purple Cloud Palace, and his head is sealed under the remains of Mount Buzhou.
The causal core of the extraterrestrial god was sealed at the bottom of the well.
The beacon of the origin of the extraterrestrial gods still hangs in the deepest part of the void, with an extremely weak signal.
The core fragment on the South Heavenly Gate city wall and the Buddhist debris next to it are steadily sensing every fluctuation of the laws on the outside of the membrane.
He pulled the Pangu Axe out of the city bricks and tucked it into his waistband.
Sun Wukong squatted on the top of the wall, his golden cudgel resting on his knees.
He slammed the stick against the city bricks and stood up.
"It's safe here. I'm going back to Flower Fruit Mountain. I haven't finished my monkey wine yet, and I haven't had enough peaches. Your 'we'll talk about it later' thing will probably be back soon. As soon as the beacon makes a sound and the broken mirror sends a message, I'll be there in a flash."
After saying that, he somersaulted out of the South Heavenly Gate, his golden armor leaving an arc of light in the air before disappearing in the direction of Flower Fruit Mountain.
Su Fan watched the monkey disappear, then took the broken mirror out of his waist.
The signal of the extraterrestrial divine beacon deep within the void on the mirror surface was extremely weak but extremely stable.
He tucked the broken mirror back into his waistband, turned, and walked toward the center of the city wall.
Nezha leaned against a pillar on the city wall, carrying his Fire-Tipped Spear, the Law Mark on his left shoulder glowing steadily.
Xu stood barefoot at the edge of the Guixu Crack, his right hand pressed against the pale gold line on his chest.
Qingfeng stood by the battlements, leaning on his broken sword; the human warrior held the Demon Emperor Spear across his lap; Gongsun Bao leaned against a pillar of the city tower, holding his axe; and Yang Jian sat cross-legged under the ridge.
The golden light of Mars shone on everyone.
Su Fan walked to the very center of the city wall and stopped directly in front of the core fragments of Mount Sumeru and the fragments of Buddhist laws.
The two fragments slowly rotated on their own on the city bricks.
He took the Pangu Axe off his waist and stuck it in a crack in the city bricks at his feet.
There was no light on the axe blade, and no patterns of laws on the axe handle.
The thin golden line on his left palm glowed slightly under the golden light of Mars, perfectly synchronized with the frequency of the laws of the two fragments.
He stood on the city wall, looking in the direction of the membrane, waiting for the first sign of movement from the beacon.
The defense line for the primordial wilderness has been laid.
If someone from the origin of the extraterrestrial gods really follows the beacon to find them, Nantianmen will be the first to know.